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On a Sunday morning, with my paper on capital mobility versus labor unions finished, I’m ready to set off on a quick gardening shift over at the new community garden.
I thought I’d share a quick gardening tip from the interwebs. Potatoes are rather easy to grow and can do so in some interesting contraptions: old pots, five-gallon buckets, old tires…you get the point.
In simplest terms, without bogging you down in rules and traditions, here’s how to grow a potato.
Dirt in a bucket.
Cut up a potato with green sprouts, not red.
Put taters in dirt and space them out evenly, depending upon the size of your bucket.
Ta-di-frickin-da. At some point in the near future, you may or may not have a tuber of some size. That’s up to the gods.
Sure, there are super-scientific ways to grow potatoes. Even you can turn your backyard garden into a laboratory. But I’m fine letting nature, and serendipity, I hope, do it’s thing.
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March 9, 2010 at 1:18 am
Old tires work especially well, I’ve heard. You put down a tire and put dirt in it. Place your potato on top and stack another tire on top and fill that with dirt. As the potato plant pops up and grows a foot or so, stack another tire and fill with dirt so that the top two inches of the plant are showing. The stem will sprout roots and grow even more tubers. In the end, you can take apart the tires and have potatoes aplenty without digging! Try getting the stack to four tall. I just grow em in the dirt, but if you are short on space or don’t have any “ground” to work with, this would be a great way to grow taters.