Are you looking to grow potatoes in a buckets? in this video, I'm going to show
you how simple it is to grow potatoes in a bucket
hi this is Jeremy stark kia from green thumb gun here to give you some tips
tutorials reviews for all your garden needs in today's video i'm gonna show
you how simple it is to grow potatoes in a bucket if you don't actually have a
bucket we can you can also use a container or a what they call a grow bag
which is just simply a kind of a mesh-like bag that you can grow it in so
I'm gonna go over the method on how to do it how simple it is and how to get
started from it from from seed to start but first before we get started if you
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that the one of the most things that you need to have with your potatoes Planum
is you can one actually have the seed potato plants and the seeds are gonna
actually come with gonna come with these little sprouts on the top if you could
see them right here these are these are basically cheated and they're ready to
go in your to get planted you could find these you can get these at your seed
company stores that they have and actually the time of filming this
they're actually ran out of the stock of it so I actually found some Yukon Gold
ones that I had in my cabinet so what I did is I did leave them out and I went
through the process of chitting them where they they do have some of the buds
on here now I went ahead and I already I already
cut these up but what I wanted to show you is you're gonna get some of them
they're gonna have multiple ones on there so you can what you can do is cut
them up into different chunks you could these are actually want the seed plant
you don't want to cut them too small you want to leave at least an inch on it
because it does have a little bit of the food that the roots will
you know grab the energy from so you want to leave a little bit on there you
want to cut it off too too too small but once you get them cut up they're ready
to go into the container so what you need is you want to grab you do have a
five-gallon bucket you want to make sure that you have what's called a food grade
bucket and these are the buckets that that are made for food so this one was
actually from sauerkraut you can usually find a lot of these things that bakeries
they might have frosting in it or some type of flour but one of the most
important things on the bottom is you want to make sure that it has to and
number two on here if you come if you can see that in the camera but it has to
be the HDPE that's basically food safe it is food grade four you know so that
doesn't leach any kind of different plastic in it the ones that you get at
the hardware store they might not be the right type of plastic so just look on
the bottom of it if you see it two of them then you can actually use it the
other thing what I love to use is I love using these containers that I can get
free at nurseries this is actually a 14 gallon so the one I'm not going to plant
this in because it's got a lot of it's got a nice size for for plants of these
potatoes in but these are great for planting anything's and usually could
find it for free they have so many of these nurseries that they don't know
what to do so if you just go there and ask I'm sure they'll give me a few that
you need and they last pretty well I think this is the third season I had
these I mean they're not like you know perfectly ones that you would buy you
know plastic with the store you can also use other containers that you can find
at you know your local store anything or order online the other great option is
these grow bags they're like a mesh bag I love it because they have handles on
too but these are these are great because they're they come at different
sizes I think this one is a 10 gallon one they're great because they're nice
and light and you can put them just about anywhere in your yard for those
about for today's video we're gonna use this right here but one note I want to
make when you're doing these in the actual buckets as these are not gonna
have holes in them so you want to make sure that you put at least I would say
four or five different holes in here maybe four holes in the one in the
middle that way there you have some drainage
for it because it doesn't need to be drained these buckets already have the
holes on them and the mesh buckets they they're actually the water just goes
right out to the side so it's not really doesn't need it you don't need to put
holes in that all right let's get started with put them in the container
all right so you got your container here and what you want to do is the mix that
we're going to use is is a good blend of compost it's gonna have probably about
1/2 to 2/3 of compost the other mix that you can put in here with the compost is
because it's in a container is you want to use either some type of vermiculite
or perlite which is the pro lights those little white balls that will help it
keep keep water it's one of the only drawbacks really of of you know working
in the container is that you have to make sure that's watered so having that
the perlite or vermiculite in there will help because it does hold the water in
there so I already have a soil blend started up here so so what I do is I
just add a lot of it to the bottom and I want to have one I have at least say 4
to 5 inches of soil on the very bottom of this so this is from last year one of
well Ashley's containers I still use a lot of the same soil for my containers
each and every year but what I do is I add in add in a good mix of more cow
manure so this right here is the cow manure I like to add in a blend of that
to it so I'll kind of mix this up a little bit in here the other another
thing I like to add into my containers is you know for potatoes you can use it
just a very much a balanced blend of fertilizers so I always add in to my
containers I always add in some some fertile
so for for that so what I do is I add in just about a handful of each of these
right here so this is bone this is blood meal this is good for this has a lot of
the nitrogen in it so try to have a blend site this is bone meal this has a
lot of phosphorus in it and some calcium as well which is very good for a root
vegetables I tend to add a little bit more bone meal in the potatoes because
there's a root vegetable the other thing is this is azomite you can also use
green sand and that's for the the k-project acid so I just add a little
handful of each of them in there so if I was doing that I would just add in a
little bit of that and a handful this stuff this stuff is a little very dusty
gonna be very careful with it and I add in a little bit more bone meal I might
add a scoop and a half of it it's not very scientific when it comes to this
stuff a little bit of this cow manure as well and what this is this is this
doesn't break down right away this actually breaks down a little bit over
time this is what they call a non soluble fertilizer so this does takes
some time to break down so that's why you want to put it in now so that when
it starts growing it's gonna be ready to absorb all those nutrients in there all
right all right perfect so what I do is I just kind of make a
little bit hole so for this one I'm going to do I'm just gonna plant three
in this one right here cuz it's a little bit bigger so kind of make like a little
triangle make a little hole right there and then I'm gonna take my my potato you
want to make sure that it's the the chitin part is kind of facing up okay
each one so on this one even though it's kind of - on this one I'm gonna make
sure the other ones up right there and the same for this one as well all right
once you do that you can a little more comedy where I just cover the hole
enough so that you don't have any critters or anything that come out and
they don't they don't easily find this so they would really up dig to get at
these which can happen you know you can't get some of those critters that
come so if you concern about any of those things maybe put something over
this a cover over it until they start sprouting and then you know you probably
fine after that but once they once they start flowering
they usually don't have too many critters like raccoons or anything like
that coming after it you got everything planted right here you want to give it a
nice good watering for this and just stick it out a good place that's gonna
be sunny because they do need once they start spotting they need about six hours
of Sun each day so what I like to do is as it does grow up what I'll do is I'll
add more soil to it so that basically the crown of the plant is sticking out
and the rest of it is kind of covered in there so what that does is that you'll
fill in tubers that are actually inside of the in here so you can add more soil
so put I would say put your soil they're gonna add into it maybe next to it so
it's a little bit easy to get to it when you're ready to add it in there because
then you can add it in as you go along with it but generally they take they
take about some of the - depending on what that what variety of potatoes they
are they take about 45 days to sixty days to grow these are the Yukon Golds I
believe these are early so they might take a little bit less they might take
you know 40 days or somewhere around there before you can actually start
picking them now they're gonna have the earlier pick them they're gonna be
smaller versions of the potatoes but you can pick them as soon as they're small
enough one thing you do you want to make sure though is that you don't
you don't want to have the the actual tubers exposed so and in the Sun because
they know when their actual green they're actually a little bit uh not
poisonous but they're you know make it very sick if you eat up so you have to
make sure that they're covered in there and the soil at all times before you can
harvest them and eat them and they're you know somewhat brown so that's it as
far as playing the potatoes in here one of the note when you're when you grow on
them you can add some fertilizer to the to the plants once they that once they
start growing I wouldn't over fertilize them though I
want to add too much soluble fertilizer if you're gonna do anything I would say
just before you cover them up maybe give it another shot of a balanced soluble
fertilizer and that's probably all the gonna need for for growing in there with
it as long as you have a good good common with good compost and your mix
then that should be enough for it to grow successfully you also do want to
make sure that in a container they are watered so once it gets a
little bit hotter out you want to make sure that you check in the soil and you
don't want them to dry out but you'd also want it to you don't want it to be
too way so it has to have somewhat a balanced moisture in the in the and
there so just check it if it is really warm in the area also one thing a good
note is before you harvest them is it is good to actually let the soil dry out a
little bit it makes it easier to to harvest them if you're gonna double mom
that's one of the benefits of doing it in containers you can just dump the
whole thing out instead of trying to you know hold it up and your in your garden
to pick them just keep that in mind when you're as they as they start growing so
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