How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag | Apartment Gardeners!

Learn how to grow potatoes in a bag. This is a great way to grow them at home. Especially, if you have a small place like an apartment.

Com’on Apartment Dwellers!? You have to try this…right!?

How To Grow Potatoes Inside a Bag The Easy Way STEP By STEP method. You could also grow them at home in containers. 

Works great if you are limited in growing space as we mentioned earlier.

Let’s Get Started Growing Potatoes

Potatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow especially in a bag.  You will not need a whole lot of land or even a vegetable garden to grow a lot of potatoes. 

Lets look at an easy way to grow them using a trash bag.

Let us look at the step by step process on how to grow your potatoes.

How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag (Step by Step) Instructions

First Step

You want to make sure that there is no danger of frost anymore.  Your potatoes won’t have much ground warmth because the soil will be limited. 

You want to start by choosing a solid compost soil because your potatoes will use the nutrients in the soil while gaining energy from the sun to produce your new batch of potatoes. 

Sunlight is also key here it will keep the vine green and healthy while your potatoes develop inside the soil bag.

Step Two

You will add about 4 to 5 inches of potting soil into your bag.  This will give the potato plants a good base to develop the tubers.  

How to plant your potato seeds

Step Three

Cut the seed potatoes into the size of golf balls but each one needs to have at least one eye in the cutting. 

This could be an indent or you may see a green bud protruding from the side of the potato. 

This is where the plant will begin to sprout up outside of the bag.  

Step Four

Growing your potatoes in a bag place each seed potato cutting under the soil about 2 inches deep with the eye or sprout facing upwards. 

This will give the potatoes the best opportunity to start off well. 

Step Five

You will want to water inside the bag to keep the soil moist.  Do not let the bag ever dry out.

Step Six

As the plant grows up to six inches you will want to add more soil to the bag this will help to bury the potatoes and giving them more room to expand bigger. 

Continue to do this as the potato plants get taller. 

If it grows another six inches add more soil.  You will continue adding soil up until the bag is full.

Step Seven

Knowing the right time to harvest the potatoes. 

Potatoes usually are best dug up when the green part of the plant starts to die and turn brown. 

However, if you are careful you can start to harvest the potatoes one by one after about 4 weeks.

Potatoes Bucket

Growing potatoes in a bucket can be rewarding especially if you only have a porch or balcony. Don’t let your small space deter you from growing them.

Potatoes in a trash can

Growing potatoes in a trash can can give you a ton of them in a small space while making them easy to maintain and keep track of.

This is a great way to stagger growing to harvest dates making them last longer during the growing season.

More About Potatoes

Growing a ton of potatoes in a bag is an easy way to get fresh home grown potatoes at your own convenience. 

This method for growing potatoes makes sense for someone who has limited space and makes it ideal for them. 

Maybe you live in the city or even an apartment complex with little room.  We hope this method saves you space and time as you grow your own food and spend less time at the grocery store.

Pro Tip:  Stagger a few bags of seed potatoes in their planting time, separating 3 bags of potatoes by one week each.  This will ensure a Ton of potatoes and unending supply through the Spring, Summer and into the Fall months! 

If you want to watch the video version of How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag.

Here it is.

Potato Time Lapse Video.

Conclusion

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