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Re: fall potatoes?

We live in the Northern end of the Shenandoah valley Va.  To my
knowledge potatoes are a "long day' vegetable, that is they require many
hours of sunlight per day to produce tubers of any appreciative size,
hence planting in late winter to late spring, mid-march and harvesting
in Aug-Sept or before the ground freezes. Have left some undug in the
winter and they have produced plants and potatoes the following summer.
Some people do plant in the fall, allowing the planting to winter over
and be ready to sprout the following Spring, their reasons may vary but
one of them could be to take advantage of the drier, more workable soil
at that time avoiding the heavier wet soil that frequently is the case
in late winter-early spring.
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