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“One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Look in the trash can and you’ll find more.”
That’s the new version of the old counting song that they’re singing at Lorraine Robson’s house.
Blessed with a bountiful potato crop but no root cellar for storage, Mrs. Robson tried saving part of last year’s harvest in a 22-gallon garbage can. When she’d gone through the five bushels she’d kept upstairs in the pantry of her Slate Mills bed and breakfast, she pulled the trash can out from the crawl space underneath the house.
“The old potatoes were all soft, and they’d grown long, long roots. But the roots were covered with clusters of new potatoes, sw7eet as sugar and so delicious! They are just beautiful!” said Mrs. Robson.
Gardening guides don’t list trash can cultivation among the suggested methods of growing red potatoes and Kennebecs. And Mrs. Robson wasn’t trying to break new ground. “I was just looking for a way to keep them over the winter,” she explained.
Someone suggested storing the vegetables in a trash can in the cellar-like crawl space underneath the house. She filled the trash can with
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