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RE: potatoes... again

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The potatoes are in 24" high giant plastic flower pots, styled to look like
terra cotta planters.  The pots have a water-holding dish built into the
bottom, which seemed to help during our recent long dry spell.  (In fact, I
am tempted to forget raised beds all together and do everything in pots, but
that's a topic for another thread.)

I planted the seed potatoes two weeks before the last-frost-date, in just 4"
of potting soil at the bottom of the pots.  When the plants were peeking
over the top of the pot, I added another four inches, and later another
four.  This winter, I'll dump the whole pot into the sifter and reclaim the
potting soil.  We'll see whether they really make tubers all the way up. 

-BT

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kim Kiernan [SMTP:kkiernan@home.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 23, 1999 3:47 AM
> To:	Towey, Brian
> Cc:	sqft@listbot.com
> Subject:	Re: potatoes... again
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> How do you keep piling up the soil in the planters?  Are they whiskey
> barrel type of planters?  I tried doing this but I couldn't mound the
> soil up very high because it would just spill over the sides of the
> whiskey barrel.  I tried planting the spuds at first only half way up
> the container, but that still didn't leave me much room to pile more
> soil up around the growing plants.  I'd like to plant spuds again this
> fall, but last time I wasn't very successful, so I want to figure out
> how to do it better before I start this time.
> 
> Kim
> zone 9, so cal
> 
> "Towey, Brian" wrote:
> > 
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> > 
> > This is my first time with the barrel method, too.  I'm using potting
> soil
> > in big planters.  I keep burying them up to their "necks" (the main
> bunch of
> > leaves), but no more than that.  I expect to let them grow until the
> plant
> > above the ground dies back for the winter.  Then, I'll dump the barrel
> and
> > see what I've got.  I planned to do the same with my sweet potatoes, but
> > they are vining, not bushing.  If that goes well, I'll report back to
> the
> > list.
> > 
> > -BT
>


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