Potato Planting

When I got my planting potatoes from Seed Savers Exchange, I was expecting them to come already growing. No such luck, so they had to sit out for about 2+ weeks to start growing before I could plant them. So I am a little bit behind on the potato front.  I will remember to order the potatoes a bit earlier next year ( unless I can save some of my own....).

Potato types:

German Butterball
Rose Finn Apple

The garden book I love called The Vegetable Gardener's Bible says that each potato should be about the size of or slightly larger than a golf ball. If they are bigger you must cut them and let it heal over for a few days before you plant. Well all my planting potatoes were the perfect size so I didn't have to cut any of them. The garden book suggests you give each potato a light dusting of agriculture sulfur. This wards off fungus diseases and potato beetles.

Here we go...

I set up two rows about 1.5 feet apart from each other and 3 inches deep. Ready for the potatoes.

Growing potatoes on a plate?

The Rose Finn Apples in a sulfur bath. In a paper bag I placed about a handful of the sulfur and then shook the potatoes around in it.  The handful covered all the potatoes I had to plant, it is only a dusting. 

Rose Finn's ready for bed!  Place each potato about 1 foot apart. 

German Butterballs in the same boat.

Ta Da! The two completed beds ready for watering.