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Originally Posted by Slg Garden
Great yield for one plant. Did you plant a whole potato or a chunk? You say you dug them before the foliage died back. Would they have gotten even larger if you'd waited a couple more weeks?
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I often divide the seed potato depending upon the size. I prefer planting whole but it appears to make little difference. They would get little bigger if left until die back. Size depends a lot on the correct moisture available. Sometimes I water each plant if conditions are very dry. The heavy mulch retains moisture. This year I only watered once, since it didn't rain for about six weeks in the early Spring. I water by putting a magic wand along the seed marking stake.
http://durgan.org/URL/?ARLGN 28 May 2009 Watering Plant Roots.The MAGIC WATER WAND.
This method gets water to the root area of the plants. The hydraulic effect of the water makes pushing the wand into the ground effortless. The device is made by cutting off the end of a typical water garden wand as sold in most hardware stores.