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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
for whatever reason I have never grown potatoes before. I bought a potato growing "kit" at the Farmer's Market yesterday. it consists of a burlap bag and a bunch of seed potatoes. the vendor simply talked about heaping dirt on the potatoes and slowly unrolling the top of the bag. she indicated the dirt heaping should be sporadic. I also seem to recall that your are supposed to cut seed potatoes? in quarters? I feel so unprepared to be a potato gardner!
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Yes, cut them up. The "eyes" are the seeds. Don't know what slowly unrolling the bag slowly has to do with anything. ( maybe they are going to jump out and run away )
http://www.thegardenhelper.com/potato.html