My favorite thing about spring is getting out in the garden and planting food and flowers

If I can suggest, I place a trimmed galvanized metal screen under the box. In the south we have problems with moles/voles that will eat your potato plant root balls. This doesn’t bother the plants roots, but will keep those lil buggers out.

I used to think that growing potatoes was a waste of time and money compared to just buying them. The first year I planted a few for fun and was amazed by the yield compared to the cost of planting. Plus, storing for the winter is awesome!

Nothing is better than a potato just harvested. I won't even eat grocery store potatoes anymore. The difference is amazing. I only buy them from the store to plant. What amazes me most is what they produce. A totally different flavorful sweet moist delicious potato that I use way less butter on. I encourage everyone to grow potatoes. You'll never regret it.

I found the benefit of planting my garden under my bird feeders, I have several. Not only does my garden do well, so do the birds. They keep the pests off my plants ❤️🇺🇸

I go to appliance stores that take back old refrigerators when they deliver the new ones.There going to the scrap dealer and they dont want the hard plastic containers so I get all I can handle also the glass shelves that are tempered I make cold frames .

I followed Mark’s instructions for planting potatoes in boxes a few years ago and it was great. Quick and easy at planting and at harvest. The boxes held up fine for one growing season. I did a different experiment last year and this year I’ve returned to the cardboard boxes again

The Pandemic gave me a collection of boxes. I wanted to plant potatoes in the front corner of my yard because my backyard is full, but the homeless people love to steal everything not nailed down. When I saw this video I realized it was a great idea because no one would want a cardboard box full if dirt with a weed looking plant growing in it...I'm hoping. I'm going to try just one box to see how long it will survive. And no...I don't have a front yard fence. Yes, I live in a high variety of foot traffic because I'm on a corner lot across from the city's main downtown park. This is only a test, but if it works I hope to start planting cherry tomatoes in a box for the school kids to pick. PLUS, I have the school bus stop on the side of my house which runs twice a day. Wish me luck everyone because I'm a granny who loves to grow vegetables to share.

Thanks for the update Mark! I use this method, too. One of the bonus features is that you need no tools to harvest - so you don't accidentally hits the taters with a fork or shovel, damaging them for storage. Flip the container over (or tear the cardboard off) and there the spuds are!

I used to believe that growing potatos means a lot of work , digging and knowhow....but if it can be this easy , i will try it 😃 Greetings from Germany .....

Saved us from having to buy grow bags for planting potatoes. Great tip, Mark, and thanks for looking out. ❤

I used banana boxes from costco so last year and they held up great! Rewatching this this year to do it again!

I just bought my first house in the burbs after living in high density inner city apartments for 20 years. I’m shocked at the price of raised beds, etc. But I have lots of boxes from the move and am going to try this! Thank you so much for making this video. The algorithm knows just what I needed. 😂

U should have been MY science teacher ... I'd be a professor by now 💯

Thanks for this video. I use the cardboard containers too! This video has excellent instructions, and easy to follow with the why as well as the how! I started growing my own potatoes completely by accident after throwing a sprouting pantry spud into a flower planter. A couple months later, I was watering and noticed a big beautiful potato. I cooked it up, I was AMAZED how different and wonderful this fresh potato tasted! I've been growing my own ever since.

I LOVE this idea! I think it would be cool with my ocd brain to have uniform boxes lined up growing things! At end of the season it all goes in the ground and my no dig beds are ready to go for next year! How cool, going to try this on more than just potatoes! Thank you! :)

A similar method I've used for fun (especially useful if you only have a balcony or no yard): A 5-Gal pail! Throw a few inches of leaves/compost/whatever in the bottom, stab in your 'tater chunks, and as they grow just keep throwing soil/sand/leaves/compost on top. At the end of the season, you can just dump the pail and boom!

This is the best of all the videos I've seen on growing potatoes! Clear, concise, and excellent detail info! I can't wait to do this! New subscriber here, w/bell!

Hello Mark! This is my first time viewing your KZfaq videos and I wish I had found you sooner!!! I've wasted lots of money on contraptions, vertical gardening, special containers, gardening books, fertilizers, etc, which produced small yields and much disappointment for all the work. Your methods are simply and cost effective and I look forward to a bumper crop for everything I plant. Thanks and God bless!

Great way to easily start a garden bed. I line up two rows of boxes. Put in soil and plants. Then put a garden edging around the boxes eg bricks or cement pieces. To suppress weeds I leave the bottom shut (taking off the tape) if I need too.

You never disappoint, Mark. This is a great project for the grandkiddos. Thanks for the tip about the size of the chits. I never heard that before. I did hear to use double corrugated cardboard for garden projects. Surely they are stronger. Will be fun to watch the progress. Many blessings to you and yours.

I have grown tomato plants in cardboard boxes. I took some rope and wrapped it around the box two or three times to keep it sturdy since tomato plants need to be watered often, and it worked very well. Now, I will try potatoes. Thank you for this video and info!

great idea, I was thinking of using round containers but this is so much more practical and its easy to find boxes. I never heard of anyone growing potatos in a cardboard box,

Excellent idea. I didn’t plant all my potatoes yet and happen to have some spare brown cardboard boxes and some extra space in the garden. Well worth giving it a try. 👍

I'm definitely trying this in 2023, thanks for the clear instructions!

Thank you much for the video Mark! I now have another use for those Amazon boxes. I look forward to seeing the progress of your potatoes.

Great idea! I‘ve already crop rotated potatoes through vegetable and flower beds in my small yard. This method gives me sooo many more places to practice crop rotation! Thank you!

I’m so trying this! The box will turn into compost. We take our plain boxes shred them and use them as compost in the gardens. Thank you for sharing your videos tips and info with us. So appreciated.

What a cool idea!! Especially on a budget!! Thanks Mark 😊

We accidentally left a seed potato or two in a box of wood chips that we were storing them in. Threw it under a tree and never tended it when we noticed the leaves come up. We just shrugged and left it alone didn't even water it. ... It grew and out-produced the potatoes in the garden! and the harvesting couldn't have been easier, just picked it up and shook it off. We were amazed.

Mark, great job and the only thing I would add is that I've been in a victory garden in DC for 25 years and nobody has ever used any kind of netting against potato beatles and nobody has ever encountered them. If I was a first-time potato gardener, I would try it without the netting and only use netting if it became a problem in your area.

Great information! I'm not an experienced gardener and you made this encouraging and easy, thanks!

The size of the potato piece is absolutely irrelevant. We pull off the long sprouts from storage and plant those directly with no potato attached... and then chit the potatoes to cut and plant the traditional way. The planted raw sprouts do just fine with no yield/vigor/health difference from the second, still on the tuber succession. My Grandad used to tell me about how his dad would just cut the sprout off with no noticeable potato attached, plant the sprouts and turn the remaining spuds into potato soup for dinner for the family that whole week. Depression era food-hacks FTW.

This is my new goal this summer! Growing potatoes in a cardboard box! I grew some compost ones in the garden once by accident so that was fun. But this is intentional! Thanks for the explanation!

Free growing containers awesome and it helps to create more compost for the next season

Best CB box potato vid ever. Fungi, cutting size, beetles...excellent tips. Two thumbs up.

I've never grown potatoes before, but planned to this year. I will definitely try this method!

I did this last year and had such great success and good yield of potatoes that this is the only way I will grow them! I just got my new boxes in place for this growing season! So happy I found this video last year. 👍🏼👍🏼

Sounds amazing. Cant wait to try it.

Remember to plant the potatoes right after the full moon. They have a tendency to come up out of the soil if done when full moon is coming on

Thanks for sharing this video! I garden too and I’m researching all the things I can grow in containers. I’m happy it led me to you channel. This is very helpful. Thanks for teaching me something new. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!

You’re the best!! I have a box already lol I’m super excited! Thank you 💜

Excellent idea. This will feature heavily in my no dig garden. Thanks for the inspiration!

So simple. So cool. So doable. Thank you!

Thank you! This was fun and I'm doing this on the weekend!!

I did this last year and it's worked really well.

Great sharing my friend

Great video! Always looking for new ideas! Thank you SO much! 🙂

I just subbed. I enjoyed the video and plan to try this. But what really hooked me is the curtesy and respect I see in your responses to comments. 🧡

I'm so excited to try this! I want to try and find some purple potatoes to grow.

Love it thank you so much😊

I just tried this and my potatoes are doing soooooo good! I am excited to see how many I get as compared to other ways I’ve tried growing them which did not yeild much. I’m impressed already so far and they are only about four weeks out so far. Thanks for the great info!

Great info & much appreciated. Just beginning, after living in a hi-rise for 30 years. Thank you

So happy 😊 for y'all God bless 🙌 you all ❤

Hi great video. I never thought of using a box . I will be trying this .Thanks so much!

*Hello, I'm growing potatoes for the First time this year & I totally agree the easiest thing I've grown so far. I'm learning as I grow. 😊😊😊* Sharon in SC

Such a cool concept to use a box, especially as my gardening budget is very small this year!

Thank you, good job Mark! God Bless you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing on how to potatoes and have a bless bless day today 🙏😁

Tulle is a net fabric. Inexpensive. You can buy it from a fabric store. Thank you for sharing. This was very helpful.

My mother always said, potatoes clean the soil.

Thank-you!!! One of the reasons I have been hesitant about gardening is that start-up costs hold me back.

Great detail thanks

Loved the video! We have heavy clay soil in Southern Ohio, and I've had no luck with growing potatoes in years past but would love to try potatoes again...I know for sure I'll have to use a raised container of some sort.

Omygoodness this is awesome I'm going to plant potatoes just like this!! I live in an apartment but I have a tiny deck and a little bit of a back yard, I can only grow in containers, thank you for for this video, I just subscribed.

Great video. Definitely going to give this a try.

Thank you for the advice. I’m going to try this.

Thank you for this awesome video. Now I feel like I can grow potatoes 👍🙂

Hi 👋 I’ve always wanted to grow potatoes 🥔!! What a great 👍 idea 💡!!!

Great job explaining and showing 🥔🌱

I’m so happy I accidentally came across your videos!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I’m hooked! Thank you sir.

What a great idea! Cardboard box to plant in. Wonder how other plants will do. When we were teens my friend & I planted peeings with eyes. Waited the season dug up the ground and we got loads of potatoes. Small ones but good tasting.

Great video Mark. I just watched your BTE video and you showed how we can change the condition of our soil. This is year three for me and I am interested in incorporating your practices. Much Thanks for caring to share & for your own follow up commentary Sir. Definitely going to do this with the potatoes. Do you do this method with sweet potatoes as well? Great gardening yields/harvest to you Sir!

Thanks very much for sharing your methods! Full of great advice. Very well done. I can't wait to go plant!

I enjoyed your video! It was interesting and educational! Your quarter tip was really good!

Thank you what a great video & I am going to try this here in Australia but probably will use Sugar Cane Mulch. I live in Sub-Tropical so my potatoes seem to stay small but we will try & see. Cheers Denise- Australia

I have done this with slimy potatoes from the dumpster. I mostly use them to create soil and clear areas of weeds.

Fantastic. I’m going to try this ❤happy gardening to you too!!

Wow! I can’t wait to try this.

I don't have a green thumb 🤣 Or am a hoarder!... and I just found an Excellent purpose for those cardboard boxes from my mom's medical supplies that I had saved. I just Knew they would come in useful ☺️ thanks 👋

Great info Mark, 👍 we have planted 3 methods of them. The tub method made around 20 lbs. We have Rurh Stout planted, and raised bed tradional hilled. Will see which one does best.

Nice job. God bless y’all.

I just learned so much! I'm excited to do this! Thank you for this video.

Thanks so.kuch for this video. I've tried potatoes in clay pots, plastic bins and the ground. The best after the ground. I will definitely use this method next year! I'm begging to have some physical limitations so the box will help keep them contained, easy to cover and easy to harvest. Great practical be suggestion😃

Tulle would be great to cover over the potatoes. Good video. BLESSINGS

Thanks for making the process of thinning so restful and successful.

Thank you for very informative video. I always loved gardening with perennials, but have decided to do veggies. I am glad to have found you!

Amazing the amount of information you have! Going to subscribe and grow thru it all! Thanks for the tater hacks..

That's a huge help. I'm trying to learn about survival techniques in case they are ever needed. I love the idea of freeeee potatoes. :)

Love this! going to give it a go !!

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing and God bless 🙏

Could you show harvesting ? How many spuds would you get from the 2 pieces you planted?

I have some wire & plastic milk crates I could line with a cardboard box, I'm thinking this could help with keeping the boxes shape. I know that is not the exact size mentioned, but close. would this be big enough? Also do I just keeping adding leaves or anything else as the potatoes grow? Excited to try this method thank you for this video 🥔 🌱

THANK YOU!!! I LOVE THIS!! SO GRATEFUL!!!!

Cool, I never thought to do this. I will have to try this. Thanks.

Hi Mark, great videos. Quick question. You have a video about cherry tomatoes. You were going to give them away or something? can I buy these seeds somewhere? Keep these great videos coming. I have a small yard but may try growing some potatoes after watching this one!

Everyone has too many boxes now. 🙂What a great way to upcycle. Is there toxins in the cardboard? At the end of the season, work the cardboard into your garden or compost - excellent video

Thank you, 👍

Beautiful share, fantastic video, great share. Thanks for your wonderful video.

"If you don't like potatoes you should try them at least"🤔