government potatoes

the radishes i planted are up ( top photo ) and so are the turnips ( bottom photo )...that's good news...still waiting on snow peas and scarlet runner beans...i spent part of this afternoon preparing a bed for my red nordland potatoes which i cut yesterday and which i will plant tomorrow...while i was at it i prepared the last open half-barrel on the south side if the house by pulling all the weeds out of it and mixing in a healthy dose of composted manure so i could plant half my allotment of government potatots...the first potato photos is of a primitive cultivar called negra ojosa...that tuber's shape is what they call compressed in the potato trade...in ethnobotany too...the middle photo is of (surprise!) a nordland potato which is ovate shaoed and the fourth photo is a tuber called isla caucahua tha looks a bit more like a russet than the other two which are obviously reds...it too is ovate shaped...what other characteristics they develop remains to be seen...i planted them sperately form the seed potatoes i bought from oregon because the potato introduction station said they could not guarantee them disese free and the suggested that they be isolated from any crop...i have potatoes in the ground on campus but i wanted to plant the second sample of each of these there as well...i will have to give it some thought since the potatoes on campus are intercropped with the wheat and it will be difficult to find a place to isolate these there..i have forty-two pieces of tuber to plant tomorrow and i saved the coach a potato that should be good for at least six...add in the ten on campus and the thirty-three in my daughter and son-in-law's back yard and the four pounds did yeoman's duty...now all i need is for the wild potato seeds to gerninate.