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Re: container potatoes

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Martha,
Try planting your potatoes in Nov.  When I lived in Texas that is what I
did, and the crops were terrific.  Harvest was around April 1 to-15 and it
freed up the ground for something else.  Even if the spud foliage gets
nipped by freezing weather, it grows back.  Spuds can take lots of cold.
Doreen Howard
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From: Martha Wells <flylo@txcyber.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 5:25 PM
Subject: container potatoes


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>We're doing that here with spent straw and goat hay bedding over the
>potatoes.
>I had a 3 X 3 wire frame I planted the potatoes in. I first scratched up
>the soil and laid the cut pieces of (Kennebec) potatoes in a grid pattern
>and covered them lightly with the soil a little. It was cool and they took
>forever to come up. But they're about 2' tall, and I'm covering all but the
>very tips of the greenery with the straw. I had to remove the frame (turned
>it into a chicken tractor), but the potatoes still are orderly and growing
>upward out of the straw ok. I planted some more out of the same seed in
>orderly rows and hill them up like normal, but the plants aren't nearly as
>big and healthy looking. Another benefit is we have Colo potato beetles hit
>mid season really bad, and I'm hoping the potatoes that are mostly buried
>won't be as affected as those in the soil rows.
>MAJOR GRIPE:  Here in the South, when it's time to plant potatoes, all the
>'neat' companies that carry the heirlooms or other interesting types are
>still snowed under in Maine or Idaho. Is anyone aware of a company that
>sells seed potatoes to the South? I've tried ordering them in the fall and
>chilling them and they turn into a soggy lump way before time to set them
>out.
>We get the triad of Red Pontiac, Red Lasota, and Kennebec white, that's it
>if you buy local. (martha)
>
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