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happydog · January 18, 2014

I just reread the section in The Resilient Gardener, by Carol Deppe, that talks about saving your own potatoes for seed. She outlines a rigorous approach to culling any diseased plants, marking the healthiest plants, and only saving certain potatoes from those plants. I sure wish I had done that. But I didn't. I just harvested all the potatoes and stuffed them in the root cellar. So those potatoes might very well be healthy and virus free. On the other hand they could just as easily be harboring disease that I might then spread through my garden. In the end, I just didn't want to take the chance just to save a few dollars. But NEXT year...

January 18, 2014	#8
happydog Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Appalachian Mountains NC Posts: 150	I just reread the section in The Resilient Gardener, by Carol Deppe, that talks about saving your own potatoes for seed. She outlines a rigorous approach to culling any diseased plants, marking the healthiest plants, and only saving certain potatoes from those plants. I sure wish I had done that. But I didn't. I just harvested all the potatoes and stuffed them in the root cellar. So those potatoes might very well be healthy and virus free. On the other hand they could just as easily be harboring disease that I might then spread through my garden. In the end, I just didn't want to take the chance just to save a few dollars. But NEXT year...