Potatoes: Growing in various containers

Saw this:
https://bcmastergardenerva.org/growing-potatoes-in-a-container/
That's just a bucket..!
Does it really just work like that?
Is it really that easy?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    don't even need a bucket, you can just grow them in the sack they came in, wow what a versatile vegetable I'm really becoming a P,S,E (potato sack enjoyer)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >If you have access to the internet, aren't a fricking idiot,
      Jesus! If you have nothing to contribute then just shut up instead of telling people to use the internet, when they are asking on the internet.

      Would you prefer sacks or buckets?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes I'm a P,S,E (preferential sack eclectic) the less plastic in the world the better using sacks is recycling and they are biodegradable so they return to the circle of life

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I wouldn't buy plastic buckets to do it so growing in them seems like a form of recycling.
          Can you put the sacks on earthy ground or will some weeds and molds start growing into it when it rains?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            that's fine if it happens, mold is fungus it'll connect your plants to the mycelium network nourishing them and protecting them from disease

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Potato blight is a fungus too. Any tricks on how to avoid that while getting the fungal benefits that you've mentioned?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                have the right fungus, inoculate and feed the good fungus so it become strong enough to ward off the others

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                How?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Sacrifice an irishman to the potato gods.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          are you also a P,S,E (penis sucking enthusiast)?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            nah you do that well enough for all of us

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Very nicely done

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >implying there is only one of us

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            There definitely is.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              there definitely is at least 5 of us and more pro potato sackers then potato sack haters

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Are these "other people" in the room with you right now?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No, potato is fine!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Frick off i liked it

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It just wasn't funny.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I enjoyed it, homosexual

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Can you grow them in socks tho?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i'm glad I came into this thread

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you have access to the internet, aren't a fricking idiot, and don't live somewhere with freakishly cold weather, it's really damn easy to grow most food crops.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Im trying something new this year

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >potato tower
      >cardboard
      meme gardener?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        mostly to keep the dog out

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit that looks awesome!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Built one of these this afternoon. Liked the idea. Hopefully my seed potatoes are still good. Thanks anon.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, it's that easy, they just want dirt, water, some naturally occuring nutrients and sunlight, they don't care if it's in the plot of land. bucket or a cracked open dino skull, just make sure it's big enough, you can even add some fertiliser for enchanced PSFR (potato sack fill rate). Fun fact, you can do the exact same thing with vast majority of crops that grow in the ground or above it 🙂

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Make sure it is the right kind of potatoes for your growting plan. Some grow in one batch and some will spawn tubers constantly.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Can i grow potato woth pottato from super market?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This seems like a better idea.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lol

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's far more expensive and labor intensive than some bucket.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        wood is free is you know where to look

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Looks very comfy. Are there any good brands that make them? Possibility with free shipping

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this is based on an advertisement created for a seattle magazine in the early 2000s in order to sell potatoe boxes. it doesnt actually work, because the over whelming majority of potatoe varieties will simply consume the lower layer of tubers in order to create more lateral growth. you will end up with the majority of your potatoes near the top of the soil like you would if you had planted the potatoe anywhere else, and you will find dried up potatoe corposes with the odd potatoe near the bottom giving you the illusion that it worked.

      that doesnt mean you cant grow potatoes in containers, they grow just fine in containers, but intentionally towering them is a waste of time and money.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yeah i don't get this towering nonsense. that's not how they grow in nature. i feel like it's just some gardening hipster thing where you just have to change things for no apparent reason because that makes it "cooler" somehow.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It does work if they're indeterminate

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ok what if you divide the box halfway up with a piece of wood to create what is essentially 2 seperate potato boxes stacked ontop of eachother, the premise of how many potatoes this can grow is absurd and autistic at best but the compactability and ease of use of stackable re-fillable wooden planter boxes seems helpfull

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      bundle of sticks will be fine too

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >$300 worth of wood instead of a bucket
      wanna be a baller, shot caller

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      When you consider the upfront cost compared to say grow bags how is this any better

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They didn't exist at the time this image was made

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wouldn't this cost a lot, there are way cheaper and faster alternatives you can get creative

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    can I grow a potato sack in a sack of potatoes?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >2339099
    >2339194
    >2339492
    >2339567
    >2339731
    >2340027
    >2340126
    Wtf is up with this ridiculous amount of hostile bullshit comments?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      With regards to
      >2340027
      That box is a meme and people posting the picture are doing it for that reason.

      Sure it will work but it's stupidly over engineered and complicated.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If you replace the "screw out" part with something else it would actually be quite decent.
        What's with the hate against it?

        inb4 "just buy a plastic bucket"
        Surplus wood is very common for all homesteads.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    OP, gardener here. All the small container lifehacks, especially the stacking ones, don't tend to work too well. Big fruit need big nutrients, so you'll have to water and fertilize accordingly for increased yield.

    What you can do is get a game tray (food safe plastic box to transport hunting gear and killed animals), they're not too expensive and food safe, as opposed to regular cheap black plastic boxes and buckets intended for mortar mixing etc.

    Fill those frickers up with enough soil (~90l per box), plant the potatoes deep and 30cm apart. Put in somewhat sunny spot and just wait. Potatoes should outgrow any other fricker in that bed, pluck a few times what else dares to grow there and water accordingly. There are good liquid fertilizers you can add to your water to keep them happy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      These boxes. Will outlive most wood, treated wood is not good for your food.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes treated wood is not good. But at least wood rots down. Those plastic boxes will break down into microplastic. Not to mention the plastic will leach phytoestrogens and who knows what else into your soil as they become weathered over time. Large 15 gallon fabric pots are good for potatoes if you haven't got space in the ground.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >treated wood is not good for your food
        >but microplastics are

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        plastic turns you gay by tricking your body into producing estrogen

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You mean the reason the dildos I shove up my ass turned me gay is because they were plastic?!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes, exactly.
            switch to metal-glass dildos or real dicks, you ll turn straight in a month.
            you can thank me later

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Return to tradition

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              That's are mushrooms you dumbfrick

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      These boxes. Will outlive most wood, treated wood is not good for your food.

      Does it really make a difference if it's food box plastic boxes? Potatoes won't draw the plastic as nutrients anyway, so the cheap plastic buckets should suffice.

      Another benefit of using several smaller buckets (instead of a 90l one) is to be able to easier plant and harvest at different times.
      Also it's easier to handle.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've tried growing potatoes in bags, never had much luck for some reason. Thinking about giving it another go but this time I was planning to use some wire mesh fencing and just make it into a large tube on the ground and go from there.

    Hope it works, I want purple potatoes but they're uncommon and expensive here and I can only find the little tiny ones. I want the fullsize fricking potatoes.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can’t wait till it get some chits on my tubers

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    plant the potato in the ground, and hill it up with a hoe throughout the season
    youll do less work, buy less stuff and get more potatoes
    container gardening is not practical

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      non-container gardening is not practical for someone without backyard, I have a "front" yard which consists of a huge concrete driveway and gravel lawn, we also have HOA, so frick me, containers is all I got.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What state?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Just have a place to farm!
        Sure thing, buddy. I'll gonna order an acre off amazon. Should I buy a forest and lake too? Do they have overnight delivery?

        It just seems forced. Buying materials and soil and doing all this work (hilling) to grow a small amount of one of the cheapest vegetables. If you're limited to containers I feel like there are so many better things you can grow. That being said whenever I search for info about growing potatoes the first several results are about container/bucket growing so clearly its popular.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >It just seems forced.
          Suburbia...
          >Buying materials and soil and doing all this work (hilling) to grow a small amount of one of the cheapest vegetables.
          I think it's more about the joy of actually growing something, if you have to resort to containers you most likely live in a place where only growing things are perpetually mowed lawns and your credit card debt. Potatos are easy, and it feels like growing an actual crop, i guess.

          reductio ad absurdum
          if you are forced to use containers i would grow a more expensive vegetable like tomatoes or peppers
          you can buy a 50lb bag of potatoes for $10-$15

          >if you are forced to use containers i would grow a more expensive vegetable like tomatoes or peppers
          >you can buy a 50lb bag of potatoes for $10-$15
          Why not just go straight to farming saffron, that shit is expensive as all frick.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I think it's more about the joy of actually growing something
            i see tons of posts on this board of people with large unused yards that are growing things in buckets
            posts of people growing radishes and lettuce in greenhouses
            posts of people buying soil and building raised beds on top of perfectly good soil
            i think its consumer culture. i think people like buying stuff

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              you do realise raised beds are usually built direct on soil? The raised aspect just makes management of parcels of ground easier.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not the guy your replying to, but my reasoning behind pots and raised beds is protection from grubs, moles and gophers.
                I line the basin of my raised beds with hardware mesh to keep them from digging up and uprooting everything.
                When I had done inground last year, they'd topple my sunflowers and killed most of my plants just by burrowing near them. Killed the roots, probably weren't even eating them, they were just caught up in the crossfire.

                Wood is too expensive for new beds on this new property I'm living on, so I'm trying stacked tires for a change.
                >InB4 muh chemicals
                The soil around me is already fricked from neighbors spraying the shit out of their lawns with weed killer, if I'm gonna get cancer, I do it on my terms

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >having neighbors

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                it would be cheaper and easier to fence a large area and trap all the gophers and moles
                get a mole tube and a couple gopher traps, its a good neighbor thing to do
                cutworms are moth larva, raised beds wont stop them

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                but if its a small garden its probably not much difference

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                if they are so low that extra soil doesnt need to be brought in whats the difference?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                your dogshit soil is continually being depleted of nutrients. you need to bring new compost or nutrients often

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Just have a place to farm!
      Sure thing, buddy. I'll gonna order an acre off amazon. Should I buy a forest and lake too? Do they have overnight delivery?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        reductio ad absurdum
        if you are forced to use containers i would grow a more expensive vegetable like tomatoes or peppers
        you can buy a 50lb bag of potatoes for $10-$15

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          im growin weird purple potatoes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what does it mean to "hill it up"?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Add more dirt over the stem and the base of pruned branches. The goal is to promote additional root growth up the stem, which gives more volume for tuber growth.
        Also increases coverage for existing tubers so they don't wind up green from sun exposure.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Last time I tried this they all died. What did I do wrong?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Did you prune the branches/leaves on the stem with a clean knife and wait for them to scar before stacking on more dirt?
            If not, the leaves/open wounds may have started to rot and shocked the plant into an early grave.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lost at file name

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if you have a firehouse subs near you, they get their pickles in 5 gallon buckets, and they'll sell you the empties for 3$.
    only downside is they smell like pickles, but you know it's food grade hdpe.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      pic related

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pthc?

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm growing about ten buckets of potatoes.
    It's silly and only makes sense if your objectives are silly (eg. growing one potato on your balcony)
    Potatoes grow better in the soil, it's easier to look after them, it's better use of space.
    As soon as you've got 9 buckets all in a group you will feel like a fool watering them one by one and will realize you could have grown more in a square bed of the same size.

    I often use broken plastic pots to make rings around plants to deter insects.
    If you're trying this to stop insects just use plastic rings on the soil rather than trying to move the whole plant out of the ground.

    Far better things can be done with buckets, brine pickling, dry storing, dissolving communists.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    did grow potatoes last year but they were all tiny after 6 months is that really what I should be expecting? Just used the normal potatoes from the supermarket. Also grow berries they always turn out well and give at least 3-5kg.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Enough sunlight? Enough green on top? Enough nutrients in the soil? Enough air, microbes, water? Any pests?

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm growing various potato-analogues this season in raised/stacked beds. My soil is very loose and sandy, so after amendment with compost manure, I've been able to grow actual potatoes well in the past.

    I tried my hand at grafting tomatoes to the potato rootstock after seeing the "tomtato" meme some years ago as a way to make the most of a single pot/bed. Every graft eventually failed. The whole thing was a meme. I haven't found a convincing YouTube video of p/t grafts working outside of the original ad. If anybody here has gotten one to work, I'd love to hear your methods.

    I do still want to optimize my usage of the space, and maybe try grafting something else.
    My plan is to swap potatoes for Oca, Sunchokes, Yams, and Beets. Oca and beet stems/leaves are apparently edible on their own, but idk about sunchoke and yams.

    Anyone ever try grafting sunflowers and sunchokes? Should I just let the yam vines wander and plant peppers above them?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've not tried the graft you propose, since you're growing sweet potatoes though I should mention grafts are sometimes done between them and morning glory, and they're done using both as rootstock/scion. Using the sweet potato as root stock and morning glory as scion gives potentially more energy as the top graft on mg expands even more allowing better photosynthesis. The other way around sounds strange, because you don't get sweet potatoes using mg as rootstock, however it greatly improves the probability of the sweet potato flowering and producing seeds, so it's an effective way of getting true seed for sweet potatoes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      earth apples are truly underrated
      taste absolutely great grilled as a side dish for any kind of meat

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First time growin taters. Went with the trench and hill method.
    How did I do?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Next day, after rain.
      I-is this bad?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Only if it stays.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        should've plant rice

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          rice paddies are spawn points for VC

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      beautiful pasture anon, what country/area is this?

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So here's the thing. I'm kinda fricking stupid. Do I really just put the whole potato in dirt and it will make more potatoes?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Basically, yeah.
      Wash it and make sure it's started to sprout first, or else the tuber will rot before the shoots break the surface.
      You'll get more potatoes by increasing coverage, which you get by dicing up the potato so each sprouted eye has enough starch to break the surface. I douse the raw potato from cuts in powdered lime to help dry it out and prevent rot, plus it supplements the plant to prevent blossom rot if you want to plant from true seed later.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We have this thread every week.
    Yes you can grow potatoes above ground.
    No there's really no reason you should.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    dont forget growing potatoes is banned in many cities around the world anons

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Well yeah, of course. There's nothing magical about growing things in the ground. You can grow things anywhere if the conditions needed are met. You can even grow shit like raspberries and blueberries on your balcony.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >That's just a bucket..!
    With holes
    The holes are important

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i fricking love potatoes so much it's unreal

    i'm not a very organized gardener so keep seeds and shit everywhere, found this box with roots growing out of it and thought "huh that was odd".

    frickers were tangled up like christmas lights but we'll see how they do

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Does live plant tuner harvesting work?
      It seems like progressively removing meat from a cow throughout it's life without killing it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        *Tuber
        Frickn auto cucumber

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I would like an answer to this, too

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You wouldn't milk a cow?

        It works but try not to damage to roots

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I'd milk one, but I don't think the cottage cheese I could make would have the same consistency as a chuck burger extracted from a still living cow.

          Potato blight is a fungus too. Any tricks on how to avoid that while getting the fungal benefits that you've mentioned?

          Not all fungus are created equal. Clear-cutting a field for a crop disrupts established mycelia networks and allows opportunistic fungal infections to take over. Potatoes mostly rot at the roots and tubers if soil remains wet long enough. Well drained soil surrounded by long-established prairie/native grass will be less likely to stay wet, and adequate calcium/magnesium/iron balance in the soil improves plant resistance.

          Start with good, resistant potatoes. Actual potato blight is an infection, and is spread by cross-contamination, so knock out any potato bugs, aphids, and sphinx moths you find with light insecticide and remove any of them big enough and flick them into a jar of alcohol.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        very blessed image anon, I have several planter buckets in the shed and will attempt this

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/294844480788

    Peat moss, worm castings, pumice, cheap trellis, seed potatoes, straw for moisture. Top dress in about 6 weeks with worm castings. Infinite Potabens

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Buckets work fine and the results taste amazing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The next day

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm trying a new method to grow spuds this year myself: cardboard box planter. I dug out the area underneath it and filled it with compost and potatoes, when the season ends the cardboard that was the container will just get composted with everything else. Hopefully it lasts a season, I think cardboard should be able to make it that long.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is that picture true? If i throw in 4-5 potatoes will I end up with several times more?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You should only throw in one potato. It will overcrowd the pot otherwise. And that's an idealized harvest but the basics are correct.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Red Potatoes I grew last year that I just reburied and left outside all winter, they are doing quite well

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      literally just in a big planter aka bucket I've done nothing to them except some mild weeding

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >aka bucket
        With holes

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My family tried growing typical grocery potatoes in the ground, but bugs got to them.

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