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Bucket Potatoes

Posted by chezmonmi 5 (My Page) on
Wed, Apr 1, 09 at 16:14

Hello to Everyone..

I thought I could cut the bottom out of plastic buckets, or maybe just drill drain holes, plant potatoes, cover with some soil, and keep adding soil as the plants grow until the bucket is full, and then just wait to harvest.
Any thoughts?
(oh boy, I hope someone knows if this would work)
Thanks so much!


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RE: Bucket Potatoes

Hi Chezmonmi, I'd recommend that you perform a search on this topic using a search engine like Google. I did so and got a ton of hits on articles about growing potatoes in containers. Lots of great info in each article that came up on that search. Below is a link to one of the articles I found.

How big are the buckets you are considering using? Sounds like the authors of the articles I found are suggesting that large containers are a good way to go - one of the articles suggested that plastic garbage cans can be used with good success.

Hope this is a little help.

Here is a link that might be useful: Potatoes a good fit for containers


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RE: Bucket Potatoes

I am using a plastic garbage can that has holes drilled in the sides and bottom cut out. It was previously used as a compost bin. I plan to add more soil, old leaves and compost in layers as the plant grows. This is the first time I've tried to grow potatoes... but they are always sprouting in my compost pile.

There is also info on YouTube about this. It's generally called No Dig Potato growing.


 
 

 

 


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