Re: Volunteer Potatoes

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• To: v*@eskimo.com
• Subject: Re: Volunteer Potatoes
• From: M* L*
• Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:27:44 -0600
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At 10:01 AM 4/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I also grow my potatoes in small containers, but then we like to harvest 
>them as baby potatoes, so it works fine for me. I haven't had any luck 
>growing them in the ground -- bad drainage, I think, and we haven't gotten 
>around to building a raised bed for the potatoes. Pots have been working 
>very well.
>
>Pat
>Zone 7, Maryland

I think this is going to depend on the variety. I know that for Red 
Pontiac, you get about 1/2 bushel of taters per hill, and that's way too 
many to fit into even a 5 gal. container.  Margaret L

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