Photo Credit Domicile
I love growing potatoes. Apart from watching for pests, they are very low maitenance when grown on a small scale. This is my second year growing them in my square foot garden and I just use my end-of-the-bag sprouted potatoes as starters. My humble opinion is that everyone who has space should grow their own potatoes, but there are so many different ways to go about it.
Last night I found the blog Domicile, and her post about container gardening potatoes. Since she has done such a magnificent job of outlining her procedure, and photographing the results I thought I’d just link you there rather than try to do better. The irony of her choice of containers is that she repurposed her old recycle bin that the her city stopped accepting. The container wasn’t recycleable! Well, now it has been given a new job and is making some fabulous home grown produce instead of waste.
this is awesome! thank you so much!
i was visiting my grandparents back east in march, and we ate the last of the potatoes from the basement. i was teasing my grandmother, because they were pretty sad potatoes, all wrinkled up, but as soon as i tasted them, i shut up! they were amazing! i couldn’t believe the difference between the force grown potatoes at the grocery store and the naturally grown potatoes from the garden.
since then i’ve been obsessed with the idea of growing potatoes, but i live in the city on a raised corner lot, with very little level space free (we have two driveways, a big shop and a very hilly lawn!). everyone in my family told me i’d have to build up rows to grow potatoes, the way we did on the farm when i was a kid.
they were wrong! yay! mmm, i wonder if it’s too late to plant potatoes this year…