Now that I see the leafy growth that I was hoping for, my job will be to make sure that as the potato tubers are growing, spreading, and expanding in the ground that I keep them covered with soil. If potatoes are exposed to sunlight during their growth process they become green and toxic, rendering them inedible.
To have more than one harvesting period for your potatoes I suggest you stagger their planting so that you can always expect a harvest. Depending on how large a role potatoes play as a staple in your diet, plant enough every two weeks during our desert growing period. That way, once you begin harvesting, you can expect to harvest every 2 weeks until the end of the growing season. The expectation time to harvest a few small potatoes is about 2 months from planting the seedling potatoes, when the potato plant is flowering. The rest of the potatoes should be harvested 3 - 4 months after the seeds were planted, when the plant dies back. With this in mind, my plan is to plant cut up sections of 2 - 3 potatoes every 2 weeks until August with the expectations of a final harvest for this season in December. We will see how this goes but we are certainly off to a great start!
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