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Unlike growing many other vegetables, potatoes are not only very easy to grow but leave you at harvesttime with some actual food to store. It is said that "if you learn to grow potatoes, that you will never go hungry." Not only are they easy to grow, but they are fun as well!
Here is how you plant them:
simply dig a trench and place in your seed potatoes about 4" deep. Now seed potatoes are just regular potatoes, but they do need to have at least one eye on them. And you should cut them if needed to the size of a golf ball or chicken egg.
Watering and Harvesting
Once a week is about perfect, but essentially you want to not let your potatoes go too long without water, and you also do not want them to get root rot. Otherwise, you will get growth defects.
Now, what I like about harvesting is that you are in no hurry to gather them out of the ground. Unlike pumpkins where you are afraid to let sit until the frost comes, potatoes are insulated from the frost, and so you can gather them at your convivence as long as you get them before the snow comes.
Have fun!