i want to grow potatoes to save on food costs and as a backup to nigger riots breaking the grocery chain with the upcoming $20/gallon gas hyperinflation. can any farmeranons give me tips? i heard you can grow them in cardboard boxes i dont have much land so i need to maximize vertically
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i mostly need help making soil or choosing a good soil since my lands soil is shitty clay that is compacted hard as fuck and undiggable
No, we're not sharing our agricultural secrets with you, faggot. Go ask your local autonomous zone gardeners.
you can also grow pole beans, high calorie veg, source of protein, and grows vertically above ground.
square foot gardening is a system im getting into
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I've not tried it myself yet but plan to, but I've seen people grow them in piles of straw.
Potatoes are best brown in potatoes or bags. You probably could use something like cardboard boxes, but you might as well make the up-front investment and get some plastic containers you can use for the rest of your life.
Potatoes will grow in basically any medium. Here in the UK we have a product called 'general purpose compost,' I believe that this is just called 'potting soil' in the US. Don't go to Walmart and buy the 40 litre bags for hobby gardeners - go online and find a local dealer who sells in bulk. They'll drop off one of those woven construction sacks of the stuff at your house for about 5x cheaper per litre. Again, your soil is an up-front investment. You lose about 50% of it each year with potatoes, this can be topped up with your own home made compost. The top soil in your garden/yard is likely far too shallow and compacted to be used for growing anything.
The main thing is maximizing space. Here in the UK we have four potato growing seasons:
First earlies: Plant Feb, harvest May
Second earlies: Plant March, harvest June
Maincrop: Plant March, harvest Autumn, variety dependant
Late season: Plant June, harvest throughout winter
You went to check your zone's specific growing seasons, but as you can from a calorie per square feet standpoint it's a more efficient use of space to grow an early variety and then once they've been harvested use the same space to grow a late season crop.
Again, check your zone, it's all climate dependant. Potatoes are incredibly hardy and easy to grow. If if rains you don't need to water them for a few days at least. Underwatering is far better than overwatering, as they tend to rot in waterlogged conditions. Fertilizers can be used at planting - here we use something called blood fish and bone, I believe 'Neptune's Harvest' is the secret pro stuff in the US, if you can find it.
Fucking hell.
'Potatoes are best grown in containers or bags.'
ive seen some videos of very poor results with potato towers.
might be better off using Large pots, and then stacking those pots vertically with shelves. i think this would achieve better results
I grew some potatoes on my balchony as an experiment, worked out just fine. Bought soil from local gardening supply store and grew in large plastic pots.
who let you out of Ireland paddy?
lol, dear..
Bush beans are so much nicer though... TwT
Potatoes need plenty of light and they flower at least a couple of feet high. You couldn't do any sort of vertical potato farming without some serious infrastructure and expensive light set up. You're always gonna be fighting for square footage that gets sun if you're growing for useful calories and you really can't beat the early/late potato rotation.
As per any kind of climbing pulses are also great for maximizing your space as you can grow them around your perimeter on trellises or supports of some kind. Just make sure to protect them from birds, fuckers love peas. The commonly found bird netting works well enough.
You can grow potatoes in hanging mesh laundry baskets full of dirt.
just research organic supersoil
YouTube it potatoes are retarded easy tier. Online gardens have events where they how many potatoes grow when they are not even watered outside of rain.
Some varieties are "determinate" and some are "indeterminate". Look it up. One kind can be mounded up as the foliage grows and they set tubers in the new mound. Big yield. The other type just grows in the ground like a fag.
If you can Potato-user, try and hunt down this book. It's about a French child than was feral, running completely on all fours... he ate raw potato's and didn't like them cooked. He is a very interesting study and an incredibly unfortunate little bastard. Victor of Aveyron his name was.
>at least a couple of feet high.
Say a foot for the pot, and 2 feet for the plant. so one on ground, second shelf at 3 foot, 3rd shelf at 6ft. could make the shelves out of scrap timber.
If you had them up against a south facing wall (of north facing for those upside down), then you could have 9 plants in a few feet of floor space.
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FUCKSAKE THE IMAGE OF THE BOOK DIDNT LOAD
>"Select a container that is at least 16 inches in diameter and 16 inches (41 cm) high"
ok so you need a little larger than a foot size pot. so shelf would end up 7ft high