*SO EASY* DIY ~ Grow Potatoes in Dollar Store Bins

I’m growing potatoes in dollar store laundry bins. SO EASY
#Growyourown #DIY #Garden

Supplies:
Laundry Bins: DT or Walmart
Organic Potting Soil: Home Depot or Walmart
Seed Potatoes: Home Depot or Walmart
paper bags
scissors
1/4” drill bit & drill

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[pamelachappell]

As a country girl. I was in the planting of the garden by the time I could carry something. Instead of knocking the eyes off my Daddy cut the potatoes up with an eye to each section. Dropped them in a row and covered them up. We always had a good potato crop. You don't need a whole potato for 1 plant.

[Mmbohn]

I put old white cotton large t shirts in mine...like a bag. They stretch over the basket. Then fill with dirt and slips. Works great👍🏻

[PinkLlamaGrl]

You don’t need to buy seed potatoes. Just grab those old potatoes from deep in your cupboard that are sprouting.

[raticallife]

Go to your local bakery and ask for their empty flour bags. They're more than happy to give them to you. Reduces their own waste. They're huge, strong and free. Will be less fiddly than scraps of paper.

[mattpeacock]

I'm no expert on gardening, but I do know one or two things, so I feel compelled to give this tidbit:
Add a small handfull of bone meal with each new layer of soil.
Nothing will suck potassium and phosphorus out of your soil like a potato plant trying to build new tubers! Especially indeterminate taters.

[theresadowns]

I planted potatoes in the Dollar store laundry baskets last year but I didn’t make any holes in the bottom because of all the holes on the side and they grew Very very well

[theresakelly]

Okay I stopped this video at you buying the organic Jiffy seed starting mix that you’re paying almost $4.00 a bag for! My potato chits came up in a week after container planting b/c I’m using a few tricks I learned from a neighbor which requires no extra purchasing of anything to make my potato’s grow! All I added to the soil and compost mix was crushed egg shells, diced up banana and pine needles from pine trees which are high in acidic acid which potato’s need! They are heavy feeders of potassium and acidic acid! You can use coffee grounds too!
Beyond that, your idea is genius!
You’re video helped me cut cost in buying 5 gallon containers and my advice will save you in buying stuff you don’t need to make potato’s grow!
I add either a whole raw egg or crushed egg shells below the seeds of every vegetable and fruit plant I grow. The result is amazing! The germination time is literally cut in half!
The need to fertilize certain veggies/edible plants with acid acid and potassium varies...generally corn, potatoes and oxalis Triangulus all need acidic acid and potassium!
Most of your other plants don’t!
Anyway, why buy what you do t need when you have things in your kitchen like eggs, coffee grounds etc...to feed your heavy feeder plants and all other plants everything they need to grow?
Oh and I only water my plants with collected rain water! I’ll give you my email and prove the results! They are amazing!

[heartofdixieprepping]

Children's watering cans are a dollar at DT. They are so cute, small and sturdy. Great for kids to water their plants with. But your recycled bottle is neat.

[lindajustice]

Plant in cardboard boxes. Fill the bottoms with brush, sticks, leaves, veggie scraps, toilet and paper towel rolls, paper from your shredder and then fill with about 4”-6” of soil or potting mix and plant your seeds or plants. The worms will come and start to break everything down which will then feed your plants. After the harvest you can continue letting the whole thing decompose. (Be sure to leave the dead plants in the box to break down. Then you can add all of that to a new box when you want to plant again. This method works great for me. Free containers, free mulch, free compost. And just have to pay a little for a few bags of soil to add a few inches to the top to refresh the other composted soil. Also save seeds to plant next season. Gardening doesn’t have to cost much and it’s fun to get inventive. Happy Gardening!

[loisjohnson]

I only put my red potato peelings in flower pots covered with dirt, months later, for example, yesterday I dug up 8 beautiful red potatoes 🥔 about baseball size and today I make potato salad with them, , so good too,

[slewmayhew]

I love hearing the little one's voice, the man's feet in the background saying "hello" and the cute little dog. How in the world are you doing this inside of an absolutely clean and well- decorated home? Planting does not have to be messy. I am looking at my 4 dollar baskets you are using and couldn't think what to do with them. This is the best - the best planter video I have seen!!

[okiegardener]

I like the basket/bucket method for potatoes! Easy to harvest, and no digging! Nice job!

[MamaSapp]

what a good idea with the water bottle...so simple but never thought of that. Thank you

[katebaldwin]

I use the large yard waste paper bags (the kind you use for leaves in the fall) in a couple of laundry hampers.

[pamelapruett]

I watch the video from a guy in Ireland and he used the plastic grocery bags and poked holes in them put them in laundry baskets. He put about 3 in of soil in and only one potato per basket and then fill the bag up with soil. That way all the work is done at one time and the potatoes grow just fine without having to come back and hill it again and again. Then he would lift the bag out and carefully pull the bag down and harvest any big potatoes leaving the root ball intact, pull the bag back up and put it back in the laundry basket. So that way you can Harvest your potatoes without disturbing the root ball. I think it's been genius and planted 12 laundry basket myself. Although your way works also oh, but I just be concerned about the paper breaking down and the dirt spilling out. Did you ever Harvest your potatoes?

[AlternativeHomesteading]

I love this idea. Thank you. Laundry baskets would be good for strawberries too!

[robyndudley]

How did the potatoes do! I can’t find a follow up video? Do the plants grow through the sides of the bucket? Did you fertilize since you were only using seed starter mix? Did you keep them indoors? I want to try baskets this year but I have so many questions. Lol

[kathydarson]

Thank you for this video and also a huge thank you to the commenters. I don’t have a green thumb and all the help I can get is very much appreciated. 😘

[pamelapiller]

Would love to see the potatoes as they grow to top of basket and the harvest! Thank you, great ideas!

[MarkSmith-qkrl]

I planted sweet potatoes in baskets yesterday. I used weed guard fabric to line my baskets ! Hope it works ! The slips were healthy and looked really good this morning. I’ll let you know how they did. I used five baskets !