Potato Patch

[karstopography]

Today, when I was digging holes to plant my tomato transplants, I dug up several red pontiac potatoes from my November crop. The potatoes hadn’t sprouted yet and looked pretty good, but I put them in the compost bin.

Got to do a better job harvesting my potatoes.

[rxkeith]

i always miss some.
they over winter pretty well here with 3 ft of white mulch for much of the winter.
they provide a supplemental harvest, some times a pretty good one too.


keith

[Whwoz]

Yes, missing the odd spud is standard when digging them, regardless of skin and soil colour

[karstopography]

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Covered my potatoes. Going to freeze tonight, 28°, I figured a layer of soil might protect the tender plants. I’ll find out.

[karstopography]

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Covering the potatoes with a layer of soil evidently prevented their freezing. We were sub-freezing for something like 12 hours and got as low as 28° if not lower. Other than some minor mechanical damage from being covered with soil, the potatoes look fine.

When I add soil during the season, there’s always a measure of mechanical damage from that process.