That's so cool! Congrats on the great harvest!
Kristopher

Great job, Ed! Can you tell us how long it was from planting to harvest? And what soil mix you used? I harvested about 15 pounds from 1 pound of Russian banana fingerlings in a 19-gallon container and 20 pounds of German butterballs from 2 pounds of seed potatoes in a 49-gallon tub. All tasted great, but the potatoes were tiny in both cases. A lot of marble sized spuds. I put them in around March 15 and harvested on August 10 because the tops completely died back. I think I would have had larger potatoes if I could have kept them growing longer.

Look at you go!! ;-) Strong work, Ed ..... and that's one scary helper you have there!

Al

That's very nice production!

Thanks everyone for the kind comments.

Ohiofem, I planted one of the wooden containers in mid March during the heat wave, and the other 2 containers in early April. Not sure how much I gained with the March planting because the weather got cold again and they took forever to come up. So, the one container grew almost 7 months, and the other 2, six months.

The mix was one year old reconstituted 511. Basically last years mix with maybe 1 part fresh pine bark mulch.

I planted the 2 wooden tubs probably a little too dense, and the spuds were smaller than the plastic tub that I planted sparser. Less seems to be more in this case. Also noticed that the potatoes kept growing up in the container and appearing at the surface. I added a few inches of mix a couple of times to cover the showing potatoes and to make up for settling.

Do the potatoes have scab or insect damage or is it just dirt?

Crowding does produce smaller spuds. Different varieties can take different spacing, so you need to do some research.