jdmeth
Bronze Member
Retired commercial Florida potato grower. Your soil looks like the northeast Florida soil I have. Potatoes like lots of fertilizer, 300 lb acre N, 100 lb acre P, 300 lb acre K. Do the math for your size garden (one acre=43560 sq ft). Put down two thirds of fertilizer at or soon after planting then split the other one third. Half when they are 8-12 inches then hill and the other half just before they fall over and hill again. Do spray for blight, every week starting when they are 12 in high. You can look for cracked soil and feel around for growing spuds to pull a few early. Keep the bottom of the ally moist but do not let them flood.
It is full blown harvest time here in Hastings, Fl. We plant in January-Feb. Good luck.
It is full blown harvest time here in Hastings, Fl. We plant in January-Feb. Good luck.