Remember that post I did WAAAAYYY back in spring about planting potatoes? No? Me neither.. just kidding.
Well I realized that I forgot to do the update I promised.
Potatoes planted in the container:
Needed more water
No weeds
Larger potatoes
Easier to harvest
Potatoes planted in hills:
Less water
Overtaken by weeds
Lots of tiny potatoes
Tiny potatoes
Harder to harvest
Potatoes on the right were planted in hills, the ones on the left were in the container. Mater is covered in taters (sorry, couldn't help myself).
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Container potatoes |
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Hilled potatoes |
He happened to be driving along a back country road and saw a trail of potatoes that had bounced out of a potato truck.
Being the ever
Yay for potatoes!

I agree, yay for potatoes! I love your experiment and also that you got such a stash of free ones!
ReplyDeleteI want to invite you to come check out my blog for why I'm so excited! Plus, perhaps I can entice you to enter my book giveaway. :)
I have so many of those storage containers left from when we moved out here - i'm going to try that next year - because I need the chicken wire containers I used last year for something else! I'm so glad you posted this!
ReplyDeleteI have had only one successful potato harvest, I plant them in my raised beds. This year all of them died a weird fungal death :(
ReplyDeleteGreat find on your hubby's part. Around here, every once in awhile, we'll find onions. Always a good thing!
I'm so glad you're back. Have missed reading your blog. Jenny
ReplyDeleteWe have grown potatoes in large pots for years.they grow well and gives us a large harvest of good sized potatoes.
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