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When do you dig up a potato?

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Potatoes can be planted as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring. Do not plant them if the soil is too soggy. If you try to make a mud ball out of it and it falls through your fingers, it is probably just right. Potatoes which were left undug from the previous year will start also in early spring, showing themselves by the end of March and early May depending on weather and conditions.

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You don't plant them for winter-time - presumably you mean why are they grown for winter storage?????? If so, because they are a reasonably simple way to store starch (calories) for several months.

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Potatoes are generally dug up before the first frost in September while the ground is still dry. The dry soil/dirt helps preserve the potato all winter if you store them in a cool dry area or cellar that maintains an ambient temperature between 52- 58 degrees. The humidity in the air shouldn't be more than 50% either.

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