[AT] potato planting

[charlie hill]

Al do you have any idea how much fertilizer you use, say on a pounds per 
acre basis or whatever?
I've been told if you over fertilize potatoes it will ruin them.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:14 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] potato planting

Charlie,  We use 10-10-10 scattered by hand, sometimes some chicken litter 
out of the chicken house (backyard chickens, not a commercial house)

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 16, 2013 6:39 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] potato planting
>
>Al,   I like that!  Sounds like it would work good.   What kind
>and how much fertilizer to you use on your spuds?
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Al Jones
>Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 6:17 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] potato planting
>
>In the garden we make the row by taking disk hillers on a Super A or Cub,
>and turning them backwards so they throw outward, making a trench with a
>little divot in the middle.  Fertilizer on one side of the divot and seed
>taters on the other.  Then turn the hillers around the "normal" way and
>cover them up, making a raised bed in the process.
>
>Al
>
>
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