Comments on: Episode-208- Survival Podcast Audience Questions 5-28-09 http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-208-survival-podcast-audience-questions-5-28-09 Helping You Live the Life You Want, If Times Get Tough, Or Even If They Don't Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:38:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A. Wiggins http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-208-survival-podcast-audience-questions-5-28-09/comment-page-1#comment-8519 A. Wiggins Thu, 28 May 2009 20:28:09 +0000 http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/?p=725#comment-8519 Nice program today. Several garden books including Rodale's Organic Gardening describe wonderful results with mulching your potatoes with hay or straw instead of hilling with dirt. The mulch must be deep enough to prevent light getting to the developing tubers - the light would make them green and unfit to eat - 12" to 18" deep mulch is recommended. Evidently you add this gradually and build it up. Then at harvest time, you just part away the straw or hay or whatever mulch you used and pick up the potatoes! No digging at all. I am trying this now to see what happens. Has anyone else tried this?<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-8519">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Nice program today. Several garden books including Rodale’s Organic Gardening describe wonderful results with mulching your potatoes with hay or straw instead of hilling with dirt. The mulch must be deep enough to prevent light getting to the developing tubers – the light would make them green and unfit to eat – 12″ to 18″ deep mulch is recommended. Evidently you add this gradually and build it up. Then at harvest time, you just part away the straw or hay or whatever mulch you used and pick up the potatoes! No digging at all. I am trying this now to see what happens. Has anyone else tried this?

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