Need some advice on hilling potatoes...
We normally grow Yukon Gold potatoes which are determinant and grow underground, we didn’t really have to hill up. This year we’re growing Russets that are indeterminate and require hilling. Our space is a little limited so we decided to go with a chopped straw and compost mix to hill.
I know that you stop hilling when flowering starts which is a little time away yet, we believe. Here’s my question.
Should we continue to hill or could we stop now? I think we could go a little more…my partner in green thinks that they’re ok now.
Should mention they are planted approximately inches into the ground then started to hill with straw.
Here they are…
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I’m going to hill one more time to the top but not over, my wife wants me to start building the door to the greenhouse…so she wants me to stop. Somehow I gotta find that balance. 
... you are too kind to a geezer who doesn't deserve it.
When she gives you that one-eyed look, you know you've over-achieved your half of the balance.
If this works like we’re thinking harvest should be kinda easy.
They look fine but, as others have said, pile it on. Probably not nearly as deep as they should be so go for it.
Harvest will probably go real easy.
I tried to get under the top cover for pics but that’s a close as I could get. I’m going to hill up again this endeavor should be fun.
How the weather by you? Warming up any? We were going through the photos yesterday looking for dates on when stuff happened, how far along the veggies were things like that, never before have we had plants at the stage of development they are now this early.
Hey, just gotta roll with what you get.
To reading the natural situations.
My Sunday dinner pal and I just tilled our patch today. I have 54ft sq. tilled and I'll be putting things in the ground this week, starters and seeds. In between bouts of rain and wind.
The weather has been schizoid but I think we had our last freeze a couple nights ago and I'm ready to things going. I have a better location in the yard and will be fencing out the varmints right away this time. My tomatoes were late because a damned buck would come and eat the blossoms at night. Once I figured that out, it was kind of late but the plants still produced, I just ended up with a lot of small, green tomatoes at the end of the season.
With this patch, I can grow a whole bunch of stuff so I'm thrilled.
Break time's over, gotta go.