Re: Potatoes
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- Subject: Re: Potatoes
- From: L* H* <g*@syix.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:40:28 -0800
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A little bragging here. I have harvested "Strike" green beans (stringless
and they are bush beans) and used the seed beans from that crop for a
second planting the same year. I was kind of proud of that. They are quite
a wonderful bean. Melts in your mouth.
We are fortunate here in California to have such a lovely long growing
season.
L
At 07:34 PM 1/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sun 17 Jan, 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?
>>
>My philosophy is that as long as the kept seed does well why not use it.
>If there are problems, start afresh.
>I have never had the best results from freshly purchased seed, it seems
>to have to get used to me or my soil.
>--
>
>Allan Day Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
