First Viking Potato Plant Harvested (2013)

Durgan · July 26, 2013

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.

Redbaron · July 26, 2013

That's some good looking potatoes Durgan

July 26, 2013	#1
Durgan Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Brantford, ON, Canada Posts: 1,341	First Viking Potato Plant Harvested (2013) 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.

July 26, 2013	#2
Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	That's some good looking potatoes Durgan __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture