How To Plant Potatoes In A Small Vegetable Garden
- Date: 2008-07-24 - Word Count: 368
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Make sure you get some certified disease free potatoes from your local nursery garden center or a seed merchant.
You can use small potatoes whole but cut lager ones into quarters. Make sure that each piece contains at least one 'eye' (those little sprouting outgrowth points)
Next, dust the potatoes pieces with a rot preventing powder like 'flowers of Sulfur' and leave them out in the sun until their cut sides become hard.
POTATOES LIKE A WELL DRAINED SLIGHTLY ACIDIC SOIL.
Digging up a vegetable bed from scratch is hard work. If you are able to hire a mini digger machine from your local tool rental store all the better, but if not take it easy and just do a little at a time.
Make a rectangular bed by loosening the soil up to two feet deep. This will assist with drainage and allow good root development.
Mix the top 10cm of soil with compost and NPK 2:3:2 Fertilizer
If you live in a warm climate, plant your tubers in early autumn to early spring. In cold climates plant tubers between late spring to mid
Summer
GREENING THE POTATO 'TUBERS'
Spread the tubers or cut pieces on the ground. NB keep them in the shade. Leave them there for about 20 days prior to planting. : This will cause the sprouts to 'harden'
PLANTING THE POTATOES
Mark out shallow furrows in the bed about 10cm deep and 60-70cm apart.
Put the cut pieces or tubers into the furrows keeping them about 30cm apart and cover them with soil.
HILLING THE POTATOES
As the plants develop 'hill' them with soil by raking or hoeing soil up around them. This helps support the plants and ensures that the tubers stay covered. When tubers grow exposed to the sunlight they become green and inedible.
Another advantage of hilling is that it helps protect the potatoes from caterpillars.
Spray your potato plants regularly with Mancozeb or Azychloide to protect them from early or late blight.
HARVESTING POTATOES
Flowering happens anywhere from sixteen to twenty weeks after planting.
Watch the lower leaves of the plant, as soon as they turn yellow you can dig up some 'new' or 'baby' potatoes to enjoy.
Only dig up as many as you need at a time.
STORING POTATOES
Let the plants die off completely before digging them up for storage.
You can use small potatoes whole but cut lager ones into quarters. Make sure that each piece contains at least one 'eye' (those little sprouting outgrowth points)
Next, dust the potatoes pieces with a rot preventing powder like 'flowers of Sulfur' and leave them out in the sun until their cut sides become hard.
POTATOES LIKE A WELL DRAINED SLIGHTLY ACIDIC SOIL.
Digging up a vegetable bed from scratch is hard work. If you are able to hire a mini digger machine from your local tool rental store all the better, but if not take it easy and just do a little at a time.
Make a rectangular bed by loosening the soil up to two feet deep. This will assist with drainage and allow good root development.
Mix the top 10cm of soil with compost and NPK 2:3:2 Fertilizer
If you live in a warm climate, plant your tubers in early autumn to early spring. In cold climates plant tubers between late spring to mid
Summer
GREENING THE POTATO 'TUBERS'
Spread the tubers or cut pieces on the ground. NB keep them in the shade. Leave them there for about 20 days prior to planting. : This will cause the sprouts to 'harden'
PLANTING THE POTATOES
Mark out shallow furrows in the bed about 10cm deep and 60-70cm apart.
Put the cut pieces or tubers into the furrows keeping them about 30cm apart and cover them with soil.
HILLING THE POTATOES
As the plants develop 'hill' them with soil by raking or hoeing soil up around them. This helps support the plants and ensures that the tubers stay covered. When tubers grow exposed to the sunlight they become green and inedible.
Another advantage of hilling is that it helps protect the potatoes from caterpillars.
Spray your potato plants regularly with Mancozeb or Azychloide to protect them from early or late blight.
HARVESTING POTATOES
Flowering happens anywhere from sixteen to twenty weeks after planting.
Watch the lower leaves of the plant, as soon as they turn yellow you can dig up some 'new' or 'baby' potatoes to enjoy.
Only dig up as many as you need at a time.
STORING POTATOES
Let the plants die off completely before digging them up for storage.
Related Tags: growing, vegetable gardening, spuds, potatoes, tubers
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