The Blue' is a potato variety with blue flesh and skin with a slight purple tint, released by Cornell University potato breeders Robert Plaisted, Ken Paddock, and Walter De Jong in 2003. WikipediaScientific name: Solanum tuberosum 'Adirondack Blue'Rank: Cultivar.Large, oblong potatoes that are blue inside and have a purplish-blue skin. Color is retained while cooking. Excellent yields and flavor. Stores well. Soil, Planting, and CarePlants produce potatoes of various shapes and sizes.Shapes and sizes of homegrown potatoes will vary even from the same plant.Potatoes are cool-season crops and can survive light frosts. Plant as soon as soil is workable in early spring. Potatoes need fertile, well-drained soil that’s loose and slightly acid (pH 5.8 to 6.5). Hard, compacted soil produces misshapen tubers. Amend heavy clay soil the fall before planting by working organic matter into planting beds. Potatoes form tubers 4 to 6 inches below the soil surface. When stems reach 8 inches tall, draw soil up and around plants, covering half of lower stems. Repeat the process two to three weeks later. Potatoes exposed to sunlight turn green, which causes flesh to taste bitter. Keeping tubers covered prevents greening.Some gardeners grow their potatoes in straw, placing straw around the 8-inch-tall stems instead of soil. This method yields potatoes that you don’t have to dig, but simply fish out of the straw. If you use the straw method, be sure to keep your straw layer consistent throughout the growing season. It will most likely break down and need to be topped off during the course of growing the potatoes.Instead of hilling potatoes, some gardeners use layers of straw to cover the stem.Rather than hilExported By ExportYourStore
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