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Thursday, March 17, 2022
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Living up to my Gr-idiot moniker, most of my 1/2-1" seed potatoes rotted. Too much humidity and temperature fluctuations, stored in a bucket outside. For the best eye formation they should have been laid out flat, somewhere cool and dry.
It depends on the spacing, but it seems like 1/2 bucket could plant 150 sq feet.
I have some planting ideas.
I think I will try wide spaced corn/ dense garlic. I will try a very dense potato planting in another spot, with no companion plants.
Last, I think because most of my small seed potatoes rotted I will probably try corn to fill in the gaps there. Alternatively, I could try something like drying tomatoes. But you aren't supposed to mix potatoes and tomatoes. Well, I'll come up with something.
The greenhouse hut (other than wind damage immediately after I planted the tomatoes) is doing great. The tomatoes are recovering. The soil was too cold. The "shallow roots method" of starting the plants would have been superior because a few inches down its 60 degrees, but deeper than that, its too cold-- about 50. It seems like a no brainer to spread the roots out wider and closer to the surface. It should make healthy growth possible without any extra effort or expense.
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