THE POTATO EXPERIMENT

I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.

Current size of all 5 varieties

Plants

Potato "Adretta" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Nicola" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Russet Burbank" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Blue Congo" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Laura" Solanum tuberosum

Plants

Potato "Laura" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Nicola" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Blue Congo" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Russet Burbank" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Adretta" Solanum tuberosum

Harvest of many small bulbs. I consider this a fail and I’ll try to plant earlier next year. Maybe in October?

Plants

Garlic Allium sativum

Root growth as already started!

Plants

Garlic Allium sativum

Garlic bed

I used the small bulbs from last years harvest.

Poked holes in the cardboard and added mixed gloves from the three varieties I saved from last year. Covered lightly with compost, covered with half rotten grass clippings.

Plants

Garlic Allium sativum

Current state of the potato bed. Two varieties apparently don’t deal well with the dryness. I watered here and there but mostly let them be.

Plants

Potato Solanum tuberosum

Processing Dino kale seeds, let them dry on a table for a few weeks. It’s from plants from 2021. Reach out if you want some! Will put in the marketplace soon

Plants

Kale "Lacinato" Brassica oleracea acephala

Maximilian sunflower short before bloom

Plants

Maximilian Sunflower Helianthus maximiliani

Harvested the Adretta and Blue Congo varieties since they were completely dead after summer and did not survive the drought. The other three are growing back after the heat and I let them in until they die.

Adretta harvest: 463g

Blue Congo harvest: 120g

Most of the tubers are too tiny to peal or eat.

167 days after planting.

Plants

Potato "Adretta" Solanum tuberosum

Potato "Blue Congo" Solanum tuberosum