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Small space? You can grow potatoes in sacks

Potatoes grown in sacks. [courtesy]

With land for farming shrinking day by day, thanks to urbanisation, there is need to embrace smart solutions. Growing potatoes is one such creative step that works where space is a challenge.

To grow potatoes in a sack, you do not need a large garden. What one needs are reusable sacks to grow potatoes everywhere. With this method, it is easier to monitor the growth of the crop and produce more harvest of up to 20 kilogrammes from a single plant.

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