Potato Patch

[karstopography]

Planted 12 golf ball sized sprouting red potatoes from the May harvest today. First time to try fall potatoes. First time to use my own harvested potatoes for seed.

[karstopography]

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First potatoes poking through.

[JRinPA]

So May harvest to Aug31, 3+ months, and they were ready to sprout. Did you cold prep them or anything?

[karstopography]

So May harvest to Aug31, 3+ months, and they were ready to sprout. Did you cold prep them or anything?

I didn’t do anything other than harvest, brush off the dirt a little, and put them in a cupboard. I was not planning on planting any fall potatoes. We had talked about making potatoes for dinner and I went to the cupboard and saw that the remaining potatoes had sprouted. These are either Lasoda or Pontiac.

[GoDawgs]

This will be a fun experiment. When is your first frost?

I guess you'll get some rain from Francine as she passes by but it looks like she'll mostly miss you guys.

[karstopography]

This will be a fun experiment. When is your first frost?

I guess you'll get some rain from Francine as she passes by but it looks like she'll mostly miss you guys.

Barely got anything from Francine. No wind and maybe 1/4” rain added up.

First frost date is depending on which site is consulted.
Frost by Mid December is 30/70 chance against. 3 out of 10 years. By end of December more like 90/10 in favor

I’m in the forest here and we get a few degrees of insulation that delays first frost date.

December 1st is 90 days post planting. I should have some potatoes by then. 105 days would be even better.