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Planting Potatoes
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, Wildbilly wrote: In article , Pavel314 wrote: I've been growing potatoes for many years and plant the usual way; I plant them in a row, below ground level, and hill two or three times during the growing season. The other night we were watching a BBC series called "Foyle's War", which takes place in England during WWII. In one scene, they were on a farm where people were planting potatoes. They had plowed the field with a newly acquired tractor into long, parallel ridges, about 2 feet high and 3 feet apart, and were planting the seed potatoes along the tops of the ridges. I guess the plan was that the plants would put down roots into the ridges and produce tubers down there. Would that really work or was this just poetic license of life on the farm? I'd always heard that potato plants don't put out tubers below the level of the original seed potatoe, hence the hilling to build the ridges around the plants. Paul Other than that, "Foyle's War" is a great series. The potato planting seems a bit whacked though. Stick it the ground or cover it with leaves or just let it be about . Stuff that wants to grow will getting out of the way vs helping all human constructs. Chase The Clouds Away 4:52 Chuck Mangione Chase The Clouds Away Jazz 100 30 11/5/09 8:40 AM Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM deals with Sugars |
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