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Re: Growing potatoes in a barrel

>>Hi everyone!  Can someone send me directions for growing potatoes in a
>>barrel -- or send me to the correct URL?  I've been searching the Internet
>>for an hour and sometimes it seems as if the simplest thing to find is the
>>most difficult to locate! ARG!
>>
>>Thanks, I needed to get that off my chest!
>>
>>Nan
>>
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>>Nan Sterman, Master Composter in Residency
>>Olivenhain, California
>>Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
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>>So goes an old chinese proverb:
>>         If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk;
>>         If you want to be happy for a week-end get married;
>>         If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig;
>>         If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener
>>
Hi Nan
The way I understand growing potatoes in a barrel goes like this:
Get a barrel, drill some holes around the sides near the bottom and on up
for air and drainage. Then put a layer of planting medium in the bottom
about 6" thick. Plant the potatoes in it (or on it and cover the pieces).
As the plants grow keep covering the tops up to about 4-6" of the top of
the plant with straw or compost or a mix. Then to harvest the crop, just
tip the barrel over and there are the potatoes. Sounds simple enough.
I've never done it, because where I live in TX, fire ants are certain to
get into the barrel. It would be the perfect place for them to inhabit. I'm
still thinking of a way to do it here, though, without surrounding the
barrel with ant poison.
Happy Gardening, Cindy in TX
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