My own creation
I'm pretty psyched about my first real harvest from a Skagit Valley Gold x Thumb Nose cross saved two years ago and grown out for seed tubers last year. The Ohio State garden fact sheet says to expect 1-2 lb for potatoes around here. I've had a string of problems and am lucky to get that, but my best hill with this new thing was 4.7 lbs with 7 of 23 oblong tubers between 5 and 9 ounces, which I'm guessing is big for a 2n species. SVG never got that big for me, and my Thumb Nose gives me a handfull of peanuts.
This thing is a nice deep yellow flesh with sad pink skin--really good flavor. Late blight swept through and killed my tomatoes but I didn't see any rot on the tubers and only a little damage to the leaves.
Things might have been better, I think, but I didn't 'store' the seed tubers last winter. They sat out in my mud room all winter and were barely alive when I planted them. I won't make that mistake again.
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