Potatoes are all planted!!

[NEIndiana]

You can also use the same layering technique in a garbage can to grow your potato plants. It's great for people that don't have an area that they can put a tater patch in. I had a friend that did this last year that lived in an apartment and she had it on her balcony/porch area. Her landlord stopped laughing when she gave him fresh taters from her can!

[greenasagourd]

Nice ideas for planting potatoes! Thanks!

Questions: Should one poke holes in the bottom of the bag or garbage can for drainage? Is a kitchen garbage can big enough or is a bigger can needed?

[NEIndiana]

GAAG, you can use any kind of a container, small or large. Yes, poke some some holes in the bottom for drainage, but make them small. A kitchen garbage can would give you a small bounty of fresh taters. I wish you were around here as we have some seed taters I'd gladly GIVE you! (We planted a 50lb bag this year.)

[crabgrass]

I wish I had room for a vegi garden, and the sun. This year I put down a garden path in the backyard. The new dogs I got last spring ran the grass away! I don't miss the grass but I had a mud problem for a long time. Stuff is filling in around the stones now so the mud is not as bad. I have to much shade for a vegie garden.

[Danaus29]

You can grow veggies in the shade in Texas. My uncle lives in Lufkin and gardens in the shade of his pecan trees. On homesteadingtoday.com there are a lot of Texans who say shade in Texas is pretty much the same as full sun in Ohio.

[crabgrass]

HA! That is probably true! I'l check out that site, thanks.