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'Pink Fir Apple potato' is a maincrop potato variety with pink skin and cream, waxy flesh. It has a long, knobbly shape.
Blooming colours are blue-violet, mauve taupe and light pastel purple.
Blooms are about 2.5cm in diameter at full maturity.
The f...
pink fir apple potatoes
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Tales of the Robyn Adair potato
"Another potato favourite is Robin Adair, It was popular in New Zealand during the 20s-40s, and was all but lost, really, and I can't remember where I got the seed from but someone gave it to me and they have taken off here. They are b…
Robyn Adair potatoes
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"The Home Garden" from 1953 mentions the following Riwai/taewa
In the home garden potatoes for early planting should first be set to sprout in a light, frost free airy position. Well-sprouted tubers can be planted shallowl…
Te Māori taewa potatoes
Robyn Adair potatoes
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Stewart island potato 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 p…
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Note from Koanga institute about huakaroro taewa potato
Sent to Koanga by Rex Mundy of Kerikeri. He said it came from the Banks Peninsula, "growing there as long as the locals can remember at an isolated bay, among the boulders on the foreshore. The runners went lon…
huakaroro taewa potatoes
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Growing notes for: huakaroro taewa potato
2012 - Medium height, strong top growth but very very crinkly leaves, and some yellow blotching average weight 1kg
2013 - More even line, but poor yield. …
huakaroro taewa potatoes
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There are five new buttons on the top of every page in Growstuff this week. They're the five most useful actions for someone tracking their garden.
"My Gardens" is where you can see what's going on in your garden, and for perennial crops, you'll see how many days to harvest, and a progress bar t…
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This week I met with Rory who is the founder of FarmBot. He's offered me their CC-0 licensed icons they created. These are a dataset for their OpenFarm Project (so they're considered data, not code, so isn't in git) The icons are for a crop. e.g. one for corn, one for tomatoes
They look useful. …
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we have a puppy. She's gorgeous but she's also destroying my garden. This year I think i won't be planting out a garden, because i know she'll dig it up.
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Beans, peas and corn: remove husks and allow seeds to dry out – this may take a couple of weeks, then remove casings and store.
Pumpkins and melons: seeds need to be washed and set aside to dry for a week or so before …
radicchio
cucumbers
tomatoes
zucchini
beans
capsica
peas
corn
pumpkins
melons
lettuces
celery
parsnips
carrots
leeks
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I've been growing several indigenous plants recently. Theres a miro tree that will eventually have berries. I've added karaka tawa, and hīnau to the growstuff database too, as these were (and are) food sources for the people living here for centuries…
kūmara
harakekes
flax
kawakawa
New Zealand spinach
tawa
miro
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I'm going to attempt to grow potato over winter. To prepare I'm going to do a full garden bed of mustard and then dig the greens into the soil. Add compost and blood and bone. I've never attempted potato over winter. It can get very wet here, and in August it dr…
carrots
parsnips
mustard
potatoes
onions