Red Potatoes
I've been told that cut potato pieces with eyes should be in the ground by Valentines Day. (Lytton Springs, Texas 29.992 N.) Dear Wife insisted that the cut pieces should air-dry before they are planted, so this year I cut them and basically forgot them for a week. (They were really dry, almost like potato chips.) When I planted them, it turns out there were not enough, so I went to the feed store and bought some more Red seed Potatoes (La Sota) that were in a gunny sack from Minnesota. I cut them, leaving one eye per piece, and planted them immediately. I finished the bed in the garden with the chain link fence, and put the rest in our old garden that is fenced only with rusty barbed wire. The seed potato pieces that were cut immediately and planted were the first to show, but the others (over dried) eventually caught up. The soil in the old garden was topped with compost mixed extremely heavy with biochar made from converting logs from a slash pile. Basically, I've bu