The Truth About When To Harvest Potatoes!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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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
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.
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.
Best video on potatoes and when to harvest I have seen yet, thank you!
You’re welcome. Glad it was helpful.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
I'm really happy to watch your video, I hope you will grow and create for the benefit of all our compatriots with love. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
A Spartan in Texas! GO GREEN!
Go White!
All my Yukon Golds flowered out with fruit
If my potatoes have the flowers. Do you wait for the flower to die out? Or go ahead and pick the potato?
Thank you!
Great tips thank you
You are so welcome!
How often do you water your potato plants?
Twice per week. Total of 1” per week
@@CountryLivingExperience thanks
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 :)
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
Another great video!..
Thank you. I appreciate that.
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. 👍
great video! was worried about mine not flowering. Put my mind at ease
Cool. Thank you.
I garden here in the Houston area and my Yukon Golds flower. Is that highly unusual.
Not unusual. They should still produce well.
What is "flowering out"? Is that when flowering ceases? Or mass flowers?
When the flowers appear
To cut flowers off or not? I cut them off.
I am in Pennsylvania and planted Yukon gold in a fabric pot ,only one stalk flowered. Its around 60 days now and all stems yellow will empty pot soon.
Cool
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.
Go Spartans!
Go Green!
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!
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.
Great information. You should grow your cat some catnip.
Thanks
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.
Go Green!
Go White!
I eat green potatoes all the time the whole toxicity thing is blown way out of proportion. If it is a bit green and the raw potato is not bitter as long as you peel it, it's good to eat.
Never said the whole potato was toxic. I cut off the green too.
@@CountryLivingExperience my comment wasn't aimed at you or anything you said in the video was just a general observation. Cool video though 😊
@@Vassle Cool. Thanks for the clarification.
Good info thanks! For the first time I planted potatoes and apparently did everything wrong. I planted Yukon Gold, the potatoes I harvested were all tiny small like the little ones you had for canning. Not one big one. Maybe I waited too long to harvest (the plants were completely dry), or did not water them as much as needed I suspect. (Canton, GA). Any inputs will be great for the next round. Thanks!
You're welcome. It could be a combination of a lot of things. Sounds like you maybe need more nutrients in your soil.
What do i do if it start flowering..do i cut off or leave it
@@venetiadevos1490Tony from Simplified Gardening suggests to remove the flowers to put energy back into the tubers. He is an expert on potatoes.
when it comes to potatoes, i think i'd rather be lied to.
Don't pick your potatoes till the leaves are brown and dead! Not when they are green. If you see flowers on your potatoes ripp them off. If you're not mounding dirt around the potatoes as it grows you did it wrong....but at the end of the day. Do what is right for you and your farm.
That’s what I said
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
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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?
Of corse phosphorus and nitrogen are needed, but potatoes only get bigger with more potassium.
My Yukon potatoes all flowered this year. Very early. I always remove them.
Green potato's full of nicotine, which is excellent nutrient for our cells, same goes for green tomato's, another lie they tell us. 😊
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'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.
Hi garden kitty❤
Thumbs up for the Ron Paul shirt in addition to the potato content!!
Awesome! Thanks
In the Berkshires, MA. So glad that you mentioned not all potatoes flower. Whew... Thank you!
You're welcome
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.
I really hope I'm not just getting tubers.I hope I get some potatoes.I'm afraid i'm just getting tubers
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
This title makes it sound like all other "when to harvest potatoes" videos are lying XD
3:11
Excellent! Thank you man!!! I just pulled up my crop and all is well. :)
You're welcome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thank you so much. Great tips.
You’re welcome
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.
We should have listened to Ron Paul
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.
Than you from South Afrfica
You’re welcome
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!
Great information
Your green potatoes you can use for next years seed potatoes.
Yes, absolutely.
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?
Love the Ron Paul t shirt !
Thank you
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
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.
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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
How & in what, are you storing your potatoes?
I store them in a cool dark room in my house wrapped in newspaper.
I live in Ore City area on LOP, and we love those golden potatoes. Going to be harvesting some taters real soon.
So in the south yes ?
Correct. Texas
@@CountryLivingExperience when is the starting and ending harvest time for potatoes?
I usually plant in February and harvest in May to June.
@@CountryLivingExperience i see thanks for the input
I absolutely love this guy videos. He shares tips on literally everything!!!
Glad we can make helpful vids for y'all!
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Rewatched video and my question was answered..lol ❤
Love the t-shirt
Awesome! Thank you!
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 liked you at Ron Paul.
Awesome!
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.
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.
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Awesome
it's funny moaning about rain and now people moaning that there is no rain.
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
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.
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.
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.
I always dig my potatoes once the plant dies, my plants get flowers but I remove them as they appear
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Garden kitty 🐱😍❤️❤️❤️
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!
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Nice harvest of taters.
Thank you
Where you located? My mom's people are from Garrison,Texas
We are near Tyler
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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!!