POTATO TOWERS 2020 - Comparing Buckets vs Rows vs Towers - Small Space Backyard Potato Planters

[@Wilderstead]

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[@lettertube]

I'm trying a tower for the first time this year. I read all the comments below and like to add one thing, that watering tube is interesting. I'd fill it with 1/2 crushed rock (I see you have plenty of rock on hand :) and lessen the holes in the lower half of the tube. Hello and Cheers from the Iron Range of Minnesota !

[@Wilderstead]

Yes! We did actually fill that tube with rocks. Just put up a new video with some potato tower updates today.

[@hartman12349]

That was the first thing that occurred to me, holes of 2 millimeters are enough, and only a very small number, these large holes would deserve a wick so that the water does not flow so quickly.

[@jeas4980]

Ahh HAA!!! That's where I saw it! I tried this last winter in Virginia under plastic... and it would have worked too if I had secured the plastic better. I did Russian Bananas and French Fingerlings and I had a couple hand fulls of large marble sized potatoes when I reused the straw to top the beds this spring. Anyway... I started again this spring and now have 3 potatoe towers (red Pontiacs, Kennebecs and Golden butters...and 4 bush bean towers. I figure if they'll work in a green stalk than this method should work. I also added pinto bean transplants to the top of the potatoe towers because I read they're good companions. I'm going to build a strawberry tower too. I need to pull all these runners out of my okra bed. I LOVE experiments in the garden!!! Thank you both so much. What an inspiration this has been for me!

[@Wilderstead]

Very cool Jea!!

[@matthewfarrell34]

I like the watering idea. I think I'll try that this spring. The only thing I might do differently is drill smaller holes on the bottom and larger ones on top. I think that might distribute the water a little more evenly.

[@Wilderstead]

Yeah, this season we’ll do smaller holes. We filled the pipe with rocks to help slow down the draining.

[@parmbirdhaliwal6311]

@@Wilderstead How about making small holes something like drip irrigation. Plants love drip irrigation.

[@tamijohnston8280]

Love this! Thank you so much. I am in North Bay, also with sandy, rocky soil (or lack there of!). Can't wait to try your idea!

[@debrapaff7543]

This video totally changed how I approached my towers this year. I am looking forward to Potato Christmas!

[@p_roduct9211]

How was your yield this year?

[@margarita1mantilla540]

So great people experiencing. As far as i know...andean people has experiencied already all about growing potatoes for many thousands of years. Being an andean person i can say...potatoes do not grow so close, or so many in such a tiny spaces... they will produce really lots apart from each other and also covering every few months around... but its okey every single person can grow potatoes the way they wish

[@DaZebraffe]

Actually, growing potatoes up through the tower isn't a misconception, it's just a different way to grow a potato tower. But keep in mind that if you're gonna' do the "grow up through the tower" technique, you need to use late bloom potatoes, specifically. Any variety that's not late bloom, will just have a small pile of potatoes at the bottom of the tower, with a tall, useless stalk running through the rest.

[@granmabern5283]

Also known as determinate potatoes vs indeterminate. Nice to know they can be called « late blooming », maybe I will remember that. The early ones grow horizontal batches of potatoes. Also, these guys put about forty seed potatoes into one tower!!! I hope they got more than forty new potatoes! He did say they use towers as a spacesaverr

[@beinganddoing2123]

I can never find the kind of potatoes where this would be successful. Any suggestions.

[@melissab8500]

I know I'm late to the party, but thank you! You just cleared up a long standing mystery for me 🙏

[@Zezmezzie]

I did this last year, I was so excited to have my mound of potatos 😂😂

[@anonymousf454]

​@@granmabern5283 can I grow the ones from the grocery store in a tower...like Idaho brown potatos, or the thin skin red ones, or the small mix of gold, red, and purple potatoes...which ones are which?

[@InTheWoodsWithWolfie]

woohooooooo baby poutines :) can't wait to see how the towers do... it's something i've considered for both at the cabin and for the tint in town gardens :)

[@petanisantuy4781]

Im a new farmer, n i have a red soil, when rains its mudding, when dry its hard like stone! This is what im looking for..thnks 💙for sharing ur idea... ill do it for potatoes, garlic, onions.. n maybe some sweet potatoes too! 😁

[@mathewwalworth5236]

Did a raised strawberry bed this year going to do 2 Potato Towers next year along with a couple raised tomato beds as well..

[@elijahrose7913]

I subscribed because of the first potato tower video

[@northstarprepsteader]

Very clever towers and great to know the mix you use. I like how space-saving it is :)

[@Wilderstead]

Thank you! 😊

[@huntshackwildernessexperie6820]

Hi Dave and Amanda. This will be interesting yo follow along. Im looking forward to seeing how it goes. ATB Paul

[@Wilderstead]

Us too, Paul!!

[@sasquatchdonut2674]

That’s how a potato tower should be done. I gotta try this technique. I don’t know why people just blindly recommend those giant wooden boxes but it doesn’t work.

[@trollforge]

This is an awesome take on the potato tower!

[@Wilderstead]

Thanks Tim! It'll be interesting how the three methods compare!

[@edieboudreau9637]

Will you put another layer on top of the tower with the watering pipe? I would've. I would've also used a bit thinner watering pipe. But that's just me personally. Lol.

[@uppanadam74]

Another thing to point out with regards to seed potatoes...is that they will dwindle away into nothing!! Which means the tower will shrink even more so!! Just thought I'd point that out!! Cheers!! :-)!!

[@Wilderstead]

Thanks. Not our first potato tower rodeo ;)

[@granmabern5283]

I love your solar pumping station and I hope you explain it in a video because I need one of those!!! Thankyou

[@Wilderstead]

There is a video about the solar irrigation methods we use on our channel.

[@dorianmclean6755]

Oh thank you so much This was excellent

[@drekfletch]

Letting the cut dry is called healing/heeling over. Chitting is when you put the pieces in the light so the eyes pre-sprout.

[@Wilderstead]

Yeah, I suppose I could have explained that a little better. Folks can watch the other video I linked for a full overview of chitting potatoes. Cheers!

[@montassarbouslimi]

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[@joeandsueoffgrid]

I’ve only grown them in the ground but seen some grown in buckets. I like your towers and interested to see how each way does. 👍🏻

[@oglelaura]

In case you didn't find it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJLOmZ55fpKYZpY

[@Citystead]

I think I may have build some of these for next year, this might ne my first year getting real potatoes I used buckets and they seem to be doing okay

[@Wilderstead]

Get the tater towers happenin next year, Josh!

[@lannguyen-pu1db]

Looks like you are building a lasagna! Wondering if Potato Lasagna will taste good. I will try your method, and replace the srtraw with cardboard and shredded paper and see what happens.

[@robertmeisetschlager3383]

Love your Videos!! Keep going! Very interesting. Greetings from Germany!

[@edieboudreau9637]

Love poutine. Yummy.

[@offgridwanabe]

Cool I am trying the box method for potatoes this year seems ok.

[@JCharlesoutdoors]

Very cool way to grow potatoes, I always wanted to try that , I subscribed, great channel, thanks for sharing

[@AlmostHomestead]

Catching up on videos today. Nice job guys! Very good instructions.

[@Wilderstead]

Thanks Jay!! We have a lot of catching up to do LOL. Had close to a 2 week hiatus for vacation up north and other events.

[@gavinbrinck]

i'm curious to see your channel now... I was curious how you might solve the 'all the potatoes at the bottom of the holed pipe tower getting the most water dilemma.. ? ill try to meditate on a solution, and think of it for you.. perhaps you could create a down pipe, and then a circular connection, into another down, and circle, with holes all the way..(this would be easier to draw..i hope someone reads this and knows wtf i mean, heh ) thank you; i'm inspired to get out and try different methods from watching yas !

[@georgemueller8066]

can you grow sweet potatoes this way? are any potato varieties better than another? determinate vs. indeterminate? other tubers work this way? rutabagas?

[@Wilderstead]

I imagine you can, we have never tried though.

[@TheCanadianBubba]

No soldiers left behind this way !

[@resrunnerwhitey]

Instead of drilling holes in the pvc, I plan on filling it with gravel and sand. After I'm done planting the potatoes, I'll just pull out the pvc pipe.

[@Wilderstead]

That might work nicely!

[@timbassett9132]

This is amazing! Thanks 40 lbs!

[@woodspirit98]

I grow on total clay and rock and never break up the ground or rototill it. No need. I decide where to put the garden first. Then all the grass clippings from all summer go on it. All the ash from the woodstove. Every leaf that falls on the ground. Add in some chicken manure. And all garden waste. It should be a foot or two deep before winter. You wont even need a trowel to plant. Just your hands

[@Thegardeningmcgyver]

Can you use organic miracle gro instead of manure and compost? I'm located in Orangeburg SC. Zone 8a 8b

[@Wilderstead]

Probably.

[@michaelfournier3141]

It's been 3 weeks any updates on the vertical potatoes. Are you able to make a video with an update??

[@Wilderstead]

There’s an update in the video that just came out today. Cheers!

[@Kaisel_T]

U need 100k subs and i hope u live for a long time

[@MsCtv85]

Thank you for sharing

[@aslillady27]

we used cloth pots this year hoping they do well!

[@trollforge]

I used them for the 1st tine last year, they take almost 3x the amount of water in my experience, so keep an eye on them.

[@ed241]

Step 1--should be to put some garden fabric on the bottom so vermin don't burrow up through the tower and eat the potatoes. That's the problem I have with growing potatoes in rows--the mice, voles, moles, chipmunks, etc eat everything.

[@Wilderstead]

rodents will chew through garden fabric. and they'll also be able to make it through the larger holes in the actual tower.

[@ashokthakur8704]

Great job sir.

[@batterypoweredgardener8181]

Grew mine in tire towers for 2 decades

[@JimDockrellWatertone]

Wilderstead potato lasagna method...lol. Pretty neat.

[@thriftyveegee4129]

Covering all your bases with potatoes LOL

[@jenniferhamann1689]

What happened to the potatoes you grew in the ground?

[@Wilderstead]

Hi Jennifer, that harvest is in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoCVoKeqfslnfZo

[@spencerwebb2054]

Cool idea. Could old leaves be substituted for the hay?

[@Ed1Ward]

Another channel said don't multilayer but wait a week or so. Also determinants versus indeterminates for towers?

[@Wilderstead]

This isn't the 'box' method of planting. And you can use either determinate or indeterminate varieties for the towers.

[@JohnJohn-wr1jo]

Just to add, my experience if you don't multilayer you end up with taters that complete their cycle spread too far apart. Depending on the variety this may be a major issue. As they mentioned the towers are planted to the side and the plants grow outward more than upward.

[@TheGeckLp]

Why put potatoes in every layer? There seems to be a way to plant only one layer, and conver it up slowly over time so the tower gets bigger and bigger.

[@paddygora8413]

So.many plants sown in suxh a small space. Too much competition. Only indeterminate potatos can be mulched/soiled high. Determinate potatos are planted direct in the ground.

[@rogerscheuermann4409]

Are these potato slips determinate or indeterminate? What about fertilizer?

[@Wilderstead]

We grow both determinate and indeterminate varieties. Fertilizer is the compost we make.

[@carolynmoody9460]

BLESSINGS 💞

[@friendryan]

what was the result with tube

[@janeyc9325]

Love it

[@GorefeastDrummer]

so what is the straw for?

[@johnclark3431]

#7:03 woahhh trippy man lol, but awesome video guys!

[@valour10]

Where is the comparison?

[@Wilderstead]

There are several videos on our channel from this past growing season looking at the 3 methods we used and what they produced.

[@lunabeta3516]

Shit, glad I watched thus after the other one

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Rows or potatoes not gaps?

[@MouseOfVirtue]

Great info. Must be inconvenient/ expensive to bring in all your own soil? I planted four buckets this year for the first time, 3 out of 4 died. I read not to overwater but I probably underwatered.

[@Wilderstead]

It’s a little inconvenient. It’s a one time investment per bed though, so it pays back over time. We do a lot of composting here that gets added into the mix annually.

[@davidchristopher2328]

Why bother bringing it in, when you can just make your own? I've been working with clay and rock, but it just keeps getting better. I did Ruth Stout method for potatoes on it in the first year and then mixed the straw in and now the soil is just amazing. My rock isn't exactly Canadian shield, though.

[@bigal25938]

I wouldn’t think potatoes grown in the towers with layers of straw or hay could compete with ones grown in the compost and soil. Doubt the plants would get much nourishment from the straw or hay.

[@Wilderstead]

They are grown in soil/compost between layers of straw. But yes, we have found buckets to be our best option here.

[@andrewgrudzinskas5778]

I tried this for the first time and I never got anything come out the side s

[@asifmasarguppi2092]

I suggest, if we plant 1 week nursery plant rather than planting directly potato there are higher chances of growth as plant will get sunlight directly from first day. You need to careful about the perimeter plantation. This is really good method of plantation. In case we are not using nursery the chances are less due to lack of direct sunlight. Please try by using nursery.

[@batterypoweredgardener8181]

I just started a tower

[@PhilVerryChannel]

This is as much work, time and trouble as my rototiller and ground. 6 of one...

[@goodcitizen3780]

This video is not a comparison video at all. This is a set up video. :-/

[@Wilderstead]

This is the first video of several comparing different growing methods. Chapter one.

[@valerie4975]

You never compared to other methods

[@Wilderstead]

There’s several videos...

[@matsvineyard7564]

Where is the comparison. Very misleading headline. Be honest You Tubers.

[@Wilderstead]

This is a series of videos... the harvests come later.

[@lifestylewithsafi4454]

Woow so nice,, thanks 😊 I wish I could also have subscribers like you ... but sadly 😢😢😢😢

[@IAmHumanJake]

Sorry don't want to be rude. But couldn't you have gotten ot to the point faster. I truly wanted to see video because Im researching the topic. But if this video randomly pop up, I probably would of clicked off, 2 minutes in and still no results. Not hating

[@Wilderstead]

lol

[@IAmHumanJake]

@@Wilderstead I still watch all the updates. To bad was bad year. If I remember mine didn't do good also.

[@paulfreegard1271]

dont use any peat save the world

[@terryrandall2067]

Lake Inferior LOL!!!!!