Just a few pictures of my garden for you. I planted potatoes this year … in bags of garden soil!
I didn’t know if they would grow but just look at them … 
I poked holes in the bottoms of the bags. I cut out the tops of the bags and them put my potatoes in them. I had to put sticks over them to keep the cats out! After the torrential rain we had last week, the potatoes took off.
They are LaRatte Fingerling potatoes. Fingerling potatoes are small and long so they shouldn’t need too much space to grow.
The rain beat down my garden something awful. The broccoli has finally stood back up. The beets are looking sad but they are coming back. The lettuce is just coming up and the weeds are loving the rain.
I thinned the beets this morning. It was hard to decide which to pick and which to leave. I also picked some poke salad from the back of the yard. I will cook those up for lunch.
Fingerling potatoes in bags of garden soil…..
Lettuce seedlings …. and a nice crop of rocks
The broccoli stood back up finally after the hard rain …..
Hello and welcome! I'm Sylvia Britton, and I've been online since 1996 offering encouragement and help in the spirit of Titus 2 and Proverbs 31 at Christian Homekeeper. CHK is the original Homekeeping site on the internet
Hi Sylvia! I love this idea. I was originally going to use the West ladies’ idea of putting down newspaper, then seed potatoes and cover them with straw, but your way seems much cheaper. I’ll be going out to buy some seed potatoes and bags of potting soil this weekend if DH approves 🙂 and if it stays dry enough.
I like the way you planted your potatoes. 🙂
Thanks, Marg. I hope it will work well, it sure is easy. I think I will add a layer of soil to the tops of the bags. The rain has really washed it off.
Ella, I think you could use this method as long as you had a place to sit the bags where they would drain. Mine are just sitting on the edge of the garden in the yard!
That’s a great idea, what you did with the potatoes. I wish I lived somewhere where I could have a garden!