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Re: potatoes above ground

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In a message dated 2/16/99 7:59:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, BRITATHRT@aol.com
writes:

<< We use Rose collars to grow our potatoes..I snap 2 of them together to make
a
 ring @1 1/2ft in dameter..place it on the raised bed and cover the seed
potato
 with 2-3  
  inches of soil..when the plant gets to @4" above the rings I fill in the
ring
 with mulch..add another ring (made of 2 rose collars) and keep growing(when
 the plant gets to the top of this level; fill it again with mulch and just
let
 it grow ...I've been known to add another level..but this last season I kept
 it as 2 rings high...I got about a dozen potatoes per plant this way.  When
 the plant dies back is the time to harvest..or you can wait a while ..it
won't
 hurt them..just unsnap the collars and push aside the mulch.
 Margaret>>


That sounds like it would work well too.   I just can't give over how easy it
is (or how I've read that it's so easy) to grow potatoes.  I can remember
growing potatoes at my grandfather's.  He always grew potatos.  He grew them
in rows.  I can remember him  making a trench in the row and I would go behind
him and put the eyes in.  Then he'd cover them up using a hoe.   

He had this hand plow he'd use and he'd plow right through the middle of the
row when we harvested the potatoes.  I had the job of finding all the
potatoes.  I would be so covered in dirt!! LOL.   It was really fun though.
Sometimes I wish I could just go back for a visit to that time in my life.  It
really ment alot to me.  

Judy


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