For several months I kept the suspense up about this potato experiment. There were a few other updates here on Steemit about the project. Today I made it FINAL! This experiment is over. So... how did those spuds do?
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I will have to do a video on my potato harvest. I'm not holding out a lot of hope for my crop this year. The tops didn't look very healthy at any point in the season. Hope you get a crop from the 3 good ones.
when I seen you get the clay pot my first thoughts was if they did poorly in the tower wont they dod just as bad in this pot ? then I thought about it this pot is deeper has nothing over it and it will be in a different location :D Good luck getting more then four spuds this time round :) thanks for sharing
Hey Blake....I still have my cinder block potatoes going. Almost everything has died back, I probably could harvest them but just have not had the time yet. If I get that done over the next few days I will come back to this post and show you what kind of harvest I was able to get.
Blake, @daddykirbs, I harvested the potatoes last night. As you can see below I did get some but not as many as I did last year. It has been a bit dry lately. I believe if I would have watered more often I might have had a bigger yield. Lessons learned, you should always learn something from year to year.
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Apparently the vertical system didn't work out as well as it could have, but like you said, the hot weather probably didn't help them much.
I just started experimenting this year with growing potatoes in containers, so I don't know what to expect from mine.
This was my first year growing potatoes, I used the fabric pots that youboften use, unfortunately I did not get the results I thought I would, but I did get about 16lbs of potatoes which was only slightly more lbs than I originally planted 🤷🏼♀️ Not sure what I did wrong but I will try again next year 😀
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Excellent. I love these experiments. Upvoted and Followed.
So funny, baby potato!