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Thank you :)

Cool to see your whole team going to work there. Jim in Chile

What about Florida? Its Hot All Year Round, And it hardly ever gets down into the low 30s in winter...

Thanks for the information!

That is quite a bit of work. I once covered a 2 story home in heavy plastic and heated to install siding at -12f. Commercial plastic. incredible weight to manage.

Thank you for sharing!

Hard work, but worth it..

Interesting and now to wait for the potato digging!

Arizona is HOT starting in mid-March, and stays HOT through end-of-October. ::sigh::: I miss living in a normal climate.

Its more than just temps. Its rain window. It's insects. Its many other things. We get a dry spell in April every year. That's our window to get in ... but if we only go 2 to 4 inches then they emerge too early and a late frost pops the tops in early May. Sooo ... we plant about 8 inches deep to delay emergence and they're safe from frost. If we wait to plant after the last frost then they get hit when The Potato Leaf Hopper arrives here in July - just as tubers are trying to size up they die from Hopper Burn and yields are 25% less. By the end of July the Hoppers are gone. We plant deeper again in mid July to delay emergence to time it with the disappearance of The Leaf Hopper.

darn, was looking forward to the digging

Jim, can you do a similar video on planting a field row?

living in texas we do not always get a 28 degree freeze every year, so...

❤❤❤ we love potatoes and we love Maine

We target 3rd week April. About 2 weeks prior to our last frost. Also mid July. It's hot. They struggle ... but that gives 'em 90 days before frost and if you stick to shorter season varieties they'll do just fine.

Thanks. Been wondering why my crops have failed.

Know anything about parsnips?

nice straight lines too. Anyone who has ever driven a NON self-steer knows what I mean.

Your seed potatoes that you sell, what is the average count of potatoes/lb?

Great explanation. I want to go ahead and buy 20lbs now, what is your reommendation for me for proper storage until Jan. I know 38 degrees is optimal for storage temp. If I place them in a dedicated refrigerator unti Jan, should I leave them in the box or take them out of it ?

Thank you. Good to know. Have a blessed day.

You have to be careful on manure, I learned the hard way that if cows eat grass and weeds that has been sprayed, the chemical is in the manure and it will kill your plants. It will also have alot of weed seeds and over take your garden.

So is that cellar heated?

Thanks Jim, so in your estimate from planting the seed to terminating the plants is roughly how many days?

Love the videos, folks, really gives us the chance to see all the work that goes into growing seed potatoes. And your seed potatoes are the best!

Found this out the hard way when my store bought potatoes produced pea sized babies! I wouldn't have minded the tiny potatoes but there were only a few. :(

Potatoes are still pick by hand here in Louisiana both Sweet and Irish as of today? We use either a single row like yours or two row riding that we put bins on and people ride and hand pick the potatoes off the chain conveyer into the bin. There is no use of diggers that automatic dig, dump directly into trucks here. Do you have any videos on the NPK you apply for the potatoes and your fertilization schedule and the amt? chk this video:ua-cam.com/video/jljFoGUbz7c/v-deo.html

Ive got 3 varieties saved since 2001 that don't suffer this. Those same 3 originally came from the grocery store produce aisle. *Everybody* says you cant do this but i just dont see it happening. It's mostly just a marketing tool to scare you into buying expensive seed. You can save your own, folks. The way It's been done for 10,000 years.

Really enjoyed seeing your beginning videos. Thanks

Thanks for the video, nice to see. What do I do? I breed new potato varieties. First 40 years at a company, and now for myself. I try to post a video every week about the breeding process. Follow it a few times and you can start breeding yourself. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Can't wait for the ordering to begin! I've my order in my head for the last couple of months.

Can’t wait will be placing my order soon as I live in zone 9b we plant out January to February especially for Baltic Rose and Prairie Blush as those are my favorites now

Congratulations on finishing the harvest season! I know from my own vegetable garden that it feels good to get the crops brought in for the year! That potato harvester is a serious piece of equipment!

Same with Cannbis, Genetics are like the most important

That's why you turn that crop into gourmet baby potatoes and charge $7/lb. (Hint)

Yes, Floyd, Aroostook County is one of the last areas in the USA which still closes schools so that students get help get in the harvest. Potato Harvest Break is three weeks long during Sept & October. School starts up in early August to account for Harvest Break so students can still meet the State-mandated 175-day school year. Harvest Break decisions are made by the elected School Board for each School District and yes, there are fewer Districts doing Harvest Break now than there were 15-20 years ago. Our local School District is made up of rural, Potato-farming towns around Bridgewater and I believe we'll be the last District in the State of Maine that will ever abandon Potato Harvest Break. I think the best education is a blend of book learning and real world experience. The kids that work Potato Harvest learn more in those 3 weeks about how life works than they would ever learn in a classroom. And that lesson stays with them the rest of their lives. Jim

Do schools in Aroostock county still start early in August, then close so children can help with the potato harvest?

Congrats on your 2024 season. I'm ordering for early Feburary delievery to central Texas

Thank you so much for the advice I’d tried planting some grocery store bought fruits and they never did grow well or as big as the ones I get from expensive seed packs and never understood why till now

Great knowledge thank you kindly for sharing, recently getting into gardening, especially potato gardening. This will be very helpful.

Okay, but how do the seed potato suppliers avoid the same pitfall?

Thanks for posting this! I planted Baltic Rose for the first time this summer, and it's freaking magical. One of the best I've eaten. Next year I'll get them in the ground earlier. It's good to see how you guys work and how much care you take with everything. Thanks for doing what you do, I really appreciate it.

Thank you for sharing, your video made me homesick. I grew up in Maine and have family in Houlton and in the Old Town area. My Dad worked in road construction and followed the interstate to Houlton, then in 1968 he went to work for Goodyear out of Boston and moved the family to Vermont. I am the last of the 5 kids still in Vermont. I fell in love with the mountains and stayed. Of course now I wish I wasn't living on 10 acres of side hill!!! My Dad told us when we moved to Vermont that the cows have legs shorter on one side of their bodies from walking around on side hills all their lives and that we would me ourselves coming back on the crooked roads. He always painted an interesting picture on our minds. I so enjoyed the video on the seed snails that I got lost in the videos. Thank you for sharing and giving this old lady something to think about. HOME!! Yup Maine will always be home. It has been over 20 years since I was able to travel to go home. so seeing all of that flat land made me homesick!!!

The 2:85 is a good tractor better than most White tractor s

New subscriber, but I order my seed potato’s from you guys. This was REALLY cool to see! Thanks for sharing!

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What-ever first earlies you like , they wont yeild very well compared to main crop , but they taste great , are best cooked the same day you pick them , and they're expensive in the shops ,

What are you using for a disinfectant?

Not much info unfortunately. The problem with specialisation is the loss of other varieties. Elba may be best at container growing but other varieties may be a better potato overall. Sad how much vegetable variety we have lost.

Heard of it and yes very good variety