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Re: potato

Thanks for all the info about the potato patch.  The trench idea from
Granny Pat sounds good except that I would have to dig a trench.  
     I didn't designate a spot in the garden for potatoes this year but
this sounds too easy to pass up.  So here is what I am going to do. 
(Tell me, if you can improve on this for lazyness.  If I get a crop of
potatoes, fine, if not, it will be interesting anyway)
     1.  I will rototill a spot outside of the electric fence.
     2.  I will lay a soaker hose down on the bare soil.	
     3.  I will lay seed potatoes on the soil near the soaker hose.
     4.  I will cover the potatoes with about 3/4 of the straw, saving
the rest to add if the tubers try to surface.
     5.  I will name the spot, "The Potato Patch" or "The Slug Garden",
depending on which I am able to grow more of.  That way I am assured of
success one way or the other.

I do have a couple of questions.
     1.  How thick should the initial straw cover be?
     2.  What other bugs should I worry about?  And how should I react to
them?
     3.  The last time I tried to grow potatoes, I got "pomato bugs"  (
the same bugs on my tomatoes and on the potatoes? Striped buggers, what
were these?
Thanks for your help.
     Stan.     The lazy and cheap and lazy gardener.
                    Gardeners are not stick in the muds.

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