"greenthumb" wrote in message
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How many potatoes do you harvest from a large container
Linda, NY

How long is your piece of string?
Ah! not the same as mine,

The answer to your actual question is...
depends!
How big is your container?
How good is your compost?
How well do you water? Quantity and timing.

I have in the past harvested thirty to forty tubers from a single tuber
planted in a large barrel. (Salad potato)
Weight wise about four kilograms from a single tuber (Baking potato)

Harvest from a container is easily comparable to open ground cropping,
however requires more observation and intervention, watering/feeding. Open
ground requires more effort digging/weeding.

If you have space and time available, try both styles at once and run your
own comparisons.

Hope this helps your decisions

Dave