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Paper Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-11 06:34 PM
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Massachusetts checking in. Have a sprouting bag of Maine potatoes.
Too early to find a spot to plant them? If it is too early, these are trash. Limiting all flowers this year. In an old flower spot, I would like to plunk these spuds in the ground and forget about them until September or so.
What do you think?
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Denninmi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-11 03:10 AM
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1. No, not too early at all.
Usually, I always miss some potatoes when I dig them in the fall. Those sprout fairly early in the spring and quite often make some of the best potatoes I get each year. I have become convinced that planting them very early is the key. The only danger is frost, but I've had some of these volunteers get zapped, and they grow right back.I

I say go ahead and plant them, a little on the deep side (about 5-6 inches). The will be fine.

I'm going to try to get my potatoes planted in the next week or so. I've got a whole bunch of grocery store ones that I got really cheap because they were sprouting, plus some left from last year, plus I went and picked up red, Yukon gold, and russet seed potatoes at the feed store.

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