How to Add Sulfur to Potato Beds

Sulfur plays three roles in the potato bed: a fungicide, an insecticide and a fertilizer. If you take the time to add it to your potato bed, your potatoes will resist disease much better and the bugs will not enjoy the soil your potatoes are growing in. Sulfur also helps to reduce the alkalinity of the soil, making the environment better-suited to growing potatoes.

Knife
Shovel
5 lbs. sulfur
5 lbs. potato seed

Instructions

- 1
  Cut the seed potatoes into sections about the size of a hen's egg. There should be at least two eyes per section.
- 2
  Sprinkle the cut-up sections of potato with the sulfur powder to coat the cut surfaces and prevent fungus from ruining them before they get started growing.
- 3
  Plant the potato seeds in 4-inch-deep trenches, 12 inches apart from each other. Make each row 3 feet apart from the previous row.
- 4
  Sprinkle the sulfur powder over the potatoes after you push the soil back over them.
- 5
  Fertilize as normal and push more soil up around the stems of the potato plants after they emerge, working the sulfur down into the soil around the potato plants.

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