Growing potatoes in bags. What are the pros and cons

Among the unconventional ways of obtaining an early harvest of “second bread” growing potatoes in bags is one of the more convenient.

There are several original ways to plant potatoes that are more suitable for a small area. But with a minimum of labor costs, you can get the maximum yield by using a method such as growing potatoes in bags.

You can even plant potato sprouts. At the end of May, seed potatoes are planted in bags (you can use bags of sugar, flour, cereals) filled approximately half with rotted manure and buried to the very top. The edges of the bags must be turned outward. Place the bags in a sunny place, provide watering, and the potatoes will grow rapidly. Humus should be added as it grows, turning away the edges of the bag. Having filled each bag approximately two-thirds, you can leave the potatoes alone, however, do not forget to water, because the soil in a container raised above the ground in a sunny place quickly dries out.

Colorado beetle such landings, naturally, bypasses, weeds and the ubiquitous late blight, which affects potatoes in many areas, will also be absent. At the end of August, you can simply select the tubers from the ground.

Growing potatoes in bags has many advantages

• plantings are located in any free space
• there is no need to weed and hill up
• humus warms up well in bags
• there is no stagnation of water, which means there is no rot
• no need to dig
• clean tubers

Of course, it is necessary to constantly monitor the soil moisture, and for this you can do drip irrigation. After harvesting, the contents of the bags can be poured onto the flowerbed - it will be ideal mulch.