Growing Potatoes and Potato Link Love
August 11th, 2010 | 
Author: We had such a great crop of potatoes last year that we knew for sure we would have a great one this year.
Well….
Yes and No.
We planted two varieties again. The Purple Viking and last year’s winner German Butterball. All derived from Seedsavers.org (love em).
So it’s now mid-August and even though we’ll be harvesting all of them at the end of the month (like we did last year) we pulled a few today for dinner.
Waahhhh! The Purple Viking have scab. We pulled 4 of them and 2 had it really bad and two were not so bad. The German Butterball were lovely as usual.
Purple Viking Potato with Scab
I like to think of myself as a new vegetable gardener. I did have a veggie garden eons ago while I was still in college (go figure I told you I was domestic) but we lived in an area that must have been toxic because there were no bugs and we didn’t really know what we (my mom and I) were doing but we got a good harvest. I only did it one year and I ordered plants from those places you see in the inserts in your Sunday newspaper.
So like I was saying I’m new at this. I didn’t read about all the things that can go wrong with potatoes. I found one article about how to grow them in pots and went for it. I’m reading about it now.
That being said I now have started my list on growing succesful potatoes so next year we hopefully won’t have this problem.
Gardening is not perfect. A learning experience all the way.
Okay so here are today’s gardening links…
Seed Savers Potatoes (out of stock until later)
Dissertation to Dirt (I just liked this blog on gardening. Cute couple. And yes the link is about potatoes)
WSU’s page about purple potatoes (don’t be mad UW)
Saving of Seed Potatoes how to
And old post on a veggie garden
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