Growing Potatoes
Organic Vegetable Gardening
Fact Sheet
Botanical name: Solanum tuberosum
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| Planting time: | SP,SU | ||
| Seeds per ounce: | Grown from seed tubers | ||
| Ounces per square foot: | 4 | ||
| Minimum legal germination rate: | - | ||
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Notes When your Potato plants die down, stop watering them for two weeks. After two weeks gently dig them up and place them in the shade to dry out for a couple of days (do not stack them). The Irish Potato is native to South America and was brought to Spain from Peru during the 16th century. Caution: The Potato belongs to the nightshade family. The vegetative growth above ground exposed to light (and green Potatoes), posses poisonous and narcotic properties of the nightshades. |
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Planting |
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| In garden spacing (inches): | 9 | ||
| In flat spacing (inches): | - | ||
| Planting depth (inches): | 6-9 | ||
| Maximum number of plants per square foot: | 2.5 | ||
| Nutrient relationship:: | Light Feeder | ||
Harvest |
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| Days to maturity: | 63-119 | ||
| Harvesting period (days): | - | ||
| Minimum yields in pounds /square foot: | 1 | ||
Cultural |
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| Diseases: | Bacterial Soft Rot, Bacterial Wilt, Common Scab, Early Blight, Late Blight. |
| Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder) | Beet Leafhopper, Colorado Potato Beetle, Green Peach Aphid, Potato Beetle, Potato Leafhopper, Potato Stalk Borer, Potato Tuberworm, Spider Mites |
Varieties |
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| Désirée, King Edward, Kipfler, New, Nicola, Pink Eye, Pink Fir Apple, Red Pontiac, Russet Burbank, Spunta | |
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