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OriginalGeek

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10. I'm not sure how to accurately describe it
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 02:59 PM
Mar 2017

but a friend of mine in the midwest grows them in what is basically a tube made of widely spaced wire about 3 feet in diameter and maybe 5 feet tall. Full of mulch or something and he says it produces a lot of potatoes. He just reaches in the wire and picks them out but I don't know where he stores them after harvesting. Says it beats digging in the dirt for them. He is trying very hard to live as naturally as possible without chemicals or much mechanical assistance. He has goats for milk and other critters for meat. I believe it's called permaculture or maybe that's a different thing he writes about all the time.


Frankly, though we were close in high school in the late 70s, he's become too much of a trumpster to pay too much attention to nowadays. Today he made a "scientifical" post regarding the expansion of the world's deserts. Since the great world-wide flood of Noah that is.

I tried to appeal to his sense of environmentalism and his love for living off the land and explain what a tragedy trump will be for the environment but he figures god will sort that all out. If he gets poisoned by all the chemical pollution trump will allow it is just god's will.

In a root cellar! LisaM Mar 2017 #1
Oh, snap! Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #6
My grandparents had a root cellar where they kept potatoes, hung meat, etc. PufPuf23 Mar 2017 #13
I had a "root cellar" growing up Mendocino Mar 2017 #19
Belly fat.. denbot Mar 2017 #2
I empathsize. nt PufPuf23 Mar 2017 #3
Love new potatoes and peas. Big Blue Marble Mar 2017 #4
I hear that poatoes from groceries Marthe48 Mar 2017 #5
Wonder if one can grow potatoes in Colorado? Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #7
Plant in a spot that gets plenty of sun Marthe48 Mar 2017 #9
I've got just the place. I'll give it a go. Laffy Kat Mar 2017 #15
Good luck! Marthe48 Mar 2017 #16
Modern potatoes were domesticated from wild potatoes potatoes in PufPuf23 Mar 2017 #11
Yes, quite well. politicat Mar 2017 #22
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You probably won't get a response. GP6971 Jan 2022 #35
this might be of help to you fizzgig Mar 2017 #23
I'm going to say yes. Nac Mac Feegle Mar 2017 #24
Why in the Vicar's bum, of course! demmiblue Mar 2017 #8
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!! PufPuf23 Mar 2017 #12
I'm not sure how to accurately describe it OriginalGeek Mar 2017 #10
Don't throw out those stretched out tights ladies! Runningdawg Mar 2017 #14
If they start to sprout, throw them out FakeNoose Mar 2017 #17
Eating? UTUSN Mar 2017 #18
In a cool dark place, like a cellar is probably best. Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #20
Convert them into vodka. Long shelf-life, vodka. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2017 #21
Window screens! furtheradu Mar 2017 #25
Ps. Where's Mopinko? furtheradu Mar 2017 #28
Absolutely not in the refrigerator. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2017 #26
Store them cool, dry, ventilated, and dark Warpy Mar 2017 #27
Bingo MosheFeingold Mar 2017 #33
All I know is that they need to be kept in the dark Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #29
I have a friend from the WWII era. Throck Mar 2017 #30
I had an aunt who collected seaweed and grew potatoes in it. I asked applegrove Mar 2017 #31
For a pretty tasty recipe, try this gratin' A HERETIC I AM Mar 2017 #32
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