White potatoes

[Buzzy]

Hotz is talking about an old work saving method from Ruth Stout, who wrote several books on gardening, my favorite was "How to Have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back"

Easy way to grow potatoes, just lay them on top of the soil and cover with 8 inches of hay. You can make a box to contain the hay but you don't have to. Just lay it down all at once, the potato vines grow through it just fine, don't have to keep laying more. When the vines die back you rake off the straw and there they are sitting on top of the soil. I've done this for years and it works great. No digging.

[nanasohana]

Well, hay is hard to come by here but how about the compost material from the hilo land fill to cover them? Maybe put down newspaper or cardboard, then the potato pieces and then cover with the landfill material....seems like a good way to have potatoes and also prepare a future weedfree garden spot.

[Jeffhale]

There's an article somewhere, I forgot, except it's from 1850 or so. It describes a journey through Puna and about potato plants growing all over the place. Something to the effect of; seeing piles of rocks with potatoes growing in them.

I gathered the impression from reading this, it's all you need to do; make a rock pile and put the cuttings/eyes in it.