Red Norland Potatoes harvested from "grow" bag

These Red Norland potatoes were harvested from a grow bag. I planted 3 small seed potatoes in May.

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This was my first time for both growing potatoes and growing in a "grow" bag.

Not too many, but it was fun anticipating the outcome!

very cool!

What a timely thread - we just dumped our barrel of Rose Finn Apple potatoes and got about the same amount as you did, but they were smaller than yours. I am not impressed with this method! Maybe we need to explore varieties; we have another barrel and a half of the Rose Finn Apples that still had some green leaves, so we didn't check them out, and two and a half barrels of La Ratte which are still quite green.

Hi greenhouse_gal, I was excited just to see that the potatoes weren't rotten! That was my biggest fear b/c when I planted the seed potatoes, they were all shriveled and starting to get moldy although they did have green sprouts. I've never done this before so it was a learning experience. I'm sure we could get much larger yields inground but I like to use that space for my tomatoes.

I still have one bag left with Kennebecs. I'm guesstimating they have a couple weeks to go yet but with temps in the mid 90's this entire week coming up, I think the foliage is going to get toasty crisp fast.

Toni, I tried this last year, too, with a different variety of potatoes. There is a thread here that talks about potatoes in barrels/bags, and they were hypothesizing that the reason there were only a few potatoes, and they were just in the bottom layer, was because they were using a shorter season type; supposedly you'd get a better yield with a longer season potato. But both of mine are longer season, so I'm not sure what's up.

I tried growing potatoes in the ground, in my garden area, years ago and they attracted a ton of Colorado potato beetles which had never been a problem before. So I wasn't going to try that again. The first time I used a barrel I set it on the edge of the compost bin, next to the chicken yard, figuring that I could send the beetles to them, but I never got a one. They must not notice potatoes that aren't in the ground!

The only insects that have found the potatoes are the flea beetles. They originally attacked my annual flowers (cleomes) a few weeks ago and then disappeared. They reappeared about a week ago and this time had a taste for potatoes. I sprayed lightly with some Pyola but those bugs just jump around all over the place so I don't think that did much good. Anyway, the plants are closer to the end than to the beginning so I'm letting nature take it's course.