Harvesting the Potato Towers ~ No Dig Harvest
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Harvesting the Potato Towers ~ No Dig Harvest
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Not enough rain, too much heat, too many bugs!!
I did the same, with one tower, several years ago and ended up with five pounds of potatoes. It felt good learning how to grow potatoes in Northern Michigan. In 2014, my wife and I went to a market in Standish to purchase three 50 lb. bags of unclassified potatoes. The ones with the lumps and bumps on them. We paid $6.00 for each 50 lb. bag. We peeled, diced and pressure canned them in quart-sized glass Mason jars. Those jars of diced potatoes lasted the two of us for four years.
Wow, I love this so much! That’s a great way to do it. 💯
3 times what you planted...that's a win to me!❤
Something is better than nothing , I think your garden did great , Thanks Jinne
It all adds up! Our garden was mostly a flop this year, but there’s always next year, right?!?❤🇺🇸
Same here! It was brutally hot and very little rain. Watering all the time, still my veggies just didn't do well. I'm gonna try for fall!
Ours was a flop also. Rain, heat, clouds it was sad.
So is mine!😭
I love your determination to refuse to let a set back discourage you! The basic idea of towers is sound. Probably NO method of potato growing would've done any better in your area, considering the weather conditions you spoke of. Best of luck and wishes to ya'll!
I planted only about 1/2 lb in 2 planter containers. The little mixture of purple, white, yellow, and red skins. I peeked once and found what looked like more then I planted just below the surface. Not sure what I'll find when I dig down and harvest. If I get 2 lbs I'll be happy. I was my first shot at trying and didn't devote too much space for it. Maybe more next year. 🥔👍
I loved this video!!
Seeing you dig through that soil was awesome.
You might not have gotten what you wanted but I bet they are the best for you ever. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
We’re all experiencing a double whammy this year-El Niño and a Grand Solar Minimum. The GSM is supposed to last for about 10 more years, and they cause all kinds of outages, storms, etc.. I think you did pretty good-a 3 to 1 ratio is not bad, and I’d never heard of a potato tower. Good one!
I'm a total conspiracy freak about the weather. Sorry about your yield!
The difference between conspiracy and the truth, is only about 6 months... 😉 the weather manipulation is ridiculous, but we all know they can't keep their hands out of anything.
@@HomesteadCorner they can do more than we know
I'm in Texas and we are suffering with 105°-106° weather everyday for a month and a half now, no rain at all. I got about 16 lbs of potatoes (I planted about 25 seed potatoes) so, not so great this year and it was due to early heat (100+) starting in June. My cucumbers did great, no squash, some tomatoes early and now I'm trying to keep my peppers alive. I have shade cloth over everything! Please send us some rain❤ Thank you for the potato tower idea, I'm going to try it for my fall garden!
Better than none😊
The weather probably had a lot to do with the small crop. Enjoy what you did harvest.
This is why we put back what we can. For the bad years.
"Muddy Paters".., Sounds like the of an old fashioned blues singer.
Thank you. The wife stuck a handful of potatoes in a bucket to grow. They are dying off just now. Tomatoes re coming on, ready for whole tomatoes and salsa. God Bless and stay safe.
Here in north texas my potato harvest was horrible. Only 12 potatoes total out of 4 plants!! My worst harvest ever. We are extremely dry even with watering every day. Will start fall crops in a few weeks. Its still as hot as heck
This a testament to all that you should consider what would happen if you need to rely on your crops to survive.
I got a late start with our potatoes. Should be ready in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to seeing what our yield will be.
Thanks for the video.
Jinne, I think your potato harvest looks good. Any increase is better than none.
Our 3 varieties of tomatoes are doing great. (Early Girl, cherry tomatoes and yellow pear tomatoes)
I used shade cloth over all of my raised beds this year to keep them from frying in our 100 degree Utah summer. We have enough tomatoes and green peppers to share a baggie full with 5 of the neighbors. Just enough to eat with a couple of meals. Still waiting to harvest 5 large buckets of potatoes. Keeping my fingers crossed 🤞😊
Aww, well, at least you got some.🥔 Wondering if the Straw rotted a bit, with all that Rain, & may have been the Problem, you know, moldiness. IDK.
I would keep the wire frames, & line them with Black bin liners, or a cardboard tube around the inside edge, & fill it with just compost & start again.
Weather seems to have been a let down for most Gardeners this Year, everywhere.🙁 We keep at it though.👍
TFS HC, take care & keep really busy everyone. ❤🙂🐶
We are right the opposite here. We have had well over 20 days of 100 plus temps with heat indexes up to 110. Today we only got up to 90 so feels like a cold front lol. We have only had 1/8” of rain in about 6 weeks and we are under a water restriction so no unnecessary water usage at all. Supposed to be 91 tomorrow, 93 Wednesday, then 106,107, 104, 103 and 101. Such a hot Summer for us
My Taters are Still with Green Leaves. 3 Small Planter Boxes.
We are Warm To Hot with occasional rain.
Last year I only got about 20 taters smaller then a Hens Egg. Lol
The Rest is Trying.
Got only 1 Yellow Squash so far.everything is Blooming.
Herbs are Ok.
I planted two potato towers, the first one sizzled in 107° weather in the shade! In less than 24 hours the plants were all black. So I tried again and I put wet Muslim cloth tents over the towers. One night I didn’t stay up as late because it had been 107 for two days and I was exhausted. I paid for my exhaustion, when I went out the next day all the plants were black and very dead😮!
Hello Ginnie A+ for effort, that's what I told my husband about our garden. Love your channel
I'm happy you had some harvest Jinne. Maybe your other two towers will yield more. Thank you for sharing with us.😊👍💕
Our garden was hit and miss this year. Green beans were a flop. Got over 10 lbs of pinto beans. Tomatoes mostly were rotting on the vines, canned about 15 jars of beets..Corn got mostly destroyed by wind but green peppers were plentiful. Carrots didn't do anything but we had an abundance of onions...crazy weather! Need to dig our potatoes and sweet potatoes if it ever dries up a little.
I live in NORTHERN Illinois, my garden didn't go so well,since it was so dry.
Still over 100* daily in Texas. Sure been one helluva hot summer. Garden did well this spring, but no rain, at all, since May. Everything is crunchy brown and sounds like breaking glass when you walk on anything. Please!! Pray for a cool/wet Fall for the South!
I'm praying for you all down there! 💕🇺🇸🙏
Our potato towers didn't do well this year. I think we're going to go back to row planting. But our peppers were VERY impressive producers this year!
Those towers really packed down over a few months.
I didn't do potatoes this year. But I did try tomatoes and they didn't do well at all. Usually I have a good crap here in Arizona
I didn’t pant potatoes mostly because it’s just the 3-of us now and we don’t eat many ,,I do have lots in jars and dehydrated so I guess that’s what we will be eating..My whole garden sucked this year also the only thing that did good was the ones in the greenhouse and in containers. I see us growing under cover as the Grand Solar Minimum cycle continues for the next several, several years. I also think we will be limited to what we will be eating except fir what we can grow..
Thank you for showing this to us. I tried 2 of your towers this year. We're behind you in our growing season so in a month or so I'll see how it worked out 😊
In Wisconsin we have not received enough rain. But in just the last few days we have had several rainy days. Zoe, Jinne, those are nice sized potatoes! Yes garden like me. I like to get right in there and wallow in it. I hope that my potatoes are as nice as yours. Hey, you have more than what you would have had, if you didn't plant at all. I think that you did just fine.
We didn't do well with that kind of potato tower. They produce in buckets for us and I tried grow bags this year. Hope they are loaded! 🤞
I just harvested my potato Pool yesterday! ! Did ok! Not great tho!
Yes, overcast due to smoke here. What a gloomy summer. Issues with critters and weeds. Opposite not much rain where I am. May try your method for potatoes next year. Thanks for sharing!!
Hi Jinne 👋🏻
My potatoes were struggling with bugs and blight. I pulled them early and planted a few for a fall crop.
Our garden is doing the same thing hardly any fruits, all but the green beans and pickles.
I’m hearing quite a few people in different areas of the country had a less productive gardening experience this year.
Still have haze. Seeing little of the true blue in the sky. A few of those darn lines too I'm not sure of. I'm trying russets this year. Too many little red and yellow ones. Russets are starting to pop out of the ground and I plant deep. I had volunteers too. About 10 overwintered I missed in grow bags. They may be keepers as seed potatoes. Definitely acclimated to below 0. Not ready to pull yet. Decent rain and temps a little cooler for summer. I may have sweated twice this year. Peas did rot and rabbits got most my beans and planted a pound of seed. Zucchini and cukes have gone crazy. Tomatoes turning red 6 weeks late. Winter squash I hope doesn't get attacked by bugs. New area for them. So garden of pretty good but for a few things.
❤This
I live in Idaho and was fortunate that mine did well.
Still wonderful.
Too hot in AZ. No good tatters. Getting ready for fall planting
In my region of Quebec….we had really wet weather this year too.
Well done hope the weather is not the new normal. Here down under it’s dismal as well
This year we had the best tomato and zucchini harvest in a very long time. I think it was the liquid fish fertilizer early on, but not sure. We had so much we’ve been donating to the local food bank. Other crops were so so. Thanks Ginny for sharing the vid👍.
Mine were an epic failure. Too hot, too humid, to much rain. Trying to convince myself to try again next year.
I have had my issues with my little deck garden some of the plants that did good last year did not do well, I staerted out with more pots which should have given me more then what I got
Probably too late in the season….but I planted my potatoes 2 weeks ago:(. Overall my small garden has done terrible this season…..tomatoes in pots are awful as well…. Maybe next year will be better for all of our gardens…
Hello have a good evening.
In Iowa is the same situation,to meney clouds
Nice system....probley works great on a go year
Thanks
Green peppers, broccoli, and cabbage did the best this year for us. We're just outside Augusta here in Maine, and I agree about the crazy weather. I'm so over the rain!
It has definitely been a bit much, the humidity in July was awful too. I'm ready for fall! 💕🇺🇸
If it makes you feel any better, my potatoes did the same thing this year. It was a very cold and wet spring in our area and my early spring crops didn’t fare well. Last year’s garden fried from the heat. This year is a little better, but not a good as past years.
Good video! One never knows what there going to find in the potato harvest. I do most of mine in buckets and this year since I had an early harvest I've tried to get a second going. I haven't seen anything break the soil yet so I don't have high hopes. Only another 60 ish days to my first frost. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Part of learning is failing in Gardening. Saying what could I have done differently or better. Good luck with the rest of your garden. I had a good not great Zucchini harvest. Tried to plant more but a lot of seeds don't look like they are going to germinate. Just noticed 2 of my Squash plants just broke out of the ground. Trying to get a second harvest out of them as well. Beans are great. Second harvest of Green beans should be ready in about a month. I planted Black eyed peas as an experiment this year and it looks like they are just starting to turn from flowers to buds. Sweet!
I’m sure you had better results that I will. All of my potato bushes were eaten clean away by grasshoppers. Do t know if I will get anything from them.
The deer wiped ours out early in the grow season, but we still got some, there's hope for your taters! 💕🇺🇸
I think you did alright , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Our squash and cucumbers are pitiful 😢. Jalapeños have done great. Tomatoes...so so.
Not enough rain here in my area in Oklahoma, plus we had like 3 weeks of around 100 degrees plus higher with the heat index 😞 my water bill came out to $197 for July and this month $130 😢 but we did get some this past week like 1/2 an inch but ground was so dry that it dried up quick 😅
How do you save your potatoes for next years seed potatoes?
I like those lil taters boiled in jackets...add some butter...yum
I had 8 milk crates of potatoes.... and ended up with 3 small meals for mom and I..... I spent more on the seed potatoes than I got.... so again this year... disappointed... not a good gardener... so I wont be able to rely on my gardening skills if shtf... so sad makes me feel like a failure
Ill be curious what mine look like. I dont think the towers have as good yield as in the ground though
When do I plant potatoes for fall harvest?
I would get them in this month.
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Is that straw on the outside of the potato towers it looks like coco mats.?
It's straw. 💕🇺🇸
Definately not a good year for veg this year. Beans have been all leaf and few flowers. Picking up a bit now though so fingers crossed they catch up. Potatoes have been either small or bigger and bug eaten. Definately not a good harvest.
I wonder if its OK to put food grade diatomaceous earth over the basket of straw and dirt holding growing potatoes to curb bugs? If that would even make a difference? I just did straw and compost in a hurry so I have no idea what I'm going to find. Yikes!
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