THE POTATO EXPERIMENT
I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.
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Current size of all 5 varieties
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Harvest of many small bulbs. I consider this a fail and I’ll try to plant earlier next year. Maybe in October?
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Root growth as already started!
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Garlic bed
I used the small bulbs from last years harvest.
Poked holes in the cardboard and added mixed gloves from the three varieties I saved from last year. Covered lightly with compost, covered with half rotten grass clippings.
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Current state of the potato bed. Two varieties apparently don’t deal well with the dryness. I watered here and there but mostly let them be.
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Processing Dino kale seeds, let them dry on a table for a few weeks. It’s from plants from 2021. Reach out if you want some! Will put in the marketplace soon
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Maximilian sunflower short before bloom
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Harvested the last 3 varieties from the 5 initial ones.
This is 185 days after planting.
Nicola: 299g
Laura: 680g (red ones)
Russet Burbank: 897g
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Harvested the Adretta and Blue Congo varieties since they were completely dead after summer and did not survive the drought. The other three are growing back after the heat and I let them in until they die.
Adretta harvest: 463g
Blue Congo harvest: 120g
Most of the tubers are too tiny to peal or eat.
167 days after planting.
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The result. I saved the largest 5 tubers from the top 3 varieties
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Garlic 2023
This year I plant in containers and not in the garden since all beds were horrible fails.
6 containers on the balcony: 36 cloves
1 container on the terrace: 16 cloves (mulched with straw and pruned raspberries)
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Marketplace for Ben
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Hubbard Squash
Basil seeds / Basilikum Samen
Garlic gloves / Knoblauch
Fresh Sage / Frischer Salbei
Maximilian Sunflower (perennial Sunflower)
Sage seeds / Salbei Samen
Butternut squash seeds
St John's Wort / Johanniskraut foraged seeds
Bird's Eye Chili / Thai Chili Seeds (Capsicum annuum)
Coriander / Cilantro seeds (Coriandrum sativum)
Tree Chili Seeds "Rocoto Red" (Capsicum pubescens)
Squash seeds 'Hokkaido' (Cucurbita maxima)
Squash seeds "Musquée de Provence" (Cucurbita moschata)
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