2024 garden season

[Del_]

Looked a little on the internet and I'm still a little confused. Do you start just male seeds, if there's such a thing? Do you remove the female plants?

The seeds are already 99.94% male.

Then after they are planted and mature enough to show male or female one may 'weed out' the females. Asparagus can get weedy with it's own seedlings as it reduces the quality of the spears.

 

[Del_]

Yukon Gold potatoes. Two fifty ft. rows, whole small potatoes planted whole on one ft centers, rows on five ft. centers.

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Seed (KEY practices)​

For best stand, small whole seed ("single-drops") should be used due to uneven distribution of eyes which are mostly at the bud end. For cutting to seed pieces, small to medium size tubers need to be use to avoid "blind" pieces. Cutting and then planting immediately is very strongly discouraged, clearly not a recommended practice which results in poor stands, uneven emergence and seed decay by bacterial soft rot (Erwinia carotovora). Cut pieces need to be warmed, treated with a fungicide dust and allowed to heal; 7-10 days at 65F or two weeks at 60F before planting are recommended."

https://cropwatch.unl.edu/potato/yukongold_management#:~:text=Yukon Gold matures in 80,get over 500 cwt/acre.

 

[farmer steve]

Messing with some grow bags in the greenhouse this year. 2 Red Duece tomatoes and 4 bags of some red potatoes that had started to sprout. Picking about 10 lbs of asparagus every day.