Gardener James Prigioni set out to see if an Amazon shipping box would hold up as a planter for potatoes. He took a basic single-walled Amazon box, lined it with dried leaves to help with moisture retention, added four to five inches of soil (his own homegrown soil he makes), added three dark red seed potatoes, covered them with more soil, added a fertilizer, then watered them.
He also planted a second, smaller Amazon box with two white seed potatoes, following the same steps.
Two weeks later, he had potato plants growing out of the soil. Ten days after that, the boxes were filled with lush plants.
What was the point he was trying to prove?
That potatos are not made in Chinese factories.
Man invents agriculture, news at 11
Dunno why people are dunking on him.
If you’re in the U.S. start doing this. Find ways to feed yourself that do not rely on buying food from a store. It’ll be very important to develop these kinds of skills before the collapse.
Wait… Potatoes have seeds?
Yes, it’s a flowering plant. The fruit look like tomatoes but are poisonous. But sowing seeds has some disadvantages for potatoes.
First, unless you take precautions the plants you grow will cross with others around, you’ll end up with a mish mash of variety characteristics in the progeny. Maybe good, maybe bad.
Second, any tubers your sown seeds make in the first year will be tiny, it might take several years of keeping tubers and replanting before you get anything worth eating.
So unless you’re experimenting it’s more productive to not eat a few tubers and replant them for the next years crop. More consistent flavour and a bigger crop.
Damn, guy is showing you don’t need a massive garden to grow food, literally showing you how to grow food in a box.
And the comments are dunking on him. Wtf.
Cause the “amazon shipping box” part is silly and doesn’t really give any info people don’t already know. The title is funny too since there’s no real point being proven. Growing your own food is cool, just nobody thinks you need a massive garden to do so in the first place.
“I will never look at cardboard boxes the same” now that I know they can be filled with dirt!
