Tuber production

[Bmac]

I have been reading some great tips for the garden and wanted to share one of mine. If you grow potatoes, or sun
chokes like member kindly gave me, you know they spread out all over the place. I bury my potato 8" deep and let it get about 2' tall. I then trow a truck tire over it and fill it with dirt using my hands to put it inside and up as high as I can and burying most of the plant. The tubers will concentrate near the surface around the tire and in the tire. when the plant grow another 2' put on another tire and repeat this process.

The other benefit to this is when you harvest you just push the top tire off, take those potatoes to the kitchen, and the rest below, having lost there top will just sit in the dirt (for awhile) as storage. Need more potatoes? Knock off another tire.

A column of potatoes is way more concentrated, compact, water efficient and tacticool.

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[SideShow Bob]

And forget about all the health benefits of all the petroleum products slowly leaching out of the tire into the soil and into the tubers.......... Pun intended.....

[rbeau30]

Bmac! how are those coming along?

I have 3 feet tall white sunchokes!

The red ones germinated slower.