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In reply to the discussion: What is the best way to store potatos? [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)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.