Potatoes

Back in the spring I had some potatoes from my parents garden that had started to sprout. I didnt want to waste it so cut them up as for see potatoes.
We had a wire pen that we had used for our pot bellie piglet when she was tiny, and a few bales that my son used to us for target practice but we starting to fall apart. We scattered the seed potatoes around on the ground and covered with straw. As the plants grew thru the straw we place anothe layer of straw around up to the height of the plant. The only thing I would have changed would have been location. The pen was already in a shady spot. The plants would have dont MUCH better in the sun. However, we did dig them today. Mostly because of the LARGE amounts of rain we have gotten hammered with in the last few days. I was afraid now that the plants were starting to die, that the potatoes may begin to rot from the wetness.
All we did is remove the straw. under the straw was a gold mine of beautiful potatoes. We harvested apx. 10# of small white potatoes. They were very easy to harvest and in beautiful condition. HAD they been in the sun, we would have allot of potatoes. We will do this again, but already have plan to move the fence. I will post photos of the potatoes as soon as I get a new set of batteries.
We also planted several in a tub. They were very productive but had small potatoes. If you have a large barrel or livestock trough Im thinking you could place in the sun in the back yard and have a decent potatoe crop. Be sure that you provide a drain hole or several.
This was a very fun thing for my son to participate in. There was NO effort involved really and a decent product. HAVE FUN with this one.