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How to grow delicious vegetables, herbs, and fruit at home

How to grow potatoes in towers

Sunset's Johanna Silver shows how to get a great potato harvest from the coolest planters yet

Potato tower
Photo and story by Johanna Silver

Potato towers: Keep on mulching

June 2 — It feels like they shot up overnight.

I've been keeping up with topping off the vines with more straw (and only straw) as they grow, and I've been consistent about watering.

 


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