How To Grow Potatoes Indoors - Part 2 of 3

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

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[@shawncarr8699]

i watch a ton of gardening videos from a variety of people, i find your information the most relatable. the way you present information has helped me tremendously. thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us in an easy to digest way!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much Shawn, means a lot! 🙂

[@noracharles80]

When is video #3. I can’t wait! Great channel!

[@kevinrowbotham545]

I've got to try this! Great video as always Jeff!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Right on Kevin! Its a lot of space, but it'll be interesting to see the overall costs per lb at harvest time!

[@pdxwildchildroberts5586]

OREGON here💜YOU are definitely my favorite garden tool👍💙👍

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much!!! 🙂🙂

[@garmaldolne679]

You are a great teacher and you put out quality and educational videos. Thanks. I’m learning a lot how to smartly garden with you.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Garmal, that means a lot! 🙂

[@southerngardenesse]

The indoor container is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey thanks! Enjoy the weekend!

[@marypatten9655]

Thank you. Will be looking for part 1 as missed it.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers Mary, thanks!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZDJZqSpacaejac

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Part 3 is coming up! The Indoor Potato Experiment Is DONE! Find out how we did and whether or no indoor potatoes are worth it. Live chat and video Sunday at 8am PST (11am EST)! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKbXnY2jebd9iKs

[@johnmccoy2721]

Man I forgot about this one! Now I am excited to see how this goes again :) Thanks

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Me too John!

[@fishingwithfilitsa]

Great video, liked👍👍

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much!

[@suzi_in_zone6B]

This is such an exciting experiment!! Adding the front wall as you hill…brilliant! Wishing you lots of success!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Suzi, appreciate it! 🙂

[@alicecowan3499]

I love love love this bed!!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Alice! Its going to be fun to work with, that's for sure!

[@OakKnobFarm]

This is a cool project. I've never seen someone grow potatoes under lights before

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Me neither Dave....we'll see if its worth the trouble soon enough!

[@thestudystrategist2219]

Nice construction! Can't wait to see the 3rd video and see how things turned out.

[@donnakacz6460]

Hi Jeff. Another goodie. I may try this if it works out. Worked out. I'm enjoying my Saturday with lots to do but I'm taking the morning off. Just to check out some more of your videos. I really appreciate the time and help you give us. Take care

[@Bev437Sqn]

Brilliant 👏 👏 I am definitely going to start a few of my Kennebec potatoes indoors to hopefully get an few plants earlier than my main crop

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Awesome Bev, keep me updated on how it turns out!

[@Bev437Sqn]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms will do

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@Bev437Sqn :-)

[@nahnisjourney1406]

I have never thought of growing potatoes indoors. I was thinking my grow tent might work well for such a project. I REALLY like your potato bed build!!! I just wish I had that kind of woodwork skill. I might give it a try. Thank you for sharing this.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks Nahni, should be an interesting one! Excited for the results. 🙂

[@nahnisjourney1406]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Thank you, Donna Coastal Georgia Zone 8B

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@nahnisjourney1406 cheers! Should be a update soon!

[@caroljeanscholl7370]

I know I should probably be patient, wait and watch the whole video before asking questions... I just can't wait. I have a relatively small home and cannot set up a big indoor bed for growing potatoes. Can I do relatively the same thing indoors using a couple big black potato bags?

[@sn232]

waaaaaaaa I want to see the awesome results now! :)

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I knowwwww, right?? I'll crank the heat and light and speed it up...I'm interested myself!

[@Olddogoldschoolways]

Hi Jeff, love your videos they’re so informative, and enjoyable. You do a wonderful job explaining how, when and why you do thing the way you garden. Thanks keep up the great work.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks so much, appreciate that! 🙂

[@adorab9446]

Hi, I think your set up is pretty with the wood. It gave me an idea, not as pretty, but I think it will work... using reusable rectangular grocery store bags and folding them down to start then unfolding and adding soil as they grow. Put the whole thing on heavy duty cardboard boxes lined with heavy duty garbage bags. Then, a shop light rigged across the backs of 2 chairs. Definitely not pretty modifications, but, i think all of the elements you mentioned are included. Tike will tell, Thanks 😊

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

100% that will work for hilling Adora...because I've done it! If you can figure out the drainage and watering indoors you'll be aces!

[@FeelingShred]

Adora do you have video on that experiment? sounds awesome 👍you can share video link here without making it go "public" on your channel or whatever privacy concerns you might have 👍

[@FeelingShred]

did it work?

[@sailorgirlk1]

This is amazing!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks! Can't wait for part 3!

[@summercampfam8806]

I’m fairly new to gardening. I wonder why you aren’t trying the bucket method but indoors? I’m thinking of trying that but am I missing something? Could that work?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Because 1) I can't hill them as easily in pots, and 2) I need a large enough bed so that I can compare typical outdoor production with what its costing for inputs to grow them indoors. Pots work great.....but not for my purposes here. I grow potatoes in fabric grow bags all the time....actually most of my potatoes. Just not for this use case. But 100% grow bags will still work indoors. The taters don't care. Heat, light, water, and nutrients..that's all they are worried about.

[@lauramurman2642]

Thx for an exceptionally brilliant and easy to digest educational video! You are miles ahead of me with your knowledge and experience in regard to pretty much everything in this tutorial except for one thing. I strongly recommend white ceiling, floor and walls, instead of mirror surfaced materials, such as tin foil etc. unless they are factory manufactured for the intended purpose, such as sheets of lighting reflectors etc. Just a friendly advice based on my various experimental experiences of growing Marijuana. Take care and live well!👻❤

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Noted! I'd love to switch to that, would likely show up better on camera as well!

[@lauramurman2642]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Preparing to set up my first experimental indoor potato growing "laboratory" here in Sweden since "Winter is coming". Hence my sightseeing tour into your field of expertise. Although I already subscribe but in this case I just slipped on a potato peel and found this tutorial. Thank you!🙏😊

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@lauramurman2642 perfect! If you make a video, make sure to send it my way, would love to check it out!

[@noelgreer3966]

HOW do you produce so much great content! I'm shocked with your quality and productivity. Great job!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey thanks Noel! I literally have 200 video ideas ready to go.....its just TIME! Editing takes forever, LOL! Cheers man, thanks. 🙂

[@kayots]

Would a vertical design work well indoors? Coil, nest etc

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yup, would save on space too. Get the light, soil, and water right and anything that works outdoors will also work indoors

[@theperkins6270]

No part 3?? 😩 I like how you explain everything! We got the spudding process with the water and planting but don’t know what it looks like when there potatoes ready to be dug up!! Hope all is well!

[@aliceinponderlan]

Thank you!!

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cheers Barbara!

[@niyaotis5805]

Is it possible to do this in a grow bag? I don’t have access to wood working tools. How would I go about growing them in a bag? I also can’t make my own compost. Do you know of a good preferably affordable brand? I will also probably use peat moss as it’s more easily accessible.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

For sure Niya, I grow potatoes in grow bags all the time! Compost is usually regional, so what I have available to me, likely won't be in your area.

[@niyaotis5805]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thank you!!

[@CJ-qj3pk]

Good information as always. I need to get my "Carpenter" to make me another raised bed for all the potatoes I have!! Keep those videos coming. I am guessing you are from somewhere in Canada? No. Calif. here.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks CJ! Yeah, I'm up in Victoria, BC. 🙂

[@timadams8687]

Good day mate. My dad always cut the potatoes 🥔 up then used fire ash on the cut's. What do you think 🤔.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Interesting! I'll have to try that! To prevent rot?

[@madlynbarileau1114]

What is the tool you are using to scrape the dirt?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Hey Madlyn, they are called 3-pronged cultivators....but they are often in the rake section or even the hoe section of the hardware store.

[@mmalicki101]

What lights do you use and what's the set up to keep them warm?

[@shineyrocks390]

Potatoes! That's my number one producing crop! I can't harvest watermelon but I can harvest several hundred pounds of taters.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I'll take taters over melons! 🙂

[@edensnectar4664]

Is part 3 of the series out?

[@Waterprincess89]

Hi, is there a way to do the hilling process when only growing them from potato bags?

[@barbaralutman142]

I've watched other videos and they used grow bags. 6" soil on bottom, 2-4 started plants/taters, then just enough soil to cover. Every few weeks, add more soil mix as the plants grow up. So that's my plan. I don't have space nor patience to build a fancy wood planter box😊

[@donwilliams1193]

I like your videos

[@dpirene1]

Would this work a large rectangular container?

[@egman26]

Can't you just use a container indoors? That's how I do it outside because of lack of space. I will be trying container potatoes this winter in my tent to experiment. Good video.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Yup, fabric grow bags would be ideal for this

[@jennifer5689]

When do you hill them?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Some people do it on a timed interval..like ever 4 weeks. I do mine when they reach a certain height. Every 8 inches of growth. Ends up being every 2-3 weeks roughly.

[@dahutful]

I call this potting up business - "fast starting" the potato plants. Potatoes are maybe the least demanding of all plants one can grow. Temperature within proper ranges is perhaps their single real "need" David

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

That's the beauty of potatoes.....such an easy plant. I still hill for baby potatoes because 9 times out of 10 I STILL get them at the surface. Whether that's normal or not, beats me.....but I don't want to be eating green potatoes, so I still hill them. I'll definitely do a "potatoes can grow in anything" type of video....but that's not really the purpose of THIS particular video if indoor potatoes. ;)

[@PlantsNPaws]

Can’t find video number three… can you add the link please?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Not out yet. The potatoes are still growing. I don't harvest potatoes until after they bloom.

[@rosewood9839]

Mine are already growing in very large grow bags, and they are just going to have to grow in the bags.

[@desertflower9557]

I must say, I got a little tired and felt a little overwhelmed while watching. Only because for this female that would be a lot for me to attempt but, I am a big fan of your channel and I tell as many as will listen about it. 🙂

[@mtlefty8687]

As I understand potatoes, only indeterminate varieties need hilling. Determinate varieties do not. Is this correct?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I hill determinates once.... Just the first hilling and that's it. Lots of people don't... Sometimes a loose mulch works as well.

[@andrewaasen500]

I chit myself after watching this

[@jdkohl5037]

😂Priceless

[@dabeav1317]

Probably could of done chicken wire on the bottom with weed fabric on top to keep the soil in. Also would be cool to have some type of door on bottom. You could haverst and not bother what's growing above it.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Deffffinitely. That would be good for carrots or deep tubers, but potatoes tend to congregate near the surface. The vertical slats will be able to be removed in the front, so I can harvest without digging.....we'll see how it all goes though!

[@chinatownboy3368]

What is the end game? Indoor commercial growing like tomato? Where are we going with this? This is genius. This could end world hunger. We could teach this in prisons. Inmates could have a 2nd chance at life after parole, with a nonprofit indoor potato farm.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Ha ha first thing's first.....what are the COSTS per pound to get the potatoes to harvest....then....probably vodka! ;)

[@smokyboy8412]

Nice video! Where's part 3??

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

It'll come out when I harvest the potatoes.

[@leeredel6475]

Hi, I can't find part 3. Can you post it again please

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I haven't posted it. It's not ready until the potatoes are ready.... And they're not ready. :-)

[@leeredel6475]

@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thank you 🤗

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

@@leeredel6475 no problem!

[@marcuspowell2510]

👍🏾

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

🙂

[@fletchybabe6172]

Did I miss part one??😁🌱☀️

[@Shortcake39553]

@@carrolte1 Thank you so much! I can't believe I missed it.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

I don't know....did you? It was over a year ago....so probably! 🙂

[@jean-pierreposman7282]

Why don't you use just growing bags? just the way as Tony o Neill do from simplify gardening?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Because 1) I can't hill them as easily in pots, and 2) I need a large enough bed so that I can compare typical outdoor production with what its costing for inputs to grow them indoors. Pots work great.....but not for my purposes here. I grow potatoes in fabric grow bags all the time....actually most of my potatoes. Just not for this use case.

[@xnotx2]

Why not 16/8 ?

[@williamsmith9026]

2nd video in and I'm definitely liking your technique in getting the point across without wasting a ton of precious time. This actually seems possible for a non gardener like myself. The good news is I can build the planter from scraps in my shop and will start plucking 2x from cut offs on jobs.. Edit 1: does this mean I can start this any time any season?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Thanks William! Appreciate that. And yes.....if this work, it means you can grow potatoes indoors...ANY month of the year! :-) I can't wait for video #3!

[@bg12445]

Why not just use pots?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Because 1) I can't hill them as easily in pots, and 2) I need a large enough bed so that I can compare typical outdoor production with what its costing for inputs to grow them indoors. Pots work great.....but not for my purposes here.

[@jaymantisgaming]

i bought a pack of planting potatos and a wide trough with the intention of growing some spuds on the window-sill of my tiny apartment. no experience whatsoever apart from owning a houseplant. i think ive bitten off way more than i can chew. oh well

[@maximelamothe5181]

you should use 5gallon bucket

[@gphx]

Most of your videos are good but this one failed by starting out with a needlessly complicated construction project followed by making your own soil. Others throw a bag of potting soil in a plastic bucket and are done.

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

Cool, most feedback I got people liked it because 1) it taught them how to make the soil for other plants and 2) they used the idea of the construction for other projects. I'd rather over help than under.

[@GordonMcClelland]

Price..... 1 kilo of potatoes = £9 .. $15

[@tractorback76]

Why not just use plastic tubs

[@ronniestevens1265]

ᵖʳᵒᵐᵒˢᵐ ?

[@TheRipeTomatoFarms]

?

[@swagbucksman34]

Actually you could have used a 5 gallan bucket that was food safe and you could have went straight into your main pot or what ever your planting then in don't have to do all the extra steps