LAUNDRY BASKET POTATO CONTAINERS

Posted by Sheri on September 18, 2010 at 1:01am

If it's time to recycle your old laundry basket or the next time you run into some cheap laundry baskets at a garage sale, you might want to try this.  Fill the baskets with about 2" of soil & compost, then put a seed potato into each basket (each potato was cut into about 3 pieces with 2-3 eyes each).
Then cover the potato's with a bit soil and some straw. As the plants grow gradually fill the baskets with soil or straw as the potatoes grow, simulating "hilling" the potatoes
in a garden. Each basket should yield 8-10 lbs of potatoes. The potatoes will grow out of
the holes in the sides of the baskets. Be sure to keep the baskets watered well, it takes some patience (slow watering) to not have all the water run out the sides of the basket.


p.s. Keep them away from the deer. I got 2 good fingerling harvest this summer then the deer hit them!


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  • Sheri September 18, 2010 at 1:24am
    There's nothing like harvesting fresh potatoes and cooking them the same evening! Yum!
    • Gyda Marie Haynes > Sheri September 18, 2010 at 1:38am
      Oh, I know!!! They are YUM!!! Just like picking that fresh tomato and just biting into it!!! I love cooking fresh potatoes along with fresh picked peas. Whe we were stationed up in Maine, we'd go out into the fields and collect missed potatoes and also pea pods the pickers didn't get...what a delightful time and terrific meal!
    • Sheri > Gyda Marie Haynes September 18, 2010 at 1:54am
      Gyda, Your a real "Gleaner'! It is now being called "Food Rescue" and "Food Recovery". I've been researching "Gleaning" for a future discussion.

      The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet

    • Gyda Marie Haynes > Sheri September 18, 2010 at 6:04pm
      Oh, good...I'll be anxious to join in that discussion! I love this painting too...my Godmother had a print in her home...I remember it from when I was a little girl.
  • Gyda Marie Haynes September 18, 2010 at 1:16am
    I love this idea, Sheri...I'm going to go get some inexpensive baskets and try this...next spring...
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