Content
- Potato tower and Maurisher bucket instead of potato
- Find the right vessel
- The trick with the potato tower
- Build a potato tower
- Black mason buckets with advantage
- Tips & Tricks
Potato tower and Maurisher bucket instead of potato
Ever heard of the Potato Tower? This is not a mountain of potatoes, but a tall planter for potato cultivation on the balcony. Even plastic buckets, boxes or sacks are a good alternative to the potato field in the garden.
Find the right vessel
Potato plants need enough space to develop their underground shoots. Vessels must therefore have at least 10 liters of capacity. Space for a potato plant already provide a large water bucket made of plastic or a sturdy plastic bag.
For a larger harvest, you need at least 20 liters of capacity. Suitable for this are Maurer buckets or even a potato tower. All buckets are filled with garden soil from the garden center or hardware store.
The trick with the potato tower
The potato tower is being layered. On an approximately 15 cm high layer of garden soil you put up to 4 seed potatoes and cover it with about 10 cm of soil. If the plants have grown about 15 cm high, they are covered with a new layer of soil, so that only the top leaves look out.
You repeat this until the earth has reached the upper edge of your vessel or a height of about 80 cm. Through this repeated accumulation, the potato plants grow in height, forming strata with tubers in layers.
Build a potato tower
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Black mason buckets with advantage
No matter if you place several black bricklayers next to each other or build a potato tower out of it - with the dark-walled containers you profit from the sunlight and can use the heated tubs as a growth accelerator.
Tips & Tricks
If the potato tower is on grass or in the ground, it is often visited by mill-mice. You prevent that by laying out a foil with drain holes under your tower.