How we grow potatoes, two other ways

Last week we described one way we grow potatoes, in barrels.  Now I'd like to update you on two other methods.

First, the mulch method.  This is a no-dig approach, based on covering the ground with a layer of mulch.  We buried potato "seeds" about one foot apart from each other, then hilled up the successful plants with leftover mulch.

So far, it works:

Second, the old-fashioned trenches method. We dug deep trenches, interspersed with high rows.  Potato "seeds" start at the bottom of trenches; we hill up thriving plants with dirt from those rows.

Success with this approach, too:

That's a new plot, dug out of the old goat enclosure.  Once again we expanded the amount of land we cultivate.