28 July 2007 Growing Potatoes
http://moomi.notlong.com/ 28 July 2007 Potato Plant.
There is a lot of babble on the internet about growing potatoes with stalks supported by tires and using straw for covering. To my way of thinking this is only complicating matters. One hilling of plants after the main stalks emerge is probably more than sufficient. The view seems to be that potato tubulars are produced along the stalks, which is simply not the case.
New potatoes grow from shoots emanating from the very bottom of the stalks in a circle, almost from the seed potato itself. No new potatoes grow below the seed potato. The new potatoes must be protected from light, otherwise they turn green and are somewhat poisonous.
Hilling is done to protect the new potatoes from light, and the earth tends to support the weak stalks, since they tend to fall and spread out.
Study the attached pictures, which supports my view.
http://www.durgan.org/Blog/Durgan.html
posted by Durgan @ 10:26 AM
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Dear Durgan
I just wanted to tell you how very fortunate I feel to have found your blog.
My Grandparents were Ukrainian immigrants. Vegetable, fruit and flower gardening was a passion of theirs. Memories of their bountiful harvests and fragrant delights are held " dear to my heart ". Regrettably having lost my Grandpanents at a relatively young age I didn't have the opportunity to benefit from their gardening knowledge. This has always been something of a " regret ", if you will. to me.
At various times throughout my life I have tried to recall either by memory ( mine or other family members ) or photographs the pattern in which they planted their gardens. Peas beside cabbage. How to plant seeds. etc.
But most of this was lost & not remembered.
Finding your blog has fulfilled a part of my lost past. The wealth of information & the way you present it is like having a day in the garden with my " Baba & Guido ". I am learning so much from you that I wanted to say "Thank You Durgan ".
I will cherish your knowledge as I would have theirs and hope that one day soon I will reap the benefits from a garden of my own.
Bless.
Bruce
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