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To: Bean Counter

You are a lucky man to have Cecil as a fence building partner.

Is it too late to add more soil to my potato bed? The above part os the plants are not yellowing, although they are a little brown around the edges of the leaves and they are flopping over. Can I still add a couple of bags of soil to that bed (it is a raised bed and it’s not full of soil)? My only previous experience rowing potatoes has been in bags.


79 posted on 08/12/2011 5:18:23 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

As far as I know, you can keep mounding soil around potatoes until the frost takes them. I’ve heard of guys raising potatoes in beds made of tires, and had to stop stacking tires long before the spuds stopped growing. In theory, the deeper you mulch them, the more potatoes they will yield.

Keep ‘em watered...


83 posted on 08/12/2011 5:43:34 PM PDT by Bean Counter ("He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.".....Nietzsche)
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