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I'm getting ready to plant some
potatoes. I have a mix of an all red variety and some white potatoes.
I cut the bigger seed potatoes into chunks and waited a few days for
the exposed parts to callus over.
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| Cut and callused all red seed potatoes. ©SBF |
There are several ways to grow
potatoes, right in the ground or in some sort of planter. I grow mine
in a trash can!
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| Summer 2014 Potatoes. ©SBF |
We tried growing them in the ground the first year we
had a garden, but found the trash can technique worked better for us,
and with limited sunny space on our property it fit better into my
plans to expand our garden through container gardening.
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| 2014 Potato Flowers ©SBF |
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| Just dump out the can to harvest! ©SBF |
I follow the
directions given in
Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces, by far my most favorite resource for container gardening!
If you want to try
other planter ideas, you might want to check out this
potato tower how-to from Mavis Butterfield.
This week many new flowers appeared.
The flowering trees and shrubs are almost all in bloom. I love spring!
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| May flowers! ©SBF |
Check out this affiliate link for the Garden Tower Project- wouldn't this be a fun addition to a school garden program?
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