What Is The Best Way To Grow Big Potatoes??

Question

This year I have grown various varieties of potato, and all have turned out really well, except they are all small......i.e, smaller than a golf ball. What is the best way to grow big potatoes?? Is there a knack to it or have I just missed something? Any help would be gratefully appreciated!!

Answer 1

Potatoes like lots of water and lots of fertilizer!

Answer 2

I found growing them larger was with the help of fertilizer side dressed and also I found adding a small amount of sand to the dirt i used to plant them in helped also and I don't know why but it seems the deeper in the ground and we didn't even hill them because we plant them deep enough not to sunburn worked for us but I am sure there is other ways i didn't say here like miracle grow but to me that isn't nature it's more doctored than the plain fertilize but adding the sand keep the ground loose around them.  

Answer 3

Your ground is probably too hard, and you probably planted them too late and took them up too early.  To grow a good eating potato, you need to use 2/3 compost to 1/3 'dirt' and put them in right after the last frost ... and leave them there until the day after the first frost.  You should get wonderful 'eating' potatoes that way.  I know this because I had potatoes growing in my compost pile that I left and I also planted some in my garden under different conditions.  The best were the ones with mostly compost and a little dirt that I planted right after the last frost and took up the day after the 'first frost' of the year.