How long does it take a potato bug to hatch?

Answer 1

5-7

Well it all depends on what you mean by "potato" and what you mean by "grow". If you mean how long does it take for a new plant to sprout from an eye on a planted bit of potato, this can occur in as little as a week given warm soil temperatures, and the right amount of soil cover.

But if you mean how long it takes to get a crop of potatoes, it depends on how big you want them! Potatoes grow as tubers on the roots of the potato plant, and a healthy plant will continue to set potatoes throughout the growing season. If you have a short growing season, say from May 1 to July 30, like gardeners in the mountains do, you can grow potatoes but the tubers will be small. I often start digging potatoes around July 4th, so I can indulge in the traditional New England Holiday dish of Salmon, fresh garden peas and "new potatoes". New potatoes are tender, creamy, and well worth the effort. So even if you have a short growing season, you can grow New Potatoes, and when you do, you are growing the best!

However if you have a longer season, just keep mounding up mulch or light soil onto the potato plants so that only 8 to 10 inches of stems and leaves stick out. The plants will continue to set potatoes all up the buried stems. You can do this out in the garden, mounding up soil and mulch along the rows of plants, but I have planted potatoes in recycled food-safe 55 gallon barrels, and covered the green stems with straw and mulch as they grew up and up. At the end of the season, in October or even November, i was able to harvest 40 to 50 pounds of potatoes from a single mulch filled barrel with 2 plants in it.

Look at this website:

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/potato.html

Answer 2

From 2-6 days in general. It may take longer however, but this depends on natural fluctuations.

Answer 3

7 days