Re: Potatoes
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- Subject: Re: Potatoes
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- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:47:14 -0700
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If you plant whole potatoes with many eyes you get many small potatoes. If
you plant cut pieces with 2 eyes, you get fewer, but larger, tubers. At
least that is how it has always worked for me. Since moving the the desert
with and with our short growing season and alkaline soil, I also prefer
planting smallish whole potatoes - less chance for disease to enter the seed
and the growing season is too short for large tubers to develop anyway.
-----Original Message-----
From: Neason <Rebecca.Neason@foxinternet.net>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Potatoes
> ...
> I hate cutting potatoes because they tend to
>rot in my cold wet soil. I save seed from each crop, saving tubers that
>are about the size of a hen's egg. That way I don't have to cut.
>
>Steve (Maritime...)
>
