I’ve written about this before. Has anyone one out there given it a try yet? These are my first new potatoes of the year, along with some other crops from the ol’ garden, which I used to make fried potatoes and green tomatoes for breakfast Saturday morning.
Here’s a quick review of the process. Bury your seed potatoes in clump-free and rock-free soil about 5 inches apart. Or if you’re me, bury some sprouted potatoes from the pantry! After the green stalks ( like the ones seen in my guess the veggies post) have flowered you know that there are some potatoes under your soil. If you see tops of potatoes sticking out of the ground they will begin to turn green and slightly poisonous, so mulch them to keep the potatoes covered. Now all you have to do is dig around and find them. They will just keep getting bigger and bigger as long as you leave them underground, so keep them in the garden instead of the pantry until fall. Then you can dig up the rest and store them in a cool dry place.


I threw some organic potatos that REALLY wanted to grow (on my shelf) into the garden. I see they have flowers now so I should go check it out. Totally an experiment on my part…I’d never done it before!
I’ve been reading about companion planting & learned that you’re not supposed to plant potatoes near apple or cherry trees, cucumbers, pumpkins, sunflowers, tomatoes, and raspberry cane. The reason is because they make potatoes more susceptible to blight.
Broad beans & potatoes are good together & help keep the Colorado beetle away. Nasturtiums also help potatoes.
Well noted, Colleen. I have the potatoes near my tomatoes this year. Oops.
Last year they were beside my beans.
Do you think you could do a post about some of your companion planting resources?
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