• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    Potatoes are far better than corn. Potatoes heal the soil as well as the soul. Potatoes make us whole. Potatoes are superior to corn and beans.

    Potatoes are easy to grow, they self-propagate, and they’re both nutritious and tasty. Corn is okay, but nothing compared to potatoes.

    Corn didn’t wreck us when we couldn’t grow it. Potatoes did. We cannot live without potatoes. Potatoes are life.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      19 minutes ago

      Potatoes are just overgrown beans. They grew so big they lost most of that healthy bean fiber.

    • The_v@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Potatos are very destructive to the soil.

      They have to be dug up (lots of cultivation). This breaks up the soil structure causing all sorts of issues with porosity, nutrient and organic material loss.

      Because of the diseases and pest that attack the growing tubers, growers use fumigants/biofumigants. These are indescriminate killers that wipe out all sorts of insects, fungi, nematodes, and bacteria.

      Potatoes leave very little organic residue behind when the tubers are harvested.

      Any crop that follows potatoes suffers from a “yield drag” for 2-3 years as the soil recovers.

      Out of the all starchy foods we eat, potatoes and sweet potatoes are the worst for the soil.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Beans also heal the soil and the soul. And the correct answer is beans with potatoes. Falafel and greek style fries is easily a top tier meal