To: Don@VB
Other than radishes, I’ve never had any luck with root crops, but we are going to give beets and carrots another try this year.
The temp has actually climbed 10 degrees since my first post, and thankfully the wind is much better behaved than it has been most of the week :)
You’re a whole lot closer to the water than we are. I’m about equi-distant between the Chesapeake and the barrier bays on the Atlantic side in northern Accomac Cty.
31 posted on
03/04/2011 6:28:39 AM PST by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Gabz
Other than radishes, Ive never had any luck with root crops, but we are going to give beets and carrots another try this year. I was reading some replies on this thread, and noticed this. Do you ever thin your beets or carrots? You need enough room between them to let them grow to full size without touching when fully grown.
83 posted on
03/04/2011 12:16:50 PM PST by
Arrowhead1952
(America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
To: Gabz
Potato's are a great root veggy to raise. You can buy seed potato I have had plants grow great that have developed eyes in the refrigerator...If a potato has several eyes, you can have a plant grow from each eye....3 eyed potato can give you 3 plants....make sure each eye has a hunk of potato on it. Plant it shallow, so that the eye is just below the surface of the ground. Thats the plant and it uses the potato attached to it for food until the root system develops. You spade them out after the plant starts to die back is late summer or early fall. One plant can sometimes give you 10 potato's. When you dig them up, use your spading fork at about 10 inches from the plant stem and dig toward the plant so as not to stick the potato.. Don't wash the potato when dug up. Wipe the dirt off with your hands and leave outside on a table for a couple of days for the skin to harden up...It keeps the potato from rotting or drying out too soon. I have had potato's dug up in Sept last until February. If you have a root cellar they may last even longer.. I have gently lifted a plant when the potato's are small and you can rub the skin off with you hand and munch it in the garden and lower the plant back down and the remaining potato's on the plant will continue to grown. A new potato is about the size of a small italian plum..tasty..
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