HARVEST VIDEO #2 –
Potato Planting Made Easy: Your Guide to a Basket Full of Spuds! ✨🥔
Hey there, garden enthusiasts and spud lovers! Ready to turn a simple clothes basket into a potato goldmine? Here’s a fun and nearly foolproof way to grow your own potatoes with minimal fuss and maximum yield. Grab your basket, and let’s create a potato lasagna!
📋 What You’ll Need:
A tall clothes basket (yeah, the one you might have lying around!)
Mulch
Topsoil/Garden Soil
Compost
Potato starts (12-15 small variety, your choice of whole, cut, or chitted)
1️⃣ Start with a Solid Base: Fill your tall clothes basket with layers of mulch and topsoil up to the bottom hole. Picture it as the first layer of your potato lasagna.
2️⃣ Potato Starts Go In: Place your potato starts in the soil, sprout side up. Whether you’re a fan of using whole potatoes, cutting them up, or going with the chitting method, it’s your call. I just prefer the whole potato method and the potato varieties I am planting are small potatoes.
3️⃣ Layer Up: Next, add a layer of compost, then mulch, and then another layer of topsoil. Time to place another row of potatoes on top.
4️⃣ Build to the Top: Continue this layering process until you’re about three holes from the top of the basket. Then, fill these last few inches with mulch.
5️⃣ Water and Sunshine: Give your potato basket a good watering. Find a sunny spot for the season, and let the sunshine and your care do the rest.🌞
Why This Rocks:
Easy Harvesting: When it’s time, just tip the basket and watch your potatoes roll out. No digging through the dirt required.
Space-Saver: Perfect for patios, balconies, or small gardens.
Fun for Everyone: An engaging project for gardeners of all ages and skills.m
So, grab that basket and let’s get planting. Your future self (and your kitchen) will thank you when you’re enjoying home-grown potatoes. Here’s to a bountiful and delicious harvest! 🌱🥔
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so let’s plant potatoes in a clothes basket why do you plant potatoes in a clothes basket well because it makes harvesting so easy and potatoes just don’t really require a whole lot first thing you do is fill the bottom of the closes basket up to the first set of holes with Mulch and top soil and then you literally start layering your potatoes potato with the Sprouts s sides up I think I put I don’t know four or five in the center of it and then I layer it again put some Mulch on there OST on there and then I put some top soil on there put another round of potatoes in here when you get to the last three holes I just fill the rest of it with mulch keep it good and watered all season long tighter in an easy Harvest now that’s bom Dy
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Can you show a video of harvesting them?
I grew PawPaw tree seeds in one of these in 2017>>>They are flowering for the first time this year>>>So excited>>>My taters are in a tub just like your blue one on your truck bed
Yeah – you want to exclude sunlight as green potatoes are poisonous.
How many potatoes will you get from that?
Can you do sweet potatoes this way?
I have an idea bc I don’t believe in gate keeping. You can do this with strawberries by putting them through the holes and put a 4or 6 inch pipe in the middle to and maybe grow something there water, compost and drill wholes in the pipe.
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I have the exact same basket, the handles broke now it is growing my strawberries.
You truly are a genius! This new way to grow potatoes kinda blew my mind tbh. Extremely excited to try this method. Thank you so very much for sharing! It’s the first video I’ve seen from this channel and it’s beyond perfect. Am now curiously intrigued to see what else there is to learn and have my mind blown by the channel. I sincerely thank you,
❤ from Shannon in Canada 🇨🇦
I wanted to see the results.
I like the idea but is it food grade safe material?
Never use plastic
Totally cute overalls where'd you get them😊
I've planted some in an old shopping bag. I'll see what comes out of that.
im new to planting. so i am needing alot of knowledge but would the plastic from the basket be bad for the potatos?
I don’t believe for a second that watering them you can still retain the soil in there with then big ass holes
Dumbest shit ever
Interested to see harvesting
Please follow up when you harvest. Thank you God bless you MARANATHA
Please finish telling how you know when they are ready. There's more to this for FIRST TIME GARDENERS. Thanks
Is that (toxic) plasic going to leech and be taken up by the food you're going to eat?
Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful piece
The plastic might pose a problem or two. A sturdy cardboard box is an alternative and much cheaper if not free.
How often do you water?
I'd be using a tarp so that way anything that spills out of the holes while you're filling it up you can reuse.
Where’d you get the clothes baskets?!?
Are you sure it is the right kind of safe plastic? Needs to be #2,4 or 5.
Do you water in between these layers?
Because you love microplastics in your food
The other video had the guy use everything you said but he used hey as well