In Mendota, Virginia, we usually plant potatoes on Good Friday. I don’t think anyone thinks much about why we do this, but I Googled it once, and it’s an Irish tradition. However, it was so cold that I missed this date.
This evening I decided to plant them in the raised beds. I have no idea if the “signs” were right, but I knew that if I tripped over that bag of potatoes sitting in the garage one more time, I was gonna….you get the picture. I have purchased organic potatoes from Southern Exposure in the past, but I didn’t have great luck with them. This year we purchased the potatoes from Southern States. Mike loves Southern States.
Yukon Gold potatoes are my favorite.
Most everyone around here halves their potatoes if there are enough “eyes” on them. I only halved a few of them. Mostly I just put them in the dirt.
I planted 18 per bed; four beds total. I have 72 potatoes planted. One year our granddaughters just stuck them in the dirt (similar to what I did tonight), and they did great. I’m hoping!
No hills, no planning, no help from Mike who is laid up with his new knee. I can tell you one thing…it’s not as much fun planting potatoes by yourself. Hate to admit that.
Like I’ve said many times before, you ARE my hero! LOL! And I have never seen potatoes “planted” by this method either! Good luck!
The reason you have never seen potatoes planted in this manner is that this is a top secret government agriculture experiment. If I shared all of the details with you, I would have to kill you. ha!
Seriously, we just stuck them in about four years ago and the potatoes were amazing. And! There’s no digging. I just yanked the potato plant out of the bed (very easy as the dirt loose) shook it off and stuck them in the garage frig for use later in the winter. They were so clean that I didn’t have to wash them before putting them in the frig. Of course, I didn’t plant 72 this way, but I had about 10!
NEVER PLANTED POTATOES LIKE THAT. REMEMBER TO LET US KNOW HOW THEY TURNED OUT.
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