Potatoes Selected for My Garden

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Potato, Purple Majesty

Deep purple color and sweet, buttery flavor.  Pick a peck of perfectly purple potatoes. These ever-so-delicious potatoes are purple through and through—with wine-dark skins and succulent purple flesh. The violet-toned, sweet, buttery spuds add pizzazz to potato salads and mixed vegetable dishes. Surprise your next sirloin with a helping of succulent purple steak fries. Formidable!

Sun: Full Sun 

Days to Maturity: 85  days

Height: 18-24  inches

Spread: 12-15  inches

Potato, Rio Grande Russet

Outstanding choice for salads, slicing, and chipping.To your health. High-yielding, nutrition-rich potato loaded with antioxidants. Extra-moist flesh makes this the go-to potato for salads, slicing and chipping. Sized 4-5" long x 2-3" in diameter, Rio Grande has rust-brown skin and white flesh. Well-adapted across the country. Stores well.

Sun: Full Sun 

Sowing Method: Direct Sow 

Days to Maturity: 59-65  days

Height: 38  inches

Spread: 34  inches

Time to Fertilize

Today I will be fertilizing the plants.

Update on Growth

Beans & Cucumbers ready to climb the bean tower

2nd Bean Tower with Beans ready to climb

Onions & Other Vegetables

Look at the Strawberries ripening up!!!

More Strawberries turning from green to red!!

Tomato row

Tomatoes covered with pine needles to keep moist

Carrots, Cucumbers, Beets, Zucchini, Summer Squash & More

It Might Be A Little Late To Think About Potatoes

I think I will try a few tubers to see what happens. I found some at Burpee that have a shorter growing season of only 65 days.

All About Potatoes

CAN I GROW POTATOES?

Potatoes are thickened underground stems called tubers. For good tuber development, potatoes require deep, loose, well-drained soil that is free from stones. They need full sun. Plant tuber directly in the garden after danger of heavy frost. Plant them with the eyes up, 2 to 3 inches deep and 10 to 12 inches apart in rows spaced 2 feet apart. The tops of developing tubers should not be exposed to sunlight, or they will turn green. When the plants are about 5 to 6 inches tall, begin to heap soil around the base of the stems, or surround the plants with a thick layer of mulch. Potatoes need regular watering throughout the season.




HARVEST TIPS

For "new" potatoes harvest about 10 weeks after planting. When potato blossoms appear, it is a sign that the first new potatoes are ready for harvest, simply feel around in the soil with your fingers for the small tubers. Try not to damage the roots of the plants or you may reduce the main harvest.

Harvest mature potatoes after the tops die back and before the first frost. Dig carefully to avoid damaging the tubers. After harvesting store them in a dark, dry place for a week at 65-70 degrees F. Then store them at 35-40 degrees at fairly high humidity.

What Was Kitty Doing this Morning?

A bed of pine needles for the neighbor's 
Kitty (the same kitty that uses my
 strawberry patch for her litter box...grrrrr)

She didn't seem too interested with
me taking her picture...
I guess she feels at home now.

Cold & Rainy Weekend Again...Can't Complain...It's Not a Drought!

Cucumbers & Red Beans are ready to
CLIMB on the Bean Poles

Green & Wax Beans are ready to CLIMB
on the Bean Poles

Corn, Beets & Broccoli Looking Good!

Green & Wax Beans ready to climb
on our homemade trellis

Dwarf Blueberry bush with blossoms, Red
Beets, Lettuce & Spinach getting a good start

Just look at the size of those
Strawberries!!!

My mouth is already watering for a
Strawberry...won't be long now!

Tomatoes across back of house. At far
end is our homemade vegetable trellis

Tomatoes in pots in front of the tomatoes
across back of house

Overview of Garden Today



Looking Across Patio



Dwarf Blueberry, Red Onions & More



Tomatoes

5 Volunteer Tomatoes