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We're doing that here with spent straw and goat hay bedding over the 
potatoes.
I had a 3 X 3 wire frame I planted the potatoes in. I first scratched up 
the soil and laid the cut pieces of (Kennebec) potatoes in a grid pattern 
and covered them lightly with the soil a little. It was cool and they took 
forever to come up. But they're about 2' tall, and I'm covering all but the 
very tips of the greenery with the straw. I had to remove the frame (turned 
it into a chicken tractor), but the potatoes still are orderly and growing 
upward out of the straw ok. I planted some more out of the same seed in 
orderly rows and hill them up like normal, but the plants aren't nearly as 
big and healthy looking. Another benefit is we have Colo potato beetles hit 
mid season really bad, and I'm hoping the potatoes that are mostly buried 
won't be as affected as those in the soil rows.
MAJOR GRIPE:  Here in the South, when it's time to plant potatoes, all the 
'neat' companies that carry the heirlooms or other interesting types are 
still snowed under in Maine or Idaho. Is anyone aware of a company that 
sells seed potatoes to the South? I've tried ordering them in the fall and 
chilling them and they turn into a soggy lump way before time to set them 
out.
We get the triad of Red Pontiac, Red Lasota, and Kennebec white, that's it 
if you buy local. (martha)


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