Re: Volunteer Potatoes
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- Subject: Re: Volunteer Potatoes
- From: D* W*
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:33:20 -0400
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I grow potatoes in half barrel planters (wine casks cut in half?), and plant
5 seed potatoes per barrel. I am happy with the yield but know it could be
better. I get about a dozen potatoes per barrel. (Hey - at least I got
some!!!) I am not good about fertilizing and watering regularly, but vow
that this year I will do better. (I have also learned an awful lot since I
grew them 2 summers ago.)
Mark wrote:
> I tried growing All Blue potatoes in 55 gallon drum last year but think
> I overcrowded them; plants were doing fine for a while but then all of a
> sudden 75-80% of the plants wilted/mushed with only 1 or 2 surviving in
> the barrel. Used chopped straw & compost & kept adding as the plants
> grew. Got about 12-18 2-3" taters out of the 2 remaining plants.
>
> May do it again this year but use less seeds/eyes per barrel.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdanielak@bluecrab.org [p*@bluecrab.org]
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 10:01 AM
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Volunteer Potatoes
>
> 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
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Oakland County, Michigan USA;USDA Hardiness Zones 5b/6a
