Potatoes are a root plant. They grow by placing another potato in the ground that has started to grow "eyes" on it. The plant will take off into the ground and can produce around 10lbs. of potatoes off of one plant! Above ground will grow a nice green leafy plant with small white or pink flowers. Once the plant dies off completely... turns yellow than than brown and falls over... then it is time to harvest.
Harvesting the potatoes before then will result in much smaller potatoes and much much fewer veggies per plant. Even if you see a few larger ones just under the soil... be patient... they can wait a few more weeks until the rest of the plant is ready for harvest.
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