Potatoes are actually planted between early April and mid-May. You can follow this if you want to plant your planted buckets outdoors. If, on the other hand, you want to grow potatoes indoors, you don’t have to stick to the planting season. So you can start growing at any time and even harvest several times a year.

You will need for the garden, balcony and apartment:
ripe, undamaged seed potatoes
a bucket (at least 10 litres capacity)
clay shards, expanded clay or gravel
potting soil
compost
soil Planting instructions:

1 step
Pre-germinated potatoes are ideal for growing potatoes in buckets. If the seed potatoes do not have any sprouts yet, place them in a flat box or egg carton to pre-germinate.
It is essential that the potatoes are a certain distance apart so that the sensitive sprouts do not touch and break off later. The first shoots should then quickly appear in a bright, cool place.

2 Step
So, if the potatoes have enough shoots, then take a simple bucket and drill a few holes in the bottom of the bucket. This will ensure that irrigation and rainwater can drain away unhindered.

3 Step
Next, fill the bucket with a drainage layer of about 10 centimeters of clay shards, expanded clay or gravel. This allows water and rainwater to drain off easily without piling up. Potatoes do not tolerate waterlogging at all.

4 Step
Then mix flower soil with compost and fill the bucket about a quarter full with the mixture.

5 Step
(If you have a 10 litre bucket, you can now place three potatoes on the soil in the bucket with the shoots facing upwards).
Be careful, the tubers should not touch each other, which is why it is advisable to place them in the bucket at a distance of five centimetres from each other. Then cover the potatoes with about a hand’s breadth of soil and water them well.

Step 6
Then place the bucket in a warm, sunny place. This can be in the garden or on the balcony. If you don’t have either, you can also place the bucket directly in front of a window.

Step 7
In summer, it is advisable to water the potatoes once a week. If it is hot, however, you should use the watering can several times a week.

You can easily test whether you need to water your potatoes again by sticking your finger a few centimeters deep into the soil. If it is moist, you can wait a little longer before watering.

Step 8
As soon as the first potato plants protrude about 8 to 10 centimeters from the soil, cover them completely with substrate again. Repeat this until the bucket is completely filled with soil.

In the meantime, you can fertilize the potatoes every now and then. Coffee grounds are ideal for this. You can also use a liquid vegetable fertilizer.

Step 9
Finally, when the potatoes have finished flowering and the leaves are starting to wilt, you can finally harvest your first potatoes. To do this, simply carefully dig up the potatoes by hand.

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