Your 2026 Garden

[Molpet]

50 lb dog food bag with drainage holes stabbed in the bottom.

My large containers like that are all black plastic. Not a great idea to my thinking for root veg when the summers regularly stay above 95f/35c for 2-3 months with little rainfall. I can water but that doesn't add humidity to the atmosphere.

A dog food bag would be about 10 gallons. So 1 or 2 potatoes
Based on the 50 lb of dog food fits into two 5 gallon buckets here.

 

[kattabelly]

If you're using old feed bags or similar for growing potatoes it's worth holding them up to the sun to see how much light they'll let in, before you fill them. Often need to double-bag if you don't want green tatties.