The above-ground portion of the potato plants were all extremely happy, even flowered and fruited. So I’m not entirely sure where I went wrong. Was the location perhaps too sunny/ the buckets got too hot? Should I let these sprout and try a fall crop?
by itsfineimfinejk
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6 more than I got – 2 buckets and a couple in the ground for comparison!
Did you let the leaves all die and dry out before harvesting? Somewhere here even told me to wait 2 weeks after everything is dry and dead (I was impatient and waited 10 days for mine). I ended up with a pound and a half of potatoes, grown from 6 seed potatoes in a 15 gallon grow bag.
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Did you top them with soil? You’re supposed to keep adding soil.
That said buckets have never had great yields for me. The best is raised beds ime.
We did in the ground this year and did okay on harvest but the texture is kind of meh. The lack of soil amendments and lower soil quality compared to a raised bed makes a difference.
I got 5 from a four gallon bucket I stopped early because of moving. Good deal.
Feed feed feed
Thats the only explanation for this. You didn’t fertilize enough. Covering the plants, waiting for leaves to die etc are valid but you’d still have WAY more potatoes despite the issues.
I’m an ex farmer and the number one problem I see with novice gardeners is they somehow forget that plants are alive and so need feeding.
This issue is probably related to close to 25% of all posts made on this sub.
Feed them and they will grow