How to Grow Potatoes: Planting and Harvesting Organic Food From Your Patio, Rooftop, Balcony, or Backyard Garden

by R.J. Ruppenthal

Perfect beginners guide to growing potatoes. This short book explains how to plant and grow organic potatoes for food in the home garden. Recommended for backyard gardeners and container gardeners with small city-sized yards, patios, balconies, decks, and rooftops. Written by the author of the best-selling Fresh Food From Small Spaces gardening book, a former columnist for Urban Farm magazine. Topics * Why Grow Potatoes? Six Great Reasons * Different Kinds of Potatoes (and Where to Get Them) * Growing in Containers, Raised Beds, and Traditional Rows * Planting and Hilling Potatoes * Soil, Fertilizer, and Watering Needs * How to Harvest Potatoes * Storing Potatoes for Later Use * Two Secret Tips for Getting More (and More Delicious) Potatoes Potatoes are one of the simplest food crops to grow at home. In this booklet, you will learn how to plant and grow potatoes in any sized garden. Even if you have no garden at all, and merely a doorstep, patio, rooftop, balcony, or deck, you can grow potatoes in very small spaces. Learn which type of containers potatoes thrive in, producing bigger harvests than you'll ever get from a bed in the ground. Learn how to select and plant potatoes that mature earlier than others, giving you a quick food harvest even in a short season climate with cold winters. Be More Self-Sufficient No other food crop allows you to do so much with so little as the potato. In fact, this is the most productive food staple you can produce at home. Just imagine how much space it would take to grow enough wheat, rye, oats, barley, rice, or other food staple to feed a family. Yet you can grow enough potatoes on your doorstep to feed a person for days. Grow Your Own Food and Save Money Save some money this year and grow some delicious homegrown food, starting with potatoes and other organic vegetables. Learn which type of containers to grow spuds in for AMAZING yields. Learn how to plant and grow organic potatoes in garden rows, raised beds, and anything that holds soil or mulch (even garbage cans). Get this terrific guide today and start growing your own spuds!

Genres: Gardening, Amazon

30 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2012

Reviews

[Stacey]

Ready to Grow Potatoes!

Easy to read. Covers all the basics including potato types, growing mediums, plant nutrition, harvesting, and storage. Inspired me to want to grow potatoes vertically. If you don't know what that is then read the book. Short and to the point. Will definitely read more by this author.

[Logan Streondj]

Is good book introducing the absolute basics of potato growing. Certainly many more advanced chapters are possible. But yeah is worth a start, kinda like a not too long article on the matter to be honest.

[J.B. Siewers]

I have no other Potatoe books to compare this with, but it seemed to give a good explanation of the basics.

[Kevin McCarthy]

Good information for higher yields of potatoes.

Good information for higher yields of potatoes.

I liked this book because it provides valuable information in a very easy to understand and down to earth way. Somethings I knew, others I ha d forgotten about and I will use for this year's planting. Some other things I might try the trash can method.

[Susan]

I found it helpful. Short, covers basic gardening instructions and helpful tips for growing potatoes (several options) that helped me have a better result this year than I have had with spuds in the garden in past seasons. I must have reread this at least 4 times throughout the garden season this year and enjoyed it each time.

[John Love IV]

Free on Amazon. A short but helpful book on growing potatoes. I'd hoped foe a little more info for growing in smaller areas but overall, it was good. One of the best bits of info was a stacking method towards the end of the book.

[Jenn]

Free on Amazon at the time of posting.

This booklet was easy to understand and full of useful tips for new gardeners or those wanting to perfect their potato garden.

[Carla Colson]

very informative!

[Lacie]

Definitely want to try this!

[David Blaylock]

So simple, even I can do it?

[Paolo Benvenutto]

Muy instructivo...