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Re: Potatoes & Mulching

At 08:55 AM 7/21/97 -0500, you 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?
>
All I did with my spuds was to put the seed spuds on the ground and mulched
with hay and wood chips. My understanding is that if spuds are not
protected from the sun they turn green and my become toxic. My grandfather
would "hill" his, but mulching makes harvesting much easier.
I hope this helps.

>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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