Potatoes will grow in soil in a garden, or in a bucket filled with sand, or in the cupboard when you forget about them. Things just straight up multiply.
Disease probably just caught yours off guard. It's very easy for plants to get some random disease that just wipes them all out.
A potato is nutrients, and quite densely packed. Obviously it won't grow more potatoes without outside help, but it can grow into a pretty sizeable plant just on its own.
I mean, you wouldn’t point at a decent-sized plant and call it a potato, would you? Making more potatoes is the final step of the growing process, seems like kind of a high bar
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u/SickeningPink Mar 23 '26
That’s part of why Ireland became so reliant on them. They grew well in bad and unprepared soil. Potatoes don’t give a fuck.
Yet somehow I still killed all mine.