Growing Potato

Growing potato

This page contains information about growing potato in your farm from the planting stages to the harvesting along with tips, instructions and useful techniques to help you start your own farm and living independently away from cities. Below are information about growing your own crop of potatoes. If that's what you're loooking for then this is the place for you. Below you will find the most important aspects related to growing potato, just enough to get you started, if you have any question you can visit our forum and ask our expert farmers.


Growing Potatoes

Anybody can grow potatoes. But to grow a good crop of clean potatoes your land must be in very good heart. You can put up to twenty tons of muck (farmyard manure) on an acre and plant the tubers straight into the muck in the furrows, and you must cultivate them properly and keep the weeds down. If you have a ridging plough, either a horse-drawn single-furrow one or a tractor-drawn three-furrow one, draw out your furrows, chuck as much muck as you can get hold of in the bottom of the furrows, then sow your seed potatoes (really tubers—you sow the actual potato itself of course) on top of the muck, then split the ridges into the furrows with your ridging plough again. As weeds grow run your ridging plough through again sometimes. At least once, before the potatoes get too big, hand-hoe by pulling the ridges in which the potatoes are down into the furrows (without actually disturbing the growing potato plants). Then, a few days after, ridge them up again with the plough. When the potato plants get really big and meet each other then they will suppress the weeds to some extent themselves. Weed grows like crazy in the well-manured potato field, and if you don't look out you'll have a huge crop of weeds, a miserable one of potatoes, and a legacy of foul land for the next year.

Growing your own crop of potatoes

You should plant the main crop of potatoes in rows about 26 inches apart and about 20 inches in the rows. As for your seed, you can use your own seed once at least (that is use your own small potatoes-'chats'—for—seed next year), and twice perhaps. After that, if you go on using your own seed, your yields will fall off. So you will have to buy seed at least every three years. Potatoes are a potash-hungry crop. Seaweed is the best manure for them—better than muck.

Some farmers are inclined to leave their potatoes in the ground until they want them, digging them as they need them, until at least after Christmas.

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This page is just one of many pages dedicated to sustainable living through organic farming and living wisely. Growing potato will enable you become one step closer to food independance. This is beneficial to your health, peace of mind and lifestyle, great for nature, and reduces your carbon footprint. You can really do it yourself, grow your own food, raise your own animals, from simple means. You can go back to nature and sustainability one step at a time. Today growing potato, tomorrow something else. That's why we have many articles that you can find on the left side of this page to choose from. Each time try to add something to your farm. Sustainable living is your ticket to true freedom. Enjoy the rest of our pages.
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