Grow Potatoes in recycled water buckets. This is an inexpensive way of 'growing your own' at home.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Shot some years ago I'm still growing potatoes in these small Ex cut flower water buckets. It doesn't need to cost a lot to set up and the rewards are in this video to see. All these potatoes came from a small bucket probably half the size of the popular 5 gallon bucket. If digging or lifting and turning out big buckets is to much for you these small buckets might be the answer.
Thank you once again for confirmation on growing in good old discarded pots. I now have around 40 ( larger than one gallon) black nursery pots, including 5 a gal at Costco gave me. And left over potatoes already too pot up. This year I did buy 5 each of 3 new varieties. I wanted some russets, German butterfly and a good red potato. I have a dozen planted so far. Very excited to see what kind of a reveal I can get this year. Thank you again for giving the world a new way to get more from less.
Hope you hit 'the mother load' Lou. Jim.
Nice result. Just planting potatoes here in containers in Maine.
Had mine in for about a month still in my greenhouse. Will need to get them out shortly to make way for my Tomatoes.
Even in 2024, if one has to buy pots and soil, one can get both at the Dollar Tree for $1.25 a piece. These pots are 10" around and 10" tall. One bag of soil(8#) fills the pot, thus I have $2.50 in each pot.Since potatoes were over $10 for a 10 pound bag last year, I saved quite a bit of money, growing and eating my own. And it looks like potatoes are going up this year too, as already the price for a 10# is $6.34(Walmart). I saved several potatoes I had grown last year, in the fridge(see Jim's video on that) and they have been replanted this year. So I had enough potatoes for the wife and I to eat (2023)until fall, when the same potatoes(Walmart) were not selling and were greatly discounted.
You can also wrap each seed potato in newspaper and place them in a cardboard box in the basement (or coolest place in the house). By Sping, they'll be chitted. I've done this for 3 years with other root plants too.
Break time from planting 2, 3x5' beds of Sharpo's. 11 seed potatoes per bed. 1 more
bed to prep and plant. These are set asides from last year. Once the 3rd bed is done
I'll still have about a dozen left over and have longer shoots on them. Also have 7 red
earlies, that should be sprouting any day now, and 7 more chitting, to go in buckets to
extend the season. These are also set asides from last years garden, in 3gal buckets.
Our garlic is growing great, a foot tall, and our first planting of Peas and lettuce have
sprouted and off and running. Second batch of Peas should be sprouting any day now.
Things are finally turning toward the good.
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