Re: Potatoes
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- Subject: Re: Potatoes
- From: N* <R*@foxinternet.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:24:09 -0800
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Rene M. Lipshires wrote:
>
> I heard that someone actually keeps small potatoes from their crop and
> reuses them for seed potatoes the next year... I wanted to do this as well,
> but wasn't sure if this practice would encourage disease. Most seed potatoe
> catalogues promote that their stock is "disease free" and are "certified";
> so i tend to buy new seed potato each year, rather than using seed potato
> from my crop. Any advice/thoughts on this?
>
I have renewed my seed potatoes en-masse twice in 17 years, although
sometimes I drop a variety and replace with another. One of my renewals
was unintentional. I was away most of the spring and lost the crop
(1996).
Steve (Maritime...)
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