THE POTATO EXPERIMENT
I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.
Plant
Plants
55 days inbetween
Observe
Current size of all 5 varieties
Plants
42 days inbetween
Observe
Current state of the potato bed. Two varieties apparently donβt deal well with the dryness. I watered here and there but mostly let them be.
Plants
30 days inbetween
Observe
37 days inbetween
Harvest
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
18 days inbetween
Harvest
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
Plants
21 days inbetween
Observe
The result. I saved the largest 5 tubers from the top 3 varieties
