Potatoes!!!!

  You know the whole potato thing kind of confused me. I guess I had problems wrapping my head around the whole in the ground thing added to the they will grow in straw piles thing. I have always been a show me , hands on sort of gal .

   So when the monster grasshoppers ate the top off of my straw covered potatoes , I figured it was time to take a look . When I uncovered these a lightbulb went off. Seeing that they were just above the surface and did not grow in the straw gave me clarity. 

  No I did not trench them very deep as it was a last minute project. it will be interesting to see how the deeply trenches ones do but I'm thinking it will be pretty close to the surface too.

   This made me wonder about the dirt piled potatoes. Yes they did have small potatoes growing in the mound. I believe I will just stick to the dirt mounding of potatoes . We shall see about growing them in the potato box. As much as I love gardening the shoveling of mass quantities of dirt does not appeal to me. I am fortunate to have ample space to grow potatoes in so I will continue to grow them in rows.  Also I am planting my next crop in the end of July. kind of an extra early fall crop ?