Viking Potato Harvest.

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?HSJDL 2 September 2013 Viking Potato Harvest
Fourteen Viking potato plants were harvested. The average yield was about 3 pounds per plant of very high quality large tubers. Forty pounds were placed in the cold room for long term storage. About ten pounds were culled due to damage and will be for currant use.Weights per plant were 3.75,3,2.5,2,2,3,4,2.5,4.5,3,4,2,3 and one not recorded.


For reference
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?AAUGI 26 July 2013 First Viking Potato Plant harvested
The first Viking potato plant was harvested. Tuber quality is excellent and the weight was four pounds six ounces (4lb 6 oz), which is excellent, with about six weeks more growth before the main harvest.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TMVNT 11 June 2013. Potato Growth to Date.
Potatoes are thriving in spite of very cool weather since planting. No Colorado Potato Beetles have been seen. Touch Wood.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?BNMTU 29 May 2013 Mulching Potatoes with wood chips
A perfect rain last evening and the soil is damp down to below the seed potato, consequently a perfect time to mulch the area. A lawyer of wood chips was applied about three inches thick.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?QLCXO 25 May 2013 Hilling Potatoes
My three rows of potatoes were hilled. There are 16 Russian Blue, 19 Viking and 16 Yukon Gold.The space between the rows was rototilled with the small Honda FG110 to loosen the soil and to hill around the plants. The valley created was filled with compost and raked smooth.The new tubers have about six inches of soil in which to develop.Later after a heavy rain the area will be heavily mulched with wood chips.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZXSDU 12 May 2013 Viking Potatoes Growing The row (17 Plants) of Viking potatoes is growing well.It has been cool with adequate rainfall.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?OOVNX 18 April 2013 Planting Viking Potatos
Nineteen Viking tubers were planted at 14 inch centres in the row and the rows are 20 inches apart.Depth is about five inches in a trench, and the tubers are covered with about three inches of soil. Each tuber was marked with a fibre rod. This facilitates digging, and established a focus point when watering using the Magic Water Wand. As the potatoes grow they will be hilled and mulch will be added. Expectation is four to six pounds per plant. These tubers were excellent quality purchased seed.

[Doug9345]

They are nice looking potatoes. I noticed that when you first planted them that you were expecting 4 to 6 pounds per plant and got 2 to 4. Is the weather what reduced the yield or was it something else.

I'm interested in your use of wood chips. Do you just work them into the soil and plant next year?

[Durgan]

Originally Posted by Doug9345

They are nice looking potatoes. I noticed that when you first planted them that you were expecting 4 to 6 pounds per plant and got 2 to 4. Is the weather what reduced the yield or was it something else.

I'm interested in your use of wood chips. Do you just work them into the soil and plant next year?

Yield may be a bit low. Weather was cool and moisture could have been more. I will grow four plants in a test box next year to check on max production under ideal conditions. I notice there were few small tubers, and the potatoes produced were extra large. The quality, texture is perfect.

I simply rototill the chips into the underlying soil. Come Spring they have all disappeared I consider chips a soil conditioner.

I don't plant anything in the same area the following year if at all possible. The area is small, so some overlap is possible but I try to avoid.

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZLDZE 15 September 2010 Viking Potatoes Harvested

The Viking is a beautiful white tuber. The yield per plant is low in number, but the tubers are quite large. This is a welcome addition to any garden. The yield is 33 pounds from nine plants.

I located my 2010 harvest. Just under four pounds per plant is probably normal and the tubers are relatively large. I eat them baked and they are truly superb.