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Potatoes in Newfoundland
Cool summers suit tuber formation. Hill well and watch for late blight in wet, foggy stretches.
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- Suitability for Newfoundland
- Cool-season — well suited
- Indoor seed start
- Not usually needed
- Transplant / sowing
- Direct sow ~0 weeks after typical last frost
- Frost tolerance
- Tolerates brief light frost
- Days to harvest
- 70–110 days
- Sunlight
- 4–6+ hours
- Spacing
- 30 cm apart, rows 75 cm
- Wind
- Handles wind well
- Containers
- Works in containers
- Greenhouse
- Not needed
Common problems here
- Late blight in damp weather
- Wireworm in new beds
- Frost on early shoots
Varieties that make sense for a short season
- Early or mid-season types
- Blight-tolerant types
Harvest
New potatoes after flowering; main crop once tops die back.
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