another great video . in New Zealand we call sweet potatoes kumara we use it the same way you would use potatoes its not used as a sweet dish here. we HARVEST IN 120-150 days from planting . keep up the amazing work
That smell melon is a tough one. Takes some discipline and time to overcome. I try to rotate to a vertical crop like tomatoes or sweet corn after vine crops for a year to clean up with directed sprays in the season. If not that, summertime fallow with cultivations when they flush to deplete the seedbank. In vine crops it is tough, try to eliminate as many as sprouted before runnning and then pray there aren't a lot of escapes. I think we're at a truce on the farm, but it's a constant battle.
another great video . in New Zealand we call sweet potatoes kumara we use it the same way you would use potatoes its not used as a sweet dish here. we HARVEST IN 120-150 days from planting . keep up the amazing work
What kind of plow is it that you use to bring the potatoes up.
It’s a plastic mulch lifter. We’ve taken off the front coulters. Once you get it set right it works pretty good.
How many acres of potatoes and what variety do you plant?
How u get rid of the dirt do u wash all those potatoes
That’s covered in the next video. Thanks for watching
how did you harvest the potatoes?
Is that a mater Mac planter in the background? If so do you like that planter?
Yes it is. I do like it. I use it in some of my earlier videos planting sweet corn and greens.
Where did you buy yours?
Ordered it from Market Farm Implement. Shipped it to me.
That smell melon is a tough one. Takes some discipline and time to overcome. I try to rotate to a vertical crop like tomatoes or sweet corn after vine crops for a year to clean up with directed sprays in the season. If not that, summertime fallow with cultivations when they flush to deplete the seedbank. In vine crops it is tough, try to eliminate as many as sprouted before runnning and then pray there aren't a lot of escapes. I think we're at a truce on the farm, but it's a constant battle.
Picking the seed balls up makes a difference, but never gets them all. Rotation should certainly help.
how are they this year i need about 25 boxes
Do you wash them?
I’ll explain that in my next video
Are there a lot of potatoes get left behind in the ground?
Some but most of them are not marketable. Thanks for watching.
could you not sell the little ones to a farmer for pig feed or cow feed that's what they do over here where I live.
Do you ever allow the public to come in and pick the culled leftovers for their families?
We used to do it but not any more. Letting the public loose in our fields created a lot of problems. The only u-pick we do is for the greens. Sorry.
Couldn't get the job done without immigrants. "Just saying "