Potato stories
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Planting Potatoes
Planting Instructions
- Tell the students that we will be going to the vegie garden beds to plant potatoes. Let students view this youtube clip below on how to plant out potatoes.
Planting Instructions
- Leave your potatoes in a warm, dry, light place to sprout
- Plant seed pototoes with the shoot pointing up.
- Seed Potatoes are to be planted 15cm below the soil and 30cm apart
- Cover your potatoes with more soil
- Fertiliser must be slightly below and to the side of the seed, it cannot touch the seed or roots otherwise it will burn
- Growth from planting to die down will take approx 4 & ½ months (14-16 weeks)
- Once the plants start dying off they can be harvested, they don’t need to be completed dead
- Soil must be moist, don’t over water
- A little water more often is better than a lot of water less often
- If it is not raining, water approx every 2nd day.
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