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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I do it all the time...with all kinds of potatoes.  Sometimes it is a 
surprise what I dig up..it's like, oh, yukon gold, when did I plant 
that?..lol
I guess the first time it just happened, was luck, or neglect-not 
getting them all..now, I intentionally let some potatoes sprout, 
intentionally slice a larger chunk out while peeling, and intentionally 
sort out those peelings into a place that I think it might likely take 
off, like at the edge of a compost pile or in the leaves, humus, dirt of 
an old tire, etc.  With mulch, which potatoes need anyway, they easily 
survive my zone 7 winters-down to single digits.

Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:
> I have not dug up the potatoes yet and thanks to a prior discussion on list,
> had decided to leave them in the ground a while.
>
> Ran into an acquaintance in town yesterday, we compared gardens. She
> mentioned that a few years ago she didn't get all the potatoes out of the
> ground. Come spring those potatoes that were inadvertently left to
> overwinter sprouted into new plants. Ever since, she's always left a portion
> of the potatoes in the ground to make the next year's crop. She also plants
> some new seed potatoes but also relies on those left from the previous
> garden season.
>
> Have any of you done this on purpose or by happenstance, and your results?
>
> Lisa
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