{"id":108,"date":"2014-04-29T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/04\/yukon-gold-potatoes-growing-potatoes.html"},"modified":"2015-09-22T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T20:44:44","slug":"yukon-gold-potatoes-growing-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/04\/yukon-gold-potatoes-growing-potatoes.html","title":{"rendered":"Yukon Gold Potatoes: Growing Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center style=\"text-align: left;\">We never thought about growing potatoes here at Seven Oaks until a few years ago, when our neighbors, Mel and Joan, suggested it. Mel, who I jokingly call the Potato King of Pamplin (the nearby town), grew great fields of potatoes, specifically Yukon Gold Potatoes. He gave us a bag of starter spuds, a tub of sulfur, and instructions on how to grow potatoes. Since I&#8217;d decided not to grow watermelon again, we turned the watermelon bed in the vegetable garden into the potato bed. Since then, I&#8217;ve been hooked on growing potatoes. No wonder peasants the world over love them; they&#8217;re some of the easiest vegetables to grow.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Growing Potatoes in the Home Garden<\/h2>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Y.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Y.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Yukon Gold (Y is today&#8217;s letter on the A to Z Blogging Challenge) Potatoes are a variety that seems to grow exceptionally well in my southern Virginia garden. The potatoes make excellent mashed potatoes, and a few starter spuds can grow into quite the harvest.<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the reasons I think they grow well in my garden is that they like a more acidic soil than many other plants. A pH of 4.8 to 6.5 suits them just fine. The raised beds filled with rich, organic material soil creates the perfect environment for potatoes. On Long Island, New York, where I grew up, potatoes were a staple crop of the eastern farms; the sandy loam of Long Island also produced excellent potatoes. You will need at least 8 to 12 inches of soil, a large plot of ground, and full sun to grow potatoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Purchase starter potatoes at the garden center. Each bag will contain one or two giant potatoes with multiple eyes. Eyes are the bumps on a potato that sprout into things that look like tentacles. The tentacles are shoots that will eventually emerge above the soil line and develop stems and leaves. Some people use store-bought potatoes, but these can be treated with either chemicals or irradiation to prevent sprouting. It doesn&#8217;t always work, as most people who have pulled out a sprouted bag of potatoes from the pantry will attest, but it often does work &#8211; and anything done to the potatoes to prevent sprouting in storage will also prevent or inhibit their growth in your garden. Potatoes packaged especially for the garden aren&#8217;t treated with anything.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow the directions on the package carefully. Each potato must be cut into pieces, with one eye per piece, and left out for several hours or overnight to dry out a little. We rolled ours in sulfur the first year; Mel told us it prevented diseases. After that, however, we returned the unused bag of sulfur to him and just skipped that step and it was fine.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Each potato piece is then planted in the ground about a foot apart and covered with several inches of soil. We make little hills of soil, so that the potato plants can grow up and over the hills a bit. We plant potatoes here in Virginia as soon as the soil can be worked in April. Frosts can kill the emerging leaves, but they do rebound.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Potatoes planted in April are ready to harvest by late July or early August. We harvest by hand, which is messy. It looks like we&#8217;ve taken a dirt bath after we harvest potatoes! We usually wait until our nephew, Michael, comes for his summer visit. Little boys and dirt seem to go together, don&#8217;t they? He absolutely loves working with his uncle in the garden to dig up the potatoes by hand.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">We dig into the soil with our bare hands and pull up the plants. We put the potatoes in the wheelbarrow, and use a second wheelbarrow for the stems and leaves. Then we compost the stems and leaves, and store the potatoes in a cool spot in baskets in the cellar. They tend to sprout after a few weeks, but if you take off the new growth, they last longer.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a picture of our potato harvest from a few years ago. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/potatoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/potatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BlogSignaturebutterfly_zpse4d4943d.jpg\" alt=\"post signature\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We never thought about growing potatoes here at Seven Oaks until a few years ago, when our neighbors, Mel and Joan, suggested it. 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