Allotment Dairy : 100 Day Potato Harvest from a small container pot
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Harvesting another small 12 litre pot of new potatoes, this time after 100 days in the polytunnel.
A much better result this time with 2 seed potatoes planted in the small pot rather than just one.
With just 10 litres or so of compost used it's quite an economical way of growing potatoes in containers, and you could probably get a bigger yield with 3 seed potatoes even in such a small pot.
Happy Gardening.
Your channel proves you can grow potatoes in small container and have good results , American growing channel are focusing on fad 10 gallon grow bags , which is not practical for everyone , I say this style of gardening is the way forward for urban dwellers with limited space .... Thanks for the inspiration and knowledge
For a small pot with 2 seed potato seeds it's a great haul- Well done Dan
Patrick Meehan I'm happy with the results.Will be doing it again next year.Cheers,Dan.
Can't wait to try mine! I've been using 3 in a white lidl shopping bag (4 nicks in the bottom to drain) and the bag will be totally reusable and for 49p, they've got great growth! Better than my buckets! Easy to move also.look forward t next reveal!
First year growing potatoes for me and I put two Red Pontiac seed potatoes in a 20 litre pot. Today I emptied the pot to see if I had any early potatoes, I planted them on April 30th so about 70 days growing and I got 1lb 10oz. I am quite pleased with my first attempt - thank you for your wonderful tips. btw - I am in Canada.
Paula Beattie I ordered Vitax Q4 and Blood, Fish and Bone from the UK but it didn't come in time for these potatoes. Some of my later ones I managed to plant using them.
lovely update thank you for sharing
Linda Penney Cheers, Dan.
Great little pot of potatoes, I emptied a small pot today just wanting some spuds for dinner. It had been almost 90 days, but the tops had been eaten by some muncher bug so I got 11 little spuds and some still on the root ball. Now I know why I decided to grow my own potatoes, they were delicious. Thanks for showing us you haul on your little bucket. Kim
***** There's nothing better than your own new potatoes, even if you just get a few.I just find it really satisfying.Cheers, Dan.
***** Me too!
Can't wait to see your next pot video!!!!!!
ForestFurFran Not a lot happening outside.It's still freezing up here.Cheers, Dan.
What a nice harvets of potatoes! You inspire me to plant up some pots!
auntnut2011 Plant some, it's great to get a few of your own spuds.Cheers, Dan.
Love the idea of growing in a smaller pot to bring them on a bit earlier. Top tip on replanting the potatoes - we tried to dig up an outside plant a couple of days ago - two tiny potatoes the size of grapes - so we put the plant back and it's picked up quite nicely!
Wonderful idea for people with smaller areas.
superslyfoxx1 It doesn't take up much room and you can put the pots really close together.Cheers, Dan.
Perfect spuds from a small pot... I've not bothered growing spuds in pots this year, I was over run with them last year, but seeing this vid makes me wish I'd done a few small ones now. Aah well, there's always next year. Cheers Adam
Allotment Grow How There's always this year if you can get hold of any early spuds, they'll be ready in about 60 days in summer.
I'd plant more but can't get hold of any seed potatoes.Cheers, Dan
100 Days for me today Dan, One seed potato per bag. Just pulled my 1st bag, got 2kg (4.5lbs)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one spud was like a jacket size and 1lbs himself!!
Jesus these rockets really have lived up to there name!!!! would have pulled them at 90 days if i knew the size.
Same compost as i used last year just stuck some BFB and chicken pellets in (when i say some i really mean a ton by your standard :P)
just had to share my excitement with someone! the pots boiling, cant wait to try them :D
-The1ndnly
The1NdNly just went to check out what size my bags are, seems there 40L bags. im going to plant some Charlotte's to replace them, think ill do 2-4 per bag since i have a load of them spare, but for 1 seed potato - 4.5lbs @ 100 days... you can't go wrong!
Wonderful! Great information, and now I can use the pots I was questioning. This is great for saving space too. Thank you!
Sheila6325 It is much easier and a lot cheaper using these smaller pots for early potatoes.I'll still use the bigger ones for the main crop ones though.Cheers, Dan.
Yep, I have the large ones too, so I will be doing both. I'm actually new at potatoes, and I always wanted to do some early potatoes in some of the smaller pots I have, but was never sure they were ok for them. Now that I know for sure, I am thrilled to be able to do this too. Thank you so very much. Sheila
I thought you had to wait for the start of the top plant dying off. Your look lush and healthy!
Very nice haul, especially from such a small pot. Yay!
Gardening With Puppies I was happy and surprised with the results,.Cheers, Dan.
Impressive harvest, looks like it's the way forward.
Not bad for a small pot when new potatoes are at a premium. I've got some Linzers should be ready soon grown in home made compost, b&q compost a bit of top soil and blood fish and bone. I just hope they're not all full of holes. All the best Paul.
catscats50 I reckon you could put 3 or maybe 4 seed spuds in these small pots and get about 4lb without using hardly any compost.I've never had slug or wireworm in pots even though my soil's ull o em.Cheers, Dan.
This channel is amazing! Why aren’t there 1000’s of likes? Thanks for the update.
Very nice!
Ali Wehr Cheers, Dan.
Beautiful
Good harvest from a small pot.
Fantastic spuds Dan. It really is incredible how little space they need to grow in. I'll be reducing the pot size next year for new potatoes after seeing this
Marks Sussex Allotment I just thought I'd try a few of the smaller pots this year and am surprised at the result.I reckon you could even put 3 seed spuds in a 15 litre pot and maybe get 4 lb out if left for about 110-120 days, you just need to water more due to the lack of compost but it saves a fair bit of money.Cheers, Dan.
Nice crop for this time of year.
My spuds have taken off over the last 3 weeks.
They have been in the ground 5-6 weeks but the tops are massive since we have had rain.
Im going to put a few more rows in the ground this weekend.
Hopefully staggering them will give me an extra crop to see us through the winter.
andrew hodgkinson I'd plant some more myself but you just can't get hold of seed potatoes at this time of year.Cheers, Dan.
***** Iv used spuds from Lidl , I just picked out the small ones out of the 7.5kg sack for £2.50.
They are MELODY, they almost taste buttery. Plus they store well, for a long time.
100% success so far this year.
Nice harvest especially from such a small pot. I'm going to try your method this year to see how they do. Thanks for sharing. Rick
Rick's backyard garden Small pots seem to work pretty well with the early spuds.Cheers, Dan.
Well done.
credenza1 Cheers, Dan.
I think exact numbers of days to grow depends on date of sowing and how warm the spring is. Last year we had a sunny mostly mild April and my 85 day harvest was 2lb and 100 days 2.5lb, both from one seed potato. That was from a late February sowing. This year I have sown 5 pots 15th Feb and 5 pots 23rd March. February sowings broke through in 19 days, the March sowing in about 10 days, so already 9 days quicker with the later sowing.....
Да ... судя по всему во время посадил ... прикормил .. и растёт как на дрожжах
Another interesting video, thanks for sharing
Mike B
Thanks for sharing your latest video Dan, why not use odd smaller pots it helps us with our small budgets.
Happy growing
Terry
Terry King I usually use the bigger 30 litre pots but I'm surprised at the result from these smaller pots.Don't think you could use much smaller ones, maybe 10 litres would be the limit.Cheers, Dan.
***** sorry Dan I was agreeing with you using that size pot .I planted 1 in a small cloth pot and cut the bottom of another and put on top, will be doing a reveal mid June.
Happy growing
Terry
My opinion, if you left it another month you would of hit 3 plus pounds but still awesome yield in 3 gal pot. 👏👏👏🎉
You make me want to go outside and tip my pots over to see how I'm doing this year but I will hold on a while longer . well I'll try lol
seanomac68 I'd wait a while yet, these were planted late Feb indoors and they're only just ready.Cheers, Dan.
Awesome work Dan! I always eagerly await your videos - the spud reveals are great!! John
Guppy's Garden Cheers, Dan.
Not a bad harvest at all! I've been trying to use bigger pots and it seems that with your results that maybe that is the way to go.
Rob Backyard Gardenerr I think you'll get better results from bigger pots with late harvested big potatoes but It doesn't eem to mattr if the po is a bit smaller with tese first early ones.Cheers, Dan.
Ok. Thank you very much for your advice.
Good result Dan, if anything this year will be decent for spuds.
All the best.
Ken
Ken Fuller Hope so, but they're not growing very well outside yet,Cheers, Dan.
Love watching your channel, could you do video on what to do with your peppers, when, how or if you need to prune. Thank you. Maggs
Thats great news I have some early s in 20ltr pots I did 2 3 and a 4 seed per pot will have had 100 days in 10 days or so. I did think it would be a fail due to the size of the pots but now I have hope lol. I think I should take the 4 first might have a chance.
I will post the reveal.
Great stuff ;-)
Southpaw Davey I'm surprised by the result, I reckon you could get about 5 lbs in a pot about 15 litres with 3 seed spuds in and leave it another week or two.Wont be using the 30 litre ones nymore for the really early ones from now on, not much point.Cheers, Dan.
I might leave them a tad longer then.
Cheers.
Nice harvest mate.
RobBobs Backyard Farming Happy with it from such small pots.Cheers, Dan.
Nice crop Dan 👍
I've got some Swift to crop in 30ltr pots in the next few days
They have took a battering the last few nights with the wind and rain
Cheers........Nigel
MuddyBootz Weather's been atrocious here too, I suppose I'm lucky that my spuds aren't too big outside yet so they've got away with it.Cheers, Dan.
Nice one..:).. I am impressed..Its the way forward..
Cheers.
blustardave I'll be doing a lot next year in these smaller pots for the new early spuds as it'll cost a lot less in compost and you seem to get the same amount as in the bigger pots.Cheers, Dan.
That's an ingenious way to dry your string vests on that pole in the poly tunnel ?! It's gonna catch on !!!
Ian Knockton You know damn well they were your "Thursday Night Disco Fishnet Y Fronts " you wanted me to air out in some proper Yorkshire air after your Wirral dance-athon.
I'm from bloody St. Helens not Liverpool !!! Can you iron them before you post them back ??
I may as well reveal my spuds this weekend I guess. Nice harvest there :-)
Allotmental Get your spuds out.Cheers, Dan.
Great harvest. Did those have any flowers on and if not, would they have produced more after flowering?
Don't know about you but it's like February here and even though it's obviously warming, it's still 30-40mph winds!
My potato leaves hard and not liking it outside! Growing, but slowly slowly! Love your enthusiasm when emptying pots! Like a little boy with a new toy😀
Marina Wilson These had just flowered, they would have produced more but then some of them would have got a bit too big and the texture seems to change when they grow bigger.Weather's terrible here too, we had 60 mph gusts and steady 30 mph winds with about 2 inches of rain.The spuds outside are way behind.Cheers, Dan.
Not bad at all.
Aqui no Brasil a gente so tira as batatas quando as folhas estiverem amarelas e murchas ,daí elas estão no tamanho certo
I have the same pot the potatoes are growing up
Wish I could remember when I planted mine in the small pots :o( Great crop though fella - I've got some in a 30ltr pot that are flowering so not be long till I'm tipping them out \0/ All the best. Chris.
Chris's Allotment Journal I reckon you could get 10 pound in a 30 litre if you stuck 5 seed spuds in at different levels and left 'em a bit longer.
Trouble is the skins would set a=before you ate them all.
Gonna do loads of smaller pots next year early on.Cheers, Dan.
Very motivating for small space container gardeners. I am curious to know why you didn't wait for the plants to die back like you usually do.
I think he wanted 'new' potatoes - that is young ones.
Mumbai Balcony Gardener I let the "Maincrop" ones do that but these are the New Baby ones that are much nicer when still small.Cheers,Dan.
Sounds like its bucketing down
Do seed potatoes go off? I have some first earlys and a few maris pipers what I haven't got round to planting, They look the same as when I bought them, anyway to tell if there still worth planting? Thanks,
+hectorc01 Put them near a window and see if they chit
i think THREE seed potatoes in a 15 litre pot would make a difference as there was quite a lot of unused un-rooted soil there !! .
Have a huge planter growing potatoes...do you think its ok to reach down and pull out a couple of potatoes at a time and keep the rest growing? Its my first serious attempt.
I see a big mistake, if you harvest them so soon, you must cut the plant 3-5 days before harvesting so that the skin of the potato endures and does not end up rotting
How deep do you plant the new potatos? would you plant all 4 at the same depth ?
Hi mate
have you ever use coffee grounds on you plot for any veg or as a slug/snail repellent.
if so what on
😂I didn’t understand it...He was planning to plant it in a pot and grow it some more?
Hi,
Do you re-use your soil? Iv got my first attempt potatoes in bags and i don't know if the soil is any good after being used,
Cheers and keep the videos coming! 😀
Ben Jones Personally I don't, I just dig it into my soil.You could do though as long if you didn't get any pests or diseases like blight and add some more fertilizer to bring the fertility back up.Cheers, Dan.
Could you plant what you just harvested and would they produce?
UPGardenr They would later on in the year but you need to store them for a while before they start to sprout again.Cheers, Dan.
Hi Dan,
thanks for the inspireing video! could you tell me what kind of soil you used? Was it potting compost from the gardencenter or your own from the compostheap? and what kind of fertilizer did you use please?
Best, Mary
Mary Greenleaf This compost was some shop bought stuff that looked awful when I used it all full of wood fibres and stuff, but it turned out OK in the end.I used some new fertilizer called "Spuds Galore" which is a high potash fertilizer.Cheers, Dan.
Beautiful crop, I have a question Dan. do you start counting the 100 days from the first sprout or from the time you planted them? I hope that didn't sound like to stupid of a question, I'm just trying to get a Idea of when my Early's should be ready to harvest.. Thank you again Dan!! can't wait for more reveals have a great Day..... Lori
Lori cook These were 100 days from planting, so probably around 70 days from the first leaves appearing through the soil.
Cheers, Dan.
***** Oh ok cool that info helps a lot :)!! have a great day Dan!!
Are you groing just 1 carrot in the one pot?
Hi, do you reuse the potting soil for anything?
That's dead on. I'm seriously considering doing only spuds, carrots, onions and cabbages this year because it's June now and I still haven't planted my April/May seeds that need a bit of heat. Do you think is there any point starting marrows, melons, and other squashes now?
Best Wishes, Brendan.
baconsoda I think you'd be fine starting marrows and squashes off now.Maybe a week or two late but that's all.Who knows, we may get an Indian Summer in October.Let's hope so because we've had a Polar Spring so far.Cheers, Dan.
***** Thank Dan, I am a bit down at the moment because I am so far behind. I might as well plant the seeds I have because they will probably go off anyway. We'll see.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
baconsoda seems that an early start gets mostly overtaken by growth spurt when the heat comes on. Add your own nitrogen 10% to water and that seems to kick things up some too. I just found a couple squash or something growing in my transplanted tomato, sounds like a good sign for Ireland. 2 squash, 4 leaves ... luck a the Irish I'm thinkin!
tblbaby I'm going to sow stuff tomorrow because it's to be warm on Friday (60F/16C). Then it's to cool and rain again. It's the end of the World.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
baconsoda I've done the same, and I was wondering if you have warm weather a little bit later in the season for the past few years? We have, and now I plant everything about a month, or more, later than I used to, and it seems to work. Of course, I never know when we may have an early cold spell in the fall, but with the cold being later and later in spring, I plant my heat loving plants later than I used to, and it does very well. Right now we are getting a cool spell, and it's been in the 80F-90F here. Weather has changed a lot in the past 5 years, so I changed the way I plant like many others here in the U.S. Curious to know if your area is doing the same.
What do you do with the soil from your pots once you've harvested?
dentednj I dig it into my garden soil to improve the structure as I have a clay soil.You could store it over Winter and add some fertilizer and use it again next year though.Cheers, Dan.
I have clay and rock here so I try to add anything I can to loosen it. Composting and my hen house bedding of wood shavings and chicken manure are the majority of the amendments I have avail. Still... better working form clay than sand in my opinion.
when you say 4 in a 30 litre pot, all on the same level or 2 on 2 different levels ?
Richard Griffin Either / Or really.If you want to "Grub" a few small ones out and then leave the pot to harvest in one go then maybe plant in 2 levels, but I don't really think it matters.Cheers, Dan.
I am envious I did my 90 day pot and only got 11 ounces. Not even a pound. Did video it but a bit embarrassing.
Cheers
Mike B
Michael Brotherton I bet they were a tasty 11 ozs though.Mine have grown a lot more in the last 10 days so it's all bout timing.Cheers, Dan.
Thanks Dan for the comments, posted pictures on Google +
Nice crop of potatoes, what variety are they?
Michael Collinson These are called Charlotte, they're a really waxy textured salad new potato.Cheers, Dan.
Michael Collinson I thought they might be as that is exactly what I grow as they suit my ground the best
30ltr pots for sale, only used twice, reason for sale..downsizing. Lol
Peter Edwards Nah, still use them for the maincrop spuds, just seems a bit easier and cheaper to grow a few earlies in these smaller pots.
First time I've done it and I'm quite surprised.Cheers, Dan.