Name: Sandy B. Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
Texaskitty, that is really interesting !! I've seen people growing potatoes in various sorts of tubs, garbage cans, etc., but never anyone that used feed sacks... I love it! What do you use for the soil to fill them -- garden soil, or ?
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I put compost on the bottom, then soil from the garden on top. Here garden soil is sand with a little clay. I think the potato roots can grow down as close to the compost as they need and get nutrients without being burned.
Name: Mary My little patch of paradise (Zone 7b) Gardening dilettante, that's me!
texaskitty111 said:I put compost on the bottom, then soil from the garden on top. Here garden soil is sand with a little clay. I think the potato roots can grow down as close to the compost as they need and get nutrients without being burned.
Have you done an article on that yet? Because you shold
Northwest Georgia Daylily Society I'm going to retire and live off of my savings. Not sure what I'll do that second week. My yard marches to the beat of a bohemian drummer...
Ive only tried this with sweet potatoes, so I'll give an update on "normal" potatoes this fall. I didn't get any purple, yellow or white potatoes last year, which i placed on the dirt, and kept covered with leaves. Not one, though the plants looked great.
Well, here's an update on planting potatoes in sacks. I have opened 8 sacks, and so far, not one potato. Now, i could blame it all on the sacks, but since the plants grew so well, hard to believe the potatoes would fail. In any case, i won't do it again.
1. Potatoes grown covered with leaves, failure
2. Potatoes grown in sacks, failure
3. 2016, potatoes grown old fashioned way in hills, stay tuned
