I have been really into the aspect of growing potatoes in buckets for multiple reasons: For one it seems cheap enough; Secondly the nature of being able to have buckets as a mobilized garden could be great in so many areas. Don’t have the time or energy to cultivate your soil? Bucket. Live in the city surrounded by pavement? Bucket. Are you a renter who can’t grow plants or you don’t even know if you can live there next month, so investing in gardening would be pointless? Bucket. Ever accidentally killed a prominent figure, so you spend your life on the run, moving from country to country never knowing the simple life you once lived but still want to follow your childhood dream of gardening? Bucket.
It seems to be that for one pound of potatoes, you’ll get 7 lbs back. It being a root plant, watch its moisture. Cut a chived(?) potato in half and put charcoal on the wound so it doesn’t rot. What’s y’alls take on this.
There is a series on Youtube completely explaining how to do it. It’s what made me want to get into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThePQs6kDpo <-- Here is part one.
I’ve seen people get great results with potatoes in buckets. What kind of potatoes are you looking at for growing?
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The only thing that needs to be added, is each variety of potato will require a different minimum size of bucket.
For most varieties, you’re looking for about 7 inches as your planting depth, the rule of thumb is to always have the same distance of soil under the potato too, so it can grow downwards unimpeded. 5gal buckets could work for smaller varieties. But if you want to plant larger varieties - which would be more logical for smaller growing plots, as you get more food from less land - you’ll have to get a bigger growing vessel. The large growing pots might work, but failing that the large metal buckets meant for watering livestock would work great, or really any large container. You could probably get away with using those storage totes you’d use for long term storage of bulk goods.
Dude isn’t it incredible how the universe works, on the same day of posting this I found a food graded bucket that someone left outside! So with it being a root plant can you keep it inside in the windows to grow it year long? It is spring time for me in the Midwest so I’m not too worried now, just curious.
as long as you have water and light, you can grow just about anything.
We had great success with potatoes in bags and in planter boxes.
I just took old store bought potatoes that happened to have growths on them and put em right in the soil.
And it did very well all things considered. Pics on Twitter somewhere…
