Planting potatoes in plastic tubs

What’s your favorite way to eat potatoes?

• Mashed?
• French fries?
• Hashbrowns?
• Baked?
• The delicious filling of a pierogi?

No matter how you enjoy them, potatoes always taste better when they come out of your garden.

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Growing potatoes is a lot different than growing other root crops like carrots or beets, where you pull up one veggie per plant.

One potato plant can produce around ten potatoes. So, it’s always a surprise to dig them up and see your end result. 

Ta-dah!

Look at all those spuds!

And when it comes to container gardening, potatoes do exceptionally well.

Growing vegetables in a container means they’re less likely to be infected by a soil-dwelling pest, and you can control the soil and nutrients they receive.

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Grab a five-gallon bucket or two and grow yourself some future French fries.

Potato varieties are categorized by how long it takes them to grow.

First earlies – such as the Yukon Gold (which I’m planting here), take around 10-12 weeks.

Second earlies – like Kennebec or French fingerling potatoes, take a

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