TIRE//NO DIG STYLE POTATOES UPDATE 5-5-09

[stepherz76]

Nice. Good job! I'm doing tire growing-- so excited!

[n2wds]

Great job on the garden. Hope to have ours in before too long. Keep us updated on the potatoes.

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

i should have an update in the next few days

[Kamoyaker]

I really like the set up you made for the Potatoes, great job improvising material.

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

thanks!!

[capreolus4]

wow man looking good.cant have enough compost......all the best.

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

THANKYOU

[amwillard1990]

the old sheets are sexy :D

<3,

deeplove

[bonzaibb12]

The old tire method is a nice neat way of doing it too. Just stack them up as it grows

[mountainman28713]

hey man, the whole sideboard thing for the taters, does that help them produce more potatoes in less space? It seems that to me it would create a "tater trough" so to speak and by hillin them up in the trough it would make them easier to harvest and increase the harvest as well. This my first year planting taters and dont have the base knowledge like you. This seems to be a great idea that i will try as soon as the monsoon here stops. keep up the good work!!!

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

ya..you dont have to digthem up, just remove the boards! youtube search "no dig potatoes"

[73mensailedoff]

The garden is coming along nicely thank's for the update. 5*

[Carlstens]

Bro, You can use just hay or better yet straw... to "Hill" your spudaters. As long as the seed potato was planted in dirt to begin with. Straw will be easy to "Dig" in the fall, but find a way to darken those sheets... If the potatoes get any sunlight on them, they will make a green skin on them, which is poisonous.

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

thx..i might go buy some black sheets & staple them before they get to high & can still work with the walls

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

absolutely....i'm gonna have to get alot more jars soon

[ohhyeahzulu]

those are the best tire potatoes i have ever seen. most people just do a few plants... i love this idea i'm going to steal it lol. keep us updated on it as they grow

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

will do!! i improvised with wut i had

[f60w]

looks good!

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

thanks

[vonhismean]

Interesting way your doing your potatoes. Have you already started a compost pile for next year?

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

nope, not yet, nothin really except collected grass clippings for covering the potatoes

[medicjimr]

Ya I wish i had a larger yard for a garden maybe next year I will squeez in a small one.

[THREEFLOORSDOWN1]

you might think of a small 1 just to get familiar with it