Gardening

HopeHoops

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

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 11:25 AM

Dec 2011

We still got a damn good crop.

I plant in early May (too early by conventional wisdom), but that's when the volunteers start showing up so I figure mine will do just as well. The main advantage is beating the potato beetles. They don't come out until after the pollination period so it doesn't matter if they mutilate the foliage. Same with squash bugs. I plant early and beat them to their goal. Weather is a bigger problem. We had a really wet spring and I told my wife - no heirloom tomatoes. I was right. They can't take wet feet and die off. The common varieties (sweet 100, sugary, Big Boy, Celebrity, etc.) did just fine. I'm hoping for a dry spring next season so I can get back to the heirlooms.

Oddly, all of the peppers did well - like WAY better than usual. Go figure.

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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