Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Never done potatos before

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Not sure if it’s where the Idaho contracts went but the Hastings Florida area now produces a huge percentage of the chip potato crop. I remember about thirty years ago Frito-Lay coming in and offering huge contracts and everyone switching to small chip potato farming.

Off the top of my head, it was probably 25-30 years ago when it happened so I'd guess you're correct on that.

Old Virginia method on tomatoes is to put half a Bunker (Menhaden) at the bottom of the hole (deep hole)... for better yield.

We forgot this year... and have yet to harvest a tomato except for two cherries.

But this thread is a taters... so forget all that.

Exactly how we did it, always planted on a mounded up row, with a chunk of potato that contained an eye and used an old lister for making the row and for turning them over come harvest time.

Never heard of 'planting' them in a dug hole.

I've seen guys take an old tire, fill it with their soil mix and a chunk of potatoe. As the plant grows out of the tire, add another tire and more soil mix, and just keep adding tires and soil until the stack is head high. Then they'll knock the whole thing over and pick the potatoes off the ground. Heard of growing them in barrels in a similar manner. Just keep adding soil as the plant grows then dump the barrel over.

I like the cardboard dude.

It's useful for more than hobo hooches..

Get you some soap, terbacky juice, and diatomaceous earth. Quit using them damn chemicals and supporting big multi-national chemical companies. You're ruinin' Mother Earth dude.

Mine are finally starting to do well. Frosts in late June suck for gardening.



Went to the Big Town for some dental work the other day. Picked up a couple of things for the nearest neighbor. Dropped it off at his place when I got back and he told me we had two big dust devils come by while I was gone. He showed me the yard swing he set up for his wife and daughter, No awning over it any more. Sent me a pic. Tore it up good and even bent the supports for it. Then he tells me his wife saw cardboard flying all around and over the trees. Ripped it right off my plants in the garden. Found a couple of pieces of it up against the garden fence and the rest in the sagebrush and the bar ditch 50-60 yards away. Sure glad we don't get tornadoes here!

You can see a piece of cardboard with the cutouts up against the fence there. Good thing the plants weren't much bigger or it would have torn them up with the cardboard too:



Took it right off the broccoli and pepper row over there too, the near end piece was gone too but still within the garden so I was able to get that one back on quickly:



Taters from leftover ones in the well house are doing good in the backyard bed. A couple didn't come in, but that's OK. Judging by the cross the creek bed I should have plenty for the two of us and a few to give away. Barter goods for during the coming Food Shortages and Zombie Pokalips too.




Cabbages and Broccoli in the beds are coming along nicely:



I can't expect much better with the last frost just three weeks ago. Gotta get me a high tunnel or caterpillar tunnel when the economy comes back around. Let's Go Brandon.