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Author Topic: No Dig, No Dirt Potatos  (Read 114 times)
Johnny-Max
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« on: April 07, 2010, 10:17:31 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: 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 Cry
Anyway, I can get used tires from all over. I'm growing potatoes this year. Yummy.
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« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2010, 12:07:24 AM »

next year on my property I will grow potatoes just like this
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« Reply #3 on: 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.
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« Reply #4 on: 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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