Grow Potatoes, How to make A CHEAP $2.75 Mini Raised Bed For No Dig Potato Harvest, Container Garden
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2023
- Easy way to Grow potatoes. Simple to make and take apart for easy harvesting potatoes. Harvest demo and Step by step tutorial. The best portable long lasting raised bed that I've made so far. Ideal for small space gardening. I succession plant to get a consistent crop of the best tasting "new potatoes" throughout the season. The example I used are a small variety sold as "Baby potatoes".
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Harvesting 0:44
Making 5:29
Filling with soil 11:17
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If you've never had a fresh grown potato you truly are missing out. 😋
Totally agree with that!
I love Gary's videos. I think it is time for a tour of Gary's garden.
Thank you.
Thanks Gary!
You a nd Robbie have helped me so much in learning how to garden. People are not born with gardening sense. I started at 70 last year watching Robbie. You really gave me confidence to keep going. I learn as I keep going. Thanks for sharing and teaching .
Thanks. Glad to inspire and help.
That is so awesome etoile2423 that you started gardening at 70 years old. It just goes to show that it is never too late to try new things. And I bet taking on gardening has been so good for your health as well. I am 60 years old and gardening has been a life savor for my sanity! I enjoyed reading your comment. . . i find it encouraging! 🥰🥰🥰 Liz
It's great seeing one Gary's videos again! This is a real neat idea, and we have everything except the cardboard to make it, but we have a huge roll of thick brown paper we could use. Tiny white potatoes are my favorite too. Your dog was enjoying the shade a cool ground 😊. Thank you for an awesome idea and video! 😊❤❤😊
Thank you. It's great to use whatever available resources you have.
Loved the video, Gary. Very detailed and you used items that are easy to find around the house.
Thank you Gary. Very interesting. You and Robbie have a great day😊
Thank you too
Thanks Gary, please do more videos. They are so informative!
Thanks, will do!
Great idea Gary! Especially to use for compost
Thank you.
I'd love to see a follow up video on how Gary plants out the two tier planter shown at the end! I'm thinking i'd like to try that one. Thanks for sharing your creative gardening ideas. 🙂
Gary has the best ideas when it comes to making "containers", trellis, .......
Those small potatoes cost more in the store than the regular size!
Thank you. Yes they do.
Thank you for sharing this information with us
My pleasure
Hi Gary, nice to see you. I like the smaller potatoes too. Potatoes are the funnest, lol if that’s a word to grow. I just love it. This idea is genius. I believe I have all the supplies to try this. Tfs your wealth of information. Have a wonderful day.🤗
Thank you.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy you are very welcome.😊
This is a great idea, thanks for sharing!!
You are so welcome!
Great idea Gary! I’ve got my rolled fencing and rebar wire for making your compost bins, which I’ll do this next week. I’ll take some of the supplies and make potato bins. Thank you for sharing your idea! 😊
Thanks Cindy.
I love my cracked tote it grows me really great potatoes ! Thanks Gary ! I've always planted my potatoes at the bottom of what ever and added dirt to the new growth...
Thank you. I always say do what works best for you. I add to the top when the soil drops or when the tubers breach the surface to protect them from the sunlight.
Great idea Gary. Everyone needs cheaper garden solutions. You and Robbie always have the best ideas.
Thanks Karen👍
Thank you Gary! Definitely have to try, my taters are all in fabric bags, love trying new things! I appreciate the thorough breakdown! Easy to understand! Have a great day! 💪😎👏🍻
Thank you.
Hey Gary & thank you for sharing this information on growing potatoes 🥰🥰
Thank you Mona.
Ooooo you could make this into a strawberry tower. You would need holes in the cardboard but it should be doable. I lost a lot of strawberries this past winter due to the cold I imagine, so I am thinking about order bare root strawberries. I will need to make something for them, since I already planted other things where the dead strawberries used to be. I think maybe a strawberry tower could work. I never could get the watering right on the strawberry pot I have.
I love your pots! I have tons of hardware cloth I haven't used. I had been thinking they would be a good side for some raised beds and here you are, showing me. My hardware cloth was bought to keep out squirrels, which as far as I can tell, no longer come steal my stuff, so I have unused rolls. I love using what I have and improvising what works.
Yes yeevita that sounds like a good plan.
He reminds me of my uncle. He could grow anything!
Thanks. I'm glad to bring back some fond memories.
Thanks Gary, great timing again. I'm growing sweet potato slips for my favorite sweet potatoes (the light tan ones). I use steamed sweet potatoes instead of flour in my sweet potato waffle recipe. The light tan sweet potatoes are not always available and the deep orange/red sweet potatoes don't work for this recipe. Anyway, I've been trying to figure out where to plant all the slips I'm rooting. Now I know! Thanks again for the detailed instructions, so helpful.
Sounds great! Thanks Barbara. Over the years most of my sweet potato varieties got lost in the jungle. This year after the "snow event" I had a lot of clearing to do. I was able to find my lost favorite Okinawa purple. To me it tastes like biscotti. Now I'm setting them up so the won't get lost again.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Biscotti? Yum! We have an international market, I'll check and see if they carry Okinawa sweets. Thanks for the tip.
I love this thanks for showing the results! Im going to try lining something similar with tulle for good drainage, less wicking. Thanks Gary happy gardening!
Great idea! Thank you.
Brillant! Even a lady could make this bed.
Thank you.
Wonderful video, Gary! I love growing potatoes. Your method is ingenious. Thanks for sharing your creative ideas.
Thank you.
Very cool😎hello you two😀
Brilliant!! Amazing to see how affordable and simple it is to set up. You are both such amazing engineers!!!
Thanks so much!
I always perk up when I see a Gary video! So precise and easy to follow. I have lots of ground space in my garden but I have contained my potatoes. This is my next potato containing project. Thank you for the idea. PS, my husband made the compost containers and we all well on our way to wonderful compost.
So nice of you susi thanks.
Hi Gary, could you use plastic trash bags to line the containers? Or are those too thin? Love your garden. Hope we can see more of it soon. ❤
I could see that working. The plastic would be thick enough to protect the cardboard and the cardboard would shield the plastic from UV rays. Thank you.
To get cardboard, i once went yo Costco and pulled the large square pieces that they use between rows in their priducts. I was going to kill lawn eith them - like 6 ft by 6 ft or there about. They come in different thicknesses, and Cistco staff was happy to give them to me.
Thanks Sharon. That's a great tip.
Great way to grow potatoes! Thanks for sharing your amazing ideas!
You are so welcome!
Hi Gary! Great video on setting up bins for growing potatoes. Between you and Robbie, we are all so very blessed to learn and continue to gain skills & knowledge to keep our families nourished, thriving, and so happy to eat what we grow! Thank you both so much, love you both, God bless❤❤.
Thank you.
Gary you might want to start wearing gloves - if u hv a small cut you can get a nasty infection otherwise 😢
Have a wonderful day 😊 ☺️ 😀
Same to you Robert, thanks.
Wow Gary this is a great idea. For the cardboard "waste not want no" lol .. thank you for sharing your video 📸
Thank you. You are very welcome
Great idea. This looks easier to do than cutting out the bottom of planters and less expensive. Thank you very much.
Thanks. You are welcome!
Brilliant Gary! I receive large boxes from Chewy too. Now I can use them to plant the dogs and I our favorite purple spuds.
Thanks Covah .Sounds great!
DIOS BENDIGA A NUESTROS ADULTOS POR EL CONOCIMIENTO QUE NOS APORTAN THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS ❤
Thank you.
Oh! And you can wrap those dog enclosure panels in that plastic stretch wrap they have for wrapping pallets? Narrow plastic wrap on a roll with a handle? And then you can zip tie them together and you have a little greenhouse! Or a big greenhouse, depending on how many panels you use...
Have you seen thekiwigrower's tomato plants grafted to potato plants? I bet those would be awesome with some composting in place...
Thank you.
Thank you Gary! Brilliant idea! This is a genius idea that you developed.
The only change I would make would be to either use a cotton duck painters drop cloth instead of the black plastic. Or put the black or clear plastic on the outside. My concern is the roots coming in contact with a non food grade plastic.
I really like the tower idea too. So inexpensive and easy to make.
Thank you for sharing with us. And please if you have time, can you share with us how the birds are that the man in the truck dumped off.
Thank you! 😊
Thanks Sue. With our low humidity an issue that I have is maintaining a consistent soil moisture level. I started with cardboard but the water was wicking out the side walls so I had to water more often. The plastic should solve that. If placed on the outside it would break down faster. I will be doing an update on the Guinea fowl, they have settled in and are doing well.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Thank for answering Gary. And I’m looking forward to seeing the birds.
Being a diabetic I'm not supposed to eat potatoes but I have a potato already growing so I'm going to plant it just for the fun of it 😅 Really enjoyed your video.
Ms Pat from southern Indiana 🌹
Thank you.
Very interesting. Im planning to plant two little red potatoes that i got from a food bank today. Im using some old dirty shopping bags.
Thank you.
Danke Gary für so genaue Beschreibung den Kartoffeln Körbe. Ich probiere auch so was bauen :)
Grüße aus Nordwestdeutschland ❤
Thank you.
I love how you show affordable options for gardening! Thanks!
You are so welcome!
Very creative and resourceful! I always learn from you and Robbie, things that I can actually do. Thank you for sharing.
Our pleasure!
Saw a video similar to your technique. They used chicken wire and layered straw then compost/soil then put the seed potatoes, then straw, compost/soil, seed potatoes all the way to the top. They just kept layering and planting. When the potatoes started vining, the vines grew through the chicken wire . Harvest time they just un hooked the wire and got the potatoes. Not sure what type of potatoes. And I think they only had to hill the top layer as they grew since they mainly kept the seed potatoes in all layers away from the edges to prevent sunlight from hitting them. It amazes me the way you and others think of these different ways to grow things. Thank you for sharing.
Interesting. You're welcome
Excellent video. You've given me several ideas for composting and planting that I never thought of. Thank you.
Thank you. Glad to help
Great video Gary..I luv all your videos they so creative. maybe if you can put all your videos in a category listed, Gary videos, so later we can find them all. I've seen many but hard to find them again. 😢 which is disappointing cause you come up with really unique clever ideas that I want to use in my garden. Thanks for sharing another unique, cheap way of gardening.
Thanks for the tip Donna. Here's a link to my new playlist Gary's videos ruclips.net/p/PLcJJ-s_k5IBDs63SqkpktuDfA3skHYqfG
@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy thanks so much Robbie ❤️ 🥰 and your very welcome.
Gary, you are an excellent teacher! I love how you take your time to slowly explain each process. I appreciate your dedication to our garden community.
Thank you, I appreciate your comment!
I like these planting containers and they are sturdy.
Thank you.
Hi Gary that is So clever and attractive as well. I have always LOVED your style!!! Say hello to Robbie!!! 🥰🥰🥰 Liz from California
Thank you! Will do!
Love this idea! Thx Gary !!!
Thank you. Glad you like it
Awesome! I have the panels from several outdoor pet enclosures and have a couple of compost "baskets" made of 3 panels zip--tied together with cardboard around the inside for composting leaves, sticks and twigs that come down in the wind, year round. Have you tried potatoes in wood chips? Apparently they love just wood chips for some reason. I forget whose video that was...but thanks to you and Robbie both for sharing your makes - They're all brilliant and we really appreciate them!
Thanks. I add a lot of composted broken down woodchips to my soil mix. This is a video on my potting soil mix ruclips.net/video/VVqtgK6yNLk/видео.html
I notice you had the smallest on the bigger basket gives me an idea to make a tower out of it. Small basket in the the middle of the larger one making a two tier level. Thanks.
That's a great idea! I'm glad you picked up on that. Thanks Sonia.
Great presentation you never cease to amaze me with how resourceful your mind worlks
Thank you! Cheers!
🤩🙏 Both of you inspire & motivate me - thx for sharing w/ us! No potatoes currently in our garden. Might give them a shot - ugh, I’ll brave the Oklahoma heat & mosquitoes 😅
OK, I’ll stop whining & get to work 😊
Thx again!
Thank you.
Goodness - another fantastic idea. Portable, adjustable - love it!!! ❤. Since I am in the Pacific Northwest with so much precipitation, I might be inclined to put the plastic on the outside. And cardboard or nothing on the inside if composting the cardboard while growing plants might cause a nutrient deficiency. In an effort to use what I already have at home, might try old tarps on the outside and cardboard inside. Thanks for the idea. With the fencing wire, there could be a whole number of fabrics or whatever to line The wire fencing.
Thanks Sharon. With your higher rainfall and less harsh sunrays your ideas might work better for you. That's what I like to see. Taking an idea that I've put out there, thinking for yourself and working on a solution for your garden.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy absolutely! I am a novice gardener. But I so love many of your ideas - so easy, practical, and inexpensive. Thank you, thank you!
Ingenious! So creative! Thanks Gary!
Thank you! Cheers!
great idea Gary! :)
Thank you! Cheers!
Another excellent idea!! Thanks for sharing, Gary!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you. I learned something new and valuable today.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Like this idea with the wire and cardboard! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks. You are so welcome!
Hi Gary gtsy. Thanks for the info.
No worries. Thanks.
Great job on this project 👍
Thanks 👍
Gidday Gary 👍 you bloody rippa…
Thanks moomoocho
Thanks Gary! As always very informative.
Thanks for watching!
Great idea 😮👍
Thank you! Cheers!
That is so darn smart, it really is. Thanks for this info and I will use it for certain.
Thank you.
What an innovative homemade potato planter!
Awesome thanks for sharing such a wonderful idea!!!😁❤️🪴🙏🏻
You are so welcome!
Great job Gary glad to get the tips!
Thanks 👍
Wowed Gary……. Very impressive. Thank you sir!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
Great idea! Thanks Gary!
You are very welcome
We are growing our potatoes in cardboard boxes and they are doing great
That's great terri
Thank you, great video still learning so much. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much, I am a visual learner, and you just showed each step very well, and now I know how to start and what I need. Blessings
Great video Gary! Im dying to plant some potatoes! Ive grown them before and theres nothing better then homegrown! Even homegrown children eggs!
Thank you.
Genius Gary!
Thank you Rose.
Wow, this is Great idea for my mulch. Thanks GM
Thank you
Great video 👍
So clearly explained
Thank you. Glad you think so!
Great idea, Gary!! Thanks for sharing the video!! Will have to give this a try!
Thank you.
Question? Do you plant eyes up or down? I love your channel. I have learned so much from you. Thank you.
Thank you. I plant with the eyes facing up. I don't know if it makes a big difference. The plant will find it's way. Commercial growers aren't likely to do that.
Thanks Gary I was looking at Watson to grow taters.
Thank you, you're welcome
Hey Gary- good idea ! And cheap too..just the way I like it. Thanks :)
Thanks. Glad you like it
Excellent video, thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
Thank you! What a meet idea
Thank you.
Great idea and demo! Nicely done.
Thank you very much!
These potatoes grow up, you need to plant the seed potatoes Four inches from the bottom
Sweet potatoes grow down so those are planted on the top of the Planter. Good luck
Thanks Jackie. I've tried many depths. I know a lot people "hill" them but most tubers form at the same level. Next time you grow some, as an experiment try planting a couple 4 to 6 inches from the surface. I add sifted woodchips or soil on top if the tubers start to breach the surface to prevent them going green from the sunlight.
This was great! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video Gary!
Thanks 👍
Ingenious! I'm going to try this. Thank You, Gary, for making this video for us! I love your straight forward way of giving very clear instructions.
Thank you very much 😊
Inexpensive idea!
Thanks.
What an awesome way to use resources I already have! Thanks
Thanks, Gary.
I didn't have much luck with mine this year, so I think I'll give this a try! Could you tell me how deep down you plant your potatoe slips?
Peggy
Thanks Peggy, you're welcome. I plant my potatoes 4 to 6 inches down. I don't mound or hill them as they grow, just cover any that breach the surface. Most of the tubers produced will be at the same level.
Good idea!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you so much.. 🙋♀️ how often do you water your potatoes? And when do you know they are ready for harvest?
You're welcome. I water when the soil is dry just below the surface. I didn't show it, but I cover the top with fine woodchips/mulch to help keep the soil moist. In my garden potatoes rarely flower which is when most sources recommend they're ready to harvest. I wait until the foliage dies back.
I love this! Very similar yo projects I do and like to do!
Thank you.
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You're welcome!
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Thank you so much for sharing this!
You are so welcome!
Thanks great video:)
Glad you liked it!
That’s a great idea. My one question is how safe is that plastic with food plants? I know Robbie is very careful gi get plastic that is food safe.
Good point! It is the same plastic used in agriculture, strawberries Etc.
Thanks for the great ideas
You are so welcome!