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Yes. Potatoes are tubers and make eyes which are the seeds of the potato. If you've ever had a potato that started to turn soft, or was stored too long, you've probably seen the little growths that grow on the outside of the potato. These are the eyes. If you cut the potato into pieces, with an eye on each piece, you could plant them, six inches deep and one foot apart. Many people dry the pieces before planting. Dry with the eye down and potato flesh up to hasten drying. A plant will hopefully come up from each eye. The potatoes will grow on the roots of the plant. Unlike many other vegetables, potatoes grow up, so you must keep the potatoes covered by raking soil around the outside of the plant, forming a mound around the plant. When the tops of the plant begin to wilt, it's time to check the potatoes. Dig carefully into the mound and remove your potatoes. If too small, you can wait a little longer and check again when the plants die.
Potatoes like loose, well drained soil. You can also grow them in a large pail or bucket.
The biggest pests are potato beetles, which can be picked off and stepped on. Before planting, unless you have very good soil, you need to mix a little fertilizer into the soil (I use organic mulch). The plants also do well with just a pinch of Epsom salts sprinkled around the plant when it starts to come up through the soil.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoYou can but you shouldn't. This can aide in bacteria growth and cause the potatoes to rot. On the other hand planting in moist soil should be fine.
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∙ 15y agoWiki User
∙ 15y agoMabe. It depends. Is it in a pot? Or not?
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How can you make generalization of new plant from eyes?
In potato tuber the axillary buds are situated in a cavity forming an eye like structure. On planting these tubers, these buds develop in to new plants.
What has underground stems with eyes of buds from which new plants grow?
Potato.
Can you eat potato from a decorative potato plant?
CAn you eat a decrative potato plants potato?
What kind of potato plants have white flowers?
Most potato plants have white flowers. Sweet potatoes are the only potato plants without white flowers. (they have no flowers)
What color flowers do potato plants have?
The flower from a red potato plant is small and lavenderish with a yellow stigma in the center.
Does new plants grow from the roots of sweet potato?
Yes,new plants grow from the roots of potato, sweet potato, ginger and turmeric.
How can you make generalization of new plant from eyes?
In potato tuber the axillary buds are situated in a cavity forming an eye like structure. On planting these tubers, these buds develop in to new plants.
A potato forms sprouts that can become new plants what is the energy source for the sprouts?
Starch inside potato tuber
What has underground stems with eyes of buds from which new plants grow?
Potato.
How do you produce more potatoes from one that you already had?
When your potato is covered with eyes, then you cut the potato into chunks and plant them. The eyes are the beginning of new plants.
Can you eat potato from a decorative potato plant?
CAn you eat a decrative potato plants potato?
What kind of potato plants have white flowers?
Most potato plants have white flowers. Sweet potatoes are the only potato plants without white flowers. (they have no flowers)
Which food plants were native to the new world?
greasy nuts from spain
Should the US develop more Nuclear Plants?
yes, new ones of new designs.
What beginning with Y is a sweet potato commonly known as?
Definitely not, because potatoes are modified stems and sweet potaoes develop from roots. Both plants belong to differen plant familes. Potato belongs to Solanaceae and sweet potato to the family Convolvulaceae.
What plants have iron?
potato
Can potatoes produce seeds?
See answer to question, Can potato make new plant? You can plant the whole potato to make a new plant, or wait until it grows "eyes" on the outside, which are the "seeds" that form new plants. Each eye can make one new plant. Farmers use baby potatoes, or 'seed potatoes' to start new plants.
