Yesterday, I harvested one of my potato cans. (I grew potatoes in 30 gallon plastic garbage cans.) I grew Yukon Golds in that can and I got about 17 lbs of potatoes out of it. The ones on the bottom were HUGE. They were much bigger than the biggest ones at the grocery store. Just the big ones filled up a 4 gallon bucket. I gave all the big ones away to my neighbors who have been suffering from the economy. One of my neighbors was so happy to get some of the potatoes it makes me wonder if and what she's been eating lately. I still have a whole refridgerator drawer full of the small ones and I have 7 chicken-egg sized ones in a whicker basket on the kitchen table that I'm going to use as seed potatoes. I hope to re-plant in the next couple of weeks.

I already know they taste fantastic, because I've been harvesting ones that were closer to the surface for a while now.

Growing them in trash cans was a great idea. I live in a 4-plex with almost no ground that isn't covered in concrete or asphalt. They didn't take up that much space for what they produced and because I had holes in the bottom of the cans and had them raised of the ground I could tell exactly how much water they needed by how much came out the bottom. At the height of their growing they were taking an entire 2 gallon watering can with only a couple of drips coming out of the bottom. I knew it was time to start cutting back on the water when I started getting puddles under the cans.

Sara

I still have two cans left. The one I'm going to harvest next is one that has a mix of Yukon Golds and