Any tips on growing produce such as potatoes?
>>1004472
Rich soil with good drainage, and you need potatoes to start potatoes.
>>1004472
You can grow stuff in bags if you don't want to dig up your yard or you don't have much in the way of open ground, they are a kind of plastic fabric and with care can be reused for a few years, you can let your seed potatoes "bud" on a window sill and then plant them out, compost mixed with some well rotted manure (60 - 40 mix) will give them plenty of food to get on with, plant the seed potatoes in a half full bag then as the plants grow almost cover them over (leave a few leaves poking out) to force them to grow more/higher, this will increase your yield significantly.
When you harvest the potatoes don't throw away your soil, tip it out into a big pile (if you have the room) and cover to stop weeds and mix in more well rotted manure the following year and use again.
If you do not have a greenhouse to start plants off then you can use your window sills or build a cold frame, these are very easy to make and there are a ton of videos showing you how.
I grow lots of tomatoes and chilli plants and sell them in front of my house with an honesty box and donate the money to Hope For Heroes, the stall in the picture isn't mine but mine is pretty similar.
>>1004472
dig a little hole and put potato in it.
when the plant appears and grows some, pile good loose soil around the plant. leaving the top half the plant exposed. Keep repeating this every few days. Till your mound gets about a foot and half or two feet high.
when the plant above ground dies. tear the mound apart to get potatoes.
>>1004517
That will work too.
Let them grow. If you don't pull them out too early, they can get to be comically large.
