With Spring around the corner, it’s the perfect time to begin planting and growing vegetables. One vegetable staple everyone should try growing is the potato!
If you like growing vegetables organically and have limited space, then here’s everything you need to know to grow your own potatoes in a potato tower. By building a wire tower filled with straw and dirt and seed potatoes, you’ll have a bountiful harvest by the end of summer!
For the project you need 4 fence posts, 8′ section of wire fencing, about 4′ high, wire snips and pliers, bale of straw, compost or bags of dirt, seed potatoes. Make sure you erect it in a sunny spot as potatoes like lots of sun to grow.
Laurie Ashbach walks through the process of building and tending to a potato tower in the video below. Once creating a cylinder with the fence, you’ll fill it with hay and then dirt and pieces of potato.
Laurie used 2 pounds of potatoes (around 8 medium potatoes with 4 eyes each), which she cut into into pieces so that she had 36 eyes in total to plant. She put 9 eyes around the outside edge of the “nest” in four layers. On the top layer she planted the eyes right in the middle so they could grow up.
Once the potato tower is built, you simply water it over the summer and let the harvest fall out of the opened fence in the fall. And best of all no weeding is required.
It’s amazing the amount of potatoes Laurie got from the few she planted! Share this great gardening tip with your friends and family!
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