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How to Grow Potatoes from Pull Sprouts
Growing potatoes from pull sprouts is a method of increasing overall yield from a single tuber. It is more labor intensive than growing from typical seed potatoes. Pull sprouts tend to produce larger (but fewer) tubers than potatoes grown from seed tubers. Since I prefer to have larger tubers for cooking, the extra planting work is worth the effort. This method…
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Potato Berries! Here is where it all begins…
Imagine the possibility of holding hundreds of pounds of potatoes in just one hand. Sounds pretty incredible, doesn’t it? But this is exactly why I am interested in growing potatoes from true seeds. True potato seeds, or TPS, are small seeds that have tremendous potential for home gardeners. Buying traditional potato seed tubers every year from online retailers is prohibitively expensive even before adding…