The gardener, who can not live without experiments, told how to grow potatoes right in bags

Potato cultivation a difficult and resource-intensive process. If potatoes grow on the site, there is no doubt that sweat will flow in a stream, and almost the whole family will dig out the same potatoes. But what if I told you it could be easier and faster?



Recently, a video with a very interesting way to grow potatoes was infected in TikTok. It happens directly in the bag. How exactly this method works, I will tell you in today’s article.

It would seem that the cultivation of potatoes can still surprise something? We have already studied this issue and have repeatedly shared with you the nuances of this process. For example, my colleague Nikolai Laduba told me whether it is possible to use potatoes from the supermarket for planting.



I'm going to tell you something else today. I recently came across an interesting video on TikTok. It shows how you can grow potatoes directly in bags, without resorting to troublesome work on the beds. Judging by the comments under the video, everything is not so clear on this issue. But let's get this straight.

For growing potatoes in bags, you need to prepare a special soil mixture. It includes directly soil, ash, rice husk and coir. The last component is a fiber from the inter-harvest of coconut palm nuts.

All this good is mixed in equal proportions and put in sacks half. Then you need to build a device for drip watering potatoes. To do this, two plastic bottles need to be cut and fastened together to increase their total length.



With the help of a soldering iron, holes should be made over the entire surface of the improvised bottle, through which water will seep into the bag with nutrient soil. The bottle is placed in a bag, half covered with earth, neck up. Then the soil is filled to cover the bottle.

However, the entire bottle in the bag should not be lowered. The top should stay outside. Around it, the bag must be tied and fixed. Next, you need to take the potato itself and cut it into halves. The cut of each tuber is sprinkled with white cement. You can just pour the powder into a small bowl and put the potatoes down there.



The next step is to put these potatoes in bags. To do this, cuts are made on the entire surface of the bag and through them tubers are shoved with a cement cut inside. According to the video, in 10 days such potatoes will give the first sprouts. After 30 days in bottles, stuffed in bags, you need to fill the crusts of watermelon mixed with ash. And then pour water on it. Voila!

In the comments under this video began controversy. First, where in April to get crusts from watermelon, when he sings after potatoes? Secondly, many commentators have come to the conclusion that growing potatoes this way will lead to their rapid greening. And this means that the fruits will accumulate toxic to the human body solanine.



Someone wrote that such bags in the sun quickly become unusable. But, judging by what is shown in the video, potatoes are grown exclusively within the greenhouse, where direct sunlight does not fall on the bags.



“It is suitable for those who do not have a garden,” writes Maria. And Tamara picks up: "I did it on the terrace, there were a lot of potatoes." However, there were those who did not believe in the effectiveness of this method: “Whoever planted potatoes, he knows that all this is just a butterfly for the eyes.” The pieces of potatoes rot as if.”

I wonder what you think about that? Have you seen this before? It would be great if you shared your experience in the comments. Wait for you downstairs!