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Originally Posted by greenthumbomaha
You are still growing potatoes? Do you store your potatoes in the ground? I finally pulled mine about 3 weeks ago.Tops were still green but I was anxious to eat them and didn't want to chance them rotting.
- Lisa
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I ordered some seed potatoes from burpee in early July thinking I'd plant on Aug 1st in the greenhouse. I finally got them on Oct 1st, and planted immediately. I thought they would do fine since I have a propane heater out there. Even with the 70-80s weather in Oct, they never came up.
I have the heater set on 40 at night, still didnt' matter. I dug one up yesterday and the sprout was only 1/8" long, so they would def. rot before they grow.
Lesson learned, potatoes planted on Oct 1st in zone 5b in heated hoop house doesn't work.