How to plant potatoes in a raised bed chitting the seed potatoes.
Growing potatoes in raised beds.
Growing potatoes at home in raised beds gives you fresh home grown potatoes right in your backyard.
Plant your pieces of seed potato three inches deep with 12 inches of space between seeds.
Water your potatoes just after planting.
Cover with soil cover with mulch.
They need to stick out above the soil so they ll keep growing.
While you will still have the expense of adding soil to your raised beds potatoes grown in beds usually are much healthier and numerous than those grown in the ground.
Cutting the seed potatoes for planting.
Let the seed potato.
Your spacing and planting recommendations will remain the same as in the trench method of planting.
The seed potatoes must first be chitted for a little while before planting.
As the potatoes put out foliage and it grows taller continue adding soil to the raised bed but don t cover the shoots completely.
If in a rich planting bed space them 8 inches apart in rows 8 inches apart if you intend to take an earlier harvest of.
Potato planting in raised beds step by step dig trenches 4 6 inches deep.
If you have ever planted in a raised bed you will know that there is only a limited amount of dirt to work with and potatoes require hilling in order to get the most production.
Once the seed potatoes have chitted and sprouted some eyes it is time to cut.
When you plant in a raised bed there are tons of benefits.