This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.

Spuds and growing them

Posted 11/08/09 by Matt B in the Feeding Yourself category

In Growing Food From Grocery Store Items: Russet Potatoes Esmaa talks about how she and her family planted out a bag of organic potatoes and have now harvested a crop.

Potatoes are great for this as any sprouting ones can be dumped into near enough anything and they will grow. Most of the time even ones not sprouting will grow too.

I did this recently with a bag of cheap spuds that had sat in the back of my fridge for too long. As you might know I don't have a garden of my own but have been growing things in other people's gardens. My friend Doug has grabbed hold of home growing with both hands and had plenty of space for a few spuds (he has even more since we cleared a load of concrete and stone back to get to the soil it was on top of).

The spuds are growing happily next to the spinach which my family and I have been eating lots of lately.

Potatoes are best harvested after the flowers appear on the plant. Sooner for baby new and a little later for "old". They grow in any mud all though lighter compost gets better results. If you plant a lot mix up the types you plant to minimise the chances of loss due to pests and other problems. Plant in any spaces you can't grow anything else in.





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