The Urban Farmer's Almanac » jigsaw http://www.urbanfarmersalmanac.com Living the good life one patch of dirt at a time. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Canned Potatoes http://www.urbanfarmersalmanac.com/2010/04/canned-potatoes/ http://www.urbanfarmersalmanac.com/2010/04/canned-potatoes/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:11:45 +0000 dan http://www.theurbanfarmersalmanac.com/?p=412

We got seed potatoes a month or so ago and they’ve been sitting on the back porch waiting to be planted. The spot we planted potatoes in last year wasn’t great… it didn’t get a lot of sun and was hard to water. We still got a handful of potatoes, but we’re hoping for more this weekend. We took the kids to Barnes and Noble to play at the train table this weekend, and I always grab some reading material to browse while they wreak havoc on Thomas and his friends. I grabbed a gardening book, and one good idea it had was to cut an old garbage can in half and plant potatoes in that. Thus, my project this weekend, topped off with some compost from the batch that just finished up:

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