Potato Container Gardening 

 

On the Patio, in the Door Yard, even in the garden you can place.....

 

Container Garden Potatoes - why - less pests and get this when your potatoes are ready to harvest turn the planter upside down empty and sort. Much easier than in the garden and the fear that you might cut into or loose one of those fresh potatoes to the shovel is now gone.

 

When using potatoes from the grocery store as spuds, try to stay away from baking potatoes, they often times have chemicals added to them ( i dont know why) but these chemicals may or may not cause them to germinate properly.

 

You can help speed the process of the potato sprouting by putting in a paper bag, leaving in a cool room, out of the direct sun light; or you could quarter them making sure each piece has a couple of eyes.

 

Fill your container about a 1/3 of the way with soil, add spuds and add a little less than a 1/3 more soil to the pot, the soil should be workable not compact and hard to work, consistency of peat moss.

 

Once the seedlings are 6" high cover them with some more soil, you can experiment with substituting materials other than soil for the add-on layers. Try sawdust, clean straw or mulch, or even shredded newspaper. Covering the seedlings forces them to send out underground shoots, causing more potatoes to develop.

Repeat this process until your container is full, keeping the soil moist all the while. Once the final layer of green growth has begun to yellow, your potatoes should be ready to harvest. Dump your container!