Posted by tjdub on May 21, 2012 at 07:48:37 from (208.28.88.253):
In Reply to: potato hilling? posted by B-maniac on May 20, 2012 at 20:27:05:
I just hilled mine this weekend.
When I plant them, I hoe a trench about a foot wide. I plant the seed potatoes in the bottom of that trench and fill the trench with loose oat straw.
I don't hill them until I'm sure the danger of a frost has passed. If we get a frost warning after the potatoes are up, I hill them, burying the weeds and potato plants and all. Getting the tops burned off by frost sets their growth back a lot, but getting buried doesn't seem to phase them a bit. If no frost comes, I wait until the potatoes are are nice and tall and just bury the weeds and leave the potato plants sticking out of the top of the hill. I'll hill them again(very lightly) in June in the process of weeding them. Then I cover the hills with grass clippings so that when the the vines start laying down, they stay out of the dirt which helps ward off the fungal blight.
The layer of straw is where they set most of the spuds so it's really easy to "steal" young potatoes without hurting the growing plants. You can just reach into the hill with your hand and grab dinner. When I dig them in the fall, you can barely tell there was ever any straw there to begin with.
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