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Old February 21, 2015   #1
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Default Potatoes, I have 10 Days

I bought some seed potatoes. Due to medical problems, I basically can't go outside or do anything for 10 days.

It just means that I'll be planting a few days late for local potato planting dates.

I have the seed potatoes, so what can I do between now and March 1 to make them produce better?

I have 3# of Red Lasota and 3# of White Ke**&^%... whomever invented cursive writing - A bad day huh.

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Old February 21, 2015   #2
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You can chit them - just set them in the light so they start sprouting.
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Old February 21, 2015   #3
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They will be okay for that amount of time. Just take care of yourself. Home grown potatoes are much better than store bought. You will enjoy them the same whether they were in the ground on time or not. Anybody in your family willing to help you out? Friends, neighbors or if you go to church, someone from church to help if you ask? Or just leave it until you feel better if you want to do it yourself. I hope you feel better soon.
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Old February 21, 2015   #4
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Soil temps determine the amount of potatoes you get.
Even if you are a little late nothing beats new potatoes.

Get the folks to go out and do it for you while you bark orders in the shade out of the sun.

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Old February 21, 2015   #5
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Thank you all

I have them both out in the light now. The white ones are White Kennebec. (Spell check helped decipher it) I have some other potatoes that I bought back in November for Thanksgiving. They are US #1 bakers that have grown eyes. The eyes are a dark color, and the potatoes are still firm. Could I possibly plant those too?

Carolyn, there are a lot of people I could ask, and I know many of them would plant them for me, but it's something I need to do. Gardening is my form of therapy. And thank you

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Old February 21, 2015   #6
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I have planted "old" potatoes and had them grow just fine. Others say not to do it you may have disease spores on the spuds, but I haven't worried over it too much myself. If they don't look sick, they probably aren't if you have had them for a while. Usually if they don't have any lesions on the skins or other questionable spots, I don't stress too much about it...because if you can't eat them what other option for them is there?

I am glad there are those you can ask, but doing it for yourself is even better. take care.
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To be safe, It is always best to only grow certified seed potatoes. Late blight can survive on infected tubers. Not worth the risk for a few free seed potatoes. I believe the practice of planting non certified seed potatoes , by home gardeners, may well be the source of most blight outbreaks.
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Old February 21, 2015   #8
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To be safe, It is always best to only grow certified seed potatoes. Late blight can survive on infected tubers. Not worth the risk for a few free seed potatoes. I believe the practice of planting non certified seed potatoes , by home gardeners, may well be the source of most blight outbreaks.
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That's what happened in Ireland isn't it?

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Old February 22, 2015   #9
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That's what happened in Ireland isn't it?
Not exactly, though that was a factor. The strain of late blight had mutated at that point, making them more virulant, and it was severely compounded by the fact that there was so little genetic diversity that there was no resistance. Yes, seed tubers were saved from year to year, no one understood what was going on with the life cycle of late blight, and monoculture cropping potatoes with no resistance spelled out a recipe for disaster. Most of those ingredients are still true with the majority of potatoes grown today, by the way.
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A picture says a million words: HNI_0022.JPG Grow it or Burn it? I'll add my first poll here just for fun.

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Old February 22, 2015   #11
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boil it, no need to burn it,
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Old February 22, 2015   #12
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I say cook it and eat it.

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It looks perfectly edible to me. We used to peel the eyes off all the time... before they started spraying them with something to repress that from happening. Remember when we were kids? the potatoes all started sprouting before we used up the bag? I sure do. Now they don't... what is sprayed on them to do that and do I want to eat them? nope. I would rather grow them or buy them from a roadside stand . I think we have gone through almost 100 pounds of potatoes this Fall/Winter. I have a few left and afew still in the garden, but i suspect they will start growing before I can get them dug out.
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Old February 22, 2015   #14
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We used to grow potatoes at home and put them in the basement in the TV area we called the den.
This place was huge and one section was the potatoes and the other was for watching TV.

I remember my mother telling use to go down and pick out our potatoes for supper.
As you may well know we would always pick out the very best ones being the greedy little kids we were.

So at the end of the winter all we had to eat was the shriveled up ones with sprouts on them.
To this day I will still eat the old shriveled up potatoes and dried up cheese with white mold on it as this is how I was raised.

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