Specialty Gardening: Can Potatoes Be Grown in Containers?, 1 by Hoya_24

Hoya_24 wrote:
Thanks for the information on growing Potatoes in pots. I am definitely going to try 2 pots worth. I just ordered these very large fiber pots - they are about the size of a bushel basket, from A.M. Leonard. I will be using Miracle-Grow Moisture Control Potting Mix, which is not my first choice, but it is the cheapest stuff I can find and the only soil that Costco carries. This will be my first time growing in these type of containers. The pots are so big I may even try to plant some corn in one of them - I doubt I will be able to stop the Raccoons from eating the ears though.

TD Garden we are practically neighbors. I have lived in VT my entire life and I'm ashamed to say I have never been through Calais, but if I remember correctly. it supposed to be one of the perfect postcard village kind of towns. We only got about 5 inches of the wet stuff, but that is on top of the 3 and 4 foot piles of snow that still surround my house - pretty disheartening.

I used to have large vegetable gardens, but since moving to Waterville, I have a very small lot in the village and I am forced to use pots for growing most things. I do have a perennial garden in front of the house so that takes up what little growing space I have. In addition the soil is so rocky that I have to grow above ground. Two years ago I planted a Bell Pepper plant in large self-watering rubbermaid planter (I bought several when Ames was going out of business), and I ended up with 30 large peppers on just one plant. I have not been nearly as successful with Tomatoes. I have attached a photo of the front porch of my house at a nicer time of year.