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  • From: "Connie BAUMBERGER" <conniebrian AT msn.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:54:16 -0800

Our farm is located on an island Northwest of Seattle; cool summers and mild, wet winters (26 days of rain...several more forecast).  Late blight is a prennial problem.  Our son lives in Eastern Washington near Moses Lake, a very desert climate.  He planted and raised a beautiful crop of German Butterball under irrigation.
 
German Butterball is an indeterminate variety and is considered a late potato, but is a very strong grower that blooms and starts setting tubers along with earlier varieties and just keeps going.
 
Ronniger's  at www.ronnigers.com  is our favorite source of seed potatoes. They are a small, family-operated farm specializing in organic seed potatoes.  They can give good advise and are easy to deal with.
 
Brian
Baumberger's Island Farm and Garden



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