How did you do that? Just lay the potato eye in the straw?
MMMM clean potatoes.
First lay down a thick layer of wet newspapers....Lay the seed potatoes on the newspapers, then cover with straw....add more straw later around the plants.....EASY!
Pull the straw back if you want to take a few ‘new potatoes’, but you can do that without disturbing others that are growing.
To harvest just pull the straw back....did it with bare hands and put the potatoes in a basket.