The weekend is finally here, and I can stop thinking about office politics and J2EE architectures for a few days!!! If the truth is to be spoken, my job has way too many responsibilities. In anycase, with work out of the way, I've gotten the opportunity to purchase the materials needed for early potatoe plantings tomorrow.
This year, I'll be trying the container based approach. That is, all of my potatoe seedlings will be growing within a container under precisely controlled environmental conditions. This effort requires the usage of 2 ten gallon containers, forty lbs of organic compost/humus top soil mixture, and 20 lbs of rough gravel. From my online research, it appears that the container based approach is the most efficient form of organic potatoe farming. It supposedly delivers the highest yield per unit of surface area taken.
For the chitted bulbs, I'm going to be using the reliable Golden Wonder breed of potatoe. This breed has never failed me before. Per reference, a 2 gallon container volume can be expected to grow between 3 to 5lbs of Golden Wonder potatoes per harvest. With 2 possible harvests a year here in the northeast, a total yield of 6 to 10 lbs per 2 gallons of volume is the norm. With my current container volume capacity of 20 gallons, I would expect a minimal yield of between 60 lbs of 100 lbs of potatoes this year.
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