Have you ever grown potatoes in a garbage can (or alike)?

I've seen people talking about growing them in large plastic containers, but I have never done it myself. I would love to give it a try though if I had some containers that I would be able to use for it. I know that my next door neighbor grows potatoes in her garden, but she doesn't use containers for anything that she grows. Last year was our first experiment in a container garden and all that we grew was tomatoes.

Hi, 3SunggleBunnies. No, I have never grown potatoes in the garbage can. I have seen them grown in the garden and that was all. Hopefully, it is an clean garbage can that is not too dirty to allow the potatoes to grown in.

My mums been growing them successfully in plastic buckets for years. This year, she has bought some special bags (sort of plastic-hessian) and the leaflet with them says she can cut a hole in the side and take out a few potatoes at a time instead of having to dig the root up. I've grown them in a big plastic water tank that they removed from the loft when we had a new boiler installed.

I've used large containers but not actually in garbage cans. There are a whole lot of YouTube videos on how to do it. The key, is to plant them w/ very little soil & then add soil as the plant grows. It provides more roots from the side of the plant & those roots are where the baby potatoes will grow.