Reply To: Potatoes: to hill or not to hill

[John]

Hi All

Thank you for the comments.

Freed and Charles – do you plant deeply (6″) like Don or just below the surface? My guess is that near surface planting, like I did under the mypex, would result in least soil disturbance; on my last photo you can see the clods of undisturbed manure on the surface.

Freed’s use of wood chips is appealing as we have a free supply on our allotments. Do they not rob Nitrogen from the growing crop or is that not a problem as they are just on the surface above root level?