Want to try container gardening with your little ones? We had success with potatoes! Here is why it worked for us!

First, seed potatoes or potato eyes are large enough for little hands to manage. Have you ever tried planting tiny carrot seeds with young children………you get the idea, potatoes are doable!

Second, the potato grows under the soil so there is minimal disruption if a child or children pick the leaves of the potato plant. Unlike, if  a just forming tomato is picked, the project is over!

Third, the potato is not delicate. Children can dig into the box at the end of the growing period and find the potatoes without harming the produce.

Here’s how to set up a potato container garden.

You will need some kind of big container, soil, starter potato, a trowel,water and mulching material.

We used an old window box, filled it with soil, dug a few holes into the soil, plopped the potato in and covered the whole box with more soil and a layer of old leaves and straw. Place your container in a sunny location.

Water your container steadily if you don’t have rain from time to time. Water it, watch the plants grow and when the plants die off sometime about 10 weeks from the start of the project, it is time to dig up your potato!

 Small potatoes, big impact!