How to Build the Potato Planter. 1. Gather your materials. The humble pallet has many things to offer to a resourceful farmer. Its main advantage is probably its price: I don’t mind having to do ...

ROANOKE – Home contractor Rob Leonard visits Daytime to show his potato growing box. Rob shares the advantages of growing using a potato box, let's us know what he needs, and walks us through ...

A minimum depth of 12 inches is good for most herbs and shallow-rooted vegetables. For root crops like carrots or potatoes, aim for 18 to 24 inches. The deeper the bed, the more room roots have to ...

Potatoes grow between the seed potato or start and the flowering plant. If you train potatoes to grow up, more potatoes will form along that root. The potato box concept is a build-as-it-grows box.

Raised garden beds can be expensive, but these DIY and repurposed alternatives are easy and cost-effective to achieve ...

The Times' guide for building a potato growing box yields up to a 100 lbs. of potatoes in a mere 4 square feet. By planting your potatoes in layers within a tall box, as seen in the diagram here ...

Lutovsky says although most of his customers aren’t able to grow 100 pounds of potatoes in the potato box, he knows one who harvested 124 pounds one season. Lutovsky’s had success growing 81 ...

GARDENING expert Monty Don has shared an "egg box" trick for chitting potatoes in February. The garden pro said the potatoes need to be kept in a "cool but frost free" place.