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White Star – smooth, cream skin and flesh good all-rounder suited to warmer climates.Pink Eye – cream and purple with waxy, yellow flesh, ideal for roasting, mashing and boiling.Dutch Cream – yellow skin and creamy yellow flesh excellent for salads, boiling and roasting.Kipfler – waxy textured and butter flavoured flesh that is perfect for mash and potato salads not recommended for roasting or frying.Desiree – another good all rounder, yellow, waxy flesh that’s excellent for mashing.Pontiac – pink skin and white flesh excellent for boiling and mashing, not suited to frying or chips.Sebago – one of this country’s favorite ‘spuds’ and a good all-rounder.Kennebec – cream coloured skin and flesh good all-rounder and excellent for chips.Nadine – white skin and creamy flesh good for salads and boiling, excellent for mashing and roasting.In Australia, the best varieties for the home garden (and their uses) are: Some varieties are best for boiling, others for roasting and even more for chips. The texture of cooked potatoes varies between waxy and flowery. In warm climates, harvest potatoes between June-August and in cool climates harvest between December-February. Potatoes can be harvested between 90-120 days from planting. In cool climates, plant potatoes between July-August. In warm climates, plant potatoes between March-April. In the spring, new stems grow, which later bear flowers.Planting and harvesting potatoes in Australia Some others have stems and leaves that die away over winter but the plant continues to live underground. Some, such as trees, flower and set seeds every year for many years. Perennials are plants that live for 3 or more years. In spring, they produce flowers, set seeds and die. They grow from a seed, then rest over winter.

Some go through this cycle more than once in a year.īiennials are plants that take 2 years to go through their life cycle. Some plants go though their complete cycle in a few weeks – others take many years.Īnnuals are plants that grow from a seed, then flower and make new seeds, then die, all in less than a year. Length of life cycleįlowering plants all go through the same stages of a life cycle, but the length of time they take varies a lot between species. Tubers (for example, potatoes) and bulbs (for example, onions) are also special underground structures that can grow into new plants. Other plants send out underground stems called rhizomes, which form new plants at a distance from the parent. Some plants have stems called stolons that grow out sideways above the soil, and new plants grow up along them. These new plants have exactly the same genes as the parent. The pollen then moves from the stigma to the female ovules.Īs well as sexual reproduction making seeds, new plants are sometimes made by asexual vegetative reproduction. Pollination is the process by which pollen is carried (by wind or animals) from the male part of a flower (the anther) to the female part (the stigma) of another flower. Flowers are special structures involved in sexual reproduction, which includes pollination and fertilisation. When the plant matures and is ready to reproduce, it develops flowers. Leaves capture sunlight to make food for the plant through the process of photosynthesis. The stem also supports leaves so they can collect sunlight. Roots also take up water and nutrients and store food.Ī shoot grows skyward and develops into a stem that carries water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant. Roots grow down to anchor the plant in the ground. When a seed comes to rest in conditions suited to its germination, it breaks open and the embryo inside starts to grow. Farmers and fruit growers need to know about plant life cycles so that they can predict when their crops will be ready.įlowering plants all go through the same basic stages of a life cycle. Gardeners need to know about plant life cycles so they can have food crops and colourful gardens all year round.

7 days to die clay growing underground