potatoes

[glenn57]

anyone buy or grow any white spuds?????? we bought a 50 lb bag and they where the worst I ever seen. small and most all with bad spots!!!!!!

just wondering what everyone else has encountered.

[dakids]

We grow our own and I only grow the red ones.  It seemed when we grew white ones they would get to big and become hollow.  My brother grows the Yukon gold ones and has good luck with them.  We planted 100 pounds of seed so we had a LOT of taters.  We have a pull behind planter and also a digger that does all the hard work.

[Bobby Bass]

the whites that I grew this summer were on the small size but having a short season I think is the reason for that. I got a lot more "Stew tattters" then "French Fry makers" but they have so far been very tasty! Of course if you are buying tatters you have a very good chance that they are last years crop still, as it is not uncommon for store bought tatters to be 8-12 months old

[glenn57]

I bought these taters from an amish family. there this years crop. the reds are good. these people sell cherries spuds blueberries peaches and pears and they are top notch products. they will open the box they come in and replace anything that looks crappy.

I new based on articles the taters where going to be small.........I can deal with that but man I think a good 40% of the whites where waste.

[dew2]

This year I grew yukon golds,Northland reds, another common red??? and russets.This was my best year for size.the quanity was low the quality was great.They were done by July earliest I ever had!!

[glenn57]

This year I grew yukon golds,Northland reds, another common red??? and russets.This was my best year for size.the quanity was low the quality was great.They were done by July earliest I ever had!!

musta been that "special" fertilizer!!!!!!!!

[Bobby Bass]

Living up here in the wasteland of northern Minnesota I was lucky to get my stuff in the ground by mid June, tatters in July ! I would have had to planted them already full grown! 

[The General]

This year I grew yukon golds,Northland reds, another common red??? and russets.This was my best year for size.the quanity was low the quality was great.They were done by July earliest I ever had!!

Same here in regards to size.  However the quantity was fantastic.  I had about 100 gallons of potatoes reds and golds.  Maybe it was because of the trick Corny gave me to bust up the tops and I pulled all the flowers off or most of them.  We dug some up as we needed them to eat probably starting in August, but I left everything else in the ground until the first frost.