Plant Potatoes In Grow Bags Portable Greenhouse Alaska Garden Eagle Peak hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper i'm at Granny Camp at my Eagle Peak amazon pop-up
greenhouse that i put out here this year to try to grow some extra food
while i'm out at my Alaska off-grid cabin today i wanted to give you a tour of how things are
growing things i've already planted and then i'm going to plant some potatoes into grow bags
first you can see the raspberries i planted are doing great i'm very happy with how
they're doing the lettuce and spinach seeds that i planted have not sprouted yet but that's okay
they're still within their growth period and then look at the strawberries that i planted
the strawberries are doing great they're looking healthy and hopefully they'll start
filling in the grow bag soon one of the problems that i noticed was that when you water grow bags
that they are very porous and so the water flows right out and because i'm at Alaska dry cabin
i have to haul the water out here to put into the plants i don't want to waste any drops
so i made a catchment system out of two big black plastic bags i put them down with grow bags as a
little funnel and made a little gully i tied up the corners water catchment system bags so
they would hold up the sides and then allow the water to flow down and hopefully it'll go down
to the end and into the raspberries and then no water will get wasted because the first time i
watered greenhouse grow bags water was going all over the place and then it was running clear out
and underneath the greenhouse and out into the woods i want that water into my plants
so i had to do a change for that today i'm going to plant three grow bags with little red potatoes
potatoes are great they're easy to grow almost anyone can grow potatoes but one
of the problems growing potatoes i have is my soil is so rocky plus then if your ground
freezes potatoes are impossible to get out of the ground so grow bag easy way to be able to
grow potatoes have potatoes turn out well and then you can just dump out the grow bag when
you're ready to harvest potatoes so the first thing i did was put a little bit of mulch in
the bottom grow bag just some leaves and sticks things right around the area that'll compost in
no time then i put a few inches of soil grow bag one of the tricks to notice on your little
shovel or your garden trowel you may have the ruler the measurement so that you know how deep
you're planting things grow bag i want to plant potatoes about three or four inches off of the
bottom of the grow bag so i can measure it with my shovel look at these little potatoes you want to
try to find where the eyes are growing because you want to plant them so that the stems are going to
grow up if you plant them upside down they just have to turn around on their head and get going
so it's easier if you plant them with their heads up i'm going to plant four potatoes in
each grow bag i'm going to place potatoes around spread them evenly grow bag
fill the grow bag nearly to the top potatoes are going to send their long vines up up up and
into all this wonderful soil they're going to start growing the tubers that we love
some people fill grow bag halfway and then as potatoes grow up they
cover them over more soil because when you cultivate potatoes outside we normally plant
them in a row and then we hill them back over but it may not be absolutely necessary in the grow bag
to do the hilling you can already count on them coming up and growing
the grow bag isn't very big and so i think it's going to be just fine
and they're ready to be watered and left to grow in my nice amazon Eagle
Peak pop-up greenhouse that i have out at my Alaska off-grid cabin my Granny Camp
if you have experience with growing potatoes grow bags leave some tips and tricks and comments
below so that we can learn from each other many of us have been growing gardens for a long time but
we're trying new things and lots of people have never done anything and we want to help encourage
everyone to help be successful growing food so that you can have more of a sustainable lifestyle
the more food you can grow yourself the less you have to be concerned with shortages rising
prices recalls and unknown catastrophes that have plagued the food supply for the last few years
the more of us who learn to grow our own food the better off we're all going to be so we want to be
there and be supportive of like-minded individuals so that we can all make the best of whatever comes
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