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How To Grow Potatoes

Believe it or not, growing potatoes at home is so easy. Find out How To Grow Potatoes on www.drugstoredivas.net.If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I’ve been really into our garden this year. Most years, I’ve been planting and hoping for the best. And the best hasn’t been that successful. Like when last year, a neighbor tried to teach me how to grow potatoes.

It didn’t work.

She sprinkled them with plant food, plus a few well wishes, and still no potatoes.

This year, though, I tried on my own and actually successfully grew one early in the season. That’s not a bountiful harvest by any means, but it is enough to understand the method — and to blog it, of course. Since then, we’ve had quite a few more, so don’t feel intimidated. Growing potatoes at home is a lot easier than you think!

How To Grow Potatoes

Believe it or not, growing potatoes at home is so easy. Find out How To Grow Potatoes on www.drugstoredivas.net.

Step 1:
Buy potatoes and completely forget about them. I’m kidding. Kind of.

To start growing potatoes, you’ll need the eye of a potato. The only way you’ll get an eye is if it grows. And the only way it will grow is if you forget you bought potatoes and leave it alone for a long time. Or, you could just set one aside specifically for this. Whatever fits your lifestyle.

Step 2:
Cut about a 1-inch section out around the eye.

Believe it or not, growing potatoes at home is so easy. Find out How To Grow Potatoes on www.drugstoredivas.net.

Step 3:
Dig a hole, at least two inches deep, in your dirt. I found a lot more success with potatoes in a container than I did planting them in the ground.

Believe it or not, growing potatoes at home is so easy. Find out How To Grow Potatoes on www.drugstoredivas.net.

Step 4:
Put the potato in the hole, with the eye facing down, and cover the “flesh” completely with dirt.

Step 5:
Water them a lot. Potatoes really like to be hydrated, so be sure to give them water daily or put them in a container where they can drink themselves.

Believe it or not, growing potatoes at home is so easy. Find out How To Grow Potatoes on www.drugstoredivas.net.

Step 6:
The potatoes will eventually start to sprout leaves from the top. Once they get tall enough, add more soil to your container. You want that to act as a support for the plant and to bury the potatoes down further.

The plant will keep growing and eventually can collapse under the weight of itself. So pick up a tomato twist (yes, tomato with a t, that’s not a typo) and wrap the plant around it. It’ll start growing up there and your plant will stay sturdier. 

Step 7:
The plants will flower, and then die. That’s beautiful and sad. After this, and when the plant itself has started to die, your potatoes are ready for harvest. Dig down as deep as possible and harvest out all the potatoes buried below.

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Didi Marie

Sunday 23rd of June 2019

I never thought to plant potatoes! Tell me, what is your climate, and in what area of the US would they grow best? Thanks!

drugstore diva lisa

Monday 24th of June 2019

I'm in the Southeast. Our growing season is usually March until November. We don't have too much frost, which helps. But, if you plant in containers, when your region frosts, you can bring them indoors and continue growing.

Waren Jean Go

Sunday 23rd of June 2019

Amazing how you are able to do this. I have attempted many time to plant veggies but I don't get any harvest. They said you need to have a green thumb to do that.

Rosey

Saturday 22nd of June 2019

What a good idea to plant the potatoes in a container. I failed at my garden years ago, I might try with containers eventually.

aisasami

Saturday 22nd of June 2019

Oooh, what a great idea for growing potatoes at home. It is so simple! I have to try to grow some as I eat a lot! I wonder if this works with sweet potatoes too.

Joanna

Saturday 22nd of June 2019

I grow many veggies in my garden, but I have never tried planting potatoes. To be honest, I had no idea how to, so thanks for this guide.