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To: ApplegateRanch
Considering that we harvest 200-300 pounds a year for just 2 people,...

How many pounds are you planting to get that yield?

117 posted on 04/07/2011 9:11:00 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: nina0113

About 15-20 pounds, with 2-several seed pieces per seed potato. Yukon Golds—poor yielder for us, but we love’m); and Red Pontiacs and Norkotah russets...both big yielders of baking size.

We buy the certfied seed potatoes at a local market that gets them in bulk from either MN or MI, and sells them for $0.59/pound. Beats the heck out of mail order prices or the garden store bags of 2 lbs for $7.50.

I deep-till in 10-10-10, then put the furrower on the tiller to make my trenches. I then use ~1 cup/100’ of row of triple-superphosphate about 1-2” below the seed pieces.

I use the furrower to hill them, and that leaves a deep irrigation trench on each side of the rows.


118 posted on 04/07/2011 12:55:22 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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