Our clay soil doesn’t work well when planting them using post hole diggers. Got to have soil a bit fluffier around here. Keep mounding dirt on the plants as they grow. Our taters are ready. Dug my first plant up yesterday. Don’t dig them up until the plants die. Save some for seed potatoes next year. Build yourself a root cellar up there in West Virginia to store them in. Something tells me you would enjoy that kind of project anyway!
This. When I was a kid we had an independent potato patch from the garden. Always saved back a bunch for the winter in tater bins in the basement. The rest got canned.
I'm glad I know how to do it but equally glad my potatoes come from the store now.
Potatoes "used to" (?) be so cheap, growing your own was a waste of time and money.
Harvesting and storing potatoes is a lot of work and takes specialized locations.
Canning them is okay, but canning is a LOT of work....especially when you can buy a few at a time from the store.
