“Marcella— How bout growing these in your container farm?”
A tomato/potato plant is good, grow both foods on one plant. Now, if that plant could be sold as seed, it would be an absolute winner.
I have a problem with having to buy seed potatoes if you want potatoes, and, Yankees, don’t say save your potatoes in a root cellar or basement - we don’t have those here. Rightly, the Yankees on this gardening thread don’t have the same storage problems we do here.
In a SHTF situation, when I couldn’t buy plants or seed potatoes at a store, I want potato regular looking seeds. And, I don’t mean those occasional poisonous seed pods that grow on the green part of a potato plant. I mean seeds like our bean seeds or tomato seeds, etc..
Right now, I don’t know where to get seed potatoes for next spring. And, if the SHTF before then, I’ll never grow another potato of any kind because I couldn’t get them.
—Yankees, don’t say save your potatoes in a root cellar or basement - we don’t have those here. Rightly, the Yankees on this gardening thread don’t have the same storage problems we do here.—
LOL— Them Yankees just dunnt know what problems food storage can be, down here beneath the snow belt. I have always lived in the South, and now in Texas, so food preservation has always been an issue.
What would be the point of surviving a SHTF event without taters? Taters, rice, maters, and bacon are the four food groups upon which life exists in the South.
I have never tried to grow taters, so I know nothing. People buy seed taters, probably at a seed store. I think you make them buy cutting up ones with lots of eyes on them, cut them with two or three eyes on each chunk, I think, then let the cut parts harden or make a skin or something. I think there are some people on here that do that and could advise.