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What can you do with a Potatot? (was: What can you do with a Potato?) — Page 3

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You should have aimed higher dahmaged, this thread is small potatoes.

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This thread should really have been called “what can’t you do with potatoes?”

Dahmage don’t say anything if you agree

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Ok, this thread derailment is getting in the way of important spud related posts.

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Possessed said:

This thread should really have been called “what can’t you do with potatoes?”

Dahmage don’t say anything if you agree

(I finally have a good retort, and also this thread almost disappeared off of page 1)

Why should I create a thread like that there would be nothing to post in that.

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I grow my own. (Sweet potatoes) I had some free space at the end of the garden where my cantaloupe didn’t do well so I put in two sweet potatoes. I first put them in a glass with toothpicks, the way you do in elementary school. After three weeks they had a fair amount of roots and new growth.

I put them in the garden about 8 feet apart. That was in August. By November, I had a total of about 28 between the two. All the potatoes grow very close to the original, about a foot below the ground.

They’ve been quite tasty. They made an appearance at Christmas dinner. They weren’t ready for Thanksgiving. That we’re out of the ground already, but need a few weeks to cure. That makes them much sweeter. Right out of the ground they’re a little bitter.

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^^awesome. Maybe you will inspire some others to do the same.

Some good friends of ours lived in Chile for a few years. And they had access to many many more varieties of potatoes than we do here in the states. I was fascinated by all the different colors of potatoes that they had grown in their garden.

JEDIT: a post snuck in between.