Channeling Sophie's Garden: Potatoes towering -

Channeling Sophie's Garden

Carol's garden is in Port Hope MI, in a rural, lakeside community. She has lots of space and expertise. Laura' garden is located in Centralia WA, in a small suburban yard challenged by access to sun and space. Debbie's garden is in Deckerville MI, in a smaller rural yard, where rules are ignored.

Each of us is applying what we learned at at our mother's and grandmother's knees in space once owned by Sophie Mayer Birg Harter on Rangeline Road. Sophie immigrated to Detroit in 1908 from Heufeld, a once German (Donauschwaben) community of Hungary. Her hope lives on.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Potatoes towering -

Our plants are huge and quite healthy looking except for the occasionally slug feasting on a leaves. But I think there is enough foliage to overcome their midnight marauding.

Update on the process. The soil is staying cool and damp. We're watering 2x per week. I cannot determine if the proper amount of water is filtering well to the lower levels so I'm just going on plant health. I am seeing inside the tower, some leaf yellowing. But the jungle is dense in there, so I am guessing that some of the plant is losing out on sun time.

See more photos on the Potato Project page.

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