RUTH STOUT WINS - Potato Harvest Sneak Peak
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The last 3 years I've grown potatoes in Ruth Stout beds, this year I changed out all my beds for more of a lasagna style garden. I should have left just one Ruth Stout bed for my potato crops alone based on these results. live and learn, you will be seeing Ruth Stout coming back next year without a doubt!
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Thank you for letting us know. I planted my first potatoes this year and I was planning on going ruth stout next year.
Start your Ruth Stout bed this fall, you'll be happy you did come spring and time to plant
I bet if you dig deeper there will be more down there. When I planted in dirt I would find them 10 - 12 inches down. I did Ruth stout this year because I have a bad back and the less digging the better. I harvested yesterday and I got so many potatoes! Totally growing them Ruth stout from here on out.
If you want to do an early harvest you must wait until the potato plants flower. That is an indication that you will find little potatoes ..if you want mature potatoes..don't pick them all and wait until the plant dies down. They grow great in dirt..be patient.
100% positive I said they had already flowered.
@@1870s I did hear that. smile.
I planted potatoes that I was going to throw out because they were getting soft and had lots of eyes in a container. Much to my surprise they are getting foliage. We’ll see how they do - I am not really expecting anything but thought it would be a good experiment! I planted some scrap green onions and garlic and they have taken off!
Given that you planted when you did, you should have found more potatoes on those roots, even if they were super small. We do the same every 4th of July. You've still got some time to Ruth Stout a round of potatoes this season if you want. We just put in our 2and round last week and they should be ready about end of September.
I don't understand why everything is so green and lush and all your vegetables are so small.
Plant in dirt and have so many on each plant. I've never had that little of harvest
Wow Rachel I am trying potatoes in a grow bag this year in soil but have another grow bag spare so I will try Ruth Stout method with that one & see- love experiments .
Me too thus my decision to "experiment" this year, this definitely was not my hypothesis 😂
I think you pulled them too quickly. I wait till the plants die off then pull. Happy 4th ❤️
I know it was just an early harvest to get enough for some potato salad I do this every year and never had such poor results even in an early harvest. I'll hang in yo the tiny hope that they miraculously appear
Oh so sorry, I planted in the dirt last year and had less than that. Didnt do potatoes this year. Next year Ruth Stout for me too. ❤
You will love Ruth Stout. Start the bed prep this fall if you can
We learn by our mistakes. I know that I am.
Also my dad always said don’t harvest until plant dies back and falls over
You usually don't harvest potatoes until the plants yellow and start to die, then they're ready to harvest. I think you harvested too soon. I'd put the plants back into the soil.
Another thing is, if a bed is too high in nitrogen, you get mostly leafy greens and little or no potatoes.
Its maybe too early. I didn't see any blooms. Also when you plant in soil you needto dig deeper to find the potatoes.
A few years ago that happened to me and several other people I no . The brand was Jersey Bennie and everyone couldn't understand why. My garden is no dig and I plant them a foot in ground and cover with mulch. Never happened again.
Your doing a great job with your garden, enjoy your updates.
How disappointing Rachel! I am sorry. You had such a great attitude though about not letting it ruin your day. This is the first year out of 4 that I think I am going to actually get a good harvest on potatoes. I also just dug at the bottom of a couple plants to see what was happening and found a nice sized purple viking potato so i am optimistic! God Bless you and Tod!
Well you garden and grow. Now you know what to do and what not to do!👍🏻
Exactly
Mine did the same thing this year. I got out just about the same amount of potatoes that I planted. Really disappointing 😕 Rooth Stout method from now on. Replanting the potato bed this weekend. We'll see what happens.
Oh good luck
Just check what variety you plan to plant. The earlier cropping potatoes don’t take as long to mature, but main crop and late varieties can take a lot longer. As quick as 80 days for early varieties and as long as 140 days for late crops. At least that holds true to the varieties here in New Zealand but am sure it would hold true there as well.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is a Ruth Stout bed. Enjoy your show
Garry Leicester Ruth Stout is a method using hay to mulch garden beds. She would start with about 6 inch deep hay and keep adding as hay decomposes to help keep weeds out and continually feed soil. She has passed away, but there are some good videos on UA-cam of her.
100% agree that Ruth Stout method is better but you also pulled up those plants pretty early. I’d wait to judge until the plants start to die back on their own.
I know it was just an early harvest to get enough for some potato salad I do this every year and never had such poor results even in an early harvest. I'll hang in to the tiny hope that they miraculously appear
thats not normal for planting in soil
I didn't think so but I'm not going to chance it again, I'll just go back to what works for me
Ohh that's how my potato harvest has been so far this year..next year it Will be RuthStout method all the way. Thanks for sharing your comparisons.
Harmony, Happiness and Health to you and yours
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Yep, need to get them to blossom before pickin'... Your soil looks fabulous, though!
Already blossomed and done with
That 1870's Homestead okie dokie, super! 😊
Dear Rachel, I am sorry that your “early” mini-harvest of potatoes was so disappointing. However, as others have said (at least for this method of growing potatoes ) you need to leave the potato vines to die down. Also, I did notice some small potatoes on the roots you pulled. Having said this, if the Ruth Stout beds produce more, larger, and earlier potatoes than this year’s beds, then, by all means, you should restore that method. But, given the bed you have now, please leave the vines until they have completely died, and then compare the results. In conclusion, this sort of programme which has a lesson or two is most worthwhile. Thank you for posting it. I am sure you savoured every morsel of your potato salad. Sincerely, Larry Clarence Lewis, Canada.
I thought you had to wait until the plants were dying off ... or turning brown? But, you've grown them before. That's too bad.
Just sneaking in for an early harvest enough to make potato salad the rest of the plants are still there
Echo another viewer you shouldn’t harvest until tops die.
The title said sneak peak I should be able to get an early harvest if more than one potato per plant
Far too early for pulling up at least another 3 weeks personally. How long had they been in for at least 90 days for earlier 120 plus for main crop cheers 🍻
Planted in late March, I should have been able to find more than one potato per plant by now
So when did you plant them? That foliage is still green they are still growing. Wait 2 weeks .
Good luck with your work
Awww
Just a thought, but what variety of potato did you plant, early, mid or late season variety?
I planted my seed potatoes from potatoes I grew last year, kennebec
That 1870's Homestead... there is your problem. We don’t have them here, but just googled them, and they seem to be a late variety that won’t be ready until late summer to early winter. Leave them and they will still come on. 😊
@@1870s A lot of people don't realize that, just like tomatoes, potatoes are either determinate and indeterminate. I'm not sure which one kennebec is, though.
I had to hit 👍 just because of your awesome hat
Whatever the reason, thanks
I can't wait to plant my Ruth Stout beds
The hay definitely helps keep in moisture but I would think you'd still get more that 1 potato per plant. Do you have enough time before your first frost to plant more?
Probably not, it's not that big of a deal really, if I loose out on any crop my potatoes would be the least missed.
@@1870s well that's good!!
Dig deeper
Wait till plant is mostly dead then when you check them you should have enough potatoes
My potato plants are huge and lush... imagine my surprise when I went to peek and like yours...... squat! I'm waiting longer and hoping..... but yikes.... it doesnt look good
Happy fourth ♡
IF they have already bloomed then yes, 1 per plant is unusually small yield. We have potatoes that self seed every year and I usually have about 6 potatoes per plant. But I wait until about 6 weeks after they bloom, when they are beginning to droop and die off.
Sorry about that comment it did not go through right ,we just have always planted ours in dirt and they've always done real well ,but we are in the south
Maybe have you leaf mulch chopped up? I think Ruth Stout works so well because the hay breaks down fast and holds moisture well. Just a thought.
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I highly doubt this has anything to do with growing in dirt considering most people grow their potatoes in dirt with large harvests. I'd be questioning your seed potatoes!
I think they might be slow in growth because of the heat of this summer. About 4 years ago, I used to see “huge” potatoes in my grocery store, now the Russets are a third smaller than they used to be. Maybe you have too much mulch/leaves on top and the nutrition and water is evaporating before it gets down to the roots, just a thought ?
Sorry about the potatoes but maybe try add some potatoe E fertilizer in the ground and wait for the plants to die Off before harvest. I have great success doing this
They aren't ready yet. Wait till the plant dies. Also you should stop watering them after the blooms die.
I know it was just an early harvest to get enough for some potato salad I do this every year and never had such poor results even in an early harvest. I'll hang in yo the tiny hope that they miraculously appear
@@1870s You seemed so disappointed that's why I said they aren't ready, yet. Fingers crossed you get bigger ones.
There would be more but they might have wandered a little away from the main stem also they would still be in the soil you'll need to get a fork and lift the soil
I will do that with the final harvest
@@1870s awesome I hope the harvest is a lot better once you can do a full harvest 😁
12 stems maybe, multi stems from one seed potatoe, if you got that many from a couple seeds thats very good for numbers, just need to get bigger, i watch all your videos keep it up !
I planted all my different kinds of potatoes in totes and bins etc this year. I'm getting to old to dig trenches or then having to dig them up to harvest them. Alot of the you tubers were planting their potatoes in pots. The people my age anyway. And we have been stealing some of them out for a week or so now. And we have been getting really nice potatoes. And alot of them. My plants are 3 feet high above the totes. And the stems are big around and so are each of the plants. Have gotten alot of potatoes out to eat for dinner so far. The first 12 totes we planted are starting to die back. Then we planted 15 more totes, about 2 weeks after the first ones. I have been buying up more organic potatoes to use for seed. Going to plant more potatoes when I harvest these. Then we can have vfc a fall harvest too. Going to can all my potatoes. As we love canned potatoes. I have used up all my canned ones already. 🥔
I had zero luck at potatoes last year. A total of 3 🙄👎 This year I did a new potato raised bed, & a sweet potato bed. I'm going to cry if I don't get potatoes this year. Ive never done Ruth Stout but I'll definitely try it next year if my raised soil bed doesn't produce.
PS. . thanks for your onion spooning care tip, despite planting bulbs, I have some baseball size onions.
Good luck on your harvest
Keep adding mulch as the stem grows longer leaving 3 or 4 leaves above the ground. That will give more nodes underground for the tubers to come out of. In some places they also plant in tyres. Start with 5 to 6 inches of soil or mulch and keep adding tyres and mulch as the plant grows.🔘🔘🔘
I have already done that twice 5 the year growing potatoes
I doubt that would work.
can you pull them all out and try again with ruth stout for a fall harvest? I was thinking of trying a small stout bed in a small space I aquired just to see. seems like I've seen others get 2 crops a year. what do you think? for potatoes I'm using a bag of organic potatoes that have some lovely sprouts. just a thought
Yes you can but probably should have already planted in June
Did you hill your potatoes as they grew?
Sure did twice
@@1870s That is ridiculous. I'll be doing Ruth Stout along with you next year.
We always plan hours and dirt and we always have a large Harvest but we've always done it that way ,
Aww...sorry for the disappointing harvest. Maybe next year try both methods and see what happens. It could be for some other reason.
Nah, I'll just go back to my proven method
Def pulled too early
I know it was just an early harvest to get enough for some potato salad I do this every year and never had such poor results even in an early harvest. I'll hang in yo the tiny hope that they miraculously appear
Wow, that is too bad!
I know holding on to the tiniest bit of hope that they miraculously grown from now till the plants die back
Your soil is so impressively loose! Do you till or just mulch?
All no till, I do broadfork between seasons and top dress with compost, out to bed every fall with grass clippings and leaf mulch
That 1870's Homestead What does broad forking mean? I’m trying to do the same thing. I’m in year two of the process, but I’m starting with poor soil in raised beds. We had originally bought the “best” soil from a local nursery. From the first year, we doubted it was really the “best.” It was I added organic matter every year along with some vermiculite and peat moss, but the soil was still hard. It would dry with big cracks. I’m mulching with fall leaves and arborists wood chips. I’ve also been mulching the paths between beds with the chips, and the soil underneath has become more friable.
As soon as the camera started falling I hit like.
Like others I was thinking too early, but my first thought was how small your plants are (and how healthy they look 😊) compared to mine. My plants get almost as tall as the house, but we get so many bugs it’s actually hard to tell when the plants have died back 😳 but I’m in Florida so that is just par for the gardening here. I wish our plants didn’t get that big because they are harder to manage. And it doesn’t result in bigger or more potatoes necessarily. How big will your potato plants get? You had more in your hands in this video than our whole harvest. 😉 I didn’t know about Ruth stout until I started watching your channel this year and I had already planted mine. But I’m eager to try it next year. I just still don’t totally understand how it works. I really love all your videos ❤️💕
Could the grand solar minimum be a contributing factor?🤔
Rachel I am so feeling your pain. We normally plant in the earth bed and this year we decided to do the 5-gal bucket way....we took one bucket this past weekend and so disappointed instead of getting 3-5 lbs of potatoes, we got 3 small ones 👎🏻
Ouch that hurts. First time for me growing potatoes. Now i want to go check mine.. My spuds are flowering now in zone 6b. We had late late frosts. And its been so hot and dry this past month im worried about them.
Same conditions here
@@1870s i went and pulled 3 plants and got about 2 lbs... But i definately need to water daily vs 2 times a week... A lot of too small spuds and the plants are starting to die off so hopefully i can plump them up before its too late. I wish i could post a pic on youtube.
I did a potato tower this year. My first potato attempted and see it doesn’t look like it grew much. I stopped watering it yesterday and will harvest in the next week or so but I’m not feeling it. I will, however, do more or all hay next time as you suggested
Very cool
I harvested my non-ruth stout potatoes today as well and was also sorely disappointed. I got 2 small potatoes per plant and some very small marble sized ones I will probably use as seeds. I was totally bummed as well. Mine were dying back already too. :(
Oh nooo. Now I’m worried, lol. This is my first serious garden this year and I planted in dirt. I aslso planted late, though, so it will be awhile before I know how well they’re doing underground. The foliage on top looks amazing! Crossing my fingers.
Yeppers. I grew twice the potatoes in hay this year. In years past I grew in dirt but never again.
I made the same mistake this year too. I thought it was me
Oh no 😫
That stinks! Sorry your potatoes aren't delivering like in the past. I guess I will learn from your mistakes and try Ruth Stout as well when I plant potatoes. Thanks for sharing.
Yes do it!!! I have a whole playlist on it and it's just tremendous with absolutely no effort
I grew new potatoes this year and they are tiny , well disappointed 😔 I am leaving some in the ground until they go brown , hoping they’ll grow more. Sad 😔
I'll be leaving the rest to die off
What are the differences in your two methods? Is Ruth Stout a raised bed system???
There is a short documentary on UA-cam. Check it out!
Leave them until the leaves start to wither and die off. Mine didn’t flower this year, but just went straight to dying. I got the most I’ve ever gotten even though I was afraid I wouldn’t because of no flowering.
Mine didn't flower either! What's up with that?
Yikes, I will be sticking to the R.Stout method too! It’s just to easy and now I see you get better results. Ty
I'm glad I did this test really, it help solidify my decision to keep Ruth Stout