POTATOES UPDATE In Jan..Back to Eden Start a Organic Gardening Method 101 Soil Improvement with Wood Chips Garden Series Part 3. Just like Paul Gautschi Planting shows.
VIDEO: Back to Eden Organic Gardening Method 101 Soil Improvement with Wood Chips Garden Series Part 3
POTATOES UPDATE In Jan..Back to Eden Start a Organic Gardening Method 101 Soil Improvement with Wood Chips Garden Series Part 3. Just like Paul Gautschi Planting shows.
Seems like you had a warm winter and we had the cold one this year. I had problems with wire worms last year took out all my early lettuce in one bed and cucumber too.
Mark, thank you for the update, next week I will plant potatoes for the first time under leaves that I have collected for 2 years. Here in Nor-Cal, the red clay is very difficult to grow underground veggies, I hope the leaves will help.
Thanks, Mark. So these are potatoes you didn't harvest because you wanted to leave next year's potential "seeds" for your springtime planting without having to replant them, correct?
Great Video this will be my 1st year trying to grow potatoes. I also live in NJ south . When do you suggest I plant them ? Im also planting in wood chips along with mulched up leaves.
Thanks
These Potatoes where planted First time in April 14, 2016. They grew, but ran into a crop failure due to Colorado Potato Beatles. At Harvest time in July 2016 for Baby Red potatoes took some out to sell but planted back these that you see in the video now. Just checking to see how they are doing….THANKS
Mark, so glad that you found our channel, so that we in turn could find yours. These videos are so informative and helpful. Keep up the great work – God bless!
Great experiment. Thanks .
They will all come up in spring I live in Germany and this year we had temps for two weeks -10/12 c but the potatoes seill in the ground already have sprouts on them and also if you forget any they always start growing in spring
interesting video. have a great day
Here in Baltimore our zone must now be 8 in winter…we have been really very warm again for the second season in a row…bees are doing horrible down here…
Thank you for another great video. Question: Do you turn your leaves when making your leaf mold? If so how often?
Interesting…. so when you harvest in the summer, you'll replant the same day?
Hey Mark hope all is well! What do you do about wire worms? That seems to be the biggest problem when I grow potatoes. The worst part is if you don't cut those black spots out before eating the potato, it tastes AWFUL!
Thank you Mark, again always informative, it will be a long time before I get into the garden again, Zone 5b here in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, Canada.
I started leaving out. Great success! I paniced a little finding similar problems. However bad bits compost and crops get stronger from year to year. So dont worry, natural selection takes place week ones disapear.
Mark have you ever or would you think of using beneficial nematodes for the wire worms? I believe they will eat the wire worms. I use them on my peach trees for the peach tree borer.
I am just south of the back to Eden garden so half a zone warmer, one zone warmer than you. Besides putting the small ones back to regrow [I find it best to move them to new ground to break pest cycles] I plant some in my greenhouse so they start growing vines in January and I have new potatoes when most are just planting potatoes.
Those potatoes look no worse than what I’ve bought at the grocery store
Mark, by far, your info is the best of youtube !! greetings from Argentina
We took an old freezer and buried it with the door up and stored potatoes in it all winter. Even with days in the teens in TN the potatoes were fine the next spring and summer.
thanks for sharing
Hello Mark, what is the latest date to plant red potatoes and still get a crop before hard frost hits for zone 6-6B Penn.? Thanks Mark.
Hi Mark, What time of year should I plant my potatoes , it's September here and I too live in Zone 6B?
Forgot to add that my potatoes are Russets.
Is there a way to, organically, grow blueberries without putting harmful sulfur products in my soil?
Potatoes "stored" outside in the winter will sprout in the spring, so you can plant them ahead of time. I even saw some sprouted potatoes when I harvested & replanted next year's in early November. I am also in zone 6. The area is 6a, but with the wind breaks, I am probably also 6b.