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Re: Potatoes

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Thanks, JC
I have almost all the OG mags since 92 EXCEPT that one! I must have lent it to
someone and never got it back.

Has anyone tried this method:  one potato per sq. ft.? It seems awfully close.

Ruth

JC Dill wrote:

> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> On 02:05 AM 8/23/99 -0500, R M Garelis wrote:
> >Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> >Can anyone tell me the spacing for potatoes?
> >I have 4 ft. square raised beds. How many potatoes do you
> >think I should plant in one bed? I haven't been able to find
> >any reference for potato spacing.
>
> Here's what Mel had to say about growing potatoes in the 2/96 OG article:
>
> <quote>
>
> 4. DOUBLE-DECKER POTATOES!
>
> Visitors who look at my Square Foot Garden scheme for the first time
> sometimes say "it looks nice, but you can't grow potatoes, can you?" I
> reply that "Of course I can! In fact, I get double the usual amount from
> each plant." How? By using a method similar to what I do for
> scallions-planting the potato at the bottom of a deep hole and gradually
> filling the hole with soil as the plant grows.
>
> To duplicate my prodigious potato planting plan, you'll need only 1 square
> foot per potato plant; just repeat the technique times the number of
> taters, you wish to plant.
>
> You prepare the hole for each plant the same as for scallions. Dig out all
> the soil in 1 square foot down to 12 inches deep, and toss the soil into a
> wheelbarrow as you dig, mixing some compost and/or leaf mold (and some
> sharp sand for you clay gardeners) in with that soil as you go. Then loosen
> the soil at the bottom of the hole with a spading fork, and shovel about 4
> inches of good compost into the bottom of the hole. Place one seed potato
> in the center of the square foot hole, and lightly cover the spud with
> about an inch (no more!) of your wheelbarrow mix. Again, you'll still have
> a hole in the ground, but not to worry. just add more of the amended soil
> each week to cover the new growth as the plant sprouts through the soil,
> and continue to do this every week until the hole is filled. By gradually
> filling the hole with loose soil, you'll make that potato form a long
> underground stem, and the plant will now set taters all along that stem,
> producing twice as many tasty tubers as usual. And all that loose soil will
> make spud-digging extra-easy at harvest time, too!
>
> </quote>
>
> jc
>
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