Comments on: Gardening 101: Planting Potatoes

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:36:11 +0000

Read about digging the potatoes up here: http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/digging-up-and-storing-potatoes-for-the-winter

By: virginia

virginia — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:45:21 +0000

when will i know its up to dig up the potatoes today is 9-23-09 i planted mine months ago the plant is growing good it just now started to bloom i have alot of lil white flowers

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:29:12 +0000

If the plants are dead, your potatoes probably won’t grow much more. WEIRD since you got such nice amounts of rain!! It won’t hurt them to stay in the ground longer though so you could try it and see if they grow a little bit more. :)

By: paul

paul — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:27:43 +0000

My potatoes were planted in early June and by late July were an impressive 3 ft height and flowering.For a week now, all has flowered , dried up and on the ground. Problem is my potatoes are small. Maybe 1 to 11/2 inches. Not normal for Russets. The plants grew like crazy with all the rain we’ve had this year in Montreal, but the potatoes didn’t.
Question. Can I leave them in the ground and will they continue to grow, or do I simply chack it up to a bad potatoe year and dig them up?

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:13:33 +0000

I planted my potatoes in a huge pile of crushed leaves, no heavey digging required. They grew with no problem.

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:39:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice! We are going to plant our potatoes today! I can’t wait!

By: Valerie Boivin

Valerie Boivin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:29:51 +0000

My family has always planted by the moon. This is the first year that I am getting the information about how and when to plant from the source. I always just ask but I wanted to be able to do it on my own. Last year I planted one potato plant-not from seed potatoes, just to see what happened. It went very well so this year I bought a lot of seed potatoes.

I also have a friend who takes farm fence and makes a big roll out of it to plant his potatoes. He makes one circle with it and uses zipties to hold it together. Fills it with dirt and puts the potatoes in the sides and top. When it’s time to harvest he just turns it over on it’s side, cuts the zipties and rolls it open. He said it works great. We might try that next year.

By: Taryn

Taryn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:43:47 +0000

Please, please please tell us how to do it in a container! I live in an apartment . . .

By: vehement flame

vehement flame — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:23:05 +0000

I have fond memories of planting kennebecs as a child. We would actually walk in the row heel to toe and place the taters at our toe with each step to keep the 1 foot rule…

By: Nova Quigley

Nova Quigley — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:18:40 +0000

What a perfect potato planting plan.
When? I’ve long heard that one should plant potatoes on Good Friday. If I am going to tell you that, I need to check some sources, so I did a search and saw various choices: Don’t plant on Good Friday. Don’t if ground is still icy and too hard (upper Midwest and New England). It seems to be the practice in Ireland. Good Friday in Indiana. Some plant by moon instead (that one is too complicated for me).
It’s great to read so many enthusiastic comments about planting potatoes. Yum.