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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

I bought my seed potatoes yesterday (Yukon Gold). Some things I read say to 
chit them and plant them "as soon as the ground can be worked", but others 
say that they are sensitive to frost once they are growing. I usually can't 
get the bed ready until near the last frost anyway (it's usuallly too cold 
and wet here to work the soil until May), but this year, with this 
phenomonally nice weather, the bed is prepared already, but we could have 
frost for another 2 months.

When do you all plant potatoes related to your last frost? And do you put 
them in hills or trenches? I'm thinking of planting early, but mulching them 
so the frost won't hurt them.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA