2018 how did your garden grow?
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?
I think part of the problem was the warehouse with the seed potatoes for Eastern Ontario went up in flames so there was a lot of rushing around to get any by the feedstores etc. to get any. It may not have been their fault.
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This makes me somewhat curious, did the seed potatoes look like Yukon Gold?TomK wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:39 pmWell, Gill, you are one up on me...i got seed potatoes in Kemptville at Pioneer Nursery this spring...i wanted Yukon Gold...they had a barrel labeled as such among a whole host of other varieties...I bought about 20lbs worth and planted them...just this week I dug a couple of hills at the front of the row...hmmm..not Yukon Gold..more like a russet..wondered if there were a couple of vagabonds in my purchase, so being the engineering type i went down halfway on the row and dug another hill....same!!! Well darn it all....a hundred feet of beautiful medium size Russets ..not actually a bad thing but not what I wanted....can't be too careful these days even at a small family run business...Killerbunny wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 2:03 pmMy Yukon Gold that were problematic when they started officially suck! I'm sure the small potatoes I did get from them will be delicious though.
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?
Yea...actually they did...i should have cut one though so my error...these russets I dug up LOOK like russets tho so perhaps i was not paying that much attention and just went by the label...serves me right for rushingOntario Chick wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:02 pmThis makes me somewhat curious, did the seed potatoes look like Yukon Gold?TomK wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:39 pmWell, Gill, you are one up on me...i got seed potatoes in Kemptville at Pioneer Nursery this spring...i wanted Yukon Gold...they had a barrel labeled as such among a whole host of other varieties...I bought about 20lbs worth and planted them...just this week I dug a couple of hills at the front of the row...hmmm..not Yukon Gold..more like a russet..wondered if there were a couple of vagabonds in my purchase, so being the engineering type i went down halfway on the row and dug another hill....same!!! Well darn it all....a hundred feet of beautiful medium size Russets ..not actually a bad thing but not what I wanted....can't be too careful these days even at a small family run business...Killerbunny wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 2:03 pmMy Yukon Gold that were problematic when they started officially suck! I'm sure the small potatoes I did get from them will be delicious though.
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?
I seriously have to roast some beets and pickle other beets tomorrow, or as soon as the weather is cooler. Then blanch and freeze the greens; if there is no room in the freezer, I'll have to pressure can them.
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?
@TomK SO I dug up a patch of Russet Burbank at the weekend and they are tiny, golf ball to tennis ball sized. They had completely died back. Anyway I had to look very closely to separate them from my Yukon Gold. I am wondering what is going on.
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Aha,so possibly we are loosing the Yukon Gold distinctive look and @TomK is completely blameless.
Might be time to go back to Nepal.
Might be time to go back to Nepal.
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Haha..i am never completely blameless...but i think sometimes it is hard to know the variety of most potatoes....i should have cut one to check..me bad...Ontario Chick wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 10:30 amAha,so possibly we are loosing the Yukon Gold distinctive look and @TomK is completely blameless.
Might be time to go back to Nepal.
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?
russetts are "netted" on the surface....yukons arent. but if you have an off pH (like if you add ash to your garden) you can get a kind of potato scab on yukons that make it look netted....yukons are typically a very yellow fleshed potato....light browny yellow skin where russetts are a more reddish brown in my experience. i have an awful time with hollow core in my russetts.....and i grow those, yukon and norlands every year. this year the bicolours i got from here on the forum did quite well....looking forward to trying them out!!
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?
It was the russets that were odd, almost no netting. I think it had to do with the maturity of them.
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ah.....okay. i've never had much issue with getting big netted russets even early in the season.....sigh. hopefully next year they'll be better!
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