Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
May Lotito wrote: Just like the potato tower thing, turned out more of a theory that doesn't work out.
May Lotito wrote:Hi, Skandi, do you mean the potatoes left unharvested in ground eventually got killed in spring frosts?
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....Is the underground winter growth just speculation or fact? Just like the potato tower thing, turned out more of a theory that doesn't work out.
Skandi Rogers wrote:Potato towers can work but you need the right potatoes, as Jan said you need to find indeterminate varieties. (which is why I don't hill my potatoes, I grow determinates and hilling will not increase crop one iota)
'What we do now echoes in eternity.' Marcus Aurelius
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Nick Kitchener wrote:Trialing fall planting 3 beds of 3 different varieties using whole small potatoes under deep mulch in zone 3.
Jan White wrote:
I think the problem is that people plant determinate potatoes rather than indeterminate. When I harvested this year, my French fingerlings were growing potatoes all along the stem, even above ground where it had flopped over on top of the mulch. My trusty yukons, which seem to be idiot and disaster proof, only grow in one clump at the base of the stem.
Unfortunately, most seed potato sellers don't tell you which varieties are determinate or indeterminate
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
An important distinction: Permaculture is not the same kind of gardening as organic gardening.
Mediterranean climate hugel trenches, fabuluous clay soil high in nutrients, self-watering containers with hugel layers, keyhole composting with low hugel raised beds, thick Back to Eden Wood chips mulch (distinguished from Bark chips), using as many native plants as possible....all drought tolerant.
'What we do now echoes in eternity.' Marcus Aurelius
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Nick Kitchener wrote:https://laidbackgardener.blog/2020/04/05/determinate-and-indeterminate-potatoes/
In modern times the only right way forward is to come back to nature.
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
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