Great setup! Can you please tell me more about those pots/boxes where the potatoes are growing in? How are they built?
Yup! As was said, they're just cattle fence made into round cages. The bottoms I lined with some landscaping fabric for a growing medium (75/25 compost/soil) and planted the potatoes about half way down. From there I just mound up in straw.
There's some folks that will actually do a core of medium up the center for new potato roots to take hold in. I'm trying something that's a little more fertilizer-intense, but easier to scale up. Little blood meal every couple weeks while they're growing up then some 10-10-10 twice (once at the beginning and once again here in a bit).
If I can make this work in my home garden, I'm hoping to tweak it a bit for larger scale. We'll see
Second this. I'm using the trash bag method for the first time and the bags just don't hold up after 3 or so feet. Hard to water.
So lovely! I wish you a great harvest!
Thank you! Here's hoping!
Just admiring the sprinklers in the morning light
*glowers at water restrictions*
Ugghh I wish haha
We had an insanely wet spring, then have been dry for about three weeks before the storms that kicked through yesterday.
Damn, man. Two weeks of summer and it's already a drought on you guys? You're a masochist
Our spring has been pretty wet thank god, the water restrictions are from a main break back at the beginning of June. Should be lifted this week/end and I can water outside again from the tap. Hand watering sucks, wheter it’s a can or a nozzle with pressure anyways.
Been using rain water. I’ve got 8 100 HD totes to hold out, but it’s also been really rainy so haven’t needed it much lately. At the start needed it for the seedlings/transplants.
