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Re: Potatoes

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Sorry, I got lost in this one. Do you mean sweet potatoes, since you refer
to potato plants? I always try to grow 3 or 4 different varieties of regular
potatoes.  By putting them at the narrow end of the raised bed they can
cascade over the edge. I dig the hole 1' deep put in the potato I get at the
local organic market and cover with 6" of soil.  Put the dripper in. Then
after the potato plants are a foot or so tall fill the hole the rest of the
way moving the dripper to the top.  I've never weighed how much the yield
is, but we grow them for the taste and we get quite a taste!!

Bob in Sacramento
-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Wendt <katherine@datawizsolutions.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: Potatoes


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>I plan to surround potato plants with 15 gal plastic pots with the
>bottoms cut out and big holes drilled in the side. Fill the tub with mulch
>and keep filling as the potato plant grows higher and higher. The plant
will
>supposedly grow potatos off the stems into the mulch. This is supposedly a
>well-known way of increasing yield in a small space. I will use drip
>irrigation. The question is, do I put the drip line on the surface of the
>ground and just pile the mulch on top of that or do I put the drip line on
>top of the mulch and let the water drip down through the mulch?
>
>Last year I filled the tubs with a combo of straw and soil and dripped down
>through the top. Only got potatos below the earth, not in the fill, but I
may
>have done the mulching too late as the plants were pretty big.
>
>Does anybody have experience doing it this way?
>
>Katherine Wendt
>DataWiz Solutions
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