Originally Posted by slumlord
Before I hoe all this jive again, I’ll get one of those row hiller disc thingie attachments.

Pic from this morning.

Glad I dont live in soviet socialist republic of canada…I’m going to dust the sheeyott out of these with 8 Dust (permethrin). I have ants and little beetles.

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Row on the right played out and got patchy. Some of those gaps, sprouts never materialized. i didnt use “certified seed potatoes”. I just cut eyes on left overs from Peepaw’s grocery store

We have rocky, creek bottom soil, not sure how or if it will be friendly to potatoes.

An aside…I dug my footing to my house with a pick and a shovel. We didn’t have money for some lardass contractor to drill me for $1500 to dig my footers.

People get whiney around me, I tell them my hand dug footer story on 1600 sq ft home with I was 19 years old.
Oh you got Fortnite problems????


Certified seed guarantees variety, nothing more.

Mom has claimed some store bought taters are treated to prevent sprouting.

We always used to bve sitting in the basement in January sprouting potatoes. Pulling sprouts off, tossing any bad ones. By late February the
ones left were soft and sprouted again. Those were left to sit. We bought
store potatoes if we ate any before harvest.

Come May, those wrinkled, sprouted taters were hauled out and we cut
then 2 eyes per chunk. In the ground untill fall.

I hated planting them. A bunch of work, and an inconsistent crop.
Usually good, but I remember one year planting 100# of seed potatoes,
And harvesting 2 1/2 bushels. Dang near just buried them and dug them
up. Not much increase for the sweat and money.

Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!