inches deep 12 to 15 inches apart. They'll grow
baking. Kennebec is just a great all-around potato. If you're
standard for all around. It stores well. Again, you'll plant
not sure how you want to cook it, or if you like cooking potatoes every
proper crop rotation. Do not plant potatoes in the same spot
potatoes dry out for a few days after harvesting. Simply place
the best treatment. The best prevention against disease is
to 100, sometimes 120 days, for harvest. So with Yukon Gold
size spuds are excellent for frying, boiling, mashing or
tasting crop of yellow flesh spuds for baking or mashing, and
This will stress the plants and increase the likelihood of pests
don't want to saturate the soil around your spuds, but also
more than once every 3 years. Do not follow or precede potatoes with
means it'll last longer in your pantry. Plant 3 to 4
they'll be ready to harvest in 80 to 100 days. Yukon Gold
Kennebec is a top all-purpose potato. Thin skins and smooth white
is a very popular early potato. It produces a big, early, great
is non organic or Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew, which is
potato bug. Other unwanted pests include Leafhopper, flea
Potatoes are prone to several diseases. A fungicide is often
beetles and aphids. All can be treated with Sevin dust, which
options for our soil and our climate. Red La Soda has a
pantry. Potatoes do have some pests that you need to be aware of.
an organic product, Always read and follow label directions.
buckets or pots simply turn the bucket over or the pot over on
ground, say 100 days or so, and they start to look yellow or
possibly sickly, they're probably not. They're just done
a larger yield. Potatoes produce very pretty flowers, and once
again when they're 6 to 8 inches tall. As the plants grow,
excess water. You can grow potatoes in raised beds,
outside the night before I plant to help the seed pieces and
the soil be about the same temperature. When it comes to
their numbers and they're typically going to be on the low
not plant in wet, soggy soil. I like to leave my pieces
fertilize again when the plants are about 4 inches tall and
is a good choice. I prefer organics, so I use GardenTone
end, but I prefer organics, so this is what I use. You're going to
mounding will produce a larger yield. As the potatoes grow, some
prevent any from breaching the surface and will also give you
you're going to cut your seed potatoes in into smaller pieces and lay
one eye, You want to plant your pieces 10 to 12 inches
thing to do for this is when the plants are about 8 to
apart and 3 to 4 inches deep, and be sure that you do
bed. Now that balanced fertilizer is usually some type
from Espoma, which is 3-4-4. If it's a new bed, you could use BioTone
water. So, let's head back to the studio and I'll give you
sunlight is better. Good drainage is critical. It's
week of bitterly cold winter weather along with four inches
certified seed potatoes from a trusted garden center or a feed
sunlight, potatoes need full sun. Anything less than 6 hours
some loose soil. I've already added a balanced organic
fertilizer to this. All you need to do now is add a little
you're referencing, I try to get them in the ground the week
then you might have to wait a bit longer. You also want to use
grocery store have been treated with a growth inhibitor to
ground. So, as you can see this is nice and healed up. I got
them in the hole with the eye pointing up and then cover with
These are ready to go on the ground. In fact, it's more than
dig a hole about 3 or 4 inches deep. We're going to place
store because unless you know they're organic, spuds from the
here and get them in the ground. So, all we have to do is
after Valentine's Day unless we have snow or ice or frost and
underside is no longer slimy and I got a little eye here.
of snow, so this is the first opportunity I've had to get out
some more information. You want to plant your potatoes 3 to 4
prevent them from sprouting in your pantry. Now, as far as
slimy. if I put that in the ground right away, these have a
heal up. Once that's done, then you can plant them in the
right. Any standard kitchen knife will be fine. I'm just going
Frisco, Texas. Mid to late February is when most people
tendency to rot, so we're going to leave them here on the
March 15th to March 17th. depending on what website
It's potato time in Collin County.
Hi, I'm Tim with Shades of Green Nursery and Landscape in
out on the newspaper so they can heal up. But this year we had a
take your seed potato and cut it top to bottom and left to
newspaper just like this for about 3 days and then they're
going to heal up and they'll be perfect for going in the
in Collin County plant their potatoes. Now that is a two
potato and cut it into smaller pieces. Then you want to lay
step process. The first thing you want to do is take your seed