Posted on 03/22/2022 2:27:39 PM PDT by orsonwb
Unless you haven’t eaten in the past several months, or you already grow all of your own produce, you’ve probably noticed that the price of food, and everything else, has been rising dramatically...
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Was just watching some ut videos about planting tatoes in 5 gal cloth bushel bucket things above ground. Interesting thing was that totoes get a spray that keeps them from spouting so you don’t want regular supermarket ones as the seed stock.
I have often wondered if roving mobs of hungry ferals would defeat your purpose and efforts at home gardening. You can’t stay awake 24/7.
Ping.
That is a potential problem.
The one from Sam’s Club must not get that spray every 5lb bag starts to sprout like crazy if left in a dark closet for longer than two weeks. I have planted them and they grow copious amounts of spuds in raised beds one while potato yields four to six sprouts out the eyes I cut them into chunks with one eye each and plant them dense pack 80% grow to 6” seedlings and then they get thinned out. It was just an experiment last year this year I’m planting three 20 foot rows of them and will have a hundred lbs soon enough. Mash,baked,fried,saute,brased...like bubba Gump
Are those organic? I think organics don’t get the spray.
That is a LOT of taters :-)
Maybe you can barter, for some eggs, or bacon, with them.
I am doing so now.
Tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, lettuce, basil.
Not because of inflation - I do it every year.
But I can't help but wonder if the extreme slow delivery
of my Amazon gardening supplies orders is because
more people than normal are also doing so now.
Some items are so darn delayed that Sunday I did a
Home Depot run for some items that simply can no
longer wait.
I got 15 pounds planted last month and they're already up.
I’ve tried potatoes in the ground and in 5-gallon buckets to no avail. Tried various mixes of soil & sand to no avail. Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but if at first you don’t succeed.....
Very interesting indeed. I’m actually going to grow potatoes this year. But plan to get some large potato bags which are cool. They have a flap so digging for them in(my) hard ground isn’t necessary.
the biggest potato ever known was planted in the white house on january 20th last year...
a species commonly known as jotato...
You misunderstand. IT’S BAIT!
All the potatoes I buy at the store will sprout. Got a bag sitting here with sprouts sticking out.
What I get a kick out of is people saying don’t plant store bought potatoes. You want certified disease free taters. Do people really think that potato farmers don’t make sure their taters are disease free? They’d go out of business real quick if they didn’t have healthy potatoes.
My acidic soil keeps taters disease free. I’ve been planting them in the same area for several years though I have skipped gardening in general one or two years. Do not lime soil where taters will grow. Do till in tons of hardwood leaves if you have them. Preferably shredded.
A good return is 7:1 or seven pounds harvest for every one pound planted. I get close to that, 5:1
Whats the consensus on the earthiest tasting potatoes?
“PLANTING POTATOES at 3:30 in the morning”
Was there a full moon?
Were you nekked?
askin’ for a friend
So acidic works best?? I have a spot in the back among pine trees and that soil would be pretty acidic.
God my Spring seedlings planted and sitting under a grow light :)
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