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Computer troubles

Just to let you know that I am not unsocial, my computer
is not working properly again.  I am having a friend send
this for me.  Believe me, as soon as I can, I will be putting
in my two cents.  (or is that a tuppenny?)
     Hey, while I'm here, I can tell you about another failed
experiment I did.
     I put down a 4ft by 8ft piece of weed stop fabric on a
patch of rototilled ground.  I then put down seed potatoes,
and covered them with just enought garden soil to cover them.
I then put down about 8 inches of straw over everything.  I
had hoped that I could "mine" potatoes without killing
the main plants.  After the plants were about 6 inches tall,
I put a side dressing of steer manure around them because
I figgured they would not get anything to eat just growing
in the straw.  
     Well, half of the plants died.  The other half didn't grow
very well.  Right now they only have potatoes about the size 
of golf balls.  I have left a few to grow farther, but I think they
aren't growing anymore.
     Oh well,  next year I think I will just put the seed potatoes
on the top of the ground and just bury them in straw and
not feed them at all, unless someone has a better, 
solution.  I seem to remember someone out there had
rock solid ground and was going to try the straw method
on top of that.  Did you ever try it?

Stan          the cheap and lazy gardener
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