After you have prepared the soil take a garden hoe and open a nice furrow to plant your spuds and cover that and keep hilling until the bushes are too tall (if you have the time). We planted 72 row feet of Yukon Gold and Red Gold.
It is all dried Okra
I planted russet butte, and hubby planted pontiac something or other. I plan to try yukon gold next year, along with another bunch of russets.
So what sort of preparation of your soil do you do? I can get mushroom compost, and walmart compost which is mostly clay and manure it looks like. We are going to have to increase our winter plantings of wheat and rye etc to get sufficient compost.
The failure of my sunflowers and amaranth was a big blow to the compost plans this year.