Looks like the dirt crop is going to be great this year! All my years growing up as a poor dirt farmer is finally paying off
Driving to work this morning and saw this. I couldn’t really make out the plate
Maybe he/she was protesting that “mini pad” wasn’t accepted as a vanity plate.Driving to work this morning and saw this. I couldn’t really make out the plate
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Can't come up with Jersey appropriate joke. Picture seems to have stemmed the flow of my creative juices.
you can grow potatoes in buckets and get a practical yield
Wait - you can grow potatoes in buckets and get a practical yield? I'm intrigued
Cheers!
Apparently the higher soil temps of container growing favor more top growth than potatoes. I used to grow them in 25 gallon tree pots, and the harvest was easy and the potatoes good, but yield not what one would get growing in ground.
But those nursery pots are black, the fact that balrog uses white containers may help yield by keeping soil temps down. Sinking pots in ground would likley help too, but that adds to work load unless one has a digging machine.
Less nitrogen and more potassium and phosphate encourages better tuber growth and less foliage. But containers will still limit the yield somewhat unless they are large. 5 gallon buckets are cramped, but you can still get a decent yield if you plant smaller varieties, like reds. Russets need lots more room. And the heat factor on the pots and soil does impact it.
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