Gardening questions

[taxlady]

Does anyone on my flist know much about growing potatoes? I am growing two potato plants in hopes of having new potatoes. One of them is now well over a metre tall. The other one would be, but it broke in a recent rain storm and is only about three quarters of a metre tall now. They are both flowering. When do I look for baby potatoes? I don't want big potatoes. I want little, bitty, yummy, new potatoes.

How about snow peas? My seed envelope says that they take 68 days to mature and that they like cool weather. They can be planted in early spring or late summer. If I planted them the 1st of August, they would mature in early October. Does that sound reasonable. What is a good time to be planting these in Greater Montreal? Is there a range of time that is good for the fall planting, so I can have them mature at different times? Do I want them to mature at different times?

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

My potato flowers have a 3/4 cm green centre protruding. Is that what you are talking about?

If the flowers were fertilized, that green center will eventually turn into a big round dangly ball, the size of a marble. If I have time today I'll take pictures of mine to show you what I mean. If you potatoes still have flowers on the plants, then you probably need to wait at least a couple more weeks before digging the new potatoes.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Those seed pods sound fun. If I get any, I will definitely take photos. I have seen potato flowers before, but I don't remember the green part. Maybe that means that this time they did get fertilized.