Potatoes in the ground?? Seriously??

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I plant mine in leaves mixed with horse manure. Better than planting in dirt.DH nearly had a conniption fit the first year and I had this huge pile of leaves in the front yard. :lol: But he sure ate the potatoes!
 

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NIce I have lots of leaves and Chicken Manure!! I'll try that!!! and I found a tire in my front yard must have fallen off someones trailer, I wil:clapl try some in there also!!! so many projects!!!
 

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. . . . I found a tire in my front yard must have fallen off someones trailer. . .
:gig:yuckyuck :gigMust have fallen? It was pushed! Abandoned! Tossed into your yard in the dead of night to save some littering cheapskate a $2.00 recycling fee. Around here tires "fall" off vehicles all the time. Then we are left to figure out how to reuse, recycle, or dispose of them.
 

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MWAAHAAHAAA!! :plbbthe Joke is on them!!! I shall create A Tater Tower!!! Mwahahaha :hide And my Taters will feed my masses :ep and the bagged Tater shall rein no more!!!!:bow
 

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@the1honeycomb, Stokes seeds has stolen the tater bag idea...

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I should have patented mine!!!!! :he
my potatoes are about 9 inches, I scratched up the dirt around them and hilled them. Is that correct? :idunno
the potatoes in the box are about 20 inches long and I used hay around them. the bags are doing great as usual :weee
commandeered 2 tires, figured I'd try that:pop and compare the results of each!! a lady I met at the discount plant secion of the walmart said to make sure I cut the side wall off so snakes don't hid in there! :hide consider it done!!
 

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Mine always go into the ground, seems weird to me to plant them elsewhere.
I've dug into clay just enough to stick them in, got many spuds back out in the fall. Also planted them in nice, fluffy soil, many more spuds, but smaller. Now have a laundry bin with some growing, no idea how it'll turn out...
Potatoes are crazy easy to grow, them and cherry tomatoes....people who kill plants should try them. Seed and wait, that's all, it seems.
I did do one mounding one bed of potatoes. It didn't yield more spuds at all, same amount. So won't be trying those vertical containers where you keep adding.
 

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Mine always go into the ground, seems weird to me to plant them elsewhere.
I've dug into clay just enough to stick them in, got many spuds back out in the fall. Also planted them in nice, fluffy soil, many more spuds, but smaller. Now have a laundry bin with some growing, no idea how it'll turn out...
Potatoes are crazy easy to grow, them and cherry tomatoes....people who kill plants should try them. Seed and wait, that's all, it seems.
I did do one mounding one bed of potatoes. It didn't yield more spuds at all, same amount. So won't be trying those vertical containers where you keep adding.

So you don't mound the dirt up around your plants when you put them in the soiL???? trying to learn as I go
 
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