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Tomatovillian™
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I harvested my first potatoes of this season today and if today's haul is representative of what's left to dig I should get more than 100 pounds from two 32 square foot beds. It also looks like there will be plenty of baking size spuds too. Of the 10 pounds I dug today, six were about the size of the one I'm holding.
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Sure you did you did.
You piled up some weeds and took potatoes from the store and put them in your garden. ![]() ![]() ![]() Worth |
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Looking great!
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Looks good to me Jerry. I know you will enjoy them.
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Awesome Jerry! May I ask what variety that is? I am starting potatoes for the first time this year (French Fingerling and German Butterball).
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Yeah!!! The Worth we know and love is beginning to show his true colors. I think about you often because I know what you're going through right now. Someday we'll both be our old selves again -- at least that's what they tell me. I don't expect life will ever be the same because there's a huge part of it missing now but I do hope to develop a new normal -- someday.
Kelli, I was hoping nobody would ask what kind of potatoes they are because the truth is I don't know. The past couple of years I bought seed potatoes from a big box store and they had names on the package. This season I bought them in bulk from my favorite nursery -- one handfull of "whites" and another handful of "reds." These are obviously the whites -- I'll dig some reds soon. They taste as good as they look too, Zana and Jon. I fried and baked some of them last night -- ate the fried ones with dinner and a baked one for desert. I'll have another baked one at lunch today then freeze the others. Since I'm doing my own cooking now I like easy meals -- from the freezer and cans.
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They look like kennebec to me.
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Yeah im back sort of.
![]() The potatoes look good. Worth |
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Agree, probably Kennebecs. The reds should be Red Pontiac, as those are two very popular potato varieties sold in nurseries and the big box stores.
Looking great Jerry! Lee
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I also think they look like kennebec. If you french fry one and it taste AMAZING then probably are~
Looking great there with that harvest jerry
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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Those look so good Jerry. I'll be over for dinner on Sunday!
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I finished harvesting the whites yesterday and dug all of the reds today. Together they're just over 90 pounds -- a bit short of the more than 100 pounds I thought I might get. I'm pretty sure you folks are correct too -- the whites are probably kennebecs and the reds are probably pontiac reds.
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