First, I want to encourage as many of you as possible to grow gardens this year (and next year). specifically not so much flowering stuff, but stuff you can eat. When times were hard or when the country was facing challenges throughout our history that's what people did. Because it was common sense. It was logical to do.
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OK, here's my question about potatoes. I saw a couple youtube videos where there's people that say they pulled out potatoes from under a potato plant before the plant had done growing all of them. OR they suggested you could do this. In those videos they hadn't really tested if that works, or if it was a good idea. They didn't have facts.
I'm wondering, based on comparing that idea with other vegetable plants, if you pull out potatoes prematurely before the plant is done growing them will it regrow them or make it grow more? Will it compensate for it? This seems interesting to know. But unless someone has the potato plant in some kind of container that lets you access inside the ground easier not many people will know. Anyway I'm very interested in this idea and hope someone has feedback on it? Plus, part of why this came up they say if you pick the fruit early on other stuff like cucumbers or tomatoes that it tells the plant to grow more. And is that the same?
Thank you very much.
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OK, here's my question about potatoes. I saw a couple youtube videos where there's people that say they pulled out potatoes from under a potato plant before the plant had done growing all of them. OR they suggested you could do this. In those videos they hadn't really tested if that works, or if it was a good idea. They didn't have facts.
I'm wondering, based on comparing that idea with other vegetable plants, if you pull out potatoes prematurely before the plant is done growing them will it regrow them or make it grow more? Will it compensate for it? This seems interesting to know. But unless someone has the potato plant in some kind of container that lets you access inside the ground easier not many people will know. Anyway I'm very interested in this idea and hope someone has feedback on it? Plus, part of why this came up they say if you pick the fruit early on other stuff like cucumbers or tomatoes that it tells the plant to grow more. And is that the same?
Thank you very much.