How refreshing to watch a down to Earth video. No bells, whistles, waving of arms, dancing about, irrelevant talk. Just straight to the point, simple and straight forwards instructions.... Thank you....
This man is brilliant! A natural at imparting useful information without any of the contrived eccentricities that television presenters like to adopt. He's given me confidence to do something I've never tried before...big thanks.
Just letting you know that my first effort at growing my own potatoes in pots and bags was a HUGE success! I had a good yield and they taste delicious. Thank you for all the advice!
@@GrowVeg youre welcome my question to you is will this work under a led light I live in Chicago and am growing vestables and herbs inside I wana do a potaito bag as well
I grew potatoes in small pots for two consequential years with no problems. Last summer was absolutely catastrophic; everything just drowned; no matter the drainage. I bought some organic potatoes in winter, let them sprout and I'll try my luck again this year.
This is the best to watch so far great run through no fuss. Iv been growing mine in bags and pots for about six years and iv never been disappointed I use ordinary shop bought potatoes 🥔 and I’ve done really well out of them. There’s great satisfaction in growing you own and you don’t need a lot of space. Thanks for the info 🇬🇧🙏🐌🍄
Love your videos always, just some advice for people growing in containers. I've found earthing up isn't really necessary and if you're not on top of it you could risk frost damage to the exposed shoots. I fill them to the top and they start to come up around the last frost date
I grew sweet potatoes last year in a "pallet box". It was a display box for cacti at a big box store. They were throwing it away. So, I took it home and covered the outside with landscaping fabric. I only planted 4 slips and got about 65 pounds of sweet potatoes. I planted late here. It was July 30. Then, on Halloween, I dug them up. I was shocked. All I did was put them in good soil and made sure they stayed watered. Easiest thing I've ever grown. They looked and tasted far superior to anything I could have bought at the grocery store.
Just make frame or use chicken wire to make round shapes with the landscaping fabric. Do not use pallets. They are treated with pesticides and other toxic chemicals to ward off bugs during transport of goods.
Thank you sir! With the coming food shortages I thought it best to start learning how to produce my own food. This was a very informative video. Very grateful for your time.
I have been growing potatoes in bags for about 2 years. I have harvested Dutch Creams, Royal Blues and currently have Russet Burbanks and White Star varieties. One thing I didn't do which you have suggested is to give them some liquid fertiliser. I was disappointed with my Royal Blue harvest so I hope this give me better harvests in the future.
As someone below said, I've read plenty about this, but this film is so clear and helpful! Thanks! Going to go out now and reduce the amount of soil I've covered the tubers with! I've now subscribed !
I planted my potatoes in my girlfriend's house but she found out I was texting her sister so now she won't let me get them to water them, what do you suggest?
Helpful, simple video perfect for a beginner, thanks. We're trying to grow some for the first time - we've got some earlies in potato bags: Duke Of York, Home Guard and some little nobbly Pink Furs. Shoots are just starting to peep up!
Moved from New England, USA to the southern part and having trouble growing as it gets very hot early in the season and the soil is not great. Tomato's, potato's, string beans etc up north no problem, down here low yields. Watched this and I'm getting some bags to try potato's and other stuff so I can use better soil and move the bags in and out of the sun. Thanks!
Thank you Grow Veg for sharing your knowledge with us here on RU-vid,poratoes were cheap, now not so, heeding your sage advice and growing some yummy spuds.😋👍🥔
Thank you so much for this brief, concise but very informative video.. Just the right tip that i need to start growing my potato. I super love this vegetable and i cant wait to grow them. Thanks again!! 😊
Save a few bob, too. Keep some of your crop as next year's seeders and there's you ahead of the game already. One plant from each tuber, one potato from each plant and there's the following year's seeders and so on. A conservative yield of 10lbs of spuds from each plant and _ker-ching,_ as it all adds up. Time saved traipsing to greengrocers, as well. What's not to love about gardening?!
Thank you for this easy to follow guide. Just having my first try at growing my own potatoes in tubs and bags. Looking forward to a good harvest in a couple of months….
Thanks for the advice, i have tried spuds this yr, Jacks from seed potatoes, ive topped the crop of 10 up with a mixture of organic farmyard manure, topsoil & potting, they certainly dont grow slow. Also tomatoes, and carrotts. Peace
Fantastic video, I’m so new to growing potatoes, I’m really excited about my new veg garden, I’ve definitely decided on growing most my veggies in containers easier to maintain,,, keep you posted
Good video and clearly explained. As per your request, I have grown first and second earlies as well as main crop: pentland javelin, desiree, King Eds, Nicola and so on! I like container growing as there is no weeding to do and no pests!
Going for my 2 nd potato crop this year. Maris bard , 1st earlies. Desiree maincrop. All in bags or containers i built out of pallet wood. Great tips , thanks 👍
@@GrowVeg thanks. I only have a little plot in a town centre. Everything is made with waste site wood and pallets. Even made the picket fence using a coffee cup as a template. Might do a channel for this growing year, Sir skip rats recycled urban garden 😂 Best of harvests to you all 👍
I’ve had the best luck with the 3$ bag of top soil from Lowe’s, cut a couple X shapes into the bag and plant seed potatoes just barely in the hole where the X is, water it about once every 2-3 weeks and give it 2-3 months and each 40lb bag of top soil has produced more than 10 lbs no less than 7lbs per bag but neither have gone over 15 lbs
Thank you for your quick reply. I've been going nuts trying to figure out if they were big enough pots and wondering if they were, how many eyes do I put in there. So glad I subscribed to your channel. Amazing videos.
Chitted 100 Mona Lisa to be grown for the first time in buckets and Bags. Live in Pyrenean France (7b/8a) in a new-to-me mountain home with Last-Frost Date last year of 21st March. Just want to say thank you for being my "go-to" source of tips and tricks
I plant in the ground rather than in bags, because then I don't have to water so much, I can mulch them and keep them cool enough to have good tuber set. It seems like the soil temperatures in pots, for people in warm climates, can get too hot to have the most favorable conditions for potatoes, reducing their yield (not sweet potatoes which like heat, but regular potatoes which like cool soil).. I really like German Butterball for high yields, great storage, and they can produce some real lunkers. Purple Viking are the most beautiful potato I've ever seen and grow well. There are so many potato varieties it's easy to get carried away! : )
I think the idea of planting in bags and containers is for people who don't have the space for potatoes in the ground. I always plant in bags at home and in the ground on my allotment. Happy gardening 😊
At the Sussex County (DE) Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden, we are successfully growing potatoes in white plastic 13-gal trash bags. Punch drainage holes in the bottom of the bags, plant and earth up as shown in your video, rolling up the sides of the bag as you add soil. We top with straw for moisture retention.
In the coming months. I built my bed two days ago hand soiled it yesterday and planted patatos this morning. And that's to get patatos in the coming months I would kindly suggest you start ryt away so you can count down the 100 days ASAP GL.
Saying chitting just sounds wrong 😂🤣🤣😂 "oh im just waiting for my potatoes to chit" 😂🤣🤣😂 thanks for sharing 👍👍 im new to gardening.. so far ive never kept a plant alive and promised myself that i can do this. So far ive planted tomatoes,onions,2 kinds of pepper and some other vegetables idk the english word for 😂 and im about to plant carrots,lettuce and potatoes 🤔❤ this video helps a lot with the potatoe questions 👍👍👍 now i just sit back and wait for the chitting 😂🤣🤣😂😂😂
Thanks for this video really clear and well presented. Have grown potatoes successfully in containers for last two years but still improving technique for chitting and earthing up and varieties for best cropping. I'm growing Homeguard in Northern Ireland as worked well last year but would like to branch out more in future!
I am growing a variety called Charlotte, a real firm salad spud. Have grown spuds in pots for a number of years now, especially in a small garden where space is of the essence 🙋
I've just gotten some potato seeds--real seeds--in my grow rig. Renee's seeds used to have a version, but this is Botanical interests. The strain is called "Clancy."
This is the first year I am attempting to grow potatoes and I am doing it in pots and buckets. I am trying All Blue and Katahdin from the Maine Potato Lady.
Thank you so much for this - really informative. I've just set out a few potatoes for chitting for my first ever "container" season. Just a few leftover spuds from Lidl.
I am so glad to see you demonstrate how easy this method may be as I am thinking of growing potatoes in big pots for the first time and was a little nervous but not anymore.
I grew sweet potatoes from plants purchased in Wal-Mart last year I put them in an oil change pan/container I harvested 66 delicious potatoes! This year I'm using the shoots from those potatoes to grow new ones inside two tires!
I grew Ratte 2nd earlies -Yum - in containers last year. Neighbours were delighted to receive the surplus. I kept some with some of the compost around them in a cardboard box in the dark and they were fine weeks later (and hadn't sprouted). I'm growing Ratte again this year and trying Arran Pilot 1st earlies. The spuds started worryingly slowly this cold spring and then salt-laden gales in my seaside town battered the foliage but it's recovered. Unlike the runner beans, which were shredded.
Potatoes are best stored in a cool, dry and frost-free place. Keep them in the dark and make sure they are kept in well-ventilated boxes or potato storage sacks made from burlap/hessian. Maincrop varieties of potato noted for their keeping qualities should last for at least two months, possibly longer.
I've grown in homemade chicken wire towers for almost a decade. No digging, no earthing and, once harvested, the soil and straw from the towers are spread on the garden and recycled.
Sorry I pressed send before finished, I just kind of popped them in a full trough of soil I had spare but I did top up new stuff from my new grow bags. My 1st ones were white potatoes, ones we usually get from Asda. My daughter got some red rooster ones and she left some in a bag they had used and this time I've done it through your video so thanks for the stuff I didn't do in 1st place but hopefully they should be okay. I've subscribed because I want to grow some veg and fruit 😁
Very informative video. Couple of questions though. 1. What soil type is best recommended for growing sack potatoes? 2. Will it grow in any kind of weather? 3. Can it be grown all year round or is there a season for it? 4. Can one use organic fertilizer (chicken/cow dung) and at what stages? 5. How many weeks/months after planting should I except to start harvesting? Sorry I know I said a couple questions 😃
In answer to your questions Emmanuel: 1. You can use any potting mix, or a mixture of garden compost and garden soil. But lighter, all-purpose potting mix is best. 2. Potatoes will be killed by the frost, so as long as you can avoid frosty conditions they should grow. They prefer it warm, but not very hot - particularly potatoes in sacks. 3. Best to plant in the spring, as the weather is warming up, with a view to harvesting in the summer. In some climates potatoes are also planted later in summer for a crop in mid autumn - so long as frosts can be avoided. 4. You can use organic fertiliser. Best applied very lightly as you add the potting mix. Not essential though. 5. Anywhere from 10 weeks to 20 weeks, depending on what type of potato you are growing.
