How to properly plant potatoes

What you need:

• Potatoes

How to plant potatoes at the correct spacing

1. When spring begins, at the end of March, you can go with the potatoes start planting.
2. Potatoes grow in almost every soil, but you should make sure that the soil is mainly sandy-loamy. The soil should be enriched with fresh manure.
3. Before you start planting potatoes, you should make sure that the soil is loose and dry. Please do not start planting potatoes until the temperature no longer falls below seven degrees.
4. Now you have to make sure that the potatoes are planted at the right distance. The tubers should be planted in a row about seven inches deep. You should keep a distance of 40 cm in each row. However, the row spacing should be 50 to 70 cm. Please keep the distance when planting potatoes.
5. When the first shoots have pricked the ground, the piling up of rows begins. However, before piling, you should fertilize the soil between the rows. As a result of the piling up, more shoots form on the stems. You have to repeat this three times until flowering.
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6. After flowering, the first potatoes can be harvested. The potatoes are ready to be harvested as soon as they are firm to the touch and the peel is difficult to remove.
7. When you start harvesting the new potatoes, you should be careful so that the plants are preserved. Every time you have harvested potatoes, you should pile the rows back up with soil.
8. The big potato harvest really gets going in midsummer. You can then start doing this when the foliage on the plants has withered. However, you do not have to harvest all of the potatoes at once. You can also harvest the way you want the potatoes to be.