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Garden Master
Is there a plant variety that you could enjoy in one garden location but it failed to thrive when you tried to grow it in another location? Climate conditions are about the same. It may have been a reliable favorite but you are left wondering: Why did it have good seasons there but not here?
Purple Viking potatoes may be that variety for me.
I didn't really grow it that many years; first mentioned them in 2011. There was one year that I bought Red Viking by mistake and wasn't happy with their yield. It must mean that, I have now grown Purple Vikings 4 years in location A and 2 years in Location B.
In location A, they were wonderful. Location B, it looks like nearly 100% of them split. Whine ... I don't remember any splitting in the earlier spud patch and their production was great! Besides all that, I like them for cooking!
A big thing in most seed catalogs is "widely adaptable." Shoot. I couldn't carry this variety a dozen miles and have it perform well. I'm disappointed but would be doubly so if other potato varieties weren't filling the baskets with really, really nice spuds. But, what happened to my Purple Vikings!?
Stephen
Purple Viking potatoes may be that variety for me.
I didn't really grow it that many years; first mentioned them in 2011. There was one year that I bought Red Viking by mistake and wasn't happy with their yield. It must mean that, I have now grown Purple Vikings 4 years in location A and 2 years in Location B.
In location A, they were wonderful. Location B, it looks like nearly 100% of them split. Whine ... I don't remember any splitting in the earlier spud patch and their production was great! Besides all that, I like them for cooking!
A big thing in most seed catalogs is "widely adaptable." Shoot. I couldn't carry this variety a dozen miles and have it perform well. I'm disappointed but would be doubly so if other potato varieties weren't filling the baskets with really, really nice spuds. But, what happened to my Purple Vikings!?
Stephen