Burlap Bag Potatoes

Preparations for Planting
                                     

   A few weeks ago I read an article about growing potatoes above ground in a burlap bag. I'm always looking for ways to save space in my backyard vegetable garden, so naturally I was thrilled to try this out! Conveniently I already had two coffee bean bags in the shed from my last Singh Farm compost trip! Anywho, I headed to my dry storage & was confident that somewhere in there I would find a long lost bag of potatoes with a few sprouting spuds inside. To my dismay I only had a new, non sprouting, bag of fingerling potatoes. I figured they would be eaten before they sprouted & instantly I felt defeat. I was not going to be planting any potatoes that day.

   About two weeks ago I came across a long lost bag of sprouting potatoes in the dry storage, & believe it or not it was the fingerlings from the previous paragraph! They were so cute with tiny green sprouts coming out of their eyes (yes, potatoes have eyes).
    Note: It may be strange that I'm calling these "cute", but fingerling potatoes are very small in size ("fingers") & anything of their nature, to me, is definitely "cute".  Anywho, they only had tiny, tiny, little sprouts so I set them on a windowsill for about a week. There they could soak up sun & really strengthen those bitty sprouts!

Here you can sort of see the little sprouts from the second potato from the top

                                     

   About a week later they were ready for their burlap dirt nap. I headed into the backyard with my sprouted potatoes and finally planted them in their new burlap home! I cant wait until I can dump out the bag and harvest all those cute little spuds!
http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/04/19/planting-potatoes/
   Above is a link i found with a quick & easy guide to growing potatoes in a burlap bag. The article that I read was in a gardening magazine and I couldn't find it to share!

-GGJ