Back in, I believe it was the beginning of April maybe the end of March, I'll have to double-check,
I planted up some 20-gallon grow tubs with potatoes. And after I did that video showing
how to plant them I got some questions about what kind of yield one could expect growing potatoes in
containers like these. And while I had a picture of my head like I knew what I harvested in past
years I've never actually weighed my harvest so I wasn't sure of an amount to tell folks. So I
decided that I was when I harvested these tubs I was gonna go ahead and put them on a food scale
and see just how much I was getting from the potatoes grown in grow tubs. So my kids helped
me harvest the first one a couple weeks ago it was a little early but I really wanted some potatoes!
So you can see in this little snippet we got a pretty decent harvest off
of that tub. Now typically I will wait until the foliage is pretty died back,
pretty brown before harvesting. You can harvest your potatoes anytime after flowering but just to
remember that the longer that you allow them to grow and develop with this healthy green
foliage the bigger yield you are going to get. So like I said, I just like to wait till they
really start to brown out and die out before I harvest. So these two tubs are, the foliage is
really starting to look terrible, so I'm gonna go ahead and dump these and weigh the harvest.
All right so we've got both grow tubes harvested and I forgot on the Purple Viking which is this
one one of my favorite potatoes of all time I'd actually pulled two of the plants back
about a month ago because I needed some potatoes for dinner. So that bag only
had four plants left in it so I probably would have gotten a slightly higher yield than this,
but let's see how much these ended up being. So this is the Purple Viking and
that one's about three and a half pounds, and this was the mixed bag of just generic
red and white seed potatoes and that one's about five-and-a-half pounds,
plus my first one that I harvested was five and a half pounds. So we have a grand total... So
overall not a bad harvest from three 20 gallon containers. So
if you're interested in growing your own potatoes but you don't have a lot
of space or just don't want to deal with digging up the garden I highly
recommend growing in a container. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time!