We took apart one of the potato towers. The tower was only 18 inches tall (three fence boards high) and it contained Yukon Golds. They filled half of a five gallon bucket. I plopped the bucket on our crappy bathroom scale and it weighed about 13 lbs or so. Not a bad yield from 8 seed potatoes. There were quite a few large potatoes and medium sized ones too. The potatoes were well distributed throughout the tower.
We still have three more towers to disassemble. Two contain Reds and one contains Banana fingerlings. I can't wait to see how those did.
If we do potato towers again next year, we'll put the fourth board on the towers to make them 24 inches tall. Maybe we'll get 25% more potatoes.
It may seem like a lot of work for potatoes, but they sure taste a heck of a lot better than the ones in the grocery store.
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