Question about potato plants...

[Raven]

I gave a friend some of my seed potatoes which he planted. He hilled them 3 times...in fact, he has huge hills! He sent me a picture of them this morning and the plants are about a foot tall and leggy rather than bushy. Any ideas. Do you think his potatoes will be ok?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. can you get his permission to post the picture?

and how long have they been in the ground?

[Raven]

2. I can't post the picture but they are tall and thin

. They were planted mid june.

[Kolesar]

3. I feed my potatoes with compost every time I hill them

I side dress the plant, then bury the compost when hilling it.

Before planting the seed potatoes, I dug in a good amount of aged horse manure and rock phospate into the soil below the seed potato.

Potatoes need water during the period of spud formation. My thoughts

[Agony]

4. The potatoes all seem to be tall and thin, leggy, spindly this year. Great! potatoes tho!

I think it is the extra hot temperatures I am having this year that is causing this... I'm in the NE. Hopefully your friend is getting great potatoes too!

Cheers,
Agony