Cover with soil cover with mulch.
Growing potatoes in raised beds.
While you will still have the expense of adding soil to your raised beds potatoes grown in beds usually are much healthier and numerous than those grown in the ground.
As the potatoes put out foliage and it grows taller continue adding soil to the raised bed but don t cover the shoots completely.
When you plant in a raised bed there are tons of benefits.
Once the seed potatoes have chitted and sprouted some eyes it is time to cut.
If in a rich planting bed space them 8 inches apart in rows 8 inches apart if you intend to take an earlier harvest of.
They need to stick out above the soil so they ll keep growing.
Hilling is the term used to mounding dirt around the potato plant in order to get a higher yield so where do you get that extra dirt from to hill them with.
Water your potatoes just after planting.
How to plant potatoes in a raised bed chitting the seed potatoes.
Add bonemeal or other soil amendments to the trenches.
If you have ever planted in a raised bed you will know that there is only a limited amount of dirt to work with and potatoes require hilling in order to get the most production.
Plant your pieces of seed potato three inches deep with 12 inches of space between seeds.
Growing potatoes at home in raised beds gives you fresh home grown potatoes right in your backyard.
The seed potatoes must first be chitted for a little while before planting.
Potato planting in raised beds step by step dig trenches 4 6 inches deep.
Let the seed potato.