{"product_id":"blue-potato-speciality-potato-color-is-retained-while-cooking-excellent-yields-and-flavor-stores-well","title":"Blue potato ,Speciality Potato,  Color is retained while cooking. Excellent yields and flavor. Stores well.","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou can look up your climate zone here: http:\/\/planthardiness.ars.usda.gov\/PHZMWeb\/ Adirondack Blue potato\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 'Adirondack 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. Wikipedia\u003cbr\u003e\nScientific name: Solanum tuberosum 'Adirondack Blue'\u003cbr\u003e\nRank: Cultivar.\u003cbr\u003e\nLarge, oblong potatoes that are blue inside and have a purplish-blue skin. Color is retained while cooking. Excellent yields and flavor. Stores well.\u003cbr\u003e\nSoil, Planting, and Care\u003cbr\u003e\nPlants produce potatoes of various shapes and sizes.\u003cbr\u003e\nShapes and sizes of homegrown potatoes will vary even from the same plant.\u003cbr\u003e\nPotatoes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead of hilling potatoes, some gardeners use layers of straw to cover the stem.\u003cbr\u003e\nRather than hilling these potato plants with soil, gardeners at the Wishard Slow Food Garden in Indianapolis layered straw around the plant stems.\u003cbr\u003e\nMaximum tuber formation occurs when soil temperature is 60 F to 70 F. Tuber formation stops when soil temperature hits 80 F. Mulching soil with straw or other organic matter can help reduce soil temperature. Research has shown that maintaining a 6-inch-thick straw layer around potatoes keeps soil temperatures 10 degrees lower. Potatoes are sensitive to drought. Keep plants consistently moist, especially when plants flower and right after, since this is the peak time when tubers are forming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMove potatoes to a different place in the garden each year to help limit disease and insect problems. For best success, rotate potatoes on a 3-year program, growing them in a different spot for three years in a row before cycling through the growing spots again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caribbean garden seed","offers":[{"title":"1 lbs","offer_id":45759716098234,"sku":"P35411S","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5 lbs","offer_id":45759716131002,"sku":"P35411S","price":40.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/5071\/files\/blue-potato-speciality-potato-color-is-retained-while-cooking-excellent-yields-and-flavor-stores-well-9543546.jpg?v=1775974091","url":"https:\/\/caribbeangardenseed.com\/en-de\/products\/blue-potato-speciality-potato-color-is-retained-while-cooking-excellent-yields-and-flavor-stores-well","provider":"Caribbean garden seed","version":"1.0","type":"link"}