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Re: Potatoes & Mulching

Rodney:

I have always heard to mulch potatoes so that the vines will produce spuds
along the entire length of the stem.  However, I have never (at least in
the two years I have grown them) found that the plants do produce along the
entire length of the main stem.  My potatoes have only produced new spuds
right at or just below the soil surface.

This year I planted 16 seed potatoes and by June had applied about 1.5 feet
of mulch to the growing plants.  However, all the tatters I dug where at
ground level or below.

Ron C.  (Charleston, SC)

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On 07/21/97, at 08:55 AM, Rodney C. Knight wrote:

>Ok, I have a small pach of potatoes and I had read here and in book about
>mulching, what I would like to know is if you really have to mulch for
>potatoe production, or is it for soil moisture?
>
>Thanks in advance, and if it has already been covered I'm sorry, but I got
>all caught up in Potatoes today.  Me and the misses at a small red one
>today, and its my first attempt.
>
>Rodney
>
>Delight & Rodney Knight
>rknight@wyoming.com
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