Re: SQFT: potato mounds in sqft garden?
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- Subject: Re: SQFT: potato mounds in sqft garden?
- From: B* D* <T*@TheImageMill.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:33:46 -0400
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Melissa Silvestre wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Will this work? Am I totally confused about potato-growing?
>
The only problem I see is that there won't be a lot of light at the
bottom of the barrel. I am doing about the same thing by making a 1'wide
fencing square 3' high and will put mulch in as the potato grows. I just
bent some hardware cloth into a rectanular border around the square.
Good luck.
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