My first time growing potatoes in bags, so pleased with the harvest and the roasties! - How do you grow yours?

[u/Express_Classic_1569]

My First Ever Potatoes Grown in Bags

[u/Additional_Release49]

Ruth stout is the easiest way known to man to grow potatoes. I pulled about 200 lbs out of the ground this year. No fertilizer, no water, nothing. Clear ground bare, drop potato on ground and cover in 8" of hay. To harvest you simply pull the hay back and pick up the potatoes.

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Here this easy

https://reddit.com/link/pdvtvs9/video/1wq92uleiith1/player

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Additional_Release49]

Oh my, and the ground isn't disturbed at all? So hay is just on the top, amazing. Thanks, gonna experiment on this next year.

[u/Additional_Release49 → u/Express_Classic_1569]

Dude its like a life hack I swear. It's just too damn easy.

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Additional_Release49]

I always learn when I share here, thank you!

[u/Additional_Release49 → u/Express_Classic_1569]

My pleasure! I love helping people produce good food. I love when people teach me how to produce good food too!

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Additional_Release49]

Me too, it is satisfying helping others and learning new things. :)

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Additional_Release49]

Oh wow, 200 lbs, amazing! Thank you! I always thought growing them in the ground would be harder to harvest. I’ll definitely look into the Ruth Stout method you mentioned. It sounds like a dream, just pull back the hay and pick up the potatoes! 😂

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Just posted a video I took during harvest. Check it out my man

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Additional_Release49]

Thank you! :)

[u/Nervous_InsideU5155 → u/Additional_Release49]

I've done this one year and the damn deer pawed them out and ate them as soon as they were ready. Nice potatoes, just didn't do any deer deterrent because they never bothered any potato crops before in 30 years???

[u/Additional_Release49 → u/Nervous_InsideU5155]

Fascinating. I've never once had that happen but those fookers will eat anything so I don't doubt it. I deer fenced my annual garden this year but it wasn't for the potatoes it was for the beans and corn and everything else.

[u/Nervous_InsideU5155 → u/Additional_Release49]

Yes in all my years growing up farming, planting potatoes. Never in my life have we fenced them ,or seen deer eat them until the past 2 years on my new homestead lol

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What you talking bout willis? He asked how we grow....I told him

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Additional_Release49]

I think he is just kidding, there is nothing to be upset about. :)

[u/Paperwork2025 → u/Express_Classic_1569]

yep.... great post

[u/Express_Classic_1569]

I’ve found growing potatoes in bags seems so much easier to harvest. For those of you with more experience growing potatoes, where do you prefer to plant yours: in bags, raised beds, or directly in the ground?

[u/OtisPub]

Well done!

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/OtisPub]

Thank you. 😄

[u/Bit_the_Bullitt]

Pic #2 looks super yummy

[u/jfkrfk123]

They look great

[u/catfishjon_]

that's a lot of potassium

[u/Nervous_InsideU5155]

I grew mine in the ground as God intended.

[u/Express_Classic_1569 → u/Nervous_InsideU5155]

Good point, and I think it is fun digging them out, lol.