Size of seed potato in Sydney
Whilst playing a computer game it suddenly occurred that part of our
problem with growing potatos might be that we are starting with too small a seed potato. Over the years, we seem to be harvest smaller and smaller spuds. what size seed potatoes are peeps using. TIA |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
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, Terry Collins wrote: Whilst playing a computer game it suddenly occurred that part of our problem with growing potatos might be that we are starting with too small a seed potato. Over the years, we seem to be harvest smaller and smaller spuds. what size seed potatoes are peeps using. You can get spuds starting in the compost heap from just a peeling, so most likely this is not the problem. Have you had the potatoes in the same spot? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "... if *I* was buying a baby I'd jolly well make sure it was at least a two-tooth!" Mary Grant Bruce, The Houses of the Eagle. |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
Chookie wrote:
In article , Terry Collins wrote: Whilst playing a computer game it suddenly occurred that part of our problem with growing potatos might be that we are starting with too small a seed potato. Over the years, we seem to be harvest smaller and smaller spuds. what size seed potatoes are peeps using. You can get spuds starting in the compost heap from just a peeling, so most likely this is not the problem. Have you had the potatoes in the same spot? So long as you have an eye, yes you can, but what I am looking at is the size of the harvest. A multitude of spuds the size of lima beans are not desireable. I am wanting to increase the size. OTOH, could be out soil just isn't good enough for good spuds yet. Yes, but we do not grow successive lots in the same spot. |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
Chookie writes:
Terry Collins wrote: Whilst playing a computer game it suddenly occurred that part of our problem with growing potatos might be that we are starting with too small a seed potato. Over the years, we seem to be harvest smaller and smaller spuds. So computer games do serve some use, apart from being an excuse to avoid doing the weeding?? what size seed potatoes are peeps using. There is an Australian farming company who achieved world fame (in the farming world, not gaming world) by developing a technique for producing TINY seed potatoes. You see, growing, transporting and planting the big spuds is a waste of resources when an identical outcome can be had by tiny taters. It's tempting to think that burying a big spud will give rise to a plant that produces big spuds, but it's all to do with the genes in the seed potato, not its dimensions. Really, it's yet another example where size doesn't matter! You can get spuds starting in the compost heap from just a peeling, so most likely this is not the problem. Have you had the potatoes in the same spot? Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) Speaking of fowls, how are your chooks going, Chookie? -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
In article
, Terry Collins wrote: You can get spuds starting in the compost heap from just a peeling, so most likely this is not the problem. Have you had the potatoes in the same spot? So long as you have an eye, yes you can, but what I am looking at is the size of the harvest. A multitude of spuds the size of lima beans are not desireable. I am wanting to increase the size. OTOH, could be out soil just isn't good enough for good spuds yet. Yes, but we do not grow successive lots in the same spot. I'd be thinking it's a food or water issue, then. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "... if *I* was buying a baby I'd jolly well make sure it was at least a two-tooth!" Mary Grant Bruce, The Houses of the Eagle. |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
In article ,
John Savage wrote: Speaking of fowls, how are your chooks going, Chookie? Very well! Rusty took to hiding her eggs for a while, but as she made her nest in an obvious spot it didn't last very long. I think she also stopped laying for a few days, until she'd popped out another double-yolker. They are *huge*. I've had two children, but looking at those eggs makes my eyes water in sympathy! The googs are wonderful and an almost psychedelic yellow. Yum! -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "... if *I* was buying a baby I'd jolly well make sure it was at least a two-tooth!" Mary Grant Bruce, The Houses of the Eagle. |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
g'day terry,
as far as my experiences go size of the seed spud seems not to matter, as you can successfully grow good crops from merely peeling the budding eyes off of the sprouting potatoes. try to get your growing stock early say in februaury then put them in open egg containers to keep them aopart ina cool dry and dark place until they grow good long sprouts before planting this gives a slightly quicker crop, a trick i learnt watching a doco' on spud growing in the jersey islands. for me success seems to depend on winter being cool enough and long enough, and getting enough water to them through the growing period. might be that you may have to source varieites better suited to your conditions? http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1/ len snipped |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
gardenlen wrote:
might be that you may have to source varieites better suited to your conditions? Well, I'm open to suggestions. Over the years we've purchased some stuff from Diggers Club and been given store brought sprouters (buy 40kg and throw 10kg out because they have sprouted neighbour) Varieties that I can find the packets for are Pink Eye, Toolangi Delight and Desiree. I think there was at least another two. I think it is Desiree that is the only one to survive and provide on-going stock. Does anyone have any experiences with the comparative effects of chicken, cow or mushroom compost on spuds? |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
gardenlen wrote:
http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1/ len Wow! I'm SO impressed with your list of plants, Len and quite a lot jealous, too! Well, well done. L |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
terry,
i tend to grow only sebago's and pontiacs up here they do the best for me. also we don't get a big choice that is what locally is on offer so that is what we grow. len http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1/ snipped |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
thanks linda,
now we have moved we gotta start all over again. len http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1/ snipped |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
gardenlen wrote:
thanks linda, now we have moved we gotta start all over again. Yes, I actually wondered why on earth you'd want to move from such a wonderfully created eden. Or was it a case of 'having' to move? Some people though, I guess, actually yearn the challenge of facing themselves with massive projects. I feel I'm just starting to get too old for it meself even though we've only recently moved into a new place. A new place (very small acreage) with no garden, no nuthin' on half of it which is totally cleared but with brilliant soil. The other half is lovely native bushland I won't have to do anything with. I really want to get started on it but... well, I wish the enthusiasm of youth had stayed with me just a little longer. Very good luck to you with your new place and I hope it ends up even better. And then stay put! L |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
g'day linda,
yes it was a case of having to very very long story but, it related to health conditions within the team and other issues. but another family is the big winner out of all land sold up ther they got about the best affordable, lots of garbage land on the market and lots and lots of folk just way to naive with head in clouds about what constitutes land good or otherwise, they get caught by agent jargon, and of course in short time lots of them try to bail out and they affect the capacity for anyone with good land to be able to sell. len snipped |
Size of seed potato in Sydney
"gardenlen" writes:
now we have moved we gotta start all over again. Hi Len. Sorry to hear about the forced move; it is daunting to have to start all over again. But did you stay in your former place long enough to see the garlic enterprise pay dividends? And just gotta ask this one: did you get to keep the loo?? -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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