speaking of growing taters in bags and boxes...

[bornthrifty]

I am growing several boxes of potatoes, the problem is this,

I don't have a lot of compost readily available at this time, and my bags of peat moss aren't going really far as I try to keep covering my plants, mounding the dirt higher (while they plants taller and taller)


any ideas on cheap growing medium for potatoes in boxes?

thanks so much?

 

[miss_thenorth]

I think I read that you can use straw or some type of mulch. The object, from what I gather,(I haven't done potatoes yet) is to keep the tubers frorm coming into contact with light, which turns the spuds green, and that is not good.

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

Have a look at this article.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/1980-03-01/Taters-in-a-Barrel.aspx