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Stewart island potato Stewart Island Potato planting

grown by shiny in Vege garden plot 2 · Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Finished

Planted 2018-11-15

First harvest expected 2019-11-06

Finished 2019-03-09

(One emojii = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November
Summer
December
January
February, usually harvesting
Autumn
March
April
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 8 years ago 2018-11-15

Progress

Done 114 days

Quantity

8 root/tubers

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Parent seed

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Notes

Found by Kay Baxter rowing wild in a clifff face along the shore on Stewart Island around 1990. It is an extremely beautiful variety similar in shape to Whataroa and Chatham Islands however this one has pink rather than purple colouring on the skin.

Photos

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Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

Stewart island potato

seeds saved by shiny
  • approx. 8 seeds
  • Wellington, NZ

Activities

Nothing is planned here.

Crop

Photo of Stewart island potato

Stewart Island Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 3 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 235 days
  • First harvest about 356 days after planting

World neighbours

Other Stewart island potato plantings at the same latitude.