My best tip - and one I've used for years - is that I plant my spuds with a bulb planter. I chip away a very shallow drill - about 2" deep - just to give me a line to follow, then 'screw' my bulb planter into the ground. This get the seed potato a good 6" down without the need to dig a trench. Just pop the potato into the hole and loosen the soil from the planted to cover it. When the whole row is done I give it the first earthing up. Very much easier on the back than the serious earth moving I've watched some people do.
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