Easy potatoes
Just bought my 9 year-old grandson a potato planting kit for his birthday.
Awesome!
@Hathacat It's great - it is a flat-bottomed reusable sack with a window covered by a flap so he can see the potatoes growing. I got him that, a bag of seed potatoes and a sack of compost. I'm going over on his birthday next week to help him plant it up. I'm going to be as keen as he will be!
When I lived in Edmonton many years ago many Ukrainian Edmontonians used to plant potatoes in used tires just adding a layer of of soil as they added each tire as the plants grew. I saw stacks as high as 10 tires and seen harvests of as much as a bushel and a half per stack.
I now grow my potatoes under hay with no digging, hilling or planting, works great.
I have seen many ways to do this too. I just liked how tidy this was for someone like me with no usable land, really.
@Hathacat I see how it would work well even on a balcony but so do tires in fact that is where Isay the 10 tire stack, 4 stories up.
@HeathenFarmer Haha Not into ladders! I will stick to my little pot with my little potatoes. Don't eat that many anyway!
Better than the barrel ideas.
Easy to do a couple don't you think?
Pretty cool.
Very cool can have homegrown potatoes year around and have them indoors when freezing and snowy outside.
@DiThor I have been harvesting potatoes all winter. Plant them in the summer and when the stalks die down cover the bed with mulch and harvest them when I need them. This was the last batch I harvested - some 3 1/2 lbs
I've got a nice little plot that runs itself, I pick some and leave some to reseed. I mow it in early spring and they grow fast and dense and mostly choke out the weeds. Pretty too, dark green foliage with little purple flowers.
That's wonderful! I think this is for those with no room, or like me, a back that can't take all the digging!
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