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Bountiful TPS Harvest
TPS for this plant came from Joseph Lofthouse. This plant was very vigorous and had the most vine growth of all my TPS plants this year. I was very impressed with it.
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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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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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2016 TPS Varieties
Here is the list of TPS that I am growing in 2016.
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How to Grow Potatoes from Pull Sprouts
Growing potatoes from pull sprouts is a method of increasing overall yield from a single tuber. It is more labor intensive than growing from typical seed potatoes. Pull sprouts tend to produce larger (but fewer) tubers than potatoes grown from seed tubers. Since I prefer to have larger tubers for cooking, the extra planting work is worth the effort. This method…
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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…