Xnashfarming: potato production

Three Cultural Practices to Lessen Potato Growing Problems: 1.Buy certified disease-free seed potatoes. Planting potatoes from the grocery store is a gamble. Besides the disease problem, potatoes, like many produce isle vegetables, are often treated with a growth inhibitor to keep them from sprouting. 2.Grow your potatoes in soil with a pH between 5.0 and 6.0. Potatoes grown in soils with a higher pH seem prone to a disease called ‘scab’, which produces rough spots on the potato. Adding BLACK EARTH help. 3.Don't plant your potatoes where tomatoes or eggplant were grown the year before. These are in the family as potatoes and can attract similar pests and problems. Planting Potatoes in rows Dig a shallow trench about 4 inches wide and 6-8 inches deep. The spacing at which you place the seed pieces will determine the harvested potato size.place potato seeds 15 inches apart in this trench. Place the potato seeds into the trench with The mixture of BLACK EARTH and DAP fertilizer and then cover them with 3-4 inches of soil. (Do not fill the trench in completely!) Depending on the soil temperature, the sprouts will begin to emerge in about 3 weeks.2 weeks before the sprout emerges spray weedal/round up to clear the weeds making the shamba weeds free