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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Potato question
  • Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:05:17 EDT



> >Have any of you done this on purpose or by happenstance, and your results?

Happenstance mostly. Even if you THINK you've dug up every spud, there are
always some left in the gound and if the potato ground gets rotated (which in
completely organic gardens is overrated), soon one of the most persistent
weeds
is volunteer potatoes.

When a bed is rotated out of potatoes and I don't need the ground in early
spring, it is a reliable source of the earliest of the early new potatoes.

In fact when plowing or spading old potato ground and sprouting or sprouted
tubers are unearthed, I most often take the mother potato and any sprouts and
replant them somewhere. This almost always gives a pretty good show of
potatoes for the effort.

There is a place in the garden where I planted (on purpose) fingerling
potatoes eleven years ago. No matter how much I've spaded, mulched, or
covered the
bed, it still sprouts up every spring with potato vines. This year, as in
most, I let them come up in the beans and otherwise left them alone. I got
nearly a gallon of small fingerling potatoes when I spaded in the bean haulms
and
planted peas.

James </HTML>




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