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| Didn't think till after I took them out to take a photo, but the open space is where I keep them. |
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| Holy Eyes! |
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| Perfect for Growing :D |
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Cabinet Potatoes...
So I was starting dinner tonight wanted to make some Baked potatoes to go with the pork chops. I always keep the potatoes in our one cabinet next to the rice, beans and tomato sauce. When I opened the cabinet I couldn't believe my eyes.
I am guessing my cabinet is the perfect condition to start growing them. I have never seen eye's this big before. Only downfall is I have no idea how to grow them. I still have plenty left that I want to use in the garden but can't seam to find the info I am looking for. If anyone knows where I can find some information on growing potatoes please let me know because these look like they would make great potatoes.
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Growing Potatoes:
Potatoes grow best in soft "muck" soil. Wherever mucklands can be found, you will find onion or potato farming. Potatoes will grow in many other soils. But, potato root development is enhanced, by adding lots of compost and loose material into the soil. When preparing your soil, add compost, straw and other amendments down three to six inches into your soil.
Potatoes are grown from "Seed Potatoes". A seed potato, is not a seed. Rather, it is a potato that has developed one or more eyes. This potato eye isactually a spot where a root has yet to form on a potato. A potato can have several "eyes". Prior to planting a potato can be cut into several pieces, each with at least one potato eye. Seed Potatoes can be obtained in garden stores or seed catalogs, or in your kitchen cupboard. If there isn't any in your kitchen, ask around to friends and family.
Potatoes can be planted as early as two weeks before the last frost in your area. They are susceptible to frost, but take a couple weeks to root, and emerge from the soil.
The most common form of planting is in "hills". Prepare and loosen the soil where you will make the hill. Place two or three potato eyes on the ground. Cover or "hill" three to four inches of soil on top of the seed. Water thoroughly. Space center of hills a foot apart.
A second and less common method, is to use furrows. Dig a trench six to eight inches deep. Fill 1/2 the depth of the trench with a mixture of compost, mulch, straw and garden soil. Sow the seed potato eyes in the trench every four to six inches. Cover three to four inches with loose garden soil and mulch.
Fertilize potato plants every two to four weeks. Fertilizers high in nitrogen will result in a leafy, green plant at the expense of root development. A good fertilizer for potatoes contain low levels of Nitrogen, and high levels of phosphorus. 6-24-24, or 8-24-24, are good fertilizers for potatoes.
As the plants grow, mound additional soil around the plants every week or two. Do not let the tubers or potatoes be exposed to sunlight. You can cover the soil around the plants with compost, mulch or even black plastic.
Important: Potatoes exposed to sunlight will turn green. They also produce a toxin that is poisonous to you. Discard any potato that is green.
Staking or caging potatoes - Plants grow tall, and will often fall over. Staking, caging or fencing the plants, will help to keep them healthier, and to produce bigger spuds. It is important to do this early in the season. Pushing stakes or cages into the ground later in the season, will almost certainly go right through a few developing potatoes. this is the info i found and my mother in law said if the ground was warmer she would just bury them and leave them
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