Home-Grown Potatoes!

My fellow gardeners we are looking March square in the eye and I, for one, am getting itchy.

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My fellow nurseryman we are looking March second power in the eye and I , for one , am catch itchy . I ’ve started some veggies indoors and already there are some petite lettuce and Brassica oleracea italica spouts poking their heads out of the soil . But I ’m dying to dig in the garden .

Instead , I ’m going to distract myself and sing about one of the first thing I ’ll be doing in my garden very soon – planting potatoes ! They ’re not only delicious reap from your own garden , but they can be prolific . It ’s always surprising how many tubers I deplumate out of the filth come harvest clock time .

It ’s entirely possible to harvest 80 pounds of white potato vine in ten straight foundation of distance . In fact , if you have a half- bbl ( about 18 inches marvellous ) , just one potato vine will yield up to 15 pounds of Solanum tuberosum . And they ’re not your average store - purchase potatoes . These are fresh , flavourous , and free of any chemical substance pesticides or herbicides . Not to cite they have their own genes – which is gracious ( no GMO ) .

Here ’s a few thoughts on white potato vine :

reckon for come potatos at your local nursery , as well as semen catalogs . While opt potato varieties to plant , be trusted to train out the wonderful assortment of sizes , colors , and bod useable to plate nurseryman .

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