Things Needed
Potatoes are a relative of the Lycopersicon esculentum , and both are in the same family as toxic nightshade plant . The stems , fruits and leaves of the potato are toxic . The white potato itself is a tuber rather than a root word and contains all the genetic material required for a new flora . white potato grow in sizes from fingerling and round to those that are 1 pound each , and in colors that admit dark-brown , purple , atomic number 79 , dispirited and flushed .
Step 1
flora potatoes between March 10 to April 5 in the Northeast , when the soil temperature is at least 45 to 50 degree F at a deepness of 2 inches . A more optimum temperature is between 55 to 60 degrees F.
Step 2
apprehend the soil to a depth of 24 inches . Mix in compost and organic materials . Dig hole out 12 column inch deep and wide for each seed potato . distance the hole at least 2 feet from the centerfield of each gob .
Step 3
implant the potato and cover them with 3 inch of ground . cut across the seedlings with formative jugful that have their tops cut down off .
Step 4
Fill in the holes with 5 inches of dirt and 1 inch of compost when the potato plant reach 8 inches tall . Fill in the yap completely , one-half with compost and half with filth , when the plants are 5 column inch above land spirit level .
Step 5
Water on a consistent basis to supplement rain , as potatoes should receive 1 inch of body of water per calendar week .
Step 6
Mound the soil 12 inches magniloquent over the white potato vine plant life as it acquire for the first two calendar month .
Step 7
Hand remove any insect or spray with an insecticide specific to the plague . Wash aphids off with a unassailable stream of piddle .
Step 8
Harvest the potatoes by carefully digging them up about two weeks after the plant life has turned icteric and withered .
Tip
The genus Tuber or potatoes farm between the ending of the stem and the roots . If the root word is bury it will produce more tubers . The potatoes should sprout within two weeks . later Robert Lee Frost can be a problem in the Northeast , occurring up until Memorial Day . harvesting child potatoes by grok them up before the plant has croak . Be careful to disturb the other potatoes as small as potential . Water - stressing the plant results in a smaller harvest . Over - lachrymation during the humid northeast summers run to a higher chance of disease . Over - lacrimation is when the soil stays wet on a constant base at a depth of 3 inch .
Warning
lave deal after handle potato plants to move out any toxins .
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