¿What do you think about "Johnny Potato Eye"? With all the news and FAKE NEWS that's been spread around lately, it's hard for a man to know WHAT to "expect"... I've got a pound or 2 of...

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Apr 17, 2021 09:20:17 #

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

With all the news and FAKE NEWS that's been spread around lately, it's hard for a man to know WHAT to "expect"... I've got a pound or 2 of good Idaho potatoes, that have TRULY seen better days. (Starting to wanna go soft)... Some have right decent "eyes" on 'em. The supermarket is JUST north of an interchange/ I-90.
I'm thinking about taking these spuds up the hill with me, when I go to buy some more. Figure I'll cut them in chunks and bury them (plant them) right there, by the highway ramp.
Thinking that I might go ahead on y buy an extra bag, even; and go ahead on and plant some by all 4 spots, that have ramps right there. I'm thinking that, if "Everyone Everywhere" were to do LIKEWISE; we'd all might have us a meal, if'n WTSHTF.

Apr 17, 2021 10:23:50 #

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

A lot of supermarket potatoes are treated with something to retard growth, I tried planting some once, not much luck. just saying 🤔

Apr 17, 2021 10:44:31 #

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

CamT wrote:

A lot of supermarket potatoes are treated with something to retard growth, I tried planting some once, not much luck. just saying 🤔

I wonder... I know that 1 of my neighbors, when I was a wee little one; always planted a field of spuds, but, THOSE "eyes" were all from "last year's crop"... I too, had planted some, that came from the supermarket and ended up with some very small potatoes. Still ate 'em! Maybe it'd take'em a couple of years, to get to "acting right"?

Apr 17, 2021 11:52:59 #

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

If they're already sprouting and you plant em, they should grow.

Apr 17, 2021 11:57:12 #

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Spiritof27 wrote:

If they're already sprouting and you plant em, they should grow.

I remember having some that had practically started wanting to look like VINES (for cryin' out loud) but, can't remember where {or even IF} I planted them. This was several years ago. ["Just add alcohol..."]

Apr 17, 2021 14:38:56 #

Jeremy Loc: America

Able Man wrote:

Just remember when Potatoes are green or the green part of a potato is poison. The tops of ( above ground vegetation ) is poison. You can remove the green part of the potato and discard it. Potatoes can be planted as a barrier around a garden to keep some pests out.

If you plant potatoes at freeway off ramp they may grow if watered and get sun. Just remember you don’t know what all chemicals that cars and other machines release on the road and Surrounding soils will be in the taters. I have had same luck with store bought potatoes. Some grow some not so much or small golf ball sized.

One time I threw a bunch of eyes from potatoes that had eyes at ranch in sandy soil by BBQ and old steel ironing board I used as a table for camp stove. A few months later I was up early and cooking and figured some hash browns would be good. I chopped up the golf ball taters and they made great hash browns.

Apr 17, 2021 15:46:09 #

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Thanks for the feedback and warning about the "vapors & fumes" (¿¡And WHO KNOWS WHAT!?) that might have a negative impact on the "food quality". I'm guessing that they wouldn't do so well, being planted where some dude with "a brush-hog" is gonna be mowing the "right of way". I'm thinking that I might try and plant some so close to the chain-link fence, that they won't be bothered. Maybe a good distance to the south side of these various interchanges.
Ya never know... Might REALLY make someone's day, to find a "'tater patch"!

Apr 17, 2021 15:50:55 #

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Jeremy: thanks also, for the "Heads-UP" ~ the green parts... Something that I was not mindful of.

Apr 18, 2021 15:08:05 #

Barnacles Loc: Northern California

In the supermarket, they have bags of little taters, even smaller than golf balls. They cost WAY more per pound than the big ones! Go figure!

Apr 18, 2021 15:12:03 #

Jeremy Loc: America

Barnacles wrote:

In the supermarket, they have bags of little taters, even smaller than golf balls. They cost WAY more per pound than the big ones! Go figure!

So they are like tater holes? Kinda like Donut 🍩 holes?

Apr 18, 2021 15:12:19 #

Jeremy Loc: America

🍩🤠

Apr 22, 2021 02:34:21 #

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

I buy golf-ball sized "baby reds" alot. And those little yellows, purples and reds in the "fancy bags" are super tasty.
Whatever happened to those huge 7"-10" long, 4"+ in diameter Russets my mom used to make "baked potato meals" out of ? Can't find them anywhere.

Apr 22, 2021 08:13:24 #

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

Barnacles wrote:

In the supermarket, they have bags of little taters, even smaller than golf balls. They cost WAY more per pound than the big ones! Go figure!

ha ha

Apr 22, 2021 08:15:29 #

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

When I read about growing potatoes in Farmers Almanac, etc. it says don't use supermarket potatoes. Most are treated with something. I tried anyway a couple of times and got long, high stems but no real potatoe. Got one 2 inches at most.

Apr 22, 2021 09:19:41 #

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

FixorFish wrote:

FixorFish, those huge spuds are exactly what my neighbors used to grow 6 or 8 acres of, when I was a wee little one. (> 1/2 century ago). That was right out here, in Geauga County, Ohio; so, that old commercial about "needing volcanic ash" for a good potato is a myth... These were BIG & good potatoes.

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