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Watering. 4 Simple Steps to Grow a Hundred Pounds of Potatoes in a Barrel. Container gardening isn't only for savvy urban gardeners and folks with limited space to grow, it can also be for folks who want to maximize their yields in a controlled environment.
Not only does growing potatoes in a barrel reduce the amount of weeding and exposure to pests and fungi, you don't even have to risk shovel-damage to the tender potatoes by digging them out of the ground when they're done, just tip the container over! After extensive research to plan my own potatoes-in-a-barrel, I've boiled all of the recommendations down to 4 simple steps to a winning potato harvest. 1. Select and prepare a container You'll need to pick out a container such as a 50-gallon trash barrel or one of those half whiskey barrel planters. Good drainage is critical for the cultivation of healthy potatoes so you'll want to cut or drill a series of large drainage holes in the bottom and bottom sides of your container. 2. 3. 4. Other tips to grow bushels of barrel potatoes More gardening tips. Smart Gardener - simply grow great food.
5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden. It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest.
As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields. Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort. Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Here are the strategies we used which enabled us to greatly increase our garden yield, while requiring less time and less work. 1. With ‘no-till’ gardening, weeding is largely eliminated. 2. Gardeners are always on the lookout for free sources of clean organic mulch to add to their garden. Composting - How to Make Compost - All about Making Compost. It's not often you can call something a dirty old rotten pile of garbage... and fall in love with it.
That's compost, sweet, beautiful, home-made black gold. Composting is where organic gardening comes full circle. Involving yourself and learning how to make compost is an integral part of truly healthy organic gardening. You've nurtured your plants and eaten your vegetables... and now the kitchen and garden leftovers can be recycled into compost. Making compost is closing the loop of nature... brilliant!
This is so simple and so obvious a thing to do, I'm still staggered that people bundle their kitchen and garden plant refuse into plastic bags and send it off to the tip. Read here how to make compost and recycle it into something useful. Successful composting is like cooking... if you add X to Y under Z conditions, this MUST happen. If you're just a beginner to making compost, the word 'successful' can have a few different meanings! How to Make Compost Hot Method Starting a compost.