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| Home-grown potatoes |
Now, three months later, the crop is ready for harvesting.
The crop is small, but then again, we started off with just ONE smallish potatoes, and now we have a pot full.
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| Our growing area - about 7 feet wide and 3 feet deep (215cm by 90cm) |
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| The potato pot - most of the foliage from the potatoes has died back by now. |
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| Starting to empty the pot ... |
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| Hey - a potato! |
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| Look - another one |
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| "Gold" from the soil |
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| Well, that's 4. Wonder how many more there are? |
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| Ooh - a bunch more of them |
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| A tray full of fresh potatoes. |
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| All that is left of one of out two original potato pieces we planted three months ago. We didn't find the remains of the other piece |
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| We started with a potato about the size of the one shown, which we cut into two. |
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| The original potato weighed about 30 grams (one ounce-ish) |
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| Our harvest weighs in at 914 grams net of the tray (about 2 pounds) |
Not that many potatoes, but remember we only started with one small-ish potato.
30 grams to 914 grams.
Anna has more experience than me, and she says that she remembers the time that she started with a half-bucket of special "seed" potatoes, and ended up with about 13 buckets worth of crop (they were planted in the ground, though, not in a plant pot like this time!
So a yield of 25 to 30 times is certainly possible from a three month growing period.
We are especially pleased with our result because we used a plain old left-over potato that had been in the cupboard a bit too long and had started to sprout!
Remember we did this in just a plant pot, using regular "compost" we bought from our local "big box" DIY store, so if you only have a patio or a balcony you could do this too.
But the season is moving on.
Planting at the end of April to harvest at the end of July is going to have to wait for next year!
Kids will love this, too.
Remember food comes from Nature, with a bit of nurture, not from shops!
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