Adirondack Blue TPS Harvest


My first TPS harvest of the year.

On March 30, 2015, I planted a tiny seed.  After three months of care, here is the result.   I harvested these potatoes from a single Adirondack Blue TPS plant.  The plant was pretty small compared to other TPS seedlings, so I decided to dig it up.  It was only about a foot tall without any side branches, so I did not have very high hopes for yield.  However, I was pleasantly surprised to find 6 tubers clustered under the plant.  The flesh color was a lovely purple with flecks of white speckled throughout.  Since this potato did not show any exceptional vigor or other outstanding characteristics, I chose to eat it instead of saving the tubers to plant next year.  Not every TPS seedling will produce outstanding tubers worth saving to plant next year but they all should produce something worth eating.  Boiled until tender, these potatoes tasted like any other fresh from the garden spud: delicious.  These were the first potatoes that I have tasted from a TPS plant, and it was an incredibly rewarding experience.  I am looking forward to harvesting the remaining TPS plants at the end of the season.  Each one should have tubers with different colors and shapes.  Unearthing a TPS plant is an adventure on par with digging up buried treasure!


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