[Homestead] potato flowers !
Leslie
cayadopi at yahoo.com
Thu May 28 21:59:00 EDT 2009
Yes, in the tires the "hilling" up I did was strictly done by is adding straw and leaves, and a few sprinkles of fertilizer, all by hand nothing else.... there is no room to put a shovel in there. Yes, 2 tires high, and then they flowered. Although there are 2 stack (of a total of 6) I was getting ready to put a 3rd tire on and then noticed the first flower buds in the tires, so didn't bother.
The other hills that are of dirt are planted in rows, no tires. Those I didn't get far hilling up when the flowers showed up.... but the sandy area they are planted in, I rotor-tillered up the soil very well and the soil is still soft when wet. The soil here is sure different than other places I've lived.
--- On Wed, 5/27/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
Leslie, I just want to make sure we are on the same page. For the
potatoes that I grow in tires, there is no 'hilling up'-no hoe is
needed. In these parts, hilling up means that you moved the dirt into a
raised area using a hoe. With tires, you just stack one tire onto
another and add a mulch, like waste hay or even pine straw. You could
add some soil, too, but that would be with a shovel. 20" is about two
tires tall. Is this what you have?
B
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and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
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