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[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Potatoes are fucking immortal, I recovered some of last year's from a planter whose soil was so dry it was almost sand, planted them again, watered them and they immediately sprouted vines and leaves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

That's because this is pretty much their natural lifecycle. They're native to the Andes, where cold, dry weather is kind of the norm.