Name: Sandy B. Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
Toni, those are great looking potatoes!! How deep do you plant them initially? It does seem weird that not hilling works better for you... but there certainly has been more than one bit of "conventional wisdom" that I've found to not work well for me at all.
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer C/F temp conversion