Patent ID: 7168207

Claim:
An arrangement for improving the yield of potato crops, comprising: a bed for multiple rows of potato plants; a plurality of pairs of parallel and adjacent rows of potato plants in the bed during an early growth phase prior to final maturity and maximum canopy growth having an inter-row gap between the rows in each pair of rows spaced from one another sufficiently to provide a moisture permeable semi-cylindrical agronomic soil corridor between the rows in each pair of rows to provide a supply of water to a root zone of each row within each pair of rows of potato plants while maintaining an aerated soil zone within and above the agronomic soil corridor to reduce excessively wet conditions adjacent the crop canopy and a solar light corridor provided between adjacent pairs of rows to provide increased solar energy to the potato plants; and a drip irrigation tape with emitters provided between the rows within each pair of parallel rows of potato plants below a soil surface of the bed in the agronomic soil corridor.