Originally Posted by sherriequilts
OK here it goes: showing my ignorance! I have grown potatoes (many years ago) in the ground and dug them up to harvest them. So what I don't understand is how to harvest them from containers. I read about planting in a trash bin and adding soil at intervals as the plants grow. Seems potatoes would form at the bottom first, so how and when does one harvest them? Sorry to be so dumb about this, but love new potatoes and want to try growing them again. I am no longer able to get down on my knees so container gardening will be my method in the future.
Thank you anyone and everyone for explaining this to me!
potatoes do better in containers, because to harvest all you have to do is dump the container over, pull out the taters, stand the container back up, put the dirt back in and start round two! your container does not have to be very big in diameter, but it does have to be tall! and you can find one to put on a stand or table instead of the ground!
potatoes do not grow from the roots...they actually grow from the stalk...that is why you plant them in shallow dirt and then HILL them up as they grow..
you will know they are done when the plant flowers and then the leaves turn yellow!