Start of Potato harvest

[hill60]

I've been following wmontanez, Filmnet, Indyartist, and others threads about your potatoes with interest. Your enthusiasm has me checking out more than the usual potatoes that I grow every year.

The list this year.

My usual Warba, Yukon Gold, and Russet Netted Gem.

New to me, All Red, Irish Cobbler, German Butterball and Agria.

Tom Wagner's TPS, Yungay, Gold Cesar, Potato Bread, Near Yukon, Designer Roses.

I've been trying to resist peeking at the TPS potatoes to give them the time they need. So instead of peeking at them I harvested All Red, Irish Cobbler and German Butterball.

The first two pictures were the potatoes a month ago. The shorter plants are TPS that are now the same size as the rest of the potato plants.

[Tom Wagner]

Thanks for admitting a renewed interest in potatoes. My goal is simple. In these uncertain times I want potato varieties to be more popular than tomatoes...just like it is in the UK....where I visited many allotments looking at potato varieties quite a bit more than I look at tomato varieties.

I took a bunch of photos with my cell phone today but I don't know where my cord is to upload them to this site. Many pictures today were of my tomatoes and many more of perennial wheat grain varieties. Seven feet tall and still very green here. Harvest won't be for another month.

Tom

[dokutaaguriin]

Irish Cobbler.....my favourite potato. I will be harvesting some in the next week as the vines are dying back now.
Jeff