Potatoes for dummies

Potatoes are probably the easiest vegetable to grow. At least they are for me, and can be for you too.  I’ve been growing  them for about 3 years and have had continuous good harvests. Prior to this I have had almost no
gardening experience. Potatoes don’t require much maintenance like weeding or watering.  In fact you can get almost as good size spuds from a weed covered patch as from a cleanly weeded area.

They are high yield, high calorie, keep well and are like money in the bank.  Having a few crates full is knowing you can provide filling meals for a long time.

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First you’ll need some seed potatoes and the springtime.  There are basically 2 types of spuds, the long ones, and the round ones.  I’ll leave that up to you.  I buy whatever seed potatoes are cheap or on sale.

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