Gardening 101

[leatherwolf1970]

In the past I've never used potato vines in the yard or containers until this year. Yesterday I went through and pulled up the vines and to my surprise I had potatoes two white ones and a red one. There may be more in the container but I didn't want to disturb the Hyacinth in the container to find out. Today I get to move in more mulch for the

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[nipper_dawg]

You need to get all the potatoes out of the ground, otherwise thats how you develop opatae blight.

[leatherwolf1970]

I've never even had a vegetable garden before let alone potato plants. If I bring the container in for the winter will I still have to tear apart the container to get out the tubors? I tried digging (no pun intended) up info online about potato blight but everything online was geared towards a farm it seemed and not the container garden.

[nipper_dawg]

Thats because it is assumed containers get new soil every year. The soil gets tired and has to be refreshed.

[redhochipe]

Best of luck with the mulch. I'll have to stop by and take a gander.

[leatherwolf1970]

The yard isn't looking like anything right now other than clean. Everything has been cut back or dug up for the winter.