01-02-2017, 08:28 AM
I'm not a novice yet, so can't relate from experience but here is a good starting point: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/fb/potato/potato.htm
Did you grow in the ground, or in a container? I think there are a variety of blights in our soils that would make ground potatoes impractical. And apparently potatoes need both lots of water and also good drainage. Some people say that supermarket potatoes can't grow into viable potato producing plants, other people say that is a conspiracy perpetuated from the people who sell seed potatoes and there are youtube videos showing people using supermarket potatoes as seed and getting big yields.
We did plant a few russet eyes in a container (from a store potato) as an experiment and while I don't know whats going inside the pot, the green part of the plant is growing like crazy, way more growth than the seed potatoes.
Did you grow in the ground, or in a container? I think there are a variety of blights in our soils that would make ground potatoes impractical. And apparently potatoes need both lots of water and also good drainage. Some people say that supermarket potatoes can't grow into viable potato producing plants, other people say that is a conspiracy perpetuated from the people who sell seed potatoes and there are youtube videos showing people using supermarket potatoes as seed and getting big yields.
We did plant a few russet eyes in a container (from a store potato) as an experiment and while I don't know whats going inside the pot, the green part of the plant is growing like crazy, way more growth than the seed potatoes.