How to build a box to grow potatoes | GET GROWING
Channel: WTOL11
Date: 2020-08-23

You can grow a vertical raised bed for root plants like potatoes. Instead of fighting hard clay soil, just go up, instead of down! Potatoes like to grow in the ground, or in a mound of dirt. But that mound of dirt will blow away in the wind if it isn’t protected. So here’s how to build a simple vertical raised bed.
You can make yours any size, but I like to keep my beds a bit more compact and more manageable. This is how you build a 2x2x4 potato box. 
Cut 1x4 untreated lumber:
14 boards 2’
Cut 1x1 untreated lumber:
4 boards 4’
Make 2’ squares with four boards, screwing it together in each corner. Repeat the process and you will end up with 7 squares. 
Stack two squares on top of each other, then attach the 1x1 sticks in each corner with screws. Once they are all secure, add two more squares and attach them in the corners. You should have three more squares that are not attached. Move the potato box into the garden. You won’t need a bottom on it. 
Fill the raised bed will soil, all the way to the top and plant your potatoes in the top three inches of soil. As your potatoes grow, add the remaining three squares. When you are ready to harvest, just take the top three squares off and you can easily get to your potato crop!
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