Re: Potatoes

Olin,

I find that it varies by variety.  The Sierra baking potatoes and the
Yukon Gold (late season keepers) that I grow always produce mostly large
tubers.  I have trouble finding enough small ones for seed.  OTOH, the
Norlands and Bison always seem to produce one or two large spuds per
plant and lots of 2" ones as well.  I've never been able to find a
relationship between the seed size and the tuber size/number. 

I always pre-sprout my seed potatoes and break off any small sprouts
leaving only the 2 or 3 largest.  May be a factor???

Steve



Olin wrote:
> 
> 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...)
> >
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