Cover with soil cover with mulch.
Growing potatoes in raised beds.
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.
Growing potatoes at home in raised beds gives you fresh home grown potatoes right in your backyard.
Once the seed potatoes have chitted and sprouted some eyes it is time to cut.
Your spacing and planting recommendations will remain the same as in the trench method of planting.
Potato planting in raised beds step by step dig trenches 4 6 inches deep.
Cutting the seed potatoes for planting.
Plant your pieces of seed potato three inches deep with 12 inches of space between seeds.
Add bonemeal or other soil amendments to the trenches.
They need to stick out above the soil so they ll keep growing.
How to plant potatoes in a raised bed chitting the seed potatoes.
Water your potatoes just after planting.
Let the seed potato.
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.
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As the potatoes put out foliage and it grows taller continue adding soil to the raised bed but don t cover the shoots completely.
When you plant in a raised bed there are tons of benefits.