I used grow bags but i put them in drip trays, they still dryed out but the harvest was ok. I use homemade compost and i amend it with blood fish and bone as potatoes are hungry. 👍
@@Kawarthabackyardfarms I also used a giant 600ltr homemade container in which I grew 6.95 kgs from 1 potato but I cut it into 5 pieces. Then I took ten cuttings from the potato plants and put in another homemade container with 300ltrs of compost and they grew 7.25kgs in total 14.2kgs from 1 seed potato. It was the #sspc2023, single seed potato competition but I still didn't win!😂🙏👍👌
Thank you for sharing your experience! I appreciate the insight as I planned on growing potatoes in grow bags next season. Im curious if it was the first frost that limited your harvest? I would imagine the grow bag keeps the roots a bit colder than the ones in the ground. I might perform my own test to compare!
@mt.ziongamers5106 thank you for your comment. The potatoes that we grew in our second planting had a days to maturity of around 90 and our first frost is typically around the end of September beginning of October, just for context. We planted them around the beginning of July if my memory serves me well. The hailstorm we got at the beginning of August knocked the majority of the growth back and at that point I don’t think the taters had enough time to recover. Of course once they recovered the days would be starting to shorten which could have hindered their tuber growth as well. Perhaps the better option would have been to plant a different crop that was more of a fall crop. But we live and learn. I hope that you do try growing potatoes in grow bags. Please feel free to reach out and let me know how it works for you!
Since grow bags dry out so quickly maybe you can try adding some hydrogel granules to the soil mix to hold more water in the soil mix without drowning the roots. Hydrogel granules are safe and over time biodegrade. One advantage to grow bags is that plants grown in them are air pruned so that you don't get roots that circle the pot wasting the plants' energy and resulting in them being rootbound. Hydrogels can be defined as materials formed by a porous three-dimensional network prepared from crosslinked natural or synthetic hydrophilic polymers that hold large quantities of water or biological fluids in their structure without dissolving (Curvello, Raghuwanshi, & Garnier, 2019;
I haven’t seen hydrogel granules yet but I will definitely look into them now. Thank you for watching and for leaving a comment. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to do so. Also, thank you for providing a reference with your comment!
So true, I'm all for container growing but there are better 'bags' than those that wick out moisture so quickly that you can't neglect the planting for more than a day. As I mentioned putting grow bags inside a plastic bag helps retain some moisture but even better for $1 a piece are the large waterproof, heavy grocery totes that just need drainage holes pierced in the bottom. They are strong enough to move by the handles and last seasons. It's a good option to using pots and I have success with them. Wishing you a great gardening season with a prolific harvest.
I think it’s context specific. I see two primary reasons for growing in grow bags 1) if a persons native soil is currently unfit to grow food or 2) if there is no more in ground space to grow.
I used grow bags but i put them in drip trays, they still dryed out but the harvest was ok. I use homemade compost and i amend it with blood fish and bone as potatoes are hungry. 👍
@nickthegardener thank you for watching and sharing your experience. I might try putting them in drip trays this coming season.
@@Kawarthabackyardfarms I recently found 12 fabric pots dumped at the roadside so I will be growing more potatoes thi year.👌🙏👍
@nickthegardener amazing find! Can’t believe someone would just toss them.
@@Kawarthabackyardfarms it was cannabis growers, they just dump everything out. 😵👍
@@Kawarthabackyardfarms I also used a giant 600ltr homemade container in which I grew 6.95 kgs from 1 potato but I cut it into 5 pieces. Then I took ten cuttings from the potato plants and put in another homemade container with 300ltrs of compost and they grew 7.25kgs in total 14.2kgs from 1 seed potato. It was the #sspc2023, single seed potato competition but I still didn't win!😂🙏👍👌
Thank you for sharing your experience! I appreciate the insight as I planned on growing potatoes in grow bags next season.
Im curious if it was the first frost that limited your harvest? I would imagine the grow bag keeps the roots a bit colder than the ones in the ground. I might perform my own test to compare!
@mt.ziongamers5106 thank you for your comment. The potatoes that we grew in our second planting had a days to maturity of around 90 and our first frost is typically around the end of September beginning of October, just for context. We planted them around the beginning of July if my memory serves me well. The hailstorm we got at the beginning of August knocked the majority of the growth back and at that point I don’t think the taters had enough time to recover. Of course once they recovered the days would be starting to shorten which could have hindered their tuber growth as well. Perhaps the better option would have been to plant a different crop that was more of a fall crop. But we live and learn.
I hope that you do try growing potatoes in grow bags. Please feel free to reach out and let me know how it works for you!
Since grow bags dry out so quickly maybe you can try adding some hydrogel granules to the soil mix to hold more water in the soil mix without drowning the roots. Hydrogel granules are safe and over time biodegrade. One advantage to grow bags is that plants grown in them are air pruned so that you don't get roots that circle the pot wasting the plants' energy and resulting in them being rootbound.
Hydrogels can be defined as materials formed by a porous three-dimensional network prepared from crosslinked natural or synthetic hydrophilic polymers that hold large quantities of water or biological fluids in their structure without dissolving (Curvello, Raghuwanshi, & Garnier, 2019;
I haven’t seen hydrogel granules yet but I will definitely look into them now.
Thank you for watching and for leaving a comment. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to do so.
Also, thank you for providing a reference with your comment!
So true, I'm all for container growing but there are better 'bags' than those that wick out moisture so quickly that you can't neglect the planting for more than a day. As I mentioned putting grow bags inside a plastic bag helps retain some moisture but even better for $1 a piece are the large waterproof, heavy grocery totes that just need drainage holes pierced in the bottom. They are strong enough to move by the handles and last seasons. It's a good option to using pots and I have success with them. Wishing you a great gardening season with a prolific harvest.
@@karmelicankethat’s a good idea as well. I just watched a video from @jamesprigioni this morning of growing in totes. Might also give that a try. 😊
Grow bags are a waste of time because they dehydrate within a day or two, unless you put them in a plastic bag
Water and fertilizer = potatoes
I think it’s context specific. I see two primary reasons for growing in grow bags 1) if a persons native soil is currently unfit to grow food or 2) if there is no more in ground space to grow.