Potato Plants and Bags

This year we are growing three fingerling types of potatoes.
I love potatoes. We grew them in Virginia a couple ways.

1st I grew them in old tires.
The deal with potatoes is you "hill" them. Basically you plant them shallow and as they grow you keep adding dirt covering the stem. The stem responds by growing more roots and potatoes. As you keep hilling further up the stem as it grows, the more potatoes you get. So back to the old tires. I started with one tire, then as the plants grew added another tire and more dirt, and so one and so on. Ready to harvest, just take the tires off. Yep, lots of good potatoes. Good for small areas.

2nd, I like potatoes so much I planted them in a 4' by 16' raised bed. We got 30 lbs.

This house, we don't really have room for a whole bed of potatoes, so we thought we would try the bags. Sort of like the tire thing, as they grow we "hill" by adding more soil. They other good thing about the bags is the are 7 gallon size with handles, so we can move them around for sun. Ready the harvest just dump the bags over.

Pepper is helping Rose fill the bags and plant the potatoes.