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• libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Even better, cut potato up and put pieces in ground, makes LOTS more potatoes.

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• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You have no idea. Non organic planted potato’s have an average yield of 40t/ha. So this field would give you about 100t of potato’s. And trust me, you can’t do this manually and even with machines this takes a shit load of time. Without any experience in farming and without equipment, which is needed (you dont need machines to plant and harvest, because they are waaay to expensive) this is still quite a big investment. Potato’s also drain the soils quite a lot so you need to have a rotation of at least a few years. But what do you do in the years where you dont plant potatos?

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can confirm, when I was a kid my parents wanted to build their dream house and bought 5 acres. Mom decided she wanted a ‘garden’, which wound up being a 40’x100’ mini-farm, and the only machine we had was a tiller, all the rest was hard-as-shit manual labor (‘Hey, good thing we had lots of kids!’ was a common refrain from my mom). Kneeling or crawling around on your knees, often with rocks in the soil, bending over, digging around or pulling weeds at arm’s reach, lots of standing up and kneeling down again, carrying a lot of heavy shit, dealing with bugs, thorns, nettles, and every other goddamned thing, etc. Extremely do not recommend, and that was only 0.03ha.

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Between the years you eat potatos

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• answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  according to my calculations if I started planting <n-number> potatos in my farm that would yield = the sum of times of planting (n^n-th) * (n^n-th) potatos = n^2n-th , basically infitity^infinity of potatos in no time

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I grew up on a farm for a while, we had potatoes. The way we usually replanted is just cut up the potatoes into quarters and then halve them giving 8 ‘seeds’ per potato, so using that method it would increase by a factor of 8 each planting.

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you assume, that every plant only grows one potato. Depending on what kind of potato you plant a single plant can give about a dozen potato’s, so this would come down to a factor of 96 per cycle.

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