Post by RpR on Sept 20, 2017 20:41:29 GMT -5
Well I finished digging the potatoes up North.
Including ones already eaten approx. two tote boxes full.
Except for a few odd ball reds, all white, or off white , potatoes. I had both purple and white flowers but as they were left overs I cannot for certain know what is what.
Some are Victoria and as a couple of hills had very large true white potatoes I think they are probably Bake King or maybe Calwhite.
One hill had 23 potatoes from larger than a baseball to pigeon egg size with most being goose egg size.
Where I had really piled on the leaf mulch, thick and heavy wet, it turned into about four inches of compost, while the rest where it was a lighter had pretty much disappeared.
In the thick area the largest potatoes showed up, with large potatoes from the top of the hill to sixteen inches, yes I planted them that deep, not on purpose, where the bottom ones were.
Where the mulch was thinner, the top ones were egg size usually.
I hand dug, by that I mean I was on my knees and literally used my hand as a shovel often as I sliced too many even being this careful. .That is what is nicest about the North garden in the looser soil you can get away with that, down South the soil is too hard and you often are breaking up huge clumps to see if any potatoes are in it.
This appears to be the best yield I have had up there since the mid-nineties and I am rather happy.
Chucky Chipmunk joined me and was going to haul away a tater the size of a chicken egg but it was too large. I tossed him a tater the size of a pigeon egg, it landed right under him and he jumped up and sat down glaring at me.
I finished filling my pail and when I looked again Chucky and the tater were gone.
I cleaned off three more similar ones and left them for him.
Including ones already eaten approx. two tote boxes full.
Except for a few odd ball reds, all white, or off white , potatoes. I had both purple and white flowers but as they were left overs I cannot for certain know what is what.
Some are Victoria and as a couple of hills had very large true white potatoes I think they are probably Bake King or maybe Calwhite.
One hill had 23 potatoes from larger than a baseball to pigeon egg size with most being goose egg size.
Where I had really piled on the leaf mulch, thick and heavy wet, it turned into about four inches of compost, while the rest where it was a lighter had pretty much disappeared.
In the thick area the largest potatoes showed up, with large potatoes from the top of the hill to sixteen inches, yes I planted them that deep, not on purpose, where the bottom ones were.
Where the mulch was thinner, the top ones were egg size usually.
I hand dug, by that I mean I was on my knees and literally used my hand as a shovel often as I sliced too many even being this careful. .That is what is nicest about the North garden in the looser soil you can get away with that, down South the soil is too hard and you often are breaking up huge clumps to see if any potatoes are in it.
This appears to be the best yield I have had up there since the mid-nineties and I am rather happy.
Chucky Chipmunk joined me and was going to haul away a tater the size of a chicken egg but it was too large. I tossed him a tater the size of a pigeon egg, it landed right under him and he jumped up and sat down glaring at me.
I finished filling my pail and when I looked again Chucky and the tater were gone.
I cleaned off three more similar ones and left them for him.
