[tjg911]

in my experience growing potatoes they don't always flower. some years they did but most years they did not. regardless of whether they flowered or not they did produce potatoes. as far as yields in those years i can't say if that is effected re flowering.

potatoes always yield poorly imo. water is critical and in hills it is hard to water w/o a soaker hose. i did get better yields with a soaker hose but still nothing to be happy about. then i read that a potato plant yields 1-4 pounds, i would get 1 to 1.5 pounds per plant from 35 plants using 160 sq ft of garden. this is why they grow potatoes in northern maine in poor soils where they have thousands of acres of land!

i stopped growing them, for the amount of space they took up i could have feed 5 families with other things i grow vs getting 32-35 pounds of potatoes.

tom