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Re: SQFT: potato mounds in sqft garden? & leeks

I was wondering about a similar idea for leeks, tho I was thinking of
individual containers.  Haven't been able to figure out what the
containers should be tho.  Any ideas?
BTW, your idea sounds fine to me, tho I have never grown potatoes.
But from what I've read.....

On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:58:51 -0500, you wrote:

>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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