Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — Mulch for Sweet Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Mulch for Sweet Potatoes.

A correspondent of the Rural Sun advises that sweet potato hills be mnlcbed with old Btraw, Borgo cane stalks, leaves, shavings, sawdust, old spent tan bark, or anything that will hold moisture, filling up between the ridges to the top; the mnlch keeps down the /' ' ■ ' " - ' :v '

weeds and grass, and keeps the vines from taking root between the ridges, and keep 9 the ground moist and warm, two very necessary conditions to the rapid growth of the tubers. Last season the vines so mulched produced far more and better potatoes than the unmulched portion. 1 The mulch is applied about the time the vines begin to form runnersstrongly.