Since 1987, this variety has become one of the world’s most popular and for good reason. They can be planted in only 4 in. I don’t know if it’s not warm enough here, or what the problem was. Table 1. Therefore, you can use both determinate or indeterminate varieties of tubers for this purpose. Indeterminate: Russet Burbank, Snowden, Bancock Russet They keep their lovely color when cooked as well as their shape. The blue and purple generally don’t do as well because they require a longer growing season. I promise. I am going to try this method out next year as I don’t have a very big area for growing vegies. Lots of potatoes that year. I wish I could post a pic here. Volunteers come up on their own. I have had volunteer potatoes grow from just peeling in my compost heap! This way, potatoes are produced in several layers of the bin instead of just one layer in the garden. From what I have found on other sites there are two different types of potatoes. Last year I tried growing potatoes in two compost bins. Water and fertilize as needed. Storage: Store sweet potatoes in a cool, dry spot. Also, do you think I can use last year’s cut horse hay instead of straw? ð. I did get a nice crop of night crawlers tho! I planted sweet potatoes last year (in a raised bed). The mulch is just for keeping the soil from drying out. • 3rd in world food production, after wheat and rice. Indeterminate. This tower was planted with alternating layers of potatoes, dirt, potatoes, straw, potatoes and dirt. And item that I view as labor intensive. I tried a tower with sweet potatoes this year. Potato vines are either determinate or indeterminate, with the differences characterized by the growth habit of the plants. All our plant tags identify whether a variety is determinate or indeterminate (bear longer, on long vines). . 25lbs isn’t bad when you consider how little space the towers take up. So assuming each piece of potato you planted averaged 2 ounces and counting the four volunteers you can assume a 26/1 yield. Being in stacks high above ground was probably just too high a growing temperature. Potato Plants. Determinate potatoes produce early, after 70 to 90 days. A lot of banana peels this winter and try it next spring, I have some towers still growing strong. (both sweets and Irish) That w/ the Irish potatoes, just like tomatoes, there are determinate and indeterminate varieties. When they have grown 8″ to 12″ tall check the underside of the leaves for little orange eggs, These are from the Japanese Beetle and must be eliminated to have a good yield. I planted some russet potatoes in a flower bed with the drip irrigation sprayers on a timer. They also offer free tomato seeds for a SASE sent to them.. But plant one tube only gold’s with 6 or 7 layers and water more add chicken compost to your mix as well. I noticed that over the course of the summer the soil was compacted by about a foot (shrinking from 4ft to 3 ft). I think I cooked more potatoes in my towers than i grew! I did this last year in an old metal trash can {you posted my photo of my *ahem* dirty potato last year} and had about the same luck as your first two towers. Learn how your comment data is processed. My city does curbside yard waste pickup. Final potato tower tally – 25 pounds of potatoes. This makes them excellent for use in salads, soups, roasted or boiled. Hate wasting resources. Thinking I will stick to the traditional method from now on. Them up and mix them with the soil you use for I have done potatoes several times in the past in barrels or potato grow bags, and all but one time was very disappointed with the yield. I planted five pounds of seed fingerlings in five different bins (one pound of eyes in each) and did the layer method of dirt, straw, dirt, straw as the plants grew. I grown potatoes in 75 litre black bags, – anything larger and the crop doesn’t increaser I just use more materials and water and get no extra crop. Boy ladies! I tried using a method of not hilling and it was really a Boo. These produce plants as large as you allow them to grow. The namesake of a famed singer, actor and social justice activist. I think we are getting an astonishingly good yield. They set a few long roots close to the plant and all the other space was just wasted. Hang out with Mavis & Lucy right in your Inbox! We will be growing potatoes in our garden next season. I threw some sprouted potatoes in my compost pile in early spring. Los Angeles CA area. He also nipped out the blossoms if any occurred. Seven dust in a homeade shaker under the leaves or pinch the eggs off with your fingers. Yesterday I headed out the the garden with high expectations of harvesting a bumper crop of potatoes from our three potato towers {I’m saving the ones we having growing in the compost pile for this weekend}. I have found that gold’s grow better then any of the other potatoes try them this year and add another two layers. I thought for sure tower #3 would yield the least amount of potatoes because when I had planted it, I packed so much dirt and straw in the wire cage, that I assumed the potatoes wouldn’t produce much. That’s interesting. I’m using raised bed intensive gardening methods, so you would expect higher yields that those obtained by farmers using traditional farming methods. Mounded on dirt and compost and grass clippings a couple times early in the season and then forgot about them. thanks. Kennebec potatoes are best suited for cooked applications such as baking, mashing, or roasting, but their best virtues are displayed through frying. We hilled as they grew (rototilled between rows and raked the loose dirt up around the plants until they became too tall to continue). Determinate potatoes flower once and produce one layer of potatoes, so they are not suitable for bin growing. Other potato varieties are indeterminate. heck, A lot of the later season varieties tend to grow far larger potatoes with a lot more foliage. I noticed in late spring that I had many robust potato plants sprouting out of the compost pile. I can see /smell the potato salad/mashed /soup/stew/fries///etc….We were poor…and relied on our garden…mom had potato’s ever day of the wk almost……fired potatos/mashed etc. What variety did you use? I think it may also depend on whether you are using a determinate variety or an indeterminate variety. Georgia's climate is well-suited to growing most varieties of potatoes; you can start as early as February in the southern third of the state. To the tower results to try next year also. nothing like fresh potatoes. I’ll try to remember to do that next year. More than we will eat in a year. Then put them somewhere dark, dry and cool, but don’t refrigerate them. Fast becoming a favorite with gardeners. These varieties are compact and dwarf in height (3-4 feet), and will produce new fruit throughout the season. we ordered the seed potatoes in a 50#bag from the local hardware store in my farmboy’s hometown in northwest ohio.we get those and onion sets every year from them. They were even on the skinny side compared to some carrots. TONS of straw. The tubers harvest clean too. The only drawback is mice and slugs might be a problem with these methods but I think it’s worth a try. I think with indeterminate you start with a few seed potatoes at the bottom and keep adding soil as you see green growth though the top. volunteer veg or trees etc. It has a creamy texture. Love this post! I did the burlap sacks this year….. ugh. Problem is, it is difficult to find accurate information on potato habit. We don’t get many, and if you don’t find all of them they will come up again from the unfound ones. but bulking ends much earlier in the season. It was a fun experiment, tho! You Have to cut up the potatoes leaving an eye in each piece, plant the cut up spuds, allow them to grow about 6 inches, then almost bury the plant with dirt. Seed Count: 2 lbs. My wife and I have been gardening our own food for years. we did not do towers, we just did in the ground. I got beautiful plants and lots of leaves but no spuds! Final harvest – about 8 pounds of potatoes. I planted 2 seed potatoes per bag except the bag I dug up yesterday only had 1 plant. I planted on May 11 and dug up 1 plant yesterday, August 7, 88 days after planting. Because of all the spaces between the wood pieces, the potatoes received enough air and grew fantastic. Read on to learn more about growing these potatoes. here it comes!!!! (btw- with blue potatoes I get a low yield where ever I plant them- I think that is standard for some blue varieties). I think the mulch holds it’s water well and stays light. Indeterminate, but behaves like a determinateÆ: Russet Norkota, Gold Rush My Dad used to “hill” the potatoes. When it died I dug it up (for the funny of it) and the original tuber was 3x the size and we had sweet potatoes coming out of our ears! u did a great job. For more information, visit the Sweet Potatoes page in our How to Grow section. And always tomatoes where they fall, rot and I ignore them until spring. I think I will try to toss a couple potatoes in the big raised bed this fall and see if cooler weather makes them happier by spring. Potato plants and that will give your plants more After you stop adding bedding the plants will cascade down from the top. The edible part of these plants are the tubers that grow on the roots. It’s on every tomato label, but on no sack of seed potatoes I have ever seen. Our best results are planting in deep raised beds that have been amended in the fall with leaves. In the very top of the potato bag I tend to grow little gem lettuces or basically any salad leaf you fancy. Next year I’m going to try a no dig method by placing seed potatoes under cardboard or 6 layers of newspaper with the seeds just laying directly on top of the dirt then covering the vines as they grow with just straw. Okay, I just weighed my potatoes. They grow to their expected height, flower and set fruit in a shorter period of time. Plus your dog is cute, I have a 10mo old pug named Yoshi. I planted the potatoes in  potato tower # 2 with 3 layers of dirt and potatoes. Thanks for checking. There are so many choices when considering growing red potatoes. Also it will give your hills more room for the growing spuds to come. First cut holes in the cardboard or newspaper then place the seed in the hole so it makes contact with the soil. That is the kind you want to use in a tower. The plants will only grow to a certain size and will only grow up to a certain amount of potatoes. This was on my bathroom scale, which is pretty accurate for humans, but I don’t know if it’s equally as accurate on low weights. I have the best success growing an a bed and hilling. Sign up to get all the latest gardening tips! It volunteers. Our "Container," “Window Box” and “Bush” varieties are semi-indeterminate. Its all about water. (both sweets and Irish) That w/ the Irish potatoes, just like tomatoes, there are determinate and indeterminate varieties. But with potatoes we want lots of roots. Determinate crops, tend to mean bushy in nature but restricted somehow, such as in height or cropping (single crop of a specific size). ONE with purplebluesomethingigotatthefarmersmarket. I did dirt at the bottom, covered with a light layer of compost and PACKED in straw. Well it was a lesson that’s for sure. I planted a tower this year with the straw on the outside and the dirt in the middle. I’ll try the towers this year. Sweet potatoes are usually orange but also found in other colors, such as white, red, pink, violet, yellow, and purple. Yukon Golds, and all early varieties set fruit once and do not do well in towers. But this year, I gave them plenty of water. That’s what I know. ONE with red somethingorother. Large fruit with deep maroon color and rich, complex flavor. I’m starting to get worried because they have not yet flowered… Are sweet potatoes supposed to flower? They do really well planted in really dense plots though. If I had a yard like yours, I would totally turn it into a giant garden and grow stuff to give away to friends and family! Thank you for your time and happy gardening!!! However, short season potatoes set a certain quantity of potatoes, then they die down. Thanks! They require regular pruning and need to be supported with trellising, stakes, or cages. Let me know hoe it goes. Final Harvest – just over 5 pounds. Boy was I wrong. Soil temp is important for potatoes. I’m in Zone 8 in Texas. Cured sweet potatoes keep up to 6 months when stored around 60°F with high humidity. Of course, there is always an exception. Then let them grow, when they look almost dead dig them up, leave them on the ground for one day. I grow mind in a bed. I live in alaska and every growing season can vary greatly. Also, people don’t understand (I didn’t) determinate vs indeterminate potatoes. I’m going to be interested to see what the yield is like from your compost pile. Make sure there is an eye in each section. Determinate potatoes will grow to a genetically determined height and then stop. I’m just wondering since your results would be a 45/1 yield. I sure am curious how they will turn out! I know I’m late to the party but I’m very interested in this subject. They can be used to make any number of fried potato preparations such as steak fries, hash browns, shoestring potatoes, French fries, potato skins, chips, and Hasselback potatoes. I water mine twice daily and feed once a week. Indeterminates are suited for towers. I always line the bottom 6 inches with shredded paper, rotted horse manure, good compost, soil and a water retainer of some kind and have a drainpipe with holes drilled in it down the centre of the bag stuffed with shredded paper – I water down the drainpipe and the water seeps out – and water the bag itself – I ALSO feed the potatoes, as the potato plants grow I unroll about 4 inches of the bag and add compost until only the very tops of the leaves are poking out and continue like that until all the bag height is used, then mound up the very top. They had plenty of drainage holes but because of all the rain that year the plastic held the moisture and they rotted. Most have white to off-white flesh, which contrasts nicely with their different hues of red. You’ll need to weight it down a bit with rocks, wood, etc. My favorite potato is “Yukon Gold”, an early variety. I occasionally dusted very lightly with Sevin since there was evidence of chewing but I didn’t actually see what type of bugs were involved. Last time I tried sweet potatoes I planted one whole tube in the ground and is made a pretty ground cover. Of course, you can find out if a potato is indeterminate or not by growing it! I’m going to try a tower this year, setting up a sprayer for irrigation, I’m worried it will dry out thru the sides. Any yours look beautiful!! Wasted less dirt that way. Types of Sweet Potatoes. I am going to dry out I actually had MORE yield on my volunteer potatoes (which I have been harvesting all summer)- thank goodness there were some left in the ground from last year- otherwise I would have had a very poor harvest. We just planted them in the ground. What are the name of some late season potatoes? Potassium to produce better. My granddad was a potato farmer and his favorite story to tell was ‘back in ’52 we got a 18/1 yield’, he said no one believed him until he showed the purchase and planting records. are spot on for what she grows in the soil…But bags take up less room and can be moved into a sunny location where you don’t want to dig up soil. I’ll tell you what I know… not a suggestion though. Learn more about red potatoes varieties in this article. I got 5 nice sized potatoes, I’m guessing 1 1/2 pounds. Good job! Lots of water for lots of blossoms. Do you happen to know which type Yukon Golds are? No, I have never had a mega harvest for either Irish potatoes or sweet potatoes in towers, but that has never stopped me from trying again the next year. Dang, it sure got tall though. NY 136) Great job Paula! ), Bintje, Canela Russet, Desiree, Elba, German Butterball, Green Mountain, Katahdin, Lehigh, Red Cloud, Red Maria, Red Pontiac, Strawberry Paw (a.k.a. I will send an update when I harvest. Your email address will not be published. The determinates will NOT produce well in towers and do not like being hilled up more than a few inches. did u hill them? Now the question is, should I try this again next year, and if I do, how am I going to change things up so I get a bigger yield? Determinate: Yukon Gold, Norland, Superior (add Red Norland and Red Pontiac from other source) I had no idea potatoes came in determinate and indeterminate varieties. I guess I leave too much potato on the peelings. Indeterminate tomato plants can be spaced between 12″ and 18″ apart. We have grown potatoes from the peelings… not needing seed potatoes. • Potatoes can be grown in a wide range of environments. Sadly, I didn’t weigh them first. (The sweet potatoes did better than my Irish but as usual-they were both poor harvests.) This year I planted an old truck bed liner (we had swapped out for the spray on type). Indeterminate varieties will continue to grow until killed by frost. It’s also fun to dig your hand in gently through the mesh to pick a few taters very young. is ones u did not plant but came up on it’s own from seeds from last year or bird droppings etc. They were small but wonderfully sweet!) The sweet potato is named after French-Louisiana Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard as Rolston was a fan of the Civil War. This post may contain affiliate links. I got A LOT of potatoes, though. Expect an intense harvest from determinate varieties. It was recommended to keep the soil light so they grow better. ð I have a question for everyone who used straw in the tower: did you have a rodent problem? I read that you need a mix of compost, peat, and vermiculite to grow the potatoes in. hope this helps someone! Soil stays cool and is loose and makes for easy harvesting. Why Potatoes? Yukon Gold is an early variety that only sets potatoes once; hilling or boxing them does no good and in fact lowers yield. Let me know your your sweet potatoes do. Any potato is a seed potato. Our compost is made using dry maple leaves and fresh grass clippings. With the sweets-I planted “Vardaman”. How did you prep your soil? It is by far our favourite for mashing, but they don’t mash well until late September.” ... these varieties have the ability to continually produce potatoes due to their indeterminate growing habits. Determinate potatoes rarely grow very tall and are often early to bloom. That way you have many feet of buried stem to make tubers. For more information, please see my disclosure policy. That’s above average. The farther north in the state you live, however, the later you will need to plant your crops. Find more gardening information on Gardening Know How: Keep up to date with all that's happening in and around the garden. There are a ton of different kinds of sweet potatoes from Beauregard to Regal, but it’s hard to find most of them in the store. “The potato is excellent in salad, boiled, baked and roasted. The garbage can method could prevent that, but I’m trying to use a system with a lighter footprint. So with potatoes, if you leave a tiny potato in the ground, the following spring, it will grow and produce more potatoes, with no work on your part. We planted Yukon Gold’s. It also doesn’t make sense to leave them in the ground past their point of full maturity because they won’t set any more potatoes. Boo! lol. http://cropwatch.unl.edu/potato/yukongold_management, http://ipcm.wisc.edu/download/vgu/Vegetable%20Crop%20Update%20%2316.pdf. • Consumption: − Processed as french fries, potato chips, dehydrated products − Fresh potatoes are baked, boiled, put in … I’m in Western Washington, too…south Snohomish County. I have been growing my potatoes different, but I am going to do it your way. It is a determinate type. I have 65 pounds of potatoes. Agreed. I so wish it worked better because I live in a city and don’t have the space to plant them traditionally. I could also be off on how much the full buckets of potatoes weight, because I didn’t actually weigh those either. One thing I see in your pictures is branches growing out of the sides of the towers, not great. Anyway, for what it’s worth, I thought I’d share my lazy gardener experience with you. In fact, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. I think your yield would be better using dirt only in the root area and use the straw, grass clippings or any mulch on top of the soil. put a tire down fill with straw, (or old leaves) dirt and a little manure throw potatoes in whole Just wondering, anyone in zone 18-21 Sunset Western Garden Guide growing potatoes? Some were volunteers from last year. someone said they grow better in towers on here? Not all varieties grow upwards successfully. where did u get your seed potatoes? Do you think a soil amended for cactus would work well for potatoes? I planted 16 pieces down a 16 foot row, and had 3 or 4 volunteers in another bed. So far my best results stemmed from using the “old fashioned” tried and true methods of hilling. Lorena, MAVIS….I was anxious waiting the results of the towers and oh the potato’s look so good …no suggestions right now….Never had the purple ones….we’ve mostly grew the white ones…..Thanks so much for sharing. Red potatoes have less of a starchy texture and more of a waxy one. As soon as the leaves got about 6 inches over the straw…more straw. But I don’t. They are so juicy, you can eat them raw in the garden. I do have a few questions if you would please as I was not able to locate a answer to these questions in any of the previous posts… When you re-top (if you will) with dirt and straw, when do you do it and how much dirt and straw do you top with? I’m interested to see how your compost pile potato tally comes out. Like tomatoes, potatoes are determinate and indeterminate. I’ve seen them on Craig’s list for $20 – $50. I don’t want to be harvesting rats! I watered 1 to 2 times a week and applied some Miracle Grow Miracid 3 times throughout the growing season. I was sooooo excited! Information On Iceberg Roses: What Is An Iceberg Rose? See the blog from yesterday titled “Tomatoes – Determinate or Indeterminate” for information on determinate tomatoes. 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