if you grow them densely like corn they support them selves. i just let mine naturally spread on my lawn . from 6 tubers, now they are a 6’ x 20ft. patch i mow around to control them. half red and half white tubers.
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It sounds like the shoots were getting mowed off by slugs.
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The deer and the groundhog won’t let that happen here.