Gardening

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts) Thu Apr 5, 2012, 05:18 PM Apr 2012

"THE NEW PHONE BOOK IS HERE!" - actually, it's just my potato "seeds".

They arrived this morning. I'm waiting to open the box until my wife gets home from karate. The bed's ready, but we still have to wait until about 1 May, maybe a week earlier this season, to plant.

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"THE NEW PHONE BOOK IS HERE!" - actually, it's just my potato "seeds". (Original Post) HopeHoops Apr 2012 OP

Well, actually, you don't. Denninmi Apr 2012 #1

Things are really going to start happening for you now!! lpbk2713 Apr 2012 #2

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)

1. Well, actually, you don't.

Reply to HopeHoops (Original post)

Thu Apr 5, 2012, 08:13 PM

Apr 2012

My perennial-ized, overwintered potatoes now have shoots about an inch long, so the soil is warm enough for them to sprout. It will still take them a good month to emerge, by then the odds of a damaging freeze are smaller.

I'm going to plant most of my regular potatoes this weekend, weather and time permitting. Those will also take a good 4 weeks to emerge, unless the weather has a big warm up again, which isn't predicted.

lpbk2713

(43,201 posts)

2. Things are really going to start happening for you now!!

Reply to HopeHoops (Original post)

Fri Apr 6, 2012, 02:41 PM

Apr 2012

Best of luck. I hope you have an abundant yield.

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