May is the month when gardening begins to provide much to do for the home gardener. The lawn needs weekly mowing, dandelions are providing yellow color all over and there are many transplants to plant.
May is the month when there are many flowering shrubs in full bloom, along with flowering trees and colorful tulips.
Enjoy white flowering dogwood, magolia, redbud, azalea, spice viburnum, crabapple, lilac and rhododendron.
Grow a few white potatoes
You don't need to own a farm to grow a few white potatoes. Even a small urban lot can produce a few spuds. A small space of 2-by-4 feet can grow two plants. When we had a large garden each fall I dug a bushel of white potatoes. That was always a special time because you never saw the size of the crop until they were dug.
That was also when a few sweet peppers were picked for stuffed peppers. The peppers and a few small-sized, freshly dug potatoes in a tomato sauce was my favorite fall supper. The pepper aroma was detected throughout the house while baking. What a great fall supper.
The white potato is a cool season vegetable grown all over Ohio and beyond.
Good potato varieties include Kennebec (my favorite), Yukon Gold (light yellow flesh), and Katadin.
The late Dr. Charles Young loved gardening. Growing potatoes and planting trees were favorite activities, along with his medical practice.
His favorite potato choice was Katadin. He liked the flavor, size and that it was a good "keeper." When I received a new potato variety to grow and evaluate, a few were given to him to grow and evaluate. But, he always reported that Katadin was better.
Growing potatoes
Unlike other vegetables, a potato grows from a piece of potato and not a seed. The white potato is a fleshy vegetable called a tuber. To grow a plant, a tuber is cut into a few pieces, each about the size of a medium or small egg. When buried, it sends up a stem and grows into the potato plant about two feet tall or more and wide.
To make seed pieces, a medium-sized potato is cut into "seed pieces" each with one or more "eyes" or buds. Each seed piece must have at least one bud. When buried in a row the bud begins to grow and in time form a potato plant.
Mail-order potatoes
The Jung Seed catalog offers white potatoes for sale. Available is a bag of whole potatoes for $14.50 or bag of pre-cut potatoes for $12.95. Available potato varieties include Superior, Kennebec, Red Norland, Red Pontiac, Gold Rush, Huckleberry, Gold, Pinto Gold and German Butterball. To order, call 1-800-247-5864 or visit Jungseed.com.
Richard Poffenbaugh is a retired biology teacher and active home gardener since 1960. He is a member of the Mansfield Men's Garden Club and was editor of the club newsletter (The Greenhorn) for 21 years. He resides in Ontario with his wife, Barbara. Reach him at 419-529-2966.
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