[AT] potato ground

Grant Brians sales at heirloom-organic.com
Wed Apr 17 13:21:18 PDT 2013


Ron, you do need to rotate your soil. Otherwise the disease pressure and
trace minerals balance kills the yield.... Planting later should be fine as
long as the potato varieties you plant are suited to the timeframe. Do you
have your seed or are you buying it?
        Grant Brians
        Hollister,California vegetable, nuts and fruit farmer

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Okay, another question.
I did not get a new potato area plowed last fall and may not be able to
do that this spring either.  Ground is cold and wet and it is already
getting time to plant.

My current patch has been in potatoes for years and the yield
continually has been falling off.  Do you think the proper amount of
fertilizer can work out for me, or should I just wait a while so I can
rotate to different ground this year and have later potatoes? Or
probably do some of both?

I flew a spray plane back and forth across hundreds of thousands of
acres of potatoes years back.  At that time I did not have time nor the
desire to pay attention to growing my own spuds.  Then I got old.  But
not too old to learn.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
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