Potato Tower Harvest
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Join us in Zone 4B for a Potato Tower Harvest.
Hi, we are Matt & Sara. Along with our 4 kids, our dog, a cat, 4 pigs and a lot of chickens and even more bees we have been developing our homesteading lifestyle. After over a decade on our property we are finally debt free and using our new FREEDOM to do what we have always wanted to do (be self reliant)! Join us in Zone 4B for a Harvest from our Potato Tower Setup.
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3 parts peat moss or coconut coir
3 parts compost or worm castings
2 parts Perlite
Water
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Maybe use chopped up leaves and grass instead of straw or with straw, green + brown compost.
From everything I’ve tried and seen, potatoes just do better on the ground. I had the same results each time I tried to do any type of container. Thanks for bringing us along.
That’s what we are finding too.
Nothing beats growing in the ground. I grow plants in tyres and raised beds for my backs' sake.
I also live in a climate with hot as summers, cold frosty winters so I move my plants indoors and outdoors.
I love baby potatoes like that with lots of butter and garlic yum yum
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Those kind of potatoes are the best. Quick easy cooking and perfect for grilling/pan frying
YES !! I will have to ask you for recipes.
That is so darn AWESOME. . I'm going to have to show my wife this for next year. We don't have the room to plant in the ground so might try this. Good stuff.
Thanks. Only thing I would do differently is add som peat moss with the dirt.
those pigs are so bloody adorable!!!!
😃 they are. 🤗
Ours was about the same.. I'm thinking about making a lateral system for watering
You will have to let me know if it works
Good morning Matt and Sara ☀️. I think that was a good harvest...I tried the row with straw and got smaller ones as well...but I did harvest double then what I planted. Thanks for sharing this with us and have a wonderful day 💞
Good morning Mary 😃☀️. Small ones are alright. I told Sara looks like stews are in our future. 😆💚
❤I wish I could send you a picture of our potato crop🥔 this year!! We planted 62 hills of red potatoes from our seeded potatoes and we got over 400 potatoes!! Some are big enough for one to feed two!! I could send you a video of the digger and a hiller my husband built for behind his tractor to make everything easier!! I love your potato cage idea hopefully next year will be better!! It has taken us a couple years to perfect
😳 400 that is amazing! Way to go!😃💚 you can send it by email. Wow that’s so cool.
Sorry it didn't work out. I'm not sold on towers. You saw the same kind of dirt compression that we saw. I'm not sure if that plays into the lower yield too. We need to improve our soil for next year. Try again next year and see what you get. Cheers Matt & Sara!
Yes. It will be better next year for sure.
Good morning that was a bummer for you guys I live in South central Missouri we can grow a lot of rocks
Good morning ☀️😃. 😂 I bet you have nice rock walls 😆
I wonder if the soil was too compacted? I planted my potatoes on top of the ground and covered with grass hay. I harvested lots of potatoes and they were good sized. I was actually surprised by what grew with the dry weather and being inundated with potato beetles! Every year is a new experiment! Also there are varieties of potatoes that are indeterminate that work better in towers.
Thanks for this. I wanted to try that method next year. We are thinking of trying 3 different ways next year.
Use seed potatoes (not store potatoes). They are very different.
Also; break down the seed potatoes into 1/4 s and only plant 1seed potatoe per container. There should be 3-6 eyes per seed potatoe. Don't over plant!!! They won't grow if crowded out. Get 2 plants per container. That'll give room to grow.
Store bought potatoes have been sprayed with a spout inhibitor that interrupts the budding and propagating of the plant. They have been severely weakened in the commercial market processing.
Thanks 😃💚
Thanks for sharing. I appreciate your assessment. Wondering, where in the wide world are you? I grew up on a dairy/potato farm in Michigan near the 45th parallel. We planted 60 acres each year following fall planted rye plowdown in very sandy soils. We always purchased certified seed, Katahdins, which were from Maine. It was considered "table stock" at the time. They grew out of favor since they would darken once cut if not in salt water ASAP. There are so many varieties from which to choose today.
Minnesota 😃 60 acres! Wow now that would be fun.
@@mattsara2802 The family that purchased our 560 A farm in 1974 now grow in excess of 800 A of seed potatoes annually. The potatoes are stored in wood boxes above 5ft cubed in strict climate controlled warehouses. A few years ago they began making vodka from unsold stock. Seed stock has to comply with specific size limits. Better than dumping them in the woods.
Wow. Isn’t that sad a perfectly good potato just not the right size they don’t want. Our food system needs to be fixed
I was wondering when it would be time to harvest the potatoes! Sorry you didn't get as many as you thought you would. Still is neat growing your own!
It was pretty cool and it looked nice 😊💚
Been wondering how those have done, my potatoes are stewing in the dirt to toughen the skin. I think part of it comes down to numbers of plants and you are unable to bound as they grow. But hay, dirt🥔+🔫=👍
We always have next year.
Ahhh, bum. I was hoping you’d get a better harvest. That’s one of the things about gardening-so often an experiment!
Right. I think adding a little organic so the soil doesn’t get too hard.
Thats a lot of work for about $75 worth of potatoes. But i guess its about knowing how to grow food in desperate times.
The more I've seen results from others doing potato towers, the more i think it's a no-go.
But I have to ask, did you fertilize them at all?
I used our compost. We tried it 2 times and it hasn’t worked out for us.
It sure looked like a good system to grow in. Sorry they were small. Did they need more time to get larger? I've not had a very successful crop myself. Still trying! Hope for a better crop next year❤🙏
I think the dirt got really hard.
Wow Matt is helping Sara 😂
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Hope y’all are doing well and yes even Matt
We are thanks. How about you.
I am doing well
Good 👍
Decent harvest compared to what I've gotten in the past. Mice end up wrecking mine.
I am sorry. That would stink.