Durgan
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The pictures are not convincing. I have grown too many potatoes to believe such nonsense. This site is selling some silly tower, which targets the ignorant.Jared77 said:
Potato towers success?
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majorcatfish
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please correct if I am wrong . more eyes you have on the seed you plant, more potatoes will grow off it ?
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There is no evidence to support this conjecture.majorcatfish said:
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Jared77
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I can't confirm or deny this, my harvests have always been pretty uniform but then I don't cut up many of my seed potatoes so the number of eyes always varies. I always have plenty of seed potatoes so I never bothered to cut them. I think its more about nutrition and the type of potato your growing if its meant to give you really big spuds, a unique color or lots of smaller potatoes.
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Jared77
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Despite you resurrecting this thread to try to ignite an old fight I'm not going to take your sad attempts at baiting me. I actually feel sorry for you Durgan having to resort to this to get someone to respond to your posts.
Durgan
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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?QHBIN 21 August 2009 How a Potato Plant Grows
There is a great deal of information on the Internet about growing potatoes in tires, boxes and indicating that large quantities of new tubers can be produced with high vertical hilling. The view propagated is that potatoes grow from branches all along the main stalk. This is utter nonsense, as the pictures indicate. New tubers are formed around the seed potato and always slightly above it.
My potato growing test box was opened today. The pictures speak for themselves. Clearly there is no advantage in carrying out excessive hilling when growing potatoes. The purpose of hilling is to insure the tubers are covered, since light affects potatoes producing a green appearance, which is an indication of solanine, which is harmful if ingested in large quantities.. For comparison one Pontiac Red was dug in the same row, which was almost identical to the test box potato in appearance.
There is a great deal of information on the Internet about growing potatoes in tires, boxes and indicating that large quantities of new tubers can be produced with high vertical hilling. The view propagated is that potatoes grow from branches all along the main stalk. This is utter nonsense, as the pictures indicate. New tubers are formed around the seed potato and always slightly above it.
My potato growing test box was opened today. The pictures speak for themselves. Clearly there is no advantage in carrying out excessive hilling when growing potatoes. The purpose of hilling is to insure the tubers are covered, since light affects potatoes producing a green appearance, which is an indication of solanine, which is harmful if ingested in large quantities.. For comparison one Pontiac Red was dug in the same row, which was almost identical to the test box potato in appearance.
the1honeycomb
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Bravo I think is your potato harvest a photos are wonderful Duran Duran you are an inspiration I don't have the patience to do the kind of photography and scientific work upset you do so I'm glad you do them for us
Hey guys new to the form! Anyway we plan on trying this method using a 55 gallon drum.
Here's what we are thinking to get a better harvest
1. Cut barrel in half to allow more sun light. When the potatoes reach the top of that half then some how attach the other half
2. Fill bottom with 2 inches of gravel to help with drainage
3. Use a mixture of peatmoss/ Perlite??? / and compost so the soil will not be as compacted
What do you guys think???
Here's what we are thinking to get a better harvest
1. Cut barrel in half to allow more sun light. When the potatoes reach the top of that half then some how attach the other half
2. Fill bottom with 2 inches of gravel to help with drainage
3. Use a mixture of peatmoss/ Perlite??? / and compost so the soil will not be as compacted
What do you guys think???
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Holes for drainage. Cover gravel with landscape cloth to keep the soil separated from the gravelPeggySue said:
Certainly worth a try. Most of the spud towers I've heard of have some access near the bottom to garner some new potatoes while the upper spuds are still growing, but I suppose it's not required.
Welcome, Peggy Sue! Glad to have you growing with us. How about a bit of info regarding your gardening zone, etc. Not being nosy, but it often helps us help you.
