Prettiest little potatoes...

FlipTX · April 6, 2007

I've been experimenting with growing potatoes in containers. I filled the 5+ gallon container about halfway with a mix of peat moss, pine bark fines, fertilizer, and so on, plant the Huckleberry potato pieces then mulch with hay as the plants grow.

Well, it's been so humid and rainy here that my hay started getting slimy and moldy. The potato plants looked kind of sad. I poked around in the hay, saw no potatoes, and decided it was a failed experiment. "Oh well," I thought, "at least it was a learning experience!"

Then, as I dumped the pot out, I saw these...

And they really are that bright!

April 6, 2007	#1
FlipTX Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 271	Prettiest little potatoes... I've been experimenting with growing potatoes in containers. I filled the 5+ gallon container about halfway with a mix of peat moss, pine bark fines, fertilizer, and so on, plant the Huckleberry potato pieces then mulch with hay as the plants grow. Well, it's been so humid and rainy here that my hay started getting slimy and moldy. The potato plants looked kind of sad. I poked around in the hay, saw no potatoes, and decided it was a failed experiment. "Oh well," I thought, "at least it was a learning experience!" Then, as I dumped the pot out, I saw these... And they really are that bright!