Planting Yukon Gold Potatoes

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?AIAPG 18 April 2013 Planting Yukon Gold Potatoes
Nineteen Yukon Gold tubers were planted at 14 inch centres in the row and the rows are 20 inches apart.Depth is about five inches in a trench, and the tubers are covered with about three inches of soil. Each tuber was marked with a wooden sick. No more fibre rods left. This facilitates digging, and established a focus point when watering using the Magic Water Wand. As the potatoes grow they will be hilled and mulch will be added. Expectation is six pounds per plant. These tubers were quality purchased seed potatoes.

[wmontanez]

Do you add fertilizer, compost or just your regular soil? 6 pounds for 1 plant of Yukon Gold sounds pretty good that is why I am asking...

[Durgan]

Originally Posted by wmontanez

Do you add fertilizer, compost or just your regular soil? 6 pounds for 1 plant of Yukon Gold sounds pretty good that is why I am asking...

Compost is my fertilizer and some wood chips worked in once a year. When hilling the channel made for the hills is filled with compost. This must give sufficient food for the plant. My potatoes are as perfect as they can get.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?BKWAI 11 September 2010 Yukon Gold Test Box Potatoes
Yukon Gold Potatoes were harvested today. A total weight of 23.5 pounds was harvested from the 4 by 4 foot test area. The quality is excellent. Another plant could probably be placed in the center of the area without crowding. The average weight per plant was 5.9 pounds. From my experience anything over 4 pounds is acceptable.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?CZJZE 26 June 2010 Yukon Gold Potato Growth in 4 by 4 foot Test Box
The potatoes were hilled once and heavily mulched. A string was tied around the vegetation to keep upright. The premise being that the more vegetation exposed to the sun feeds the new tubers. This opposed to deep hilling and hiding the vegetation.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XWWLI 19 May 2010. Test to determine quantity by weight of four Yukon Gold potatoes.
A box 4 by 4 feet by 11 inches high was made in ideal soil and location to determine the quantity of potatoes by weight that can be produced. Each plant has about a foot on each side to insure minimum crowding of the root system. The seed potato was planted just below ground level and covered with soil about two inches on top.
Soil was placed in the corners for the first hilling. After the first hilling the growing plant will be covered adequately with bedding wood chips until the end of the season.
This test is to establish by weight the quantity, and size quality of potatoes that can be grown in a small space.

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?FCTSE 12 May 2013 Yukon Gold Potatoes Growing
Yukon Gold potato row thriving.

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZJAIE 22 July 2013 Yukon Gold Plant
First new potato harvested. Weight was 2 pounds.All the new tubers were within about six inches of the cut seed potato, and roughly on the same plane above the seed potato. The seed potato was still firm. They will remain in the ground for about six more weeks to mature. The quality is perfect.They were lightly scrubbed with a brush which removed the soil and the skin came off, then baked in a Dutch oven for one hour at 400F. My usual method of cooking potatoes.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?FCTSE 12 May 2013 Yukon Gold Potatoes Growing
Yukon Gold potato row thriving. Longer marking stakes were installed.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?AIAPG 18 April 2013 Planting Yukon Gold Potatoes
Nineteen Yukon Gold tubers were planted at 14 inch centres in the row and the rows are 20 inches apart.Depth is about five inches in a trench, and the tubers are covered with about three inches of soil. Each tuber was marked with a wooden sick. No more fibre rods left. This facilitates digging, and established a focus point when watering using the Magic Water Wand. As the potatoes grow they will be hilled and mulch will be added. Expectation is six pounds per plant. These tubers were quality purchased seed potatoes.