Posted by JDseller on May 20, 2012 at 21:00:23 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: potato hilling? posted by B-maniac on May 20, 2012 at 20:27:05:
I never cover up the green foliage. I just pull the dirt up to cover the bottom of the stems up to the leaves when they are smaller. I would say the hills are about 6-8 inches tall when I quit making them taller. I then just make the hill wider. When we dig them the hill is usually about 12-16 inches wide and 6-10 inches tall. I usually just cultivate them at first. Then after they have good growth I hill them by hand. I just take a hoe and walk the row each way pulling the dirt up under the leaves.
My Grand Dad grew a bunch of them in old tires he would plant them in a single tire filled with dirt. Then as they grew taller he would add a car tire and fill it with dirt. He would do this until he had 4-5 tires stacked on top of each other. He just knocked the tires over when he went to dig them. All of the potatoes where usually above the ground in the tire stacks.
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