A Reason For Hilling

[Jeannine Anne]

Just for interest, not for controversy

Last year I grew potatoes in tubs as I always do, even when I have load in the ground. I used 8 identical tubs and the same potatoes and amounts in all of them.

I filled 4 of the tubs and planted the potatoes as I would in the ground and that was all they got,the spuds went in about 5 inches deep.

The other 4 I put about 6 inches of soil in the tub placed potatoes on surface and covered them with soil, as the green showed I covered it, several times. till the bins were as full as the other 4. At harvest time I had a great many more potatoes in the 4 layered bins

In a raised bed I hilled one side and not the other, I had a greater harvest from the hilled side.

Coincidence maybe, two coincidences well still maybe, however the difference was substantial for what it is worth and for whatever reason, coincidence or not.

I am layering this year in the same tubs,,which by the way are Rubbermaid containers not towers