How a Potato Plant Grows.

**Durgan** · 08-10-2010, 10:55 AM

August 2009

How a Potato Plant Grows
Potato growing test box was opened today. The pictures literally speak for themselves. Clearly there is no advantage in carrying out excessive hilling when growing potatoes. The purpose of hlling is to insure the tubers are covered. For comparison one Pontiac Red was dug in the same row, which was almost identical to the test box potato in appearance.

**Durgan** · 08-10-2010, 10:58 AM

**Russ** · 08-10-2010, 11:15 AM

So you did not hill up the potatoes in the row and still produced the same?

**Gabe** · 08-10-2010, 12:02 PM

He hills them once but Lets nature do it's work!
Planted in may...

25 May 2010 Hilling Potatoes. First and last hilling.

**Dancing Lotus** · 08-10-2010, 01:14 PM

Very interesting , thank you for your hard work to present that so nicely.

**Ceashels** · 08-10-2010, 04:37 PM

They look good and I've never had a cooked crow before...I'll have to try it sometime.

Do you think that the type of potato would make a difference or if the stalk was cut then hilled?