2018 how did your garden grow?

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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by Killerbunny » Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:58 pm

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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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by Ontario Chick » Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:02 pm

TomK wrote:
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My 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.
Well, 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...
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This makes me somewhat curious, did the seed potatoes look like Yukon Gold?
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by TomK » Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:10 pm

Ontario Chick wrote:
Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:02 pm
TomK wrote:
Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:39 pm
Killerbunny wrote:
Mon Sep 03, 2018 2:03 pm
My 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.
Well, 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...
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This makes me somewhat curious, did the seed potatoes look like Yukon Gold?
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 rushing
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by KimChick » Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:12 pm

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?

Post by Killerbunny » Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:55 am

@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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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by Ontario Chick » Mon Sep 10, 2018 10:30 am

Aha,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?

Post by TomK » Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:24 pm

Ontario Chick wrote:
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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.
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... :sSig_censored:
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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by WLLady » Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:23 pm

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?

Post by Killerbunny » Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:45 am

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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Re: 2018 how did your garden grow?

Post by WLLady » Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:39 am

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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