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Johnny-Max
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No Dig, No Dirt Potatos
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April 07, 2010, 10:17:31 PM »
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cave dweller
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Goat Herder
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Re: No Dig, No Dirt Potatos
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April 09, 2010, 12:12:41 AM »
Manure is cheep hay I can get for free.
Maybe if I save the gophers the cat leaves by the door I can get some blood and some bones...
sorry
Anyway, I can get used tires from all over. I'm growing potatoes this year. Yummy.
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How can we create conditions to enable every community to feed itself?
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Johnny-Max
Big Straw-Boss
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Re: No Dig, No Dirt Potatos
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April 10, 2010, 12:07:24 AM »
next year on my property I will grow potatoes just like this
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June
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Chicken Rancher
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Re: No Dig, No Dirt Potatos
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April 19, 2010, 12:53:39 PM »
I have tried all kinds of potato bins and cages and I find that I get the best results from used tires. I just keep piling them up and filling them as the potato stems grow. Cheap and easy to harvest.
June.
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There are people on this earth so hungry that they can only recognize God if he appears as a loaf of bread.
The Mahatma, Gandhi.
nelson133
Container Gardener
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Re: No Dig, No Dirt Potatos
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July 24, 2010, 09:06:18 PM »
I successfully grew potatoes for years by tilling the ground, laying the potato sets on the tilled ground, and piling old straw over them to a depth of about 2 feet when the straw was fluffed out. By the end of the summer, the straw had mostly turned into compost and I raked what was left off and picked up the potatoes. I had problems with hay because I ended up with too many weed seeds.
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