Hello everyone....
Second post of three for today.
Like most people who have a decent size veg patch, I grow potatoes. In the ground. Which requires digging a trench, setting in the seed potatoes and then repeatedly hilling them up as they grow since that is where the spuds form. The more you can hill them up and keep them covered, the more spuds you will get.
And of course they must stay covered to prevent them going green as then you cannot eat them.
Last year I happened to watch a Youtube video from England about growing potatoes in pots. Now, this chap was doing it because of lack of space. I began to think about growing that way because of convenience.
So this year, I purchased several different varieties of seed potatoes. Some I planted the conventional way as described above and I also planted a couple pots of each kind as well. I wanted to compare the results.
I just used pots that I had leftover from when I had purchased plants. Some were a fairly decent size and others were smaller. I put one or two seed potatoes in the smaller pots and up to three in the couple of really large pots. You simply needed to put a couple inches of garden loam in the bottom and snuggle in the potatoes and cover with an inch of soil. Water and leave them to grow.
And grow they did. The really easy part is that you simply grab a few handfuls of soil and just keep topping up the pots as the plants grow larger. When you reach the top of the pot you stop and just leave them to continue growing.
I will do an in depth post about this next year but for now I wanted to share what I got this year.
This is the harvest from a single pot which is about 14"or 16" in diameter. These are Irish Cobb potatoes. I dumped out the pot, gathered up the spuds and then weighed them.
Have a look. 5 pounds and 15 ounces of potatoes from a single pot! And that is one of the smaller pots. I cannot wait to see what I get from the big pots. :)
Thanks for stopping by. Will be back with one more post shortly.
Cheers, Melanie
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