I've heard that you can grow a FUCK TON of potatoes with these.
What you do is you start the plant in one, let it grow, stack the next planter on top, and gradually fill with soil. Rinse repeat.
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OK, this might be a dumb question but...how do you get them out after that? Just knock the tower of boxes over and fish them out that way?
Yeah pretty much. But growing taters in raised beds makes it way easier to harvest than in the ground.
People who grow them in buckets or crates just tip the bucket out.
Interesting, thanks!
It's just the right time to plant, so I am planning to try this!
Is there a risk of lower down potatoes rotting? How tall can you reasonably go
You can safely go about 3-4 boxes high for potatoes without risking rot, as long as you've got good drainage and don't overwater - the soil at the bottom shouldn't stay sopping wet.
As long as the soil is able to drain through it and not sit there for weeks, should be fine.
So, burying the green part completely doesn't hurt them?
The stems will start to grow roots if they get buried. Several plants can do this. Hilling potatoes is pretty common practice, this is just taking it to an extreme
I don't suspect so - I've never tried it, but I would really like to.
I'm also not sure how tall it can get - depends on your growing season and the plant's lifecycle
I wouldn’t be using plywood for veggies myself. Too many chemicals, just the glue alone.
Very cool!
The tall one in the back looks a little inconvenient. Are you growing native prairie grass in there?
That's where the kids go when they are naughty. Straight in the chokey.
Oh, that makes sense!
I wish I could do something like this but getting even old pallets seems almost impossible nowadays.
You don’t want to use old pallets for garden beds or projects anyways. Don’t know what chemicals you’re introducing into your home or food.
You're thinking about possible run-offs from cargo or chemicals from treating the wood?
Both. Unless it’s a brand new single used pallet, you don’t know that a pool chemical didn’t spill on it at Walmart.
They are also treated to prevent rotting.
Euro pallets I'm aware that are usually pressure treated to prevent rot. I know some are not treated at all.
But it is simply difficult to get pallets where I live lately. Unless they are completely broken, businesses don't discard it (which is not bad by itself; less waste) but they won't even sell them.
Do you do anything but lie and whine? Fuck me.
That is awesome!