This is how you keep the moisture in the bed

Benefits of piling and mulching

If you Growing potatoes and piling up soil around the plants, you support the formation of roots in the shoot area. This means that more daughter tubers will form later. This measure also prevents tubers from forming on the surface of the earth and becoming inedible due to sunlight. It promotes a loose soil structure, which means that the potatoes grow better and the harvest is bigger.

After the piling up, a layer of mulch ensures that there are no more weeds between the Potatoes in the garden grows. The substrate remains evenly moist and supports healthy plant growth. They animate the microorganisms living in the soil, which break down the organic material and make nutrients available to plants.

Pile up before mulching

Before piling soil or mulch material around the plants, include leaves and stems Rock flour

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Method:

• Pull the substrate to the base of the stem with a leaf hoe
• Shoot tips should protrude from the earth
• Repeat the measure after three weeks
• Cover exposed daughter tubers with substrate

Apply a layer of mulch

Mulching can be seen as an alternative or additional maintenance measure to piling up. Cover the bed with a 20 centimeter layer of clippings, green manure, leaves or straw. So that the material does not start to rot, you should chop it up and let it dry overnight. This is reduced after this measure Pouring the potatoes.