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SQFT: potato mounds in sqft garden?

Hello. I am going to try to grow some potatoes, ordinary white ones,
in some squares of my sqft raised-bed garden this year. Since
the idea with potatoes is to start low then keep heaping dirt over
them as they grow, I came up with this idea. Please someone tell
me if this isn't going to work:
I bought a cheap rubbermaid round container that is just
about 1 ft in diameter and about 2 ft tall. I was thinking to
dig a nice deep hole in the corner of one of my 4x4 framed beds,
and bury this thing (I cut drainage holes in the bottom) all the
way down, and then plant the seed potato in it, slowly filling it up
as the plant grows. The reason I want to do this is because if
I picture a deep hole for slow mounding that doesn't have something
rigid making the sides, the hole will get washed inwards. But if
I try to mound up above ground level, the rain/watering will wash
the mound onto the plants in adjoining squares.

Will this work? Am I totally confused about potato-growing?

Melissa

Melissa Silvestre  silvest@umslvma.umsl.edu   http://www.umsl.edu/~silvest/
Reference Librarian, University of Missouri-St. Louis   (314) 516-6473

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