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Re: Potato torture update

In a message dated 5/26/98 2:40:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ferrell7@gte.net
writes:

<< I once lived on the property of an old burned out dairy. Lots of concrete
 flat surfaces and rock soil. I had access to wheat straw and chicken coupe
 manure. I layed16" piles of straw mixed liberally with chick.M. Then placed
 potato's few inches under surface and watered well. >>

Great idea Jim.   My veggie garden is a filled swimming pool.  In this area
the soil is great.  The best top soil I could locally find.  My native soil is
gumbo clay.  You could use it to make ceramics.  I tried growing things in the
natural soil before I had to fill the pool,  and had really bad results,  even
when working in lots of good stuff.  Because I only have good soil in a
limited area,  I like this idea.  Maybe I can grow spuds on top of the clay
and save space in my 'good' soil.

Did you use anything to contain the straw?  How wide were the beds?

Janet.
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