My dad way a potato growing nut case! I used to not like it as I had plans with my friends.. what's with all this garden work! Anyway, he would have me till in chicken manure before planting, and he would dig a ditch and plant the potatoes in, then as it grew, he would bury the plant as it grew. he would have a mound of potatoes at the end of the summer. Here is where the work comes in.. his poor overworked son would then have to dig them up :-) Nothing is better than home-grown potatoes!
very helpful, Im an accidental farmer, I dont know when i noticed potatoes growing in last years mulch, Ha! now i think i can dig them up. this will be fun.
SO helpful! I kept wondering if my potatoes should be flowering or not, and they're starting to get all yellow and limp and sad and I was freaking out thinking they'd caught some potato disease. Turns out I guess they're probably nearing their end. It'll be my first potato harvest (in a big 20-gal grow bag!) and I'm super excited to see how they did!
Actually, here in Norway it's common practice to leave them in the earth another 4 week after the plant died if they are meant for longer storage as the potato develops a thicker skin during these weeks
I'm growing potatoes this year for the very first time, new baby potatoes. I started mine 2 1/2 months ago. The leaves are so healthy and abundant. I was wondering about harvesting time.... now I know. Thanks 🖖🌻🌶️🍆🍅🍈🫑.
On my second year of growing. I planted 2 rows, 1 with blue russian seed potatoes and the other with gone-to-seed store-bought russets. This week both sets of plants began flowering beautiful purple flowers.
Ive been buying Yukon gold or the red white blue combo bags from the big box stores, i dont know what im doing so i honestly forget them, i dig when all the tops are completely gone naturally. Then i hunt them down and do pretty good. Its my lazy method but i aways wait till nothing shows above ground.
I live in michigan and I was digging up potato's in november, they were just fine. I also missed a bunch cause I couldn't find them and they came up this spring. Can't wait to dig them up see what I get. Did you know that the Irish plant their potato's in the fall?
Good information, thank you. I'm glad you cleared up the flower issue. I planted "Elba" in the early spring (March) and they flowered in about 8 weeks. They still look fairly good. I think the blight hit them like it did my tomatoes. I sprayed them with the same solution and it helped. Can't wait to see how they did. Thanks for sharing.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! For informing me to ONLY harvest the potatoes that are ready at the top of the soil... meaning, I would have pulled out my potatoes because of one plant that showed a top potatoe. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ First time Gardener here. Thanks!!
Fun fact. Red potatoes are sprayed with glyphosate (roundup) to make them appear more red. Customers demand pretty potatoes that have chemicals that end up in our cells.
My crop of Red Pipers all have flowers now and even though it is nearing the end of June 2024 we have had a lot of frosty mornings here in Scotland, fingers crossed they are okay.
My plants are dying off and the potatoes are popping out of the ground. Some look green. I haven't touched them yet. I remember in the 40's harvesting on a farm where they had exposed them on the ground surface by machine and we dragged sacks and put the potatoes into the sacks.
We always plant Yukon gold too here in VA,it always flowers we picked them off ,now the leaves are all yellowing it's time for it to be harvested I guess .❤
Nice harvest, I'll bet those were delicious. I'm in N Fl where it is very hot. My yukon gold flower everytime. I pinch the flowers when I see them so that energy goes to tuber production. Mine are getting close to harvest.
I have not had hail in at least 7 years at my place about 2.5 hours east of Dallas. Most of the hail I have heard about around here is small pea sized.
I have planted Yukon Gold for the last 3 years they always flower out big time, white flowers, anyway great info in this video, well done, Sir. One other interesting and fun thing I have discovered about planting potatoes, no matter how well I dig and search for the potatoes I always seem to miss a bunch and like clockwork the following Late Spring more potato plants start growing out of the grown from the ones I missed , lol Peace !
@@CountryLivingExperience Yes Indeed, so once you harvest your potatoes are they ready to eat right away or do they need to ripen up a bit first, I heard this somewhere, Thank You !
Thank you so much. I'm in zone 8 and this has helped me so much. This is my first time trying and it's been about 70days or so but the leaves are dyeing off. This def helps
PLEASE READ THIS! I always wait until the plants turn yellow and start dying off. I planted about 100 lbs of seed potatoes and just did a test dig yesterday. They are ready for harvesting. I grew Yukon Gold and Kennebec that both keep well. Last year I discovered an amazing new way to preserve potatoes for a full year. This method works perfectly here in Southern Indiana. Last October I took my cured dried potatoes, about 70 lbs, and buried them under about 4 ft off hardwood mulch. In April I dug up a few and they were in perfect condition. Again in May still in great shape and growing new potatoes. In June I removed all but maybe 10 lbs from the original 70 lbs and they were still in excellent condition. They were also growing new potatoes. I also harvested some of the smaller new potatoes. Today I removed the remaining stored potatoes and realized that this is an unbelievable way to keep potatoes. A full year from harvesting and I still have potatoes that are edible and produced new potatoes. Surprisingly I found only a few rotting potatoes after storing them for 10 months under 4 feet of wood mulch. They never froze and were cool and moist every time I removed them gently from the stored mulch pile. We're having another great potato harvest this year, and estimating about 380 lbs. NOTE: WE DRY AND CURE OUR POTATOES FOR ABOUT 6 WEEKS IN OUR COOL BASEMENT. This was another great video and informative. If its dry you can leave your potatoes in the ground after the die off. If the soil gets saturated and wet, they will rot😅
In the uk we call that a clamp and is an old traditional way of storing potatoes. A bed of straw then the potatoes and cover with straw then earth on top👍
Glad to see this video, I just harvested (5) five gallon buckets and only got about 15 potatoes out of them, so disappointing. My next plant will be in the ground.
Hello, it's your fellow Northerner to Texas transplant friend. I will have to dig mine with a garden fork. I saw a rough earth snake when I was pulling weeds in my potato patch yesterday. I am not sticking my hands into the soil of that raised bed. That is not going to happen!
I feed nitrogen heavy three to four weeks before planting with lots of alfalfa cubes from the local feed store. I till em in twice then plant. Thirty days in when the plants are 16 inches or so I add fortify the plants with p and k heavy fertilizer. I grow four varieties, round white, Kenebec, Norland, and Yukon Golds. Some of the yellow spuds produced over twenty potatoes most over eight ounces. There's absolutely nothing like the flavor of a freshly harvested potato. 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Mine have flowered and just fell over due to the high winds in scotland. So just leave them until they start dying off? Few more weeks still then as mine are all still bright green plants
This was the info I was looking for. The stalks of my plants started flopping over, a bunch of the leaves have browned, I even saw some spuds poking up from the dirt, but I have no flowers. Gonna start digging tomorrow
I've read that potatoes should not be planted in the same patch I successive years so to avoid diseases. Also not to follow tomatoes next season with potatoes, again to avoid diseases. Not knowing this last spring, I committed a 4' X 8' raised bed for a potato crop. I've harvested them now and am pleased with my success. My questions are, what can I plant next spring without making the risk of potato disease worse? How many seasons should elapse before the risk of disease is minimal again?
I have our potatoes in in big feed tubs, had them hardening off, quit watering about a week ago, a big rain came thru last nite, should i harvest in the wet soil? Supposed to rain again tonite and for the next few days. I dont want them to rot. Thank u!
First time planting potatoes . Yukon gold's. I planted end of march in containers and ive been wating for the flowers. We want new baby potatoes not full grown. I live in Vancouver British Columbia Canada, ahould we harvest now? Great vid , I subbed 👍
@@CountryLivingExperience I guess what I'm asking is , do you think there will be any potatoes formed by now ? Given the time from when we planted to now ?
@@anabanana7599 I honestly don't know. You are in a much different climate than I am. I planted mine in February and just harvested them two weeks ago. It depends on how your weather and temps have been, the variety, your soil, etc. The best thing to do is to gently dig into one of your mounds and see how they are doing. If too small, cover them back up.
well i harvested some of the plants that the foliage had fallen over but the spuds seem to be very hard to the touch was i too early---i did find some very large healthy worms! --any suggestions
When do you stop watering them? Once they barely look like they are dying? My Yukon gold plants are starting to yellow and lean a bit but still seem sturdy enough.
So do I pull out the actual potatoe plant after I dig out the potatoes ? Sorry I have NEVER done this before and I just started growing my first potato batch that I planted in my Florida patio in a garden bag I got off of Amazon 🙈 the plant is actually looking good , but I will wait a little longer to search for potatoes 🥔
Don't wash them. Store them in a cool dark area of your house. As to how long they last, usually a couple of months. If they grow sprouts save and plant next season.
Have you considered putting up some low arches over the rows so you can put a plastic tunnel over them when you know it's going to rain? Or is that not a good idea? New Gardner just curious 😅
I'm in zone 6 and this is the first time I planted potatoes, I planted in April in a raised garden bed and they are growing so fast, there was some yellow leaves at the bottom of plants so I pulled that off, is that ok and I want to know if i should stake them? Thanks
No need to stake them. It is ok to pull off the leaves but there is no real reason to. Once all the leaves yellow and the stalks fall over, it is time to harvest.
I’m Zone 6 & mine are yellowing & I thought dying…I put in Yukon Gold & then a patch of red 4/15, so they’re almost 90 days in. A friend put theirs in early June so I thought I did something wrong 😫 1st time potato patch
Thank you for the video. I planted Yukon Gold this season, and was thinking I need to harvest them this week. Sounds like I should probably give them another week or two. Very helpful.
I've tried sowing potatoes for the first time... Records potatoes, kind of getting conflicting information.... It says their main crop but their flowing now after nearly 3 months, leaves starting to go yellow.. Planted start of april, but main crop says harvest late autumn?? Based in ireland
It is difficult for me to help you. I do not know what variety you are planting or what your weather patterns are like. I live in Texas in the US. It is very hot here. My variety never flowers.
So I planted potatoes for the first time this year. I'm curious when am I supposed to put a mound on them. Right now they seem to be fine. But everyone does a mound.
Yes, you mound them. Once they start to produce leaves, mound dirt up until there are just a few small leaves sticking out at the top. Repeat this again when the plant grows taller.
@@cheriweber4 Yes, that is correct. It does not have much to do with the tubers themselves but when when they are harvested. Determinate are early to mid season. Indeterminate are late season. You will have to check per your specific variety.
Can you help me figure out what I did wrong? I planted 10 seed potatoes. They flowered and started to turn yellow and fall over. I dug up 3 plants. 2 were rotten, but all only had one potato…..😢
Hey brother, so ive never done this before but i put either a russet or an idaho in a pot with some soil. i forgot to mark the date but it was either the first or second week of March. I now have i nice plant about 25in tall from the soil with white flowers,green leaves,and some yellow that died off. Can you please tell me when im supposed to harvest?
I have blight so just cut all my potatoes back completely and pulling some out of the ground. My Northern Reds had a longer time to grow and I got a pretty good crop. Just pulled a few potatoes out of the ground and some are really misshapen, are they ok to eat? :(
I left my potatoes in the pantry too long and they started to root so I potted them. They've been growing for about a month, but my stalks only stood straight up for about 2 weeks. They are still flush and green. But they hang out over the pot instead of straight up. Is this normal. I know potatoes are growing because I brushed a little dirt back and found a baby potatoe growing so I covered it back up.
Thank you so much for this video!! 🙏 You are the only channel I’ve found that addresses the flowering/fruiting issue correctly. The potatoes I am growing are one of those varieties you mentioned that do not flower/fruit but they are definitely ready to harvest because the leaves have yellowed significantly & the stalks have become floppy & are starting to leeeeaaan away from each other & over the sides of my grow bags 🥔🌿🤎
Last year my potatoes didn’t do so well.. and they grew them fruit on top.. they were in a big container.. people kept telling me to mound up dirt to top of plants covering all bottom leaves as it grows.. but they died quick after doing that.. this year I decided to try again in ground.. my plants are atleast 3 ft tall and shot up quick.. so now I’m trying to figure out this pruning and covering all bottom leaves as it grows.. before it flowers 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ but I’m not finding any info to explain this to me.. most I’ve watched don’t do this.. could you explain this to me?? What is the best thing to do?
I never prune potatoes. I always mound them up with dirt as they grow though. Some potatoes do not flower like Yukon Gold which is what I grow. I have not dealt with flowering varieties yet.
Thanks. I had wondered how to tell when to harvest. I want to do some in grow bags, so I'll watch that video first. I am a country girl from way back, but I don't remember all this stuff! My family knew it all!
Chlorophyll is fine, however, when potato tubers turn green there is usually an increase in a glycoalkoloid compound called solanine. A high concentration of solanine will taste bitter, and can be harmful if eaten in large quantities.
Well that's bad news! Small plants from small potatoes! I'd told myself that in terms of "seeds" a small potato is huge compared to, say, a cucumber seed and therefore one could expect a big healthy plant!
My dad way a potato growing nut case! I used to not like it as I had plans with my friends.. what's with all this garden work! Anyway, he would have me till in chicken manure before planting, and he would dig a ditch and plant the potatoes in, then as it grew, he would bury the plant as it grew. he would have a mound of potatoes at the end of the summer. Here is where the work comes in.. his poor overworked son would then have to dig them up :-) Nothing is better than home-grown potatoes!
Our childhoods sound the same. Those homegrown potatoes are surely great.
very helpful, Im an accidental farmer, I dont know when i noticed potatoes growing in last years mulch, Ha! now i think i can dig them up. this will be fun.
SO helpful! I kept wondering if my potatoes should be flowering or not, and they're starting to get all yellow and limp and sad and I was freaking out thinking they'd caught some potato disease. Turns out I guess they're probably nearing their end. It'll be my first potato harvest (in a big 20-gal grow bag!) and I'm super excited to see how they did!
@@NicolaiAAA I love potatoe harvesting. It's like a nature treasure hunt
When the plant dies and falls over, they are done. Its literally that simple
What about if the stalks have leaned over but they are still strong thick and green
@@northernfrightsparanormali6770 then they aren’t done supplying energy to the potatoes.
@@johnbryan2414 thanks, that’s all I wanted to know it’s my first growing potatoes
Actually, here in Norway it's common practice to leave them in the earth another 4 week after the plant died if they are meant for longer storage as the potato develops a thicker skin during these weeks
The Ron Paul shirt was enough for me to be a fan but then great potato knowledge was icing on the cake!
Awesome! Thank you
Kentucky here…Rand Paul too!
I'm growing potatoes this year for the very first time, new baby potatoes. I started mine 2 1/2 months ago. The leaves are so healthy and abundant. I was wondering about harvesting time.... now I know.
Thanks 🖖🌻🌶️🍆🍅🍈🫑.
On my second year of growing. I planted 2 rows, 1 with blue russian seed potatoes and the other with gone-to-seed store-bought russets. This week both sets of plants began flowering beautiful purple flowers.
Last year I did seed potatoes and they flowered, this year I used Yukon gold from the grocery store, no flowers! Thanks for clearing this up for me!
i used PEI potatoes from the store and got flowers.
Ive been buying Yukon gold or the red white blue combo bags from the big box stores, i dont know what im doing so i honestly forget them, i dig when all the tops are completely gone naturally. Then i hunt them down and do pretty good. Its my lazy method but i aways wait till nothing shows above ground.
Thank you! Super advice! Growing potatoes for the first time!
You're welcome
I live in michigan and I was digging up potato's in november, they were just fine. I also missed a bunch cause I couldn't find them and they came up this spring. Can't wait to dig them up see what I get. Did you know that the Irish plant their potato's in the fall?
Good information, thank you. I'm glad you cleared up the flower issue. I planted "Elba" in the early spring (March) and they flowered in about 8 weeks. They still look fairly good. I think the blight hit them like it did my tomatoes. I sprayed them with the same solution and it helped. Can't wait to see how they did. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome. Hope you get a good harvest.
In the Berkshires, MA. So glad that you mentioned not all potatoes flower. Whew... Thank you!
You're welcome
Best video on potatoes and when to harvest I have seen yet, thank you!
You’re welcome. Glad it was helpful.
My Yukon potatoes all flowered this year. Very early. I always remove them.
Ron Paul is legend.
Of corse phosphorus and nitrogen are needed, but potatoes only get bigger with more potassium.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
For informing me to ONLY harvest the potatoes that are ready at the top of the soil... meaning, I would have pulled out my potatoes because of one plant that showed a top potatoe. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
First time Gardener here.
Thanks!!
You're welcome
Thumbs up for the Ron Paul shirt in addition to the potato content!!
Awesome! Thanks
Fun fact. Red potatoes are sprayed with glyphosate (roundup) to make them appear more red. Customers demand pretty potatoes that have chemicals that end up in our cells.
Thank you very helpful. I'm in a different zone and its my first crop. I'm so excited to see what i get😊
You're welcome
I absolutely love this guy videos. He shares tips on literally everything!!!
Glad we can make helpful vids for y'all!
My crop of Red Pipers all have flowers now and even though it is nearing the end of June 2024 we have had a lot of frosty mornings here in Scotland, fingers crossed they are okay.
I hope it works out for your crop
My plants are dying off and the potatoes are popping out of the ground. Some look green. I haven't touched them yet. I remember in the 40's harvesting on a farm where they had exposed them on the ground surface by machine and we dragged sacks and put the potatoes into the sacks.
We always plant Yukon gold too here in VA,it always flowers we picked them off ,now the leaves are all yellowing it's time for it to be harvested I guess .❤
Yep. Hope you have a good harvest.
Nice harvest, I'll bet those were delicious. I'm in N Fl where it is very hot. My yukon gold flower everytime. I pinch the flowers when I see them so that energy goes to tuber production. Mine are getting close to harvest.
Thank you. They were. So strange mine rarely flower and it is crazy hot here in TX.
@@CountryLivingExperience I know, I have family in the dallas ft worth area. Man you guys get crazy weather. The hail freaks me out.
I have not had hail in at least 7 years at my place about 2.5 hours east of Dallas. Most of the hail I have heard about around here is small pea sized.
Best vid on potatoes so far! Thank you so much! ❤
You're so welcome!
I have planted Yukon Gold for the last 3 years they always flower out big time, white flowers, anyway great info in this video, well done, Sir. One other interesting and fun thing I have discovered about planting potatoes, no matter how well I dig and search for the potatoes I always seem to miss a bunch and like clockwork the following Late Spring more potato plants start growing out of the grown from the ones I missed , lol Peace !
Thank you. Volunteer potatoes are always a blessing.
@@CountryLivingExperience Yes Indeed, so once you harvest your potatoes are they ready to eat right away or do they need to ripen up a bit first, I heard this somewhere, Thank You !
@@jixxxxer17 You can eat them right away. Curing them for long term storage is important though.
Excellent! Thank you man!!! I just pulled up my crop and all is well. :)
You're welcome.
Thank you so much. I'm in zone 8 and this has helped me so much. This is my first time trying and it's been about 70days or so but the leaves are dyeing off. This def helps
You're welcome
PLEASE READ THIS!
I always wait until the plants turn yellow and start dying off.
I planted about 100 lbs of seed potatoes and just did a test dig yesterday. They are ready for harvesting. I grew Yukon Gold and Kennebec that both keep well.
Last year I discovered an amazing new way to preserve potatoes for a full year. This method works perfectly here in Southern Indiana. Last October I took my cured dried potatoes, about 70 lbs, and buried them under about 4 ft off hardwood mulch. In April I dug up a few and they were in perfect condition. Again in May still in great shape and growing new potatoes. In June I removed all but maybe 10 lbs from the original 70 lbs and they were still in excellent condition. They were also growing new potatoes. I also harvested some of the smaller new potatoes. Today I removed the remaining stored potatoes and realized that this is an unbelievable way to keep potatoes. A full year from harvesting and I still have potatoes that are edible and produced new potatoes. Surprisingly I found only a few rotting potatoes after storing them for 10 months under 4 feet of wood mulch.
They never froze and were cool and moist every time I removed them gently from the stored mulch pile. We're having another great potato harvest this year, and estimating about 380 lbs.
NOTE: WE DRY AND CURE OUR POTATOES FOR ABOUT 6 WEEKS IN OUR COOL
BASEMENT.
This was another great video and informative. If its dry you can leave your potatoes in the ground after the die off. If the soil gets saturated and wet, they will rot😅
Cool!
In the uk we call that a clamp and is an old traditional way of storing potatoes. A bed of straw then the potatoes and cover with straw then earth on top👍
@justalitttleun Interesting name! A "clamp". I appreciate your reply and your "clamp" process for potato storage. Thanks for sharing 👍
Tysm for sharing your experience. Will try this.
u are the greatest man i can see with your garden...................the best
Thank you
Glad to see this video, I just harvested (5) five gallon buckets and only got about 15 potatoes out of them, so disappointing. My next plant will be in the ground.
Glad it was helpful!
Hello, it's your fellow Northerner to Texas transplant friend. I will have to dig mine with a garden fork. I saw a rough earth snake when I was pulling weeds in my potato patch yesterday. I am not sticking my hands into the soil of that raised bed. That is not going to happen!
Garden fork will work well.
I feed nitrogen heavy three to four weeks before planting with lots of alfalfa cubes from the local feed store.
I till em in twice then plant.
Thirty days in when the plants are 16 inches or so I add fortify the plants with p and k heavy fertilizer.
I grow four varieties, round white, Kenebec, Norland, and Yukon Golds.
Some of the yellow spuds produced over twenty potatoes most over eight ounces.
There's absolutely nothing like the flavor of a freshly harvested potato.
🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Awesome
If my potatoes have the flowers. Do you wait for the flower to die out? Or go ahead and pick the potato?
Thank you!
Mine have flowered and just fell over due to the high winds in scotland. So just leave them until they start dying off? Few more weeks still then as mine are all still bright green plants
This was the info I was looking for. The stalks of my plants started flopping over, a bunch of the leaves have browned, I even saw some spuds poking up from the dirt, but I have no flowers. Gonna start digging tomorrow
Subscribed btw 👍
Awesome!
First time potato grower here and new subscriber. Enjoyed the video, looking forward to checking out more of you videos. 👍🏻
Thank you. Welcome to the channel
Very informative. Thanks for posting.!
You're welcome
Great information!!! Thank you SO much!
You’re welcome
I've read that potatoes should not be planted in the same patch I successive years so to avoid diseases. Also not to follow tomatoes next season with potatoes, again to avoid diseases.
Not knowing this last spring, I committed a 4' X 8' raised bed for a potato crop. I've harvested them now and am pleased with my success. My questions are, what can I plant next spring without making the risk of potato disease worse? How many seasons should elapse before the risk of disease is minimal again?
Every 4th year you can replant in same location
Thank you for this informative video! 👍😁
You’re welcome
Its great to find someone so dedicated and knowledgeable . I'm in Scotland so we have a short growing spell before the frost arrives again. (Subbed)
Welcome to the channel.
Love the Ron Paul t shirt !
Thank you
I have our potatoes in in big feed tubs, had them hardening off, quit watering about a week ago, a big rain came thru last nite, should i harvest in the wet soil? Supposed to rain again tonite and for the next few days. I dont want them to rot. Thank u!
As long as they drain well, they should be ok until it dries out.
@@CountryLivingExperience omgosh! Thank u so much for responding and the info!!
Rewatched video and my question was answered..lol ❤
Somehow our garden ended up being half potatoes, along with some volunteers among the peas and green beans. We were wondering this very same thing!
Cool
Appreciate this! I'm still figuring out my potato growing!
Happy to help!
Same here. Thank you.
Q - I have a potato dirt bag. Can you pick out potatoes and let more grow, like a continuous harvest, before the greens die?
No, potatoes won't produce like that. Sorry.
@@CountryLivingExperience Noted. Thx!
thank you , this was helpful to me
You’re welcome
❤ thank you for the information we just love potatoes
You're welcome
First time planting potatoes . Yukon gold's. I planted end of march in containers and ive been wating for the flowers. We want new baby potatoes not full grown. I live in Vancouver British Columbia Canada, ahould we harvest now? Great vid , I subbed 👍
Welcome to the channel.
I have never really grown new potatoes. I always wait until they are fully grown and the plants die off.
@@CountryLivingExperience I guess what I'm asking is , do you think there will be any potatoes formed by now ? Given the time from when we planted to now ?
@@anabanana7599 I honestly don't know. You are in a much different climate than I am. I planted mine in February and just harvested them two weeks ago. It depends on how your weather and temps have been, the variety, your soil, etc. The best thing to do is to gently dig into one of your mounds and see how they are doing. If too small, cover them back up.
@@CountryLivingExperience Okies thank you for answering. I really appreciate it. 👍
well i harvested some of the plants that the foliage had fallen over but the spuds seem to be very hard to the touch
was i too early---i did find some very large healthy worms! --any suggestions
They should be fine. They should be hard.
Great information
When do you stop watering them? Once they barely look like they are dying? My Yukon gold plants are starting to yellow and lean a bit but still seem sturdy enough.
Yes, when they are starting to yellow.
Thank you, I appreciate it :)
So do I pull out the actual potatoe plant after I dig out the potatoes ? Sorry I have NEVER done this before and I just started growing my first potato batch that I planted in my Florida patio in a garden bag I got off of Amazon 🙈 the plant is actually looking good , but I will wait a little longer to search for potatoes 🥔
No worries. Yes, the plant is an annual. You pull the entire plant when the potatoes are ready to harvest.
A Spartan in Texas! GO GREEN!
Go White!
good info first time trying. How to store them and how long will they keep? Thanks, Eric. God has blessed you and my family
Don't wash them. Store them in a cool dark area of your house. As to how long they last, usually a couple of months. If they grow sprouts save and plant next season.
All my Yukon Golds flowered out with fruit
Have you considered putting up some low arches over the rows so you can put a plastic tunnel over them when you know it's going to rain? Or is that not a good idea? New Gardner just curious 😅
Thanks for the question. No need for any low tunnels. They need the rain.
I'm in zone 6 and this is the first time I planted potatoes, I planted in April in a raised garden bed and they are growing so fast, there was some yellow leaves at the bottom of plants so I pulled that off, is that ok and I want to know if i should stake them? Thanks
No need to stake them. It is ok to pull off the leaves but there is no real reason to. Once all the leaves yellow and the stalks fall over, it is time to harvest.
I’m Zone 6 & mine are yellowing & I thought dying…I put in Yukon Gold & then a patch of red 4/15, so they’re almost 90 days in. A friend put theirs in early June so I thought I did something wrong 😫 1st time potato patch
I forgot to mound this year… is my crop doomed? Flowering just started on one type.
Crop it not doomed but it will be less than normal probably.
This title makes it sound like all other "when to harvest potatoes" videos are lying XD
How often do you water your potato plants?
Twice per week. Total of 1” per week
@@CountryLivingExperience thanks
Than you from South Afrfica
You’re welcome
Thank you for the video. I planted Yukon Gold this season, and was thinking I need to harvest them this week. Sounds like I should probably give them another week or two. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful. Happy harvesting!
I didn’t keep putting dirt on the new growth I just mulched once will this affect the amount of potatoes I get?
You will probably get fewer potatoes.
What is "flowering out"? Is that when flowering ceases? Or mass flowers?
When the flowers appear
I've tried sowing potatoes for the first time... Records potatoes, kind of getting conflicting information.... It says their main crop but their flowing now after nearly 3 months, leaves starting to go yellow.. Planted start of april, but main crop says harvest late autumn?? Based in ireland
It is difficult for me to help you. I do not know what variety you are planting or what your weather patterns are like. I live in Texas in the US. It is very hot here. My variety never flowers.
I live in Ore City area on LOP, and we love those golden potatoes. Going to be harvesting some taters real soon.
So I planted potatoes for the first time this year. I'm curious when am I supposed to put a mound on them. Right now they seem to be fine. But everyone does a mound.
Yes, you mound them. Once they start to produce leaves, mound dirt up until there are just a few small leaves sticking out at the top. Repeat this again when the plant grows taller.
I was told there are determinate and indeterminate varieties of potatoes. Is this true and if so what should we do differently for each variety?
@@cheriweber4 Yes, that is correct. It does not have much to do with the tubers themselves but when when they are harvested. Determinate are early to mid season. Indeterminate are late season. You will have to check per your specific variety.
Great video! How do you store your potatoes?
Thank you. We have a small root cellar and we also wrap them in newspaper and keep them in a cooler room in the house.
Thank you so when do you wash them ?
Wash them just before eating. Store them with the majority dirt on them.
Can you help me figure out what I did wrong? I planted 10 seed potatoes. They flowered and started to turn yellow and fall over. I dug up 3 plants. 2 were rotten, but all only had one potato…..😢
The only time I had failure was due to over watering. Water rots potatoes.
Hey brother, so ive never done this before but i put either a russet or an idaho in a pot with some soil. i forgot to mark the date but it was either the first or second week of March. I now have i nice plant about 25in tall from the soil with white flowers,green leaves,and some yellow that died off. Can you please tell me when im supposed to harvest?
No. Most potatoes need 4 months of growing time.
Very good information.
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I have blight so just cut all my potatoes back completely and pulling some out of the ground. My Northern Reds had a longer time to grow and I got a pretty good crop. Just pulled a few potatoes out of the ground and some are really misshapen, are they ok to eat? :(
They should be fine to eat.
I left my potatoes in the pantry too long and they started to root so I potted them. They've been growing for about a month, but my stalks only stood straight up for about 2 weeks. They are still flush and green. But they hang out over the pot instead of straight up. Is this normal. I know potatoes are growing because I brushed a little dirt back and found a baby potatoe growing so I covered it back up.
It is probably because the soil is too loose and shallow. They should be fine though. Let them grow and see what happens.
How & in what, are you storing your potatoes?
I store them in a cool dark room in my house wrapped in newspaper.
Great tips thank you
You are so welcome!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you for the video very informative! How can you save a potato for next year planting?
You're welcome. I did a video on saving potatoes here.....ua-cam.com/video/y6Fndfw6ldo/v-deo.html
I heard that when your potatoes flower is when they start to really grow the tubers, and you should be watering them more while they're flowering.
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Where you located? My mom's people are from Garrison,Texas
We are near Tyler
Your green potatoes you can use for next years seed potatoes.
Yes, absolutely.
Thanks for the good info. I have to harvest mine. They have already 95 days
You’re welcome
Thank you so much for this video!! 🙏
You are the only channel I’ve found that addresses the flowering/fruiting issue correctly. The potatoes I am growing are one of those varieties you mentioned that do not flower/fruit but they are definitely ready to harvest because the leaves have yellowed significantly & the stalks have become floppy & are starting to leeeeaaan away from each other & over the sides of my grow bags 🥔🌿🤎
Awesome! Glad we could help.
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Lol! Thanks.
People used to dig their potatos by the moon signs it keeps them from rotting so fast and a potato that you cut or scar while digging will "heal" up.
Never heard of that one.
Another great video!..
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Last year my potatoes didn’t do so well.. and they grew them fruit on top.. they were in a big container.. people kept telling me to mound up dirt to top of plants covering all bottom leaves as it grows.. but they died quick after doing that.. this year I decided to try again in ground.. my plants are atleast 3 ft tall and shot up quick.. so now I’m trying to figure out this pruning and covering all bottom leaves as it grows.. before it flowers 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ but I’m not finding any info to explain this to me.. most I’ve watched don’t do this.. could you explain this to me?? What is the best thing to do?
I never prune potatoes. I always mound them up with dirt as they grow though. Some potatoes do not flower like Yukon Gold which is what I grow. I have not dealt with flowering varieties yet.
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Thanks. I had wondered how to tell when to harvest. I want to do some in grow bags, so I'll watch that video first. I am a country girl from way back, but I don't remember all this stuff! My family knew it all!
Thank you Dude
You're welcome
Green is fine it’s only chlorophyll which is pretty important
Chlorophyll is fine, however, when potato tubers turn green there is usually an increase in a glycoalkoloid compound called solanine. A high concentration of solanine will taste bitter, and can be harmful if eaten in large quantities.
I always dig my potatoes once the plant dies, my plants get flowers but I remove them as they appear
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Well that's bad news! Small plants from small potatoes! I'd told myself that in terms of "seeds" a small potato is huge compared to, say, a cucumber seed and therefore one could expect a big healthy plant!