Double Your Potato Yields With This Dirt Cheap Homemade Grow Bag Method
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- This is Survival Gardening at its finest....If you could only grow ONE CROP using ONE TECHNIQUE... it would be this one!!!... Potentially DOUBLE your harvest of potatoes using this very cheap and practical method of growing potatoes... Potatoes are filled with vitamins and minerals along with loads of high quality calories and fiber (so long as the skins are kept on).... plus they store for many months without any special techniques.... get growing some potatoes my friend!!!
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Brother, I utilized the garbage bag potato system and holy f*cking roley poley! The system you showed on your "double your potato yields" worked out so well. I'm looking forward to next season as these were just a test run. Thanks again my friend, I've been watching my father-in-law try to grow potatoes for 3 seasons now to absolute failure as the result. He's gonna lose his mind when he sees these garbage bag potatoes 😂.
I'm happy you found success my friend thank you for sharing!!
i’m trying to produce a large amount of sweet potatoes in Oklahoma. It is now a 7B and I’m doing them in raised beds meaning 32 inches above ground so I have 2 feet of soil to plant sweet potatoes in ,would it be a good idea to do this technique planting them different levels? and can I sprout my sweet potatoes, the same way you have done your potatoes? I have bought slips before and I haven’t been very successful with the size of my sweet potatoes. Mainly, it’s the size that’s a problem I get a massive amount of green from them but just not a massive amount of a sweet potato.!!
Where can people get that much what you call compost?
What ph do you have the compost
Holy What!??
My Thoughts on the Plastic: I feel its important to keep things in perspective my friends... #1- This exact type of plastic is used EXTENSIVELY on nearly all major Certified Organic Farming operations.... those organic strawberries you bought from the co op are almost guaranteed to be farmed using and coming in direct contact with this type of plastic... So the organic certifiers deemed this perfectly safe and they have far more laboratory credentials than I do....#2 - Highly biologically active soil contains billions of microorganisms that have the power to break down things like BPA within two days of contact... this compost we use in the bag is exploding with microbial life!!... #3 - Contrary to popular belief, just because a compound might be present in the soil does not mean it will be absorbed by the plants.... plants only absorb what they need and nothing more... unless its purposely sprayed on them of course (systemic pesticides)... #4 - You are already swimming in a sea of toxins... your hairspray, deodorant, makeup, fragrance, body wash, lotions, synthetic clothing, bed mattress, water bottles, food packaging, toothbrush, tampon, mouthwash, etc... are all constantly introducing toxins into the body in WAY higher concentrations than what is possible using these bags.... so IN CONCLUSION = The important thing is to be growing the maximum amount of food and growing potatoes (or anything else) this way is LIGHTYEARS better and cleaner and more nutrient dense than ANYTHING you'll get from a store, even organic stuff.... so grow on my friends!!!
Certified organic lettuce hydroponic greenhouse farm I worked on electrical, had many plastics in constant contact with fish pond grow tanks water, lettuce foam float panel and water beds.
Appreciate the pragmatism and detailed explanation - cheers mate.
Problem is that microplastics are now known to be in our fruits. Yes traveled threw the roots of the tree and ending up inside the fruit we eat. And comnercial farms does nearly nothing right so i feel that in itself is a horrible example.
Am i perfect? No i have plenty of plastic pots etc. But i can atleast reuse them to a greater extent compared to plastic bags. And i use them because i bought them 15years ago. I only lost a few during this time because their stuck together..
But if your just starting to grow and/or your on a budget plastic bags might be the right choice for you!
Where do we get these type of bags from? What are they specifically?
@@mommadseachoneteachone3711 The bags are just the large yard trash bags.
Very clear, very intelligent. Thanks and especially for not falling into the trap of amateurs -playing music while you’re talking.
thank you for the positive energy and feedback my friend!
I use animal feed bags as planters, once a few cuts have been made in them for drainage. Large (25 pounds or greater) dog, cat, chicken, rabbit, whatever species. I collect them from friends and from my own animal/livestock feed. Also, the large plastic (food safe) tubs that horse and cattle supplements are sold in. Sometimes 55-gallon barrels that once contained food are available locally at less than $20 USD each. My rainwater catchment system is made up of these, some I got for free. Cutting these plastic barrels in half gives me two good sized planters and isn't a difficult job. I basically have trained myself to look at things with an eye to what I can do with them to grow food plants or livestock. It isn't always pretty, but it can feed my family, so it is a beautiful thing to the eyes of this beholder!
I feel you!.. I have also trained my eye to see the growth potential... thanks for sharing!
Aman! I was thinking about that the other day as I was walking around the garden...its not picturesque but it is perfect because it's doing what it was intended to do! Many blessings
The way they are now going into your yards and telling me you can't grow this kind of stuff I'd be keeping a lot of that secret
I buy used 33 gallon trash cans when the price is right. Then fill the bottom half with wood chips, top with good stuff and leave 4" for mulch. It works great for old buzzards like me with wobbly knees and bad backs.
Microplastics
Leaf mold under bag
1/3 compost in bag, could be mixed w soil. Roll top down.
10 Drainage holes in bag using rebar.
Use potatoes from last year. Plant in bag at 2 levels. One set 2” from bottom. Other two 2” deep.
Put compost on top. Add 5gallon bucket to bag.
Water weekly
Potatoes are heavy feeders
I’m probably planting them too close. These bags, are they regular black trash bags of contractor size?
@@gingercox6468 It appears that way.
Thank you for listing this! Appreciate it! 😁
@@gingercox6468 Looks like contractor bags to me.
FIRST PUT DOWN THE WEED BLOCK BARRIER
Your approach to “making due with what you got” is refreshing and motivating. The way you explain your techniques make s me realize anyone can do it (even me). In these tough times ( bout to get tougher) this channel will be my go to….
Luke 21,36 KJV
You probably mean make do with what you've got. Due is like when a book is due back at the library.
Correct.
I do masonry as one of my jobs and I'm always trying to salvage materials from the jobsite in order to use around the yard. I'll be making some videos once I have time to show what I've done.
🤔 hope so 👍
This is pretty much how I was taught to grow potatoes decades ago by my great-grandfather. The only difference is that we used burlap sacks. Makes sense though. We'd cut the sacks open to harvest right on top of the compost pile. Grab the taters and stir the rest in. The sacks would go on the beds for weed control for the spring plants, covered by mulch, over the winter.
Great GrandDad knew a thing or two about a Thing or Two !
Pop
Wow, that makes so much sense!! Do they even sell burlap bags anymore?
@@micheallemitchener9840 I don't know about selling, but I know a trucking company around the corner that is always willing to give away as many as I want. They are all used coffee bean sacks.
@Michealle Mitchener good question. Like mentioned, maybe if you can find a place. Cause they became popular as like a "coutryify your home" decor thing and now they cost a small fortune instead of being cheap, useful...tools.
I appreciate the levelling tip on these. I'm about to grow a last crop of the season of some Yukon Golds and some Reds and will implement what you've shown here. One tip I could give you is that right when the potatoes begin to flower, step on them at the base of the plant and bend but not totally break it, but enough so that the plant is clearly damaged above the surface. This will cause the plant to start to die, but will bring all of the nutrients from the green part and invest it back into the spuds, resulting in around 15% to even 20% larger spuds in the last couple of weeks before you harvest. This is an old Irish tip for getting a little more out of them before harvest.
Love the layering/leveling of the potatoes, going to give it a try! 🙌🏽
yup do in layers for bigger yields
this is why you see potatoe farmers level a field seed their field and then mound over the seed lines and reseed and mound even 3 or 4 times ... it also forces water down to the bottom most roots in each furrow again increasing your yield .... used to do it 4 layers deep with 6 plants and we got enough taters to last most of the winter and still have seed tater for the next year
This is a fantastic idea and burying them at two levels knowing how they will spread out is genius. Thanks so much for sharing!
So thankful to have found your channel, your methods are easy, effective and affordable. 👍👍 Sharing wide
thank you Warren!
I took your advice and planted two layers of potatoes this year. My harvest this year was easily double or more what I have had in the past. Thanks for the tips!
My todo list for 2023. #1 plant potatoes like a Viking.
I have gone through SO many potato growing guides over the past 2 years.... but you are the first one to mention the 'determinate' and 'indeterminate' way of growing tubers. thank you so much for this efficiency tip!
It'd be a great tip if it was accurate.
@@AntonGully depends on the sort you're growing I guess. I've tried the "keep adding soil" approach and it yielded absolutely nothing, the only difference was that I had to dig much deeper for my taters 😂. So I'm happy to try this approach
@@AntonGully it was accurate.
Potato farmer here.
For those that don't know much of a potatoes vitamins and minerals are found just beneath the skin peeling spuds wastes these important assets. Digging an 18 inch trench beneath your grow bags and filling with unrotted organics will provide enough warmth to plant much earlier in the year and indeed get your system right will allow you to grow potatoes through out the winter. Once the tips of the shoots break the surface keep topping up your bags until nearly full this will treble your harvest, dont worry the potatoes have enough energy to grow up to a depth of three feet plus, you don't need to use bags old tyres will do or stacking boxes or pipes. My son and I grow enough potatoes each year to feed us in a plot six feet by eight feet.This is not something we discovered our selves it was knowledge passed on to us.
In Ireland - poor, freezing and hungry kids - I was in charge of the potatoes and chickens. I grew up and did well for myself because I knew how to graft. I used to feel ashamed of my childhood - not now - (female) I can also weld, change an exhaust - I love old Land Rover Defenders - they are easily fixed and basic
@@fullofhope2222 Congrats on Lessons Learned. Yes, be proud of possessing REAL KNOWLEDGE. What we learn while impoverished is often a hard earned PHD in LIFE
@@lynnodonnell4764 yes and always eat the skins (if home grown)
@@fullofhope2222 ❤Luke 21,36 KJV
@@Bob-gn8ph you cannot know - that your reply came at the exact time that I needed it - Thank you - I am blessed by your comment and it has given confirmation of an large issue that was perplexing me today (6pm Ireland) God bless you.🙏
there is something about this channel that other Permaculture channels lack, and i can't quite put my finger on it! Prigioni is great, and others, but this guy somehow hits the nail directly on the head every time! I have some storebought potatoes growing under the trailer that i need to plant somewhere...garden not quite ready yet...next Spring is balls to the wall, but this Fall and Winter are soil building and Greenhouse construction.
Yeah none of them do it quite like Nate
Plastic?
I planted potatoes in containers this year to everyone’s amusement. I was shocked and a bit overwhelmed when I ended up with 200 pounds of potatoes. I am canning, freezing, and dehydrating, but really need to know the best way to store them without processing them. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I just found your channel and it is wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!
When you live in a cold climate you can store them outside, dig a hole 15 to 20 inches deep, put them in and cover them with the dug up soil for frost protection. Or of course in a cold basement.
@@Gtumrths Thank you!
You can make potato vodka. Or potato starch.
Look up dry canning.
Consider that the potato plant grows the tubers to survive winter. Unless your ground freezes or you have lots of animals that will eat them, you can just leave them in the ground. The vast majority will be just fine. It is how they naturally grow. If you need the bed for another crop, do as Coastal Sunrise suggests and clamp them (usually add some straw or similar around them, then soil. Easier to pick them out and won't freeze solid like soil might)
I've tried this in buckets dug into soil about 5 cm drilled with bottom holes and works extremely well
Really good video. For anyone who uses woven polypropolene landscape fabric, please cut it with a hotknife or weld the cut edges with heat. I seen to much small wildlife dead, trapped in the frayed material, and it lasts decades. Also, if you've overwintered potatoes the you know you'll be growing, let them be in the light for a couple of months before planting - they'll produce strong 'rose eyes' rather than vulnerable sprouts 👍
So excited to find your channel! Getting my potatoes ready for planting now. Perfect timing. Thanks for the great video!
I do the exactly the same thing! Have done for years. The spuds are clean, no rodent damage and easy to harvest. The bags last for 2 to 3 years. Way to go.
So you can reuse the bags and soil for a couple of years? A lot of people I've read recommend against reusing soil from bags or pots. Great to know that it can be reused.
Alternatively, can the soil & compost be put back on the compost pile after the potatoes are harvested? As long as the plants do not have a disease that could be left in the soil after harvest, it would seem that the soil & compost could be recycled?
@@worldcitizenra Im thinking it may be best to recompose but away from the main pile, in a separate one until you can determine the quality. pair the used soil with newer leaf mould or decomposing debris from around trees and have that mould start to break down the old compost, that'll help "clean" it
@@Reggaeshark. - Thank you. Excellent advice.
Rodents don't get in them??? @norton750cc
@@Reggaeshark.Yes. I would mix it with new leaves and grass and food scraps.
Holy cow, this is how I will try to grow potatoes next spring. I am ashamed of how little success I have had, but I have learned. Thank you for sharing!
Great video and tips, well produced and nicely delivered by you. Looking forward to more.
Wow! Nice job! I got lucky this year. Chose 20 gallon grow bags. Placed leaves, straw, twigs in the bottom and compost/soil from a local farm on top. Also, used soil matter from the forest behind the house and grass clippings on top. The Yukon gold and reds were plentiful and huge! I will layer next year in the 30 gallon bags. Tried sweet potatoes in them last year, but soil to dense. Did not use the first method as they were the last thing planted and I was tired of wheel barreling into the forest, haha. Looking forward to this method next seaso!
Thank you!!! I love the follow thru with harvest! ❤🥔🥔🥔❤
Good stuff. I'm learning a whole new level of gardening. Very inspiring.
I grow my potatos in really big plastic pots. In the pots, I can continue to add soil as the plant grows. The pots make it a lot easier to harvest also, I just lay down a tarp and dump the pot upside down and sift through. Only issue is the pots are black, so I have to hide them behind my other raised beds either on the north or east side.
This was just in time for me, I was planning on growing my potatoes in containers this year and would not have layered them.
Love the way you did those boards.
Sweet technique!! I just found you in my suggested videos!
Thank you! I just found your channel this week and I appreciate your knowledge so much! ❤
I’m going to try this method now for a fall harvest. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you. You gave all steps. Clearer than most videos. I subscribed.
Thank you for the tip, I’ll be watching more of your stuff. 🔥
Excellent video!! I'm going to try growing potatoes next summer. We have a very tiny backyard and container gardening is our only option. I grew tomatoes, thyme, lots of varieties of lettuce this year to test out container gardening. Had great success!! Next year I'm planing to use every square inch, including hanging bags and pots from the fence. With the price of food, being able to control what goes into the produce, and sheer enjoyment, I am loving growing our own food! I live in the suburbs of Toronto in a townhouse. Land here is astronomically priced and we have to get creative! Just liked and subscribed! Also shared to all my new to gardening friends and family 😀🇨🇦
Now is the time to also get free leaves from neighbors to start the leaf mould.
I have 100 acres in unorganized Kenora district for sale if you want. I've decided to abandon Onterrible forever. It's ~12miles from Borups Corner in the bush along a trail. Selling it cheap.
So helpful ! Great info for this little old lady to be able to handle. Can’t wait to try this. Bless you.
Great channel. Been growing pots this way in the UK for years.
Great tips. Thanks, and Greetings from Norway!
This was amazing and I can’t wait to try it out. Thank you for your hard work filming and sharing this great video!
I have always avoided growing potatoes until now. You have inspired me and have been the tipping point for my potato adventure success. Thank you so much! I really appreciate your knowledge.
This man gives the best tips and its full of cost effective measures.
Will do this layering method.. thanks!
I've grown potatoes in bags before but not quite this method, it looks great and I will definitely be giving it a go next season. I've just found your channel and love it, thank you.
Exactly the video I needed to watch today! Thank you for sharing this excellent technique.
Very Happy I found your channel. All great information and tips. Very helpful video.
I liked the way you showed how to do this. Very thorough
I'm inspired. Thank you. Just seeing you grow all tbose potatoes without spending on hard pots! Amazing.
I would recommend adding alfalfa pellets into the bags. It's really cheap and full of nutrients. Also it contains growth hormones that boost plant growth.
This is a brilliant way to grow potatos. I'm building my own veg plots this year and this is definitely how I'm going to grow my potatoes :)
Thanks for the great explanations, especially about how they grow. 😉👍
You are certainly gardening with your common sense. Thank you. Thank you thank you.
Your videos have really blessed me. I've been researching simpler ways of growing our food each yr. These are large yields, which is exactly what I need to feed my family. Great videos🙌🏾
Omg thank you. Had no idea
So exciting.😊.
Thank you for this video! No other potato videos I've watched educated about the determinant versus indeterminate nor the growing on different levels when using containers!
Loved the presentation & I'm deeply impressed, so much so, that I'll be doing this next year!
Thanks for the tip. God bless.
I've got a simpler way. Lay your potatoes directly on the leaves or just the ground, even if there's grass. Make sure your base is already watered well. Cover with about a foot of straw. or even more leaf mould or just hay. No need to do anything else, not even water. Wait to harvest. Clip your flowers off when the plants bloom so the potatoes can concentrate on growing potatoes, rather than seed heads. To harvest, simply move the mould / straw / hay aside.
You can also grow your potatoes in old cardboard boxes, which works great. No need for hilling, simply mulch the hell out of it. They break down & add to your soil for next year's planting. Best not to use plastic whenever possible.
I did that this year. First time growing potatoes. I got lots of them, but they were worm eaten. The bugs and worms got to them. They were still delicious, I just had to work them. Next year, grow bags or something up off the ground!
that may work in some climates with some soils, but that will not work every where.
Slugs love this method.!
If you wanted a stiffer roll, it would be easy to add something flexible when you started rolling. What comes to mind are short section of hose, willow whips, rag, dying weed cloth, etc.
I like your thought process!!!... yes old hose or willow would make it nice and stiff especially if you wanted to plant something like carrots or beets in the bag... thank you
BRILLIANT. YOUR ADVICE IS ALWAYS A REVELATION. THANK YOU.
Wow, now I got more questions than answers tonight. I will definitely be looking into more of your videos. thank you
Works great for sunchoke as well. This year I grew ten plants in 15 gallon nursery pots and one using this method. The Dirt Cheap plant grew to be over 50% taller and bushier than all the others. I'm looking forward to trying it next year with sweet potatoes.
thank you for sharing your experience my friend!
Where did you get your sunchokes. ? I have been looking g far n wide for either tubers or seeds
Just found your channel and boy am I glad I did!
Great, informative video. Super easy to understand too!
I’ve been having meager potato harvests for probably 6-8 years and now I know why (I haven’t been feeding them…just watering).
I’m really looking forward to watching all of your videos between now and planting season (which is fast approaching here in Western Washington).
Did I subscribe? You betcha!!
So keep the videos coming…please! And if you don’t have one on how to increase yields of Chard, Kale, Beets, and Bitter Melons (those are our mainstays) please make one.
Thank you for being such a great teacher!
Very informing Viking, I will try this method out in January when we usually get seed potatoes here on the Mississippi gulf coast. Thanks, we need more people like you that are ONE WITH MOTHER EARTH
Thank you very much for clarifying about the Plastic bags! For Low income earners like me, it's absolutely helpful!!
you're welcome my friend and I've been using them for years with fantastic results
Can't wait to try your method out! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.🦊
Hi from new Zealand.. Fantastic helpful video thankyou... Nice voice too 🙂
Hi, Viking King
I take my old plastic flower pots, decorative ones that I'm just kind of tired of and cut just the bottoms out. Some of them are only 10 inches wide but that's alright, the plants don't care. Then I put old crushed leaves, grass clippings and compost, that's not quite there yet, and plain old dirt, in the pots and mix it up. Then set them right on top of the ground without doing anything to the ground below the pot, it's undisturbed. The plants just take off like crazy, growing right into the old ground.
I have the most beautiful, lush Cherokee Purple tomato plant in a pot that's no bigger than 10 inches. It's only about one and a half feet tall, It looks like a stout, stocky little bulldog flexing his muscles. I know he's saying " Yeah, I'm bad.' I love him!
It looks so funny though, seeing a big ole tomato plant growing in such a small pot 😂
Love, love, love all your wonderful videos. You make living fun. What a gift you are!
Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🥀🐴🇺🇲💚
that gives me a really cool and funny visual lol thank you!... yes removing the bottom works great and they love to spread out into the earth... Cherokee Purple is my favorite tomato btw..
They're my favorite too.
My son brought the first one's to me years ago. They were about 2 feet long and stringy growing along the ground, not much hope but I gave a shot and it payed off.
An old man, who had a greenhouse on his farm was driving down the road near our woods giving them away and asked my son if he wanted them, he did, and he brought them to me. I've had Cherokee purples ever since.
They dropped their seed and I have them every year. They're so sweet and have the best flavor.
They're little soldiers that march back into my life every spring. I am blessed.
Thank you again for all your goodness.
God bless and guard you all the days of your life my friend..
Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🥀🐴🇺🇲💚
All I have to say is thank you 🙏 this is my first time doing this. I was so nervous until I found your channel 😮
This looks like a great procedure. Thanks for showing.
brillant, sooooo glad to have found you
Nice. About to start some feed sack 'taters for my shoulder growing season (subtropical Sept - Dec). Will use your tips.
Thank you so much for explaining about the difference between types of potatoes. Since I don't have a large area to grow vegetables and the soil is not good, I am growing my veggies in containers. I am going to use what I saw in this video and just use it in my containers.
Thank you for the tutorial.. Rightly said, we must be all doing this.
I love this method just by watching this. I going to do this soon. Many thanks from Cape Town!
Have just discovered your channel 😁 so easy to listen to simply explained detailed information with evidence backing it up! Thank you for sharing your well prepared knowledge 🙏
thank you for this positive energy and helpful feedback my friend!!
You make it look so easy. I'm an older woman, but would like to try something like this. I don't have compost, but can get it from the bulk composter in the area. Not sure I can handle it, but am going to try to grow something. Interesting what you talked about how they grow. Thank you. I subscribed.
if you follow this video you will have success my friend!!
I’m an older lady too, and I can tell you that you can do this. It’s really not hard, you don’t have to get everything perfect. The only non-negotiable bit is DON’T move the bag.
Thats what i was wondering if I could double layer the potato but you answered that for me , thank you
This guy is great! I've learned so much from him. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Wonderful info. Perfect timing... Every year the moles, voles & rats have been burrowing in my potato & beet beds and totally destroying all my hard work. I was contemplating laying 1/2" hardware cloth down and putting mounded soil on top of the screening, but now your idea with garbage bags totally answers my problem. THANK YOU! SO MUCH.
I add chopped straw or grass cuttings on the top as it retains moisture and protects the one or two that can pop up and start to go green. Kind of a mini Ruth Stout topping. If you have a line of bags you can add a drip line cheaply and a slow watering of the soil is better than lugging a watering can about.
yes you are correct a drip line is the way to go here!!
This is the first video I've watched from this channel
Super nice 🙂👍
Excellent advise. Will try this year. Many thanks for posting x
Sweet! Fit some reason I can't bring myself to throw used contractor bags away. I have a bunch that I've been saving. At work I use them to haul stuff around and/or to collect packing paper from parts boxes that receive frequently (for composting). I knew that I could reuse them for something but didn't know what just yet. Thank you!
Just what I need, another garden channel….(sarcasm). Sir, you are excellent. Thank you. I wish I had seen this in April instead of August. Next year.
lol... welcome!!
Did u use this method this year?
Hi
This is awesome, thanks I'll try this method as soon as weather permits. 👍👍👍👍
Great video. I love this method. I hope to try it this spring. Thanks
This is what I decided to try this year and it worked great. My potatoes were pretty big as well. Next year I am going to do two levels and then once those get growing I am going to add more soil and try another set.
I was wondering about this as well... seems to me that a third level would fit! Why not use the space, right?!
Thank you for the most simplified, yet most informative video on the subject! Your straight forward approach is inspiring! Could you please let me know what you do with the leftover soil in the bags after you pull out the potatoes? Would you recommend running it through the compost pile again or leave it in there and just refresh it for next year (if the bags are still holding up of course)?
you're welcome!!... yes the bags will definitely hold up at least two maybe three seasons so its up to you... some seasons I'll leave the bags in place and simply add a fresh 5gal bucket of compost in the spring... but some years I've completely emptied the bags into a giant heap and turned it all back into compost... either way you're good
Fantastic video!!I just ate a heap of my homegrown potatoes.will be trying your way today!!
Excellent, resourceful and very helpful!!
As a passionate compost maker, I thank you for sharing your method. Blessings to your channel.
Very cool idea. At first I thought it was just another gimmick. Once you explained what you were doing it was clear. Great idea. My problem is not having a large enough compost pile. I will have to work in that. Thank you for showing this! 👍👍
I'm not sure how much compost I'll have by spring. The problem for me is always the cost of good soil and compost if I don't have enough.
Thanks for the layered potatoes. I have halved barrel drums I use. And layering will definitely help.
This is the best on growing potatoes that I have seen ! And I have watched alot ! I have sweet potatoes and russet in the ground.Will be ready in a couple of months !
Last year was my second try at planting potatoes, which I planted in the ground. I won't go into details, but when it came time to harvest, I had to use my fork to dig them out, and of course, a few got sliced. It was tough getting them up!
This year, I plan to plant them in cardboard boxes. I've watched a few videos by people who are experts in potato planting, and I just feel that's my best option, all things considered. The flaps all get folded in, which strengthens the sides, and the bottom is left open to the leaf mold. All tape and labels get removed. When the harvest is over, I'll use the boxes flattened out under mulched walkways or shred them for compost. Worms love cardboard!
Anyway, I learned a few new things here on this video, and other tips were reinforced, so thanks for all the great info. My homegrown potatoes last year were THE BEST tasting potatoes I have ever eaten. I feel the same way about my homegrown tomatoes, which I can and consume all year long. They are SO much better tasting and more nutritious than anything from the store. Period.
yes I've done the cardboard box method a few times and it works great so long as you can keep it watered very well... the cardboard dries out so fast that in the heat of summer I had to water it every single day... way more often than the grow bag method... good luck!!
The best use of cardboard boxes is to put them in large garbage bags which fold into the box. the top of the plastic bag should be positioned near the side and bottom of the box where you would puncture the box and feed the gathered 'neck' of the bag through to the outside which then serves as a drainage port. The plastic covered box is then filled with soil etc and tubers planted. The value of this technique is to prevent the cardboard exterior from drying out and wearing out and the plastic lined interior does the same thing. This type of lined box will last more than two years.
Hello @gardenlikeaviking thank you for this informative video!🙏 I was curious what do you do with the leftover soil/compost in the bags after harvesting potatoes? Do you put them back in the compost pile??
I appreciate and agree with your gardening knowledge.
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I have chickens so I definitely have manure but aged and mixed, but I also use the feed bags for doing my potatoes and fill bags halfway with soil mix then put them quarter to half way In ground and the bags are already vented so just a suggestion if you have feed bags. Happy gardening this year everyone.! 👍✌️
thats a great idea thank you for sharing!!
@@gardenlikeaviking your welcome and thanks for your videos on CZcams, love watching them and learning new stuff from others as well.👍