Interesting method od raising taters

[coolrunnin]

I thought this was an take in vertical method of gardening.

http://tipnut.com/grow-potatoes/

[mmoetc]

New variation on growing in stacked tires. I also saw something last year about using burlap sacks.

[coolrunnin]

I liked the aspect of being able to harvest the bottom while the top tiers continued to produce.

[Jokarva]

I grew in a bottomless cardboard box the only time I tried potatoes, it worked pretty well. May try again this spring...I do like that this can come apart and be reused.

[Fire-Man]

I did this exact same setup about 7 years ago and I did grow some potatoes. Then I got to thinking---I can plant a 100 yrd row with my tractor and equipment in less time than doing this set-up. I think this would be good for someone with limited space.

[Limon]

There have been dozens of discussions of this method in the gardening section. If you don't add additional material at just the right time, you won't get potatoes forming on the new growth. You can get potatoes from this method, but you'll get more growing them traditionally with a lot less work.

[elkhound]

cant wait for martin to see this......lol

[City Bound]

do you get more potatoes from this method or is it just a space saver?

I tried something like this in a five gallon bucket using straw. I got some potatoes, but not much. It did not seem like such a good idea.

[troy n sarah tx]

We did the tire thing growing up. It's really easy to harvest, you just knock them over.

[haley1]

Does it work with sweet potatoes?

[Amadioranch]

Every year we seem to need to bring potato towers back up. Its the same old pig just in a different dress. For the most part growing them in towers in a waste of time.

[Johnny Dolittle]

They claim 100# potatoes from 4 sq. feet ..... but they did not show the yield they got ???

A bushel of potatoes weighs 60# ... so they are claiming almost 2 bushel yield from 4 sq. feet...... seems quite far fetched to me !!!!

[Paquebot]

Originally Posted by elkhound

cant wait for martin to see this......lol

I see it! There's lots of information on the Internet on how to do this. Just ain't much information proving that it's better than any normal method. For 10 years, a few HT members have always been 100% certain that they are going to do it regardless of what anyone else says and harvest bushels of potatoes from a couple of pieces of seed potato. Haven't seen anything impressive yet. Now I figure that if anyone wants to do it, fine with me. No shortage of potatoes in stores so nobody is going to starve when it doesn't work.

Martin

[Shrek]

I tried stacked tires and found I did as well with lazy irish turf beds or planting taters in some of my indoor worm bins as less labor intensive approaches.

Good lord! I've seen people get completely insane over the stacked tires method. Fistfights break out. People get banned. Riots at funerals. Bar room brawls in Sunday school. Look at it like this, it ain't gonna happen. I've seen a thousand "plans" and no "results" I've tried it myself. It might work somewhere(uhh, like maybe Never-Never land!) But not in North Carolina.

[geo in mi]

If you plant potatoes in old tires, you'll get lots of "inner tubers".....

geo

[Alice In TX/MO]

Just thought I'd throw out that the Topsy Turvey Tomatoes don't work, either.

No, that thing couldn't possibly have ever worked, unless you had the sun under the plant. Plants grow toward the sun, not away from it. Still, anybody that can come up with an illogical idea will find followers. "Its crazy enough to work" kind of thought, I guess.

[elkhound]

Originally Posted by Paquebot

I see it! There's lots of information on the Internet on how to do this. Just ain't much information proving that it's better than any normal method. For 10 years, a few HT members have always been 100% certain that they are going to do it regardless of what anyone else says and harvest bushels of potatoes from a couple of pieces of seed potato. Haven't seen anything impressive yet. Now I figure that if anyone wants to do it, fine with me. No shortage of potatoes in stores so nobody is going to starve when it doesn't work.

Martin

Originally Posted by zong

Good lord! I've seen people get completely insane over the stacked tires method. Fistfights break out. People get banned. Riots at funerals. Bar room brawls in Sunday school. Look at it like this, it ain't gonna happen. I've seen a thousand "plans" and no "results" I've tried it myself. It might work somewhere(uhh, like maybe Never-Never land!) But not in North Carolina.

i tried it many ways too...it just doesnt work.theres even a pictorial on i dig my garden forum of this exact box and the results.

[ronbre]

a lot of work involved in building the outfit..and filling it..seems easier just to dig the taters..(the cardboard box also sounds good, just tear it apart at the end of the season ??