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[miauw62]

Oh wow, that's pretty amazing.

[Parsely]

I don't understand. Is he just the only person who ever tried to grow crops in salt water? I'd assume he has some kind of solution, a method by which he enables crops to be grown using saline water, but it's not mentioned anywhere in the article that I can see.. I just wanna know what he did. D:

[Dutchling]

an enterprising farmer has taken the radical step of embracing salt water instead of fighting to keep it out.

This guy is not a true Dutchman

[Sheb]

As far as I can tell, he just found a salt-resistant variety. He's hardly the only guys working on this though, I know of at least 3 labs in my uni working on the same problem.

[Lagslayer]

I wast thinking we'd just start farming saltwater plants ,like kelp, but hey, the next step up is good, too.

[Gentlefish]

I wast thinking we'd just start farming saltwater plants ,like kelp, but hey, the next step up is good, too.

I wish. Kelp is fecking delicious.

[Frumple]

... it fecks deliciousness, anyway >_>

Can say I hope the salt potatoes work out. Frumple loves potatoes, and more potatoes is always a good thing.

[i2amroy]

Seems like they are growing strawberries too, which personally I could take over potatoes.

[Reelya]

I wast thinking we'd just start farming saltwater plants ,like kelp, but hey, the next step up is good, too.

But you don't want to eat the salt along with the plant. you want a plant that is tolerant to salt in the soil. but keeps it out of the edible part. These potatoes concentrate the salt in their leaves, not the root, which is why they're better than eating kelp.

[Gentlefish]

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I thought everyone salted their potatoes? Why would a little salt be bad in the tuber itself?

[Moghjubar]

Ones definition of "little salt" might better be expressed in grams per day, preferably not also prefixed with a kilo- because thats right out (and don't give me those fancy fractions either!).

(also random side note: most of the salt people generally intake in a day is already in food: a few sprinkles on top [assuming said sprinkles don't add up to 1g+ several times a day] typically wont add much)

[Frumple]

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I thought everyone salted their potatoes?

... no? I mean, I usually dribble a bit of soy sauce into a baked potato (but bugger plain salt with a rusty cactus -- bullion or soy or something. Not just salt.), but m'perfectly content to just eat the ruddy thing, too. Clean it, cook it, eat it. No, no forks. No spoons. Use your hands. No butter, no salt. No whatever. Don't peel the damned thing, the skin's the best part. Eat the friggin' potato.

[Dutchling]

Frumple, the Terrified thread is over there.

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[Frumple]

... you have something against the nobility of the unfettered potato, dutchling? CONSUME THE SPUD

[Sirus]

I'm a little D: myself over the idea of eating a hot potato with your bare hands. I mean, I always cut them open and eat them with a fork because otherwise that shit's practically scalding.