My friend wants to know, how do you grow potatoes. He wants to grow some, but dosnt know how. Thank you!
2006-12-03 09:27:22 · 9 answers · asked by kissie pie 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
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Good luck with your potato gardening.
2006-12-07 04:26:34 · answer #1 · answered by exbuilder 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
If their is allot of buds on the side of the potato it will be very easy and quick. Place the potato into a trash can filled with dirt. Place it in about 6 inches. Make sure you put holes into the bottom of the trash can for drainage. Water once every 5 days. Give partial shade. In one growing season (roughly 6-7 months) you will have lots and lots of potatoes to choose from.
2006-12-03 12:11:39 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like what Tenn Gal said. You can also add straw to the dirt. The plant grows just as well and the dirt is a lot looser. When it is time to dig up the potatoes, because of the looser dirt, there is less chance of of harming the potato with a spade. In fact, you can dig them up without using a garden implement.
2006-12-04 03:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by mamapig_57 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do understand that potatoes themselves advance underground and additionally you may desire to dig them up whilst the flowers die down? yet it is the type you plant a potato, you decrease an entire potato so each bit has a *eye* or sprouting think approximately it or small *seed* potatoes and as they advance the potatoes are element of their root gadget. you will could desire to observe for Colorado potato beetles (stiped wings, crimson head) and eliminate them the two via hand or via employing a pyrethrum based spray. enable the flowers advance till they start to die back, then use a spading fork and start to dig up the earth some foot from the plant to unearth the potatoes. Wipe a lots airborne dirt and dirt off as obtainable and enable them to dry in the solar to dry them out somewhat.
2016-12-29 20:30:18 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.ciscoe.com Ciscoe Morris is a horticulturist in Seattle, WA. He has a great "recipe" for growing potatoes in a garbage can (NO joke, a new can of course)It's fun & it works!
2006-12-04 14:05:48 · answer #5 · answered by Tweet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You buy seed potatoes (those with lots of buds (eyes) on them.
You then cut them up into pieces leaving 2 to 3 eyes per piece. You then drop 1 piece into a freshly prepared garden with good soil and cover with dirt. Keep watered.
When they come up, keep them covered with dirt so they will not burn or you will have green color on your taters.
Harvest them when the vines die down.
Dig them with shovel being careful not to cut the taters.
2006-12-03 09:33:00 · answer #6 · answered by Tenn Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy some potatoes that are starting to shoot and pop them in the ground they will grow and you will get heaps of spuds
2006-12-03 21:55:06 · answer #7 · answered by fayestandfield 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-04 01:52:08 · answer #8 · answered by garden.lover 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, help populate my family!
2006-12-04 10:41:14 · answer #9 · answered by Joe S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋