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    Home » Gardening

    Growing Potatoes in the Winter, Part 3 (Weekend Gardening)

    Feb 27, 2011 · Modified: Nov 21, 2020 by Andrea · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 4 Comments

    This weekend it was time to check our potted potato experiment to see if we’d actually been able to grow anything. The plants got fairly tall as potatoes tend to do, and over the last few weeks had started dying back, though two of them still had some green leaves. We dragged the two pots that appeared ready out into the yard and dumped them out into a long box that Michael had lined with painters plastic.

    Andrea Meyers - Potted potato soil dumped out for inspection.

    As Michael sorted through the dirt, he pulled out the old potatoes that were soft and squishy and set aside any new potatoes we found. Nothing in the first pot. Second pot, nothing. This wasn’t looking good. We couldn’t find any sign of disease, so we wondered if the potatoes were sterile. They had sprouted green stems and grown like crazy above the soil line, but there was no sign of any new potatoes on the roots. So we brought out one of the other pots that wasn’t quite ready and dumped it out to see what might be in there.

    Andrea Meyers - Tiny little potatoes sprouting on the roots.

    That’s what we were looking for, little potatoes budding on the roots. We fished them all out and found some larger ones, too. We decided to leave the other pot and let it finish up, probably in a couple weeks, then we’ll check to see if that one has anything good for us.

    Andrea Meyers - A handful of tiny yellow potatoes.

    So growing potatoes in pots indoors during the winter can be done, we just have to refine our technique. And of course we now want to grow them outdoors, too, so it’s time to start work on that.

    Previous Posts on the Potted Potato Experiment

    • Weekend Gardening: Growing Potatoes in the Winter, Part 1
    • Weekend Gardening: Growing Potatoes in the Winter, Part 2

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    1. Sean says

      February 27, 2011 at 2:05 pm

      Ooh, would you post this to Punk Domestics? You put the micro in microfarming. 🙂

      Reply
      • Andrea says

        February 27, 2011 at 2:13 pm

        Yeah, those tiny potatoes are pretty tiny. 😉

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    2. sonia says

      February 27, 2011 at 5:15 pm

      Oh..its looking so good and I am really excited to see this. Taking your advice, we have sowed tomatoes and flowers in our pots. Can you tell me how to sow green onions ??? Thanks for sharing... !

      Reply
      • Andrea says

        February 27, 2011 at 5:26 pm

        Hi Sonia. We grow green onions year round, indoors and out. For the indoor season, we save the white part with the roots intact after eating the green part, then just stick it in a window box with soil, and it grows back. This post has information on what we do. https://andreasrecipes.com/2008/09/14/weekend-gardening-photos-10/

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