Remember the potato towers I built earlier this spring? Well last night I decided to knock one over to see what was inside. Now this potato tower was a little different than the other potato towers I have growing, somehow I got distracted, and never got around to adding more dirt to this particular potato tower. So I knew the harvest was going to be really small.
But even thought the harvest was small, the soil turned out pretty darn amazing.
Potato Tower Harvest #1 8 pounds 8 ounces
Whoop T Do right? Well, I agree. But I’m also not worried one bit. I have a feeling the other towers {the ones I added additional dirt to} will have produced a heck of a lot more potaoes by the time we harvest them at the end of the month.
Only time will tell.
So, did you try growing your potatoes in towers this year? In a trash can? In a ditch? Have you harvested your potatoes yet? How did your crop do?
Mavis wants to know!
becca says
We did a tower, but we filled it all at once. We got about the same amount as you – about 8 pounds, though we didn’t officially weigh it. It was an estimate.
I have a post about it here:
http://smiles4u2have.blogspot.com/2012/08/days-234-and-235.html
Erika says
We did red potatoes in a container garden. The first round was planted around a bean tower in a kiddie pool garden, and the beans kinda took over and the potatoes got all tall to try to get some sunlight around all the bean vines. Didn’t weigh them, but still got a bunch. Second round of potatoes is in its own 6′ kiddie pool garden, so I’m expecting a whole lot more in another couple months.
Lindsey says
I planted in old feed bags, ones that used to hold chicken and lamb feed. Four inches of dirt, five or so potatoes to a bag, another four inches of dirt, and I kept adding dirt as the plants grew. I poked holes in the bottom of the feed bags and watered until water started dripping out of the bottom. Good harvest per each bag. Plan to do it again.
Lisa says
I did my potatoes in raised beds like I did last year. I harvested the volunteers from last year earlier this summer and didn’t weigh them. It was enough for a few breakfasts and dinners. The volunteer banana fingerlings from my son’s garden probably totaled 4-5 pounds.
The ones I harvested from the actually planted beds did quite well. I did one bed with all soil (Purdy Prep Compost and Planting Mix). The other bed I alternated straw and compost. I got a much better yield out of the bed that was all soil. The potatoes were bigger and more plentiful.
I didn’t weigh them, but I got about 12 gallons worth. Here’s a photo. (if that works)
Nancy W says
I grew my potatoes in 5 gallon buckets this year and got about a pound per bucket. I will try again next year but I may use the wire towers. I wrote about it here, http://homefront.prudentliving.com/my-garden-potato-bucket-yield/.
Heather T. says
I never actually intend to “grow” potatoes but in the spring a few that are past their use get thrown in the compost that we just add to but never use and in the fall we get potatoes strange I know but they just seem to grow anywhere. And don’t worry I have 4 compost areas and we use the others this one is just stuff that I don’t expect to break down fast so it gets put in the back yard.
olemike says
I also had one potato tower. Here is my post about it.
http://olemike.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/potato-tower-final-report/
Christa says
ok so i did my potato tower this year and a raised bed . honestly, i got WAY moreout of my raised bed. I probably got at least 10 lbs from the raised bed and and five small potatoes from my potato tower. did i do some thing wrong? wondering if you potatoes where added at different layers or did you put them all in the bottom and grow from there?