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.

First potatoes poking through.

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

JRinPA wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 4:30 pm 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.

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.

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 4:53 pm 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.