Gardening Accessories For Growing 100 Pounds of Garden Potatoes
Gardening accessories for growing potatoes can prove useful. Potatoes are starchy tuber growing underground. As they mature, they swell and get larger. Some say they grow 100 pound in a 4 square foot garden area by covering the plants in layers as the greens shoot up.
Garden seed potatoes aren’t really seeds. They are full-size potatoes that are allowed to start producing shoots in the potato eyes. You’ve probably seen this happen when you’ve stored potatoes in the kitchen for too long. Planting potatoes from the grocery store is a gamble. Some individual potatoes are treated with a growth inhibitor to keep them from sprouting so you need to wash them. Buying bulk potatoes usually don’t have growth inhibiters.
About one or two weeks before planting put your seed potatoes in a warm place at about 60 to 70 degrees in bright sunlight to activate sprouting. You can put your seed potatoes in a basket or in egg cartons.
The day before you plant you potato garden, cut the seed potatoes into about 2 inch cubes with each cube having at least 2 eyes. Store them overnight in an egg carton exposed to the air. This will hasten a callous that prevents the seed potato from rotting in the ground.
Potatoes need full sun and loose, well-drained soil. If your soil is full of clay make sure to add compost and lots of peat moss so the vines can grow easily. Make sure they get about an inch of water a week.
A mound or container gardening accessory makes hilling easy and takes up less space. Plant your seed potatoes in the bottom of a tall container, like a clean garbage can or whisky barrel. Put about 6″ of soil in the bottom first, and add 6 potato seedlings inside and cover with 4 inches of soil. A few weeks later as the vines emerge to about 8 inches high; cover them with another layer of soil.
Potatoes begin sprouting in a few weeks and when the plant gets 2 or more inches in height, add some soil to partially cover the plant. Hilling the plant will cause more of the tubular to spread and produce even more garden potatoes. Add a few inches of soil to your potato mound every few weeks.
New potatoes are small, immature potatoes. The days to harvest your crop range from 2 to 4 months. You can harvest a few of these without harming the plant, by gently feeling around in the soil near the plant, once the plant reaches about a foot in height. When the tops of the plants die off the entire crop is ready for harvest. All the sprays and fertilizers to grow healthy potatoes: Gardening Accessories
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