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- From: jay sleichter <jaysleichter AT yahoo.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 18:33:39 -0700 (PDT)
I am digging my potatoes here in Kansas. I started planting them on March 21st. Then two weeks later and two week later. I usually hill them up and mulch heavy. Here in the "Wheat State" straw in cheap. I usually use 2-3 year old round bales of straw. This way the wheat seed has rotted or sprouted. I go through 3-4 big round bales a year. I am going to try something different this year. I am going to dig all my potatoes earlier and sell for new potatoes and come back and replant the area with more potatoes and other stuff. I can easily sell "New Potatoes" and it always seems to be harder to sell larger potatoes for a fair price, unless they are Yukon Gold. So, I weeded and hilled up late, like you and I am not going to spend time mulching. We are very wet and if it turns off dry before I am finished I will water. I will mulch my later potatoes. BTW, 600 pounds of each variety? That is alot of potatoes. I only plant 130-150 pounds total. Just don't make the mistake I did one year and try to hill them up when the soil was too wet. When it dried out, it was like concrete clods and the potatoes were misshapen. I learned my lesson. My point is I would try to hill them up, at least you will get more soil coverage and then forget about mulching. Maybe dig earlier. I am digging the potatoes that I hilled 3-4 weeks ago. Jay --- On Sun, 6/7/09, Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net> wrote:
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Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late,
jay sleichter, 06/07/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late,
Allan Balliett, 06/07/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late, R.M., 06/22/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late, clearviewfarm, 06/07/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late, jay sleichter, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late,
Allan Balliett, 06/07/2009
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