Great potato harvest from 2 gallon flower pots 7/23/24 🌿

[@RealFoodComesDirty]

What a great harvest! And what a wonderful way to encourage people with very small growing spaces what can be accomplished in just 2 gallon buckets. Nice!

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@RealFoodComesDirty thanks for watching 👍

[@MariaFe-mw4fe]

very nice! growing our own food is common sense & wisdom, therapeutic for the body, mind & spirit :) keep growing!

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@MariaFe-mw4fe I totally agree friend thanks for watching 👍

[@vanessalumbra9409]

It's like treasure hunting. I grow all my potatoes in large grow bags. Just 4 of them. I get enough to freeze lots and lasts me all winter.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@vanessalumbra9409 I agree you never know how many your gonna find in the soil , I've had great harvests and bad harvests 👍

[@jackicomber8534]

well done! Any harvest is a good harvest...and that's a good harvest!

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@jackicomber8534 thanks for watching friend 👍

[@charliezicolillo]

Great harvest.You gave me a GREAT idea.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@charliezicolillo thanks for watching friend 👍

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

I grew them last year. I absolutely love harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@iwanttobelieve5970 they are the easiest thing to grow 👍

[@TheRealBWA]

Good harvest from a good God 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@TheRealBWA yes we were certainly blessed 🙏

[@DorenesFoodPrepResource]

What a fantastic harvest! I've been growing potatoes in 5 gallon buckets for a few years and never get that good of a harvest. Those tiny ones can be planted and grown as well. I have an experiment going, I decided not to harvest and left the potatoes to grow another season. The foliage is still green and healthy, but I can't wait to harvest this time.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@DorenesFoodPrepResource I hope you have a bountiful harvest friend thanks for watching 👍

[@eldorawillie6108]

You got a great harvest from these small flower pots the soil you use must be very rich and fertile GREAT HARVEST JUST FANTASTIC!! 🙏🙏🌻🌻

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@eldorawillie6108 yes , we reuse our garden soil in the pots and amend it with fertilizer , now we have strawberry plants in the pots 👍

[@eldorawillie6108]

@@citylotgardening6171 Thank you for sharing what you did to your soil to get such a great harvest. Keep up your great work. GOD BLESS YOU IN ALL YOIR EFFORTS!! 🙏🙏🌻

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

Nice harvest

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@BeFree-BeFrugal thanks for watching 👍

[@elainecooper7837]

Great job nice

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@elainecooper7837 thank you 👍

[@backtonature433]

awesome harvest 👌 🥔🥔🥔👌

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@backtonature433 thanks for watching friend 👍

[@backtonature433]

@@citylotgardening6171 🙏🤗🤗🤗

[@heissovereign]

Those were probably indeterminate potatoes. You plant them at the bottom then add soil as they grow. That's a pretty good looking harvest for grocery store potatoes 👌

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@heissovereign I believe your exactly right friend thanks for watching 👍

[@FarmingOnTheRocks]

Nice harvest 😊

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@FarmingOnTheRocks thanks for watching friend 👍

[@TheRealBWA]

Noted no leaves with blight for compost ❤👍🏾

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@TheRealBWA we NEVER compost potato leaves , tomato leaves , or cucumber or squash leaves .that will save you from trouble down the road 👍

[@Pinkpumpkingardener]

I just used many sizes for a project Even a one gallon 😆 can’t wait to see what’s in these if anything 😅but I tried ❤ Good job buddy ❤

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@Pinkpumpkingardener I hope you have a bountiful harvest from your pots thanks for watching friend 👍

[@Pinkpumpkingardener]

@@citylotgardening6171 aww I thanks buddy ! It’s my first try and I’m absolutely gonna make this my main crop next year potatoes and sweet potatoes have been so fun! I did different varieties of regular potatoes and grow bags, buckets soil bags, and pots to see how it works! Thank you for all of your information! It helps people like me new gardeners grow their own food 🥰 ♥️

[@elainecooper7837]

I’m new to your channel nice to meet you

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@elainecooper7837 thanks for watching and commenting friend 👍

[@growingmyown]

Wonderful harvest.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@growingmyown thanks for watching 👍

[@gregzeigler3850]

Pretty good haul. I think your haul would have been even bigger had you waited for the top growth to die off. You probably could have replanted any that was putting up shoots or green and got more potatoes out of that. I've grown full sized potatoes in 10" pots that are 10" deep. Averaged around 2 pounds a pot. And any supermarket potato that sprouts will grow. I've planted a few Russets that way.

[@shirleymister]

They are looking good ❤

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@shirleymister thanks for watching friend 👍

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

That was a nice harvest of potatoes! I can’t wait to harvest mine but I have to be patient! I’m hoping to can potatoes so we can have home fries anytime we want!

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@WhatWeDoChannel we pressure can ours too , its so rewarding opening the jars for supper 👍

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

@@citylotgardening6171 It’s like opening a jar of summer sunshine in the middle of winter!

[@shweetpotato]

I am so impressed, I didn't think you would get near as many as you did hehe, I see tater salad in your future, or maybe roasted..yummers.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@shweetpotato you got that right 😋 👍

[@TheButterflySoulfire]

It looks like the three gallon produced the best.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@TheButterflySoulfire yes I think we will switch to those size pots next time 👍

[@Nana2KCASBO]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My 1st time watching your channel and I have been considering this for a long time now. Thanks to you I’m doing this this week! I have 13 5 gallon buckets left (I grew peas (✅) and I have cucumbers in another one that are going CRAZY! I’m doing them vertical this year. So I’ll get busy prepping some buckets for potatoes. Did you fertilize? What soil? I’m in Utah so I’m hoping I can do this. My heart is in it so that counts for something right? Seriously thank you kind Sir.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@Nana2KCASBO we basically reused our garden soil with some potting mix added to loosen up the soil , we amended the soil with Bone Meal , Wood Ash , and organic Tomato and Vegetable fertilizer. I would add that this variety is indeterminate so that could have been why we had a nice harvest from such small pots . I also have Sarpo Mira indeterminate potatoes planted in 5 gallon buckets the tops are around 5 feet tall I'll be doing a harvest video on those soon and it's appearing that they may be our best container harvest yet so stay tuned friend and thanks for watching 👍

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@Nana2KCASBO with your short growing season left might I suggest Yukon Gold variety potatoes if you can find them they are a determinate potato that finish in 90 to 100 days after sprouting above ground you may also want to wrap the bottom of your buckets in hardware cloth and bury the buckets 2 to 3 inches in the ground your potatoes will grow safely inside the buckets and the roots can grow down into the ground and get more nutrients , thanks again for commenting and watching friend 👍

[@Nana2KCASBO]

@@citylotgardening6171 I’m in Utah and that’s a very common potato (I can always go north to Idaho not so far away too😁) I’ll do the wire outside of the bucket and bury them as our yard has been attacked by VOLES and if I’m going all this work I’ll be damned if I’m going to feed them anymore! So I’ll cut them in 1/2, wait till they “scab” over then finish doing the burying. Idk if I’ll have enough time to get a cycle out of them but I’ll do my best and let you know! Thanks again for the great ideas and information. If I do not succeed this year I’ll prep for the spring for sure 🥰

[@TheRealBWA]

Whew the best was last maybe that potato grows better in 3gal ❤❤

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@TheRealBWA yes I think we are gonna use bigger pots next year 👍

[@lindastrang8703]

But those 14 potatoes are only equal to about 4 regulars.

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@lindastrang8703 I believe we had more then 14 potatoes we actually ended up with over 5 lbs , I have also harvested 40 lbs of yukon gold potatoes from our raised beds so far and replanted another round of those we usually end up with 40 to 80 lbs of potatoes each year 👍

[@tammystoddard4690]

How many potatoes did you plant in each pot? Also, are you able to reuse the soil once all the roots are pulled out, like mixing it into another batch of soil?

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@tammystoddard4690 I believe I planted 1 potato in each small pot and 2 in the 3 gallon pot , after the harvest I added peat moss and perlite and lime and berry tone fertilizer to the used soil and planted strawberry plants back into these same pots 👍

[@karenjoy7557]

U know that U are doing it too early as the plant should of flowered then died off then dig them up...also U should replant the ones starting to grow again top up with cow manure...but o.k.harvest.. 😂😂😂

[@citylotgardening6171]

@@karenjoy7557 the plants did flower but they only had a few flowers on them I guess because of the blight that's why I harvested them because of the severe blight and I needed these pots for my strawberry plants lol , this is our third harvest this year of potatoes we have over 40 lbs so far from 5 gallon buckets and from our raised beds that we replanted with yukon golds again that we will harvest in October that's why we harvested these small ones when we did 👍