We harvested our potatoes in today’s episode. We are never sure of what we will get but one thing is for certain, it is always better than anything you can buy in the store. Home grown, organic potatoes, and they cost you almost nothing!
VIDEO: Growing 55 Pounds of Potatoes from Just 5 Pounds of Seed Potatoes!
We harvested our potatoes in today’s episode. We are never sure of what we will get but one thing is for certain, it is always better than anything you can buy in the store. Home grown, organic potatoes, and they cost you almost nothing!
My granddaughter never paid my gardening much attention… until I asked her to help me dig the potatoes. Lol , now she wants to grow a bunch of things!
I only get ping pong ball size or smaller potatoes… I don't think it's the variety I planted. I don't have alot of ground space so I do put them in pots, but they're very large and deep pots… maybe I'm putting too many seed potatoes in? Or maybe planting them too deep?
I like MIGardener seeds but dislike the new packaging. You have cut planting depth, days to maturity, and spacing (before and after thinning). You just include one seed spacing number. These are vital pieces of information. You've replaced this with a 3/4" bar with your mission statement. You could include that prominently on your website and add the vital growing information you removed on packets. Thank you!
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I was fascinated to see your potato harvest, which looked like the sort of harvest I would regularly get. However, this year, my yield is easily double yours and one of the best I've ever had. Yields tend to be dependent on the weather and, this year in SE England (UK), we normally plant as of around March 15 and harvest end of July/early August. Spring was much colder than usual, and May particularly cool, but thereafter we enjoyed bouts of warm sunshine followed by heavy showers, which seemed to be ideal for potatoes (or spuds as we would call them!) I regularly use no fertiliser but plant tubers in compost just above the "true" soil. As the tubers begin to grow, I put handfuls of compost on top to stop them going green. I NEVER water them, since you cannot replicate the quantity of water that falls in showers. The ony ferliser I try is chicken manure pellets, which do definitely help. But harvesting spuds is one of life's joys 😉
I was interested in your comments on when to harvest potatoes. In Europe, especially the UK, we tend to have three types of potato: first earlies, second earlies and maincrop. People with limited areas to grow vegetables would probably only grow first earlies, which have been bred to be small and sweet potatoes that you would normally eat boiled or steamed with mint. They are delicious!! Larger potatoes are invariably cheaper bought from the supermarket if growing space is at a premium. I'm lucky, I have the space, but prefer to grow a range of rare or specialist potatoes that never appear in the supermarkets. I grow for taste and not for size. Does that ever happen in North America?
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How long can you normally store your potatoes for?
Are you going to do a video on how to store potatoes. Is it the same for different varieties? For instance, I have Red Norland, Yukon Gold, Adirondack Blue, Stokes Purple, and Red Garnet Sweet Potatoes.
Im not sure if this will be seen, but never hurts to try!
So i just watched your episode,how to regrow a store baught pineapple. In that episode you mentions the grow it app. It appears to no longer be an option.?
Do you have a replacement app to recommend?
I am trying to grow the second crop this year. The only available seed are young Kennebecs and Yukon Golds of the first crop. I kept them in a moist peat moss for two weeks at +80F, but there are no chits. At all. What can I do to make them chit?
Good to see that you are still hard at it Luke. It's been a long time since I checked in on you old friend. I remember when you had 11 subscribers…. I was one of them! lol
I hope that you and your bride are well. Stay safe my friend!
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my potatoes got hit by an early blight, right after flowering. when I unearthed a few they were about the size of a fingerling. rather than diggin them up I just planted over the bed with greens and radishes. I may yank some potatoes before the frost hits, but frankly I'm curious if they'll resporout, and carry on potatoing. (zone6b/7a)
Thank you for giving out so helpful information, I've personally absorbed so much great information, my gardens look so beautiful thanks to you..
Trust me you don't have late blight, you have early blight which can infect plants any time during the summer. If you had late blight your tomatoes (which late blight hits first) would be black and it happens over night. Your potatoes get it next and the vines start turning purple. Smell the potatoes you dug up what do you smell? When late blight hits the potatoes they smell like rotting flesh even when they look perfectly fine. You have to have nights in the 40's and low temps during the days like what we get in Maine. I think your season is longer and warmer than ours. When we have a cool damp summer everyone gets nervous up here. I don't know if you can do anything to prevent it. Aroostook county is potatoe country so I don't know how they deal with it.
How are your nails?
Can/do you compost the plants with blight?
I get the biggest kick out of your excitement. I know that feeling well. Great harvest!!
What makes a potato have a hollow spot?
Straw bale potato yield was pretty much nonexistent. I made back my seed in 1.5 to 2" potatoes but there were 100s of wheat kernel sized potatoes in the root mass.
We love potato harvest season. Well done Luke!
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I was just watching your video and think I saw some critter running on the ground along the fenceline, not sure what that was?
Do you trim foliage?
Find someone who talks about you the way Luke talks about his potatoes.
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