[AT] new spuds

[Dudley Rupert]

Herb,

I mentioned this thread yesterday to a fellow who always puts in an
excellent garden and he said essentially the same thing you and others have.
He said he plants his potatoes in his most heavily mulched/composted/built
up part of the garden and he can reach into the hill with his fingers and
get the potatoes he wants.  In the Fall when the plant has died and he wants
to harvest all the potatoes still in the ground he said he just pulls on the
plant and usually all the potatoes come out of the ground still attached to
the vine ... boy I've got to stop thinking about this or it's going to make
me want to go back to putting in a garden.

Dudley
Snohomish, Washington

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Subject: Re: [AT] new spuds

Ron & Dudley
If memory serves, a very successful Indiana gardener neighbor always mulched
part of his potato patch with a thick layer of wheat (?) straw and planted
those potatoes very shallow.  The primary reason was to facilitate early
harvest without sacrificing the entire plant; he just used his hand.  This
worked well for him.
Herb

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From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
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Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] new spuds


> Dudley,
>         What I found under each plant were two nice baseball sized
> potatoes and many marble sized.  Something to do with the growing season,
> I suppose.  I hate to use up a whole plant for two potatoes when the plant
> will have eight or ten by fall.  And of course you are right.  Our own are
> just better.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
>
>>A friend just stopped by and his answer was, "go to the farmer's market
>>and
>>buy some new potatoes that someone else has picked.  Save yours for
>>winter."  Now I wonder why the heck I didn't think of that one?
>>
>>Yeah, but isn't the fun of gardening being able to eat your' own stuff ...
>>Seriously, I know I must be missing something in this thread but couldn't
>>you just dig all the potatoes out of one hill and not worry about saving
>>the
>>plant and then from the marble size to golf ball size just throw all of
>>them
>>in the pan with the peas and new carrots?  When Fall comes maybe you would
>>still have plenty of untouched hills to dig up as mature potatoes.  For
>>the
>>many years we had a garden that's the way we did it but maybe that wasn't
>>the most efficient way to do it.
>>
>>Dudley
>>Snohomish, Washington
>
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