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#360330 Sep 19th, 2012 at 01:48 PM
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I have just started growing potatoes. I have grown two sets of potatoes. I harves them after the plants have started dying. The potatoes dont get very big. 90% of them are less than 3/4 in in diameter. Does anybody know why?
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KTops #360334 Sep 19th, 2012 at 09:07 PM
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Welcome KTops.

When did you plant them?

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Sunflowers #360473 Sep 26th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
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I believe that they were in the ground 3+ months. the tops had all died.
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Here we keep potatoes in the ground close to 5 months to get the right size but I'm in eastern Canada...wondering if the heat damaged your plant tops before they were ready??

We have a member here from California..I'll ask her about it.

BTW: Did you 'hill' up your potatoes as they grew??

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KTops #360501 Sep 27th, 2012 at 05:57 AM
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It was probably heat. If I were growing taters, I would be planting them right about now through, maybe, February. They prefer cooler weather. And that would depend on what part of California I was in.

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