In honor of St. Patrick's day, my son and I planted potatoes. Granted these Yukon Gold taters are probably not native to Ireland, but they are potatoes, for Pete's sake.I didn't feel like digging a huge trench and hilling them in my backyard, so I followed a little advice from a local gardener, Ciscoe Morris, and planted them in a container. Well, a short garbage can, really. I had heaps of fun drilling 1/2" holes in the bottom and lower sides of the can. We filled it with potting compost and perlite, planted the 12 potatoes and watered them in.
Now I just need to remember to hill the things up when they've grown a while. I have another set of potatoes to plant, but I need another container. I might try a half-whiskey barrel, but they're expensive (even though they look a lot more attractive).
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Let me know how well you do with the container. I go with the lazy bed method, and it has worked wonderfully.
Thank you so much for your helpful advice with my soap making adventure.
I'm a natural shade gardener, and an accidental veggie grower. I get veggies growing out of my free throw compost pile. Last year I was raking some leaves into the beds, and noticed potatoes rolling under my rake!
I plan to grow some for eating this year....not just compost growings for for the critters. :)
phelan - lazy bed method? That's my kind of gardening!
alexandra - you've got quite a compost pile going there if you're harvesting potatoes :)
Oooooh, I might need to try this container method. What is the yeild supposed to be?
never mind I just read the article. I'm going to try this! How fun!
I plan on doing potatoes in containers this year too. I ordered the cool blue ones and are still waiting for them to get here. I may need to call the company and find out what the deal is.
Yikes! That reminds me, I need to plant my cool blue ones. I put them in my gardening bench outside and promptly forgot about the poor little guys!
Thanks for the lead on this method. I'm a beginner but I think I can manage it.
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