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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2020 21:21:51 GMT -5
You folks up Nawth, when does the potato harvest start?
Potatoes in the stores here sprout almost the moment you get them home---last season's potatoes.
Not buying more until the new crop arrives.
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Post by paulf on Aug 16, 2020 8:36:41 GMT -5
Here in my garden we start digging potatoes when the vines begin to die. It starts with new potatoes and that was about two weeks ago. yesterday we dug enough to have with green beans and they were fist sized. As for commercial harvest the folks across the Missouri River would harvest for Frito Lay in September. Since last year's six month flood I am not sure they were able to plant.
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Post by brownrexx on Aug 16, 2020 9:08:56 GMT -5
Potatoes are Early, Mid-season and Late varieties. Mine are mid to late season and I harvested them on July 28 this year.
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Post by paquebot on Aug 16, 2020 22:53:24 GMT -5
There's even a science as to when to harvest potatoes but I'll never understand it all. Typical advice is when the plant turns yellow and begins dying. That means that what is underground is all there will ever be. If you are hungry or want to plant something back in the same ground, start digging. Any early variety may be ready by the 4th of July if planted early enough. But, they don't have to be dug until needed. Early potatoes may sit in the ground for 2 months with no problem unless very wet season, Mid-season and late-season potatoes can remain in the gound until snow clouds are forming in the NW. Rule of thumb was "one more day in the ground is two more in storage". They are programmed to not grow again in the same season so there is usually no reason to rush the digging.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Aug 17, 2020 0:25:58 GMT -5
In this country, they start digging in late July and harvest will go at least thru October. Dug the early spuds several weeks ago, late spuds are starting to die back. Will not harvest them for quite sometime, maybe late Sept. Too hot to get them to cool down for good long term storage. 102 today and the next three days. Nothing below 90 for a week.
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solargeek
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Post by solargeek on Aug 17, 2020 6:31:43 GMT -5
I was surprised that our county which is one of the largest Potato producing counties in the world just recently sprayed to kill off the crops. Every other year Of the eight we have lived here they have started earlier. I have been harvesting potatoes since mid July. I planted 171 linear feet and harvest so far has been great.
Only the Yukon and Reds. From my own seed. Those are my favorites and I finally figured out why bother with anything else?
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