Potato logic

[Purple Strawberry]

Mine took a couple weeks to sprout... but then took off like CRAZY growing. Leaves everywhere! I'm shocked. I just hilled them up with dirt yesterday. I wanna say it was about 3 weeks to see the sprouts... but I've covered every 4-5 days since then. So far like twice!?

When did you plant yours?

(I'm just going to hill them until I'm out of room for the dirt leaving about 2" on top of the bucket I'm using.)

Tomorrow will be three weeks from planting day for the potatoes and nothing. Oh well, there is a first time for everything.

 

[Purple Strawberry]

So I planted my potatoes in an old bathtub. I put about 1" of dirt on the bottom. Then I covered them about 1" deep. As they have sprouted and the tops of the potatoes plants are coming above the dirt I cover them again. I keep doing this until the bathtub is full then I let the potatoes just finsh doing their thing.

This is my first time to "do" potatoes but so far they are growing like crazy and I have to cover the plants every few days with more dirt. So far the tub is over half full and it was a garden-tub size tub! I will let ya'll know how they do when I harvest them

Do you remember how long it took to have the them sprout?

Mine also took about 4-5 weeks. But I didn't let the eyes get started before getting them planted then we had a very hard freeze so mine had a hard time getting started. But they are going CRAZY now. When I cover them, I cover them COMPLETELY, no leaves visible. With about 1" dirt. I covered them yesterday for like the 5th time. Looked today and they are ALREADY above the dirt. So it looks like I'll be covering mine every couple of days.

I feel a little better now. My eyes were not growing everywhere either.

 

[obsessed]

I wasn't supposed to cover the whole plant?


Dang. I kept covering the whole plant and then they stooped coming up.

Can I dig them out? Potatoes may be a bit overly complicated.....

 

[smom1976]

as you can see in my pix that I pretty much covered the whole plant.. and it is still growing like crazy..

 

[vfem]

It'll come through... I think it only slightly slows down when its covered I had to go out and cover mine AGAIN today! Its just insane how they grow.

I think I will be bummed of I only end up with one spud!

 

[vfem]

Here's a very short interpritation of ALL methods to potato growing!

Good info!!!

http://www.humeseeds.com/potato.htm