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Let’s Grow Potatoes
Macaroni and cheese is probably the most popular comfort food to many of us, but right behind it would be the potato because of all the wonderful and delicious ways it can be prepared. Just think about how great a steaming bowl of potato soup or fluffy mashed potatoes or a pile of French fries would taste right now.
If you have never had home-grown potatoes, you really must grow some in your garden so you can find out how a potato really tastes. Growing potatoes is quite simple. A lot of room isn’t required if you have only a small space. I’m going to tell you how to grow your very own potato crop in a plastic garbage bag.
First, buy your seed potatoes. Seed potatoes can be purchased from catalogs or a local feed and seed store. Don’t bother planting potatoes you’ve gotten from the grocery store. Most have been chemically treated to keep them from sprouting.
Select seed potatoes that are about two inches in diameter. Using a 45 gallon black plastic bag, select the place where you want the potatoes to grow. Punch holes in the bottom of the plastic bag so there will be good water drainage and fill the bag 1/3 full of a potting soil that is a combination of soil and compost.
Put three potatoes on top of the soil and then add soil so the bag in now half full and water it well. Watch for the green shoots to appear and as soon as the shoots are four to five inches tall, add more potting soil to cover the shoots and water in the new soil. Continue to do this until the garbage bag is full. Then let the stems and leaves grow.
Water when necessary and in about ten to twelve weeks, harvest your crop.
