Container Potatoes

Each potato plant produces several kilograms of potatoes, so even one or two plants will provide enough for many family meals.

Down the road from me is a huge potato field. All summer I watched the plants grow until they began to die back in autumn. One night a huge harvester moved in, while a procession of trucks carted the freshly dug potatoes to the local food processor.

We live in the heart of a rich agricultural region in north-west Tasmania. Potatoes are one of the main summer crops here. Despite the local potato bounty, I grew my own (organic) potatoes