SHARE THIS VIDEO IF YOU ENJOYED IT! GIVEAWAY LINK →teamgrow.us Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:17 The Amazon Boxes I Used 00:32 Adding Leaves to the Box 00:43 Adding Soil to the Box 01:00 Planting Potatoes in the Cardboard Box 01:31 Covering Potatoes with Soil 01:44 Adding Fertilizer 02:20 What Size Boxes You Should Use 02:52 Potato Plants Sprouting in the Boxes 03:18 Hilling Potatoes in the Boxes 04:06 Healthy Growth After Hilling Potatoes 04:26 Potato Plants Flowering and What that Means 04:44 Potato Leaves Being Attacked by Potato Beetles 05:38 Potato Foliage Dying Back and Potatoes Almost Ready to Harvest05:53 Harvesting Potatoes from the Big Cardboard Box 10:30 Harvesting Potatoes from the Small Cardboard Box 13:37 You Don’t Need a Yard to Grow Food 13:54 Growing Potatoes in Buckets 14:56 Free Giveaway! 15:27 Is it Worth Planting Potatoes in Boxes?
The first time I grew potatoes was in 1982 when I was living in an old farmhouse in Kentucky. I had no idea how many potatoes the plants produced so I planted ten or twelve long rows and every day when I got home from work I was out there mounding them up. So the plants died back and it was potato digging time and I started digging. I was determined to dig them all as I had put a lot of work into them. I had an old garage on the property so I dumped them in the building. By the time I got them all dug I had a huge pile 16 feet in diameter and every bit of 6 or 7 feet tall. It was remarkable. I spread the word at church and people were coming from all around to get a sack of potatoes. It was lots of fun and I met a lot of people I never would have known in the process. I am 70 years old now and those were the days! LOVE TO TUCK!
I luv your story , my goal one day is to obtain land where I can grow food for those in need . So many poor families and elderly don’t have money to buy fresh veges.
I am retired now and have had heart surgery and other health problems so I have a lot of difficulty bending over and working on the ground. So this year a built four long benches about three feet high and 8 feet long and purchased 30 7 gallon grow bags and have planted tomatoes and peppers in them. I also purchased 30 large aluminum baking pans to set the grow bags in so I can keep them full of water and hydrate the tomatoes indirectly. They are high enough off the ground that they are easy to prune and fertilize and the plants are absolutely thriving. The benches, grow bags and pans can all be cleaned up and used next year and I am going to have tons of tomatoes to give away to anyone who wants them. I am very fortunate in that God provided me with a nice house and plenty of garden space in my retirement years. I hope you are successful in obtaining land where you can feed yourself and others and have the fun and satisfaction that comes with that.
@@richardsmith9609 I am truly enjoying your posts. I'm in Southern CA, retired nurse and blessed to live on 2/3 acre, but have been unable to garden for years due to illness. I wanted to teach my grandchildren how to grow food, so I took 3 milk crates, some bags of soil and leaf compost to their house with a bag of baby Yukon gold potatoes. It was satisfying to see them harvest their own food a few months later. They're all living with me now because it's so expensive for their parents to continue renting. Yesterday they all helped me make borax ant bait stations for the yard. This is what I live for. My dad grew up share cropping cotton as a kid. He taught me farming skills and now I get to pass on the knowledge and respect for the land. It's healing me from a years long depression.
I am so glad I stumbled on this video! I just retired, now living on social security. Winter now, but I am definitely going to do this in the spring. Thank you so much!
Using the 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot is also good. Don't forget to drill holes on them for drainage. This way you can reuse them as often as you want. When it is time to harvest, I simply dump everything in a plastic pan/liner (made to be put under a washing machine to catch leaks), pick all the potatoes and then put the soil back into the buckets for the next planting. Everything is more contained and easier to clean up.
I live in an upstairs apartment with a little deck and I have a container garden with containers on every single stair leading to the deck. I grow potatoes in a laundry basket. It's amazing how much food I can get from this type of garden!! Grateful 💯🌹
Do you have a book or UA-cam channel you really like? My city has worm farm rebate atm and that seems a great start. I want to eat better and they need to be fed so I prepare fruit veggies for my self half just to give the scraps to the worms. Then have great fertilizer to start adding to start with herbs and cherry tomatoes im guessing
I've used bags, birdseed bags, milk cartons for our patio experiments, they all work. Love the growing vertical idea next and the dyi stacked alternated vertical gardening ideas to try next. Yay for growing in the space you/we have. -John's wife
One lettuce per half gallon milk jug - cut around it on 3 sides (including the handle) at 8 inches. Dtainage in the bottom. Start lettuce in them early, taping the top to form a cloche. Pick the best seedling to continue. When it's warm enough, cut off the top off the jug. I crowd them together for mutual warmth and space saving. You can grow 3 leaf crop in a gallon jug, but you have to harvest 1 or 2 while they're still rather small to allow the 3rd to mature.
I remember planting potatoes one year with my mother-in-law years ago. She always cut the potatoes in half, making sure each half had eyes. She had twice as many plants that way.
My grandmother cut our seed potatoes into 4 pieces as long as each piece had 3-4 eyes. I do the same thing for my potatoes including sweet potatoes. I have planted my potatoes in cardboard boxes for years. I do the same for carrots, beets, and radishes, actually any root vegetables.
Not reallly because any given potato is only ever going to have a certain number of shoots develop. You will never get shoots coming from the cut faces only from the external surfaces.
@@oldwolf9949 Thank you. I was wondering about that. I remember my Nan would cut the potato in many oddly shaped parts.... so long as each part included an eye and still had a hunk of the center (with about as much mass as a golf ball, they all came up fine. She'd make sure the eyes were facing up when she buried them. I think she planted hers farther apart. I asked her how far, & she said the further they were spaced the more they would produce. I know that's not logical. But I think she planted them 2-3 feet apart.
@@sgw3612 he planted the in 12x12 plot with the eyes 12 inches apart so when he dug them up it was solid potatoes I was 9 it was 1972 And these were “new” potatoes (red)
Try planting the potatoes with the dirt layer plus mulch layer on the bottom as before, but instead of covering the potatoes with dirt, cover them with straw or leaves mulch. I had some very good results growing potatoes this way. I'll need to try using my cardboard boxes like this though.
🙂We grow tons of potatoes that start to grow from the grocery store in buckets and cheap dishpans. We have done the cardboard boxes, but really get more from the buckets and they last for years and just too easy to dump, collect and replant, Thanks! Our Zoe says Hi to Tuck!
I've also grown potatoes from store bought spuds - even though they're marked 'not for planting'. Still waiting for the potato police to knock on my door LOL. I've just harvested 10kg from a patch about 2 sq meters, only watered them a few times, planted them at the wrong time of the year - and did I mention I got 10kgs? Growing spuds is such fun. Cheers from Oz!!
@@andersonomo597 whatever you do, don’t remove those tags from pillows or the pillow and potato police will get you🤣 not sure if you have those crazy tags on your pillows there, but we haven’t here in the USA under penalty a lot do not remove🤣🤣🤣 Take Care!
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy I LOVE your channel!! I have 2 x10 lb fabric bags that I planted, one with white and the other red. Both really good seeds growing on the ones I planted. They were both doing great, I kept adding soil as needed, and then suddenly the whites stopped shooting out of the soil. My reds are going crazy. I thought I'm supposed to cover the greens with soil....did I possibly suffocate them?
@@evemurton1133 I do not cover them many times and when I do I only add a little mulch/soil, all varieties are different. I am assuming that you checked to make sure that there were no potatoes in there. The main thing is always grow what ends up growing good for you. So keep going with the ones that you’re doing great with. Thank you so much 😊
When I was growing up way back when in my home ( country) 40 years ago we ( my mother) had a big garden we ( she ) planted every things we eating one of the thing that we planted was sweet potato we piled up soil and plant the sweet potatoes vines on the top of the dirt pile, ( we did not know of regular potatoes we did not have it back then ) we Asian eat rice for breakfast lunch and dinner. lol…! These gardeners are awesome I am learning how to plant potatoes and other vegetables. I do have a small garden in my backyard I live in north Alabama..! I ‘m 70 now still active doing things.
The potatoes that you thought were "bad"......these would be the potatoes that you planted. Nice crop ! I am 81....have grown potato crops to use all winter. Many years ago. So rewarding.
In most zones (hot or cold), potatoes are grown during the same growing season as the other veggies in that area. But you simply grow two, three, or four more potato plants (depending on how many people you'll be feeding over the winter months) in order to store enough "extras" in a cool dark basement, shed, garage, or closet. Same for winter squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips, beets, and other root veggies. ❤❤ @liberta2570
I've been growing potatoes like this for years. One thing I do to make harvest a little easier, I setup everything exactly like you do, in an old amazon box, on the patio. But when it comes time to harvest, I just grab the sides of the box and lift straight up. The bottom of the box is likely going to be completely rotted through. So when you lift up on the sides, the walls come up, but all the soil\potatoes stays on the ground. Then you can sift through it and get your potatoes. You can also do this on a tarp so that when you lift up the sides of the cardboard, and you grab your potatoes, you already have all of your soil for your next batch on the tarp ready for reuse.
I did the same exact thing you did with the carboard box, except, I place the boxes in my garden area, just sitting on top of the dirt. When I harvested the potatoes, I guess I didn't dig down below the soil, I just harvested the ones from picking up the box. Then, winter happened ( gets really COLD here in Minnesota) and then in the spring, I noticed aggressive plant growth where the potatoes used to be. They grew a whole bunch of potato plants in that area and I didn't even plant them. I can't wait to see how many there are from this. I'll know in a month or so!
I was a city girl, but when I got married we moved to a family farm and have been here for 40 years. I learned to grow, preserve, can, and cook cook cook. I love planting. My hubby says, “Hon, you touch a plant and it’s gonna grow”. I do have a green thumb. that Composter is Cool.
Did you know you didn't have to use the whole potatoes? You can cut the potatoes into pieces and plant any pieces that have "eyes" growing from it. 😉 I enjoyed this very much!
@@Mmm...yummymummy No, they aren't. The cuts "heal" themselves right away and the eyes have already started to support themselves with nutrient.. Cuts from "seed" potatoes having one or two eyes in the cut are the proper way to plant, NOT whole potatoes as he shows.
Will this trick, work in a colder climat, like in Northern Europa ? Or is it a trick, for hot weather country , we often have fairly Cold summers, and windy
I just remembered. Long ago when 1 son brought a bag of potatoes, freshly dug, from P.E.I, Canada. That winter the mice nibbled them and left store potatoes alone. Next year we grew our own. Mice preferred them also. The fresh ones tasted a lot better to our family too!
When I lived in Louisiana for ten years I planted 4 sweet potatoes on my front lawn. They took over the entire small front lawn. I got 2 bushels of sweet potatoes! They tasted wonderful. I took 1 bushel up to my daughter in Michigan and she and her family loved them. Someone told me that sweet potato plants are often used as lawn covering instead of grass in Louisiana. The leaves are attractive and it cost me nothing in materials, time and effort.
Sweet potato vines& leaves are nutritious & delicious. I sautee them with garlic onions & salt & add eggs for an omelette. The chickens pigs & cows love them pulled fresh out of the ground. The tubers are yummie too.
@@Rappl1012 No. Just the soil in the ground, as is. I do want to say that if you live in an area that does aerial spraying of poison to kill mosquitos you should not eat the leaves and vines because you might get poisoned, too. I had a small 10ft pond on my front lawn beside the potato plants that had koi in it. I lost count how many times all of my fish died from that spray. Had they given out notices we could have covered the water with a tarp to save them.
Hey thats a great idea for a ground cover plant i need as i kill off this winter creeper crap that got started growing allover. Its not as bad as kudzu but its pretty awful. But i think i'll start sweet potatoes in different spots around the one side of the front where i lost my shade tree and all the crappiest weeds have decided to take over as im trying to grow wildflowers but the broken tree top crashed down on top of where i was planting flowers. Lol Of course, its always something crazy happens anytime i try to do gardening work or try and plant things. But anyway, i like the sweet potatoe leaves and they can shade out the weeds and i can get some good food out of it too.
Ah. You have just reminded me of a lovely lady who I used to work with as support. She was convinced you could grow potatoes under the bed or in the wardrobe. She had spent a precarious life in bed sits. And noticed the roots from her spuds stored under her bed. She also watered her little orange tree in a pot with...orange juice. We did laugh together a lot when I explained things. One of my favourite clients. A warm kind woman who had survived a horrible childhood that had left her, her sister and mother with very serious mental health problems. ❤
I literally got up and grabbed the empty boxes by our front door, the potatoes that have started to sprout, and soil i had inside and started my planting at 1am. Lol. I will take them outside today and finish. Thank you James!
I have been growing potatoes in every box I can find for several years now. I have had excellent success. I honestly think potatoes prefer cardboard. And yes, most of my boxes were from Amazon. 🐶❤❤❤❤❤
@@TheProfiters I'm sure you can. Just make sure the box is big enough for the vegetable you are planting, and do keep an eye on the crop because the boxes do dry out a little faster than a plastic pot. I have grown Potatoes and Carrots successfully. unfortunately, the boxes only last one season. LOL Try to have a new box when you harvest and you can put the old dirt in the new box, revitalize it and be ready to go again the next year. Either cover the new box with plastic over the winter or move it to a shed or garage.
I think I was just as excited as you, if not more, when I saw how many potatoes there were. That’s awesome. When you grow them in giant pots or in the ground, you chance damaging them when you dig them up. This is such a smart thing to do just letting them fall out of the box like that.
THANKS James for bringing this idea to the forefront!!! For over 6 years I've been growing everything in cardboard boxes of all sizes. The smaller ones are for my Lettuces and Spinach type plants. It feels good to recycle this way. When the boxes are no good for planting stuff, I put them on the compost, or cover soil that is resting and the worms finish them off. Thanks again!!! Love your channel!
Beautiful harvest. ❤ I ignore the weight limit. I put a strap of duct or packing tape around the box. I grow potatoes, beets, turnips, radishes, green onions, and small carrots in boxes. I give a lot of boxes away, with plants growing in them. People love them. 😁👍
Home grown potatoes always taste better. I'm always putting potatoes that have shooted before i can eat them out in my garden to grow again. Great idea about the boxes, definitely do that
I found that getting a container of fish food works amazing in the garden soil, those dried fish flakes feed the plants to help encourage a much larger harvest, with healthier plants, give that a try, and show your results comparing two identical plants side by side, to show how much better the fish food plant produces. 😎👍
I heard this. Well, actually the remnants of cleaned fish, I think. Someone on IG uses it for their garden, in particular greens, and the plants grow about 3 feet! They attributed it to the fish.
I am using a layer of cut grass then a layer of soil on top of the potatoes. However instead of a cardboard box I am using wood boards from shipping pallets that i am screwing on to plastic garden stakes that are right angled so they are perfect. As my potatoes grow I add a board and layer on top of the plants.
I'm gonna have to try this. I've been on the fence about growing potatoes since I don't want to be overwhelmed. I just started gardening, so this video really helped! ❤
1st time ever growing potatoes. I used old ones from the grocery store. I was floored at how long they lasted on the counter after harvest. Just piles of them! Rock hard they way they should be for months!
Now I wish it was Spring again! Wondering if I can start some potatoes at this late date in zone 6a. Thank you so much!!! I love your channel, you are very inspirational!
I have a garden, but have never tried potatoes because I didn't know what I was doing. This looks like so much fun to grow in cardboard boxes, I will plant some this week with my little girl.
I did this a few years ago and it worked really well. I actually lifted the flaps up and sewed them together with twine. This way I could get more dirt into the box. It held up fairly well being watered and rained on.
Wow, loved this kind of video, I'm poor, lol, and have little space to grow, and have always got boxes! TY now i'm so excited to plant potatoes........
The best thing about this for me is how easy it is to harvest. As a 70+ year old lady with arthritis in my hands, digging is a different activity. I am definitely going to try this. I also love some of the others comments regarding putting a tarp underneath to reclaim the soil. It’s amazing how expensive soil is when you can’t dig your own for vertical gardening.
Hi James & Tuck. I live in Boston. I tried the cardboard box to grow potatoes. I got about a dozen & a half. They were small. I cooked them & they were delicious Taste was so different from store. Thanks James & Tuck. ❤. Next year will be better! 🌱🌿
I will try this next season. Great video. My family always grew a lot of potatoes. My mother kept them in a cool dark room in the basement. Don’t wash them until you plan to use them. They will preserve much better
I've been growing potatoes in boxes I bring my groceries home from Costco- my bag potatoes that were sprouting.i used my fresh cut grass as mulch. They're doing great!
James, great video. Takes me back in time. When as a kid, I used to do this on our acre of land. The thing is, it wasn't intended. It was all just from scraps.
For the heads out here that love James" videos here's another tip, Amazon boxes are great mini drying rooms, naturally fungal resistant and maintain a rhythm of 64 at most times. Just clothesline some string through cut flaps on opposite sides and heights boom free convection airflow. Good for drying chilis and other vegetables and herbs. Especially the big boxes that top dress bags get shipped in.
I enjoyed the garden I had years ago. I no longer live in that location but it was fun to share food with my neighbors especially the lady that grew potatoes and I grew leek. I made potato leek soup often! All fresh ingredients. This gives me some ideas especially since I have so many boxes...!!!
I dumped a wagon load of sandy muddy soil from a sandbar in a wash between hills into a large cardboard box on top of some leaves, chopped weeds and grass clippings and put a cherry tomato cutting in it and added a tomato cage. I covered the soil with several inches of green grass clippings. In only two weeks the cutting has grown 2 feet and is thriving. No added fertilizer.
I grew potatoes in rows for the first time this year, in the past I have grown them in raised beds and in tote bags, but never in a box. I will need to try this method next year.
I always forget to mound mine but they manage to grow🙌🏾. This will be perfect to do with saved boxes after the holidays, we get sooooo many Amazon boxes ☺️
Growing potatoes in bags is great, but I love this idea even more. Boxes gets recycled twice: once for the potatoes and second for compost and/or green bin collections. And on the patio, no need to worry about gophers!
Oh, baby! I'm doing this because I planted sweet potatoes and white potatoes three days ago, which I know I planted incorrectly. I have plenty of Amazon boxes in my recycling bin that I can use today. thank you!
Shared this with at least 5 people. Wow, what a great idea and awesome harvest! I didn't think of doing this but I did use all my boxes with mulch to keep my tomato plants damp and happy. I have no till. :)
I remember when my parents had a garden. They grew several things but I enjoyed the potatoes. It was almost like Christmas because you never knew what you'd get and just when you thought you dug them all, you'd find more!! So Fun!! Home grown and canned potatoes and green beans, mmmm, nothing better❣❣
Amazing! Watching this in November from CT. We have a vole problem so I stopped growing potatoes in my garden. Now I can't wait until next year to grow potatoes this way!! Thanks so much for your video!
I grew Ground Cherries for the first time this year. They are SO delicious! I know it will be a mistake but I`m gonna try one inside this winter. Ha! And at least one cucumber vine. Oh no!
Love this! Years ago we were part of a CSA and went to the farm to help with the potato harvest. Digging in the dirt, even inside a box as opposed to a farmer’s field, is SO satisfying. Thanks for sharing this and ❤❤❤ for Tuck!
For many years, I have wanted to grow food, and then I realized how expensive it is😌 I thought all I had to do was plant directly into the ground, period.I have containers and boxes I have saved, but the dirt, the fertilizer, and the rest are so costly. I am happy and jealous when others are fortunate to do so. You are very blessed with knowledge. Happy harvest, be well. Love the pup.
Don't give up yet. There are ways to get things to grow without much cost. Make your own compost of grass clippings from people's lawns that grow them without chemicals. Ask neighbors for leaves in autumn. To this pile add everything that you can. I put all food scraps, spoiled food, moldy bread, out of date pantry items, even meat along as you bury what could turn stinky with the dry leaves,and grass clippings you shouldn't get any smell. And you don't need any container or you can make "walls" with free pallet wood or use cardboard boxes. They should hold up fir months. Add left over coffee not just the grounds, you can even add human urine. (It's sterile). There's a lot of info out there and UA-cam videos. You can take weeds in place them in a big bucket, cover with water and put a lid on it. Let it rot. This takes care of getting rid of any weed seeds too. This fetid stinky water can then be diluted with water and used as a fertilizer. Sure it's easier to buy products than make your own but not all of us have that kind of budget. Ask your neighbors to save their compostable items. Cardboard boxes, egg cartons, if you have chickens or rabbits you'll have access to more fertilizer. So you can grow food on a shoe string. And your potatoes will be smaller but small potatoes and few potatoes are better than no potatoes. I've grown potatoes from the skins. If you have an organic market nearby, ask what they do with older wrinkly potatoes? And definitely never throw out potatoes that are a little green or old and wrinkles. These can be used to grow more potatoes. For other plants, save seeds. When you buy red bell peppers, save seeds, tomatoes from the grocery store will grow more tomatoes, pumpkin seeds from pumpkins save the seeds. You can get lots of seeds for free this way. Wish I could share some seeds with you. Did you know you can propogate your own basil from a bunch of store bought. Then replant to various containers. My grandmother would use anything to grow things in. She would reuse old large coffee cans, she would cut the tops off milk jugs, etc. You need to be creative and think put of the box. Best of luck!!
There are gardening channels that teach you how to make your own liquid ferlizer out of weeds. It is smelly but it is free if you have a bucket with a lid or a barrel. You don't think we always had fertilize? Research plants and their makeup like beans getting nitrogen from the air and was one of the reasons they planted beans with corn to help with nitrogen replenishing the soil. Raising wheat in the winter as a ground cover and plowing it in before it seeds also give nutrients to the soil. It is nature feeding itself.
And I used to work in a cardboard box factory. So, being a nerd (as stated in other comment) so i was extra interested in seeing how this would play out. I'm impressed.
@@jillmohoric4388 tomatos green beans carrots corn kale lettuce bok choy scallions. I plant the roots I cut off same with celery and onions. lots of fig trees black berries and I have a myer lemon/Valencia Orange tree grafted together Christmas present plus dragon fruit.amd one red grape vine. I'm trying to grow
I recently moved from south Florida to north Central Florida so have to learn a new growing seasons here. In the south I could grow 365/7 not here too cold in Dec and Jan feb
I cut holes in the bottom of the box for drainage. It worked out pretty good. The boxes pretty much turned to mulch by the end of the growing season so I piled up the soil and mixed in some compost, leaves, and grass clippings for next year.
I planted potatoes in old car tires that can be stacked to add more soil on top. When it was time to harvest, knock the tires over and keep from cutting into the potatoes when it's time to dig them up.
Red norland potoes are the most prolific plants to grow. You can plant them in buckets, boxes or raised beds and get s huge harvest.. all hail King Tut ♥️
When I moved into my current place 13 years ago I used all the cardboard boxes and packaging paper from the movers to line my new raised beds. Had no weeds for years but now I just keep adding them to my compost pit. Love the idea of growing food in these boxes, I've been collecting a few large ones from my pet's pee pads! I think I'll use them for growing onions and garlic though. Sending out love and barks for Tuck from me and my Pema ❤🐾
This is awesome !!!! I maybe a nerd or whatever but this makes me sooooo happy to learn. We have a very sizeable patio, and I am so encouraged to know we can do this. Thank you so so much. And Tuck is so beautiful. My mama had a little doggie that looked just like him when I was a little girl.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:17 The Amazon Boxes I Used
00:32 Adding Leaves to the Box
00:43 Adding Soil to the Box
01:00 Planting Potatoes in the Cardboard Box
01:31 Covering Potatoes with Soil
01:44 Adding Fertilizer
02:20 What Size Boxes You Should Use
02:52 Potato Plants Sprouting in the Boxes
03:18 Hilling Potatoes in the Boxes
04:06 Healthy Growth After Hilling Potatoes
04:26 Potato Plants Flowering and What that Means
04:44 Potato Leaves Being Attacked by Potato Beetles
05:38 Potato Foliage Dying Back and Potatoes Almost Ready to Harvest05:53 Harvesting Potatoes from the Big Cardboard Box
10:30 Harvesting Potatoes from the Small Cardboard Box
13:37 You Don’t Need a Yard to Grow Food
13:54 Growing Potatoes in Buckets
14:56 Free Giveaway!
15:27 Is it Worth Planting Potatoes in Boxes?
How much do I water the Potatos?
Love the video! Thanks for the giveaway 🎉
The giveaway link doesn't seem to be working.
I will adjust it now so it pops up quicker. Should be fixed in a minute or so
Working now! Thanks! Great video!
The first time I grew potatoes was in 1982 when I was living in an old farmhouse in Kentucky. I had no idea how many potatoes the plants produced so I planted ten or twelve long rows and every day when I got home from work I was out there mounding them up. So the plants died back and it was potato digging time and I started digging. I was determined to dig them all as I had put a lot of work into them. I had an old garage on the property so I dumped them in the building. By the time I got them all dug I had a huge pile 16 feet in diameter and every bit of 6 or 7 feet tall. It was remarkable. I spread the word at church and people were coming from all around to get a sack of potatoes. It was lots of fun and I met a lot of people I never would have known in the process. I am 70 years old now and those were the days! LOVE TO TUCK!
I luv your story , my goal one day is to obtain land where I can grow food for those in need . So many poor families and elderly don’t have money to buy fresh veges.
I am retired now and have had heart surgery and other health problems so I have a lot of difficulty bending over and working on the ground. So this year a built four long benches about three feet high and 8 feet long and purchased 30 7 gallon grow bags and have planted tomatoes and peppers in them. I also purchased 30 large aluminum baking pans to set the grow bags in so I can keep them full of water and hydrate the tomatoes indirectly. They are high enough off the ground that they are easy to prune and fertilize and the plants are absolutely thriving. The benches, grow bags and pans can all be cleaned up and used next year and I am going to have tons of tomatoes to give away to anyone who wants them. I am very fortunate in that God provided me with a nice house and plenty of garden space in my retirement years. I hope you are successful in obtaining land where you can feed yourself and others and have the fun and satisfaction that comes with that.
@@richardsmith9609 I am truly enjoying your posts. I'm in Southern CA, retired nurse and blessed to live on 2/3 acre, but have been unable to garden for years due to illness. I wanted to teach my grandchildren how to grow food, so I took 3 milk crates, some bags of soil and leaf compost to their house with a bag of baby Yukon gold potatoes. It was satisfying to see them harvest their own food a few months later. They're all living with me now because it's so expensive for their parents to continue renting. Yesterday they all helped me make borax ant bait stations for the yard. This is what I live for. My dad grew up share cropping cotton as a kid. He taught me farming skills and now I get to pass on the knowledge and respect for the land. It's healing me from a years long depression.
@@richardsmith9609 I wish we were neighbors.
Thanks for a great idea! Trying it next year with my grandson. 345
I am so glad I stumbled on this video! I just retired, now living on social security. Winter now, but I am definitely going to do this in the spring. Thank you so much!
James planting potatoes. This makes you a real you tuber.
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@@danhunik7949 LOL 😆 That was a good one!
Using the 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot is also good. Don't forget to drill holes on them for drainage. This way you can reuse them as often as you want. When it is time to harvest, I simply dump everything in a plastic pan/liner (made to be put under a washing machine to catch leaks), pick all the potatoes and then put the soil back into the buckets for the next planting. Everything is more contained and easier to clean up.
I live in an upstairs apartment with a little deck and I have a container garden with containers on every single stair leading to the deck. I grow potatoes in a laundry basket. It's amazing how much food I can get from this type of garden!! Grateful 💯🌹
Do you have a book or UA-cam channel you really like? My city has worm farm rebate atm and that seems a great start. I want to eat better and they need to be fed so I prepare fruit veggies for my self half just to give the scraps to the worms. Then have great fertilizer to start adding to start with herbs and cherry tomatoes im guessing
I've used bags, birdseed bags, milk cartons for our patio experiments, they all work. Love the growing vertical idea next and the dyi stacked alternated vertical gardening ideas to try next. Yay for growing in the space you/we have. -John's wife
Best thing I’ve seen in a long time! ❤
@@johnkelly9451milk cartons too? I guess I shouldn't throw my next couple away next time I run out!
One lettuce per half gallon milk jug - cut around it on 3 sides (including the handle) at 8 inches. Dtainage in the bottom. Start lettuce in them early, taping the top to form a cloche. Pick the best seedling to continue. When it's warm enough, cut off the top off the jug. I crowd them together for mutual warmth and space saving. You can grow 3 leaf crop in a gallon jug, but you have to harvest 1 or 2 while they're still rather small to allow the 3rd to mature.
I’m impressed with the number of potatoes 🥔 from just 1-2 potatoes.
I remember planting potatoes one year with my mother-in-law years ago. She always cut the potatoes in half, making sure each half had eyes. She had twice as many plants that way.
My grandmother cut our seed potatoes into 4 pieces as long as each piece had 3-4 eyes. I do the same thing for my potatoes including sweet potatoes. I have planted my potatoes in cardboard boxes for years. I do the same for carrots, beets, and radishes, actually any root vegetables.
Not reallly because any given potato is only ever going to have a certain number of shoots develop. You will never get shoots coming from the cut faces only from the external surfaces.
Each eye is a new plant
@@oldwolf9949 Thank you. I was wondering about that. I remember my Nan would cut the potato in many oddly shaped parts.... so long as each part included an eye and still had a hunk of the center (with about as much mass as a golf ball, they all came up fine. She'd make sure the eyes were facing up when she buried them. I think she planted hers farther apart. I asked her how far, & she said the further they were spaced the more they would produce. I know that's not logical. But I think she planted them 2-3 feet apart.
@@sgw3612 he planted the in 12x12 plot with the eyes 12 inches apart so when he dug them up it was solid potatoes I was 9 it was 1972
And these were “new” potatoes (red)
Try planting the potatoes with the dirt layer plus mulch layer on the bottom as before, but instead of covering the potatoes with dirt, cover them with straw or leaves mulch. I had some very good results growing potatoes this way. I'll need to try using my cardboard boxes like this though.
🙂We grow tons of potatoes that start to grow from the grocery store in buckets and cheap dishpans. We have done the cardboard boxes, but really get more from the buckets and they last for years and just too easy to dump, collect and replant, Thanks! Our Zoe says Hi to Tuck!
I've also grown potatoes from store bought spuds - even though they're marked 'not for planting'. Still waiting for the potato police to knock on my door LOL. I've just harvested 10kg from a patch about 2 sq meters, only watered them a few times, planted them at the wrong time of the year - and did I mention I got 10kgs? Growing spuds is such fun. Cheers from Oz!!
@@andersonomo597 whatever you do, don’t remove those tags from pillows or the pillow and potato police will get you🤣 not sure if you have those crazy tags on your pillows there, but we haven’t here in the USA under penalty a lot do not remove🤣🤣🤣 Take Care!
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@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy I LOVE your channel!! I have 2 x10 lb fabric bags that I planted, one with white and the other red. Both really good seeds growing on the ones I planted. They were both doing great, I kept adding soil as needed, and then suddenly the whites stopped shooting out of the soil. My reds are going crazy. I thought I'm supposed to cover the greens with soil....did I possibly suffocate them?
@@evemurton1133 I do not cover them many times and when I do I only add a little mulch/soil, all varieties are different. I am assuming that you checked to make sure that there were no potatoes in there. The main thing is always grow what ends up growing good for you. So keep going with the ones that you’re doing great with. Thank you so much 😊
When I was growing up way back when in my home ( country) 40 years ago we ( my mother) had a big garden we ( she ) planted every things we eating one of the thing that we planted was sweet potato we piled up soil and plant the sweet potatoes vines on the top of the dirt pile, ( we did not know of regular potatoes we did not have it back then ) we Asian eat rice for breakfast lunch and dinner. lol…! These gardeners are awesome I am learning how to plant potatoes and other vegetables. I do have a small garden in my backyard I live in north Alabama..! I ‘m 70 now still active doing things.
Which country were you born in ? Just curious, I am from India.
The potatoes that you thought were "bad"......these would be the potatoes that you planted.
Nice crop !
I am 81....have grown potato crops to use all winter. Many years ago.
So rewarding.
Ohh, do share how you grew through winter. What zone? I want to grow too through zone 5.
You should continue to grow potatoes now. Why not?
My dad used to have a huge garden and several rows of potatoes that kept our large family well fed all winter too.
In most zones (hot or cold), potatoes are grown during the same growing season as the other veggies in that area. But you simply grow two, three, or four more potato plants (depending on how many people you'll be feeding over the winter months) in order to store enough "extras" in a cool dark basement, shed, garage, or closet. Same for winter squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips, beets, and other root veggies. ❤❤
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I love how James used the cardboard boxes to grow potatoes. Many people have access to those.
I've been growing potatoes like this for years. One thing I do to make harvest a little easier, I setup everything exactly like you do, in an old amazon box, on the patio. But when it comes time to harvest, I just grab the sides of the box and lift straight up. The bottom of the box is likely going to be completely rotted through. So when you lift up on the sides, the walls come up, but all the soil\potatoes stays on the ground. Then you can sift through it and get your potatoes. You can also do this on a tarp so that when you lift up the sides of the cardboard, and you grab your potatoes, you already have all of your soil for your next batch on the tarp ready for reuse.
Tidy. Thanks for sharing.
Great ideas, especially the tarp to catch the soil for the next batch.
I did the same exact thing you did with the carboard box, except, I place the boxes in my garden area, just sitting on top of the dirt. When I harvested the potatoes, I guess I didn't dig down below the soil, I just harvested the ones from picking up the box. Then, winter happened ( gets really COLD here in Minnesota) and then in the spring, I noticed aggressive plant growth where the potatoes used to be. They grew a whole bunch of potato plants in that area and I didn't even plant them. I can't wait to see how many there are from this. I'll know in a month or so!
Great idea 💡
@@carolann4087 How are your potato plants doing so far? Hope your weather is cooperating. I'll be trying this method too.
❤ Tuck! I have root cellars in my homes. Beets, onions, potatoes…endless variety. We donate a lot to multiple sources as our kids are grown now.
I was a city girl, but when I got married we moved to a family farm and have been here for 40 years. I learned to grow, preserve, can, and cook cook cook. I love planting. My hubby says, “Hon, you touch a plant and it’s gonna grow”. I do have a green thumb. that Composter is Cool.
This is my goal ❤
Did you know you didn't have to use the whole potatoes? You can cut the potatoes into pieces and plant any pieces that have "eyes" growing from it. 😉 I enjoyed this very much!
I was going to ask the same question...you could have a large number of plants that way!
🎉jo. More likely to rot.
I had great results with just the peels I used to throw away.
@@Mmm...yummymummy No, they aren't. The cuts "heal" themselves right away and the eyes have already started to support themselves with nutrient.. Cuts from "seed" potatoes having one or two eyes in the cut are the proper way to plant, NOT whole potatoes as he shows.
Will this trick, work in a colder climat, like in Northern Europa ? Or is it a trick, for hot weather country , we often have fairly Cold summers, and windy
Oh man…. That was so satisfying to see the harvest of those potatoes 🥔
Let's Gooo!!!
@@jamesprigioni cool 😎
I just remembered. Long ago when 1 son brought a bag of potatoes, freshly dug, from P.E.I, Canada. That winter the mice nibbled them and left store potatoes alone. Next year we grew our own. Mice preferred them also. The fresh ones tasted a lot better to our family too!
Oh God! I would die! I so dislike rodents, being from NYC, it's such a huge, huge problem there
That’s absolutely brilliant. Amazon will be owing you some royalties when they start advertising this.
What an exciting harvest from two cardboard boxes!
When I lived in Louisiana for ten years I planted 4 sweet potatoes on my front lawn. They took over the entire small front lawn. I got 2 bushels of sweet potatoes! They tasted wonderful. I took 1 bushel up to my daughter in Michigan and she and her family loved them. Someone told me that sweet potato plants are often used as lawn covering instead of grass in Louisiana. The leaves are attractive and it cost me nothing in materials, time and effort.
Sweet potato vines& leaves are nutritious & delicious. I sautee them with garlic onions & salt & add eggs for an omelette. The chickens pigs & cows love them pulled fresh out of the ground. The tubers are yummie too.
Did you use special soil?
@@Rappl1012 No. Just the soil in the ground, as is. I do want to say that if you live in an area that does aerial spraying of poison to kill mosquitos you should not eat the leaves and vines because you might get poisoned, too.
I had a small 10ft pond on my front lawn beside the potato plants that had koi in it. I lost count how many times all of my fish died from that spray. Had they given out notices we could have covered the water with a tarp to save them.
Hey thats a great idea for a ground cover plant i need as i kill off this winter creeper crap that got started growing allover. Its not as bad as kudzu but its pretty awful.
But i think i'll start sweet potatoes in different spots around the one side of the front where i lost my shade tree and all the crappiest weeds have decided to take over as im trying to grow wildflowers but the broken tree top crashed down on top of where i was planting flowers. Lol
Of course, its always something crazy happens anytime i try to do gardening work or try and plant things.
But anyway, i like the sweet potatoe leaves and they can shade out the weeds and i can get some good food out of it too.
I recommend you to grow the purple sweat potato 🍠 you can find it Asian store
Ah. You have just reminded me of a lovely lady who I used to work with as support. She was convinced you could grow potatoes under the bed or in the wardrobe. She had spent a precarious life in bed sits. And noticed the roots from her spuds stored under her bed.
She also watered her little orange tree in a pot with...orange juice. We did laugh together a lot when I explained things.
One of my favourite clients. A warm kind woman who had survived a horrible childhood that had left her, her sister and mother with very serious mental health problems. ❤
I literally got up and grabbed the empty boxes by our front door, the potatoes that have started to sprout, and soil i had inside and started my planting at 1am. Lol.
I will take them outside today and finish. Thank you James!
Where do you live? It’s already October.
@markb8954 in Texas where we don't get a frost until Nov 8 if that and no deep freeze until end of November or even til the end of December
I found that strangely interesting. I hope it inspires million people!
I have been growing potatoes in every box I can find for several years now. I have had excellent success. I honestly think potatoes prefer cardboard. And yes, most of my boxes were from Amazon. 🐶❤❤❤❤❤
Great to know! Can you use potatoes from the store or should I buy them?
Wow, can I grow vegetables in cardboard as well?
@@TheProfiters I'm sure you can. Just make sure the box is big enough for the vegetable you are planting, and do keep an eye on the crop because the boxes do dry out a little faster than a plastic pot. I have grown Potatoes and Carrots successfully. unfortunately, the boxes only last one season. LOL Try to have a new box when you harvest and you can put the old dirt in the new box, revitalize it and be ready to go again the next year. Either cover the new box with plastic over the winter or move it to a shed or garage.
Couldn’t help but to smile the whole time you were harvesting! This was a great video and I am amazed! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏽
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I think I was just as excited as you, if not more, when I saw how many potatoes there were. That’s awesome. When you grow them in giant pots or in the ground, you chance damaging them when you dig them up. This is such a smart thing to do just letting them fall out of the box like that.
I just love this guy!! My favorite gardening channel by far. He's so genuine & explains everything so well. I love passionate gardeners like him. 🤗❤
Excellent comment. I agree his enthusiasm is great to watch.
I must have picked my potatoes too soon, they were marble size, but at least I tried! Going to try again. Your positive energy!
That's a good q. When do u dig??? Mine wilt in dig.
Potatoes are like Christmas presents. You never know what you are going to get!
Love it.
Guess what I’m doing tomorrow, what an absolute legend, can’t wait. Thank you my dear. ❤❤❤❤ hugs from Australia
THANKS James for bringing this idea to the forefront!!!
For over 6 years I've been growing everything in cardboard boxes of all sizes.
The smaller ones are for my Lettuces and Spinach type plants.
It feels good to recycle this way. When the boxes are no good for planting stuff, I put them on the compost, or cover soil that is resting and the worms finish them off.
Thanks again!!! Love your channel!
This is wonderful to see! Most people don’t have the land for a full garden yet this is an alternative to a large garden. Thank you for the advice
I love repurposing things to work. Great idea. Send my 💕to the King of Garden, Tuck!!
I've grown tomatoes and potatoes in an old clawfoot bathtub. Both crops seem to absolutely LOVE the warmth of the cast iron tub. 😊
Beautiful harvest. ❤ I ignore the weight limit. I put a strap of duct or packing tape around the box. I grow potatoes, beets, turnips, radishes, green onions, and small carrots in boxes. I give a lot of boxes away, with plants growing in them. People love them. 😁👍
Home grown potatoes always taste better. I'm always putting potatoes that have shooted before i can eat them out in my garden to grow again. Great idea about the boxes, definitely do that
I found that getting a container of fish food works amazing in the garden soil, those dried fish flakes feed the plants to help encourage a much larger harvest, with healthier plants, give that a try, and show your results comparing two identical plants side by side, to show how much better the fish food plant produces. 😎👍
I heard this. Well, actually the remnants of cleaned fish, I think. Someone on IG uses it for their garden, in particular greens, and the plants grow about 3 feet! They attributed it to the fish.
@@ellec1009 cats will dig.
I am using a layer of cut grass then a layer of soil on top of the potatoes. However instead of a cardboard box I am using wood boards from shipping pallets that i am screwing on to plastic garden stakes that are right angled so they are perfect. As my potatoes grow I add a board and layer on top of the plants.
What a GREAT idea for root crops
My grandpa grew potatoes but I never did because of having to dig them up. This is MUCH better! Thanks!
❤ potatoes like boxes ! i put my boxes in milk crates in case i have to move them or bad weather causes the boxes to collapse.
That’s a good idea! 👍
This is one of the better videos of gardening showing from start to finish thanks for doing this
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Tuck reminds me of my sweet Sophie, a westie, now in doggie heaven! Those little white ones would be great for potato salad!
I'm gonna have to try this. I've been on the fence about growing potatoes since I don't want to be overwhelmed. I just started gardening, so this video really helped! ❤
OM! You got more from that box than I get in my 12x4 raised bed.
It's the fertilizer he used
1st time ever growing potatoes. I used old ones from the grocery store. I was floored at how long they lasted on the counter after harvest. Just piles of them! Rock hard they way they should be for months!
Now I wish it was Spring again! Wondering if I can start some potatoes at this late date in zone 6a. Thank you so much!!! I love your channel, you are very inspirational!
Still time for cold weather crops. Peas beans lettuce, herbs
@@Justiceincorporated. but not spuds.
I have a garden, but have never tried potatoes because I didn't know what I was doing. This looks like so much fun to grow in cardboard boxes, I will plant some this week with my little girl.
9:40 tuck body-guarding the harvest😂
I did this a few years ago and it worked really well. I actually lifted the flaps up and sewed them together with twine. This way I could get more dirt into the box. It held up fairly well being watered and rained on.
Wow, loved this kind of video, I'm poor, lol, and have little space to grow, and have always got boxes! TY now i'm so excited to plant potatoes........
The best thing about this for me is how easy it is to harvest. As a 70+ year old lady with arthritis in my hands, digging is a different activity. I am definitely going to try this. I also love some of the others comments regarding putting a tarp underneath to reclaim the soil. It’s amazing how expensive soil is when you can’t dig your own for vertical gardening.
Hi James & Tuck. I live in Boston. I tried the cardboard box to grow potatoes. I got about a dozen & a half. They were small. I cooked them & they were delicious Taste was so different from store. Thanks James & Tuck. ❤. Next year will be better! 🌱🌿
I will try this next season. Great video. My family always grew a lot of potatoes. My mother kept them in a cool dark room in the basement. Don’t wash them until you plan to use them. They will preserve much better
Brush the dirt off when it is dry.
Hey fellow jersey gardener, I have been planting potatoes in cardboards for two years .
Great video!
You're ahead of the game!
How do you keep squirrels away? I have potted plants with flowers and every single day the squirrels dig it up looking for food
8:15 Use another box under your work area to make cleanup easy!
I've been growing potatoes in boxes I bring my groceries home from Costco- my bag potatoes that were sprouting.i used my fresh cut grass as mulch. They're doing great!
Awesome harvest ....going to try this too......love Tucks dedication...keeping watch over the harvest.....😜🐾🐾🐾😂
The Best Method To Grow Potatoes! ❤For The Young King!
James, great video. Takes me back in time. When as a kid, I used to do this on our acre of land. The thing is, it wasn't intended. It was all just from scraps.
For the heads out here that love James" videos here's another tip, Amazon boxes are great mini drying rooms, naturally fungal resistant and maintain a rhythm of 64 at most times. Just clothesline some string through cut flaps on opposite sides and heights boom free convection airflow. Good for drying chilis and other vegetables and herbs. Especially the big boxes that top dress bags get shipped in.
Thank you for the tip👍
"naturally fungal resistant" is a huge red flag. What fungicide did the manufacturer treat it with to make it not rot?
I enjoyed the garden I had years ago. I no longer live in that location but it was fun to share food with my neighbors especially the lady that grew potatoes and I grew leek. I made potato leek soup often! All fresh ingredients. This gives me some ideas especially since I have so many boxes...!!!
I dumped a wagon load of sandy muddy soil from a sandbar in a wash between hills into a large cardboard box on top of some leaves, chopped weeds and grass clippings and put a cherry tomato cutting in it and added a tomato cage. I covered the soil with several inches of green grass clippings. In only two weeks the cutting has grown 2 feet and is thriving. No added fertilizer.
Just did my first potato planting earlier this year and I am STILL finding random potatoes while weeding and no complaints! 😂
I grew potatoes in rows for the first time this year, in the past I have grown them in raised beds and in tote bags, but never in a box. I will need to try this method next year.
Yorkies rule-and yours is adorable. I'm new to your channel and I'm absolutely inspired to try the box gardening technique. Thank you for sharing!
I always forget to mound mine but they manage to grow🙌🏾. This will be perfect to do with saved boxes after the holidays, we get sooooo many Amazon boxes ☺️
I’ve been toying with the idea of a small garden…. This video has made me decide to go for it. Those potatoes look so delicious!
Growing potatoes in bags is great, but I love this idea even more. Boxes gets recycled twice: once for the potatoes and second for compost and/or green bin collections. And on the patio, no need to worry about gophers!
Nice harvest thanks for the awesome tip much easier than digging them out of the ground. Ty ty ❤
Oh, baby! I'm doing this because I planted sweet potatoes and white potatoes three days ago, which I know I planted incorrectly. I have plenty of Amazon boxes in my recycling bin that I can use today. thank you!
❤ He's a cute little garden helper.
I can't believe you got that much growth in 10 days. Wow.
Good soil, good fertilizer, and good timing make a big difference
@@jamesprigioniSo fertilizers are okay? I just found this channel. New sub!
To cut down on compost you can use an inch then the rest straw. Xx
I love the experiments you do! And thank goodness you have Professor Tuck to help you along! LET’s Go!!!
I couldn't do it without his guidance
Shared this with at least 5 people. Wow, what a great idea and awesome harvest! I didn't think of doing this but I did use all my boxes with mulch to keep my tomato plants damp and happy. I have no till. :)
Your Own Compost is PURE BLACK GOLD !
I remember when my parents had a garden. They grew several things but I enjoyed the potatoes. It was almost like Christmas because you never knew what you'd get and just when you thought you dug them all, you'd find more!! So Fun!! Home grown and canned potatoes and green beans, mmmm, nothing better❣❣
My kids better have children soon. I need grandkids to do this with ASAP! ♥♥♥♥♥ for the Guardian. :)
Amazing! Watching this in November from CT. We have a vole problem so I stopped growing potatoes in my garden. Now I can't wait until next year to grow potatoes this way!! Thanks so much for your video!
I grew Ground Cherries for the first time this year. They are SO delicious! I know it will be a mistake but I`m gonna try one inside this winter. Ha! And at least one cucumber vine. Oh no!
Love this! Years ago we were part of a CSA and went to the farm to help with the potato harvest. Digging in the dirt, even inside a box as opposed to a farmer’s field, is SO satisfying.
Thanks for sharing this and ❤❤❤ for Tuck!
For many years, I have wanted to grow food, and then I realized how expensive it is😌 I thought all I had to do was plant directly into the ground, period.I have containers and boxes I have saved, but the dirt, the fertilizer, and the rest are so costly. I am happy and jealous when others are fortunate to do so. You are very blessed with knowledge. Happy harvest, be well. Love the pup.
Don't give up yet. There are ways to get things to grow without much cost. Make your own compost of grass clippings from people's lawns that grow them without chemicals. Ask neighbors for leaves in autumn. To this pile add everything that you can. I put all food scraps, spoiled food, moldy bread, out of date pantry items, even meat along as you bury what could turn stinky with the dry leaves,and grass clippings you shouldn't get any smell. And you don't need any container or you can make "walls" with free pallet wood or use cardboard boxes. They should hold up fir months. Add left over coffee not just the grounds, you can even add human urine. (It's sterile). There's a lot of info out there and UA-cam videos. You can take weeds in place them in a big bucket, cover with water and put a lid on it. Let it rot. This takes care of getting rid of any weed seeds too. This fetid stinky water can then be diluted with water and used as a fertilizer. Sure it's easier to buy products than make your own but not all of us have that kind of budget. Ask your neighbors to save their compostable items. Cardboard boxes, egg cartons, if you have chickens or rabbits you'll have access to more fertilizer. So you can grow food on a shoe string. And your potatoes will be smaller but small potatoes and few potatoes are better than no potatoes. I've grown potatoes from the skins. If you have an organic market nearby, ask what they do with older wrinkly potatoes? And definitely never throw out potatoes that are a little green or old and wrinkles. These can be used to grow more potatoes. For other plants, save seeds. When you buy red bell peppers, save seeds, tomatoes from the grocery store will grow more tomatoes, pumpkin seeds from pumpkins save the seeds. You can get lots of seeds for free this way. Wish I could share some seeds with you. Did you know you can propogate your own basil from a bunch of store bought. Then replant to various containers. My grandmother would use anything to grow things in. She would reuse old large coffee cans, she would cut the tops off milk jugs, etc. You need to be creative and think put of the box. Best of luck!!
Great info, tips and tricks. Thanks for taking so much time to share and encourage others. @@elenaantunes1263
There are gardening channels that teach you how to make your own liquid ferlizer out of weeds. It is smelly but it is free if you have a bucket with a lid or a barrel. You don't think we always had fertilize? Research plants and their makeup like beans getting nitrogen from the air and was one of the reasons they planted beans with corn to help with nitrogen replenishing the soil. Raising wheat in the winter as a ground cover and plowing it in before it seeds also give nutrients to the soil. It is nature feeding itself.
@@elenaantunes1263 Terrific ideas!
And I used to work in a cardboard box factory. So, being a nerd (as stated in other comment) so i was extra interested in seeing how this would play out. I'm impressed.
Tuck was like I don’t work. I supervise!!!🤣
Tuck is a great "snoopervisor," indeed! 🙂
What a joy! Your clear love and devotion to planting, growing and specially harvesting is a great inspiration!! cardboard boxes, here I come!
I've used grow bags and cardboard boxes potatoes will grow anywhere as long as you mound them and water them. I'm 76 and still grow my own food
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@@jillmohoric4388 tomatos green beans carrots corn kale lettuce bok choy scallions. I plant the roots I cut off same with celery and onions. lots of fig trees black berries and I have a myer lemon/Valencia Orange tree grafted together Christmas present plus dragon fruit.amd one red grape vine. I'm trying to grow
I recently moved from south Florida to north Central Florida so have to learn a new growing seasons here. In the south I could grow 365/7 not here too cold in Dec and Jan feb
You must have quite a large yard. @@darceyschultz2370
@@darceyschultz2370we plant in April here.
Awesome growth… can you reuse the soil after you harvest the potatoes?
It was very cool to meet you at my job, sorry if I fanboyed a little lol. Keep up the great work.
Let’s Gooo!! That was awesome of you to come up to me, I wish I could have had Tuck there too. Thanks for the kind words my friend 😁🐕❤️
Precisely what I have planned for Fall. Thx for the great demo. Like the leaves.
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I had no idea this is how potato grow. Thanks. Very satisfying too
WoW!!! Extraordinary !! I’m gonna try this ASAP ! That’s a pretty decent harvest ! ❤❤❤❤ for Tuck
I cut holes in the bottom of the box for drainage. It worked out pretty good. The boxes pretty much turned to mulch by the end of the growing season so I piled up the soil and mixed in some compost, leaves, and grass clippings for next year.
😮oh wow! Never been successful at potatoes, gotta try this. Thanks!
You should, the plants grew beautifully!
@@jamesprigionithank you, I was very discouraged about my last fail. Appreciate it coming from you! 🪴
Me either. Get a pan full.😂
I planted potatoes in old car tires that can be stacked to add more soil on top. When it was time to harvest, knock the tires over and keep from cutting into the potatoes when it's time to dig them up.
Red norland potoes are the most prolific plants to grow. You can plant them in buckets, boxes or raised beds and get s huge harvest.. all hail King Tut ♥️
Take too long to cook.
@@Mmm...yummymummy why do you say that? How much longer does this variety take to cook than other varieties? And why?
When I moved into my current place 13 years ago I used all the cardboard boxes and packaging paper from the movers to line my new raised beds. Had no weeds for years but now I just keep adding them to my compost pit. Love the idea of growing food in these boxes, I've been collecting a few large ones from my pet's pee pads! I think I'll use them for growing onions and garlic though. Sending out love and barks for Tuck from me and my Pema ❤🐾
Cardboard box. Great idea. It holds up to all the rain
This is awesome !!!! I maybe a nerd or whatever but this makes me sooooo happy to learn. We have a very sizeable patio, and I am so encouraged to know we can do this. Thank you so so much. And Tuck is so beautiful. My mama had a little doggie that looked just like him when I was a little girl.
Yes! Don't lie to ourselves and do everything we can. Thank you for this. It was inspirational! ❤❤ for Tuck