You get one PLANT per potato piece (with eye) planted and each plant makes multiple potatoes. You can plant potatoes in a garbage can but you could probably only get 2 - 3 plants in each can. They need room to spread their roots so they can make more potatoes. Linda

Sometimes you just have to bite your tongue when it comes to in-laws! :-)

I agree and I try to most of the time. I don't want to upset her but I was pretty sure what I was reading was right because I kept reading the same thing over and over on different sites and books.

Anyway, I just thought I'd plant them and then later on send her a bunch of potates from them (not saying I TOLD you so of course.) Just maybe sending her a picture of us digging them up and some of the results from our hard work.

Then again maybe it's better not to do or say anything..lol..

Thanks,

Dora Renee' Wilkerson

Go to your local feed&seed or coop store and buy some seed potatoes. Cut them into chunks wherever you see an eye sprouting. Buy some powdered sulfur and sprinkle it all over the raw potato, like flouring chicken before frying. Let them sit overnight. This will cauterize the wounds and help keep the potato from rotting once buried. Commercially grown potatoes are treated to keep them from sprouting eyes but you can go to the grocery store, buy a few potatoes, wash them with soap and water and put them in a dark, warm place. They will begin to sprout. Better still, ask the produce manager at your grocery store if he has any sprouted potatoes he has culled. He may not be able to give them to you but he will probably sell them for next to nothing. One plant will grow a bunch of potatoes.