grandpa Love
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Got this old cultivator frame and parts a while back. Decided to try to make a potato hiller. Hope it dries up enough soon to try it
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caterpillar guy
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To hill them would you not want to twist the discs a bit more and remove the shovel in front. Or are you ditching for the planting first.
Moonlite37
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LET US KNOW HOW IT WORKS.
larry@stinescorner
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grandpa Love
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Thinking that the plow will loosen up dirt and allow it to hill better. Garden will we plowed and disked first. Maybe dont need the front plow........
larry@stinescorner
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it will work!Use the center plow to plant them,,,take off the disks,,,then take off the center plow,,and put the disks on to hill
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grandpa Love
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Thanks Larry! Pictures sure help! Hopefully we can get em planted this Fri. No rain in forecast until Saturday. We have never planted taters in the garden. Tried them in buckets, barrels and boxes, with very little luck.
Add a drop tube behind your middle buster, a seat and a "dinger" and you can plant and hill at the same time. The "dinger" dings every 12". My planter is offset because I use a tricycle tractor. We plant over 800 feet of potato row each year without making a footprint in the dirt.
I got the idea of the "dinger" from Sam. He used to post on YT - I think he is from Ireland?
Hobo,NC
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I have THREE problems with plating taters
1) the crew goes M.I.A when it comes time to drop'em in the hole.
2) the crew goes M.I.A when it comes time to pick'em up
3) I have no good way to store them for a long time.
The crew as no problem eating them tho...
The big question that would go well with this post is how do those in the south store them...
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grandpa Love
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Hobo we grew sweet potatoes last year and
got 300+ lbs. Stored them on a shelf in
our pantry. Cool and dark in there. They
are still good. Hope white potatoes
store as good
got 300+ lbs. Stored them on a shelf in
our pantry. Cool and dark in there. They
are still good. Hope white potatoes
store as good
Richard G.
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This is how we store them.
Richard in NW SC
Richard in NW SC
Hobo,NC
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Yes, I keep forgetting about canning them : )
To add to Hobo's complaints - when I was young and we dug taters by hand, they were a dime a pound in the grocery store. And the ground was always dry and hard as a rock.
We store white potatoes in milk crates in an underground cellar. They keep well enough that we make "seed" or "sets" (proper term?) from them the following spring.
An old guy I used to work for told of losing his job in St. Louis when the stock market crashed in 1929. His family was hungry and he returned to our little town, but there was no hope there either. His family was taken in by some folks who he had always thought were the poorest people in the neighborhood. He wondered what they would all do for food, and the benefactor took him out back to his underground cellar and it was stacked to the ceiling with Irish potatoes. The old guy said that they ate potatoes for breakfast, dinner and supper until they were sick of potatoes, but they never were hungry. It was a good story - you can be without a penny, but if you have something however meager to eat, you feel like the richest guy on the planet.
We store white potatoes in milk crates in an underground cellar. They keep well enough that we make "seed" or "sets" (proper term?) from them the following spring.
An old guy I used to work for told of losing his job in St. Louis when the stock market crashed in 1929. His family was hungry and he returned to our little town, but there was no hope there either. His family was taken in by some folks who he had always thought were the poorest people in the neighborhood. He wondered what they would all do for food, and the benefactor took him out back to his underground cellar and it was stacked to the ceiling with Irish potatoes. The old guy said that they ate potatoes for breakfast, dinner and supper until they were sick of potatoes, but they never were hungry. It was a good story - you can be without a penny, but if you have something however meager to eat, you feel like the richest guy on the planet.
Richard G.
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Very good story and I agree.
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