Drill two holes on the outside of this frame so they align with the stud you placed in the corner of the frame. This frame will be the base (or the bottom floor) of the box.ħ. Place one of the 2-inch by 2-inch by 33-inch stud pieces to the inside corner of one of the frames. These six frames will stack on top of each other, creating your box.Ħ. This will give you a total of six frames. Screw two of the 24-inch pieces and two of the 21-inch pieces together to form a “frame.”ĥ. This will position the screws to go into the center of the cut side of the 21-inch pieces.Ĥ. Drill two holes on each end of the 24-inch pieces, about ¾ inch from the edge. Cut the six 2-inch by 2-inch by 8-foot boards into 12 lengths of 21 inches and 12 lengths of 24 inches.ģ. Cut the two 2-inch by 2-inch by 6-foot studs into four 33-inch pieces. You’ll have extras, but you’ll probably need them later.)ġ. About 65-2½-inch long deck screws (I just got a 1-pound box of them it’s less expensive. For the purpose of this project, we’ll stick with 2x2s to avoid confusion.ģ. Two-2-inch by 2-inch by 6-foot wood studs (or one 12-foot-long stud) Note: I actually went with 2x3s instead of 2x2s because they were straighter. ![]() Six-2-inch by 6-inch by 8-foot untreated wood boardsĢ. In this project, our potato “building” will be six stories tall. I like to look at the frames as resembling the floors of a building. The potato “growing” box is just that-a series of frames that stack, or grow, as the potato plant grows. The idea is ingenious forcing the potato plant to “stretch” upward as it grows allows more area of the plant to produce potatoes. The “potato box” or “spud box” has become an effective method to produce a large quantity of potatoes in a small space. This year, I am again doing another “first”-growing potatoes vertically. Though my first attempts at growing potatoes the last couple of years have been successful, the potatoes took up a fair portion of the raised beds they were growing in. Using trellises and other vertical growing methods greatly help in this challenge. As the areas of my garden devoted to perennials has gradually increased, the need to use the remaining space more efficiently has become more important. You may be wondering, “Don’t you mean potato grow box?” Nope, that’s not a typo.
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