THE POTATO EXPERIMENT
I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.
I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.
Current size of all 5 varieties
Harvest of many small bulbs. I consider this a fail and I’ll try to plant earlier next year. Maybe in October?
Root growth as already started!
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.
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.
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
Maximilian sunflower short before bloom
Harvested the last 3 varieties from the 5 initial ones.
This is 185 days after planting.
Nicola: 299g
Laura: 680g (red ones)
Russet Burbank: 897g
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.
The result. I saved the largest 5 tubers from the top 3 varieties
This year I plant in containers and not in the garden since all beds were horrible fails.
6 containers on the balcony: 36 cloves
1 container on the terrace: 16 cloves (mulched with straw and pruned raspberries)