RSKY
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Planting a few potatoes this year just for the fun of it. I always forget, is it eyes up, or eyes down?
RSKY
RSKY
Well the story is my wife showed me this Internet article about growing 100 pounds of potatoes in a 2'x2' 'potato tower'. So of course I've got to try it. Not that I don't have anything else to do. Can't get caught up as it is. So one more project.
Towers don't work. Potatoes only form tubers in the region up to about 4 inches above the seed piece. If you bury them much deeper, you are just making them work harder and reducing yield. There are a huge number of variations on this all with lots of hype on the Internet, but they all fail to observe how potatoes actually grow.