The saga of the seed potato’s journey to the underground is almost complete. As you have seen in previous installments of The Common-Tater, a tremendous amount of prep work has been done before we take the potato planter to the field. Every field has been passed over at least three times by the manure spreader, the disc harrow and the cultivator. The seed potatoes have been received at the farm, cut and delivered to the field. Now all that remains is to get the spuds into the ground.
Our potato planter plants 4 rows of potatoes at one time. The planter cuts 4 trenches and drops in the cut seed potatoes at evenly spaced intervals. Then the planter fills in the trenches and adds a generous layer of dirt to the top of the planted rows of potatoes to create a small mound or hill of dirt. Planting our crop of potatoes takes about three weeks.
Now all we do is sit back, relax and wait for September and the harvest..…(not really.)
Be sure to visit our photo gallery for additional pictures about growing potatoes.
Our potato planter plants 4 rows of potatoes at one time. The planter cuts 4 trenches and drops in the cut seed potatoes at evenly spaced intervals. Then the planter fills in the trenches and adds a generous layer of dirt to the top of the planted rows of potatoes to create a small mound or hill of dirt. Planting our crop of potatoes takes about three weeks.
Now all we do is sit back, relax and wait for September and the harvest..…(not really.)
Be sure to visit our photo gallery for additional pictures about growing potatoes.
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