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Diamond Toro TPS Harvest
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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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Skagit Beets TPS Harvest
One of my favorite colors in a potato is red skin/red flesh. However, this seems to be a somewhat rare combination. Most of the potatoes that are supposed to be “red flesh” have produced tubers with pink flesh when grown in my garden. Plants from Skagit Beets TPS have the potential to produce tubers with red skin and red flesh. So far,…
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Diamond Toro TPS Harvest
What is the maximum harvest that can be expected from one TPS plant? I don’t have a final answer for that question but clearly these two Diamond Toro TPS harvests are raising the bar. This is yet another Tom Wagner TPS variety. I really admire all of the work that he has done with potato breeding…
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Pig Knuckles TPS Harvest
These two sets of tubers were harvested from a Tom Wagner TPS variety called Pig Knuckles. Both plants produced fingerling shaped tubers which had red skin and some color in the flesh. The golden-pink fleshed tubers had a slightly higher yield, and I will be keeping some of these to grow again next year. Potatoes with more intense colors in…
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Hedge Rose TPS Harvest
The TPS harvest continues with some potatoes grown from Tom Wagner’s seeds. These are a variety of TPS named Hedge Rose. The description from his website is “Round reds with either red or white flesh.” This refers to what types of potatoes that you can expect to harvest when you plant these seeds. Remember, it is impossible to predict the…
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Sprouting TPS
I sowed my first batch of TPS seeds for 2015 on March 21. Here they are 10 days later. Same as last fall, the first seedling emerged about one week after sowing. These seedlings are a variety from Tom Wagner called “Skagit Beets.” As the name suggests, this variety is supposed to produce red skinned tubers with pink to red…