POTATOES!!! *PICS added!*

[Toast n Jelly]

What size bucket or garbage can and how many plants per? Now I'm getting a potato craze...

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Homegrown new potatoes are a different thing completely from 'store potatoes'.
They are usually trouble-free and easy to grow --- unless you have a population of @#$% VOLES.
Last year when we dug potatoes, there was not a single potato that hadn't been nibbled.
Didn't plant any this spring and missed them so much, we decided we'll plant again next year --- just more.

Lisa

 

[georgialee]

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I planted them in about 3-4 inches of soil and as the stems and leaves grew I piled up hay around them instead of more dirt. I have mine in a raised bed so I couldn't just keep piling soil on like I could if I had a 'regular' garden. The hay seemed to work pretty well.

 

[English Chick]

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I've got mine in 10 litre buskets, one seed potatoe per bucket...

 

[silkiechicken]

I just dig a trench, put seed potatoes in, a light cover of dirt and let the rainy April, May, and June cause erosion to fill in the trench where the taters were set. Then water twice a week all summer and usually they either up and die or frost really does them in and I dig them up. I'm too lazy and not physically home to do any mound building to increase yields. And the one year I tried to build up the soil, the rain just washed it all flat.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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I've got mine in 10 litre buskets, one seed potatoe per bucket...

Thanks..I tried for some seeds at a garden shop but they had none.

 

[eggsforsale]

I live in rural Idaho in the heart of potato country. There are potato fields around every corner. For some reason I can't grow russets in my home garden as well as the farmers do. The sandy soil just north of us grows the best potatoes. Nothing like a freshly harvestly baked russet with real butter and sour cream!

 

[geareduplyn]

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Wagener Milling in Wagener. You'll have wait until next year. Plant on March 17, then sucess is guaranteed.

 

[Davaroo]

But I want 'em now, Gary!

Just kidding. Besides, no one has 'em anyway. Ah well, next year, God willing.

 

[georgialee]

I added some pics to the original post