Nothing is better than a potato just harvested. I won't even eat grocery store potatoes anymore. The difference is amazing. I only buy them from the store to plant. What amazes me most is what they produce. A totally different flavorful sweet moist delicious potato that I use way less butter on. I encourage everyone to grow potatoes. You'll never regret it.
I suspect this is because of better soil. I like to make fresh compost to use for potatoes the following year. I'm about to plant red and purple potatoes.
@@Soul_Contract You can grow them in the ground or in pots, even in 5 gallon buckets. I harvest more from my planter pots than the ground which I attribute to better soil in the pots. Between seasons I add banana peels to the soil for the potassium which potatoes use a lot of to grow. The banana peels break down quickly and nourish the soil.
I used to think that growing potatoes was a waste of time and money compared to just buying them. The first year I planted a few for fun and was amazed by the yield compared to the cost of planting. Plus, storing for the winter is awesome!
@@paularobinson9354 My 70 yo sister asked, “what vegetable is this?” I was flummoxed. “Something very exotic. They call it potato.” It was so fresh, that she didn’t even recognize it! Yummy!
If I can suggest, I place a trimmed galvanized metal screen under the box. In the south we have problems with moles/voles that will eat your potato plant root balls. This doesn’t bother the plants roots, but will keep those lil buggers out.
I followed Mark’s instructions for planting potatoes in boxes a few years ago and it was great. Quick and easy at planting and at harvest. The boxes held up fine for one growing season. I did a different experiment last year and this year I’ve returned to the cardboard boxes again
Thanks for the update Mark! I use this method, too. One of the bonus features is that you need no tools to harvest - so you don't accidentally hits the taters with a fork or shovel, damaging them for storage. Flip the container over (or tear the cardboard off) and there the spuds are!
@@I.Am.Nobody They don't if the box isn't to big . The large boxes need a stake or two on the outsides. I did boxes the size he showed also a large box my lawn mower came in and it needed staked on the sides, I planted 8 potatoes in it. 😄 I used sugar cane straw in my boxes. It's so easy to harvest the potatoes, as I harvest I put the used sugar cane mulch from on top of the potatoes around my fruit trees and shrubs so no waste.😀 I'll be doing the same this next season as well.
The Pandemic gave me a collection of boxes. I wanted to plant potatoes in the front corner of my yard because my backyard is full, but the homeless people love to steal everything not nailed down. When I saw this video I realized it was a great idea because no one would want a cardboard box full if dirt with a weed looking plant growing in it...I'm hoping. I'm going to try just one box to see how long it will survive. And no...I don't have a front yard fence. Yes, I live in a high variety of foot traffic because I'm on a corner lot across from the city's main downtown park. This is only a test, but if it works I hope to start planting cherry tomatoes in a box for the school kids to pick. PLUS, I have the school bus stop on the side of my house which runs twice a day. Wish me luck everyone because I'm a granny who loves to grow vegetables to share.
@@jeanninehammond3775 Where did she say she "Loves to share"! DUH !! And sometimes they're not the most in need, they're just the laziest or most criminal
@@jeanninehammond3775would you want to work on a bunch of food bearing plants, because you love to share what you grow, only to have one or two a-holes take every last one of 'em? Doesn't matter if they're homeless or just greedy strangers with sticky fingers. They take "everything that isn't nailed down." Unless she's living in a city like Orlando (where they make living homeless impossible because Disney) there are plenty of places for the unhoused to go for food. I've volunteered at the local food pantry. Nobody should be swiping whole boxes of potatoes or anything else.
I found the benefit of planting my garden under my bird feeders, I have several. Not only does my garden do well, so do the birds. They keep the pests off my plants ❤️🇺🇸
I was literally watching this while wandering around my property searching for a good spot and read your comment! Thanks for sharing your wisdom 🥔 🐛 🐦 🏠
I go to appliance stores that take back old refrigerators when they deliver the new ones.There going to the scrap dealer and they dont want the hard plastic containers so I get all I can handle also the glass shelves that are tempered I make cold frames .
I used the cloth bags you can buy at the grocery stores for a dollar or two. Much cheaper than grow bags. I will use cardboard this year. Once I had a broken down plastic laundry basket. I lined it with cardboard. Not a problem.
Thanks for this video. I use the cardboard containers too! This video has excellent instructions, and easy to follow with the why as well as the how! I started growing my own potatoes completely by accident after throwing a sprouting pantry spud into a flower planter. A couple months later, I was watering and noticed a big beautiful potato. I cooked it up, I was AMAZED how different and wonderful this fresh potato tasted! I've been growing my own ever since.
I used to believe that growing potatos means a lot of work , digging and knowhow....but if it can be this easy , i will try it 😃 Greetings from Germany .....
This is the best of all the videos I've seen on growing potatoes! Clear, concise, and excellent detail info! I can't wait to do this! New subscriber here, w/bell!
Best seem for me also. The street sweeper to away all the leaves two hours ago. All not lost I didn't set my blue trash tub out for pickup I have plenty stored in there and a few card board boxes also.
Unless the are organic bananas, banana boxes are full of pesticides. They spray the bananas before shipping them to North America as the bananas have spiders and insects and their eggs.
You never disappoint, Mark. This is a great project for the grandkiddos. Thanks for the tip about the size of the chits. I never heard that before. I did hear to use double corrugated cardboard for garden projects. Surely they are stronger. Will be fun to watch the progress. Many blessings to you and yours.
I just bought my first house in the burbs after living in high density inner city apartments for 20 years. I’m shocked at the price of raised beds, etc. But I have lots of boxes from the move and am going to try this! Thank you so much for making this video. The algorithm knows just what I needed. 😂
I LOVE this idea! I think it would be cool with my ocd brain to have uniform boxes lined up growing things! At end of the season it all goes in the ground and my no dig beds are ready to go for next year! How cool, going to try this on more than just potatoes! Thank you! :)
Excellent idea. I didn’t plant all my potatoes yet and happen to have some spare brown cardboard boxes and some extra space in the garden. Well worth giving it a try. 👍
I have grown tomato plants in cardboard boxes. I took some rope and wrapped it around the box two or three times to keep it sturdy since tomato plants need to be watered often, and it worked very well. Now, I will try potatoes. Thank you for this video and info!
Great idea! I‘ve already crop rotated potatoes through vegetable and flower beds in my small yard. This method gives me sooo many more places to practice crop rotation! Thank you!
I’m so trying this! The box will turn into compost. We take our plain boxes shred them and use them as compost in the gardens. Thank you for sharing your videos tips and info with us. So appreciated.
Hello Mark! This is my first time viewing your TH-cam videos and I wish I had found you sooner!!! I've wasted lots of money on contraptions, vertical gardening, special containers, gardening books, fertilizers, etc, which produced small yields and much disappointment for all the work. Your methods are simply and cost effective and I look forward to a bumper crop for everything I plant. Thanks and God bless!
Mark, great job and the only thing I would add is that I've been in a victory garden in DC for 25 years and nobody has ever used any kind of netting against potato beatles and nobody has ever encountered them. If I was a first-time potato gardener, I would try it without the netting and only use netting if it became a problem in your area.
great idea, I was thinking of using round containers but this is so much more practical and its easy to find boxes. I never heard of anyone growing potatos in a cardboard box,
Thanks for sharing this video! I garden too and I’m researching all the things I can grow in containers. I’m happy it led me to you channel. This is very helpful. Thanks for teaching me something new. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!
I just tried this and my potatoes are doing soooooo good! I am excited to see how many I get as compared to other ways I’ve tried growing them which did not yeild much. I’m impressed already so far and they are only about four weeks out so far. Thanks for the great info!
A similar method I've used for fun (especially useful if you only have a balcony or no yard): A 5-Gal pail! Throw a few inches of leaves/compost/whatever in the bottom, stab in your 'tater chunks, and as they grow just keep throwing soil/sand/leaves/compost on top. At the end of the season, you can just dump the pail and boom!
@@SimpleCleanAndGreen in my case, I live in a dry climate, so it wasn't a concern and worked out fine. However you may be on to something for most other folks trying that trick.
I did this last year and had such great success and good yield of potatoes that this is the only way I will grow them! I just got my new boxes in place for this growing season! So happy I found this video last year. 👍🏼👍🏼
This is my new goal this summer! Growing potatoes in a cardboard box! I grew some compost ones in the garden once by accident so that was fun. But this is intentional! Thanks for the explanation!
@@iamorganicgardening So very true! Exciting to watch things grow and then be able to eat what is grown is quite an experience worth sharing. Hopefully it is catchy to more and more in these costly times.
Great way to easily start a garden bed. I line up two rows of boxes. Put in soil and plants. Then put a garden edging around the boxes eg bricks or cement pieces. To suppress weeds I leave the bottom shut (taking off the tape) if I need too.
Great video Mark. I just watched your BTE video and you showed how we can change the condition of our soil. This is year three for me and I am interested in incorporating your practices. Much Thanks for caring to share & for your own follow up commentary Sir. Definitely going to do this with the potatoes. Do you do this method with sweet potatoes as well? Great gardening yields/harvest to you Sir!
Sweet potatoes are more sensitive than potatoes to the cold. Somewhat similar to tomatoes. Sweet potatoes grow from chits. So sweet potatoes are different. You can eat the tops like spinach and the roots grow sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are different than potatoes.
@@iamorganicgardening I made that mistake often. Sometimes they'd do fine and others I'd have to go back and push in ground. Then an old timer told me my mistake. And I live in potato planting country
*Hello, I'm growing potatoes for the First time this year & I totally agree the easiest thing I've grown so far. I'm learning as I grow. 😊😊😊* Sharon in SC
Great info Mark, 👍 we have planted 3 methods of them. The tub method made around 20 lbs. We have Rurh Stout planted, and raised bed tradional hilled. Will see which one does best.
@@iamorganicgardening How long roughly does it take from planting to harvest and how do you tell it is time to harvest, please? First time planting potatoes from "potato eyes" and hoping there is success at harvest time!
Loved the video! We have heavy clay soil in Southern Ohio, and I've had no luck with growing potatoes in years past but would love to try potatoes again...I know for sure I'll have to use a raised container of some sort.
I watched a YT video called the Ruth Stout method. It’s growing potatoes under a bed of straw! Many Gardner’s are using that method also. I also have heavy clay and rock. I’ve grown potatoes in 20 gallon plastic water buckets and old plastic totes! Lol
Much of my zone 9 soil was clay. The rest was hard as cement. About 7 years ago, I started composting directly into the soil. The holes were shallow at first, but I kept at it. Once I could feel that the soil was was healthier, I dug another hole nearby and started putting my compost in that hole. I kept at it and now a big portion of the soil is healthy. However, in the 2nd year of composting, A plant sprung up in the first hole I started. I thought it was a weed, but it turned out that I had a bunch of Potatoes ( from the compost!). They were delicious!
Omygoodness this is awesome I'm going to plant potatoes just like this!! I live in an apartment but I have a tiny deck and a little bit of a back yard, I can only grow in containers, thank you for for this video, I just subscribed.
What a great idea! Cardboard box to plant in. Wonder how other plants will do. When we were teens my friend & I planted peeings with eyes. Waited the season dug up the ground and we got loads of potatoes. Small ones but good tasting.
Thanks so.kuch for this video. I've tried potatoes in clay pots, plastic bins and the ground. The best after the ground. I will definitely use this method next year! I'm begging to have some physical limitations so the box will help keep them contained, easy to cover and easy to harvest. Great practical be suggestion😃
Thank you what a great video & I am going to try this here in Australia but probably will use Sugar Cane Mulch. I live in Sub-Tropical so my potatoes seem to stay small but we will try & see. Cheers Denise- Australia
We accidentally left a seed potato or two in a box of wood chips that we were storing them in. Threw it under a tree and never tended it when we noticed the leaves come up. We just shrugged and left it alone didn't even water it. ... It grew and out-produced the potatoes in the garden! and the harvesting couldn't have been easier, just picked it up and shook it off. We were amazed.
The size of the potato piece is absolutely irrelevant. We pull off the long sprouts from storage and plant those directly with no potato attached... and then chit the potatoes to cut and plant the traditional way. The planted raw sprouts do just fine with no yield/vigor/health difference from the second, still on the tuber succession. My Grandad used to tell me about how his dad would just cut the sprout off with no noticeable potato attached, plant the sprouts and turn the remaining spuds into potato soup for dinner for the family that whole week. Depression era food-hacks FTW.
Thank you. It's my understanding the sprout needs nourishment from the potato only until it's able to generate its own from roots in the soil and photosynthesis from the leaves. I had a lot of marble-sized leftover ones from last year and they all chitted so I planted them in cell trays and they're a foot tall and looking great. I've also planted a few chits that broke off and while they are not as big, they look good. Were your chits planted close to the surface? Since mine were small ~1" I put them just below the surface, the same with the marble-sized potatoes so they wouldn't have far to go to get light.
Yup. My dad saves the scraps for me when cooking. He usually saves about a nickel to a quarter sized piece around the eyes. I chit them indoors and plant them outside in bags.
I have never had luck with store bought potatoes 🥴. This year, I bought seed potatoes and MAN OH MAN! I can't wait to see what kind of harvest I get... So exciting😁
I have some wire & plastic milk crates I could line with a cardboard box, I'm thinking this could help with keeping the boxes shape. I know that is not the exact size mentioned, but close. would this be big enough? Also do I just keeping adding leaves or anything else as the potatoes grow? Excited to try this method thank you for this video 🥔 🌱
Thank you very much!! I Love the Taste of Freshly Dug 'Taters, they're absolutely 💯 Better!! And totally Different from the tasteless potatoes from the supermarket!! I'm going to do This with the cardboard boxes because I'm in the middle of moving house... My new place is patios and paving slabs and it's going to be a while before I get them shifted!! Thank You so Much Again!! 🙏❤
Hi Mark, great videos. Quick question. You have a video about cherry tomatoes. You were going to give them away or something? can I buy these seeds somewhere? Keep these great videos coming. I have a small yard but may try growing some potatoes after watching this one!
Just slice any tomatoe you want to grow, put slice in dirt. water it. will produce several tomatoe plants. Just cut a cherry in half, plant both halves,voila! Tomatoe plants.
I don't have a green thumb 🤣 Or am a hoarder!... and I just found an Excellent purpose for those cardboard boxes from my mom's medical supplies that I had saved. I just Knew they would come in useful ☺️ thanks 👋
Everyone has too many boxes now. 🙂What a great way to upcycle. Is there toxins in the cardboard? At the end of the season, work the cardboard into your garden or compost - excellent video
I have always cut in more then one piece, and I don't wait to dry key is amazing soil,never had a problem, and rotate potatoes each side of garden every year to slow down potato bugs..happy planting
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Enjoy nature, Happy gardening
Nothing is better than a potato just harvested. I won't even eat grocery store potatoes anymore. The difference is amazing. I only buy them from the store to plant. What amazes me most is what they produce. A totally different flavorful sweet moist delicious potato that I use way less butter on. I encourage everyone to grow potatoes. You'll never regret it.
I totally agree! YUMM. Thank You for sharing.
I suspect this is because of better soil. I like to make fresh compost to use for potatoes the following year. I'm about to plant red and purple potatoes.
You're right the grocery store potatoes are awful, even the organic ones. None of them have any flavor whatsoever.
This was a sign for me. All i think about is having a bunch of potatoes.
@@Soul_Contract You can grow them in the ground or in pots, even in 5 gallon buckets. I harvest more from my planter pots than the ground which I attribute to better soil in the pots. Between seasons I add banana peels to the soil for the potassium which potatoes use a lot of to grow. The banana peels break down quickly and nourish the soil.
I used to think that growing potatoes was a waste of time and money compared to just buying them. The first year I planted a few for fun and was amazed by the yield compared to the cost of planting. Plus, storing for the winter is awesome!
So Great to hear. THANK YOU for sharing your garden quest.
& home grown ones taste better!
@@paularobinson9354 My 70 yo sister asked, “what vegetable is this?”
I was flummoxed. “Something very exotic. They call it potato.” It was so fresh, that she didn’t even recognize it! Yummy!
The flavor of homegrown ones is amazing!
@@Seashell832 Yes, you can use a number of things, but the box here is free.
If I can suggest, I place a trimmed galvanized metal screen under the box. In the south we have problems with moles/voles that will eat your potato plant root balls. This doesn’t bother the plants roots, but will keep those lil buggers out.
THANK YOU for this great advice.
Ahhhhhh so THIS is why my harvest was sooooo disappointing. Loads of voles in my allotment.
Thanks for the tip! I always have a problem with keeping the cursed moles voles outta my garden. I'm in E Tn.
I followed Mark’s instructions for planting potatoes in boxes a few years ago and it was great. Quick and easy at planting and at harvest. The boxes held up fine for one growing season. I did a different experiment last year and this year I’ve returned to the cardboard boxes again
THANK YOU so very much for sharing your garden planting with everyone else. Happy gardening
Have you tried grow bags?
I have felt grow bags and they are great, inexpensive and reusable for years.
Thanks for the update Mark!
I use this method, too. One of the bonus features is that you need no tools to harvest - so you don't accidentally hits the taters with a fork or shovel, damaging them for storage. Flip the container over (or tear the cardboard off) and there the spuds are!
Very true! GREAT POINT. Thank you.
Thank you for a more simple method with hardly any soil, and leaves also wow! I will probably try this. God bless for sharing this.
Wow, awesome.👍🏼👍🏼
@@I.Am.Nobody They don't if the box isn't to big . The large boxes need a stake or two on the outsides. I did boxes the size he showed also a large box my lawn mower came in and it needed staked on the sides, I planted 8 potatoes in it. 😄 I used sugar cane straw in my boxes. It's so easy to harvest the potatoes, as I harvest I put the used sugar cane mulch from on top of the potatoes around my fruit trees and shrubs so no waste.😀 I'll be doing the same this next season as well.
And they are delicious!
The Pandemic gave me a collection of boxes. I wanted to plant potatoes in the front corner of my yard because my backyard is full, but the homeless people love to steal everything not nailed down. When I saw this video I realized it was a great idea because no one would want a cardboard box full if dirt with a weed looking plant growing in it...I'm hoping.
I'm going to try just one box to see how long it will survive. And no...I don't have a front yard fence. Yes, I live in a high variety of foot traffic because I'm on a corner lot across from the city's main downtown park. This is only a test, but if it works I hope to start planting cherry tomatoes in a box for the school kids to pick. PLUS, I have the school bus stop on the side of my house which runs twice a day. Wish me luck everyone because I'm a granny who loves to grow vegetables to share.
Then why try to hide them from the homeless if you "love to share"? They are the most in need.
@@jeanninehammond3775 Where did she say she "Loves to share"! DUH !! And sometimes they're not the most in need, they're just the laziest or most criminal
yes too much virtue signalling going on which is pure ego, look how helpful kind and compassionate I am is often an ego trip!@@shelleyrenee4889
@@jeanninehammond3775would you want to work on a bunch of food bearing plants, because you love to share what you grow, only to have one or two a-holes take every last one of 'em? Doesn't matter if they're homeless or just greedy strangers with sticky fingers. They take "everything that isn't nailed down."
Unless she's living in a city like Orlando (where they make living homeless impossible because Disney) there are plenty of places for the unhoused to go for food. I've volunteered at the local food pantry. Nobody should be swiping whole boxes of potatoes or anything else.
@@shelleyrenee4889her very last line said she loves to share 😂
I found the benefit of planting my garden under my bird feeders, I have several. Not only does my garden do well, so do the birds. They keep the pests off my plants ❤️🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing!
Thats a wonderful idea, will have to borrow that idea from you..thank you!
Cool!!! 🐦🥔🙋🏻♀️💖
I was literally watching this while wandering around my property searching for a good spot and read your comment! Thanks for sharing your wisdom 🥔 🐛 🐦 🏠
Brilliant!!
I go to appliance stores that take back old refrigerators when they deliver the new ones.There going to the scrap dealer and they dont want the hard plastic containers so I get all I can handle also the glass shelves that are tempered I make cold frames .
Richard,That is So Smart to do.Good Luck.
richard cooney .... What is a "cold frame", please?
@@WildWestGal Its a small greenhouse to put plants in and keep there until the chance of frost is gone.mine are about 3x8 .
@@richardcooney7021 Thank you! That's wonderful that you can make those!
GREAT IDEA. THANK YOU for sharing with us all.
Saved us from having to buy grow bags for planting potatoes. Great tip, Mark, and thanks for looking out. ❤
So nice of you to say. THANK YOU.
I used the cloth bags you can buy at the grocery stores for a dollar or two. Much cheaper than grow bags. I will use cardboard this year. Once I had a broken down plastic laundry basket. I lined it with cardboard. Not a problem.
Thanks for this video. I use the cardboard containers too! This video has excellent instructions, and easy to follow with the why as well as the how! I started growing my own potatoes completely by accident after throwing a sprouting pantry spud into a flower planter. A couple months later, I was watering and noticed a big beautiful potato. I cooked it up, I was AMAZED how different and wonderful this fresh potato tasted! I've been growing my own ever since.
YUMM. Thanks
What a sweet story 🥰
What a happy accident!!! 🥔
How do you "accidently throw a sprouting pantry spud into a flower planter"?
@@onekerri1 I missed the compost bucket
I used to believe that growing potatos means a lot of work , digging and knowhow....but if it can be this easy , i will try it 😃 Greetings from Germany .....
That is great to hear, THANK YOU and Happy Growing.
This is the best of all the videos I've seen on growing potatoes! Clear, concise, and excellent detail info! I can't wait to do this! New subscriber here, w/bell!
Awesome! Thank You For your kind words. HAPPY GARDENING
Best seem for me also. The street sweeper to away all the leaves two hours ago. All not lost I didn't set my blue trash tub out for pickup I have plenty stored in there and a few card board boxes also.
I used banana boxes from costco so last year and they held up great! Rewatching this this year to do it again!
Great to hear. Potatoes love to get a 1 inch of water per week. THANK YOU.
Unless the are organic bananas, banana boxes are full of pesticides. They spray the bananas before shipping them to North America as the bananas have spiders and insects and their eggs.
You never disappoint, Mark. This is a great project for the grandkiddos. Thanks for the tip about the size of the chits. I never heard that before. I did hear to use double corrugated cardboard for garden projects. Surely they are stronger.
Will be fun to watch the progress. Many blessings to you and yours.
Have fun! Happy Planting. Thanks
It appears that with the tops and bottoms folded in there is double cardboard.
I just bought my first house in the burbs after living in high density inner city apartments for 20 years. I’m shocked at the price of raised beds, etc. But I have lots of boxes from the move and am going to try this! Thank you so much for making this video. The algorithm knows just what I needed. 😂
Glad to keep the cost low for you. And Enjoy every day in your new home and the New garden, you will love it. THANK YOIU.
Congrats, Happy gardening
@@sandrae.gardner4529 Thank you!
Containers are great too.
What's the update
I LOVE this idea! I think it would be cool with my ocd brain to have uniform boxes lined up growing things! At end of the season it all goes in the ground and my no dig beds are ready to go for next year! How cool, going to try this on more than just potatoes! Thank you! :)
The soil that you grew your potatoes in, grows a bumper crop of green peas the following year!
So great to hear.. Go for it. Happy Gardening.
I totally get you. And if you’re going to have side rows make sure the whole set up is symmetrical 😁
What can be done to keep Cats from using box as a Litter box?
@@dagnytaggart5216 Yes, a gardening mandella.
Excellent idea. I didn’t plant all my potatoes yet and happen to have some spare brown cardboard boxes and some extra space in the garden. Well worth giving it a try. 👍
Sounds great! Happy Planting. Enjoy.
I have grown tomato plants in cardboard boxes. I took some rope and wrapped it around the box two or three times to keep it sturdy since tomato plants need to be watered often, and it worked very well. Now, I will try potatoes. Thank you for this video and info!
Glad to hear about the tomatoes also. THANKs & Enjoy
Great idea! I‘ve already crop rotated potatoes through vegetable and flower beds in my small yard. This method gives me sooo many more places to practice crop rotation! Thank you!
Fantastic to hear, Thanks.
I’m so trying this! The box will turn into compost. We take our plain boxes shred them and use them as compost in the gardens. Thank you for sharing your videos tips and info with us. So appreciated.
And THANK YOU so very much.
Hello Mark! This is my first time viewing your TH-cam videos and I wish I had found you sooner!!! I've wasted lots of money on contraptions, vertical gardening, special containers, gardening books, fertilizers, etc, which produced small yields and much disappointment for all the work. Your methods are simply and cost effective and I look forward to a bumper crop for everything I plant. Thanks and God bless!
THANK YOU so very much, Happy Gardening
Great video! I have some just sprouting organic potatoes and lots of boxes on hand! I’m eager to get to it! Thanks for such timely content!
FANTASTIC. Great news.
Ditto!
Thank you much for the video Mark! I now have another use for those Amazon boxes. I look forward to seeing the progress of your potatoes.
Awesome! Thank you!
EXACTLY
Mark, great job and the only thing I would add is that I've been in a victory garden in DC for 25 years and nobody has ever used any kind of netting against potato beatles and nobody has ever encountered them. If I was a first-time potato gardener, I would try it without the netting and only use netting if it became a problem in your area.
Thanks for your help and advice. Enjoy.
great idea, I was thinking of using round containers but this is so much more practical and its easy to find boxes. I never heard of anyone growing potatos in a cardboard box,
Glad it was helpful! THANK YOU.
Purposeful Recycling!
Thanks for sharing this video! I garden too and I’m researching all the things I can grow in containers. I’m happy it led me to you channel. This is very helpful. Thanks for teaching me something new. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!
I am hear to share and grow. THANK YOU.
What a cool idea!! Especially on a budget!! Thanks Mark 😊
THANK YOU so very much.
I'm definitely trying this in 2023, thanks for the clear instructions!
Have fun! And Thanks
Best CB box potato vid ever. Fungi, cutting size, beetles...excellent tips. Two thumbs up.
WOW, THANK YOU. And you are one the the BEST people in the world.
I just tried this and my potatoes are doing soooooo good! I am excited to see how many I get as compared to other ways I’ve tried growing them which did not yeild much. I’m impressed already so far and they are only about four weeks out so far. Thanks for the great info!
So GREAT to hear. THANK YOU kindly. You can do it.
Free growing containers awesome and it helps to create more compost for the next season
Great point. THANK YOU.
A similar method I've used for fun (especially useful if you only have a balcony or no yard): A 5-Gal pail! Throw a few inches of leaves/compost/whatever in the bottom, stab in your 'tater chunks, and as they grow just keep throwing soil/sand/leaves/compost on top. At the end of the season, you can just dump the pail and boom!
Thanks for sharing!
No drainage holes?
@@SimpleCleanAndGreen in my case, I live in a dry climate, so it wasn't a concern and worked out fine. However you may be on to something for most other folks trying that trick.
@@SimpleCleanAndGreen There should be a min of 8 drainage holes in a circle at least 1/2 wide on the bottom of 5 gal
I'm going to try that. Last year I got a few golden potatoes, but quite a bit of red ones
I did this last year and had such great success and good yield of potatoes that this is the only way I will grow them! I just got my new boxes in place for this growing season! So happy I found this video last year. 👍🏼👍🏼
Great job! THANK YOU for letting me Know.
This is my new goal this summer! Growing potatoes in a cardboard box! I grew some compost ones in the garden once by accident so that was fun. But this is intentional! Thanks for the explanation!
VERY glad to hear. Gardening is always great to watch and learn. THANK YOU.
@@iamorganicgardening So very true! Exciting to watch things grow and then be able to eat what is grown is quite an experience worth sharing. Hopefully it is catchy to more and more in these costly times.
Does the box need to be in sunny area ??
Great information! I'm not an experienced gardener and you made this encouraging and easy, thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Thank so very much, Enjoy. You can do it.
Great way to easily start a garden bed. I line up two rows of boxes. Put in soil and plants. Then put a garden edging around the boxes eg bricks or cement pieces. To suppress weeds I leave the bottom shut (taking off the tape) if I need too.
That is Fantastic. THANK YOU for sharing
U should have been MY science teacher ... I'd be a professor by now
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THANK YOU so very much. Happy Gardening
What can you use to cover besides leaves? Straw?
@@gloriayearian6145Yes, straw can be used tòo. It also helps to keep the moisture in just like leaves.
Great video Mark. I just watched your BTE video and you showed how we can change the condition of our soil. This is year three for me and I am interested in incorporating your practices. Much Thanks for caring to share & for your own follow up commentary Sir. Definitely going to do this with the potatoes. Do you do this method with sweet potatoes as well? Great gardening yields/harvest to you Sir!
Sorry, I do not do this with sweet potatoes since they grow much larger
Sweet potatoes are more sensitive than potatoes to the cold. Somewhat similar to tomatoes. Sweet potatoes grow from chits. So sweet potatoes are different. You can eat the tops like spinach and the roots grow sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are different than potatoes.
I did this last year and it's worked really well.
THANK YOU so very much for sharing this with us all.
@@iamorganicgardening Thanks for your great tips. I got the idea from a previous video of course.
Remember to plant the potatoes right after the full moon. They have a tendency to come up out of the soil if done when full moon is coming on
Good advice.Thanks
@@iamorganicgardening I made that mistake often. Sometimes they'd do fine and others I'd have to go back and push in ground. Then an old timer told me my mistake. And I live in potato planting country
@Do you know if that applies to sweet potatoes?
@@ainesionann2354 - Sorry. I don't know. Never planted them.
So now i have to wait for a full moon???
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing and God bless 🙏
THANK YOU kindly. Happy gardening
*Hello, I'm growing potatoes for the First time this year & I totally agree the easiest thing I've grown so far. I'm learning as I grow. 😊😊😊* Sharon in SC
You can do it! It is such a great thing to do, THANK YOU.
@@iamorganicgardening *Thank you. I truly appreciate you. 🌱🌽🍅🫑* Sharon in SC
Great info Mark, 👍 we have planted 3 methods of them. The tub method made around 20 lbs. We have Rurh Stout planted, and raised bed tradional hilled. Will see which one does best.
VERY NICE, Let me known which you like at harvest time. THANK YOU.
@@iamorganicgardening How long roughly does it take from planting to harvest and how do you tell it is time to harvest, please? First time planting potatoes from "potato eyes" and hoping there is success at harvest time!
Loved the video! We have heavy clay soil in Southern Ohio, and I've had no luck with growing potatoes in years past but would love to try potatoes again...I know for sure I'll have to use a raised container of some sort.
This will be a great start for that. Thanks
Add some sand to your soil
I watched a YT video called the Ruth Stout method. It’s growing potatoes under a bed of straw! Many Gardner’s are using that method also. I also have heavy clay and rock. I’ve grown potatoes in 20 gallon plastic water buckets and old plastic totes! Lol
@@fancythat5136traw huh,im gonna watch that video,thanks... New Jersey... That hard plastic did well in the heat???
Much of my zone 9 soil was clay. The rest was hard as cement. About 7 years ago, I started composting directly into the soil. The holes were shallow at first, but I kept at it. Once I could feel that the soil was was healthier, I dug another hole nearby and started putting my compost in that hole. I kept at it and now a big portion of the soil is healthy. However, in the 2nd year of composting, A plant sprung up in the first hole I started. I thought it was a weed, but it turned out that I had a bunch of Potatoes ( from the compost!). They were delicious!
I just subbed. I enjoyed the video and plan to try this. But what really hooked me is the curtesy and respect I see in your responses to comments. 🧡
The viewer's are the best. I have their kindness to help me over the past year. Awesome and THANK YOU.
Omygoodness this is awesome I'm going to plant potatoes just like this!! I live in an apartment but I have a tiny deck and a little bit of a back yard, I can only grow in containers, thank you for for this video, I just subscribed.
Sounds great! THANK YOU so very much.
Excellent idea. This will feature heavily in my no dig garden. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great to hear. THANK YOU.
What a great idea! Cardboard box to plant in. Wonder how other plants will do. When we were teens my friend & I planted peeings with eyes. Waited the season dug up the ground and we got loads of potatoes. Small ones but good tasting.
THANK YOU for your kinds words. You can rally plant anything in the card board box that is a 80 day crop.
Great video! Always looking for new ideas! Thank you SO much! 🙂
So glad to hear. THANK YOU.
Tulle is a net fabric. Inexpensive. You can buy it from a fabric store. Thank you for sharing. This was very helpful.
True. Cheaper but not as strong. And has bigger holes size.
Fantastic. I’m going to try this ❤happy gardening to you too!!
GREAT , you will LOVE it. And THANK YOU.
Thanks so.kuch for this video. I've tried potatoes in clay pots, plastic bins and the ground. The best after the ground. I will definitely use this method next year! I'm begging to have some physical limitations so the box will help keep them contained, easy to cover and easy to harvest. Great practical be suggestion😃
Should CK the spelling before I press send 😱. Again, I thank you.
Wonderful! Here is to next year. Happy Growing & THANK YOU.
@@peggyfiedler1556 We all do it and realize after. Lol
You are the best thank you so much for this video will definitely try this method
It is fun to do and easy also. THANKS
Thank you what a great video & I am going to try this here in Australia but probably will use Sugar Cane Mulch. I live in Sub-Tropical so my potatoes seem to stay small but we will try & see. Cheers Denise- Australia
I'm so excited to try this! I want to try and find some purple potatoes to grow.
That sounds great. Happy gardening
Whole Foods or Sprouts😊
We accidentally left a seed potato or two in a box of wood chips that we were storing them in. Threw it under a tree and never tended it when we noticed the leaves come up.
We just shrugged and left it alone didn't even water it.
... It grew and out-produced the potatoes in the garden! and the harvesting couldn't have been easier, just picked it up and shook it off. We were amazed.
THANK YOU so much for sharing.
The size of the potato piece is absolutely irrelevant.
We pull off the long sprouts from storage and plant those directly with no potato attached... and then chit the potatoes to cut and plant the traditional way.
The planted raw sprouts do just fine with no yield/vigor/health difference from the second, still on the tuber succession.
My Grandad used to tell me about how his dad would just cut the sprout off with no noticeable potato attached, plant the sprouts and turn the remaining spuds into potato soup for dinner for the family that whole week.
Depression era food-hacks FTW.
I will look into this. THANK YOU kindly
Thank you. It's my understanding the sprout needs nourishment from the potato only until it's able to generate its own from roots in the soil and photosynthesis from the leaves. I had a lot of marble-sized leftover ones from last year and they all chitted so I planted them in cell trays and they're a foot tall and looking great. I've also planted a few chits that broke off and while they are not as big, they look good.
Were your chits planted close to the surface? Since mine were small ~1" I put them just below the surface, the same with the marble-sized potatoes so they wouldn't have far to go to get light.
That's news for me ..thank you for that tip.
I'm gonna try planting just the sprouts too.
Yup. My dad saves the scraps for me when cooking. He usually saves about a nickel to a quarter sized piece around the eyes. I chit them indoors and plant them outside in bags.
I've been doing this for years. Easy, saves money, you know what you are eating and most of all it is fun.
FANTASTIC, Thanks
I have done this with slimy potatoes from the dumpster.
I mostly use them to create soil and clear areas of weeds.
Great information. Thank you kindly.
Hi great video. I never thought of using a box . I will be trying this .Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Could you show harvesting ? How many spuds would you get from the 2 pieces you planted?
Yes I will in a few months, Thanks for asking there are other videos so far on the top growth
Beautiful share, fantastic video, great share.
Thanks for your wonderful video.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for this awesome video. Now I feel like I can grow potatoes 👍🙂
My pleasure 😊
So happy 😊 for y'all God bless 🙌 you all ❤
And the same to you also. THANKS
Thank you! This was fun and I'm doing this on the weekend!!
Wonderful! THANK YOU.
Sounds amazing. Cant wait to try it.
Hope you enjoy it!
Tulle would be great to cover over the potatoes.
Good video. BLESSINGS
Yes. it is great to do that. THANK YOU.
So simple. So cool. So doable. Thank you!
Thank you! 😊
Great info & much appreciated. Just beginning, after living in a hi-rise for 30 years. Thank you
You can do it. Happy Gardening and Enjoy nature. THANK YOU.
I have never had luck with store bought potatoes 🥴. This year, I bought seed potatoes and MAN OH MAN! I can't wait to see what kind of harvest I get... So exciting😁
YOU WILL BE AMAZED. You can do it. Thanks
I have some wire & plastic milk crates I could line with a cardboard box, I'm thinking this could help with keeping the boxes shape. I know that is not the exact size mentioned, but close. would this be big enough? Also do I just keeping adding leaves or anything else as the potatoes grow? Excited to try this method thank you for this video 🥔 🌱
That would work great. You only have to add 8 inchs above the planted potatoes to get a crop. Thanks
Love it thank you so much😊
Awesome. Happy Gardening. Thanks
Amazing the amount of information you have! Going to subscribe and grow thru it all! Thanks for the tater hacks..
Awesome! Thank you!
In northern Wisconsin I plant potatoes the second week of June and I get zero potato bugs. If I plant earlier then I get overwhelmed with bugs.
That is GREAT to know. THANK YOU for helping people in your area.
Such a cool concept to use a box, especially as my gardening budget is very small this year!
Thank You, it works very well for Us.
Thank you very much!!
I Love the Taste of Freshly Dug 'Taters, they're absolutely 💯 Better!!
And totally Different from the tasteless potatoes from the supermarket!!
I'm going to do This with the cardboard boxes because I'm in the middle of moving house...
My new place is patios and paving slabs and it's going to be a while before I get them shifted!!
Thank You so Much Again!! 🙏❤
THANK You. And Happy gardening.
Hi 👋 I’ve always wanted to grow potatoes 🥔!! What a great 👍 idea 💡!!!
Hope you enjoy how easy it is. THANK YOU.
Great: thank you for sharing. I never noticed that they only grow upwards!
You are welcome!
You’re the best!! I have a box already lol I’m super excited! Thank you 💜
And so are you. Happy Gardening
Thank you, good job Mark! God Bless you for sharing!
Here to help an share. THANK YOU.
Hi Mark, great videos. Quick question. You have a video about cherry tomatoes. You were going to give them away or something? can I buy these seeds somewhere? Keep these great videos coming. I have a small yard but may try growing some potatoes after watching this one!
Thanks for asking. I gave them all away to a community garden near me last year.
Just slice any tomatoe you want to grow, put slice in dirt. water it. will produce several tomatoe plants. Just cut a cherry in half, plant both halves,voila! Tomatoe plants.
@@taxiridefun No need to dry the seeds, really? Thank you
Thank-you!!! One of the reasons I have been hesitant about gardening is that start-up costs hold me back.
I understand this is easy and free.
I don't have a green thumb 🤣 Or am a hoarder!... and I just found an Excellent purpose for those cardboard boxes from my mom's medical supplies that I had saved. I just Knew they would come in useful ☺️ thanks 👋
Great to hear, THANKS
I’m so happy I accidentally came across your videos!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I’m hooked! Thank you sir.
That is so very nice of you. Happy Gardening
That's a huge help. I'm trying to learn about survival techniques in case they are ever needed. I love the idea of freeeee potatoes. :)
Always a good start and have fun with. Thanks
Thank you.
My pleasure to help and share,
Everyone has too many boxes now. 🙂What a great way to upcycle. Is there toxins in the cardboard? At the end of the season, work the cardboard into your garden or compost - excellent video
In BROWN cardboard like in the video no toxins in it ( SAFE ). The is a problem with glossy or wax color cardboard. THANKS for asking
This is a great idea! I will try it!
Have fun!
My mother always said, potatoes clean the soil.
Good to know. Thanks
Would it be feasible to add aged wood chips instead of leaves to retain more moisture?
You could do that also. Thanks
Can. I use egg shells
No need to.. Does not need calcium. Thanks for asking
Thank you for sharing on how to potatoes and have a bless bless day today 🙏😁
Thank you! You too!
Im probably the only one... But whos here because they cant even get potatos to grow? 😭 my soil is practically clay. I need to learn.
Try making compost. Get your grass clippings, brown leaves and organic matter and make compost, then you can grow potatoes 🥔 🥔
Thank you for very informative video. I always loved gardening with perennials, but have decided to do veggies. I am glad to have found you!
Welcome to veggie garden, you with Love it. Enjoy and THANK YOU so very much.
@@iamorganicgardening I will enjoy! I am learning so much from your videos already.
"If you don't like potatoes you should try them at least"🤔
Awesome point. THANKS
Homegrown potatoes taste so much better imo. Just like tomatoes! I like to snack on them raw with salt!
Thank you so much. What a great idea. I’m going to give it a try
THANK YOU. You will have great time. Happy Gardening
The easiest I have seen so far. Thank you. And nice video
TRHANK YOU so very much. Maybe you have a great year of success.
@@iamorganicgardening Thank you kind sir, may all be well with you and your household.
I enjoyed your video! It was interesting and educational! Your quarter tip was really good!
THANK YOU , great to hear.
I have always cut in more then one piece, and I don't wait to dry key is amazing soil,never had a problem, and rotate potatoes each side of garden every year to slow down potato bugs..happy planting
Thanks for sharing