Garden update May 30, 2010 Harvesting Potatoes

http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=105085 Its time to start harvesting the potatoes. In todays harvest, we got about 5 gallons of potatoes and 4 gallons of snap beans.

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[s121202]

how long do you have to leave them in the ground? I just planted them 2 weeks ago (mid june) the climate here is wam untill about september

[survivalistboards]

@s121202 about 3 months.

[RichMenAreEvil]

I always wanted to try growing potatoes... How do you plat them anyway? Do they come in seeds? Or are the rumors true-- that you just stick a potato in the ground and it grows?

[survivalistboards]

@RichMenAreEvil - Check out the link in the description, it covers everything from planting the seed potatoes, all the way to harvesting them.

The potatoes will start to sprout eyes. You cut a section of the potato off with the "eye" and plant it with the eye pointing up.

[SPCkeith]

boy oh boy them are some good looking tatoes what kind did you plant? I planted freedom russets and they look great.

[survivalistboards]

@SPCkeith - just regular red potatoes

[zczaldy]

It's been about 3 decades since I've grown taters.darned if at always like diggin buried treasure. ;)

[SistaSledge101]

amazing!

[Daisypie101]

wow your realy good!

[check2wice]

you are such a good potato farmer

[asimov13647]

@survivalistboards I call the red potatoes Walter Cronkites because they are commentators.

[PomonaPunkRock]

why would someone vote down on this?

[TheDogondone]

Subscribed! ;-)

[xmorg]

@RichMenAreEvil yup , pretty much. Just put it in the ground.

[AirstripBum]

@survivalistboards Just make sure you don't wash them. It's good to keep them in the dark too.