I Ordered Seed Potatoes Today!/Update Post #56/Harvest pg 7

[Smart Red]

My Purple Majesty seed potato has arrived.

Colorful spuds are so much fun! I haven't tried Purple yet, but I have All-Red, All-Blue, Yukon, and two varieties of fingerlings. For Thanksgiving I served mounds of red, white, and blue potatoes (cooked and mashed them separately) in one bowl.

DH, however, can't eat blue or red spuds with his eyes open. Perhaps blue-hash-browns are pushing it a bit, but DS and I thought they were delish!

I sure envy ya'll getting to plant your spuds already. (She says while the snow blows around outside the window. Seemed like I was just getting to see the top edges of the raised beds when we got this new accumulation). Even those watery trenches of baymule's look appealing to me.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

My Purple Majesty seed potato has arrived.

Colorful spuds are so much fun! I haven't tried Purple yet, but I have All-Red, All-Blue, Yukon, and two varieties of fingerlings. For Thanksgiving I served mounds of red, white, and blue potatoes (cooked and mashed them separately) in one bowl.

DH, however, can't eat blue or red spuds with his eyes open. Perhaps blue-hash-browns are pushing it a bit, but DS and I thought they were delish!

I sure envy ya'll getting to plant your spuds already. (She says while the snow blows around outside the window. Seemed like I was just getting to see the top edges of the raised beds when we got this new accumulation). Even those watery trenches of baymule's look appealing to me.

It snowed here a few minutes ago and the sun is out now, no wait, it is cloudy again. I am trying to figure out if I should water my seedlings with the rabbit manure tea. It is in a 5 gallon bucket outside with ice floating in it.

 

[897tgigvib]

The blue and the red potatoes in my fridge are sprouting. Weather permitting, they go in tomorrow.

 

[Jared77]

My Adirondack blues were a big hit with the kids here. They are a very pretty plant too the leaves had purple veins and even leaf itself was darker than my others. Really a pretty plant. Flavor was great.

Smart Red tell your DH to stop thinking its a potato. That's where the problem is. Just eat and enjoy!

 

[897tgigvib]

Note to self:

Today, stick spuds in ground before working on netting.

 

[baymule]

Update on the potatoes. The trenches drowned. I got a couple of the Purple Majesty and a couple of the Mountain Rose. I planted some in tubs and they are up and doing great. I also planted some in gallon pots for out 5 year old grand daughter, they are growing and she took them home today. I planted the 5 pounds of feed store new potatoes in the leaf/horse manure piles in the yard. They were barely sprouting, I was worried I wouldn't get any potatoes.......saw a 20 pound bag in Tractor Supply and......yeah, I bought it and planted them too.

The upshot is now I have LOTS of potato plants. I replanted the trenches and the plants are up and growing like crazy. The leaf pile potatoes are growing and doing what potato plants do. I'll get some pics and post them in the next day or so.

 

[MontyJ]

Glad you finally got some spuds going! Sorry about the flood though I haven't even bought seed potatoes yet...or onions!

 

[lesa]

Excellent, Baymule! I see lots of potatoes in your future!

 

[ducks4you]

My blue potatoes that I order in February came in last week.

 

[baymule]

Here are pics of the potato garden beds. This is a pic of the replanted formerly flooded trenches.

These beds are also replanted after the great potato flood. These 2 small beds are what produced our harvest last year. http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33864

This is the leaf bin potato garden bed. Last fall, the neighbor lady paid the 3 little boys accross the street to rake her yard. They were trying to make Christmas money, so I paid them to bring all the leaves to me. DH and I put filled a 90 gallon trash cart 5 times with leaves and put in the chicken run. The rest we left in the front yard in 2 piles and mixed horse manure in them. To his credit, DH went with me to shovel horse poop and helped to mix the leaf piles. After the flooded disaster in the potato trenches, I went to the feed store and bought seed potatoes and planted them in the leaf bins.