Potatoes gone wild!

SwampCatNana wrote:I think SFG boxes are too shallow for potatoes. Have you been hilling them as they grow? It's difficult to see with the netting(?) over it.
Lee

RoOsTeR wrote:

SwampCatNana wrote:I think SFG boxes are too shallow for potatoes. Have you been hilling them as they grow? It's difficult to see with the netting(?) over it.
Lee

Sure you can, and if you want to go a little deeper you can add a top hat.

SwampCatNana wrote:I think SFG boxes are too shallow for potatoes. Have you been hilling them as they grow? It's difficult to see with the netting(?) over it.
Lee

westx wrote:IMHO you planted to many seeds per square, I plant one per square foot but other then that they look fine. Watch out for flowers starting to form and keep them pinched off so the plants will continue produce tubers. Just dug mine this weekend and got an overflowing 5 gallon bucket out of an 8x4 box. Did find it interesting that even though I planted the seeds 14" deep and backfilled the box until it all the soil was back in that the potatoes only grew in about 6"s of soil, so going that deed was a waist of time.

llama momma wrote:I'm with you Efirvin -
the book doesn't say to pinch them off either.
So I went out and 1/2 the plants I left alone to flower. The others I pinched off the immature green unblossomed flowers. See how much difference it makes.

Squat_Johnson wrote:That's not too many per square. That's what I did, and mine looked like that a month ago. You are right on track for a nice sack-o-taters in my opinion.

BTW, the blossoms can create a potato fruit. See this discussion of potato seeds (not seed potatoes).
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t12521-has-anyone-heard-of-potato-seeds-not-seed-potatoes

gregrenee88 wrote:Wow, those are crazy! Ours (red potatoes) are quite big but not as big as yours. We've stopped putting dirt on top because it would all fall out of the box. They look really healthy but no flowers as of yet. They are actually shadowing our pepper plants which might explain their slow growth.
Renee

efirvin wrote:

gregrenee88 wrote:Wow, those are crazy! Ours (red potatoes) are quite big but not as big as yours. We've stopped putting dirt on top because it would all fall out of the box. They look really healthy but no flowers as of yet. They are actually shadowing our pepper plants which might explain their slow growth.
Renee

2 of the 3 rows are red potatoes, the other row is Yukon golds. My 4th row has 3 sf of carrots and 1 of lettuces and I understand the shadowing issue. I have cut off a few potato leaves that were encroaching too much.