That makes sense. I’m glad you told me - I would’ve been cheap and tried to make as many potato plants from one potato that I could!
40 days is probably a short estimate. I got it from a gardening book about this area. We certainly have from mid-June to August - that’s at least 75 days of growing weather. And it doesn’t always get cold in September right away either. Potatoes might be perfect for up there because it stays pretty cool, especially at night. Can potatoes handle a large temperature variation from day to night?
Yup.
But I’ll tell ya what - if you were to plant them now, I guarantee they would be coming out of the ground by mid April.
If not sooner.
They are a good cold weather crop. They are native to the Andes mountains in South America. In fact my potatoes always do really, really well in the spring and early summer but start to fade by the 4th of July or so.
LOL
Methinks thou worrieth too much.
Remember, they grow huge quantities of potatoes up around Penobscot Maine. Also remember that they are native to the high Andes mountains