And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Root some potato and sweet potatoes in 4" nursery cups. Stop by your local HVAC company and offer to haul off a couple of their used AC pallets. Take them apart and build a 3' square box with the 4"x4"s as corner post. Only put the 1x6's on the bottom. Take a bale of hay and put down 3" of compacted hay. When the potatoes are 6" tall take them out of the cups and put them in the bottom of the box and add hay until there is only 3" of the plant sticking up. Water it daily and when they are a foot tall add anther layer of 6" boards and 6" of hay. Keep doing this until the box is over 3' tall. When the potato plants are just over a foot taller than the box take the bottom board off and scoop out the bottom 6 inches of hay and potatoes. Put the board back on, water heavily as this will cause the plants and hay to sink in the box, and add hay to the top of the box until only 6" of the plant is showing. Repeat until cold weather kills your plant. I got just over 100 pounds of Russet potatoes and 50 pounds of sweet potatoes out of one box last year. I used store bought potatoes that had gone to seed and the only other cost was for screws and a bale of hay.
We used them a couple of years ago and thought they weren't as convenient as they seemed. Our tubers developed fairly shallow so the harvesting hatch didn't work and we finished up emptying the whole thing to get our spuds.
Root some potato and sweet potatoes in 4" nursery cups. Stop by your local HVAC company and offer to haul off a couple of their used AC pallets. Take them apart and build a 3' square box with the 4"x4"s as corner post. Only put the 1x6's on the bottom. Take a bale of hay and put down 3" of compacted hay. When the potatoes are 6" tall take them out of the cups and put them in the bottom of the box and add hay until there is only 3" of the plant sticking up. Water it daily and when they are a foot tall add anther layer of 6" boards and 6" of hay. Keep doing this until the box is over 3' tall. When the potato plants are just over a foot taller than the box take the bottom board off and scoop out the bottom 6 inches of hay and potatoes. Put the board back on, water heavily as this will cause the plants and hay to sink in the box, and add hay to the top of the box until only 6" of the plant is showing. Repeat until cold weather kills your plant. I got just over 100 pounds of Russet potatoes and 50 pounds of sweet potatoes out of one box last year. I used store bought potatoes that had gone to seed and the only other cost was for screws and a bale of hay.
ReplyDeletei have seen mixed reviews in these. the sellers say they work great. the users say not very well. try em and see, they are cheap enough.
ReplyDeleteWe used them a couple of years ago and thought they weren't as convenient as they seemed. Our tubers developed fairly shallow so the harvesting hatch didn't work and we finished up emptying the whole thing to get our spuds.
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