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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Potatoes Indoors?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

You all know that I am the self-appointed potato daddy.

0:18.3

I lived off of them for a month almost in June of 2019 where I did my apocalypse grow

0:24.4

experiment trying to live off of only what I could grow, fish, forage for, or barter for

0:30.0

at fair market value.

0:31.5

Now did that experiment work for me?

0:34.2

Depends on what you mean by work.

0:35.3

I lost 13 pounds, 10 of it was muscle and I felt pretty bad the whole month.

0:40.4

But did I survive?

0:42.0

The answer is yes and a huge reason why is because I grew potatoes.

0:47.6

But what if it's winter or a time of year where they don't grow that well?

0:51.5

Is it possible to grow them indoors?

0:53.6

That's where our question comes from today from Kevin, which is a great name.

0:57.4

Hey Kevin, my name is Kevin and my fiance is wondering if it's possible to grow potatoes

1:01.4

inside and if it is possible do you have any tips to do so.

1:05.4

Okay, Kevin, can you grow potatoes indoors?

1:08.4

Certainly yes you can.

1:09.6

Now when you're growing something indoors you're removing the principle reason that plants

1:14.1

grow outdoors which of course be sunlight, especially if it's winter time you're probably

1:18.9

also going to be removing some element of ambient temperature humidity conditions that

1:24.0

a plant's going to want to perform well.

1:26.6

So I'm actually growing winter potatoes right now granted I'm in zone 10b it's quite easy

1:30.8

for me to grow them.

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