[Marcella]

“I regularly keep potatoes for 6 or 8 months without them rotting.”

Was at the store yesterday and bought two large potatoes with plenty of eyes on each one. I'll put them in a paper bag (that is okay, right?) and in the pantry and the pantry door has slats in it so there is air circulation in there. They will be in a cool and dry place.

I think I didn't plant the tomatoes right when I planted them outside in the big tomato container. I should have planted half of the stalk but I only planted the root part. My friend in Bandera has told me she talked with the landscaping company who does work on her place and he puts some Epsom salt in the hole before he plants his tomato. She will do that next time. She plants half the stalk and gets tomatoes like crazy.

[JRandomFreeper]

I usually don't put mine in a bag of any kind. You also have to check the potatoes for signs of them going bad and get rid of any that are starting to rot.

I always plant tomatoes deep. That is the only plant I do that with. The stalk will grow roots if you plant it.

Epsom salts prevents blossom end rot, which I had some of in my spring tomatoes. I added epsom salts to the fall tomatoes.

/johnny

[Nepeta]

I should have planted half of the stalk but I only planted the root part.

Tomatoes are happy if you remove all the leaves except the top bunch, and bury them so deeply that most of the stem is underground. They will cheerfully form large root systems along the stem this way. For most other plants, this would be a death sentence.

[tillacum]

I put down some fertilizer and layed the whole tomato plant in a deep hole, pulled the leaves first, left just the top leaves and the tomato grew and grew and grew it had the prettiest display of yellow flowers then the grasshoppers found it. overnight it was just a tall stalk with branches and nothing on them. In the spring I’m going to get some of that stuff that kills grasshoppers. I’m going to KILL those buggers.