Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Clever potato growing idea or just nonsense?, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Roni, Yes you could make it a center piece. Depending on how you lay out your garden Possibly plant a few annuals at the corners like Marigolds or maybe some ornamental peppers or possibly one of the newer and colorful veggies. There are some very pretty and productive veggie gardens. As people are going back to gardening they are prettying up the old vegetable garden with some very interesting designs and combos. To make their Veggie Gardens as pretty as their Flower Gardens.
There is a whole thread devoted to Growing potatoes in straw
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/937306/
Ric decided to give it a try this year. Not sure yet what type of a harvest we will get but he did get about 2lbs of very nice potatoes from one plant that he did harvest from the smallest drum. I had something like that in mind earlier this spring when we started but Ric's injury really slowed us down and the Veggie Garden doesn' look near as nice as we were planing but we are getting some very nice veggies from what we did get planted.