Wow they grew fast!

Yes, it is another potatoes in tires update, already. I don't know if it was the rain, the warm days and cool nights, or the added organic material from my last update, but those taters grew like crazy over the last week. Wednesday I added more tires and more manure/sawdust. Currently there is one stack of three, nine double stacks, and three still with a single tire.

Lifting those tires and shoveling the dirt isn't easy, but it is easier than I remember planting in rows last year, and the work comes a little at a time rather than all at once. I'd rather get my daily exercise in the garden than with exercise equipment anyway. One tip, if you are thinking about trying this, I'm finding the plants easier to work with when they are about half the height of the next tire. Put on the next tire and fill it enough to allow the leaves to still show and inch or so. Let it grow and add more compost. This works better that letting the plant get so big that it is already above the new tire. Just makes it easier to get the compost around the plants and in the sides of the tires.

In case you're wondering, the rest of the garden is coming along well too, I'm just excited about the potatoes this year! :)