Potting type soil is on sale now, so would be a good time to try experimenting...I would get Miracle Grow garden soil...30 lb. You can lay it on the ground...which will kill the grass, by the way...Cut slits along both sides near the bottom so excess water can drain out. Cut 3 x marks in the top, use small, sprouting potatoes or cut a large one so it has 2 or 3 'eyes' and let it dry out a few hours., Push them down into the soil, water, forget about it except to water every few days. If the potato is sprouted it should put up plants right away....When it has bloomed and begins to yellow you can 'scrabble' out your potatoes...You could also plant a tomato or cucumber plant in the middle hole...Co op's have seed potatoes in bulk, about 35c a lb..So I bought some smallish yellow potatoes to eat...Since I've waited a few days I guess I'll plant them instead...Thats cheap for spuds...I may bite the bullet and buy a cheap laundry basket just for the heck of it...Fill it full of spuds...Good luck ! When we dug a hole to plant a tomato down in the garden we dug up a potato almost as large as a baseball. It was still good and firm and we plan to cook it. Some small potatoes were replanted...I guess I told you we found one potato on top of the ground that had laid there exposed all winter....we replanted it....usually it would freeze and rot. Guess the 'suckers' originated in the Andes.... Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:47:18 -0400 Barbara Mangan <[email protected]> writes: > Jeannie, what part of the potatoe do you plant? Can I then put them > in a > bag of potting soil and do what? Really anxious to hear your > advice. > Barb > > > > ____________________________________________________________ Woman is 60 But Looks 25 Mom publishes simple facelift trick that angered doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/516e2a4d5861d2a4d704cst01duc