Northeast Gardening: Edibles '08 -Part 4, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
I think I'll invite myself to Willie's house for coffee for the extra hidden one the next day :0).

I finished planting the rest of my garlic yesterday in the rain and wind in 40ish deg. I am crabby but glad to have it out of the way and can almost taste it for next year so it's worth it.

about the potatoes... there will be a forthcoming article about it with details, but I use the the self-watering container mix from Gardener's Supply. even though these container's are not that type, I like the mix. it's very light and nice to work with. I'm sure any light potting mix would do. you could always add some perlite or whatever. give those taters nice room to expand. got the containers from GS, too. they are fabric tubs. supposed to be reuseable at least once. they suggested 4 plants to a container. I had 4 plants of the white potatoes, but only one of the red came up, so that's all I had of those.

the white potatoes I grew from seed, like tomatoes (seeds from Territorial Seed). that was fun. the one mistake I made was a fert. with too much nitrogen. they should have like a 5-10-10 to encourage the spuds instead of absolutely gorgeous foliage that I had at the expense of the good yield. I should do better next year. I got about 4lb of the red potatoes and 5-6 of the white.