Hello my name is Sam Davenport and I am up in the potato patch just below our orchard and I am going to show how to dig potato. Many people have never dug potato before and I hope this demonstration can help you understand how to do it. This is our potato patch. The problem here is at there as bunch of weeds and I want to see some potatoes and you have to identify the plants.
Potato plants when they are greens because this are pretty young plants now and they have leaf like this and they often have in the other states they have a little flower. White to purplish flower on the plant and you-- they plant it in row and this potatoes are planted in rows and covered up with straw and you plant little pieces of potatoes, you cut the potatoes in the spring and plant this little pieces of potatoes which have eyes on it and from out of that the eye will grow a stem.
Now I am going to try here and see if I can get some white potatoes out of here. These are fairly new or young potatoes that is when they taste best and I will try to dig some here, this in front, but then you want to do is to dig to find the plant, find the bases of the plant. We are going into the ground and you dig about, maybe about six inches five inches out from the base of the plant. Sometimes you will cut the potatoes when you dig but it does not hurt the potatoes just like the slicing it with a shovel instead of a knife.
When you dig down, you are going to uproot the plant and then you are going to bring everything out and sure enough there is whole bunch of potatoes on the root of this plant which you can see here. You just gather them up do not worry about replanting the plant. Just toss the plant aside and there are your potatoes simple as that.
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