Spent all week at home planting.
North Georgia area is still getting a little chilly at night though.
I have built a bin out of old pallets to grow potatoes. Has anybody tried this?
I don’t grow regular potatoes myself but potatoes will grow just about anywhere.
You don’t even need dirt.
You can grow them in a tire on concrete under a layer of rotting hay.
In a bin you should be good to go.
Have not tried it. Sounds interesting. Let us know how it goes.
I haven’t grown potatoes in a pallet bin, but I did grow them in one made of fence stakes and chicken wire.
There is a persistant rumor that potatoes will continue growing spuds along the stems as long as the stems are buried. After several years of testing, I can tell you that this is a MYTH. New spuds will grow along the same level as the original “seed”. Hill them up enough to keep the growing spuds covered, but do not keep burying the vines beyond that. Doing so forces the plant to put its energy into growing longer stems in an effort to reach the sunlight again, and lessens your harvest instead of increasing it.
8-10 inches of mulching should be plenty, with more added only if the previous layer packs down or washes away to the point where the spuds are exposed.