In the past I've just left potato plants without hilling or mulching and enjoyed whatever came of that. Now I'm researching these techniques and I'm getting some conflicting advice from people on whether to bury the lowest set of branches and leaves when mulching or hilling. I've had people tell me:
Don't cover any branches or leaves because the plant could get sick when they decompose, so just mulch/hill below themGo ahead and bury the lowest set of branches, they'll just die and the plant will be fine.Cut the lowest set of branches off the plant and mulch/hill up to the bottom of the next set.
Has anybody compared all these methods, or had consistently good results with one? Thanks.
