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Time to plant potatoes?
Some of the stores have seed potatoes. I'm in the mid Willamette Valley,
just a bit south of Salem Oregon. It's mid February. We will get frosts at night for at about two more months. Isn't it a bit early to be planting potatoes? Never mind that it's been raining non-stop for a few months and the ground is mud.. |
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Time to plant potatoes?
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Zootal wrote: Some of the stores have seed potatoes. I'm in the mid Willamette Valley, just a bit south of Salem Oregon. It's mid February. We will get frosts at night for at about two more months. Isn't it a bit early to be planting potatoes? Never mind that it's been raining non-stop for a few months and the ground is mud.. Northern California here, the potatoes that I missed have come up, frosts or not. Plant 'em, if you got 'em. Worse comes to worse, they'll come up later. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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m: Zootal wrote: Home Depot is selling potatoes right now. They don't care when it's planting time, they just care what they can sell. LOL! I never thought about Home Desperate! I've not been in a HD or Lowe's garden shop in years and tend to discount them. I had in mind those outfits that actually produce and sell the potatoes or the nurserymen who buy from those specialists for resale. The Internet is lousy with them. It's to their advantage to help you get good results from their products because repeat customers are where the profits are. Surely, among them is at least one that can advise you on earliest planting dates for your region. I go by the university extension service calendar and my own experience. They suggest April, though you can plant earlier if you are carefull to mulch and cover the plants when there is a frost. I've done that, but I got much beter results from the ones planted later in April. Just because you can plant early doesn't mean you will get good results. If you put eggplants in the ground in May and it's a cool spring (like it usually is), and you don't do anything special to keep them warm, then they will just sit there while the slugs and flea beatles eat them. I just keep them inside until it warms up in June. Then I get eggplants coming out my ears. The extension service lumps tomatoes, squash, melons, peppers and eggplant together, but I know from experience that tomatoes will grow like crazy in cool weather where eggplants and peppers will just sit there. |
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