No Till Potato Garden Planting (Photos)

fishead,

I beleive any type that you can grow for your area will work with the mulch method same as planting in soil. I've planted certified (Manitoba zone 3) Norland, Yukon Gold, and Superior. Since I didn't plant potatoes last year, I'll try and use some of the harvest for seed next year.

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I love that smug dog!

What is it with potato experimentation this year? Seems like a lot of folks are doing it. I have Yukon Gold planted in what was a compost hole (about 4'x4'). Shoveled in some loose dirt and placed my seed taters on top, covered with a few more shovelfuls of dirt. We placed rotting logs around it to make a raised bed border. As the potatoes grow we are filling in with rotten straw and dirt. They are growing like crazy and no potato bugs!

Also took a small section of fencing, made a cage and lined it with straw. Put some sprouted taters in it and am filling it with dirt as the sprouts grow.

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i like that moonwolf. i will be doing mine like that next year.

i planted mine the last week of march and i just started seeing sprouts yesterday. i can't believe they took 5 + weeks to sprout. i did plant them fairly deep as my trenches filled in with all the rain we had a month ago.

last year i planted on the ground and mulched. it worked great, but i eventually ran out of mulch materials. i would do it again if i had free straw, or lots of leaves etc., but i will hill them up as high as i can this year and then mulch them. i have some 1 foot high flower bed fencing that i think i will use to contain my mulch this time. i think that will work better for me...we will see.

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"All that is gold does not glitter..."

I planted mine where our chicken tractor was.I laid hay down.Spread the potatoes out.Then I put more hay on top.The hay was not spoiled.I took it off the round bale in sheets and laid it over the potatoes.The plants coming up are around the edges where the chickens scratched in the hay. Today I took the pitch fork and took some hay off the top so the others will come up. I think the layers were pack to tight for the potatoes to come through.We will see. This is my first time growing them like this.

Tammy

I planted them on St. Patrick's Day and there's maybe two-three inches of mulch on top of them. It isn't stopping the dandelions or the bindweed any.

All I can say about the PGD is NOT a Corgi. The "herd and dig" instinct is just too strong in them. I leave mine, much to her dismay, outside the garden gate. Very sad. I think probably a Bassett or some other sun-worshipping breed would be better. I don't know what breed Moonwolf's is, though.

That little dog did all that digging. Now that's impressive. :baby04:

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Moonwolf, that dog looks like a Schnauzer. Am I right?

well, I'm hoping not to have any potato bandit predators, but if something comes around my LGD big dog should take care of the situation. lol



We've been under extreme drought conditions, and luckily had a good dousing of rain overnight now. I'll be using the mower and sweeper to be collecting the much needed mulch over this, and the other garden.

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