3 Mistakes to avoid when growing potatoes in containers 

the head coming off the watering can. nice touch 👌

Thank you for giving us a lot of great information in a short period of time. Succinct and to the point without droning on and on and you did it with a smile. Please keep making videos.

I like the tiny potatos. I buy the little ones at the market all the time. They are tender and sweet.

I have made all 3 mistakes and have always been disappointed. This year I am avoiding the errors and hopefully will have a better crop. Thanks for the video.

Your style of video presentation is refreshingly direct. I like it.

Because of you I’m growing potatoes in pots this years Thanks

I've never had great success growing potatoes. So I don't plant very often. This year I decided I was going to do a better job and I certainly did. What I learned is that they like more water than I was giving them in the past. I gave them that this year and have harvested over thirty pounds so far with at least twenty five pounds more expected with what I still have planted. Lesson learned, they like a lot of water 💦. And they are the best straight from the garden. I share with my neighbors and they all agree. Fantastic flavor. Oh, and they were mostly all real big. Way bigger than store bought.

One tip to increase the size of potatoes is to decrease the number of chits on the seed potato. Soon after you start chitting the seed potatoes, cut out excessive chits leaving just 2 or 3 chits. I use an old teaspoon to do this, but be sure to dig them right out. I find I get fewer spuds, but much bigger. Ideal if your growing Maris Piper or King Edwards for chips or roasties.

Important tip #4: to get larger potatoes but less of them, allow only one sprout per seed. If you want more but smaller ones, leave all the sprouts on.

Hi Katrina I always grow two main crop tubers for each 30L pot/bucket, have great success and slug free. Steve

THIS might seem strange but i got hugh spuds last years from my compost heap, just potatoes skins mixed with the normel compost mix, I grow my spuds in burlap sacks beside my outside tap, TY nice vid.

Nice to see potatoes so happy to be in a video at 2:30.

I was inspired to grow five different varieties of potato which I sowed in April and have watched the bags of potatoes growing ever since. I've got to say that the potatoes grow very fast. They've caught me by surprise. I'll send pictures when I get the chance. All are growing well.

I'm doing a bit of an experiment this year, and doing potatoes in 3 different areas; containers, a ground bed, and a raised bed. Thanks for the tips! :)

Love your videos. A ton of down-to-earth info in an easy-to-understand style. Thank you for making time to produce and post. David

I'm a first timer on your channel and all the "mistakes" you said, is what I did this Year...I think my most is not watering enough....will do better in the next season...thank you so much for your video

I'm always tempted to put many seed potatoes 🥔 🥔🥔 in one pot 🌝 Thank you very much for sharing 👍 Have a nice Sunday 🌼🌞🌻🏖

the advice about too many seed potatoes was very helpful! I usually put 3-4 in a 20 gallon grow bag, oips! I've gotten a few Honkers, but more small to medium-sized

Phew! So far, so good. I put 3 small potatoes in 5 gallon buckets and have not let them dry out. I don’t know what kind they are…my sister gave me her old, chitted potatoes. I’ve never actually bought seed potatoes. We don’t eat many, so I can them up with herbs to use in soups and stews, mostly. I so love dumping the buckets and finding the treasure!!

Thanks so much. I have been a 'too many potatoes', planted in 'too small a pot, with 'not enough water', guy. Great info.

I have some potatoes left in from last year, in my veg beds. They had quite a bit of foliage but were damaged with frost last month. I cut it off and they're sprouting again. I've also planted some Arran pilot (first early), Maris Peer (second early), and Kestrel. (second early). They're all sprouting now. I have more seed potatoes (mainceop) yet to be planted in my garden. Just waiting for some of my tulips to die back. This year is the first time I've bought seed potatoes. I followed in my Dad's footsteps and just planted ones from the Supermarket that had sprouted. Thanks for the videos. 👍

Nice video. Simple and straight to the point.

1st time planting potatoes, haven't had to water much, getting rain up to 4 times a week, they have flowered, keeping my fingers crossed, thanks😊

Great video! Thanks to you, I think I’ll embark on my potato growing journey!! Thanks for giving me the confidence!

Nice to see you! Thanks for the tips! 💐

Im a beginner, thank you for this info

Nice video, short and sweet!

You're amazing. Thank you so much!

⚘ Needed and appreciated!

I am using grow bags for the first time this year. Both bags are completely filled with compost now, with just a hint of growth starting to peek through.

Great info in a well edited and short video! Well done ! ❤

Thank you. This year I am growing pots for the first time. It seems like I have made one mistake you talked about, I planted 5 potatoes in a 10 gallon grow bag. They looked lovely to start it’s been 2 months and they do not look healthy.

Ill never dig potatoes again now that ive mastered conrainer potatoes. Game changing!

Spot on with that!

Thanks for a great potato tips!

Excellent

Thanks for the potato advice. Two years ago I ordered four types of potatoes and grew them in 30 gal barrels and had some large potatoes, but most were very small. Of course, because of the large container, I had planted about 8-10 potatoes in each pot. Now I know what happened. I'll try again, maybe 4 max in each 30 gal pot? You are the first person I've come across mentioning planting 1-2 only and why. I had decided not to try growing potatoes again after the lousy first try. Because of you, I'll give it another try. Thanks again.

Fantastisch Good tips voor patatoes planting te pot good Sunday weekend Top 👍⛅🌿🤗💐🥔

I wish I would’ve watched this video last week. I planted Viking potatoes, 3 to 25 gallon bucket hoping they do better than just itty-bitty potatoes but I will take your advice and plant the rest one to a bucket.

Handy tip 😊

Really good info, thanks - just discovered your channel and subscribed! ✌😊

Thank you.

Hi Katrina thanks for the advise on growing potatoes. I'm also alway tempted to put more into the grow bed than I should. I'm growing Home Guard and Charlotte this year and they are coming on nicely. It's a lovely day here in Ireland today perfect weather for some gardening. Hope you have a good day. Liz

Great tips! :)

I have both in ground and container/grow bags for my potatoes. I've tried everything from the "Ruth Stout"(sp?) method. Just laying the seed potatoes on top of the soil and covering with a thick layer of straw. Not that bad of a harvest but, I found that mice and other gnawing creepy crawlies got to them easier than if they were in ground. I'm over in Sweden and Sweden is known for having good potato yields. I can get 2 harvests of potatoes most summers, if I'm able to start early enough. This year, I have invested in felt grow bags. I opted for the large bags that are about 60 liters, filled half way with soil, so I can add more when needed. I've previously grown in huge plastic garbage bags with pretty good result, cardboard boxes lined with chicken wire. Those were real good but, this year apart from my trusty in ground potato bed, I'm giving the black felt grow bags a try. 2 seed potatoes in each.

Planted mine about 2 weeks ago, 4 types in 2 30' rows, the extra sets left over will go into some large containers I picked from a landscaper.

Good morning. Good information 👍 👌 your amazing and awesome love all your videos 📹 ❤ 😊😊😊😊😊

Great advice! 😀❤

Thanks for this advising..for information in IRAQ the potato has two seasons in one year 😊

The thumbnail for this video is the best! 😂❤

Iused a packing box yfirst time growing potatoes anddid well.I got 22 potatoes from 4 seed potatoes.

Very nice. Just happen to put potatoes in pots. Small ones in not too big pots. Thank you,❤,🍀!

enjoyed that video most enjoyable

In November of last year I took a sprouting potato, cut the eyes out of it, and rooted the eyes. Got two really healthy chutes out of the 5 I started. Planted one in a deep pot, but hilled it excessively. That one died off, and yielded a single marble sized potato a month or so ago now. The other potato however, plated in a similar sized pot but hilled only 6 inches, is growing vines like crazy. It is almost completely covering the window that I have it in front of now. (I had to string the vines up through the window lock, its so heavy.) Finally starting to see some yellowing of the leaves. Should be a few more weeks and my first over winter indoor grow will be complete. I'm excited to see what I dig up out of that container. The foliage is extremely healthy, and the vines are such a tangled mess. Its hard to follow the route the single stem takes upwards. They were russets from the store that were starting to go off.

First earlys one seed spud per 5l gives growing space. I do one spud in a 5l water flower bucket and my bigger pots 25l 30 l pot three or two. I'd also advise not to grow main crop if you can in containers they grow so much better in the ground. But if your limited for space containers you'll have to. I have one bed for main crop but all my other spuds in containers I v planted about 200 seed spuds this year iv family who have some friends at work who have some first early spuds in salads taste great I love them. Main crop just great for chiping wedges roasting which I use goose fat there amazeing. Allbthe best take care.😊😊😊

The look on her face in the thumbnail photograph so perfectly captures the feelings of so many women when something that they were eagerly anticipating turns out to be much tinier than they thought it would be.

Use TERRACOTTA CONTAINER, you can make it from bricks. Do not use plastic. Terracotta is fully pack of concentrated ENERGY.

I'm growing potatoes for the first time on my allotment. Purely accidental, i was gifted 6 seed potatoes from a plot neighbour. She did tell me the variety but i cant recall. Looking forward to a nice buttered jacket on bonfire night.

Here in finland those tiny potatoes are very popular,

I put 4 seed potatoes in an 80L grow bag. I also use a wine bottle filled with water, inverted and placed in the center inverted. As soil dries, water is drawn out of the bottle. As soil gets moist, the water flow stops. Pretty automatic. Now, when should I sprinkle potash on the surface and water in?

We love 'baby' golden potatoes with butter & dill

Glad you added that bit at the end, because I actually prefer small salad/new potatoes for eating. Now I just need to find out if I can grow potatoes via hydroponics, but that's not something relevant to your channel I'd assume. Nice useful tips regardless!

"Potatoes are one of the easiest veggies to grow" 🙄 Not for me they're not, I have more success growing tomatoes and chillis than I do with spuds 😆 Watching this video reminded me that I have a bag of seed taters in my car, so I've just got them as per your tips....huge pot - tick.....not too many seeds, 6 or 7 - tick......well watered in - tick. Lets see in a couple of months time if I have some big King Edwards 👍

Great thumbnail. 👍

I live in way up northern Wisconsin and tried growing potatoes in maybe 10 old 50-pound feed bags. That's Mistake #1 that doesn't apply as there was plenty of volume. I tended to water around twice weekly rather deeply, so Mistake #2 also doesn't apply. As for how many seed potatoes per bag: well, I MIGHT have been a little over-zealous with 5-6 seeders per bag. That MIGHT have been a mistake! 🤦🏻‍♂️I wanted foot-long baking spuds. Instead I got a bunch of little marbles...and blamed NOT living in southeastern Idaho! 😫😸😸

Bravo......hey size don't matter........many does.......cheers

How about fertilizer hints? Very nice video by the way. Most useful. I'm about to plant in pots. Second how to keep slugs out? Thanks so much!

Very guilty of sticking too many in … and always surprised when they’re tiny!

Thanks so much for the vid, just a quick question regarding pot size. I've got 90L pots, should I still only put two seed potatoes in per pot when growing main crop potatoes?

I. Just like listening To your voice all day long - have not that much interests in potato’s - am more interesting watching you ! Keep up all the good work !

first early are all ready coming up ,no frost so far down hear Westgate on sea second early and main crop are just gone in yesterday ,formost first early ,second early Picasso main crop cara

I grow Determinate varieties in raised beds so that I dont have to worry about hilling at all.

Well, I got 15ish 33L buckets with various varieties in them and 30ish 10L with main crop potatoes,... so I guess next year I'll flip that around if possible... Great content, thank you! I give grass clippings and wood ash as extra, do you have good experiences with something or the other?

Phew! I've put mine in 35 litre containers but possibly with three small tubers in each that's too many? Wondering how often I need to feed them now during the growth season (they're mid earlies). The rain this spring has meant watering has not been a problem up to now. I'm mainly using 'terreau de plantation' which is a forest product made from sieving forest waste. Not much nitrogen but I can add that. Thank you for your encouraging videos.

I actually look forward to small potatoes, as I grow them for baby potatoes.

hmm, mine grew small cause of small containers. no problem since i didn't think they'd grow but did and the bush looks very beautiful. daughter does not like potatoes but she saw how little they were and was smitten by them *"they're so cute"* i cooked them, now she'll ask me to make a baked potato with all the trimmings

When growing in containers, potatoes get dry very quickly. The solution is place the pots in a raised bed and put about 6 inched of wood chippings to cover the base of the raised bed and up the sides of the pots. The wood chips will absorb water and because the bottom of the pots are buried in the wood chips, water will wick up into the pots.

Size matters and less is more. Water more. ;)

Hi, how do you control weeds? I try to plant in my garden but the weeds grow like a forest and I put Gallop XL weedkiller and it kills everything.

For watering invest in an apparatus that tells if your plants are dry or needs water or don’t need water! Best investment for gardening & inexpensive to buy from garden or hardware shop!

I've had a problem this year with beetle larvae getting in to my potatoes. They've all got holes chewed into them.

Help, I have planted way too many in a small trough, shall I pull some out now to give the rest a chance?

Interesting shaped potatoes at 2:29

I grow potatoes in market, here in croatia, 1kg of poatatoes is less than euro. Green beans in other hand 8 euros, so yea

Hello my friend, can you make a little longer video? I really like your video. Have a nice day.

Wow your nice lol ❤

My spuds are huge!!!!!!!!!!! but I've only got a small cucumber alas

I have some 40L grow bags I bought this year. So you'd recommend 2 seed potatoes max if I want larger ones?

This year I'm trying a pot of potatoes after many years of planting in drills. So far so good but not impressed with having to constantly water.

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Mistake number 4. Not shading the pot from direct sunlight. Potatoes will appear to be growing well but if the soil is heating up the volume of the pot which will produce potatoes is restricted. Pototoes do not like hot soil. They will appear to wilt even if the soil is moist.

At least I got 2 out of 3 right, bigger the tub the better than 🤔

Growing the mortgage lifter, and the big boy in TN. Looking to you pretty girl... In Happy Frog and worm castings.

I use my old beer cooler to grow, potatoes grow up to be drunk,

Just got an allotment. Come here for tips

Hi Katrina , Have you ever used potato bags ?

Came here after watching your bird box video. Thought you would have fixed a camera in it.

I thought I did all of these right and still got tiny or hardly any potatoes per plant 🤷‍♂️ Oh well, will try again this year.

I don't really care about the size -- big or small, I did chuck a few of my seed potatoes in the trash, I put 4 in a really huge pot.

I was showing off to a lady friend lady year, showing her how easy it was to harvest potatoes from a tub. I stuck my hand in, it felt really warm. I pulled out one potato, then another....looked at my hand.....it was covered in ants. !!! ...