Growing potatoes above ground

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to build my own Tiny House and to have a little garden. Well.... trying to have one since I'll be remote and there are lots of deer all around. And since I don;t want to fence the whole place, I'll have to be creative, or use techniques used by people with lots of proven creativity!

Deer won't go for the potatoes,  but still, I prefer to be on the safe side so I looked around and saw buckets, big bags with a door, etc, etc.. to grow potatoes above ground. I also read that you can add soil as long as the stem and leaves are 1" above. This to get way more potatoes per load. That's about all the knowledge on the subject so far.

So... what are your recommendations for products, type of potatoes (I like Russet and Red) and techniques to use for growing potatoes above ground?

Thanks a bunch for helping me!

Hi Steve, check out the potato forum here: https://permies.com/f/53/potatoes

There are a lot of threads about bags, containers, towers, etc.

I'm not sure I'm following you Steve. How will growing in containers make the potatoes more deer resistant?

I've never known deer to mess with potatoes; I often grow them outside the fences. As far as off the ground I grow some in large tubs with composted and non-composted stuff in the bottom. I generally prep that in the fall. In spring I barely set the potatoes below the surface and pile lots of a similar only even less composted on top. I add a little more at time along with a little actual compost to simulate "hilling them up". In the ground I do similar, with the potatoes barely buried and heaps of stuff on top. At harvest time I can just dig for them with my fingers. That ease of harvest is a primary reason I grow them like that.