An Update From The Potato Patch

Some really cool things are happening in my garden right now.

Some of my potato plants started to bloom in the past week. I’m growing two varieties – Red Norland and Adirondack Blue. Both of them are flowering, but the Adirondack potato flowers are especially striking.

This blue-fleshed variety was developed in New York by Cornell University and released to the market about 20 years ago. Mine bloomed some striking, star-shaped white flowers with a bright yellow anther cone surrounding the protruding stigma. They’re quite beautiful. They have sort of a curly shape typical of plants in the nightshade