Specialty Gardening: Potato Barrels, 0 by Weezingreens

Weezingreens wrote:
Every year, we plant our seed potatoes in halved whiskey barrels. We drilled holes in the bottoms, then added some rocks for additional drainage. We placed a thin layer of soil over the rocks, then added the sprouted seed potatoes, cut with at least three eyes per piece. Next we added enough soil to cover the seed potatoes, adding more as the sprouts came up and leafed out. By mid-summer, the barrels were filled with soil and the the potato foliage towered well above them. They make a nice yard border that keeps people from parking there, and the barrels make it easy to harvest the potatoes in the fall.