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Columbus,ohio

My dad and I have started eating poatoes and frying them on weekends for breakfast...I would like to grow some of my own and heard they are great..I would like some sweet potatoes and some good for frying...After doing a little research I like yukon gold and some others....anybody have there favorites? Also I plan to use the stacking of the old tire method where you fill one tire with dirt and plant spuds then keep adding as the plant grows.

2/8/2009 9:36:08 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Peep if you look back on the posts we covered this. But as a refresher once I discovered yukons I love em.

Stacking tires together is ok looks rednecky lol. Some people do a 4x4 pallate around the potaoes, used pallets can be found easy and are easier to get rid of than tires.Same idea.

Planting potatoes in rows is my favorite way of growing potatoes just make a mound add soaker hoses then add straw around em.

I talked to one of my local nurseries and they confirmed that they will be getting seed potatoes in $1.5to$2 apound for seed potatoes. they even have a new vareity called purple majesty recomended by CSU extension office.

2/9/2009 11:07:31 AM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

When planting sweet potatoes, sometimes its hard to find out where to buy the starts. What I have down in the past, is buy organic sweet potatoes then plant them in a pot and put them somewhere sunny inside and let em grow.
You can get a lot of starts from a couple pounds of sweet potatoes. 1 sweet potatoe per pot.I like a 10-12 inch pot.
You need to so this soon, it takes me about 6-8 weeks to get usable starts here in colorado.(but I dont plant many because our season is so short.)
Maybe some of the southern growers can give u more intel on sweet potatoes than I can.

2/9/2009 11:11:56 AM

Dummer Twp - Ontario

We did them in rows this year and planted them close together so you got lots of small potatatoes. The tire method works but the residual from growing inside a tire just scares me. the pallet method would be more my style I think.

Kirk

2/9/2009 12:49:15 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

I like the pallet style, just bind em together and when your ready to harvest. just laye down a tarp and remove the pallets. bingo potatoes.

2/9/2009 3:58:26 PM

Columbus,ohio

Maybe I will do the pallet stile since planting in rows isn't a option...Maybe some other people will chime in.

2/9/2009 5:22:26 PM

Minnesota

Yukon Gold, a neighbor lady planted Yukon Gold and her garden looked picture perfect, they grew great. Next time I grow potatoes I'm planting Yukon Gold.

2/9/2009 5:59:54 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Peep when you do the pallets, you can screw em together this way they are easier to undo.

But area's on the side of the pallet, cut a notch and plant a seed potatoe. this will grow out of the side and produce a potatoe or two.

Fill your pallet box about half full of compost, then plant your potatoes (I'd recomend about 10-12 inches apart) as the new plants grow gently place soil around the plant building it up.

2/9/2009 6:06:12 PM

Gold Hill, Oregon

i bought some a year ago from costco they had the name butter (butter something or something butter) i havent found any seedlings they were great. natural butter flavored.

2/12/2009 5:41:42 AM

Walton N.y.

another thing you can do is use a stiff wire with small openings - like a 2" x4" opening 2-3 foot tall and make a cage (sort of like screwing pallets together) and you can fill the cage with hay put in 6" or so of hay and put a potato in 6-8" in from the edge and depending on how big you make the cage you can ring the edges with a potato every 12-16" then add another 6-8" of hay and repeat the process until the cage is almost full the potato plants will grow out the sides and when you want to harvest (like with the pallets just remove the cage and dig through the hay for the potatoes sweet potatoes are a little trickier and i buy the young slips (almost every seed catalog has them) but if you're going to get them order soon as if you wait to long they run out ... and they'll send you instructions of how to plant and send them to you at the proper planting time

2/12/2009 12:53:27 PM

Columbus,ohio

Ok...I found some poatatoes that had very litlle sprouts on it...Does this mean they don't have a anti-sprouting agent?

2/27/2009 11:03:24 PM

Gold Hill, Oregon

put them in a dark place. paper bag or cupboard and leave them for a couple of weeks. they should start growing thier eyes(new shoots). then you can plant when the temperature is right for potatoes. when the frost danger is over.

2/28/2009 6:49:10 AM

Bloomington, IN

Actually, here in this part of the Midwest the time for planting potatoes is mid to late April. I planted mine on April 20 last year and they did pretty good despite the spring being cooler than normal.

2/28/2009 12:00:39 PM

Bloomington, IN

Forgot to mention my last frost date is May 21

2/28/2009 2:42:48 PM

Athens,Alabama,Limestone

Hi Giant Pumpkin Peep do you have a Amish country close by if so try them.Here in Alabama I live close enough to the Amish in Laweranceburg ,Tn. that I go to them they care sweet potato slits.

5/25/2009 7:34:43 AM