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Competition? Price structure? Low prices?
Try selling a barrel of crude oil.

Too cheap for the work it takes!

i used to like to grow them just so i could go out into the garden a dig a pile up. but ya, hardly worth the effort. and truth be told, my never compared to good store bought.

Genesis 1:12 "And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good."

I just can’t help myself!

Thanks. Never heard of it.

I've never tried growing red potatoes. I might plant a row next year and see what happens.

Damn! It's 20 bucks plus a can. I can buy a lot of taters for that.

Well, according to the news thousands of farmers are flooded out to their north and east where there will be drastic decreases in corn production are prices are predicted to skyrocket.

Very nice work, did you use some Kinda fertilizer ?

I dug up about 30 pounds of Yukon Gold and Reds. I love growing them because I can put them in the ground early and enjoy watching all that biomass come up. Sure you can buy them, but I think mine taste better. I use raised beds. A 4x12 bed gave me 30 pounds, which is plenty for us. I really like digging them up. I don't use fertilizer in my beds, just home made compost and mulch. Most of it comes from my chicken coop. For me, it's not about saving money as much as growing and killing my own food.

We used to come home from Ag class and tell our folks all about cheaper goodies in the store than we could grow in that big ass garden out back.
They paid absolutely no attention to us. This was back in the 1950s.

growing up we grew the kennebecs as the main crop and pontiacs as the early, small crop.

it was all work and no play. but the yield was always good after the tater beetles were controlled.

money wasn't a factor as how cheap they were in the local store. without money labor is the high king.

My store potatoes dont keep. Never know what I will find when I cut one either
I do like a good baked potato drowning in butter, chives, and sour cream

Used 10-10-10 in bottom of rows before hilling them up. When I saw the first bloom I put out urea( 50+% nitrogen) and side dressed with hiller to give more growing room!

I grow my own because they're ten times better than the ones in the store... And they keep better too... I grow Kennebecs and either Pontiac or Norgold for early reds..

I only grow weird varieties, the most common of what I grow in my little garden is Yukons. Otherwise it's purple potatoes or fingerlings. Bakers are just too cheap.

No potato bug problems around here, I grow my own with no chemicals used. I read a while ago that even potato farmers grow their own patch because they refuse to eat field potatoes with all the chemicals added...

I grew them for many years and had some good harvests. Suddenly I got infested with potato bugs and I found the only way to stay ahead of them was to pick the hard shelled breeder bugs off a couple times a day. Miss a day or two and then you are infested. Wasn't worth it and I never found anything that took care of them and was safe to use in the garden.

I planted 100 lbs 50lbs of Kenny back and 50 lbs of red Pontiac I’ve been eating taters for 2 months only real work is the hilling part I usually dig all them first of October and get 10 bushel way more than we can eat but plant the left overs next spring

Yukon Golds are THE schitt. I love those things. Both them and the various reds do well in AK. Well, not so much in the cold, rain-soaked, salt-infused ground out here in Aleutian Hell, but up in the interior where you actually have a summer with 21hrs of sunlight they take off like a shot once they pop up through the ground.

When I was in Palmer a couple of weeks ago you can watch the crops grow. Stayed there and came back a few days later. Crops were bigger. Enjoyed the visitor center too. Interesting history of the area. Had some Yukon gold hash browns from the garden this weekend. Damn good.