Hilling Up

The fifth graders at Forest Trail have planted potato's. After about one and a half weeks we had to hill up. Hilling up is when you pile up a bunch of dirt so that the potato's can grow big. It helps it grow big by supporting it as it grows. We hill up about six inches the first time then the second time you can hill up almost six more inches. After hilling up, we had a lot of large potato's, which we pulled out of the ground.