I grow potatoes that have 'started to grow' from grocery store potatoes in big pots of very loose potting soil. If the potato(s) are large I cut them up with one or two eyes to each section; ket them dry for a day; dust them with rooting powder; and stick them in the ground about 4"; and then, other than watering them, I ignore them. Once they flower there will be small potatoes. You can leave them to grow bigger until the tops die; then you need to take them out.

When I need a potato for my dinner I just go out, dig around with my hand until I find one or two and pull them out, leaving the rest to grow larger.

I stopped hilling my potatoes years ago. I may get 1 or 2 from each plant that are inedible due to greening from sun exposure, but to me it's worth the loss to save the extra labor involved in hilling and topping and mulching.

The last 2 years I decided not to grow potatoes and to use that area for something else..they grew from tubers I left in the ground (they survived an extremely cold winter) and are better than the plants I chitted and fussed over in prior years.. This year I pulled a bunch and tossed them in the compost pile, and they're growing like crazy.

Funny how gardening works sometimes..when you really want a good crop and fuss and weed, they grow okay..when you toss them and are done..they grow like mad.

I am growing mine two ways this year- some in 15 gallon grow bags and some in raised beds alongside some other plants. I put about 4" of container mix in each bag and covered the seed potatoes. As they grew, I added more container mix until the bags were full. I didn't hill the plants in the raised beds at all. I just pushed the seed potatoes down into the soil and covered them. I use Espoma Garden Tone fertilizer and follow their application directions.

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Donna, it really is funny. I have a zucchini that sprouted through landscape fabric and gravel in our pathways from a rotten fruit I'd thrown there last year. It's 2 ft. Tall and close to 4 ft. Wide, covered in blooms and only slightly magnesium deficient. Meanwhile my zucchini plant I intentionally grew and fussed over is about 1/2 of the size. What the heck?!!!!