{"id":311,"date":"2007-04-30T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-04-30T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:31:15","slug":"boxed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Boxed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[thumb:549:l] It&#8217;s a bit of an overcast day today.  It looks like the Sun <em>wants<\/em> to come out but just can&#8217;t quite manage it.  The plants are all doing well at the moment.  Everything is taking off.<br \/>\n[newline]<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:548:l] Our experiment with growing potatoes in cages filled with straw is progressing well, it seems.  We tried a couple different methods of wrapping the cage with row covers but that didn&#8217;t work.  The covers kept coming loose.  It also seemed like the covers would let through too much light.  We don&#8217;t want to end up with green potatoes.  Instead we&#8217;ve switched to using cardboard.  The Red Norland potatoes were first up and have grown quite a lot in the box.  We&#8217;ll have to add another tier soon.  The Chiefton potatoes next to them came up last so there&#8217;s quite a contrast between them at the moment.<br \/>\n[newline]<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:547:l] The next container over has our peanuts.  Actually it has peanuts that I just planted today and peanut fingerling potatoes.  I don&#8217;t know if the peanuts will do well or not.  They need a long growing season and I&#8217;m not sure how well they&#8217;ll work in a container.  I like peanuts, though, so we&#8217;ll see.  In this case we just picked up a few raw peanuts at the store.  They may not even come up if they&#8217;ve been treated with something.  The beans I grew from store beans worked okay.<br \/>\n[newline]<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:546:l]  Our garlic looks good.  In a couple weeks maybe we&#8217;ll stop watering it and hopefully it will be ready to harvest about the time our squash need to be transplanted.   I have some more cages that I&#8217;m going to try using to keep the squash a little more contained this year.  Our porch garden is certainly going vertical this year!<br \/>\n[newline]<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:550:l] Back in the corner the plants are all doing well.  I cut back the kale yesterday and had some fresh kale on my sandwich today.  The Irish Cobbler potatoes will be the next potatoes to go into a box.  Probably in the next few days I&#8217;ll get the box set up and start adding straw.<br \/>\n[newline]<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:551:l]  On the back side of the porch we have the smaller containers.  In the wagon we have two long containers with alpine strawberries growing and a smaller container.  The bigger round containers have marigolds.  Beside the wagon there are nasturtiums and (not up yet) basil and oregano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[thumb:549:l] It&#8217;s a bit of an overcast day today. It looks like the Sun wants to come out but just can&#8217;t quite manage it. The plants are all doing well at the moment. Everything is taking off. [newline] [thumb:548:l] Our experiment with growing potatoes in cages filled with straw is progressing well, it seems. 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