Planting Potatoes

Traditionally, in my area, potatoes are planted on St. Patrick's day, but I had to wait until today to plant since we had an inch and a half of rain on Monday. There are dozens of ways to plant potatoes and everyone has their favorite method that they swear by. I garden in twelve inch deep raised beds and have had great success with a typical in ground method.
Although you can save your own seed potatoes to replant you will have the best success if you buy disease free seed potatoes each year.

Expose the seed potatoes to light and warmth for a week to encourage them to begin to sprout.
Dig a trench twelve inches deep.

Place seed potatoes a foot apart in the bottom of the trench.

Cover the potatoes with three inches of soil.
Once the plants have reached twelve inches tall, bury them leaving the top four inches of the plants exposed. Potatoes will develop along the buried stem. Repeat until plants begin to flower.