Yesterday we ate our last old winter stored potato. The poor thing was quite rubbery. But we were amazed that they had lasted to mid-July. Our storage cabinet system in the corner of the garage floor seems to work really well. We haven’t purchased a store-bought potato since last summer.
Early Summer was the time of year when our grandparents would patiently wait for their new potatoes. They’d be down to just rice or pasta for their supper starch staple and many would be tempted to steal a few small early spuds from the hills, trying hard to wait for full sizing and production levels.
Today we dug up our first plant of Alta Blush – a slightly pink skinned, white early potato. An excellent baker for starters. A great change from our old Pontiacs.
These are the remaining 4, we ate the other 2.
The single plant gave us just under 2 lbs of good-sized spuds. Figuring 1.5 lbs. per plant with 16 plants per 50 square foot bed could give us maybe 24 lbs. for the bed. That’s just under half a lb. per square foot. Not the 1 lb. per square foot that I’m hoping for from my main season Pontiacs but for earlies I think that is pretty good considering this bed is from a newly dug up piece of lawn that has never been cultivated in 40 years.
Happy Gardening.
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