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FL Fingerling TPS Harvest
In 2015, I bought some red-fleshed fingerling potatoes while on vacation in Florida. I brought two tubers home and planted them in 2015. This plant is from TPS that was produced by those tubers.
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Adirondack Red TPS Harvest
The months of unexpectedly hot, dry weather in 2016 were not good for potato growing. Overall, between TPS plants and regular tuber-planted potatoes, my yields were low and the plants did not produce berries. However, this plant defied all expectations. It produced a record setting yield of beautiful, multi-colored tubers.
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Blue Shetland TPS Harvest
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Elongated Red Diploid TPS Harvest
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Magic Molly TPS Harvest
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Red Ox TPS Harvest
Unfortunately, these Red Ox TPS tubers did not have the red flesh that I was hoping for. This is not one for the record books.
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Pig Knuckles TPS Harvest
The 2016 TPS harvest has begun with two different plants from Pig Knuckles TPS.
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7 Potatoes Selected from the 2015 Harvest
Now that it is almost spring, it is time to evaluate the 2015 potato tubers for storage quality. After including storage quality as a determining factor, only 7 varieties were chosen for evaluation in 2016. Each variety was renamed for easier identification in the future. The 7 varieties are ranked in order of preference: 1) 2015 Diamond Toro (formerly Diamond…
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Blue Victor TPS Harvest
The harvest of Blue Victor TPS was the highest yielding blue potato that I grew in 2015. The Blue Victor plant also flowered and produced berries. The tubers are fairly nice, but they do not have exceptionally dark flesh color. I am keeping this one to grow in 2016, but I plan to drop it…
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Blue Shetland (Shetland Black) TPS Harvest
In 2015, I grew two plants from TPS labeled as Blue Shetland. Apparently, Blue Shetland potatoes are also known as Shetland Black (correct me if you know otherwise.) Either way, the tubers that I harvested were really unexpected. The first plant produced the tubers pictured below; a strange double lumped/ hourglass tuber shape. I like…