Response to Why no potatoes on neighbor's plants?

Jan, I believe that she probably had too much nitrigen from the Miracle Grow. Miracle Grow makes some really nice tomatoes, but I think that was what wrong with the potatoes. I know my ex-husband put some ammonium nitrate on some potatoes one time, being certain that it would make great big potatoes, and got nothing from those plants while the ones in the next row made really well. She needs to use a balanced (8-8-8) type of commercial fertilizer if she doesn't have manure. People used to not try to cover the whole area with manure, but just used a shovel to put down a strip of rotted manure in the bottom of the planting row. Maybe she could try that if she didn't want to use the commercial fertilizer.

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