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Potato torture update


If you remember, I took a 4ft by 8ft piece of week block fabric and laid
it down next to my soggy garden a while ago.  I then put little patches
of garden soil on it and then seed potatoes on each soil patch.  I then
slightly buried the seed potatoe with more garden soil.  ( I will spell
potato(e) any way I want to.).  
     Then I buried the entire mat with straw.  The potato plants are
growing nicely
and look healthy.  I will keep burying them with straw as they get
bigger, much like
I suspect you do with leeks.  I have a soaker hose watering the area.  
     Since I don't know much about fertilizer, I think I will wait for
the straw to dry out and then just wet the straw with Miracle Gro. 
(Don't have a heart attack, I just don't know
any better, and besides, did I mention that I hate potatoes?)  I would
rather sprinkle
some sort of dry fertilizer on top of the straw and let the rain bring it
down to the potato.
Does any one have any suggestions?  (Do not get too involved in this,
remember, I am lazy.  It doesn't have to be the best solution, just
better than nothing, and easy)
     Thanks for your help
Stan,       the cheap and lazy gardener
     I won't be long before the potatos have nothing to feed on.  

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