Have you ever grown potatoes? They’re amazingly easy to grow if
you have some pretty good, loose soil or a compost pile to grow
them in. You won’t find potato seeds at the nursery, but you
will find what are known as seed potatoes. These are the ones
that will grow the plants and produce the potatoes (they’re
underground tubers in case you didn’t know. What that means is
that you won’t see them on the top, green part of the plant; you
have to dig them up out of the soil.) Let’s assume that you have
been to the nursery and brought home 3-4 seed potatoes. First
thing you do is cut them up so that you’ll have two “eyes” in
each piece. Lay them outside on a table for 2-3 days and let
them callous over a little where they were cut. Now go out in
the veggie bed and dig a trench about 6-8 inches deep. Plant the
seed potato pieces in the bottom of the trench (with the eyes
facing up if you can, but it’s no biggie if they’re not.) Just
push them under the soil a little about 18-24 inches apart. If
you have more than o