Did this! You gotta be crefulo! Pick the wrong type of potato and you get little! Try using Russetts, Yellow Finn, and Binjte! Early varieties set fruit only once and do no do well in towers, buckets tire piles etc! Good Luck!

kathc--I hate that when that happens...not saving links, I mean!

You have been reading my mind! My mother and I just had a conversation yesterday (of course on St. Pat's Day) about growing potatoes and I mentioned this method. I had seen this a few years ago and didn't save the link, although I was intrigued and never forgot about it.  I wanted to look it up and possibly try it this summer.  Thanks for doing the legwork for me!

We have a bunny habitat in our back acre so if we didn't plant on our deck (there's no stairs down to the yard) they'd have a feast and we'd have the famine.

You're welcome, DM. I think I just might give it a go myself. For us, the big garden just doesn't work well. It's either feast or famine. Meaning either string beans or weeds up the yahoo.

Oh I want to do this! I never thought about using a trash can. We've grown organic peppers and tomatoes on our back deck for a couple years now. We have plenty of land, but this is so much more handy. We just walk out and grab the fresh veggies just before we prepare them to eat. Tried cucumbers but only got one little one. I'm pretty sure it was the size of the container. It probably needs more root space. Maybe a trash can will work for them too. Thanks so much Maven!

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