Why June-Planted Kennebec Potatoes Produced No Tubers

The Mistake

"Mid/late variety" refers to harvest time, not planting time. Kennebec must be planted in early spring.

Plants grow foliage but tubers don't form before summer heat shuts down the crop.

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