If i stick 2 red potatoes in dirt, will it grow a potato tree?
You get potatoes by planting another potato — a seed potato — or a piece of potato with an ‘eye’ and letting it grow into a potato bush. The potatoes grow underneath — lovely fat tubers on the roots. Dig the garden bed deeply. Now spread either hen manure or blood and bone — spuds need a fair amount of phosphorus but not too much nitrogen or you’ll get all leaf and no spud. Plant the potatoes about a hand span deep so it remains covered by soil. You’ll get a larger crop this way as more roots will form from the stem — and the more root, the more potatoes. It also helps stop potato moth from burrowing down. You can also mulch potatoes with leaves or lucerne hay or well-dried lawn clippings instead of soil. This gives better results.
