[Ag-eq] Potatoes

[Jewel]

Tracy!  Wouldn't the gaelic Rua have an H in it?  The gaels seem to be, remarkably, liberal with 
redundant Hs!  In this case, Rua is 2 in the Maori language.  I don't know if there was a Tahi [1], 
taru [3] wha [4];  maybe there were, but they were dumped as they didn't come up to the standard 
required!

       Jewel
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From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 3:13 AM
To: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Potatoes

Hi Jewel.
You're right; I don't know those varieties.  So many kinds of potatoes!  Is
Rua red, ruadh being Gaelic for red?  Or is it a Maori word?
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
To: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Potatoes


> Tracey!  One is spoiled for choice these days with new cultivars coming on
> to the market, almost, it
> seems, every season, but I, usually,  stick to the good old-fashioned
> varieties, and this year will
> be no different, so I am planting:  remember I am in New Zealand so they
> may be unknown to you:
> Rua, Ilam Hardy and Red King Edward.       Jewel
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 8:09 AM
> To: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>; "Agricultural and Equestrean
> Division List"
> <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Potatoes
>
> Hi Jewel.
> It was my 2nd potato crop, and it did very well.  I chose a red potato,
> Red
> Pontiac.  We had an unusually cool summer, so that probably helped.
> What variety of potato are you growing?
> Tracy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jewel via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> To: "Jody Ianuzzi" <thunderwalker321 at gmail.com>; "Agricultural and
> Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Useful garden things I bought this year
>
>
>> In the next day or 2, I will be planting next year's spud crop and half a
>> dozen tomatoes of various
>> varieties.
>> Having mentioned, albeit ever so briefly, potatoes, Tracy!  how did your
>> first:  I think it was *
>> first: homegrown potato crop turn out?
>>
>>            Jewel
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>> From: "Jody Ianuzzi via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnetabalbeit,.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 9:43 AM
>> To: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>; "Agricultural and Equestrean
>> Division List"
>> <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Useful garden things I bought this year
>>
>> Hello Tracy
>>
>> I'm sorry I didn't answer your message sooner. I was very interested to
>> read of your cold frames and
>> your sprinkler system. I have also heard that if you only water the
>> garden
>> plants and you don't
>> water in between the rows that you end up with a lot less weeds.
>>
>> Are you still able to grow anything in the cold frames this late in the
>> year?
>>
>> Did you freeze or can any of your vegetables
>>
>> JODY 🐺
>>
>> "Life begins where your comfort zone ends."
>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq
>>> <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I bought some useful garden stuff this year, so I thought I'd share.
>>> I bought a cold frame from Amazon in the spring.  One of the reviewers
>>> said it was like Leggos in
>>> the way it snaps together, and it kind of is.  It snaps together, then,
>>> when its time is over,
>>> unsnaps to store flat and take up less space.  My only complaint is it's
>>> a bit hard to snap the
>>> lid locks when the lid is closed.  I used it in the spring, then took it
>>> down for the summer, and
>>> set it back up for the fall.  Right now, it's got chard, spinach, and
>>> salad greens in it.  I think
>>> they'll last well into the winter.
>>>
>>> I also bought 2 Snip 'n Drip systems from Gardeners Supply.  One is a
>>> soaker system, and the other
>>> is a sprinkler system.  You put the sprinkler, or soaker hose, where you
>>> want it, then connect to
>>> a hose pipe that runs over areas you don't want to water, then connect
>>> another sprinkler or
>>> soaker, then hook up a hose coupler at the end.  Then you put the
>>> regular
>>> hose into the coupler,
>>> turn on the water, and water everything all at once.  It's great to just
>>> have to water once,
>>> instead of stopping and moving the sprinkler every 45 minutes or so.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
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