Potatoes

I have tried to grow potatoes on and off for a few years now. One time I planted them, but I planted too late for this area and got potatoes the size of olives. One time I planted them and it was extremely wet and they turned to mush. Last year I tried a new method where you put them in cages and then cover them alternately with hay and dirt. It wasn't anything amazing, but I did get potatoes. I had problems with them going all over the place though so this year when I went to hill them (yesterday) I used newspaper to try and contain the dirt a little better. I also snipped off anything that was going side ways. If I can find the pictures from last year I will try and post them later today.



I did put them in later than I should have this year put it didn't take them long to start growing at all and it seemed like it took forever last year. The ones in the black container started growing the fastest. We'll see how they turn out.