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And it’s our job as savvy potato growers to encourage this process with a technique known as hilling. Hilling means mounding soil or other organic materials around the base of the potato plants. Basically creating a little hill or mound around each one. It might seem simple, but this practice offers a ton of benefits. Boosting both the health and productivity of your potato patch. First off, hilling encourages the production of more tubers. By mounting soil around the stems, we’re kind of tricking the plant into thinking it’s growing deeper in the ground, and that prompts it to produce more stolons and in turn more potatoes. Secondly, healing helps prevent the developing tubers from being exposed to sunlight. Potatoes that get exposed to sunlight turn green and develop a bitter flavor because of a compound called solanine, which is actually a natural toxin that can cause digestive upset if you eat too much of