Walmart's $12 Gardening Hack: A Planter Bag That Makes Growing Vegetables Extremely Easy
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With Project Hail Mary hitting theaters soon, I can’t help but think of another Andy Weir adaptation, The Martian, and the extreme struggles of growing potatoes on Mars. But even on Earth, they’re quite laborious plants. I just stumbled across a product at Walmart, though, that makes planting and dealing with root vegetables—really, any vegetables—extremely easy, and it's now selling at $6 apiece.
The 2-pack of Amaxun 10 Gallon Garden Potato Grow Bags is now just $12, a 33% discount off the usual $18 price. This set is very competitively priced among potato grow bags at Walmart, largely because it’s one of the few where you can get two instead of buying three or more at once. This is excellent because it allows you to grow potatoes and other root vegetables, like radishes or carrots, basically anywhere you want, and you don't have to spend extra money on additional bags you don’t want or need. It also has one key feature that makes the process so simple.
Amaxun 10 Gallon Garden Potato Grow Bag 2-Pack, $12 (was $18) at Walmart
What Shoppers Should Know
- Dimensions: 12 inches in diameter and 14 inches tall
- Volume: Up to 10 gallons of soil
- Material: Polyethylene
- Suitable For: Potatoes, carrots, radishes, onions, and other root vegetables
- Best Use Case: Easy growth and low-harm harvesting of root vegetables such as potatoes.
Potatoes are incredibly easy to grow, but quite awful to harvest. Since the potato tuber is underground, you typically have to dig it up, which is more work on your back and potentially a massive, stressful shock for the plant.
That’s why you should consider a potato grow bag. You use it like a regular planter, but it has a flap on the side. When your root vegetables are ready for harvest, you can lift up the flap and go directly for the produce without yanking the roots out of the ground.
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Amaxun’s bags are a foot wide and just over a foot tall, making them ideal for shallow-rooted vegetables and bulbs. The bags are made of a lightweight, yet durable, polyethylene plastic, a type of plastic often seen in the food packaging world. Drainage holes are pre-built into the bag for minimal extra effort from you. Each bag has sturdy handles near the top.
The Amaxun Potato Grow Bag 2-Pack is just $12 right now. If you want to dive in and do more, there’s a 6-pack from another brand that’ll just run you $20. It’s not a huge price difference, but it is overkill if you’re just looking to experiment with some potatoes and, possibly, carrots for your family’s soups or the air fryer.