Texas Gardening: Taters & Onions, 0 by stephanietx

stephanietx wrote:
Rucky, here's a very long, but very informative post on growing potatoes under straw.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/937306/

Then there's this article that kinda started the whole thing. http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/435/

I'll be growing my potatoes in a large container that my DH originally built to hold our compost pile. It's been 2 years and the thing hasn't seen service, so I am going to put it to good use! I've ordered 1/2 lb each of 4 different varieties of potatoes: Purple Viking, Kennebec, Red Norland, and Banana fingerlings. I'll start them in a leaf, dirt, compost mixture, then add either more leaves or straw as the plants grow upward.

Here's my container.