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| Here I have laid out partly decomposed compost material with some green mater on top. This is where I will grow a crop of Potatoes. Just pull back the compost, dig out a hole twice the depth of the potato tuber and cover over. As the plant starts shooting out of the ground keep the plant covered by hoeing up the soil around the plant or throw heaps of compost or mulch over the plant. This way the plant will produce more potatoes and avoid the potatoes going green. Comfrey leaves also make good mulch. You could also try seaweed. |
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on the left a photo of seed potatoes leave them
out in the sun light for a couple of days so they will green up, and
start to sprout. see comfrey see No Dig Garden it's a good way to start off a garden and a great way of growing potatoes. A Couple of Tips 1/ don't over water your potatoes or they will rot. 2/ don't fertilizer your potatoes at all, because they will just grow all tops and no tubers (other words no spuds) |
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Time to plant
spuds in South East Queensland is the 1st of April. I avoid sowing out seed potatoes in
the middle of summer as the heat from the ground tends to cook them. |
| This bed is around 3m x 3m (10 ft x 10 ft) just dig out a trench 75mm deep (3'') place your potatoes with the shoots facing upward, cover them over lightly with broken down compost (not too deep) then give a good water. I have heaped up compost around the border of this garden, ready to cover over the plants, which will encourage them to produce a heavier crop, and to stop the new potatoes going green. | |
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| Two weeks later they have popped out of the ground, now is the the time to start covering them over with either dried out grass, straw, hay, or well rotted down compost Try tearing up news paper in strips then throw on some hay, straw or compost to stop the nes paper from blowing away. | |
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| this is April 2001 potato crop, just starting to pop out of the ground, I have hoed them up with soil then covered them over with dry grass. | |
