Potatoes, Garlic & Carrots in Food Canoe
by Eric Weinert ยท Started November 12, 2025
Food Canoe with reconditioned soil one month prior. 14 Yukon gold and 9 purple sweet potatoes, planted. Garlic from rooted and sprouted cloves planted two weeks prior. Carrots in cardboard egg trays with premix from seed. Will spray weekly with KNF solutions
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Harvested 4 feed of food canoe, good shape and quality of potatoes
harvested 4 feet of food canoe and got 10 pounds medium size good shape and quality of potatoes
sprayed with spray bottle
watered the food canoes every other day and sprayed bloom with spray bottle all crops, carrots, cilantro, and garlic and sweet potatoes. Cut the leaf shoots from the existing sweet potatoes and transplanted to empty part of the food canoe
Jennifer sprayed solution on garlic and potatoes
Jennifer sprayed food canoes with knf solutions. Garlic and sweet potatoes growing well. Full germination on Cilantro. Carrot seed germination poor, need to reseed
.25 gallon leaf
Sweet Potatoes shoots coming up nicely
sprayed leaf on Wednesday on all garlic
solantro seedling emerging
Garlic plants growing and healthy
some carrot seedlings emerging
Mulched last week with grass clipping, first potato shoots emerging
Watered daily, mulched the potatoes with fresh grass clippings
planted 14 yukon gold with some eyes, and 9 purple sweet potato fresh out of plastic bag. All potatoes on triangle pattern approximately 18 inches apart. Garlic has been growing for two weeks, transplanted after sprouting roots in glass of water in our kitchen. Carrots planted seed into cardboard egg tray with hole punched in bottom and pro mix soil
Soil was healthy and moist. Yukons and small eyes forming, sweet potatoes did not (fresh out of bag). Planted 4 inches deep about 18 inches apart in triangle pattern. The carrots were planted from seed in pro mix using 12 by 12 cardboard egg cartons with hole in bottom punched out. Garlic is about 2 weeks old, heathy from cloves sprouted in glass of water in our kitchen prior to planting with shoots and roots.
Garlic planted two weeks ago