{"id":7798,"date":"2017-10-07T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2017-10-09T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T18:06:34","slug":"potatos-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/potatos-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Potatos 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like I forgot to post back May the type and numbers of potatos we planted. Since I am about to talk about what we harvested, it would be a good idea to do that first!<\/p>\n

Potatos Veg4 planted Saturday 2017 May 27th
\nStart at Western end, the row runs north south
\nyukon gold x12
\nkennebec x6 norland 2 rows x3
\ngreen mountain x6
\nwarba x6
\nblue victor x6
\nwhite rose x6
\nirish cobbler x6
\nmorning glory x6
\n9 types in total, 60 hills in total
\nHarvested on Saturday 2017 Sept 30.
\nThese have been in bins for a week now, drying down a bit before we clean, weigh and store them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Warba<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWarba, not a bad harvest but most are mutant shaped. We will not be growing these out next year.<\/p>\n
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Green Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nGreen Mountain, very poor harvest. Will not be growing these next year.<\/p>\n
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Kennebec<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nKennebec, not bad harvest<\/p>\n
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White Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWhite Rose, poor harvest but we will try one more year with these.<\/p>\n
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Norland<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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\nNorland, average harvest<\/p>\n
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Blue Victor<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nBlue Victor, good harvest<\/p>\n
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Morning Glory<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMorning Glory, average harvest<\/p>\n
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Yukon Gold<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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Yukon Gold<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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Yukon Gold<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nYukon Gold – excellent harvest<\/p>\n
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Irish Cobbler<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIrish Cobbler – excellent harvest
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After the fact, after the cleaning, we weighed them and divided by the number of hills to get an average yield.
\nFrom best to worst.
\n1. Morning Glory 6 hills, 22 lbs, 3.7 lbs\/hill
\n2. Irish Cobbler 6 hills, 21 lbs, 3.5 lbs\/hill
\n3. Blue Victor 6 hills, 18.5lbs, 3.1 lbs\/hill
\n4. Yukon Gold 12 hills, 24 lbs, 2.0 lbs\/hill
\n5. Norland 6 hills, 10 lbs, 1.6 lbs\/hill
\n6. Warba 6 hills, 5.5 lbs, 0.9 lbs\/hill
\n7. kennebec 6 hills, 5.0 lbs, 0.8 lbs\/hill
\n8. white rose 6 hills, 2.0 lbs, 0.35 lbs\/hill
\n9. green mountain 6 hills, 1.5 lbs, 0.25 lbs\/hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like I forgot to post back May the type and numbers of potatos we planted. Since I am about to talk about what we harvested, it would be a good idea to do that first! Potatos Veg4 planted Saturday 2017 May 27th Start at Western end, the row runs north south yukon gold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7823,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions\/7823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}