How to Build a Potato Tower - Square Box Vertical Potato Tower
This is the new method ! I actually found a great source and plans on growing a
square wooden potato tower from the Seattle Times. This article explains much of what the
benefits are to this method of growing. They also provide the plans, but here’s an idea and image for you.
Photos from Seattle Times article.
Materials :
- Six - 2 inch by 6 inch boards eight feet long
- one 2 - inch by 2 inch board 12 feet long
- 2 1/2 inch wood screws (96 of them)
- (you can use pine , cedar or redwood , which will resist rot longer.)
There are obvioulsy many benefits to this form of growing potatoes. You can “rob” the potatoes (sounds so awful, but it simply means harvesting potatoes from the bottom up), they can stay in here for storage in warmer climates and colder climates can easily harvest and then store in a garage.
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So we were set to make this for our garden this year. We didn’t have any recycled lumber for this project. We pretty much just use recycled lumber for non-food growing projects since we don’t know what the wood was used for and want to maintain an organic garden as much as possible.
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So we headed to the lumber store and tried to figure this project with the price of varying lengths (that we could cut down to size) and after an hour and a half in the home improvement store, the best scenario we could come up with still put us at a $60 box. This was more money than we wanted to spend, so the Seattle Times article wasn’t lying when they said a drawback was the expense.
TOP 10 POTATO PROCUERS IN THE WORLD
- CHINA
- INDIA
- RUSSIA
- UKRAINE
- UNITED STATES
- GERMANY
- BANGLADESH
- FRANCE
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
Potatoes can be stored for longer days than other vegetables.
Read Also : Grow an Endless Supply of Onions indoors
Source : http://thethriftycouple.com/
square wooden potato tower from the Seattle Times. This article explains much of what the
benefits are to this method of growing. They also provide the plans, but here’s an idea and image for you.
Materials :
- Six - 2 inch by 6 inch boards eight feet long
- one 2 - inch by 2 inch board 12 feet long
- 2 1/2 inch wood screws (96 of them)
- (you can use pine , cedar or redwood , which will resist rot longer.)
There are obvioulsy many benefits to this form of growing potatoes. You can “rob” the potatoes (sounds so awful, but it simply means harvesting potatoes from the bottom up), they can stay in here for storage in warmer climates and colder climates can easily harvest and then store in a garage.
So we were set to make this for our garden this year. We didn’t have any recycled lumber for this project. We pretty much just use recycled lumber for non-food growing projects since we don’t know what the wood was used for and want to maintain an organic garden as much as possible.
So we headed to the lumber store and tried to figure this project with the price of varying lengths (that we could cut down to size) and after an hour and a half in the home improvement store, the best scenario we could come up with still put us at a $60 box. This was more money than we wanted to spend, so the Seattle Times article wasn’t lying when they said a drawback was the expense.
TOP 10 POTATO PROCUERS IN THE WORLD
- CHINA
- INDIA
- RUSSIA
- UKRAINE
- UNITED STATES
- GERMANY
- BANGLADESH
- FRANCE
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
Potatoes can be stored for longer days than other vegetables.
Read Also : Grow an Endless Supply of Onions indoors
Source : http://thethriftycouple.com/
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