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My, my how does my garden grow. The potatoes are growing like, well weeds. There’s no other description. Week 3 and over half of the trash cans are full of compost already. My husband decided to expand our strawberry patch. In order to do so,...

As I mentioned earlier, P. Allen Smith inspired me to start my own composting pile. Here’s the link to HIS version of this: http://www.pallensmith.com/articles/trash-can-compost-bin After I saw this on his show, my husband went out to the shed to see if we had an old...

I’ve checked my trash can potatoes every day. It’s been two or three days now and I do not see green leaves poking through the dirt. It’s a good thing because I’m going to have to go to the city compost center to get more...

We’ve had a vegetable garden several years now and have always wanted to have a potato patch. Lack of space prevented us from doing so; however, this year I ran across an article that talked about growing potatoes in a trash can. Several articles and...