Potatoes In a Container -There Is An Interesting Method For Growing At home

Sweet potatoes are edible tuberous plants. They are cultivated for the first time in the Andean region of South America, where many varieties are grown.

What do you need to grow your own potatoes?

People mistakenly think that gardening, especially vegetable growing, can only happen if you have a large garden or courtyard. So, I’m here to show you how simple and easy to have home-grown potatoes on your

Available at any time. The whole trick is to use specially designed containers for this purpose.

Appearing as food bags, these potato containers will even surpass the open garden.

Using fertilizers and water in the right way, as suggested in this guide, you will get a good harvest of delicious potatoes. See the detailed instructions and all the steps needed from the initial growth stages to

Harvesting. You will always be able to cook always with fresh produce as you will always have your own home-grown potatoes!

Growing potatoes in a container not only reduces the need for weeding and dealing with pests and fungi, but you also do not have to worry about hurting the fresh potatoes with the shovel by digging them off the ground. It is only necessary to invert and pour the container and ready!

Here’s how I did it:

After thorough research into planning my own potato container, I arranged all the recommendations and reduced them to 4 simple steps to get the best potato harvest:

1. Select a suitable container and prepare it

You will need to select a container similar to junk barrels of about 190 liters. In addition, you can buy cans used for food purposes or potato pots on the market. Each container about 1 meter high will do the job but make sure that the container you choose has holes in the bottom, otherwise, you will have to

You drill them.

You will then have to clean your container with a weak bleach solution to get rid of the dirt that has gathered there. If you do not want to use bleach, you can use some alternative to bleach solution.

Good drainage is crucial to growing healthy potatoes, so you’ll need to cut or drill a series of large drain holes in the bottom and bottom of the container. As an alternative, you can completely cut the bottom of the container and place it on a well-drained surface like your garden.

2. Select the variety of potatoes you want to plant

Potato planting material can usually be found in nurseries at the beginning of the planting season, and you only need to buy it. If you can, let your potatoes sprout before planting them by putting them on one cardboard egg bark, facing upward with the country with the most pimples and putting them in a cool bright room but not in direct sunlight to germinate. Putting the tubers in an open paper bag can have the same effect.

Fill the bottom of the container with about 15-20 cm loose mix for planting and compost. You’ll need to use a peat moss mix to plant – as a soil improver, for example, made from used coconut shells. That will keep it

The soil does not become too dense and will help keep moisture in the roots.

Then place the potato seedlings on the soil layer, making sure you leave enough space between each cube. You can use whole potatoes, but I prefer to dilute potatoes for planting cubes with dimensions of 3 to 5 cm. Then on seed potatoes place another 15-20 cm soil mixture and compost and fill with water to

Moisten the soil. Keep the soil wet all the time.3. Add more soil

3. Add more soil

When the potatoes grow to about 15-20 centimeters, add another layer of the soil-compost mixture so that the added soil to cover about half to 3/4 of the visible stems and leaves of growing potatoes. Repeat this process to allow germinates to grow after covering and wetting the soil as the plants grow up to the top of the container.

4. Remove the potatoes

After about 10 weeks or when the colors of the plants start to turn yellow, the potatoes should be ready to be harvested. Gently pull your hands down to view the top level. Finally, turn the container over

Canvas and gather your fruits. Happy harvest, colleagues!

A few tips to grow a larger potato in a container

• After the first harvest, take a few potatoes for re-use as planting material next year.

• Beans are a great potato companion plant.

• Instead of using soil, you can grow potatoes in wood chips.

• Experiment with different containers, seedlings, and watering modes.

Grow your favorite vegetables in your own way this season!