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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

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.
 
Will potatos be growing up the whole inside area?  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....
 


--- On Tue, 12/9/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] bev - Potato Q - and Sage
To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 12:16 AM

Leslie wrote:
> Bev,
> 
> I've got to replace some of my truck tires in the next couple weeks
> here.
> 
> What did you use to cut the sidewalls off to make the "potato tire
> patches".

I used a sawzall with a metal blade.
> 
> How many potato eyes/seeds do you put in each tire?

In a car tire, 5 or so...

 Do the potato vines spill out of the tire?

Not until you have a full stack..as the vine grows out of the tire, when
it is about a foot long, add a tire and more mulch, soil, or
whathaveyou, leaving about 4-6 inches of the potato vine above the
soil..keep doing that as tall as the number of tires you have or as high
as you can reach/lift.


> 
> What is the real reason for growing them in tires?

Laziness.
:)
Seriously....no digging..

I've never grown sweet potatoes in tires, though...I grow them in the
ground or more recently in my raised beds.  I don't see any reason why
you couldn't grow them in tires, but they would definitely spill over
the tires, kudzu like, at least here they would.

Bev

-- “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda     




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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>
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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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“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda


--
“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda