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Welcome to the Permies Potato forum !

Nancy Reading

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All New Potato Forum!!

Do you love potatoes?

Now they have their own special place on Permies!

You'll find threads on:

which varieties to choose,
whether to grow from seed potatoes,
store bought potatoes
or True Potato Seed,
how you might plant and cultivate them,
what pests and diseases are likely to occur
and also how to cook them

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If you don't find the answers you are looking for then please start a new thread with your question.

Although we tried to find all the potatoes, we may have missed some! so if you see a thread that you think belongs in this forum, please report it so that we can add it in if appropriate, thank you!

The forum is to discuss issues relating to Solanum tuberosum, the common spud! At present threads to discuss sweet potatoes, yams and other tubers should be posted elsewhere in the forums plants or perennial vegetables are two suggestions.

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Riona Abhainn

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Surprised that this potato section is new, but at least its here now. I heart potatoes! I grew my first potatoes back in spring/summer, I'd watched my father grow potatoes before years ago, but these were all mine, little fingerlings, even with container gardening we got some tasty taters, not a lot of them, but enough for my husband and I to have with a couple of dinners as sides. And they tasted really good. I chitted them in the window for a month before planting them, 2 largish pots, 2 different varieties, one did slightly better than the other, used potatoes from the foodbank. Perhaps next year I can do more than 2 pots? We'll see, working with a patio in an apartment complex.

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Nancy Reading

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Is there a saying you never forget your first home grown potato? Maybe there should be! I'm sure there is something different in a spud that you have uncovered like buried treasure, and tenderly cleaned and cooked within hours! Well done Riona. I think there's a few threads on growing potatoes in containers - maybe you can share your experiences on one of them.

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Timothy Norton

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I enjoy the resilience of the humble potato. I can not be the only person who has mistakenly left a spud in a garden bed after harvest to find the next year that a volunteer crop has taken hold!

Spud in cold compost? Congrats, you now have a colony of potatoes. I have to respect the hustle.

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