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WIDE spacing between rows, and deep furrows. Pile it up along the side and then you need to hill the plants as the plants grow. I'd say we have easily 3ft between rows, 3 ft between plants in the row.
This was a 4 row year (maybe a little less). We get yields like this-
WOW!!!!!!!!! That's all.
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How long/widely spaced are your potato rows? I've never grown them so just wondering how good the yields are and if they're worth the space they take up.
Strawberry yields aren't worth the space but Potatoes definitely worth it. I guess 1 reason being is because you can store them easily and another reason is that multiple potatoes form off 1.
Here was my little Potato patch from 2016. 22 Potatoes planted.
Lovely! Thank you for the information. The recipes in the website sound scrumptious. Now I want to try growing some roselle plants, I need to track down some seeds.
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I ordered mine online from sowtrueseeds based out of Asheville, NC. I don't think any of the commercial Canadian retailers have them although you can probably find some on Etsy.
These pole beans are really reaching for the sky... and making tonnes of pods. They're a bit hard to make out against the foliage of the same colour, but this plant has about 4 dozen pods at various stage of growth, and that's after picking a couple dozen n the past week.
Such a successful season then after 2 heavy rains all tomatoes are cracking. I'm convinced a drought is the best thing for a crop because you control the watering
Finally...Figs!
Still looking pretty healthy but New blooms wont have time to develop anything and anything green is barely ripening. It is hitting 70s here but sun not as strong either. 2.5mths of picking tomatoes. Maybe 3.
I'm not cleaning up yet... I planted some lettuce last week, and spinach and bok choy today. Tomorrow I'll plant the arugula and mizuna seedlings and then no more planting, except maybe sowing mache (corn salad) for next spring.
One of my Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes looks like it's starting to get late blight, but only just starting, it should still be able to ripen several dozen tomatoes before succumbing completely. Aside from that, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers still look as healthy as can be. Bush wax beans are slowing down, but pole green beans still doing good. Okra may be beginning to slow but still producing, the upcoming warmth should help give a couple more pickings.
My Guatemalan Green Ayote squash seems like it's just kicking into gear... it set 1 fruit per plant in August, but it looks like each plant is adding 2-3 more between Sept 10 & 20.
And beets, carrots, parsnip, collards, green onions, cauliflower, broccoli and other cool season crops still going strong.
I tried my hand at figs this year. The seller was slow to deliver them, and they only arrived on the 2nd week of June and took a couple weeks to get over transplant shock. Still, it looks like some of them plants (I have 4) will produce a few fruit this season. Might have to bring them into my neighbour's greenhouse to finish ripening though. Hopefully they do better next year.
The drought seems to have been good for tomatoes where I live. I could water them the right amount.
But now with days of rain and more of just plain cool and dull, the tops of the tomatoes are showing some sort of rot or mold. I don't know what it is, never had a problem with something as simple as tomatoes. Every tomato gets the rotten looking top now.
The drought seems to have been good for tomatoes where I live. I could water them the right amount.
But now with days of rain and more of just plain cool and dull, the tops of the tomatoes are showing some sort of rot or mold. I don't know what it is, never had a problem with something as simple as tomatoes. Every tomato gets the rotten looking top now.
Search "late blight tomatoes" on google images. Does it look like that?
The drought seems to have been good for tomatoes where I live. I could water them the right amount.
But now with days of rain and more of just plain cool and dull, the tops of the tomatoes are showing some sort of rot or mold. I don't know what it is, never had a problem with something as simple as tomatoes. Every tomato gets the rotten looking top now.
That does sound like late blight. Post a pic.
I keep some copper fungicide on hand if it happens. You really gotta be quick to halt it.
I keep some copper fungicide on hand if it happens. You really gotta be quick to halt it.
Does it actually stop it, or do you just get new spores landing on the plant and taking hold a few days later, at this stage in the season?
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Now I want to try growing some roselle plants, I need to track down some seeds.
