Friday, November 22, 2019

First harvests of the season

A few days ago I harvested the first ready varieties of the season. It is an exciting time. The next ones should be ready in a couple of weeks.


 Toffee Apple was the first to be harvested. They didn't colour up as well as I would have expected but what can you do, lol.

I harvested three beds and left two for if I run out as I will be offering them for sale mid Dec.

If you are interested in seeing the video of me harvesting, here is the link

Toffee apple potato reveal

This is one I named 'Little Aussie'. It is not a good producer but it is pretty and tastes great.

I am keeping nearly all my new varieties this year just to keep a bank of genes for people to breed from.

Here is a video of my harvest of these. I really should have waited another couple of weeks as they are a bit small, but I will leave the next crop to grow bigger.

Little Aussie potato reveal


I will let you know when I am harvesting more.



Thursday, November 14, 2019

Just a quick update

Sorry I have not been posting much lately, the cold weather and chilly nights have continued much longer than normal and the potatoes aren't growing fast.

I planted out some of the TPS seedlings yesterday and will do some more tomorrow. They are still small because of the cool weather but it should warm up soon and they will be away.
Because of the limited room I have right now I can only plant out 100 of each diploids and tetras but at least it is something.


 Although the camera didn't capture it, one of the potatoes this year has unusual, creamy yellow flowers with a light purple centre.

It looks quite pretty and I hope that better light will allow me to show you teh real colour when I next take a pic of it.








One of the varieties I noticed last year produces heaps of flowers for a long time and would look great in an ornamental flower garden.

I don't have a picture of the tubers but they must have been good for me to have selected it to plant out another year. It might turn out to be a good all purpose plant.











Some of the varieties are starting to tuberise now. They are a bit slower than usual, probably because of the cold weather and I am looking forward to the harvest.



















Sunday, November 3, 2019

Weeding and hoeing, and waiting

Yesterday I went out while it was nice and chipped (hoed) between all the beds on the block to keep the weeds down. Just this little part shows how much nicer it looks when the beds are clean.


They look much neater now and I checked how the plants were tuberising while I was at it. The earliest flowers have tiny, pea sized tubers starting to grow.

I think that in about ten days the seedlings should be big enough to plant out into the ground so that will fill up the block.

The grass is beginning to germinate (it is always later than other weeds) so I have to keep on top of it or it will grow out of control.


I have a particular fondness for blue flowers on potatoes. I know that at least one blue flowered variety produces lilac skinned tubers which also look great.

Can't wait to see what variety I get in the tubers this year.