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Hello,
The last few years, I've been 'planting' my potatoes by tossing them on a bare spot on the lawn and covering them thoroughly with hay. I have to add more hay as it gets dampened down. I get lots of potatoes, but none of them are very large. Is this because I use small potatoes (I save the little ones and use them as seeds)? Is there a trick to growing larger sized potatoes?
Thanks for the advice!
Mary
The last few years, I've been 'planting' my potatoes by tossing them on a bare spot on the lawn and covering them thoroughly with hay. I have to add more hay as it gets dampened down. I get lots of potatoes, but none of them are very large. Is this because I use small potatoes (I save the little ones and use them as seeds)? Is there a trick to growing larger sized potatoes?
Thanks for the advice!
Mary
) for my plot and I have been really impressed. Matter of fact, my first items I planted were potatoes. I had trouble with my guineas uncovering my seed potatoes and eating them though. When they took off, they were really gorgeous, though. They produced pretty well too. I never could grow them very well before. That convinced me to do the SFG method for the rest of my garden. My neighbors all walked by my house last year looking (rather longingly) at my tomatoes (Yes, I did share!). My garden spot has hard soil in the summer-clay underneath. I have 2 foot wide beds going all the way around my garden and those two foot beds have those 16 foot wire panels running down the middle to make a fence. Then I have my tomatoes on each side. You can put 32 tomatoes on one wire panel. My garden was a lot easier to manage this year. Beats trying to till the snot out of it every week or so to try to keep down the weeds and grass. This year, I plan on putting old carpet down on my walkways so I don't have to weedeat so much. I certainly don't have to till anymore. 
