Step 5 – The blossoming bed
Watch them grow and blossom! About 2 weeks after the blossoms have gone by, start checking for potatoes by gently pulling back a bit of hay from around each plant. Remember to wear gloves since the seed potatoes will still be there and can be squishy! If you can stand to wait, just check their progress until they grow to the size of a golf ball before harvesting.
Step 6 – The harvest
Start looking for recipes – you have beautiful, clean, organic potatoes to eat and enjoy!
A project by GardenMaine
Also:
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- How To Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes In a Barrel
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- How To Grow Potatoes In Potato Planter Bags
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- How to Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Sq Feet
Would like to try
Wouldn’t golfball-sized potatoes be rather small? The last photo shows them much larger.
Seems like mice would be a problem. Not very clean after all.
So I assume you get well over a 1000 lbs of potatoes from this? After all you planted 50 lbs of potatoes.
Can you use Straw instead of Hay ?
Can the hay be used more than once?
I was surprised that this was not mentioned. Talk about a bonus! My neighbor and I plant our tomatoes in hay bales and after we have thrown out the dead vines in the Autumn; the hay bales have become the most beautiful black soil. We then toss the new soil into the garden for next year’s crop of peppers, onions, squash, etc.
Thanks for the tip, I will try it this season. 🙂
How well will this work in Florida. It tends to be extremely damp during the summer. Well, always. And HOT.