Fun Fact #2 - Potatoes

Here's something I bet you didn't know about potatoes: as potato plants grow, you're supposed to pile up soil on the plant, a process called "hilling." You do this right after the plant emerges and continually throughout the season.

Since potatoes grown beneath the soil, hilling gives them more room to produce larger tubers and keeps them from popping up out of the soil, which can turn them green and toxic (no poisonous spuds for me, thank you). 

Now that my potato plants are waist high, my only question is where can I get more dirt?

I've also noticed that the Yukon gold potato plants are producing white flowers, and the red potatoes have purple flowers. Although they seem to be doing great, I realized potatoes require a bit of faith - there's no way to know if there are any spuds actually growing down there. I'll have to dig around in a few weeks and see...

Yukon gold potato flower

 Red potato flower

You can also grow potatoes in garbage cans and old tires, check it out:

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/potato2.html