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Thank you.Save your wood mulch, chopped straw, hay, and wood chips and make compost then add the compost to the garden.
Potatoes have no problem growing in clay soil, you will just have to work a bit harder to get the outcome as someone with a more ideal soil.
Watch your pH, most clay soils are alkaline having a pH of 8.0 to 10 (you want a pH of 5.0 to 6.0)
Don't over work your soil and don't work the soil when it is wet, you're just going to matters worse.
Watch your watering, just because the soil is dry and cracked on top doesn't mean the soil is dry down 4 or 5 inches under the grown.
Hill your potatoes regularly.
The best thing you can do for clay soil is add organic matter.
Compost
Cover crops
Green Manures
Living Mulch
These 4 things will do wonders for improving/ correcting clay soil.
As for big potatoes vs little potatoes, in my eyes they eat and grow the same.