Growing Potatoes in Galvanized Trash Cans 

You have inspired me to grow potatoes this year thank you!

I'm planting about 3 different varieties this year. Last year I attempted growing my first sweet potatoes and they did ok, but we learned something about that , that we could have done different. So we may attempt it again this year. As far as the regular potatoes go, I picked up a 5 lb bag of seed potatoes at our local farmers market alot cheaper than these websites sell em for.

I don't need to fertilize.... *adds more compost as time passes* 😂 seriously though not having to worry about a "schedule" is a very lovely thing :)

Just found you. I could only find some small organic Yukon Golds today (zone 8) so I'm going to use those to chit. I've never done this, so we'll see. Should be good to plant mid April?

How many pounds do you think this will produce? When do you try to chit the potato.

Do you put holes in the trash can?

Don't they need to scab over before planting them?

Grew Red Norlands for the first-time last year and same thing squirrels took a bite out of the biggest one close to the surface, was the size of a grapefruit boy was a I surprised and pissed. This year I'm growing the Sarpo Mira and Norlands again but will set up some fencing to keep out those damn squirrels!

In galvanized cans? Are you aware what its made of? And that the foods grown in it will be poisoned?