[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Liz, thanks! I love rosemary potatoes! I will add the onion wedges next time. (Won't wait for the beef roast or it would proably be October or November.

Sliding back to the garden and growing potatoes!

Video on constructing Amish Potato towers (Getting perhaps 80 lbs on 4 square feet.)

The Amish Potato Method That Grows 100 Pounds in 4 Square Feet

Great explanation of determinate versus indeterminate potato types. (Need a Indeterminate variety to make this work!)

(Has a Straw only pile method in about 4 square feet that yielded about 50 lbs of potatoes.)

[Liz]

Glad you liked the potato recipe; onions are a good
addition. Would be a nice side w/ egg dishes, too.

[Liz]

The Amish potato growing method you posted is interesting.......and doable.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Follow up. Planting carrots in 5 gallon buckets. (Carrots are cheap, BUT, This would be great for speciality varieties you can't buy in the store.)

How to Grow Carrots in Containers from SEED to HARVEST Hollis and Nancy's homestead.

** I would suggest the old trick to get carrots to germinate quickly, water them, cover them for 3 days, come back and check for germination. (Farmers using row planting water the row then throw a board over the row and do a 3 day check back.)