Potatoes
I'm not much of a potato person - except for when it's in the french fry or sweet form. However, being married to an Irishman, I guess it was inevitable that potatoes would be a part of our garden.
Turns out, planting potatoes is easy! Here's how we did it:
1. We bought some potatoes with every intention of cooking them. But we forgot about them and, when we next looked in the paper sack, we saw they had many, many eyes. So, we decided to plant them.
2. We cut up the potatoes, ensuring that each section of potato had some eyes on it.
3. We prepared the potato beds with a compost/peat mixture and then dug holes about 4-inches deep.
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4. We planted the potatoes (eyes facing up!) in the holes and covered with dirt.
5. We watered around each potato with the organic liquid fertilizer mixture. Then we mulched with leaves and watered some more!
UPDATE: Adam tells me that the potatoes did not have eyes. They had eye-buds. Eyes are normal on a potato but when those eyes start sprouting buds the time to eat the potato has passed. When the eyes start sprouting buds, it is time to plant!
Onions
If planting potatoes was easy, planting onions was practically mindless.
First we prepared the bed by raking over it to break up any clumps. Then Adam made "rows of holes" by sticking his finger into the ground. I went along behind him and dropped an onion into each hole.
We covered the holes with dirt, fertilized with the organic liquid fertilizer mixture, watered the whole bed and called it a day.
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