Grow a Potato
These instructions will help you successfully grow a potato in your house, with your child's help!
By: Trish Kuffner, author of The Children's Busy Book
Grow a Potato
Materials
- Potatoes
Directions
- Cut each potato into four pieces with at least two eyes per piece.
- Have your child plant each piece eyes-up about four inches deep.
- Water the plants regularly.
- As the potatoes grow, mound soil around them to keep them covered.
- Dig up your potatoes in the fall after the stems and leaves die.