Saturday, August 6, 2011

Growing Potato in the box

Since we moved here on December 2007, the first think we want is have our own small vegetable garden, still in on going project, a very slow progress :0) . The first year, we planted most of our veggie in the pot, some tomato, hot pepper, eggplants, basil and some others Asian vegetable and herb. with no experience, we just doing by learning, so far, every year we learning a lot about what to do and what not to do, and some advice and information from uncle Google. It’s fun !

This year we growing purple potato in the box, (built as you grow box), starting on February with 2 line frames and today they almost ready for the next 7nd frame , they growing very fast, growing so fast just like a weed potato ! ha…ha…ha..

We built our potato box with pine board



Aaaah… can’t wait for the harvest times, and how much potato we’ll get…
Update: Dang! I forgot about this project until some friends asked about it, we got some but not what I expected. Most potatoes I found at the bottom and only few at the middle of the box. We replanted some of them with hope we can have a purple mash potato for our thanks giving dinner.
Maybe will have a better luck if we planted a long season potato.

Update: 
I quest this is not the right potato for growing at the box, even it's said medium season potato, but the fact it is a short season potato. They taste great though.

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