This spring, Nancy bought two large bags of garden soil and a couple red seed potatoes at the Crossroads Nursery. “This should be interesting,” I thought.
Beside our carport, she placed one bag on top of the other after cutting the top from the lower bag and the bottom from the upper bag. Then, she cut 4 small holes in the top bag and put a couple slices of her seed potatoes – each with eyes – in the holes. That’s it.
In a few weeks, the potatoes sprouted, they grew tall and then keeled over and died around mid-June. We rooted around in the soil and pulled out a half dozen potatoes for that’s night’s dinner.
“Should we dig them all up?” Nancy asked.
“No, let’s just leave them in the bags until we need them.”
But then we sort of forgot about them,
Several weeks later, the potato bags began sprouting vines again, so we let them grow. About a week ago, the vines had withered for the second time and this time we dug all the potatoes up. I bet there was a quarter bushel, and best of all there were lots of those little baby potatoes that are so delicious.
Between Nancy’s potato sacks and the above ground late season lettuce crop we have been enjoying, we have been in fresh veggies with little or no effort and which occupied very little space.
So there. You can have a garden even if you lack the space, and both the lettuce and potatoes take little or no effort to harvest.
Next year, give it a try.
