Re: Square Foot Gardening

I've been doing square foot gardening for a couple years and it's great - extremely productive without a lot of work.

For potatoes, I highly recommend growing them in containers. I planted Yukon Gold and French Fingerling potatoes in plastic storage containers (although some people use garbage cans) with holes drilled out of the bottom. You start with about 6 inches of soil and then "hill" up the potatoes in the container.

I harvested about 15 lbs of potatoes a few weekends ago without much effort on my part. Plus I have a bunch of seed potatoes leftover that I'll use for next year.

If you want to read all about my potato planting mishaps, you can read the series of posts regarding my potato project on my blog.