Building Simple & Easy Potato Towers ~ Grow Your Food!!
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2023
- Building Simple & Easy Potato Towers ~ Grow Your Food!!
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More people need to be growing what food they can. No telling what shortages could happen for some weird reason.
Thanks, Jinnie.
Thanks Jinnie.
Great idea 💡
Wow! Thank you for showing that to us! I will try to keep that in mind--it would help since there's only so much room in the garden!
Nice
Great video and idea! Definitely going to try this!
This is how we do our potatoes they work great!
We are in Arkansas so we will have potatoes very soon!
I’m obsessed with growing potatoes. I use the whole potato. It’s just more energy given to the plant. Have used as small as a golf ball. I also use a 6-24-24 fertilizer. My dirt mix is composted leaves, grass and wood chips.
Hello have a great evening.
What a great idea! I guess I’ve been living under a rock, or in a cave. I’ve NEVER seen anyone do this before! I can’t wait to get out to the feed store tomorrow and buy some seed potatoes. Thank you for teaching us all how to do this!❤️🇺🇸
I like it....can't wait to see your harvesting.
I'll be darn I did not know you can do it that way , too cool , Thanks Jinne , this is awesome
I wish I had seen this before I planted my potatoes. I would have tried this but maybe next year... I finally figured out how to put together my 3 small raised beds so tomorrow I'll be planting other veggies. I'm so glad it's finally nice outside. It sure was a wierd winter. Especially for up north in Wisconsin. I have peppers, tomatoes, onions, carrots, beets, and broccoli to plant. I couldn't be happier.
This is such a great idea. I've never planted anything in my life but I'd like to learn how to garden. I hope you do another video of this later in the season to show how they look when they're grown!
I do hope you show your results at the end of summer!!! My potatoes are already planted for this year but your towers look more than interesting!!! Thanks! 👩🍳
Thank you so much, I have never seen potatoes grown this way, very helpful. Hope you and your family have a great Memorial day weekend.
Perfect 🥔 & what I was looking for. Have a bountiful season.
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What a unique way to grow potatoes!!! Thank you for sharing! If I ever get a place of my own I might have to try this!!!
Potatoes are already in ground but I can make long rows of the cages , would help keep the straw in. Thanks for the idea
Definitely trying this
I had a pile of weeds from my garden and they had dried out and made compost underneath. So l put a couple pumpkin seeds in there and they grew like crazy. Lol
What a cool way to grow potatoes! I need to plant mine so now I need to find some fencing and straw. I am looking forward to watch these towers grow ❤❤
Great idea Jinnie...I've always done mine in old tires but I'm thinking I'll try your method 💯💯🤗🤗🙏 Kendra
Thanks for showing us this method, got to go get seed potatoes. What a great idea.
Going to try your way...
Great idea! I will try that next year (already planted mine in buckets , NC here.)
Tried mine in 5 gal buckets last year here in North Carolina .
Was very disappointed with yields. Hope that yours do better than mine did.
@@michellebarnhill5130 yes...I didn't like my results with that either.
@@littlehummingbird1015 Seriously was disappointed, just so little for the table. Appalachian homestead with Patera did some la st year as an experiment and those results were poor as well. So it wasnt just us. This time I'm doing a method using straw that I saw, people got bigger yields doing that.
Thank you for your nice video. I've never seen chopped straw come in bags like that before. Only bales. Cool idea though. Thanks!
You one pretty farming lady...❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing this, I had not planted any potatoes yet. I have all raised beds and they are completely full. I will try this in my backyard with cardboard underneath. This method is new to me. I have recently acquired 28 new baby chicks, all barred rocks, I definitely have some chicken wire, lol. Thanks!!
Your ideas are simple and uncomplicated so anyone can take courage and go forward with a garden. 🪴 Thank you for your common sense ideas that work!!😊
Yay! I was going to actually do this year…. decided to put them ground…I got an 👌 harvest….but definitely going to try this next round….! Thanks Jinnie….Can’t wait to see your video of harvest ❤
Plastic mesh feed bags work well also.
can you give us updates as the season progresses?
I'm already fighting the potato bugs down here in Mass. I've planted my 1st bunch around St. Pats day and the 2nd batch around tax day in April. All 16 buckets and grow bags have awesome green growth. One even has a flower which I'm told means it's creating Tubers!
Excellent idea, you have your very own Twin Pillars of Potatoes. 🥔🥔
TFS HC, take care & keep really busy everyone. ❤🙂🐶
So cool! About how many chits did you put on each layer?
Wow, great idea! 👍
Nice option. I love how you share the wisdom that Gardening is trial and error... SO true! I'd love to see how your towers do in 100 or so days. Please do a reveal.
I love your hacks you need to put them all in a book
As long as you have chits on the potato piece it will grow
I buy Organic potatoes to use from the Supermarket. Even at $4 something it's cheaper and more then Seed potatoes. This year was the 1st year I cut any. I heard you get bigger yet smaller yields that way. Good luck to you this Summer.
I've seen that done with old tires. They just keep stacking them.
Hello, I got a huge bundle of straw for $l0 from a lady from my church who has a horse farm. I did see straw like you have in this video for $l6 at a local hardware store but half the size of what I got. Now to do my tower.
Weathered
I watched a video about a month ago, a guy from England plants his potatoes in a box. On a concrete sidewalk!! After 60 days, he simply lifted the box with all kinds of potatoes falling out! So I tried it. After about 3 weeks I have lovely green leaves in the top and looking good. Can't wait for harvest. It was so easy!
Thank you for this. Please give us updates over the summer.
Awesome idea Jinnie Thanks for sharing❤
I love this idea Jinne, I am going to give it a go!
Great idea. Thank you for sharing.
How often do you water?
Great idea, Jinne! Am harvesting our taters this week, but will try this for the fall planting! Blessings from NW Florida!
Now this is an interesting idea for sure! Thank you very much for sharing. I will try this next year.
Greetings from the land of ice and snow (middle of Alaska) 😎☕️ PRO TIP: On the cut exposed side of your potato, put cornstarch on a pan or plate, and set the cut side on on the cornstarch for about 5 minutes. And plant as you would.
I did this last year for my first potato proof of concept grow bag
garden. Average yield per bag was 13 to 20 potatoes each grow bag.
This year, I am doing a 4 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot potato box. The math indicates I will get approximately 250-300 pounds. So we we will see.
My hubby had too many potatoes for his garden patch so I took what was left and threw them on the ground inside a fence ring, then I covered them with dead leaves and some soil. As they grown I add more leaves and soil. They seem to be Extremely healthy and look as good as the potatoes I have growing in 100% soil. I'm excited to see how they turn out when it's time to dig them.
Loved this video. Can you do this with sweet potatoes? How often do you water? Thank you!!
Fantastic video Jinne !! Just one question: what about heavy winds or during a heavy rainstorm with a lot of wind ? Do they blow over ? It really is a great idea but that’s the only thing that would concern me. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and experience !! ❤️
Please show us when they start coming up and when they grow a lot. This is an interesting way ☺️
This is a great idea ! One question- how much do you water them? Did you need to let it dry out or stay damp all of the time? Thanks for the great advice!!
A funny/not-so-funny story: I've seen several versions of potato towers/tubs in the past few years. Last year I decided to to make my own "tower" out of an old burn barrel in which the bottom had rusted out. I layered in some compost and soil added three sprouting potato pieces and covered them with more soil and compost. As the potato plants grew over the summer, I continued to add more soil and compost. Late summer, I noticed a tomato hornworm had decimated much of the foiliage. However, I continued to water the plants, hoping they'd recover. After about 3 weeks, it was apparent that there would be no new leaves to help pototoes grow under the soil. Rather than dump the barrel, I reached my hand down inside the soil to feel around for tubers. It took only about 5 seconds to realize that my barrel was populated by fire ants! I, subsequently dumped the barrel, only to find not a single potato. Not. A. One. BUT... I had a couple of healthy-looking plants until the tomato hornworm did them in. And, in the end, I got a painful reminder not to stick my hand and arm into unknown territory here in the South. Hopefully, anyone who tries the "tower" method will get better mileage than did I !!
How far in-between each row of potatoes?
Do you cover on really warm sunny days? Or do you just water more?
Would this work for sweet potatoes too
Can someone please tell me if I can use wondered straw from last year? Blessings
Yes. Probably better than new. More nutrients.
Tater Towers 😳🥺🥺🥺 I’m Tater Todd 🤯😂😂
Anyone use hay?
We have used hay before, it works perfectly, only a little weedy.. 💕🇺🇸
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Nice way to grow potatoes.
I hope everyone knows that if a potato gets direct sunlight and the skin turns green DO NOT EAT THAT POTATO IT WILL MAKE YOU SICK!!! That is why we mound dirt up on the planets as they grow plus the potatoes grow up ward .
Happy growing everyone.
I PRAY THAT EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HARVEST IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
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