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Fw: spuds

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I tried this one time and the only thing that I remember raising were mice
that ate the spuds

John Ross

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> From: JC Dill <garden@vo.cnchost.com>
> To: sqft@listbot.com
> Subject: Re: spuds
> Date: Saturday, April 17, 1999 6:12 PM
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> On 07:51 PM 4/16/99 EDT, Elizwelch@aol.com wrote:
> >Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> >Has anyone tried the barrel method of growing potatoes?  I tried last
year 
> >and the "enormous yield" ended up about 2 pounds.  Considering the
amount of 
> >topsoil and other ingredients I used, not to mention the $9.95 pound of
> yukon 
> >gold seed potatoes, that was one expensive bowl of mashed  potatoes.
> >Just interested to knoe if anyone had similar or more successful
experience.
> 
> A friend mentioned that her mother grew potatoes on an unconstrained bed
of
> straw.  To harvest, she would pick up the plant, pick a few potatoes off
> the roots, and put the plant back down and recover with straw.  She says
> the plants would keep growing, relatively undisturbed, and thus they had
an
> extended crop this way.
> 
> I'm not quite certain that this is in keeping with the tight land
> utilization scheme of square foot gardening, but it might work fine for
> those who have the extra room.  I think I'll give it a try...
> 
> jc
> 
> 
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