We have planted out about 2500 square feet of potatoes in our little sandy patch. Hopefully they will be happy in their new homes. About to go round up a half ton of mulch to cover the whole area and maintain the fertility that I have supplemented.
We planted Red Thumb, Purple Peruvian and Golden Peanut. All double certified (certified organic and certified disease free).
I used a variety of fertility methods to see which works best. Just for record and reference I will mention them here:
Pure Compost
Compost + rock phosphate and greensand
Compost + rock phosphate, greensand and biofish
Compost + rock phosphate, greensand, biofish(7-7-2), kelp and brix mix(18% potash)
I will supplement throughout the growing season with poultry litter, liquid fish, liquid kelp and brix mix solution as needed with watering.
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hi brian, its dawn-- i'm so glad i found your blog! it'll be great to have a model for comparison with the potato garden.. ill be checking back often for updates to see if we are on track!
ReplyDeletei just emailed kate about our plantings yesterday.. we didnt fertilize for the taters at all, and planted them too deep and too close together! theyre *finally* starting to come up though.. it took nearly 5 wks!
how big are your plants now? our largest red thumb is a ~7" diameter little bush.
i'd love to see progress photos from your place! i think we are going to set up a tripod in the garden and take pics from the same spot every sunday or something.. make a flipbook, lol!
take care, and as always, thanks for the excellent advice! dawn.
My pleasure Dawn. My potatoes are just now getting ready to harvest. Low nutrition and lack of irrigation being the culprit. They are finally looking good and ready. Elephant Garlic is coming ready at the same time. Coincidence? I think not.
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