When the potatoe plants start putting out flowers you want to pinch then of and any seed pods too because the plant puts its energy into the flowers and pods and not the potatoes so by pinching the flowers and pods off it continues to put all its energy into plumping out the potatoes 🥔👍🏼👍🏼
For bigger potatoes, we leave them 3 weeks longer after they die back, then the size increases, you did a great job and soil was nice and moist. liked your presentation and everything, Great video. Thank you
Jare Crowl Thanks for the comments. The red sangrias I did leave in the ground longer. I know it's better to leave them in for a while after the tops die back. The skins "cure" better that way and won't be so susceptible to damage. The potatoes in the bag could have been left to go until the tops died back but I was a little anxious to see how they were doing, besides, with the fabric bag, it was hard to keep the ground moist. Dried out fairly fast after I'd water it. My soil is fairly sandy here but does tend to get kind of packed down. I have been using horticultural perlite in some of my beds. There is a manufacturer here in town and I can get it for $3 a 2 cu ft bag. Works pretty good, just have to be careful I don't overdo it.
Good to see more videos on gardening from my zone (zone 5) Minnesota. It is hard to gauge how plants will grow when you are looking at a video from California. Thanks for the good information. I'm growing in the garden, in buckets, and in a burlap bag to see what will happen.
Really nice harvest I love all the different sizes I love using the small ones in a oven roasting bag when I cook a roast I add the little potatos and carrots to the bag they fit perfectly
Save bigger seed potatoes from your harvest to replant. Traditionally, the best potatoes were saved to replant to get better bigger potatoes. Didn’t know potatoes had seeds! Thanks for the info!
nice haul, sorry u think they are too small and harvest wasn't big enough. any harvest greater than what is used to start with always seems like a great harvest to me. blessings.
For me, it’s about the size of the harvest vs. the cost to grow (price plus effort). When I get a small harvest, I consider it a failure because gardening can be crazy expensive and laborious. (Even if it IS fun.)
Was pretty easy, and the spuds came out a little cleaner than the ones in the garden. It might be a while to the canning part though, sometimes I have great intentions but then it kind of fades away. Old age I guess :>)
Hopefully 🙏 someone can answer...does sweet potato 🍠 grow in the same process as a potato ?🥔 I recently purchased a store bought purple sweet tator, they are so good, and cut off about 2-3” from the bottom and put it, the bottom in a cup of water hoping it will start to grow roots so I can grow it outdoors, about a week or two ago. I believe this is a long process before any roots will start to grow, but I’m willing to wait. Does anyone know exactly how long this could take and or the Fastest method to grow this sweet spud. Blessings
I think the key to a large potato harvest is deep, deep soil. That's why trashcans do so well. So the taller and wider, the better. I imagine the potatoes would grow as much as they possibly could.
Interesting video...I have an allotment in Perth, Scotland & love growing potatoes. I have about 15 varieties growing this year, including one I am growing this year for the first time called Pink Fir Apple.
That's a heck of a lot of potatoes. Had to check out Pink Fir Apple, never heard of that one. Looks interesting. Thanks for watching and commenting. Mark.
That seems to be the problem with the grow bag idea, giving them enough water. The potatoes in the garden were of a more consistent and larger size. Dug up the rest of the reds yesterday and they were really good. Some were larger than the whites and of a more uniform size. Thanks for watching and for commenting.
If you did germinate your potato seeds, you would get all different kinds... there are a few videos about it on youtube. Someday I am going to try it. I love your garden and your channel!
Thank you! Been so busy around here though I haven't had time to make any videos this year. Got one I'm working on so hopefully I'll get it done. Making current jam, started it last spring. ;>( blushing with shame).
I noticed you didn't have enough soil. If you had filled the bag to half full then placed potatoes in then covered them with more soil ,you would have had a bigger yield. When the tops have grown 6 inches fill in with soil again leaving only 2 inches of leaves at top, let them grow 6 more inches do same until you get to 1 inch from top then put straw or shavings and cover soil completely. Make sure no sunlight gets to potatoes or they will be green and poisonous. try that way next time and I think you will be very pleased with results
If it had less plants and more room to grow you would have had more of a better yield. At the sametime if you get more then what you put in then I see that as a win. Plus you can use the smaller ones to replant.
+Noahs Ark They do seem to grow that way. Makes it easier to hill them and keeps any from poking through the ground and turning green from the sun light. Planted a few of the german butterballs this year but mainly planted sangrias and purple vikings. Purple vikings are another good all around potato, but the did grow closer to the surface and I had to keep them hilled up. lost a few to the sun and also some mouse damage. Thanks for the comment and for watching. Mark
Boy, all your potatoes look delicious. Like you, I want to try different potatoes too. I want to find the ones that grow best in my area, and will plant a few varieties if I can. Great video, Thank you!
Thanks for the nice comment. Right now I'm thinking of buying seed potatoes next spring from www.organicpotatoseed.com/varieties/ . They are right here in Wisconsin so I suspect most of what they sell will grow good here. Haven't decided on any varieties yet.
Wis.Gardener Oh my goodness that potato site looks wonderful. Thank you for the link, I'm going to read up on what information they have on their potatoes. Good seed potatoes seem to make a big difference, but potatoes are one of the few veggies that I have not really grown many of yet, so I'm reading everything I can, and hope to finally get to grow several different potatoes next planting season. PS It's so great when you can go to a site and download information using pdf. Then I can read all about potatoes when I can sit down and take all the information in, and not be in a hurry.
Hi There Good Video, You just need to make sure you give the potatoes full sun but you used a great method of growing potatoes. Maybe use a proper potatoes fertiliser like most of the other guys on youtube. That might help but you shouldn't give up because it was the corn that was blocking the sun for your potatoes they would have gotten a lot bigger otherwise I'm sure of it. Keep up the good work bye...
You're right. I just threw the thing together to use up some extra potatoes. But if I do it again I'll do it different. Here's a guy that did it right. I might do it like this; ua-cam.com/video/dMrkIecqQL8/v-deo.html Thanks for the comment.
They don't like setting if your soil temp is above 75 won't set at all above 80 if you do a tower again shade it with lattice use a well drained light soil and mulch with hay or straw after 8-12 inches of hilling. You can also move your planning date up a bit with the black bag because it soaks up sun and then shade it as summer sets in.
German Butterball is a great potato... Next time only plant 5 or 6 in that big grow bag...18 is way to many for that area.... They will do much better if given more space to grow...
Do you know if German Butterball is a determinate potato or is it an indeterminate potato? Indeterminates can grow more layers up the vine, to a certain degree, so if your viewers try potato towers or keep hilling as they grow, they really need indeterminates for the highest yields. I grew 2 "pens" similar in size to yours, maybe 33-36" Dia., but used 24-inch tall 1/4-inch hardware cloth with no weed barrier fabric; I put down a couple inches of well-aged manure, then about 6 inches of a peat-based soilless mix (Pro-Mix BX w/Myco) and, as they grew I filled the pens with clean straw (looked like it was pre-washed, really "blonde-colored", from Tractor Supply.) It was my first year using that method before I read about potatoes having indeterminate varieties available---I grew Yukon Golds and Gold Rush #1 seed potatoes from Walmart (~$3/lb), (earlies/determinates), a mix of both in each pen because I had a pen at each end of the yard and didn't want variety/location/sun differences claiming 1 better than the other; I got about 3 to 3-1/2 dozen nice sized taters per pen. It's time to plant now, we had snow until a couple weeks ago and nights just until a few days ago were near freezing; I'll be using Russets instead this time. Hope this helps somebody!
When I made this video I wasn't aware that potatoes were considered to be determinate or indeterminate. Did find that out afterwards though. Apparently the late season potatoes are generally considered indeterminate and early varieties determinate. But there seems to be some controversy about categorizing them like this at all. Any way, german butterball are considered indeterminate. So they should have set more potatoes on the vine as I put in more soil, but reviewing my video it appears that that did not happen. All the tubers are close to the original spot that I had planted them. I do have a fingerling potato, La ratte, that grows like a weed and I'm pretty sure that one does set tubers all along it as it grows. If I don't get them all out of the ground in the fall they do over winter and start growing in the spring.
I have been watching a lot of container gardening videos, and the research seems to be pointing to NG results especially for plants that grow in the ground. (no good)
Hi Again, Yes that guy is a professional potato grower. Allotmentdiary grows many potatoes & he keeps getting very high yields. Also Baconsoda is very good as well. There the best, I've seen on youtube. Thanks for the reply hope to see more potato harvest from you all the best bye…
Yeah this 'technique' was not really intended for EVERYONE's use, just the people you mention and Apartment dwellers or others who actually have nowhere to grow or can't because of an HOA or Rental situation.
That and I like to use them for "smashed" potatoes. Boil them and them flatten them out and roast them, in the oven or the grill. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@sairamunro7684 Thank you. Also have a ginger plant that’s starting to turn on me too, leaves turning brown on the edges and planted it about the same time. I water them well every other day. My turmeric plant died a long time ago, don’t know why. I was just able to dig up a small chunk of turmeric from it about an inch long. Thank you for your responses 🙏
Rick Schulte Well, ideally they should be stored at 35° to 40° F and humidity around 90%. In the dark with air circulation. But that's not too realistic for the majority of us. I just put them in produce boxes (get them from grocery store if they let you have them. They get their produce in them). and then keep them in an unheated room in my basement.. They should be "cured" before storing them. Here is a link that is pretty straight forward; www.wikihow.com/Store-Potatoes
They are not edible, because; Potatoes (like tomatoes) contain poison in the stems and leaves - and even in the potato itself if left to turn green (the green is due to a high concentration of the glycoalkaloid poison). Potato poisoning is rare, but it does happen from time to time. Death normally comes after a period of weakness and confusion, followed by a coma. The majority of cases of death by potato in the last fifty years in the USA have been the result of eating green potatoes or drinking potato leaf tea. Potatoes sticking out of the ground will turn green so they need to be kept covered with soil as they are growing. If you do find a little green on them it can be cut off and the rest of it can be eaten. If it's really green, it is best to just discard it.
About 14 seed potatoes. I didn't need to put any holes in the bag as the bottom was open to the ground and the fabric I used allows air and water to pass through. The point of this trial was to find out if new potatoes would develop along the stem of the plant as I continued to add soil. They didn't, only had potatoes at the original spot that I planted the starter potatoes. I totally missed making that point in the video.
No. Other than home test kits, Mainly for PH and nitrogen. Soil in this area is mostly a loam so it started out looking good. I do a lot of composting and also mulching with shredded leaves. It is somewhat sandy and that can be a problem in a dry year.
@@wisgardener I bet you would get large potatoes if you could keep the moisture in the soil. I have the same problem when we don't get the rain. I am working on a watering system. I usually let my potato plants die back before I harvest them. It usually gives them more growth.
@@carolparrish194 Normally I let the tops die back all the way before digging them. Water was a problem with the fabric, the soil did dry out fairly fast. But, in the video I kind of missed describing the whole point of this experiment. I wanted to see if the plants would actually set more potatoes along the vine as I put in more dirt, as some articles had claimed would happen. They didn't, all the potatoes that formed were still at the level that the original planting took place. So what I found was that, at least with this variety, the deeper soil along the vines doesn't make more potatoes. I have read since then that some potatoes are determinate and some are indeterminate, like tomatoes. And one type will do it and the other won't. Don't know if that is true or not. I think though, that maybe the fingerling potatoes might be able to do that. I grew some ratte fingerlings and they would start growing potatoes wherever the vines touched the ground. Might have to retry this experiment using a couple of varieties come spring.
@@wisgardener I have never heard that some potatoes are determent and some are indeterminate varieties. I just looked it up on wed and it said that is true."Alturas,Bannock Russet ans Russet Burbank" are indeterminate. They would be worth a try if I can grow them in my area.
@@wisgardener If you grow them again in the future, amend the soil when you plant them with bonemeal and any fertilizer that you use should be weaker on the nitrogen side. This should put the right amount of nutes into the spuds rather than the canopy.
@@Lemonentory: Will be growing again this year. Planning on growing some in 10gal containers. Here is a fellow I've been watching and he seems to really know what he is doing. ua-cam.com/play/PLREI92DGCWROg21bFSb9sL5FxfV8sn1bv.html
@@wisgardener I subscribed to him a while back, His content is good, he knows his chit! 10gallon is perfect, good luck with your next harvest I will be sure to tune in!
When the potatoe plants start putting out flowers you want to pinch then of and any seed pods too because the plant puts its energy into the flowers and pods and not the potatoes so by pinching the flowers and pods off it continues to put all its energy into plumping out the potatoes 🥔👍🏼👍🏼
For bigger potatoes, we leave them 3 weeks longer after they die back, then the size increases, you did a great job and soil was nice and moist. liked your presentation and everything, Great video. Thank you
Jare Crowl Thanks for the comments. The red sangrias I did leave in the ground longer. I know it's better to leave them in for a while after the tops die back. The skins "cure" better that way and won't be so susceptible to damage. The potatoes in the bag could have been left to go until the tops died back but I was a little anxious to see how they were doing, besides, with the fabric bag, it was hard to keep the ground moist. Dried out fairly fast after I'd water it.
My soil is fairly sandy here but does tend to get kind of packed down. I have been using horticultural perlite in some of my beds. There is a manufacturer here in town and I can get it for $3 a 2 cu ft bag. Works pretty good, just have to be careful I don't overdo it.
Those red potatoes were beautiful!!!
Good to see more videos on gardening from my zone (zone 5) Minnesota. It is hard to gauge how plants will grow when you are looking at a video from California. Thanks for the good information. I'm growing in the garden, in buckets, and in a burlap bag to see what will happen.
I actually love these potatoes , clean and very natural size . I bet they are very tasty
Really nice harvest I love all the different sizes I love using the small ones in a oven roasting bag when I cook a roast I add the little potatos and carrots to the bag they fit perfectly
Save bigger seed potatoes from your harvest to replant. Traditionally, the best potatoes were saved to replant to get better bigger potatoes. Didn’t know potatoes had seeds! Thanks for the info!
nice haul, sorry u think they are too small and harvest wasn't big enough. any harvest greater than what is used to start with always seems like a great harvest to me. blessings.
devon hopson
For me, it’s about the size of the harvest vs. the cost to grow (price plus effort). When I get a small harvest, I consider it a failure because gardening can be crazy expensive and laborious. (Even if it IS fun.)
devon hopson agreed
Finally aware of you very nicely said, wise way of looking at it🙂
Like it so much...plenty of harvest...this bag must be blessed with good harvest.Congrats to you farmer!
That was a great idea with the DIY grow bag. Looked like an easy harvest from it. Looking forward to seeing how you can up some of those spuds.
Was pretty easy, and the spuds came out a little cleaner than the ones in the garden. It might be a while to the canning part though, sometimes I have great intentions but then it kind of fades away. Old age I guess :>)
@@wisgardener
Did you make holes in the bag?
Hopefully 🙏 someone can answer...does sweet potato 🍠 grow in the same process as a potato ?🥔 I recently purchased a store bought purple sweet tator, they are so good, and cut off about 2-3” from the bottom and put it, the bottom in a cup of water hoping it will start to grow roots so I can grow it outdoors, about a week or two ago. I believe this is a long process before any roots will start to grow, but I’m willing to wait. Does anyone know exactly how long this could take and or the Fastest method to grow this sweet spud. Blessings
I planted in a fiber glass bath tube this year with plenty of holes raised of the ground. Can't wait to see what happens.
What happened?
Amazing!👍👍
Those little tiny potatoes are good eating too fried up whole with some butter and parsely. Yum!
Like to make "smashed" potatoes with the small ones. Either fry them or bake them.
I would be happy with that haul. The small ones can be called gourmet.. :)
Cherokee Rose Agreed.
Thanks
small potatoes are great for stew, you just throw the whole potatoes in without cutting them and they give you a nice big crunchy spud
I like to boil them whole with the skins on and then just smash em down with a fork. Just butter on them.
What a great haul, truly a blessing with anything you can grow..
I love the yellow potatoes. Will be trying those next year.
Nice ones in the garden beds, few extra from left over seeded potatoes.
Sir your ideas is awesome and grate harvest congrats .
nice harvest.good size potatoes.
How can you think those are small?? Far out I'd be happy with that!!
I think the key to a large potato harvest is deep, deep soil. That's why trashcans do so well. So the taller and wider, the better. I imagine the potatoes would grow as much as they possibly could.
This my first year growing potatoes using the big bags can’t wait to see what happens
Interesting video...I have an allotment in Perth, Scotland & love growing potatoes. I have about 15 varieties growing this year, including one I am growing this year for the first time called Pink Fir Apple.
That's a heck of a lot of potatoes. Had to check out Pink Fir Apple, never heard of that one. Looks interesting. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Mark.
THE SMALL ONES ARE ALL WAYS GOOD IN GREEN BEANS
Beef Stew too! You don't have to cut them up!
Lovely potatoes
Two more weeks maybe. But great job and thanks for sharing. We learn from one another.
This is rick responding back. Thank you for such a quick response, and for the info on how to store my spuds.. Thank you again Sincerely Rick.
I’d be happy with that potato haul!
you got that out of one bag? That's seems pretty good to me!!
It was fifteen seeds though looks like he only got about 3 per plant.
Just be grateful for what God gave you cuz there's plenty of people out there that me very happy to have that
Nice spuds . I have tried all sorts I wil try tubs next year just need to remember to water them. The red looked fantastic man good crop.
That seems to be the problem with the grow bag idea, giving them enough water. The potatoes in the garden were of a more consistent and larger size. Dug up the rest of the reds yesterday and they were really good. Some were larger than the whites and of a more uniform size.
Thanks for watching and for commenting.
Gorgeous harvest
Pretty jolly good looking to me.
Great aunt thelma harvests them out of the compost.😁
If you did germinate your potato seeds, you would get all different kinds... there are a few videos about it on youtube. Someday I am going to try it. I love your garden and your channel!
Thank you! Been so busy around here though I haven't had time to make any videos this year. Got one I'm working on so hopefully I'll get it done. Making current jam, started it last spring. ;>( blushing with shame).
I noticed you didn't have enough soil. If you had filled the bag to half full then placed potatoes in then covered them with more soil ,you would have had a bigger yield. When the tops have grown 6 inches fill in with soil again leaving only 2 inches of leaves at top, let them grow 6 more inches do same until you get to 1 inch from top then put straw or shavings and cover soil completely. Make sure no sunlight gets to potatoes or they will be green and poisonous. try that way next time and I think you will be very pleased with results
@Black Buick how'd they do?
If it had less plants and more room to grow you would have had more of a better yield. At the sametime if you get more then what you put in then I see that as a win. Plus you can use the smaller ones to replant.
love that you made your own grow bag!
Sorry, again but soil in ground too heavy, can lighten it up with sand or such
Great harvesting. Looks really nice.
Love small potatoes...tender steamed with butter salt and pepper...delicieux...good crop as far as I am concerned...
Great haul!!
I hope you have seen the grocery stores carrying baby tiny potatoes in clear bags, expensive ones. So, those tiny ones are the in things, too.
Oh ya, seen them. And I can keep the small ones in the fridge and they stay nice and firm for a long time. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I. Would do it again you got a lot of potatoes there. I don't know what you want. Those are nice potatoes
I noticed the potatoes seemed to grow at the same depth. Nothing sprouts up the stems with this variety. Same with Yukon Golds.
+Noahs Ark They do seem to grow that way. Makes it easier to hill them and keeps any from poking through the ground and turning green from the sun light.
Planted a few of the german butterballs this year but mainly planted sangrias and purple vikings. Purple vikings are another good all around potato, but the did grow closer to the surface and I had to keep them hilled up. lost a few to the sun and also some mouse damage.
Thanks for the comment and for watching.
Mark
I have a raised bed on the south side of the house. The largest fist sized spuds are always on the south side of the stem.
Great harvest!
Boy, all your potatoes look delicious. Like you, I want to try different potatoes too. I want to find the ones that grow best in my area, and will plant a few varieties if I can. Great video, Thank you!
Thanks for the nice comment. Right now I'm thinking of buying seed potatoes next spring from www.organicpotatoseed.com/varieties/ . They are right here in Wisconsin so I suspect most of what they sell will grow good here. Haven't decided on any varieties yet.
Wis.Gardener Oh my goodness that potato site looks wonderful. Thank you for the link, I'm going to read up on what information they have on their potatoes. Good seed potatoes seem to make a big difference, but potatoes are one of the few veggies that I have not really grown many of yet, so I'm reading everything I can, and hope to finally get to grow several different potatoes next planting season. PS It's so great when you can go to a site and download information using pdf. Then I can read all about potatoes when I can sit down and take all the information in, and not be in a hurry.
It's like digging for treasure
enjoyed your video u can learn a lot watching this video
Hi There Good Video, You just need to make sure you give the potatoes full sun but you used a great method of growing potatoes. Maybe use a proper potatoes fertiliser like most of the other guys on youtube. That might help but you shouldn't give up because it was the corn that was blocking the sun for your potatoes they would have gotten a lot bigger otherwise I'm sure of it. Keep up the good work bye...
You're right. I just threw the thing together to use up some extra potatoes. But if I do it again I'll do it different. Here's a guy that did it right. I might do it like this; ua-cam.com/video/dMrkIecqQL8/v-deo.html
Thanks for the comment.
Thought that the tops were suppose to die before you dig the potatoes?Nice.
U got a lot of pot u should say thank god the small pot are del just sauteed in butter
You've got nice butter balls spuds
They don't like setting if your soil temp is above 75 won't set at all above 80 if you do a tower again shade it with lattice use a well drained light soil and mulch with hay or straw after 8-12 inches of hilling. You can also move your planning date up a bit with the black bag because it soaks up sun and then shade it as summer sets in.
German Butterball is a great potato... Next time only plant 5 or 6 in that big grow bag...18 is way to many for that area.... They will do much better if given more space to grow...
Will do that. Just had all those extra with no where to put them so I thought I'd experiment a little. Thanks for commenting.
@@wisgardener wood chips and peat make a good draining but moisture retaining hilling material.
Nice little haul
Thanks ;>)
You're a funny man!😁😁LUV Lay!
Wow I love that I hope I can do that in my garden new friend here stay connected
Nice harvest
Nice idea I'm doing it
Do you know if German Butterball is a determinate potato or is it an indeterminate potato? Indeterminates can grow more layers up the vine, to a certain degree, so if your viewers try potato towers or keep hilling as they grow, they really need indeterminates for the highest yields.
I grew 2 "pens" similar in size to yours, maybe 33-36" Dia., but used 24-inch tall 1/4-inch hardware cloth with no weed barrier fabric; I put down a couple inches of well-aged manure, then about 6 inches of a peat-based soilless mix (Pro-Mix BX w/Myco) and, as they grew I filled the pens with clean straw (looked like it was pre-washed, really "blonde-colored", from Tractor Supply.)
It was my first year using that method before I read about potatoes having indeterminate varieties available---I grew Yukon Golds and Gold Rush #1 seed potatoes from Walmart (~$3/lb), (earlies/determinates), a mix of both in each pen because I had a pen at each end of the yard and didn't want variety/location/sun differences claiming 1 better than the other; I got about 3 to 3-1/2 dozen nice sized taters per pen.
It's time to plant now, we had snow until a couple weeks ago and nights just until a few days ago were near freezing; I'll be using Russets instead this time. Hope this helps somebody!
When I made this video I wasn't aware that potatoes were considered to be determinate or indeterminate. Did find that out afterwards though. Apparently the late season potatoes are generally considered indeterminate and early varieties determinate. But there seems to be some controversy about categorizing them like this at all. Any way, german butterball are considered indeterminate. So they should have set more potatoes on the vine as I put in more soil, but reviewing my video it appears that that did not happen. All the tubers are close to the original spot that I had planted them. I do have a fingerling potato, La ratte, that grows like a weed and I'm pretty sure that one does set tubers all along it as it grows. If I don't get them all out of the ground in the fall they do over winter and start growing in the spring.
I think you got a good return being that this was an experiment
Very good
I have been watching a lot of container gardening videos, and the research seems to be pointing to NG results especially for plants that grow in the ground. (no good)
The small ones can be called gourmet.. :)
So far it looks like the bag was better!?
Looks so great. What was the timeline for these 14 seeds/this batch? How long were they in there?
Probably planted them about the middle of May. Video was made at the end of November. Usually would have waited until the tops died off.
Hi Again, Yes that guy is a professional potato grower. Allotmentdiary grows many potatoes & he keeps getting very high yields. Also Baconsoda is very good as well. There the best, I've seen on youtube. Thanks for the reply hope to see more potato harvest from you all the best bye…
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You have a btfl..crop of potatoes. .they are all edible. .that's what is important. .
Interesante manera de cultivar. Podrías mostrar cómo armaste los recipientes? Y por favor podrías poner los subtítulos en español? Muchas gracias!!
The reason people use grow bags is because they don't have soil to plant in, and many people cant do the physical labour of digging.
Yeah this 'technique' was not really intended for EVERYONE's use, just the people you mention and Apartment dwellers or others who actually have nowhere to grow or can't because of an HOA or Rental situation.
I use them because the place I live has really heavy clay soils and isn’t good for root vegetables
I like to take the smaller potatoes from my garden (golf ball sized and smaller) and throw them in whole when I cook a roast.
That and I like to use them for "smashed" potatoes. Boil them and them flatten them out and roast them, in the oven or the grill. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You may be digging to early!
How do you know they ready for harvest
@@siry5164 when the leaves die back and collapse they are ready
@@sairamunro7684 Thank you. Also have a ginger plant that’s starting to turn on me too, leaves turning brown on the edges and planted it about the same time. I water them well every other day. My turmeric plant died a long time ago, don’t know why. I was just able to dig up a small chunk of turmeric from it about an inch long. Thank you for your responses 🙏
Wow you grew quite a bit of tators... how long did that take Please?
I just planted potatoes in bags today I ordered the bags from Home Depot. 2 bags from $11. I’m excited.
Good luck
I would store the small ones, they are seed potatoes.
do you dehydrate? it comes in excellent when grow ur own
Best potato in my opinion is Kennebec
You are probably right.
It harvest looks good to me.
very good,
Good
Nice soil, and spuds, can you tell me how to store spuds?. I live in washington state, thank you Rick.
Rick Schulte Well, ideally they should be stored at 35° to 40° F and humidity around 90%. In the dark with air circulation. But that's not too realistic for the majority of us. I just put them in produce boxes (get them from grocery store if they let you have them. They get their produce in them). and then keep them in an unheated room in my basement.. They should be "cured" before storing them.
Here is a link that is pretty straight forward; www.wikihow.com/Store-Potatoes
You are digging to early you haft to wait until the leaves are completely brown and dead still not bad tho
Great
They are perfect.
Seems like 6 spuds per seed is average.
And the 'fruit/potatoes' set on above the seed.
I know you can eat the green tops of beets and carrots ... can you eat the green tops of potatoes?
They are not edible, because; Potatoes (like tomatoes) contain poison in the stems and leaves - and
even in the potato itself if left to turn green (the green is due to a
high concentration of the glycoalkaloid poison). Potato poisoning is
rare, but it does happen from time to time. Death normally comes after a
period of weakness and confusion, followed by a coma. The majority of
cases of death by potato in the last fifty years in the USA have been
the result of eating green potatoes or drinking potato leaf tea.
Potatoes sticking out of the ground will turn green so they need to be kept covered with soil as they are growing. If you do find a little green on them it can be cut off and the rest of it can be eaten. If it's really green, it is best to just discard it.
How many potatoes did you plant in that bag?
About 14 seed potatoes. I didn't need to put any holes in the bag as the bottom was open to the ground and the fabric I used allows air and water to pass through. The point of this trial was to find out if new potatoes would develop along the stem of the plant as I continued to add soil. They didn't, only had potatoes at the original spot that I planted the starter potatoes. I totally missed making that point in the video.
you harvested too soon
I'm pretty sure they were small because the pot was overcrowded.
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How is it the fork always finds the biggest one? Freaks me out to be honest, that's luck!
I don' know, but it always works. Quite the mystery :>)
Your soil looks very good. Have you ever had it tested?
No. Other than home test kits, Mainly for PH and nitrogen. Soil in this area is mostly a loam so it started out looking good. I do a lot of composting and also mulching with shredded leaves. It is somewhat sandy and that can be a problem in a dry year.
@@wisgardener I bet you would get large potatoes if you could keep the moisture in the soil. I have the same problem when we don't get the rain. I am working on a watering system. I usually let my potato plants die back before I harvest them. It usually gives them more growth.
@@carolparrish194 Normally I let the tops die back all the way before digging them. Water was a problem with the fabric, the soil did dry out fairly fast. But, in the video I kind of missed describing the whole point of this experiment. I wanted to see if the plants would actually set more potatoes along the vine as I put in more dirt, as some articles had claimed would happen. They didn't, all the potatoes that formed were still at the level that the original planting took place. So what I found was that, at least with this variety, the deeper soil along the vines doesn't make more potatoes. I have read since then that some potatoes are determinate and some are indeterminate, like tomatoes. And one type will do it and the other won't. Don't know if that is true or not. I think though, that maybe the fingerling potatoes might be able to do that. I grew some ratte fingerlings and they would start growing potatoes wherever the vines touched the ground. Might have to retry this experiment using a couple of varieties come spring.
@@wisgardener I have never heard that some potatoes are determent and some are indeterminate varieties. I just looked it up on wed and it said that is true."Alturas,Bannock Russet ans Russet Burbank" are indeterminate. They would be worth a try if I can grow them in my area.
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Oh we only put 3 whole potatoes in, they need a lot of space.
This would be worth it to me just to not have to dig!
Did you use any bonemeal in the soil?
No but I probably should have. Just used an all purpose fertilizer.
@@wisgardener If you grow them again in the future, amend the soil when you plant them with bonemeal and any fertilizer that you use should be weaker on the nitrogen side.
This should put the right amount of nutes into the spuds rather than the canopy.
@@Lemonentory: Will be growing again this year. Planning on growing some in 10gal containers. Here is a fellow I've been watching and he seems to really know what he is doing. ua-cam.com/play/PLREI92DGCWROg21bFSb9sL5FxfV8sn1bv.html
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I subscribed to him a while back,
His content is good, he knows his chit!
10gallon is perfect, good luck with your next harvest I will be sure to tune in!
Usually getting potato fruits is a sign of a bad harvest
Try to add some potassium or wood ash to your soul and you will get more and bigger potatoes
Too many seed potatoes planted only needed 4-5 and should let plant die off before harvest
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