I received an email from a blog follower living not too far from me. Living on lava with virtually no soil, she has been experimenting with growing things in containers -- old coolers, plastic half barrels, etc. She's been making her own growing medium by filling the containers with compost/soil made from assorted biomass from around her property....primarily weeds mixed with some spent potting soil. And you know something ----- she has been very successful growing beans, peas, gourds, and now, potatoes.
Here's the photos she sent of her latest potato harvest:
The foliage turning color. From healthy green to bronze/yellow.......
The plants are signaling that they have matured. Here in Hawaii, that means that it's time to harvest.
The tops of the plants have been cut off and removed, exposing the top layer of mulch......
With the mulch removed, the tips of the tubers can now been seen. This variety is a long fingerling type, and amazingly it likes to grow its tubers vertically! So just the tips poke up.......
The plants have been pulled up, exposing the long tubers.......
And here is the harvest from her three plants grown for 3 1/2 months in containers......
Quite the beautiful harvest. Way to go, girl!!!! Congratulations.
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