Potatoes in a bucket?

I'm wondering if any of the gardeners on here have ever tried growing taters in a bucket before? I plan to try that method this year and was curious to hear any stories/advice.

We grew peppers and tomatoes in buckets last year and they worked good. The only problem was the dang dog would eat the good stuff off the vine before my wife could pick it. I have never tried potatoes in a bucket but my guess would be you would need a pretty decent pail to deal with all the roots. Our tomatoes were great.

I have grown potatoes in 5 gallon buckets with some success. In the long run there's no weeding or hilling but keeping adequate moisture can be a pain. If the bucket doesn't have drain holes a good rain will turn the soil to soup. If the bucket has holes a sunny day will leave the soil parched by noon.

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Originally Posted by oaknut

If the bucket doesn't have drain holes a good rain will turn the soil to soup. If the bucket has holes a sunny day will leave the soil parched by noon.

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I've watched quite a few video's and yes, watering properly might be a pain? What soil recipe/mix did you use?

I know a fella that grows them in Hay and straw. He sets them on top of the soil and just covers them over with the straw and hay and in the fall he just takes a rake and rakes of the straw and hay.

Getting late for potatoes there cold weather planted soon as frost is out just bury foliage if they come up and says frost
half barrels work well just cut out bottoms
I hear growers are getting in excavators in and burying seed stock in big holes demand is down big time no Resturant demand

something like this.

I'm going to grow some vegetables in straw this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlratwBT5OI

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Originally Posted by Bushmoose

I've watched quite a few video's and yes, watering properly might be a pain? What soil recipe/mix did you use?

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I used topsoil I screened off a job site. I had 100K cubic meters of the stuff so it was literally a drop in the bucket. I mixed in some mushroom compost before planting.

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Originally Posted by js4fn

Getting late for potatoes there cold weather planted soon as frost is out just bury foliage if they come up and says frost
half barrels work well just cut out bottoms
I hear growers are getting in excavators in and burying seed stock in big holes demand is down big time no Resturant demand

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The frost hasnt been out for very long here. LOL

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

something like this.

I'm going to grow some vegetables in straw this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlratwBT5OI

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Thats an interesting video for sure! might be worth a try?