Nice to see an active thread in the potatoes section!!!
I am new to growing potatoes as well, and i am growing on a pretty small scale, three rows of 4 seeds, German butterball. They are doing great as of now.
They were planted about a foot deep in a trench with half the soil on top. Since then I have filled then in a today hilled them a couple inches as the plants were about 12-18 inches tall.
So far they are looking good. They are being eaten by flea beetles but not enough to spray. The plants are outgrowing the damage so I figure let them be, hopefully some of their predators will show up... I have not seen a single potato beetle yet, when do they normally come around, is it still early?
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