A silt, loam, or sandy loam are prefered. This is another crop like peanuts and sugar beets that mush be dug out of the ground, so heavy clay soils make harvest difficult. Potatoes are a hungry crop requiring very fertile soils or demanding a high fertilizer application to support the high tonnage produced. The potato is a perennial grown as an annual. Therefore, potatoes, like sugarcane, is reproduced vegetatively.
Potatoes are high in nutritional value.
They are high in energy and protein and combined with milk, will provide nearly all the essentials for human nutrition. A potatp also has no more calories, ounce for ounce, than an apple. They are usually used for human consumption, but in parts of Northern Europe, they are fed to livestock. They work very well with a simple stomach animal like the hog. Origin and History 1.