[Homestead] [Fwd: Re: bev - Potato Q - and Sage]
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Tue Dec 9 00:55:04 EST 2008
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] bev - Potato Q - and Sage
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:54:21 -0500
From: EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net>
Organization: EarthNSky Farm
To: cayadopi at yahoo.com
References: <449750.21417.qm at web63803.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Leslie wrote:
> Wait, you are saying that when the potato plant gets about 1 foot
> tall, to stack another tire ON TOP? of the first tire,,,, like the
> Michelin Man look? I would never have guessed that one.
Yes, and keep going, making it 4, 5 or 6 tires high, as tall as you are,
depending on the width of the tire. When you are done stacking, you
treat the top plant just as if it were in the ground...Instead of
digging potatoes, you just knock over the stack and pick up the
potates...In a five tire stack you can easily get 25-40# of potatoes.
>
> Will potatos be growing up the whole inside area?
Pretty much...
Potatos is one plant
> I don't recall seeing, although my mom says they were out there....
> wasn't my job to dig them up, so no memory of that.......... Sounds
> l like I'll have to drive to the town dump and get some extra
> tires....
Check with dealerships and Jiffy Lubes..many places have to pay to get
rid of their tires...they may actually pay you to take them..(less than
a tire service, of course)
It is not absolutely necessary to remove a sidewall, I just do that
because I get creeped out by the space in the tire...Black widows seem
to love that space in a tire, and if you grab a tire, your fingertips go
right into black widow territory..snakes also like living in tires. I
have learned to never put any part of your hand where you cannot see.
I don't like spiders...not one little bit...so I cut off one side of the
sidewall...that takes away their lair and I can see any kind of snake or
whatever that might decide to live in the tire.....obviously, if you cut
off both sides, they don't stack...
Bev
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