Category: Potato Harvest

  • 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.

  • 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.  

  • Blue Shetland TPS Harvest

  • Elongated Red Diploid TPS Harvest

  • Magic Molly TPS Harvest

  • 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.  

  • Pig Knuckles TPS Harvest

    The 2016 TPS harvest has begun with two different plants from Pig Knuckles TPS.  

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…