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<blockquote data-quote="Maddog" data-source="post: 298580" data-attributes="member: 5355">Here's my two cents worth.&nbsp;&nbsp; We plant them after Memorial Day with the rest of the garden so it is after the last frost.&nbsp; Garden tilled and soil fairly dry.&nbsp; Potato rows on roughly 30&quot; centers so can run the tiller between rows with the outer set of tiller tines removed if desired before hilling.&nbsp; Plant by cutting seed potatoes in 1/2 such that both sides have at least one eye.&nbsp; Planted cut side down.&nbsp; Row has a baler twine marker (staked at both ends) to keep the row straight.&nbsp; One person with a hoe digs a shallow pocket for each planting.&nbsp; Pocket roughly 4&quot; deep and spaced say 12&quot; or so.&nbsp; Another person goes behind and places one potato half in each pocket and then walks up and down each row scattering fertilizer 10-10-10 by hand down the row center.&nbsp; Then go back with the hoe and cover up the potato.&nbsp; After the potato plant has sprouted we would then go back and hill the potatoes by hand with a hoe.&nbsp; Taking dirt from each side of the row and mounding it up over the sprouted potato not totally covering the green, potato plant.&nbsp; Height of hill a good 8-10&quot; or so.&nbsp; Sometimes we would go back and hill even higher after the plant gets taller.&nbsp; &nbsp; Good luck.&nbsp; Like my Mom just said, there is nothing like fresh potatoes from the garden.&nbsp; There is no comparison to store bought potatoes.&nbsp;&nbsp; We would dig anytime after the potato plant would die.&nbsp; And we never watered our potatoes, they aren't like other vegetables (say a tomato plant) as they don't need a lot of water to grow.&nbsp;&nbsp; You need the hill for the potatoes to grow, you also don't want any to exposed to the sun as those will turn greenish in color and be bitter tasting.&nbsp; &nbsp; After digging and if you wash them, do NOT dry them in the sun.&nbsp; That is what will cause them to have a bitter taste too.&nbsp; We always dried ours in the shade and then stored them in a potato sack in a cool, dry area.- - - Updated - - -Spot on!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maddog, post: 298580, member: 5355"] Here's my two cents worth. We plant them after Memorial Day with the rest of the garden so it is after the last frost. Garden tilled and soil fairly dry. Potato rows on roughly 30" centers so can run the tiller between rows with the outer set of tiller tines removed if desired before hilling. Plant by cutting seed potatoes in 1/2 such that both sides have at least one eye. Planted cut side down. Row has a baler twine marker (staked at both ends) to keep the row straight. One person with a hoe digs a shallow pocket for each planting. Pocket roughly 4" deep and spaced say 12" or so. Another person goes behind and places one potato half in each pocket and then walks up and down each row scattering fertilizer 10-10-10 by hand down the row center. Then go back with the hoe and cover up the potato. After the potato plant has sprouted we would then go back and hill the potatoes by hand with a hoe. Taking dirt from each side of the row and mounding it up over the sprouted potato not totally covering the green, potato plant. Height of hill a good 8-10" or so. Sometimes we would go back and hill even higher after the plant gets taller. Good luck. Like my Mom just said, there is nothing like fresh potatoes from the garden. There is no comparison to store bought potatoes. We would dig anytime after the potato plant would die. And we never watered our potatoes, they aren't like other vegetables (say a tomato plant) as they don't need a lot of water to grow. You need the hill for the potatoes to grow, you also don't want any to exposed to the sun as those will turn greenish in color and be bitter tasting. After digging and if you wash them, do NOT dry them in the sun. That is what will cause them to have a bitter taste too. We always dried ours in the shade and then stored them in a potato sack in a cool, dry area. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] Spot on!! [/QUOTE]

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