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Permies' Potato experiments

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Favorite easy ways to make garden beds? Here's mine using mulch and potatoes!

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What's your best, most delicious way to cook potatoes?

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What is the Difference Between Scalloped and Au Gratin Potatoes?

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I Planted My First Potatoes!

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Growing potatoes -- methods and musings

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Potato Salad, how do you make yours?

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potatoes

The art of maximizing potato harvest

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potatoes

Can I Let Potatoes Grow in the Same Spot Year after Year?

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potatoes

Why won't potatoes grow?

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potatoes

Benefits of growing potatoes from true seed.

27 replies 3 10

potatoes

Growing no-dig potatoes

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Perennial Potatoes

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Are these TPS seedlings? - eggplant? physalis?

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Favourite potato song?

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potatoes

Potatoes, wood chips and compost

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potatoes

Planting potatoes in wood chips

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potatoes

Potato Patch Size

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potatoes

colorado potato beetles vs. permaculture

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Best yield - should you cut seed potatoes

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Best this year

Are these TPS seedlings? - eggplant? physalis?

15 replies 3 2

New evidence of evolution of potatoes

10 replies 1 14

potatoes

Potato Towers

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What is your favorite potato variety?

11 replies 1 4 2

Apartment Growing Potato methods

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Planted a huge variety of potato sorts - half of the harvest was from one single variety

4 replies 2 1

Your advice for best red and early variety

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Protect potatoes from flea beetles with rhubarb leaves?

6 replies 1

2025 TPS results

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potatoes

What's eating my potatoes?

4 replies 1 1

potatoes

potato disease, black scurf,

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Potato stem cuttings

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Growing Potatoes in a Bag

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Potato growing in containers on a patio?

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Planting Regular Potato Slips

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Potato Varieties You’ve Never Heard Of—But Should Totally Try in the UK

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Why Your Potatoes Turn Green—And What to Do About It

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My 2025 Container potato project

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gardening for beginners

Potato Towers

1 week ago 12 replies 2 7

potatoes

What to do with a bag of sprouting potatoes

2 weeks ago 10 replies 3 2

Planting Regular Potato Slips

2 weeks ago 0 replies

potatoes

Permie potato beds

2 weeks ago 11 replies 2 2

gardening for beginners

Favorite easy ways to make garden beds? Here's mine using mulch and potatoes!

1 month ago 51 replies [ 1, 2 ] 26 23

Apartment Growing Potato methods

2 months ago 16 replies 1 1 3

Growing Potatoes in a Bag

2 months ago 2 replies 1 2

Potato growing in containers on a patio?

2 months ago 0 replies

potatoes

Growing potatoes -- methods and musings

2 months ago 65 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 10 27

survival

Becoming resilient with potatoes

3 months ago 30 replies 1 3

potatoes

potato disease, black scurf,

4 months ago 1 reply 1

permaculture

Benefits of growing potatoes from true seed.

4 months ago 27 replies 3 10

cooking

Potato Salad, how do you make yours?

4 months ago 35 replies 1 16

potatoes

Permies' Potato experiments

5 months ago 93 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 63 55

potatoes

growing potatoes as perennials

5 months ago 16 replies 4

potatoes

Growing potatoes in pine needles

5 months ago 16 replies 1 4

Your advice for best red and early variety

5 months ago 7 replies 3

2025 TPS results

5 months ago 1 reply 1 3

Planted a huge variety of potato sorts - half of the harvest was from one single variety

5 months ago 4 replies 2 1

dogs and cats

Cat poop and potatoes (and other root crops)

6 months ago 21 replies 4

cooking

What's your best, most delicious way to cook potatoes?

6 months ago 63 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 8 24

potatoes

What's eating my potatoes?

6 months ago 4 replies 1 1

Are these TPS seedlings? - eggplant? physalis?

6 months ago 15 replies 3 2

potatoes

How to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes in old garbage cans (large), barrels and old bathtubs.

7 months ago 10 replies 1

New evidence of evolution of potatoes

7 months ago 10 replies 1 14

potatoes

Growing Potatoes Naturally

7 months ago 17 replies 1 1 10

What is your favorite potato variety?

8 months ago 11 replies 1 4 2

seeds and breeding

Any Sarpo Mira Potato Sources In The USA?

8 months ago 11 replies

potatoes

What to plant after potatoes are out

9 months ago 14 replies 2 1

polyculture

Potatoes in raised beds: with companions or alone?

9 months ago 21 replies 2 4 4

potatoes

Protecting potatoes or other crops from possible frost.

9 months ago 18 replies 1

Protect potatoes from flea beetles with rhubarb leaves?

10 months ago 6 replies 1

Best yield - should you cut seed potatoes

10 months ago 13 replies 4

Potato stem cuttings

10 months ago 3 replies

Potato Varieties You’ve Never Heard Of—But Should Totally Try in the UK

10 months ago 0 replies

Why Your Potatoes Turn Green—And What to Do About It

10 months ago 0 replies

The potato conundrum

10 months ago 12 replies 5 3

Permies Poll: How do you obtain the majority of the potatoes you consume?

11 months ago 3 4

My 2025 Container potato project

11 months ago 0 replies

nibblers

Possible mole or some other critter attacking potato patch

11 months ago 7 replies

Favourite potato song?

1 year ago 24 replies 17 5

multiplying planting stock

1 year ago 3 replies 1 2

soil

Managing for Soil Health when raising potatoes

1 year ago 3 replies 1 1

Welcome to the Permies Potato forum !

2 years ago 5 replies 1 2
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