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by David The Good

Fall potatoes, eyes in my window, plus incredible mechanization

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Apparently, in long-summer climates, you can grow potatoes twice in one year if you’re clever. I heard that somewhere, but I can’t remember where.

All the data I’ve read on Florida says “NO! YOU CAN ONLY GROW POTATOES ONCE! IN SPRING, WITH A SWING! ON A TRAIN, IN THE RAIN!”

But hey… I’ve got some potatoes with eyes… I’ve got some dirt… and the summer is creeping towards fall. I’m going to plant potatoes in a few weeks and see what happens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks ago, somebody gave us piles and piles of “expired” produce from a local grocery store. Some of the food was good – some wasn’t. The bad stuff went to the chickens and the compost… the good stuff we ate… and out of the potatoes, I picked the ones with the most eyes and put them on my windowsill. See those poor things? They want to grow! Who am I to deny them?

In other news, have you ever seen an industrial potato growing operation?

This is the furthest thing from my own homestead, but I’m still impressed as heck:

Wild, eh? Wonder if they keep cropping on that same ground year after year…

Giant machines aside, has anyone ever tried getting a second crop of taters here in Florida?

I’ll let you know how my experiment goes.

UPDATE: If you want to know how to grow grocery store potatoes without worrying about sprout inhibitors, check this out:

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4 responses to “Fall potatoes, eyes in my window, plus incredible mechanization”

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    stevo_61

    I planted red potatoes last fall and harvested them at the first frost. My wife likes to use the small ones and these fit the bill. I looked over my notes and didn't record the planting date. I had such a good spring potato harvest I'm going to give the fall a shot. (Central Florida)

    1. Survival Gardener, AKA David the Good Avatar
      Survival Gardener, AKA David the Good

      That's great, Stevo_61. Glad to know you had some success… it's encouraging. Hope we do okay as well.

      BTW, that sounds like my kind of planning… I'm always wondering "when the heck did I plant that?" I think I need to start a better garden journal… all I ever record is harvest weights and numbers.

  2. Gardens-In-The-Sand Avatar
    Gardens-In-The-Sand

    Autumn taters are no prob here in Georgia… The problem is the voles… But… the missed Spring taters always come up with the cooler temps, and feed the d*$#3d rodents… what they miss… I get to dig.

    Also…I was planting the tater eyes & peelings, left-overs from breakfast…(last winter) as early as January… They would come up, get frosted… come up again… repeat… and I got a few taters…

    1. Survival Gardener, AKA David the Good Avatar
      Survival Gardener, AKA David the Good

      I haven't had many problems with rodents stealing mine, but that may just be luck.

      Interesting that you planted as you went along… sounds like a good plan to me.

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