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Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 32: Potatoes

February 17, 2017 hilary dahl
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Potatoes are a surprisingly satisfying crop to grow. If you’re not a huge fan of these tubers, tasting freshly harvested homegrown potatoes will definitely change your feelings about the crop.  Along with peas and onions, they are one of the first crops we plant in the spring. You really feel like you are doing something useful when burying the big chunks of 'seed potatoes.’

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SHOW NOTES:

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How potatoes grow

  • Planting considerations and other growing tips

  • Varieties we love

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Important Take-aways:

  • Potatoes are a long season crop, so if you haven't done so already, planting potatoes will force you to finish planning out your garden for the season.

  • Fresh, or what are often called 'new potatoes' are ready to harvest as early as June and fully mature potatoes are usually ready to start harvesting mid-summer

  • We consider potatoes short to medium height crops. Much of the growth happens underground, where rhizome-like stems spread and produce tubers.

  • Potatoes are grown from seed potatoes, which are small potatoes or parts of a potato from the previous season.

  • Once planted, the sprouts on the seed potatoes send out one or two main stems. Part of these main stems grow below ground, and part grow above ground. Below ground, those main stems send out succulent root-like structures called stolons. Stolons are a second set of underground stems, part of which will eventually swell to form the tuber that you harvest and eat. The part of the main stem that grows above ground will set leaves and photosynthesis to feed the plant.

  • For planting instructions, check out this blog post Hilary created a few years ago

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More on planting and growing potatoes:
Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 48: New Potatoes
Jun 9, 2017
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Jun 9, 2017
Jun 9, 2017
Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 47: June Listener Q + A
Jun 2, 2017
Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 47: June Listener Q + A
Jun 2, 2017
Jun 2, 2017
Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 32: Potatoes
Feb 17, 2017
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
New Potatoes
Jun 23, 2015
New Potatoes
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Mar 11, 2015
Sweet Potatoes in Seattle?
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Nov 8, 2012
Storing Root Vegetables
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Hilary Dahl
Hilary Dahl

Hilary Dahl is a co-owner of Seattle Urban Farm Company and host of the Encyclopedia Botanica podcast. Since 2010 Hilary Dahl has been helping beginning and experienced growers create beautiful and productive gardens. She has the unique experience of working in on a wide range of projects, from small backyard garden plots to multi-acre vegetable farms. She also works in her own garden every day after work. Hilary is also the creator of our podcast, the Encyclopedia Botanica, which she started as a way to share effective and efficient garden management techniques, and as a way to spread her love of growing food and flowers!

Colin McCrate
Colin McCrate

Colin McCrate has been growing food organically for over 25 years. He worked on a variety of small farms in the Midwest before moving to the west coast in 2003 to teach garden-based environmental education. He founded the Seattle Urban Farm Company in 2007 with the goal of applying years of horticultural and agricultural expertise to help aspiring growers get projects off the ground or more accurately; in the ground.

Since starting Seattle Urban Farm Co in 2007, he has helped guide hundreds of urban farmers through the design, construction and management of their own edible landscape. Colin is the author of three books; Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard(Mountaineers Books, 2012) and Grow More Food (Storey Publishing, 2022); and is a garden writer for the Seattle Times.

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