Flowers N The Garden

Last year and this year we have planted Yukon Gold potatoes in barrels. Last year we used 2 full size 55 gallon drums. White plastic. drilled holes in the bottom and around the bottom edge..put in dirt, buried potatoes and waited……we ended up running out of dirt to keep them hilled over enough…..55 gallons is a lot!

Here is what we did this year, we took those 2 same barrels, and cut the bottoms off

After he cut the bottom off, we then cut them in half… you don’t need to drill any more holes, since the pototes will be planted in the ground..

we wiggled the barrels into the dirt just a bit (after tilling soil)

A few days after they where in place and potatoes planted we looked out there and our son had rolled all the barrels away :) but we got them back home.

The potatoes went into the ground on March 21st. We buy our seed potatoes at Smith’s Market

This picture was taken on 4-11-2010.. Be ready for how fast potatoes grow!

This picture was taken today 4-29-2010. We have already had to bury the plants up once..and will need to again soon