I grew 235 lbs Of Potatoes in 200 sq ft Without Watering
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- I grew 235 lbs Of Potatoes in 200 square foot Without Watering. I wanted to show how many potatoes you could grow in a space 20ft x 10ft or 200 square foot. This was to show that most people can grow all the potatoes they require for their family without it taking over the entire garden.
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However, This year I became ill with vertigo and was unable to get to the garden to water these potatoes. They were watered at the time of planting and since this date has had to fend for themselves.
In this episode, we harvest all 48 containers of potatoes with five varieties of potatoes. The varieties are as follows:
Marfona
Rudolph
Sarpo Mira
Charlotte
Kestral
While harvesting these potatoes I will be giving you 10 tips in which to ensure you get a good crop of potatoes in a small space. The average yield from each of these buckets was 4.98 this is extremely low to my normal yield of around 12 to 15lbs. but considering they have no input I am happy.
If I had the yield I normally get then this space would have produced approximately 720 lbs of potatoes. Hopefully next year I will be able to show these results. But overall I think this is a result considering the circumstances.
During the video, I will be giving you loads of potato tips and potato hacks so that you can get the best results from growing potatoes in containers or buckets.
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Your knowledge took a long time to acquire, with a lot of trial and error. I sincerely thank you for your generosity in sharing your growing knowledge it’s priceless to us all. It’s good to see you looking better, Tony.
Thanks Lady Sarah. Yes it took a long time to perfect and still testing. Always happy to take you along with me :)
I think its quite easy going. I have had some luck. What are your issues
@@simplifygardening what kind of potato is that sir?
we dont have dat here in d philippines
Ditto.
Now a question: which kind of soil is that ?
This is why we need more people like you in this world, you have helped soo many souls with your content! You deserve the one million play button! ❤🎉
Love the video, not sure if @Simplify Gardening will see this comment, but you can add a 5th bucket to every 4 buckets you've placed, where you place the 4 in a 2x2 grid, with the 5th being stacked on the edges of the 4. I currently have mine stacked that way but I use the 5th bucket to hold items that grow along wire guides, like cucumbers, beans. or i'll plant okra since it grows vertically. . To increase harvest speed, you could put a screen on your wheel barrow that way the dirt will fall through leaving the tators on top and easily accessed.
This is the best potato container garden video I have seen. Thanks
Thank you. I appreciate that
I consider this channel to be the premier channel on how to successfully grow potatoes. Thank you Tony for all the help you've given the gardening community.
in the store they charge more for those tiny potatoes than the big ones
"Finger potatoes" market themselves fairly well. It's a potato you can throw into a stew without needing to chop it up.
@@ulyx9804 Feel like I read somewhere that they used to toss those/use them for compost etc, then realized the tiny bois they used to get rid could actually sell for more. Funny how that works hehe.
Those little ones oughta go well at the market!
They are higher in fiber and nutrients due to the extra "skin" proportions they have over the big boys
looks better on the dish I guess.
Love this channel! SO MUCH intelligent, clear, concise, warm-hearted, interesting information - and you didn't lengthen it out pointlessly with a bunch of silly chit-chat, but it's very enjoyable at the same time. Perfection!
Wow, thank you! I am very glad you are enjoying the content
As a former operations manager I fully appreciate thorough details of any process. Your detailing on this explanation has earned a like and a sub 👍🏼
Thank you and welcome to the channel
So ur saying potatoes grown under shed are better?
I would love to get a breakdown on cost of all the inputs. Financial and labor.
I have watched a bunch of gardening videos on potatoes and yours has been the best in explaining the process. Thank you for taking the time to help us part time gardeners! The details are fantastic.
Glad it was helpful!
That is an incredible harvest, Tony! Your tips are great and I will definitely follow your advice next year. Thanks!
Thanks Scott. Considering that these were not watered by me its a great harvest I wasnt expecting
Wow
That's a great harvest
@Jon O Yes they are fruit tree containers or large plant containers. I am trying to source them for the USA but there is a link for the UK in the description. No other country has asked of yet
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@@simplifygardening I've watched a couple of your videos and I think you used to COMPETE with the Potatoes or with Pumpkins or something didn't you? Also, what do you do with all those potatoes? Is it a Market Garden? I know of course you feed your family first but that's a lot of potatoes, lol!
Thank you, Tony
I've ordered ten 30L containers & used your discount code.
Now to look for one of your videos on what best to fill them with.
I'm really hopeful that this method will allow me to grow potatoes despite my disability, as digging is totally out of the question 👍🙂
Tony, I hope you're enjoying better health these days! You're an amazing gardener. Thanks for your vital contributions to the gardening community.
Thanks Milton
Sorry to hear you've been ill, Tony. You appear healthy and robust now, so I hope you're recovered and feeling well. Thanks for your expertise on these potatoes. Blown away by your results! Will re-watch your video when I'm ready to plant. Take care.
He said he wasn't going to harvest all of the containers. Just one.
Take another listen. That's not exactly what he said.
You are definitely the most thorough explanation on gardening projects. Thanks for a very clear, and humble tutorial every time.
Thank you so much I am glad you enjoy them
You get a lot of rain there. We had severe drought in 22 and freak frost and potato beetles. They like water. Too much and you get brown streaks inside. Black containers would have cooked and really dried out in my garden this year.
The best were the volunteers. Next year I will try planting an area in late fall. It seems the volunteer spuds knew what to do.
Best potato growing video I’ve listened to so far. Cannot get anything remotely like these bins here in Canada. They are perfect for the job. Thanks for the info.
Your presentation was straight to the point and filled with so many facts. You answered 3 of my questions.
1-Why hill in a container? You don't, that is done in the fields.
2-Should I use an extra tall container? Only to the height of 18" for indeterminate as no extra tuber growth beyond that.
3-Research your potato variety to establish how it will grow-is it determinate or indeterminate.
Plus extra points regarding the need to mulch the top and partially bury container beyond the drainage holes and also mulch the ground to retain water.
Loved it!
About 14 years ago, I had my hubby rototill the back yard to get ready to plant grass. I planted potatoes first but didn't get around to harvesting them. We have heavy clay soil, so I thought they were lost. We went out in the middle of winter and started digging them up and they were in great shape, hardly any rotted. I was amazed. We got quite a load of them too, but my husband loved potatoes so they got used.
That is awesome its amazing what they do
Potatoes are the best "first crop" for breaking ground!
What I do since I have heavy clay soil is dig down about sixteen inches then fill the hole half way with water after that first soak I plant potatoesat the bottom of that hole I don’t bother to loosen the soil beneath the hole because it grow up anyways next I sprinkle the dirt on in five inch layers adding nutrients and watering it down each time so as the plant grows up it can feed along the way because I only supply them with organic nutrients one time and that’s the day I plant them they have to fend for themselves after that so I only worry about watering them I usually get softballs or bigger it’s crazy never had I seen a potato so big until I grew my own for the first time
I have watched TONS of potato videos, and this one is by far the very best I have come across! You have a new SUBSCRIBER!!!
😊🌱🥔
Potato farming and farming in general is so amazing too me. The ability to create a sustainable food source out of almost nothing is incredible and excites something inside of me lol, great video I love this.
Your right its definitely a skill worth learning. Especially in this day and age with everything going on
It's your blood calling out to you for a return of the old days I feel the same sort of excitement when I sow, care, and reap my plants come to find out my family's bloodline have been farmers and stewards of the land for well over 8 generations so maybe that's why you feel the way you do! Haha or It could just be some crazy coincidence
@@furrycircuitry2378 I think most other people have family bloodlines of farmers EXCEPT for the last 8 (more like 4) generations lol. We are still inherently hunters, fishers, gatherers, herders and gardeners, all of us.
@@oscarstenberg2745 absolutely.
@@oscarstenberg2745 And thank goddness for that. Being able to feed yourself is a skill everyone needs to have.
Best potato container garden video so far . Thanks for that and congratulations on such a bounty !
I think that you have just had the biggest container potato harvest I’ve ever seen! I learned quite a bit from this video and it’s now on my favorite list. I can’t wait to do this next year! Thank you!
Oh thats awesome barbara. Check out the pinned comment for another video that will help you
You are right, that was an EPIC harvest!
@@GutenGardening Thanks
We just started growing potatoes last year. After watching your videos I know we will do a lot better this year. thanks
That’s great and keep viewing and following for the tips and you will have an awesome crop
Tonio kneel's videos are one of the best informative gardening advice shows on the internet.
The tip of putting the bottom 1/5 in the ground or in wood chips is a great tip -- to wick back up any extra moisture. I definitely will try that next spring!
Tony you never cease to amaze me, the amount of effort and work you are prepared to put in, which you are willing to share with complete strangers, simply for the joy of sharing. No financial gains all free compliments of Tony. I hope anyone visiting Simplified Gardening will appreciate your efforts to educate us all, at least as much as I do. All the best Tony and once again Thankyou.
Wow, thank you Carol. I really appreciate the fact you realise the amount of work and effort that goes into these videos :)
No financial gains ? What do you think the ad in the video is for ? Seriously ?
@@adrienperie6119 I love your comment
@@adrienperie6119 why even comment?.petty.. jealous.. Be an adult
@@adrienperie6119 How do you think people can afford to produce these videos nowadays? People's time and energy is valuable. Along with the containers, seed potatoes, fertilizer, etc. The camera, computer, etc are very expensive. Any revenue earned helps make these videos possible for us to enjoy and learn from. Stop snipping. 🤫 🇺🇸
Hello here from US. I’ve tried to grow potatoes so many times in past years, no success. I watched your video which uses method to plant and cover them to top of container. Happy days they actually are coming up in the container. Fingers crossed I may actually have a harvest this year. Thanks for the tip.
Great info! Glad you are well now. Just a suggestion: being more gentle with your harvested potatoes will help prevent damage and rot to the skins. I learned a lot from this video today. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! :)
I'm so sorry to hear you have been unwell. Glad you're back on your feet and giving your usual excellent growing tips.
I’ve watched this one several times I just love it. I’ve been getting massive results from mine in buckets and doing them year round now.. looking so fwd to turning out my other buckets and seeing my in ground crop this year 😊I love your channel so well done and fun
Thanks and glad it’s working so well for you
What do you do with all of those pounds of potatoes..?? Do you can them or do they rot? Or do you sell them ..? I can let mine go for the winter and I guess they keep growing because the next year I can still root around in the dirt and find more.. it’s amazing..!!
I use raised beds... I used your method of protection from the wind. 18" I built a 4" wire cover and spuds grew right through as expected. Wind is always a problem. I then put another layer of 4" string trestle at 30" and they are now about 44" tall and or the past 3 days we have had crazy winds in Michigan. The protection worked beyond expectations.... I planted 94 potatoes and nothing fell over... Thanks for the great TIP. This is my 3rd year of growing potatoes. I use to tie em' up with string and stakes ... This took a little fun work. I use 1"x2" 8' rom HD. attaches easily to the sides of the beds...
Great video Tony. Truly a masterclass in container gardening for potatoes.
Thanks matey, glad you enjoyed the video.
@@simplifygardening absolutely incredible
@@fullofhope2222 Thanks glad you enjoyed the video
@@simplifygardening To be honest that is not too much potatoes on such a big area. We don't grow them in containers, but we are able to grow over 2500 lbs on hectar without watering and in 512 altitude.
@@bonnet1810 If i had watered it should have yielded 750lbs
i fell in love with potatoes because of this video... never knew about that Sarpo Mira strain!! amazing shapes
Looking forward to applying your techniques to my garden this year thank you so much...we live in Savannah Ga and sommers are quite HOT HERE WE WILL SEE...Glad to hear you are on the mend,stay blessed
Just keep them moist and they will be fine
@@simplifygardening is there a best time to plant? We are in Florida. Stay well
I hope you are feeling so much better by now. Thank you for sharing! 💗🙏🌺
Im breaking the issues thanks. check out todays video on potatoes I think you will enjoy it. th-cam.com/video/L1rf1FXtI9s/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for taking the time and sharing this with us! ill be using your knowledge in my next planting season!!!
Let me know how it goes
Great video Tony and so educational. Thanks very much.
I hope that you are feeling much better.
All the best
Michael
You did an amazing job Tony ! Thank you to share your tips with us :)
I like the "wire mesh on sticks" trick. This should also work for other plants and tying plants to poles is tedious. I'm tempted to try it with wire fence segments.
I think i want to try that in my greenhouse instead of cages
Cattle fence panels are awesome to use.
This is the video I've been looking for! Everything I need to know for huge potato yields, thank you!!!
I just finished watching an entire 20min video on growing potatoes. And it was awesome. It was informative and entertaining. Thanks loads. I'm gonna give this a go!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I honestly didn't know you weren't doing great. I hope you've gotten well enough to feel mostly "like yourself" or that you will get well soon. I know people can look quite lively when they're actually quite ill, hence why I say all that.
Im good now, thanks for your comment. the vertigo completely sorted
A tour de force here, I'll be coming back to this many times as I slowly get next years ideas together. Glad I found this method of yours!
Perfect, be sure to check out my newest video as ive improved this system a little since
Wow. That’s amazing! Thank you so much for all the tips. I’m sorry about your greenhouse and that you’d been ill. Glad you are feeling better!
Thanks, but things are just challenges and setbacks, as long as you dont quit you will move past anything undesirable
Thank you so much for these gardening videos. I live in East Tennessee - USA and I will definitely incorporate your suggestions into my garden next year.
Wonderful I am sure they will do well for you. be great to here your results next year
Also in East TN. I love gardening but my potato growing ability is pathetic. I'm trying to learn.
The information in this video is unparalleled. Thank you
Thanks man appreciate that
Unbelievable!
AGRICULTURE and simpler!
Fantastic@
Thank you for all the help
your welcome
Amazing! Glad you're feeling better.
Brilliant video , thank you very much for sharing . I'm new to gardening and am really trying to learn as much as I can , this video was a huge help ! I'm glad your feeling better , thanks again
Brilliant ideas. I already decided that for the first time this year, I'd experiment with growing in pots. And the wire to get the vines out of the way is brilliant. The only thing is, I'm growing from slips. What I will try to do is, for my determinant sweet potatoes, I'll plant my longer slips further in the ground and my shorter slips, I'll plant closer to the surface. Let's see if that works.
Deer ate my sweet potatoes. Some in U.S. keep piling dirt up on potatoes to cover the green part of plants. His are all bushy in spots. I have never grown potato's before but trying 2 buckets. I need help
thanks. check out todays video on potatoes I think you will enjoy it. th-cam.com/video/L1rf1FXtI9s/w-d-xo.html
hope they do well for you. check out todays video on potatoes I think you will enjoy it. th-cam.com/video/L1rf1FXtI9s/w-d-xo.html
Your video just popped in my feed! That's an amazing harvest!
Watching this video empowers me to grow more potatoes this year. Last year was the 1st year I ever grew potatoes. The results were okay, but with you as my potato mentor, I plan to grow more this year & look forward to a better yield. Thanks Tony!!!! I've looked & looked for these containers online & do not find them here in the USA. Do you or anybody else have a source here in the USA?
I'm glad you're feeling better! Thank you for the video.
Thanks Joyce. Much better thanks
The cattle panel top is brilliant! I will be implementing that little gem this season 😊
Glad you found it usefull
@@simplifygardening me too on the cattle panel because mine grew so high and fell over I added more tubs and hilled them this idea of the cattle panel is a super fix, And a sincere thank you for the fascinating video. Hope you are doing well.
For not being watered due to health it is a great harvest! Plenty of food for you and your family!😀
AWSOME job Tony I love the reveal of your potato’s ... your videos are some of the best on TH-cam ... I am really glad your feeling better.., I have grown some potatoes this year had similar results with the mulching top of containers. As I have not watered mine due to some things out of my control .., I would love to pop down to see your garden in person 👍🏼
I am sure it can be arranged one day. :)
This man knows what he’s talking about, brilliant video 👍🏼👌
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP 🙏 We hope you are well again 🙏 God Bless You 🙏
Thank you too
Number one cause of potato failure in my part of the world is too much water, between heavy spring rains (a couple weeks ago we got about 13cm in 24hrs), hurricane season in late summer and clay soil that just doesn't drain. So, my experience has been that if I water my potatoes then I've rotted them. It's really fascinating to hear that people in other places have the opposite issue.
Hi Tony,
That looks like a pretty good haul! It is much better than I did in my 10 gallon grow bags this year. And thank you for the excellent growing tips! I got most of it right but obviously there is always room for improvement. The biggest difference is that my grow bags were on concrete and we had no rain at all for 4 months and continuous hot weather. Watering every day was necessary even though I had several inches of straw mulch on top. I suspect that my biggest issue was the seed potatoes that came from the grocery store due to lack of availability of actual seed potatoes.
Take care and all the best from California :)
Yeah they were prob sprayed with a sprouting inhibitor so this may have affected your crop
@@simplifygardening my thoughts exactly. However they did have a few sprouts when I put them in the ground. Not sure if the inhibitor slows versus stops growth.
I am recovering from a surgery right now and it is heartbreaking to watch my beautiful garden fall apart. I hope I can heal quickly enough to get back out there and salvage what I can. I empathize with you 100% when it comes to not being physically able to tend my garden.
Be well and all the best from California 💛
Amazing! Definitely using your method next year! We started really late (just got into gardening during lockdown like so many others) and although we got a nice amount of potatoes the later ones have been hit with blight :(
Yay! I think I just found my new favorite gardening channel. Thank you!
Awesome Tifany. Great to have you. Welcome to my channel
So glad you are feeling better and back in the garden! I am excited to try to grow potatoes this way! Thanks so much. 🙂
You are so welcome! Hope you get a great crop Lisa, Thanks for the welcome back
I’m in awe that is amazing I thought I did well this year with 15kg all I can say is wow and fair play to you I will try this thanks for this video
You can do it! Its a great way to grow potatoes
Really interesting video, answered loads of my questions. My first time growing potatoes this year, I had four supermarket potatoes that had grown sprouts so I planted them in a bucket about as big as yours. I covered the tops as they grew through as you would in a row and they grew very quickly. No mulching. I didn't get many flowers at all but the tops wilted which is when I harvested. I only got about 6 pounds of potatoes, all small with thin skins so I used them like new potatoes. They were nice but a bit floury compared to shop bought spuds. So I did everything wrong apart from the size of the bucket! I was pleased to get anything at all but I'm now informed for next year. Thanks for all the information. Sorry to hear you'd been ill for so long, hope you're fully recovered now.
Hi Pegs i have a very detailed video as the top comment here check that out it will answer any other questions that may arrise. Its great that you grew them. Hopefully next year you will get a great crop
Absolutely brilliant video and information. Thank you! I have been rotating crops in my garden, however I feel that the whole lot seems to revolve too much around potatoes, and how after them, the soil needing to have nutrients replenished. So I think I will try to grow the potatoes using your method. Question: What do you now do with all the soil? Do you reuse it the following year with new added compost and continue like this for a number of years? Could you share your post harvest soil process leading up to the following season? Thank you.
Thanks for all the work you've done. You have made a difference
Thats amazing, i just wish you showed us step by step how you fill the bucket. Definitely next year will try to plant some potatoes the way you did it. 😊
This is brilliant! Glad to see you’re ok and well. Wow! Because I’m on my own, two buckets of these potato’s would last me all year 😀 I’m not able to dig, so this method will be great for me. Thank you so much for all the information. ❤️
You can do it! buckets are easy to sow and harvest and next year reuse the compost so cheap too
This video is packed with information from the beginning to the end. To the point without wasting time. Wow, very well done. THANK YOU.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Joyce
It’s two years ago, so you may not see this. But I have to tell you THANK YOU!
I only had 5 big containers to use so I also used two raised beds.
My containers were better yielding and so much easier to harvest.
Never again will I grow potatoes any other way!
You are appreciated!
Many blessings!
Thank you sooo much Tony. Great advise and I never knew about Determinate and Indeterminate potatoes before, but now feel much better prepared for this years potato growing. Thank you for all the information given. Best wishes.
You are so welcome!
I am so impressed! Thank you so much for your hard work, effort and experimentation! Your love of gardening shows through and its very admirable!
Thank you so much. This is my first year growing potatoes.
Sincere thanks for sharing your precious knowledge with strangers! I have never had success with containers and have stuck with the traditional 'trench and hill' method for the last 50 years but you have opened my eyes and I will follow your advice in future. Here's wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2022.
Cheers Jonathan for your kind comment, Good luck
That would be easier for me to put them in buckets due to my health u are a very wise lad 😊
Much easier for mobility issues
So impressed with the amount you got considering. Glad to hear your feeling better.
Shirley its amazing considering what happened this year
Sorry to hear you fell ill, I am glad you are OK now. What a harvest, buckets for the win! :)
Thanks for the comment and well wishes :)
Fabulous video! I started and stopped to take notes! Thank you so much! I hope you are completely well now!
I have plenty based around potatoes Terri
“I’m not going to show you the harvest of all these…” proceeds to show harvest of all pots
So happy to see you, i hope your back to full health. Love from Ireland 🌿🙏
Potatoes didn't do well here this year
The weather has been strange this year but hopefully next year will be better
@@sandhills2344 :)
Hope you are well!! Thank you for sharing.
Tony, I'd love to follow you around your garden for a week! You are amazing!
First class Tony, I've learnt sooo! much form this film for next season.
Just had to subscribe and look forward to checking out the rest of your'e films.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have so many videos covering growing food. dog around new videos each week. Thanks for taking the time to comment and welcome to the channel
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I have been growing supermarket bought spuds that started sprouting. I think they are determinates. Without much care, just putting them in the soil i have been able to get about 1 kilo per plant.
I did one spud in a 25 liter container and fed that with 5-10-10. That gave me a couple pretty big ones. Almost 3 kg i think. That method i learned from yr channel
Next season i ll do a more serious attempt of growing more potatoes.
Sorry abt the state of yr garden. I hope you are fully recovered
Yes Ed much better thanks. Its a great way to grow potatoes
I'm going to see if I can get away with this on our balcony without getting a fine/cited.
@@jessshnarcky1089 a fine for growing plants on your balcony??
@@Ed19601 If you live where there's a Home Owner's Association, they have a lot of restrictions. They control what you can do on the outside of your condo or townhouse.
@@gb9276 fortunately i do not Home owner's associations can be a pain in the behind. .
So much information dropped here. Thank you!
Wow, that's a lot of information. I'm going to have to listen again and take notes! Thank you! I hope you have fully recovered from whatever ailed you.
Absolutely fantastic advice and tips, although I'd suggest the "no watering" in Australia might result in a bucket of sand as there must clearly be a great deal more precipitation over in your part of the world! Great video though, any thoughts on growing them in an aquaponics setup? Or is it simpler just sticking with buckets? Cheers for sharing, have a great day!
I'm always tickled by these British gardeners bragging about their "no watering" gardens like they're the only place in the world where you could be gardening.
Was thinking the same thing here haha, I live in the LA area
I have used a closed water current system to help grow our Tomatoes and Marijuana. My mentor bought 5 totes, cut holes for pvc piping to fit, connect all the totes, and have a current generator hooked up to circulate the water. He also had a water chiller to control temp, and used airstones to increase oxygen content. It really was a solid system for our needs.
@@willgegg8601 He was not bragging. He said that he was sick and unable to water them. He also said that he was afraid the potatoes didn't do well. And he was surprised that they produced that much with no hand watering. Gheez! 🙄🇺🇸
That's a great idea!
Folks, Check out my newest video on potatoes right here th-cam.com/video/L1rf1FXtI9s/w-d-xo.html
That's so GREAT! That's amazing that you got so much even though you could not help them at all after you planted them! That is a GREAT testimonial for your advice on planting, planting containers, and mulching. WOW! I'm so happy that they kept on going in their snuggly little containers for you so you could enjoy the harvest now that you are feeling better.
@@RoseThistleArtworks Thanks Rose. It just goes to show preparation is paramount
Are you able to reuse that would from your pails or is it zapped?
@@coreym846 Yes and is the topic of next weeks video
We be been supporting our potato tops this was for 4 seasons now...works awesome. Can also use U posts and cut flower netting vs cattle panels...easier to transport. We actually support our tomatillos, determinate tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and onion tops (to keep them from blowing over in a storm) with this same set up... love your tips, we grow our potatoes the same way after watching one of your videos 3-4 years ago...
Yes you can! I also going to build something this year more substantial i wanted to just test the theory first
Thanks for the comprehensive info. Glad you look recovered now. The only potato we have in common is Charlotte, so a bit disappointed you only had 6.36kg of those! Hopefully my Kerrs pink will do better. Guessing you're in Wales, over here in East Anglia we haven't had any rain yet this spring
This is amazing the final success you have had. Thank you so much, I’m learning things that will help me in my next growing season. I have planted potatoes in bags this year, beautiful green foliage then a storm with high winds came through and two of my plants were all bowed over and so disappointing. I will use your technique using the cattle wire next year. Hope you are well, thanks again for your advice. Happy gardening, 😊.
Lois check out tonights video which is a garden walk around you will see just how well that holds up the foliage and the storms we have had been crazy
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This is my first time seeing one of your videos and I'm immediately subscribing! This was incredibly informative and educational, thanks a lot :)
Awesome! Thank you! Welcome to the channel Jasper
Me too. I am now going to try this myself.
I've planted veg before, with limited success, I came across Tony last year, I've worked hard to renovate my house and earn the money to do it, now her indoors is fairly happy, I can have a veg plot, still a mountain to climb for my raised beds etc, but I can do what Tony is doing in pots, I love Tony's videos and can't thank him enough, mid way through January now, orders are going in for seed, tubs, compost feed etc, I'm actually excited and looking forward to the challenge, I've never been this excited since my kids were born and that's the truth, thank you Tony for reigniting my fire 👍😉
Alan Thank you so much. dont forget to check out yesterdays video where I go over what seed and how many to use
Grateful for your patience, shared knowledge and sacrifice.
Great stuff Tony! Glad you showed how to gouge out the eyes to get larger spuds. Many "creators" (word used loosely) state "rub off the eyes" which as we all know is a waste of time as they grow back!!
Yes Steve it has to be gorged out or its a waste of time mate. Glad you picked up on it. Little things put in to provide information and its all programmed matey. I might not mention it, but a picture speaks a thousand words pal
I've been growing on my allotment for over 12 years now and normally grow potatoes in the ground the old traditional way. I'm well up for trying new ways so I'm going to order some tubs and give it a go. Just 1 question do you use the same compost for 2 years or do you have new each season. Cheers for the video the tip on pelleted chicken manure has helped no end as I normally use plenty round my spuds, and always get great tops but like you say loads of rain and wind damage. 👍👍
Wow! Amazing Knowledge shared here!! Thank you so much for sharing ❤
Wow, great video. Thank you for the wonderful guide on growing potatoes. I will be using this method!