Take a LQQK at these spuds..

How neat! what do you mean by hill over?

Hilling over just means piling more soil on top as they grow so just the tips are peeking out. Once they get to the desired height, you just stop hilling and let them leaf out. Then all along the stem below the soil will grow potatoes. I have also just dug a hole in the ground about a foot deep and 3 feet wide and did the same thing. Put the seed at the bottom of the hole and just keep adding soil or chopped up mulch as they grew and then hilled over after they reached ground level for another foot. The key here is not to let the potatoes see daylight. If they do, they will turn green and taste yucky...no good then.

I actually don't grow them IN the ground. I have a spot that is full of rotted leaves and grass clippings which never gets tilled under because the ground there used to be part of our old driveway and is hard as a rock to dig in. Instead, I just make a hole in the material and plop a potato in it, then cover it up till just the tips of the shoots are peeking thru. I then hill over them as they grow taller. Volia! A nice loose bed of rich soil that I just have to run my hands in to find the potatoes underneath when they are big. We eat alot of whole grain rice and pasta as well. I make quite a few dishes using just ground beef/venision with the pasta and rice.

Don't store potatoes in the refrigerator, or they will become too sweet.

I keep them in the utility room where it's usually dark and a lil cooler than the rest of the house. This bag was given to me. If I was to buy them, would only be a small 3# bag. Usually they rot instead of sprouting so I was surprised that none of them were rotten. Actually Polo, potatoes are stored best in a cool, dark place. That's why our ancestors had root cellars. They should be stored at an even temp. at a certain humidity level. Also, don't keep them next to apples cause the methane gas the apples give off will speed the sprouting.

I have the same problem with onions as well. I've learned to just buy a few at a time at one of the local farms when they are in season or a 3lb bag at a time in the store when they are on sale in the off season.

Hubby and I are both on a low cholrestarel diet so we are limited on how we can eat the potatoes. I do make french fries but in the oven instead of oil and as much as I love potato salad, can't eat it now. I make mashed sometimes as well using low-fat cream cheese in place of butter or margarine. Wish these taters were still good or I would of zapped 3-4 in the micro for baked potatoes today. I relaxed here at home the whole day so had the time to bake and eat them with low-fat sour cream and chives.

I love baked potatoes but with me being so busy for the past month, I forgot about them. These are too big to just cut off, unforunately, cause I have a taste for baked taters with sour cream and bacon. I've never had potatoes sprout like this b4.

Oh me too, I love all kinds of potatoes, baked,fried,mashed, yummy..

Yeah, your not the only one. Usually I end up finding them rotten. There wasn't a rotten one in the bunch this time. Guess they all wanted to grow instead. lol

Keep them in a dark cool space and the eys don't grow as fast. I keep mine in the basement and they last a long time as well. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

and wrinkled as well. I was sooooo looking forward to baked potatoes on Easter as well. There wasn't one in the bunch that was usable. I had a feeling about that when not many of my friends responded to either of my discussions. You sure you have notify on for me? Maybe mylot turned it off for ya. Did that with one of the new friend requests this past weekend. I accepted then right away turned on the notifications only to discover yesterday that mylot either never turned it on or turned it off for me.