19 SIMPLE GARDENING TIPS FOR CREATING a Gorgeous AND PRODUCTIVE GARDEN.

Tip #9 potatoes?

I think I have a love of all things potato. Although clearly, I still feel like saying it. Potato chips, french fries, mashed potatoes, gnocchi, scalloped potatoes, roasted potatoes (recipe coming up Wednesday for the very BEST, crispy roasted potatoes).

I never met a potato I didn’t eat. So I grow a lot of them. This year I’m growing Russet baking potatoes, Kennebec potatoes (which are my preferred variety for french fries), Chiefton red (red potatoes make the best potato salad), and an epic variety of purple potatoes called Russian Blue that is dark, dark purple on the inside and out PLUS it retains its color after cooking. I’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with potatoes and making them easier to grow and I’ve come to decide this …

I have never had any huge loss of potato production from not hilling. on the other hand, I have experienced HUGE potato loss by using that dumb “grow in the straw” method.

it was easy dropping a potato onto the ground then covering it with couple feet of straw easy until its time to clean all the straw at the end of the season.

the method was useless and resulted in a harvest of about 4 potatoes. You may have experienced differently, but this is how it went for me.