Bucket Potatoes

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Had to check a bucket. Plant got pretty beat up in recent rain and wind.... looks promising for the rest...
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Another victim of the weather I had to check....
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These are Yukon Gold.
 
Great job they look awesome. I mostly use 7-10 gal plastic pots used from a nursery but haven't grown any in a few years.
 
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Interested to follow along! We used to get little pigs from Canada, one of the truckers was a big gardener... he said alot of people grew taters in tires, had them stacked to the eves of houses tall. Never had much luck with taters either so mine come from the store.

Ryan

Are spuds harder to grow down south?

I've been told the Kennebec variety is what you need for towers. Using lots of loose sandy soil is good advice too. Around here (NW Minnesota), the best time to plant potatoes in a home garden is the first two weeks in July--you'll miss the dreaded potato bugs and the crop will be late enough to keep well into winter.

Hope you try again--not much beats a home-grown fresh potato (unless it's a home-grown fresh tomato 🙂).
 
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Planting this year's potatoes today or tomorrow weather permitting.

Did 8 buckets last year, increasing to 12 this year.
 
Missed this one. Glad you resurrected it.
Fantastic results.
Never tried alternate spud growing. I know people that have used tires and straw bales with mixed results.
 
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Never tried alternate spud growing. I know people that have used tires and straw bales with mixed results.
I tried repurposed empty cattle protein tubs a few years ago. I drilled drain holes in the bottoms to allow them to drain excess water.

I didn't cheap out on the soil, either, I filled them with bagged garden soil.

Started by covering the seed taters with a few inches of soil and added more as the vines grew until the tubs were about full.

The vines were nice and vigorous, but mostly unproductive. After the vines died off at the end of summer, I dumped the tubs out and had mostly golf ball sized taters
 
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