Planting Potatoes in Boxes and the Results 

One thing is for sure - you are persistent! Love that part of your personality AND it's partners, positivity and joy. Wouldn't be much good without the other two AND you sure encourage me to keep going with the partners. I needed that - thanks.

This was interesting to watch. I've never seen anyone do the chicken wire around the boxes - you worked so hard to prepare those, and deserved a huge harvest! Isn't it puzzling how some people can get such huge potato harvests and some don't? I have one 14-gal tub of potatoes growing that I planted in mid-Jan from store-bought that had grown eyes, and I turned into10 chits and planted thinking they wouldn't do anything. They grew green tops like crazy, which I've hilled twice. We'll see how they do... I hope your new plantings grow in great abundance!

I just watched a guy that grew potatoes in black trash bags and he planted 4 per bag and had them at 2 different levels like a X top left & bottom right at the lowest level about 8 inches down then bottom left & top right just 2 inches from the top.

You had a lot (!) of pill bugs in your boxes. If you watch some of the English potato growers they use containers too, but large hard surfaced ones that can hold a lot more dirt. I bet your potato experiences can only get better!😊

I plant mine very similar to the way you plant yours in the box, but I use 10 gallon grow bags. I am wondering if I need to not cover them up as they grow. Instead fill my grow bag all the way up and dig deep down to plant the potato. Celebrating Appalachia youtube channel plants this way and has good results.

Maybe something got in and ate them, or some of your seed potatos were no good? Oh, poor drainage is a big problem :(. I hope you try again, this time with drainage holes :). Good luck kudos for the experiment 🎉

Why not just form a basket or tube of chicken wire, line w straw to keep soil in & plant in them? Have seen many do that.

The straw kept them to moist which caused the rotting. The straw on the top would have been fine.

Penny I was so sad to see your "harvest". Perhaps we should just plant what grows well in our area. Here in Alberta, Canada our rich black soil grows potatoes, carrots and grains like crazy. Sweet potatoes, winter squash do poorly here because we do not have the length of growing season. We also grow potatoes in reusable grocery bags. Just fill with rich black top soil, plant about 6-8 inches deep and water if you are not getting rain. Place the bags in a sunny or semi sunny location. No straw. Interested to see how you do this year. Blessings.

Do you ever eat the sweet potatoe leaves?