how successful are container growing kits for fruit and vegetables?

I often see ads for potato growing buckets and kits, as well as ones for runner beans, and have often wondered how well they work, now I have seen an ad for raspberries and strawberries which suggests growing them in a pot, and promises a decent yield this season. I always thought raspberries needed deep cultivation and plenty of water and wonder how to achieve that in a pot.

Have you tried anything in this line, and are the newspaper ads optimistic please?

Can I grow potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket?

Potato Problems?

I have been growing potatoes in buckets and this is their 14th week. Someone told me that after 12 weeks or so the leaves should wilt and that means they are ready to pick. I picked some last week and boiled up for a salad but they had a horrible bitter aftertaste to them. Have I picked too soon? How can I tell when they’re ready?
I am growing ‘Early’ Charlottes. It did say at the garden centre that they could be grown in containers. When the shoots came up I was making sure I put more compost in to cover the base of the stems so as not to get green potatoes, which none of the ones I harvested were.

To chit potatoes or to not chit, that is the question?

Hello,

I have been backyard gardening for some time now and I am venturing on anew adventure. I have purchased seed potatoes from a nursery to grow bucket/garbage can potatoes….i might plant some in ground, i’m not sure yet. I heard of chitting or pre-sprouting potatoes before they are planted. Is it really that beneficiary? I’m so excited that I want to plant them right now…but if chitting is better, I can wait some time, i’ve waited all winter. Is it better to chit? Or plant directly?
I mean, what is the benefits of chitting or pre-sprouting?

My potato plant has no potatoes, funny I know but help!?

Ok Ive never grown potato’s before, and I thought i’d try just one to see how it goes.

I planted it in a brick troth i have around my back porch, But the soil kept sinking i kept covering the plant.

The plant hs been growing flowers for around 2 weeks now, so i thought id have a feel around to see how big the potatoes were, i coouldnt find any so i gently pulled the plant up. And to my horror the was NO POTAOTES!!!

So i repoted the plant in a large bucket, to see how it goes.
The troth’s soil sunk and the was no where ffor the plant to root down.

Will the plant be ok now ive repoted it? Also I have a couple growing in the soil in my garden, will these be ok?

Government’s something WE create, corporations DEPEND on us, business requires INITIATIVE. Why so much despair?

Stop feeling like victims in the hands of the corporate interests or government or both.

The more you feel like a powerless victim, the more you become a powerless victim.

If you’re not an absolute idiot, you can manage to have an idea and to make it a reality, that’s how all companies start. If push comes to shove, people are capable of growing potatoes to eat in old ice cream plastic buckets.