[goat granny]

Potato's are a great root veggy to raise. You can buy seed potato I have had plants grow great that have developed eyes in the refrigerator...If a potato has several eyes, you can have a plant grow from each eye....3 eyed potato can give you 3 plants....make sure each eye has a hunk of potato on it. Plant it shallow, so that the eye is just below the surface of the ground. Thats the plant and it uses the potato attached to it for food until the root system develops. You spade them out after the plant starts to die back is late summer or early fall. One plant can sometimes give you 10 potato's. When you dig them up, use your spading fork at about 10 inches from the plant stem and dig toward the plant so as not to stick the potato.. Don't wash the potato when dug up. Wipe the dirt off with your hands and leave outside on a table for a couple of days for the skin to harden up...It keeps the potato from rotting or drying out too soon. I have had potato's dug up in Sept last until February. If you have a root cellar they may last even longer.. I have gently lifted a plant when the potato's are small and you can rub the skin off with you hand and munch it in the garden and lower the plant back down and the remaining potato's on the plant will continue to grown. A new potato is about the size of a small italian plum..tasty..

[Gabz]

I’ve thought about trying potatoes. But always thought it a lot of work and since potatoes are a big crop around here I can get them real cheap, and often free if I catch the right farmer at the right time.

I actually made a comment to my husband last night as I was cutting up taters for dinner...I had to cut out so many eyes.

Could I grow them from the potatoes I buy in the store? or should I stick with getting them from a garden center or catalog?

[tillacum]

OH, I’ll have to dust off the mud from my potaotes, no wonder they are now showing their pretty little leaves. I have the “buds” buried. Thank you for the information.