Indeed it is. About 3,5kg harvest from one bucket using only 2 seed potatoes is pretty good. I got the same size buckets, hope to get that in juli.. I would harvest between 50 and 60 kg which would be enough till next year for me.
Ive found a company in Maine that has many of the early varieties like Nicola and Charlotte but so far no ones got any of the Sarpo line of blight resistant potatoes yet. But one company mentioned trying to get them here. One I grew this year I can't wait to harvest. Fench fingerling. I dug down a bit and tickled 4 out to try them a couple weeks ago and oh my the flavor is outstanding. My hubby was-geez hun you spent basically a dollar a piece on seed potatoes this spring. But now he tasted and hopes I have enough to eat yet save at least 12 for pots next year. Ive also done an experiment-i took cuttings from the French fingerling plants right away this spring after they had come up nice and the cuttings rooted easily and are almost as big as the mother plants. Cross fingers that they make potatoes. I made a cutting by accident last year with one of the big generic red potatoes from the store. I broke a branch or the deer did, I rooted it and even late in the season I ended up with one huge red potato and 2 small small ones. If making cuttings works I will be starting a few potatoes early under my light banks and taking as many cuttings as possible to plant out. Wish me luck!
@@markirish7599 oh I harvested my French fingerling I got 4 pounds and a quarter from those 6 little potatoes but the cuttings need another couple weeks but I peeked into a bucket of just one cutting and counted 4 potatoes showing at the edges so I potted it back up carefully. So they are making potatoes. If I get at least 4 nice potatoes from each cutting its worth it for sure.
I did this last year and I got laughed at, people telling me I wouldn't work so i got a massive plant pot, got what I needed and when it came to harvest them i got some big potatoes I was so happy and posted a pic to the same people who were laughing at me and made their comments but I defo got the last laugh.
Good on you. Don't let anyone stop you from being self-sufficient food wise. Farmers are under attack worldwide from our treasonous governments. Being able to grow your own food is a good thing. 🙂
@@jeanfsadni6338 I love growing my own thing and last year my Ex partner parents loved what I did and started to grow their own veg, it was amazing to see the end results
Lovely potatoes once again. Wish we could order those pots without breaking the bank. But around here are a lot of dairy farms with mineral buckets for them. Lots of folks use those to grow in but they are more like 40 maybe 45 liter size. I might drive over to a couple I went to school with how now have beef and dairy cows and see if I can buy a few crysilex buckets from them. I'm using old planter buckets that about 30 liter and tons of 4 gallon buckets with holes drilled in for my potatoes. Plus I've been saving the soil and amending with leaf compost and composted aged chicken poo. We have scab in the soil here and potatoes look awful grown in the ground. We have apple scab too so I had to spray organic fungicide when I had apple trees.
Hello Dear young man, I have long fancied myself an excellent organic home gardener.... I want to say your potato tops were just lush and green if you had waited longer they should have continued growing. I just subscribed and hope to learn how you grew such nice potatoes. Rick in Pennsylvania USA
I think this method is actually optimal for you oop north at 1000ft. Down in NW London, I found that it was often too hot to grow potatoes in black pots - they heated up so much that the yields dropped a bit. You also seem to get more rain than us through spring and summer, which is what potatoes love. My best crops this droughty summer have been tomatoes grown in the soil, cucumbers grown outdoors, onions, spring beetroot and sweetcorn.
Wow amazing how do you plant it growing so well with so much potatoes 👏👏👏👏👏keep it all the best from Singapore good I do plant potatoes but was no good all die after awhile can be my country weather no so good😂😂
New Subscriber....Been watching a LOT of your potato harvest video's and am amazed at the harvests you've been getting. Curious, what size buckets are you using? And also, what variety of Potatoes are in this video?
Great video. Thanks. This will be my first year growing potatoes. So, the seed potatoes are no good after they give their energy to grow tubers. Is that how it goes?
My first grow is about read I have a wee feel and I felt a potato very near the top of the bucket. My plant looks very much like your in the vid , would I be good to harvest now? 😅
Ah rain, I remember that I think. Is it that wet stuff that falls from the sky? It has not rained properly in my part of Hertfordshire for months and all my crops are suffering.
How can you tell if the seed potatoes that you buy from a store are still viable? The ones I have are soft and wrinkled but have large tubers coming off of them.
I just tipped a small pot of sarpo mira (1 seed) after 113 days. Got 500g. All were good but was a bit underwhelmed, what am I doing wrong! Got 5 pots with 4 seeds each all looking healthy.
What is your secret for growing your potatoes in containers??? I just grew my fist set of Red and Yucon Golds, and did not get very much out of either one. :o(
@@Allotment-diaryUk Like I seed, this was my first set. I think I may have done several things wrong. One being that I did not plant the seed potatoes very deep maybe 3" from the top. I did not water too often maybe once every few days, as I would check the moisture level and it was always pretty high. I also did not fertilize very well either. I just set down two more tubs of Rustic Reds. I started with 3" of soil and added bone meal and a 6-6-6 granular fertilizer. Then I added another 3" of soil and more 6-6-6 fertilizer. Then I pushed the seed potatoes down to about the 2 or 3" line. I topped off the soil and put a little blood meal on top and mixed that in. I really think that just planting the seed potatoes deeper in my container will make a bid difference. As there was a good 4 to 6" of unused sail when I dumped my containers. Unfortunately I do not have any beds to place my containers on. So right now they are up on bricks, so that they will drain. I was thinking about adding a 1/2 filled container under my containers, but not sure if that would be the same as placing them on an open bed.
I've been growing sarpo mira variety in 70l pots since the beginning of April. The plants grew vigorously and lush until about a month ago when they started to yellow. They're still alive and growing, but I harvested one of the pots last week and only got 2.4kg of smallish potatoes from it. Very disappointing, especially as sarpos are supposed to be decent in size and high yielding. I've heard alot of people have had disappointing crops this year
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Wow so many in that pot.
Nothing I enjoy more than watching you do a potato reveal!
Me too! 😀
Well his hammock adventures are kinda fun too. 😉🤣
As long as no damages occur that is
The potato harvests vids you do are some of my favorites! Someday i will get a big crop--but until then--thank you for the inspiration!
Nice harvest
Wonderful
Great video Dan
Please don't ever stop growing I would lose my mind! 😀👍
Nice one Dan
Heckyeah about time we got another potato 🥔
I'm inspired right now ❤
I'm Impressed love it
How wonderful and satisfying is that!
This is a good job
Indeed it is. About 3,5kg harvest from one bucket using only 2 seed potatoes is pretty good. I got the same size buckets, hope to get that in juli.. I would harvest between 50 and 60 kg which would be enough till next year for me.
Great tips. Greetings from Manchester 🌼
Nicely done, happy harvest. 🌼
Wow lots of potato 🥔 harvest!
I swear I can never grow mine like yours! But that’s ok I enjoy your harvest
I sure wish we had alot of your potato varieties here in the states. Another great video
Ive found a company in Maine that has many of the early varieties like Nicola and Charlotte but so far no ones got any of the Sarpo line of blight resistant potatoes yet. But one company mentioned trying to get them here.
One I grew this year I can't wait to harvest. Fench fingerling. I dug down a bit and tickled 4 out to try them a couple weeks ago and oh my the flavor is outstanding. My hubby was-geez hun you spent basically a dollar a piece on seed potatoes this spring. But now he tasted and hopes I have enough to eat yet save at least 12 for pots next year.
Ive also done an experiment-i took cuttings from the French fingerling plants right away this spring after they had come up nice and the cuttings rooted easily and are almost as big as the mother plants. Cross fingers that they make potatoes.
I made a cutting by accident last year with one of the big generic red potatoes from the store.
I broke a branch or the deer did, I rooted it and even late in the season I ended up with one huge red potato and 2 small small ones.
If making cuttings works I will be starting a few potatoes early under my light banks and taking as many cuttings as possible to plant out.
Wish me luck!
@@Emeraldwitch30 you can grow potatoes from the potato peels .
@@markirish7599 I've done that before too.
@@markirish7599 oh I harvested my French fingerling I got 4 pounds and a quarter from those 6 little potatoes but the cuttings need another couple weeks but I peeked into a bucket of just one cutting and counted 4 potatoes showing at the edges so I potted it back up carefully. So they are making potatoes.
If I get at least 4 nice potatoes from each cutting its worth it for sure.
@@Emeraldwitch30 best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 to you and your family 👪
I did this last year and I got laughed at, people telling me I wouldn't work so i got a massive plant pot, got what I needed and when it came to harvest them i got some big potatoes I was so happy and posted a pic to the same people who were laughing at me and made their comments but I defo got the last laugh.
Good on you. Don't let anyone stop you from being self-sufficient food wise. Farmers are under attack worldwide from our treasonous governments. Being able to grow your own food is a good thing. 🙂
@@jeanfsadni6338 I love growing my own thing and last year my Ex partner parents loved what I did and started to grow their own veg, it was amazing to see the end results
Whoah!! Nice one Dan. Can't wait to reveal the Maincrop. 35tr pots are already bulging like mad!! Get in 💪💪 All the best Dan, Andy and Karen 👍😎
Nice one👍
Great crop and they so lovely and clean being grown in the buckets
How did you know I needed this today?! It's 95* and my garden is BAKING 😔 So happy for your success! When's dinner? 😃
The spud King strikes again 🤣🥔
You can go off people 😆Well done Dan
Fabulous harvest 👍👍👍
what variety was that?
Brilliant harvest.
My potatoes will be coming out soon 2 weeks
Hi Dan
What can one say but WOW that was a fantastic harvest.
Take care mate
👍👍👍👍👍
Bloody brilliant amount of spuds.
Lovely potatoes once again. Wish we could order those pots without breaking the bank.
But around here are a lot of dairy farms with mineral buckets for them. Lots of folks use those to grow in but they are more like 40 maybe 45 liter size.
I might drive over to a couple I went to school with how now have beef and dairy cows and see if I can buy a few crysilex buckets from them.
I'm using old planter buckets that about 30 liter and tons of 4 gallon buckets with holes drilled in for my potatoes.
Plus I've been saving the soil and amending with leaf compost and composted aged chicken poo.
We have scab in the soil here and potatoes look awful grown in the ground.
We have apple scab too so I had to spray organic fungicide when I had apple trees.
The master at work 👍👍
Hello Dear young man, I have long fancied myself an excellent organic home gardener.... I want to say your potato tops were just lush and green if you had waited longer they should have continued growing. I just subscribed and hope to learn how you grew such nice potatoes. Rick in Pennsylvania USA
I was wondering the same thing.
Love the channel. Have you considered over wintering a couple of tubs in the green house? Interested to know why if not.
I think this method is actually optimal for you oop north at 1000ft. Down in NW London, I found that it was often too hot to grow potatoes in black pots - they heated up so much that the yields dropped a bit. You also seem to get more rain than us through spring and summer, which is what potatoes love. My best crops this droughty summer have been tomatoes grown in the soil, cucumbers grown outdoors, onions, spring beetroot and sweetcorn.
Wow amazing how do you plant it growing so well with so much potatoes 👏👏👏👏👏keep it all the best from Singapore good I do plant potatoes but was no good all die after awhile can be my country weather no so good😂😂
New Subscriber....Been watching a LOT of your potato harvest video's and am amazed at the harvests you've been getting. Curious, what size buckets are you using? And also, what variety of Potatoes are in this video?
How do you know when they are ready?
Great video. Thanks. This will be my first year growing potatoes. So, the seed potatoes are no good after they give their energy to grow tubers. Is that how it goes?
Wow. I thought you had to wait til leaves died and go brown? I’m not sure when to harvest mine
what do you use for soil and fertilizer?
My first grow is about read I have a wee feel and I felt a potato very near the top of the bucket. My plant looks very much like your in the vid , would I be good to harvest now? 😅
Wow
Could you please share the diameter and height of the bucket and did you feed any fertilizer to your plant?
Ah rain, I remember that I think. Is it that wet stuff that falls from the sky? It has not rained properly in my part of Hertfordshire for months and all my crops are suffering.
what compost did you use. I grew my spuds in 30L containers last years. Abysmal results..
First and second early s do you not wait for them to die back ?
How can you tell if the seed potatoes that you buy from a store are still viable? The ones I have are soft and wrinkled but have large tubers coming off of them.
Why is it that some folks wait until the tops all dry and fall over before harvesting?
Having watched lots of potato harvest videos, I now know the secret ingredient to a huge harvest - an English accent! 😂
Hi Dan, great results, may I ask what brand of Charlotte potatoes do you use and where do you get yours from please?
i get my Charlotte potatoes from aldi.
I just tipped a small pot of sarpo mira (1 seed) after 113 days. Got 500g. All were good but was a bit underwhelmed, what am I doing wrong! Got 5 pots with 4 seeds each all looking healthy.
What variety?
👌👌👌
What is your secret for growing your potatoes in containers??? I just grew my fist set of Red and Yucon Golds, and did not get very much out of either one. :o(
Watering really well in hot spells is imperative.
I used nearly a gallon a day per pot in Summer.
That's the most important thing.
Cheers Dan
@@Allotment-diaryUk Like I seed, this was my first set. I think I may have done several things wrong. One being that I did not plant the seed potatoes very deep maybe 3" from the top. I did not water too often maybe once every few days, as I would check the moisture level and it was always pretty high. I also did not fertilize very well either.
I just set down two more tubs of Rustic Reds.
I started with 3" of soil and added bone meal and a 6-6-6 granular fertilizer.
Then I added another 3" of soil and more 6-6-6 fertilizer.
Then I pushed the seed potatoes down to about the 2 or 3" line.
I topped off the soil and put a little blood meal on top and mixed that in.
I really think that just planting the seed potatoes deeper in my container will make a bid difference. As there was a good 4 to 6" of unused sail when I dumped my containers.
Unfortunately I do not have any beds to place my containers on. So right now they are up on bricks, so that they will drain.
I was thinking about adding a 1/2 filled container under my containers, but not sure if that would be the same as placing them on an open bed.
I've been growing sarpo mira variety in 70l pots since the beginning of April. The plants grew vigorously and lush until about a month ago when they started to yellow.
They're still alive and growing, but I harvested one of the pots last week and only got 2.4kg of smallish potatoes from it. Very disappointing, especially as sarpos are supposed to be decent in size and high yielding. I've heard alot of people have had disappointing crops this year
Take me to your country I work for you please
Potato leaves are edible.
No they're not
They have solanine and are in the nightshade family. Sweet potato leaves are not poison but don't eat Irish style potatoes leaves
I emptied 2 container today and had 10 marble size spuds. Pathetic!
Awesome! Blessings to everyone, if you haven't yet repented and accepted christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior, please do so before it's too late it's not God's will for none to perish. Acts 2 vs 38 John 3vs 16 Romans 10 vs 13