Potato Harvest - Containers versus Raised Bed
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Zone 6 (Chicago, IL, USA)
Hey there! This is the third year I've grown potatoes at home and I while the harvest was small, I am excited that I had a chance to pressure can some of my harvest to enjoy this Winter!
🎥: Fall 2022
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Nice harvest, Happy growing !!!!
Thank you! And happy growing to you!
Hi , I just saw your video. It's so much fun harvesting potatoes, May I make a suggestion ;
1.) Heavy com post when you plant your potatoes
2.) And heavy on the fertilizer potatoes are heavy feeders.
to get more, they gotta eat more.
But you have a beautiful harvest. My heart is coming in this year. In late June, I prayed to do well.I did well last year , God bless 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Heya Angela! Great suggestion. It took me a couple of years to realize that potatoes are much more hungry than some of the other things I plant😊. Happy gardening💚! ~B
It’s so much fun to harvest. It’s always a surprise
And they are my fav to eat ☺️☺️
I'm SO glad to have found you we, as recommended by Lisa of Gardening with Lisa. She said to come find you on here since I'm in Chicago as well. I hope to learn lots...like.. enough to have a successful garden next season. I'm a brand new (don't know nothing) first time gardener. This year's garden was pretty much a disaster. But I'm determined to be better at it next go round over here in Southshore. Thank you for being here. My taters didn't grow at all before I just shut thangs down😔.. But I loved it all nonetheless.
Heya Sasha / Chicago Neighbor! So glad that Lisa shared my channel with you! And welcome to gardening! One of my fav times of the year is when we start planning for the next growing season because we get to be better than the last year! ~ Batavia
I understand you were expecting more potatoes but still a good harvest. Glad to hear you were able to can some for the winter. I tried growing potatoes in a grow bag for the first time this year. I was underwhelmed with the results but will definitely try again.
Heya! Underwhelmed is a great description of the feeling. While I am definitely grateful, I was underwhelmed. And being able to eat the harvest during the winter will definitely feel great. Wishing you more taters next year.
Congrats on getting some potatoes! "One potato wonders" lol. Thats what my results were this year for my first time growing potatoes. I stated with just store bought and grew in containers. Nice green growth but only 3 of the tiniest potatoes resulted. I'll definitely work on my strategy and try again.
Heya Bluestgirl - what's the saying, there's always next year. Welp, I'm already planning on going "all in" on potatoes next year🙂. Here's to a beautiful harvest for us both 🥔 🥔🥔!
I had the same results with my potatoes grown in grow bags this year. I think I'm going to grow them in one of my raised beds next year, but still have a few in grow bags.
Heya Kimberly! Hoping there are you plenty of taters in the remaining grow bags 🤞🏽. One benefit of the grow bags is, the potatoes have always been pretty clean and by that I mean almost no bug damage. Some of my potatoes from the raised beds have had nibbles in them. ~ Batavia
I had wonderful results with the Ruth Stout method this year… and very easy to do!!
Waitttt. I'll need Leonard to hold my calls while I read up on the Ruth Stout method!! Thanks for the share.
@@BBettaGarden tell Leonard to roll back that beautiful footage- and hold all the calls… cuz I will never do them any other way!!
Our potato harvest was underwhelming as well but not as underwhelming as our carrots. It's all tasty though. Enjoying your channel. (Chicago)
Heya S. Sanders / Chicago Neighbor! A couple of others used the word underwhelming to describe their harvest and it's very fitting. Sorry to hear about your potatoes and carrots. I can share that I *think* I've finally cracked the code for carrorts...atleasf in Chicago... I've been trying to grow carrots a handful of years and the last two have been the most successful and both years I sowed the seeds in April. I sowed seeds later in the spring and summer but not with the same success. I hope that's helpful.
~ Batavia
I can understand the frustration, and thanks for sharing. I appreciate you trying different size grow bags to see if that makes a difference. Have you thought of using grow bags designed for potatoes? I always wonder if it will make a difference.
Heya Deb! Thanks for watching and commenting. The bags that have the flap that you can open and harvest potatoes? I've seen them but haven't looked into using them. I thought it was easier to harvest but didn't think they made a difference in the growth of the potatoes. I haven't read much about them though. Let me know if you try them and find a difference in the bounty.
I don't much like those grow bags either. When you water them the water just runs out the sides, nothing goes into the soil! I had to bottom water my peppers in them this summer. Left the pots sitting in Rubbermaid tubs and poured water into them, the pots wick it up. Almost killed all my peppers before trying that! 😩
Heya Betty! I have the same issue with watering the grow bags. I have one more of the blue containers that I haven't drilled holes in. Let's see if I can remember your trick next year and give it a try! Thanks for watching and commenting! ~Batavia
Oh, that is so exciting, isn't it?
How did you happen to have a volunteer potato? Did it sit all through last winter in your garden? How wonderfully cool, if that can be done!
We just harvested potatoes this past Sunday (two days ago) because the plants signaled they are done and anyway we've had some stiff frost.
I did so many things wrong (not that I didn't know better even though I've never grown potatoes before), I'm amazed we got any harvest at all and I'm always absurdly, ridiculously thrilled when anything I haven't grown before a) germinates; b) grows; c) looks like its photographs; and d) tastes the way it's supposed to taste.
First, I bought this box of seed potatoes at the garden center on a whim because this variety was at the checkout, on clearance.
It was already sort of late in the season for a potato variety that wants 85 to 100 growing days, but if I'd been prompt they might have done better.
Then they didn't get planted right away.
Finally something *had* to be done with them, and the needed bed wasn't prepared, so as a stop-gap measure I lined a square Sterlite brand laundry basket with a heavy black plastic bag and filled that with a decent vegetable potting mix.
Shoved the six little potatoes in there, thinking I'd be able to get back to them in a timely fashion and that during the interim I'd get the bed ready to receive them as transplants.
Life interfered.
Compromise? Maybe just dig a hole and drop the whole laundry basket full of soil and potato plants and their shoots and leaves and so on, into it and leave the plants to sort it out, probably spreading outwardly and hopefully not competing with one another.
*More* life interference, and gardening any thing in any way was strictly forbidden until nearly the end of October.
Mentally, I made my apologies to my potatoes which had been making stems and foliage like gangbusters, and I said my goodbyes and promised to try again next season only in a proper garden bed.
By Sunday, there were no green leaves, no green stems and in fact barely any stems at all.
O.K. Probably ought to clean out the container, right?
Pulled up some stems, most of them rather slimy (eewwwww!)
"What the heck," and I started digging, just scooping up soil and sifting it through my fingers.
Lo and behold!
A little potato! And so pretty! (These are Huckleberry Gold, just beautiful with their rich purple skins and their creamy gold-white flesh. The flavor is described as "already buttered" and this particular variety has a low glycemic index, for anyone who needs to know that.) That purple was gorgeous against the dark, wet soil and even more gorgeous after I got them washed clean.
A bit less than half of all the potatoes produced had issues with rot but I truly believe the rot was due to inadequate drainage and the potatoes were (are) smaller than what's typical for this variety but I'm attributing that to them having been crowded and having to compete for nutrients.
Taste-testing happens in about twelve days or so, when a gardening neighbor gets back from his vacation. He's usually game to try anything new especially if he doesn't have to stretch his pension to afford it.
I've read that potatoes are dead-easy to grow, and right now I'm disposed to believe that! So excited to think about growing potatoes next season! More of these, if the flavor's as nice as folks say, and a few others selected from whatever's available at the gardening center, such as German Butterball, or Norland Red, or Yukon Gold....
I'm so happy for you for your potato harvest!
Heya friend! I'll dig in and reply soon 💚
@@BBettaGarden "Dig in." Lol! Love it!
Very cool; I'll look forward to reading you. 🙂
Apologies for such a tardy response. I hope you're doing well!
So the volunteer potato...I was in the garden one day and walked by the bed and saw a potato plant emerging. This was where I was going to plant my collards and brussel sprouts so I dug them up and put them in a grow bag (check it out here ua-cam.com/users/shorts6lHy2DB1nBI)
The potatoes in the blue tubs were like yours in the laundry basket..I still had some seed potatoes, it was getting pretty late in the season and I just stuck them in the tubs. I've seen someone somewhere mention indeterminate vs determinate potatoes how there is no need to hill up / mound determinates because they are going to produce what they are going to produce and no more. I've been watching how the potatoes come off the stem and trying to pay attention to how close they are to the seed potato (you know we love to learn how things grow). All of that said, I've been doing a little reading about the Ruth Stout method of planting potatoes (another gardener tried it and loved it) and I think I'm going to try that next year.
Oh and I've decided that I'm not going to write a crop off or deem it disappointing until I get it in the kitchen. Cutting up and cooking with those home grown potatoes was *sooooo* satisfying.
I have a few more things to do to wrap up this season and after a little break, I'll finish up my garden design for next years garden and potatoes will definitely be in it!
@@BBettaGarden Your mention of the Ruth Stout method of growing potatoes makes me realize I have only the most general understanding of Ms. Stout's gardening method, which seemed simple enough when I first read about it---but clearly, I didn't read enough.
And wait---! There are *determinate* and *indeterminate* POTATOES (
Hi Ms. B! I know you were expecting much more, however, I think you still received a nice harvest of potatoes. I wish I could get that many. Next year, I'm hoping for the amount you received. 😊instead of 6 small funky potatoes 😄. I just purchase 2 potato grow bags.
Thanks for sharing!👍😊
Heya Ms. Elwanda! Thanks so much, once I got past the initial disappointment and actually started using the potatoes in meals, I felt much better about the harvest :-). Wishing you an abundance next year!💚
I get the frustration...but as you say anything is a plus..especially if you use store bought potatoes its basically free food...so have you settled on one method next year?..or doing both again?
Heya Mike! So I'm 90ish % raised bed only and less than 10% combo raised bed and containers. My curiosity just keeps me coming back to the containers and potatoes 😊😊 oh and I am saving some potatoes from the harvest in the fridge and if they make it to next spring, my cost will be super low 😊 ~ Batavia
@@BBettaGarden awesome..I will try 10 gallon try try in spring..we try see..if i get try a few I'll think it a win
Potatoes are the most fun thing to grow- it’s like Christmas….. you either get something great, or a lump of coal 🤣 And something is better than nothing in my opinion!!
Abundance and Blessings Batavia!!! 💗
Yes you are so right, Thanks for watching
Heya Chelsea! It's definitely feeding into my apprehension of growing root crops. But I'm with you, something is better than nothing! I was cooking with them this week and it felt great knowing I had grown with them. Abundance and Blessings to you! (I said that in my April voice 😀💚).
@@BBettaGarden 🤣🤣🤣❤️ I bet they were the best PO-TA-TOES EVA!!! Don’t give up on them!!!!
Po ta toes... i got a taste for baked potato
You know their my favorite! 😊💚
Do you compost with garden leavings?
Heya! No I don't. I don't make my own compost. I do use leaves as mulch for some of my garden beds.
This is my first year growing potatoes in containers. It's not time for me to dump them yet (probably closer to Thanksgiving), but I can say that you still got a decent harvest even if it wasn't what you were expecting.
I know how frustrating it can be to dedicate so much time and water to something and not reap a bigger harvest.
I didn't use seed potatoes, just the sprouts from a store bought bag that started growing eyes on my counter.
I'm anxious to see how things turned out after watching this.
Heya! I felt much better about them after I started eating them ☺️☺️. Thanks for watching and commenting and I'm hoping you'll have a bounty when you harvest them!
Why did you stop making videos?
Heya! I've been on a bit of a hiatus but I'm back at it. I just shared a garden tour this afternoon ua-cam.com/video/HlBOBMSkrDg/v-deo.html
Yes yes yes, my dear, Being able to grow anything is a win!!!🌻🫚🍀🌸🤗🪴🫛🪶
One of the best feelings!