potatoes

[dirtyred]

what all kinds do yall fellows plant? we have always planted the red new taters and of course sweet taters--dave

[Bill Hudson]

Dave,

Take a look at this:
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/C849/C849.htm

Variety recommendations, for Georgia, are on the first page. Lots of other useful information there, as well.

Bill

[Don McCombs]

Pontiac red and Yukon gold.

[johnny j]

I plant Yukon Gold.and try to plant by mid march.

[grumpy]

mostly Kennebec in this area.

[LA Eric]

Red La Soda here in South LA. My grandfather grew this variety for years and it continues to produce high yields today.

[SONNY]

Kennebec, Yukon Gold, Red Pontiac, and Red Norland.(Norlands are the earliest ones here and it gives some nice early eating while you wait for the others to mature)-----for sweets it is the white bunch type.---they grow right under the plant, no diggin up the whole farm hunting for them like the orange/yellow varieties do.
I'm sure there other good kinds, but this is what we have the best luck with in this area on our ground! thanks; sonny

[TJG]

Kennebec (thin skin) and Goldrush (thick brown skin) for whites, Irish cobbler and red Pontiac for reds.

Todd

[tnestell]

Kennebec, Red Pontiac

[vdeal]

Last year - German Butterball, Yellow Finn and Norland
This year - Butte, Elba, King Harry and maybe some others.

I try different varieties different years.

[strutz3921]

Sonny,

When do you usually start planting your potatoes?


Chad

[midmo]

Put two rows in this last Sunday. They say for central Missouri on St. Patrick's day. When I lived in northern Missouri Good Friday.

[SONNY]

I try to plant as close to the hundredth day of the year as I can.---some years that date is way off due to to weather---plant sooner IF ground is dry enough to work.---takes them a long time to come up, so the frost/freeze danger is usually over.--our frost date here in zone 5 is around April 14.---we have had snow later than that most years too!

Right now we still have snow drifts on some of the gardens, and ground is still froze underneath! thanks; sonny