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Growing Potatoes in Grow Bags

by April
on April 19, 2019
in Container Gardening, Vegetables
Growing Potatoes in Grow Bags

This is my first time growing potatoes, so I’m excited to see how it goes!  I contemplated growing them in the ground, in a raised garden bed, in garden containers, and in grow bags.  I decided to do grow bags because they were fairly inexpensive, and there was no building necessary.  I got these 25-gallon grow bags on Amazon.

I decided to go with German Butterball potato seeds, which I purchased online.

growing potatoes

I received 2 lbs of seed potatoes, which was roughly 20 potatoes.  I sat them in an egg carton for a couple weeks so they would sprout out.  Not everyone does this process of chittng though, so it’s not necessary.  I had planned to cut the potatoes into pieces and let them dry a few days before planting them, but I felt I should really get them in some dirt soon.

I wound up doing 10 potatoes in each 25-gallon grow bag.  I am hoping these are not placed too close.  Honestly, I did not want to use 3 grow bags for the potatoes, so we’ll see how these do.

potatoes in grow bags

I covered the potatoes with some soil (Miracle Gro mixed with Black Cow composted manure and some vermiculite).  As you see above, I did not fill the bags completely.  Once the leaves are poking out of the dirt a good bit, I will add more dirt.  Gradually, the bags will be filled with dirt as the potato vines grow.  I will have to do some follow up posts on my experience with growing potatoes in grow bags.  Fingers crossed they turn out amazing!

Update 6/25/21: While going through and re-adding the images to my posts after switching website themes, I realized I never updating on this. I planted these on April 16, 2019. We moved to our current house July 9, 2019 – so I didn’t really have much time to focus on my plants and garden. The potatoes grew lots of green and were out of control. When we moved, I cut them back so they wouldn’t get damaged during transport. They grew back nicely but started looking rough again. So I finally harvested them July 24th. I didn’t weigh them, but I’m not sure I even got my 2 lbs worth of seed potatoes out of this. Maybe I will try potatoes again one day.

  • before moving and cutting them back
    before moving and cutting them back
  • small potato harvest
    small potato harvest

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