Green Mountain

Green Mountain is a heritage Variety, all-around a fantastic potato for all home gardeners. Perfect for french fries, baking, and boiling. This is a late-maturing variety. Tubers are oblong, white flesh, tan skin, deep eyes and occasional irregular growth. Tubers can hold up well in long-term storage with lengthy dormancy to sprout. This variety is susceptible to common scab and highly susceptible to late blight.

Description

White Flesh & Tan Skin

Late Maturity

Susceptible to Scab

Highly susceptible to Late Blight

Good Winter Storage

Cooking – Best baked, boiled, and french frying!

Planting – Place potatoes 4-5” deep and 12-16” apart with at least 3 feet between rows.  Cover potatoes with 2-3” of soil. Larger potatoes can be cut prior to planting. Ensure there is an equal number of eyes on each cut piece.

Growing – Hill plants once they begin to emerge from the soil.  Continue to pull dirt up around the plants as they grow.  Keep the soil moist, but not overly saturated during the growing season.  Containers may need daily watering.

Harvest –  Flowering is often an indicator young potatoes are almost ready to harvest.  For winter storage, potatoes should remain in the ground until light frosts or natural maturity dry down the leaves and stems.

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