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The building of a potato condo
The Building of a Potato Condo
From GardenFreshLiving blog:
"This is bio-intensive gardening and vertical gardening at its best!
The idea is that you build a wooden box and plant potatoes in the bottom layer. As the potatoes grow, you keep adding wood boards (and soil) to keep the stems buried, thus producing more potatoes along the stems as you move up.You get the maximum yield in a small space because you are growing vertically."
A very pretty, and scrap wood-useful alternative to growing in a trash barrel - though that works well, too! Thank you, Theresa for the info!
Also: a twitpic of from David_J_Rutt - potato cages using old dog cages! http://twitpic.com/8e7un
From GardenFreshLiving blog:
"This is bio-intensive gardening and vertical gardening at its best!
The idea is that you build a wooden box and plant potatoes in the bottom layer. As the potatoes grow, you keep adding wood boards (and soil) to keep the stems buried, thus producing more potatoes along the stems as you move up.You get the maximum yield in a small space because you are growing vertically."
A very pretty, and scrap wood-useful alternative to growing in a trash barrel - though that works well, too! Thank you, Theresa for the info!
Also: a twitpic of from David_J_Rutt - potato cages using old dog cages! http://twitpic.com/8e7un
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Weekly Wrap-Up of Farm & Food News
All week long, we post updates on what's happening at Farm Aid and in the world of farms and food on Twitter. In case you missed some of those links, below are some notable stories we shared over since our last update:- The "Crop Mob" trend. Volunteers visit family farms to help do work—I'm sure a lot of farmers would welcome this!
- A new website is available to help you learn "Where is my milk from?"
- "Last Clucks: The Death of a Chicken" by an author who spent last year on a farm. "To appreciate your white meat and where it came from, all you need is a bird and a straight razor."
- Black farmers look forward to USDA settlement — where they will get paid for years of discrimination in getting turned down for loans.
- A Missouri town banded together to keep a new factory farm from being built, but the battle is now going statewide and local laws may be overturned to allow these farms in.
- A Boston Globe article about the rising popularity of ordering grass-fed & other meat directly from farmers online.
- "Speak Your Piece: Guess Who's Missing From Antitrust Hearing?" (Spoiler alert: It's farmers!)
- And finally, does your 6-year old know what a tomato looks like? These kids don't...
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