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Re: Growing potatoes in a barrel



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> From: Cindy Meredith & Mike Szwarc <micyn@cvtv.net>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Growing potatoes in a barrel
> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 7:10 AM
> 
> >>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
> >>
> >>+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> >>Nan Sterman, Master Composter in Residency
> >>Olivenhain, California
> >>Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
> >>+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> >>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
> use a bushel basket,large side down, with the bottom cut out, its will be
easier to lift off the potatoes to harvest.  or use tires, add soil as the
potatoes grow, and add a another tire... im afraid once the barrel is fill
of soil it will be hard to tip over........
>
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