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'Red Pontiac' Potatoes |
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Early Season
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Early-season. Round tubers with red skin, medium-deep eyes and moist, crisp, white flesh. Excellent storage. Good drought tolerance. Medium resistance to scab. Also known as Dakota Chief.
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60-75
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.4 Stars)
Taste: (4.2 Stars)
Yield: (4.2 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.8 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 5
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 12/26/2013 by
Luther
- An experienced gardener
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Moody, South Dakota, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| For mashed potatoes and home fries this variety is without equal, and it has proven to be the most reliable potato year after year. The yields are superior to Kennebec, and they keep just as long (into May). |
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Reviewed on 05/23/2008 by
farmerdill
- An experienced gardener
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Richmond, Georgia, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| This is a very reliable Red potato in the south. It is arguably the best eating "new" potato. It out yeilds the Kennebec ( tho not as good as a baker) and Yukon Gold. quite trouble free and a good general purpose potato, that excels as a boiling potato. |
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Reviewed on 02/17/2007 by
spedoodle
- A novice gardener
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Kent, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| only the second time i planted potatoes but i was happy with this variety. It held up ok to the blight which destroyed the other variety i planted. I didn't get much more then 4-8 potatoes for each one I planted. I have heavy clay soil and didn't use any fertalizer. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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Reviewed on 12/25/2005 by
goodolboy
- An intermediate gardener
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Cocke, Tennessee, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| We have grown this variety for years as our staple red.
We use no biological controls other than Bt, hand picking Colorado Potato beetles and squishing their eggs. Plants are only watered when they do not receive sufficient and fairly regular rainfall. No fertilizer other than that provided by a small amount of compost mixed into the soil before planting, and what is added by the slow decomposition of a cover of grass clippings to retard evaporation which is used through most of the growing season.
Aside for the previously mentioned, the plants receive no other care, and have not required any, other than one year when they were all flattened by a storm, and I propped some of them back up with additional hilling.
This variety has consistantly been the highest or second highest yielding (per foot of row planted at the same spacing), although it lags behind another staple one, Kennebec, in most years.
The seed seems to store well for several months, although by the time I get around to planting, they have invariably started sprouting, and I try to leave the short sprouts intact, cutting for additional pieces only if necessary. I use the smaller tubers as much as possible for seed to avoid cutting.
One year my wife was in the hospital and the sprouts were over a foot high before planting, so they were laid sideways under only a lvery ight soil covering until they sprouted above the soil and the yield that year was higher than ever before or since. Even when they arecut to small seed pieces, the germination is close to 100%.
It's hard to ask more of a potato, except for taste. I'm probably biased, but to me the taste is nothing special, but I feel that way about every red I have tried so far, I prefer the yellow fleshed potatoes' taste in general. My wife likes it. |
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Reviewed on 11/10/2004 by
russell
- An experienced gardener
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Ontario, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Nice size tubers,but I do not like the deep eyes.Stores well, good flavor. Slugs seem to prefer the foliage on this one. |
| | | 1 of 1 gardener found this review helpful.
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