Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Potato Progress

It's been about 9 weeks since I planted Yukon Gold and red potato quarters. All 8 of them came up and seem to be doing great. I planted the quarter pieces in little trenches and did my first hilling about a week and a half ago. For some reason I have been looking forward to the hilling process ever since I first read about it in my Vegetable Gardening for Dummies book so I was very excited when the plants were tall enough to do it. I will probably do another hilling in a week or two depending on how quickly they grow.

When I was in the garden last night, I noticed one of the red plants already has some blossoms. Kind of surprised me to see it so soon, but I take it as a good sign!
Red Potato blossoms forming

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