RE: Unidentified sub. (taters)

Hi, Tom! 
Sorry, I don't have a clue about this one.

Carol 
Indianapolis



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	TWilli58@aol.com [SMTP:TWilli58@aol.com]
> Sent:	Monday, June 14, 1999 1:28 PM
> To:	veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject:	Re: Unidentified sub. (taters)
> 
> In a message dated 6/14/99 1:12:18 PM EST, cyoung1@iupui.edu writes:
> 
> << 	If I understand potatoes correctly (and I believe I have had great
>  success), here's what happens: you dig a trench a foot or so deep, and
> place
>  the 1/4 (more or less) potato with eye in the bottom of the trench. Cover
> it
>  with dirt (eventually you'll have a hill instead of a trench, which is
> why
>  it's called hilling them). Let them begin to send up shoots. Add a little
>  more dirt (don't cover the leaves, just tuck the dirt under them). Shoots
>  grow more. Add more dirt. And so on 'til harvest time when the leaves
> begin
>  to turn yellow. The potatoes form along the stems in the cool dark earth;
>  the more you hill, the more room for 'taters to grow! Evidently, if you
>  don't hill, you just get a very pretty plant! 
>  	Even if you have luxuriant foliage now, and haven't hilled, I'd
>  begin to heap dirt around them. I think there's plenty of time for
> potatoes
>  to form.
>  	Any other thoughts, gang? Good luck, Beth!
>  
>  Carol 
>  Indianapolis
>   >>
> 
> I've only grown potatoes twice so I appreciate your advice Carol (and 
> others).  
> 
> This year, I hilled a little later than I probably should have.  The
> plants 
> were about 12 inches tall before I hilled.  I'm now harvesting a few
> potatoes 
> from each plant, but all the potatoes have formed right at the spot were
> the 
> seed potato was.  I've dug out as far as 1 foot from the plant just to
> make 
> sure I wasn't missing any.  Any idea why my crop is so confined in area?
> The 
> soil is the loosest in my garden.  The plants looked really nice a month
> ago, 
> and are now almost completely dead.
> 
> Thanks for your post and any advice
> Tom
> Zone 7/8
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