[AT] digging potatoes

[charlie hill]

Ralph most of the commercial potatoes here in the S/E have already been 
harvested.
They plant them in Jan or early Feb.  We can actually do two potato crops 
here.  A
spring crop and a fall crop.  I don't know if any of the commercial growers 
do or not.

I planted mine late this year and they are about like yours with
no blossoms yet.  As cool as the spring has been here I suspect they may do 
alright but
in a normal year they wouldn't do good this late.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 9:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] digging potatoes

On 6/30/2013 5:57 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> We’ve been too busy and the ground has been too muddy as well to dig/plow 
> up our potatoes. Now that we have time, the weather forecast is for rain 
> for the next week and the ground is already extremely wet. I’m afraid if 
> we don’t get the potatoes out soon they will start to rot. We always plow 
> them up when they are dry and have a building we store them in on shelves 
> where we can pour them out not over 3-4 inches deep. I’m toying with the 
> idea of getting them up regardless of the mud and washing them with a 
> water hose—no scrubbing so as not to damage the skin. Then after they dry, 
> move them to storage. Anyone here ever wash their potatoes before putting 
> them in storage?
>
> John Hall
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Wow! That is early. Mine are just starting to bloom and we don't
normally dig them til late September. I do recall washing them after
digging one muddy fall in the late seventies. I don't recall the results
though. I guess if it had been a disaster I might remember it better.

Ralph in Sask.
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