This Spud’s for You

Potatoes are one of the easiest root crops for home gardeners to grow. Order your specialty seed potatoes now for delivery next spring.

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The first sentence I saw violet potatoes , it was love at first sight . I was immediately smite with the idea of surprising my family by outflank little mound of purple mashed white potato onto their plates . I ca n’t remember what I paid per Egyptian pound for thoseAll Blue potatoes , but I do recollect my family unit ’s response to them . Priceless .

I ’m still in love in regal potatoes — and reddish , gold and chocolate-brown one , too . I specially care the fingerling potatoes , those narrow fiddling Tuber regulate like finger’s breadth or crescent .

Potatoes are one of the easy root crop to acquire and home gardener can harvest their own potatoes if they plant them , keep them moist and hope the atmospheric condition cooperates . I usually imagine about planting potatoes when the conditions has already warm and it ’s too late to plant them and long past time to regularise them . However , this year I ’ve resolve to plan onwards for spud planting .

Companies that trade certified semen potatoes will take order now , expect for a shipping particular date and then send them when it ’s the right fourth dimension for planting in your area .

Something Old , New and spicy

The reward to implant and growing your own potatoes is that you’re able to grow many dissimilar color , shapes and flavors that are n’t ordinarily realise in the produce department at the grocery store or are too pricey at the farmer ’s market . There are many heirloom varieties , unexampled potatoes and my favored blues .

For gardeners who want to develop their own specialty potatoes , bulge by guess about how you ’ll use them in the kitchen . Some spud are naturally better for fry and baking ; others are good for stewing . It all depend on how much starch they hold . For example , Red Sangre can be used for fry while the Yellow Finn is near for mashing . Yukon Gold is a good frying and baking Solanum tuberosum , as is the beautiful All Blue .

As with grow other vegetables , turn back the phone number of day from institute to harvesting and look for early , mid - time of year or late - season variety depending on whether you have a short or retentive growing season . white potato vine are also a good vegetable for nurseryman who are short on patience because new potatoes can be harvest while the vine are still green .

Early time of year potatoes take between 60 and 70 days and include Early Rose , Irish Cobbler and Yukon Gold . Mid - season multifariousness take between 70 and 90 Day and include All Blue , All Red and Red Gold . Late season varieties , like Russets , take from 90 to 120 days .

fingerling , like Russian Banana , Austrian Crescent and Red Thumb , can take as long to grow as some late season variety .

When to Plant murphy

Irish potato like cool weather and natural spring is the time for planting . If you order seed potatoes now from an on-line retailer , indicate a date 2 - 3 hebdomad before you ’re able-bodied to plant in your area , which is ordinarily 2 week before the last give rime . If you ’re not sure about the engagement , check with the county extension office in your area .

If do n’t think you have enough space to establish potatoes , there are some clever alternatives like planting in abushel basketor 30 - Imperial gallon charge plate trash udder . That ’s what I ’m planning to try out next year and I hope you ’ll link up me for some potato get fun .

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Potatoes can be a good vegetable for impatient gardeners–new red potatoes can be harvested while the vines are still green.Photo/Illustration: Jodi Torpey

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