Potatoes are one of my favorite crops to grow. There are so many different varieties, methods for growing, and even uses for potatoes. Plus the surprise factor of digging them out of the ground is SUPER satisfying.
Today, we’ll look at how to grow potatoes in containers, and specifically the process of hilling up, or adding more soil around potato plants to give them more room to produce those delicious tubers we all love to eat.
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What varieties of potatoes are you growing this year?
Just done mine in my telescopic pots but I use a sardine under each of my seed potatoes and they love it
https://youtu.be/JxjFZjP_5U8
The reason I don't use fabric bags is the soil touching the bag dries out, so the roots will not grow into that dried soil. In a solid container, the roots will grow up to the edge of the container.
One word you do not want to use when gardening is should work should be fine!
My understanding is that the soil becomes too compacted in a tower, and that stunts the potato growth.
Hi, I wanted to know, how often should the potatoes be watered and how often should the soils be fertalized or looked after?
Use some 10:1 diluted urine. Voila.
Is that a Loquat tree in this video?
That's quite ironic that you did the apocalypse challenge a year before the actual food shortages from the covid apocalypse started. Good practice!
"I grow catholic"
Don`t worry, I did too, but you can get out of it too.
Hey handsome…
Are those kumquats in your garden?
I don’t know if you’ll see this message but after you moved your potato plants by your white picket fence (9:50 in the video) there is a yellow fruited tree in the front of the camera and I was wondering what the name of that fruit is. I think it has a big slimy brown seed in the center. I don’t know if it’s a loquat or kumquat. Could you tell me what that is or somebody? I used to eat those when I was younger and I’d like to grow a tree like that.
Gotta ask regarding bags. We got snow and cold. It seems the bag was colder than the ground, as the potato plant in the compost pile, not affected by the cold, and the bag potato one of thems leaves got dark, rest survived. Unsure why one got weird. Plant height was about 2 inches. Though about hiling the leaves next time so they are below surface when cold arrives. Any thoughts?
Watching this, wanting to grow blue potatoes because they're pretty. Haha
Love your channel! Thanks for the tips, first time growing potatoes in a pot this year!
Could this be done with straw? So one layer soil, then the potatoes, then on top of the potatoes only straw?
I guess my question would be for indeterminate potatoes grown in pots. If seedlings aren't growing at the same rate, let's say one is 6 in high and the other is barely popping through the soil, do you go ahead and cover them up? Will that "drown out" the one barely popping through?
What are those fruits? Are they persimmons?
White potatoes are the best all-around potatoes there are. They’re low on flavor, but they are good to fry, sauté, put in stews when cut in large chunks, they grow very quickly and are very hardy. I prefer Yukon’s and russets for eating but growing is easier with the whites
Extremely helpful thanks
I am struggling with getting potatoes to grow. I have them both in 20 gallon plastic containers with plenty of drainage and also in grow bags obviously with plenty of drainage.. They do well all the way through the hilling process, grow up big beautiful foliage, and then one by one they all die. I water them regularly, I tried adding more water and less water, nothing seems to help I keep them fertilized. But one by one they all fall. It usually starts with the plastic containers and then works its way down through all of the cloth containers. The big beautiful foliage just sort of falls over and melts and looks rotten. I'm in Central Florida where it's obviously wet and hot. Anybody can offer any suggestions help or ideas I surely could use it!
Please help….. I had hilled mine in 25 gallon grow bags for the first 4-6 inches and then switched to straw for the rest. Was that a mistake? Never hilled potatoes before so it was my own experiment when I had no compost left. Thank you.
I’ve run out of bag to keep hilling up! What now? Ack! First time potato grower in Vancouver. Love your videos Kevin. Have helped this novice veggie gardener so much!
I'd think a ton of water is wasted as it evaporates out of the fabric bag. Why not bury the whole fabric pot in a pile of wood chips? Is there a down side to that?
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Okay, I think I can go bravely and try to grow potatoes in a 10-gallon grow bag. Thanks, Kevin!