Potato yields off.

[burnt]

Gynormous potatoes planted on top of alfalfa pellets in deep hills.

Deep hills of soil, or alfalfa pellets?

Might try another lazy technique she read of - lay down a heavy layer of hay this fall, put the seed potatoes into it next spring and cover them up with it, scratch the hay back next fall, pick up the taters.

[sumdumguy]

Each hill has a handful of alfalfa pellets in bottom, and have tried covering deep hills with mulch instead of soil. If you have lots of water and like robbing potatoes during growing season, its excellent. Hay would likely work too if there were few seeds but chopped straw would be ideal prolly. Next year👍

[burnt]

Bucket had it right - potato yields are down across Canada this year, due to hot, dry weather in key growing regions, as well as later planting dates.

Farmtario newspaper reports that this year's harvest hit 100 million cwt, down from 106.4 million cwt in 2019.

This lower number comes from higher acres as well, showing a dip in lower yields overall.

The potato market changed with the advent of the Wuhan Flu, shrinking the french fires market - nobody singing 'take me out to the ballgame' this summer - , while the cooking potato and chip market grew.

Consumers can't get too many potato chips, it seems...

[Leduc cowboy]

seed Growers around here are showing no signs they are hurting here .