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128 comments on Meeting Energy Decline Part-Way - Potatoes?
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at least for sweet potatoes 'low'[NPK] land is needed. i have gotten problems with too much composted manure. i think loose soil though is necessary. i got a dumptruck of sand to amend an area. BTW evidently some of that sand had something in it so that it is not growing, even weeds very well.
I tried potatoes in containers this year and got very poor results. I included plenty of organic fertilizer and watered heavily, but that still wasn't enough, I guess.
I think I'll try sweet potatoes in the containers instead next year. I didn't grow sweet potatoes this year but had very good results when I grew them last year. The vines do tend to go every which way and make quite a tangle, though. My plan is to place the containers below my deck and train the vines to grow up along the rails. Vertical gardening is good, it makes maximum use of space.
I've been growing potatos in tyre stacks on the roof of my boat for several years sucessfully. Fill the first tyre with good compost and plant 3 or 4 seeds. Then as the plants grow add new tyres and completly fill with dirt. This doesnt have to be compost and too much rich soil can reduce the crop. Keep adding tyres each time the plants reach a decent hight. Never completly bury the plants. Water sparingly as over watering also reduces the crop. I generally stack up to 4 or 5 tyres and then leave them.
WNC O---I've also had only mediocre success with regular potatoes in containers, but this year I tried growing one sweet potato plant in a very large container, just to see what would happen, and the production was good. The variety I used was Puerto Rican; I had been given some slips by a friend whose wife's family has grown these for more than 100 years. Another friend grew the variety Beauregard in a similar very large pot, but its tubers grew so large they split the pot in two. Just thought you'd like to know...