When you hill up the potatoes, do you cover the leaves or strip them as with
tomatoes?
Donna
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Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Potato Question
Yikes! That should be 12-15 inches WIDE. It is only about 6 inches
deep or so.
EarthNSky wrote:
> I dug a trench about 12-14 inches deep and then seeded it, pulling over
> about a third of the excavated soil. Once I see the vine, I'll continue
> to mound the soil around it, creating a huge bed of potatoes that will
> need to be dug. I'm not looking forward to that.