How to Grow Potatoes In Containers For High Yields

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In today's episode of UK Here We Grow. Tony O'Neill shows you How to Grow Potatoes In Containers For High Yields. Growing potatoes is a hugely satisfying experience and doesn't require a large portion of your garden for a successful crop. Growing in containers means you can store them anywhere sunny in your garden or plot and pack them by when finished. Potatoes are also fantastic fun to grow with your family especially finding the treasure when they're ready to harvest. There is nothing like seeing children turning the bucket over and pulling out tubers, It's like finding treasure to them. In this video Tony O'Neill explain what's required to get started growing your own potatoes in containers and demonstrate how to fertilise your plants to keep them healthy for a bigger, tastier and high yielding harvest. How to Grow Potatoes In Containers is fast, easy and a great way to ensure the tubers are not damaged upon removal. If you have a green house or polytunnel you can remove the foliage and store the potatoes through winter in the buckets until you need them, without having to dig them up and store in hessian sacks. If you are interested in showing your potatoes / spuds then growing them in buckets or containers means that they are cleaner, less likely to get damaged by a fork and can be harvested much quicker than growing them in the ground. If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our other video's that show all aspects of growing your own food. We show tips and tricks to help you, such as this video . How to Grow Potatoes In Containers For High Yields Join us at the following:- Our site http://www.UKherewegrow.com https://www.facebook.com/ukherewegrow/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKHereWeGrow/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/UkHeresABargain/ Twitter https://twitter.com/UKHerewegrow Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TonysAllotment/posts Email Tony@UKherewegrow.com We would like to welcome all our new subscribers and thank you all for supporting UK here We Grow "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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I was so inspired to try this, until i added up the cost of all the ingredients. 30 liters of store bought compost, blood and bone, store bought seed potatoes (sarpo miras are not cheap) plus 3 or 4 other organic items. I guess a pretty good yield would be around 5 kg of potatoes pr bucket.
In my area (sweden) a conservative cost estimate would be £3 for the content of each bucket (and that is excluding the price of water, the poly tunnel, buckets, irrigation systems etc). £3 for 5 kg of potatoes is about the price of organic potatoes in stores here, so the only benifit from this method is the excercise, and personal gratification.
I can be quite a hassle to store potatoes, and some go bad.

So i would like to see this method used with home made compost, regular fertilizer like chicken or horse manure, which most people would be able to get for free, wood ash, and other cheap ingredients.

I feel slightly demoralized everytime i look for information on growing stuff, i see people pulling stuff from plastic bags or containers, they bought at the garden centre with fancy names.
I don't grow stuff solely for the purpose of enjoying touching dirt (which i do enjoy). It also has to make some kind of economical sense. Isn't buying all manners of stuff from stores, to grow things in your garden kind of against the idea of self sufficiency?

I'm not writing this to be an a**hole, and i appreciate you taking the time to share. I apologize for my english - it is not my first language.

cuando la cosecha de patatas, que hacer con la tierra , se guarda para la próxima siembra ? o de otro sembrado ?

What is the best way to use comfrey cheers great videos

Excellent will do this year 2017 thanks m8

nice channel

Do you have a greenhouse automatic watering system for when your away on trips? If so is there a video on it

Great video Tony, looking forward to the updates on this bucket. I have all the ingredients you've mentioned on the video but can't find the groganics anywhere, where can I get some in the UK?

Hi Tony, Some really good tips, I'm growing sarpo in manured bed with added poultry manure 250gr/sqm and then only planning to add comfrey tea every week after 8 months once foliage will be build for potash, do you think this might be enough ?

I've just dump't all my buckets of spuds outside under some fleece, The first lot have flowers on them already....PS if you think your late getting yours in, Well I've still got to plant my pink fur apples sometime this week lol

hi Tony thanks for the advice. I will try growing them your way.

Thanks for the clear instruction.

great video Tony I'm growing potatoes In bags for the first the this year every body seems to get great results so I thought why not give it a go where do you get the buckets from coz I fancy getting a few for next year ? cheers

Hi Tony, Great video, I am amazed at the amount of feed used, it was like you were baking a cake the way you were mixing Haha. I will remember all the tips for next year as we have planted all ours now. Some great tips in your video. Thank you so much, Ryan

What would you suggest for someone who wants to grow organically?

nice tips, reminded me to go and feed my taters some fresh comfrey tea

Such a FAB video Tony :-) and so wonderful and easy to follow :-) thanks so much for sharing and sending you heaps of love and tons of happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle and have a magical evening ahead XXXX <3

Hi Tony.
Great video. I'm a little late myself putting in my Sarpo's. I will probably do it this weekend when I get back from Newbury. Mine are not chitted as much as yours, but it's getting on a bit so they are going to have go in.
May I ask what you do with all the compost after you harvest them. It seems to be a waste just to throw it all away not to mention expensive. Would the compost be any good to use for growing something else?
I'm new to all this and I would like to keep costs down.
Pete

Good info! Thank you for sharing!

love your demos. nice one

great video !! all my potato are all ready in there buckets but good information for next time. all the best and happy gardening!!!