Growing Potatoes in Small Spaces

You can go one step further in reclaiming materials & gardening, by taking used pallets as the Walls of your potato “cube”. Instead of having solid walled potato box, take four pallets & tie them together into a cube. I used twine, also recovered material. Then slowly fill your cube with staw & soil, or if you want use animal bedding such as wood shavings (which will create smooth skinned potatoes with no soil grit). Slowly as you fill the cube with your plant medium, place your seed potatoes along the edge near the slot openings of the pallets. Making sure to not expose the seed potatos. Keep adding soil or potting medium and more potatos… layer after layer until you are near the top. Then take & place seed potatos across the whole top layer of the cube. Then add the final layer of soil. As the pototoes sprout, the plants will emerge through the cracks in the pallets & you will find yourself with a CUBE of green potato plants. The whole thing will only take up a small space, but since the cente rof the cube is nothing more than soil/potting medium the pototo tubers will grow toward the center & at the end of the season, you simply cut the twine at the corners & dig through your composted “potting soil” to gather you potatoes. Beauty is you can now take this well composted medium & spread it on other areas of your garden & reuse the pallets year after year.

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