Re: container potatoes

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• To: "sarah oddo" <s*@hotmail.com>, <o*@sisqtel.net>, <g*@laol.net>, <i*@glasscity.net>
• Subject: Re: container potatoes
• From: "* T* <f*@total.net>
• Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:23:19 -0500

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Potatoes will do fine in a deep mulch like this, the only caveat is to
thoroughly bury them so that you don't have any greening of the taters..you
can start them and just keep hilling on the compost/leaf mulch as the plant
grows...

Sweet potatoes certainly can be grown in containers, which warm up faster
than the soil does....I'm not sure they like the same piling on of mulch
that ordinary potatoes do...

See Ken Allan's Sweet Potatoes for the Home Garden for tips on growing them
in containers; a guy in the Yukon does it, so you could too!

Frank Teuton

Frank Teuton
-----Original Message-----
From: sarah oddo <sarahoddo@hotmail.com>
To: fteuton@total.net <fteuton@total.net>; orofino@sisqtel.net
<orofino@sisqtel.net>; gshirley@laol.net <gshirley@laol.net>;
irishis@glasscity.net <irishis@glasscity.net>
Cc: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 4:47 PM
Subject: container potatoes


>I would like to try growing potatoes this year.  A friend suggested
>growing them in containers with leaf mulch.  As the plant grows up, the
>idea is to continue adding leaf mulch to the base of the plant.  Because
>the mulch is so light, it will be easy to pile it high.  I could even
>try it in chicken wire frames.  The other advantage to using leaf mulch
>is that it will be easy to reach into and harvest new potatos without
>damaging the plant.
>
>Has anyone ever tried something like this?  Any ideas on how well it
>will work?  We have a lot of well composted leaf mulch.    Could sweet
>potatoes grow this way too?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Sarah
>Lexington, KY - Zone 5
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