This helpful tutorial above shows you one way to grow potatoes in an easily-findable container, such as a garbage can. This is how I grow my potatoes, in large galvanized trash cans heaped with compost and rotted hay/rabbit manure. I add a little all-purpose compost to my layers as well, which seems to help things from getting too soggy. Overall the potatoes seem to grow very well in this manner, and I get far fewer pests (such as those horrible Colorado potato beetles) when I grow in containers. My seed potatoes have been chitting on the porch for a few weeks, and are just about ready to be planted out in their containers. I just need to get some more multipurpose compost first...but then, it's potato planting time!
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Garbage Can Potatoes
This helpful tutorial above shows you one way to grow potatoes in an easily-findable container, such as a garbage can. This is how I grow my potatoes, in large galvanized trash cans heaped with compost and rotted hay/rabbit manure. I add a little all-purpose compost to my layers as well, which seems to help things from getting too soggy. Overall the potatoes seem to grow very well in this manner, and I get far fewer pests (such as those horrible Colorado potato beetles) when I grow in containers. My seed potatoes have been chitting on the porch for a few weeks, and are just about ready to be planted out in their containers. I just need to get some more multipurpose compost first...but then, it's potato planting time!
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