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Build Your Own Potato Tower
by
Karen Lynn @Lil' Suburban Homestead
(IC: blogger)
$10.00
30 Minutes
Easy
One of my favorite gardening tasks is to build our potato towers every year! If you have never built one before I strongly encourage you to attempt this project in your gardening adventures!
You can build your own potato tower on your homestead! More details on how to prepare the potatoes and cage are in my blog post.
First You will start off with a tomato cage, soil, and straw. Look for a good location they love full sun!
You will slowly step by step add more soil and pack in straw between the metal tomato cage and the soil to keep the soil and potatoes inside the tower.
Voila' you have beautiful potatoes just waiting to be cooked up and eaten by you in your kitchen! The edible garden concept is a beautiful thing! We so look forward to fresh potatoes every year and they go wonderful with our fresh eggs from our suburban homestead!
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Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
Published April 17th, 2014 12:00 PM
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Jootsie Sivad on Apr 24, 2014We finally just used big tubs, 5 gallon buckets and so forth, filled them with dirt and planted our seed potatoes in them last year. We had the best tatoes ever last year- so we are doing it again this year. One year we tried the tubs and as the green tops grew we kept adding more dirt but we did not ever get them to sprout on the stems. We just got potatoes clear down in the bottom of the tubs & buckets.. ha ha ha
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Kate Chatterton on Jun 05, 2014A friend told me she once grew potatoes in stacked tires and straw, just kept adding layers until it was 3-4 feet tall. I just used raised beds. Soil stays light enough that I can harvest the potatoes without any real digging, just moving the soil around with my hands.
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