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This was a week ago... Getting bigger now... Interesting plant... 100 gifted from a friend. No idea ho this will go. Post hole dug them 8" down in a 12" diameter hole. Great soil.
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Never heard of planting potato plants.... or did I read this wrong.
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Next is to figure out which technique you are going to use to preserve them.
I prefer pressure canning myself.
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Old friend of mine used to grow potatoes in straw inside old tires. He'd keep adding tires on top and more straw as the plants got taller.
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you need to dirt hill up every potatoe plant for them to produce well and water them alot. good luck
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Our clay soil doesn’t work well when planting them using post hole diggers. Got to have soil a bit fluffier around here. Keep mounding dirt on the plants as they grow. Our taters are ready. Dug my first plant up yesterday. Don’t dig them up until the plants die. Save some for seed potatoes next year. Build yourself a root cellar up there in West Virginia to store them in. Something tells me you would enjoy that kind of project anyway!
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Our clay soil doesn’t work well when planting them using post hole diggers. Got to have soil a bit fluffier around here. Keep mounding dirt on the plants as they grow. Our taters are ready. Dug my first plant up yesterday. Don’t dig them up until the plants die. Save some for seed potatoes next year. Build yourself a root cellar up there in West Virginia to store them in. Something tells me you would enjoy that kind of project anyway! This. When I was a kid we had an independent potato patch from the garden. Always saved back a bunch for the winter in tater bins in the basement. The rest got canned. I'm glad I know how to do it but equally glad my potatoes come from the store now.
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We have heavy clay soil as well, so to loosen, we add all the leaf rankings we can find. I also bag when mowing and dump that on the garden. The leaf piles in the fall are mounded up and then tilled in. Slowly, this has worked after a couple years and we have an awesome potato patch. The soil is much looser and is greatly helped by adding and tilling in organic matter. Weedseed free straw would also work. Avoid hay as it has seeds
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I suppose you can plant and/or "transplant" potatoes. Never heard of transplanting them?
First off, potatoes don't do well in tight soil. You need a well drained, soft, sandy loam or conditioned soil. You don't water potatoes. They'll rot in the ground. When the plant comes up from the slip, start piling hay around the plants. The plant will stretch up to get out of the hay and form potatoes in the hay instead of underground. Some folks use old tires to form raised beds to plant potatoes. Taters love cooler weather.
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Our clay soil doesn’t work well when planting them using post hole diggers. Got to have soil a bit fluffier around here. Keep mounding dirt on the plants as they grow. Our taters are ready. Dug my first plant up yesterday. Don’t dig them up until the plants die. Save some for seed potatoes next year. Build yourself a root cellar up there in West Virginia to store them in. Something tells me you would enjoy that kind of project anyway! This. When I was a kid we had an independent potato patch from the garden. Always saved back a bunch for the winter in tater bins in the basement. The rest got canned. I'm glad I know how to do it but equally glad my potatoes come from the store now. Potatoes "used to" (?) be so cheap, growing your own was a waste of time and money. Harvesting and storing potatoes is a lot of work and takes specialized locations. Canning them is okay, but canning is a LOT of work....especially when you can buy a few at a time from the store.
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Never heard of planting potato plants.... or did I read this wrong. I said it wrong... or goofy. Put the potatoes in holes about a month ago... set a whole potato (... or two) about 8" deep in a 12" hole... backfilled about 1/2 the dirt... They SEEM to be doing well... pushing the dirt up to even now. I honestly have no idea what I am doing regarding potatoes. Pretty fair on other stuff (propagation and growing), but potatoes are a new effort. Thanks for the pointers guys. 10-10-10 fertilizer on hand... OK?
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Old friend of mine used to grow potatoes in straw inside old tires. He'd keep adding tires on top and more straw as the plants got taller. Are there any potatoes that are more like Yukon Golds that works with? From what I understand, that only works with bakers, like Idaho's.
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Eight inches is WAY too deep. I don't plant whole potatoes. Just cut the "eyes" off. You get a lot more plants that way. Your fertilizer is fine, in limited amounts.
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When I was a kid we had an independent potato patch from the garden. Always saved back a bunch for the winter in tater bins in the basement. The rest got canned.
I'm glad I know how to do it but equally glad my potatoes come from the store now. LOL, I helped my dad in his garden when I was a kid, he grew up on a farm and always had a big one. I remember digging potatoes, the trick was to get close enough so you'd get all the spuds with one forkful of dirt, but not so close that you'd spear a potato and ruin it. Spearing a potato and getting "the look" was a no-go, so I probably dug twice as much dirt as I had to.
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Being Ukrainian Slavyanka insists on planting potatoes. I don't have a root cellar but have a large landscaping pot that we bury them in sand in the garage.
How do you guys deal with the potato bugs? We've been hit hard a couple times and there a no (legal) pesticides for them here in Canada.
I've found that if I search the plants I can find one leaf that they've laid eggs on with each plant (on the underside). Pick that leaf and destroy the eggs and it seems to cut them back a lot.
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Old friend of mine used to grow potatoes in straw inside old tires. He'd keep adding tires on top and more straw as the plants got taller. Are there any potatoes that are more like Yukon Golds that works with? From what I understand, that only works with bakers, like Idaho's. Sorry but no idea what varieties he grew and never tried it myself.
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Watch out for ants!
They got in my taters….
Yukon gold worse than red / new taters.
Some were unusable by the time i dig them.
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Kennebec whites do OK in clayey soil.. I've been growing those for many years. Norland or Pontiacs for reds do well also. I still have about 10# left over from last year.. It's usually mid-July when they're all gone. Then it's 'store-bought' crap for a month until I begin digging the reds..
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Pinch the flowers off .. more power to the taters... fluffy soil = more and bigger... hill the dirt around the base will k3ep the sun off the taters..
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Being Ukrainian Slavyanka insists on planting potatoes. I don't have a root cellar but have a large landscaping pot that we bury them in sand in the garage.
How do you guys deal with the potato bugs? We've been hit hard a couple times and there a no (legal) pesticides for them here in Canada.
I've found that if I search the plants I can find one leaf that they've laid eggs on with each plant (on the underside). Pick that leaf and destroy the eggs and it seems to cut them back a lot. Not sure which bug you folks call "potato bugs", but have you tried dusting with diatomaceous earth? Spraying with a soap or nicotene based spray? Neem oil legal up there?
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