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<blockquote data-quote="York" data-source="post: 1160080" data-attributes="member: 1738"><p>thanks for the pictures.</p><p>What I have seen so far is that you need a rely heavy cover. So spreading a round bale I expect that the cover is too little. All trials I have seen where with just rolled out Round bales.</p><p>The potatoes for harvest will not grow below the mother tuber, so the harvest was done by "racking" the potatoes together.</p><p>Don't know why you did have this wide row spacing. Would have used smaller row spacing to get the best soil cover & harvest of solar Energy. </p><p>The biggest challenge are mice, in all similar set ups. You can find quite a number or reports on the internet on this type potato planting.</p><p>I have client, organic, which plant's potatoes in Mulch and when the potatoes are emerging he is harvesting the 1st cutting on clover-gras mix and spreading it on the potato fields. So he get's a thick cover. This is done now by a number of organic farmers and with that they get very good yields. It's a transfer of nutrients, N mostly, and also suppressing weeds.</p><p>Keep sharing pictures. Maybe you invite us for harvest so we will have a good BBQ on the field. </p><p>York-Th.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="York, post: 1160080, member: 1738"] thanks for the pictures. What I have seen so far is that you need a rely heavy cover. So spreading a round bale I expect that the cover is too little. All trials I have seen where with just rolled out Round bales. The potatoes for harvest will not grow below the mother tuber, so the harvest was done by "racking" the potatoes together. Don't know why you did have this wide row spacing. Would have used smaller row spacing to get the best soil cover & harvest of solar Energy. The biggest challenge are mice, in all similar set ups. You can find quite a number or reports on the internet on this type potato planting. I have client, organic, which plant's potatoes in Mulch and when the potatoes are emerging he is harvesting the 1st cutting on clover-gras mix and spreading it on the potato fields. So he get's a thick cover. This is done now by a number of organic farmers and with that they get very good yields. It's a transfer of nutrients, N mostly, and also suppressing weeds. Keep sharing pictures. Maybe you invite us for harvest so we will have a good BBQ on the field. York-Th. [/QUOTE]
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