This is something I want to try this year. Apparently, you can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in just 4 square feet of land! How? By growing them vertically in a box.
Basically, you build a box with removable panels. As the potato grows, you add panels, and then fill it in with dirt. If you buy a late-season potato, it should produce potatoes all through the box as it grows.
Details are here (also here). And someone had an extended blog entry about their own experiences here.
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This is a new blog category - Nature Hacking. Nature hacking is going to be a collection of techniques to leverage nature in interesting ways. The first one is using snow to make ice cream. This takes 2 minutes!
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