EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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BantyChooks said:
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Mine are plastic as well. I cut the tops vertically into four strips and then use them as garbage bags for cat litter (using the tabs to tie them closed) - they work very well for that. I actually keep all my bags from things I purchase (e.g., a shirt I buy online that comes in a plastic type wrapper bag) - very useful.

That being said, I still have too many (because I have so many chicks this year). They are piling up, though, I may actually have to throw some out soon.
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Fire Ant Farm said:
Sally, I like to read the one hundred dollars a month blog (I think she's hysterical), and have read the whole story on her potato towers. She didn't get very good yield at all, and was pretty disappointed.

I have grown potatoes in sack like the above - I think it's a great way to do it for a couple reasons - 1) It is less likely that underground critters will eat or drill through your potatoes, and 2) harvesting is a cinch. I have had off and on success, and I suspect that some of it is that I always seem to have my timing wrong compared to what's recommended in my area. The best (and most nifty) experience I've had is with fingerling potatoes - they are really yummy, and really neat (and to cook, you can cut them in half and presto - french fry! Or whatever...) You can order seed potatoes online. If you have a Whole Foods anywhere near you (not sure if you do), their organic potatoes haven't been treated, so while they're pricey, it's cheaper than buying seed potatoes online when you want some really neat types.

Every year I think, "This is the year I'll crack the potato code". Then I decided I don't want to deal with it until later, and then....

But yeah, if you want to try them, those grow bags are really great. Get big ones. (You can probably make some out of stuff you have - maybe look up homemade grow sacks? It seems like they are more expensive than they should be...)

- Ant Farm
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I didn't have good luck, think you have to use the right potatoes. I heard 50lbs from a 55gal barrel, I got 5. I'm sure it works, just check the variety your using, not sure the best without further research. I do pretty good just making big hills, use my weed wacker tiller to make the hills, mantis would be good for that also.
Seed tators, too expensive.
I grow plenty and should be able to supply our own but we just keep eating them till their gone! Lol! Do have a small bag, maybe five pounds worth of tiny tators we missed that have eyes right now.
I usually just buy a couple 10lb bags of the white paper bag potatoes with the little netting in front for seed, don't like to buy them for eating cause by time you cut out the bad spots just not very economical for the $$ in the long run but boy they grow eyes when I set a couple bags in the cellar late winter, huge long eyes. Get a couple bags of reds also, have to get them earlier cause take a lot longer to eye up, washed and probably treated but they eventually eye up.
My tator bed last spring










I just rototilled up a bunch of dry funny looking golf balls...??? what the heck is that!?? Lol! Either infertile or they need to ask me to pop them in my incubator for better luck
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The feed mill I get my feed from uses paper. I still have tons of TSC plastic ones, make great garbage bags, can throw a deer carcass in one. The plastic ones I'm now splitting and using for weed block in the garden.
 
Fire Ant Farm said:
Sally, I like to read the one hundred dollars a month blog (I think she's hysterical), and have read the whole story on her potato towers. She didn't get very good yield at all, and was pretty disappointed.

I have grown potatoes in sack like the above - I think it's a great way to do it for a couple reasons - 1) It is less likely that underground critters will eat or drill through your potatoes, and 2) harvesting is a cinch. I have had off and on success, and I suspect that some of it is that I always seem to have my timing wrong compared to what's recommended in my area. The best (and most nifty) experience I've had is with fingerling potatoes - they are really yummy, and really neat (and to cook, you can cut them in half and presto - french fry! Or whatever...) You can order seed potatoes online. If you have a Whole Foods anywhere near you (not sure if you do), their organic potatoes haven't been treated, so while they're pricey, it's cheaper than buying seed potatoes online when you want some really neat types. 

Every year I think, "This is the year I'll crack the potato code". Then I decided I don't want to deal with it until later, and then.... 

But yeah, if you want to try them, those grow bags are really great. Get big ones. (You can probably make some out of stuff you have - maybe look up homemade grow sacks? It seems like they are more expensive than they should be...)

- Ant Farm
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I tried towers last year, I got a decent harvest of nice big potatoes but I had to dig through a giant ant bed to get them. :barnie I'm trying in ground this year as a comparison.

I've read you can make grow bags out of plastic feed sacks, almost the same material. :confused: Just a thought.
 
:lol: I didn't shut the coop tonight. I knew that. As I lay here thinking, "I really need to shut the coop. If nothing else, you might get the willpower to process finally! You need the roosters contained!" I heard a crow. I had to go out to check for a predator. :D So now the coop is shut. Lazy or not.
 

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