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Planting Potatoes?

I remember an article about planting potatoes in an upright position which allowed you to remove the bands and harvest without digging, but cannot find the article. Can someone help me?

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March 24, 20090 found this helpful
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I remember reading that you plant the seed potato at "ground level", then, once the foliage is around a foot high, you add a ring (wood, old tire, etc.) and dirt to fill the ring, leaving half the plant exposed. Each time the foliage gets fairly high, you add another ring and more soil, leaving healthy foliage exposed. You continue all season, and at harvest time, you just start removing rings, and (supposedly) the tower will be full of potatoes.

 
April 1, 20090 found this helpful
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My mom plants the seed potato about 4" in the ground, and then as the plant grows she keeps adding straw. The potatoes form in the straw.

 
March 24, 20090 found this helpful

I found this article using old tires for several gardening plants. It gives instruction for several uses including planting potatoes.
www.backwoodshome.com/.../sanders98.html

 

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March 28, 20090 found this helpful

There was an article on this website last week about how tires contain chemicals that would be poisonous to any plants you would eat.

 

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