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Potatoes are so easy to grow. You can grow a lot of them in a trash can full of dirt.
Tire stack..... Start growing in a tire or right on the ground. As soon as it's taller than the next available tire take that tire place it on the stack and bury the plant until there's just a couple of leaves above ground. Everything you buried be gentle will root out and become space for more spuds. When it grows up taller than another tire rinse and repeat until you have a stack of tires when you're ready to harvest just start knocking the tires over one by one. Works well to line them with plastic as well if you can
I'm not sure I want something that's going into my mouth growing inside old tires.
Yeah dude it's fine, you also mix used motor oil into the soil and it acts as a good pesticide.
Do you prefer your potatoes leaded or unleaded?
Well since I'm too cheap to fix my knocking issues, better go with leaded
Ive done a similar thing with squares made out of 2x4's.
I've recently heard of some people living near the coast, carrying on an old local tradition of simply growing potatoes in seaweed instead of soil, adding a natural salty taste to them.
Can confirm. Started potatoes in a grow-bag last year, did another round this year. The bag doesn't hold a ton of soil, but it was apparently enough to turn 5 seed potatoes into a few kilos of harvest
Tell that to the Irish.
The Irish's problem wasn't that they weren't growing enough food. Their problem is that Britain was taking all the food they did grow.
TBF you can't grow potatoes in land that the British have kicked you off of.
you had me at "can't grow potatoes"