That’s good. I know I won’t get that much, but it is so nice to go dig up a potato for supper to eat with cukes, onions, and green peppers from the garden.
Next year, I’ll plant more than I did this year, and I think I needed to add a little more compost than I did this year. Also, probably going to add a bunch of hay for the hills.
In years past I’ve just laid the seed spud on top of the ground and covered them with compost. Yields were just so-so. This time I dug a shallow trench for the seed, covered with soil, and continued to hill around the plants as they grew. When the hills got to be ~1ft high I put a heavy layer of wheat straw down between the rows. It was a lot of work but the yield was impressive.
That’s what I’m going to do with my potatoes, put some soil
in the bottom of the pot, then as the leaves come out and the stem grows a bit,I’ll add hay. What the hay, it might work.
I’ve planted some broccoli, and some flat head cabbage. I
water them twice a day, because the poor things wilt. I’m
also going to cover them with a white thingy I found in the
garage.