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Gardening

HopeHoops

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2. The blue make the prettiest mashed potatoes. They change color as they cool.

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 11:03 AM

Dec 2011

Lavender is a good description for when they're cooling, but they get a deep blue/purple when they're hot. And they have such a wonderful flavor and keep well! We've been growing them for 20 years. The blue only get about 1/4 as big as the Yukon Golds, but I dense-plant and always get a huge harvest. We just dug them a couple of weeks ago - IN PA!!!

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Does anyone else like blue potatoes? [View all] HopeHoops Dec 2011 OP

Sure! And red and yellow fleshed.... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 #1

The blue make the prettiest mashed potatoes. They change color as they cool. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #2

I had my best gardens in PA (we lived in West Chester).... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 #3

We put hot peppers in pots to keep them away from the sweet peppers. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #5

Good Lord, that is a lot of watering. Denninmi Dec 2011 #11

I do! I do! yellerpup Dec 2011 #4

I couldn't find fresh seed potatoes this season so we just used what was left over (the small ones). HopeHoops Dec 2011 #6

No garden for me. yellerpup Dec 2011 #9

No, they don't. That's why the the potatoes are blue. Liberal Veteran Dec 2011 #7

Love 'em. beac Dec 2011 #8

Alfred Hitchcock did. Kablooie Dec 2011 #10