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Growing Potatoes With Homemade Potato Crates – Vertically!
We had always grown potatoes in our long raised-rows of soil, until of course last year, when we experimented with “vertical growing.” I am sure, like us, you have read about all of the ways to grow potatoes in garbage cans or plastic tubs – and we wanted to see if we could adapt it to our garden in a more natural way. By natural – I mean a more pleasing arrangement of wood that plastic. And so came about the potato crate experiment. Utilizing a few homemade wooden crates created from non-treated pallet wood – we trialed the growing of potatoes “container style” – and were we ever surprised with the results! Not only were they a cinch to plant and maintain – we actually had a larger harvest that our traditional row-grown potatoes – in about 1/20th of the time it took to plant and maintain our “regular” method. We were hooked! And for this year – expanded on the idea to create some larger inexpensive growing crates from scrap lumber. The Crate Method of Growing Potatoes… Anyone who has ever grown potatoes knows that the key is to keep soil mounded around the tops of the plants as the [...]
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