How to Grow Potatoes: Planting and Harvesting Organic Food From Your Patio, Rooftop, Balcony, or Backyard Garden (Booklet) by R.J. Ruppenthal

Author:R.J. Ruppenthal [Ruppenthal, R.J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

You can also start dumping in any other organic material you have in quantity, including herbicide free grass clippings, hedge trimmings, leaves, shredded paper, sawdust from untreated wood, layers of newspaper, coffee grounds, and kitchen waste. Bury this material under some soil or compost, keep it well watered, and it will all break down to give you some really good soil. You can plant in it right away and your potatoes will grow in it just fine, but the soil will be fabulous next year.

If potatoes are the only crop you plan to grow, you could even fill a raised bed or container with mulch (such as straw) instead of soil. Whatever you use to fill your raised beds, you should know that the soil level will drop by several inches in the coming months as organic materials decompose and the soil settles in. You may need to keep filling your beds with more soil or mulch for the first year or so. And it just so happens that potato plants are the most productive when you keep adding more soil or mulch around them. The next chapter describes this method more fully.

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