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Kit Posted - Nov 08 2005 : 06:23:41 AM
Okay, possibly bizarre question. I'm a critter person, I don't know much if anything about gardens.

Keep in mind, my group has several people in it, all with different talents. The "business oriented" gal (always a good thing to have in the group, eh? ... oh, and her brother is an accountant ... very handy) wants to try this idea I found on this other list. It involves raising potatoes in trash cans, where you put the starter taters at the bottom in some dirt on top of rocks, then throw straw over them. Then as the shoots come up you keep covering with straw, eventually filling the entire can. Anyway, she wants to try this. I want to try this (I don't *THINK* I'll kill this project).

However, she wants to try it NOW. It's winter here folks. So she's thinking we can do this indoors as long as we've got a pan for water under the can. She might be right, my little used dining room faces east so it gets what sun there is. Yes/No? Maybe? Crazy to try to grow anything in winter in Maine?

We're hoping in a few years we'll have green houses, but this spring's construction project involves pens and shelter for goats, sheep, and chickens.
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BlueApple Posted - Nov 08 2005 : 08:06:46 AM
Sounds like an interesting idea! And a fun one too. I do child care and that sounds like something fun to do with them! I'm interested to know if it would work too!

Julia
BlueApple Farm

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