November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes May 19, 2019


We didn’t intend to plant potatoes this year but we found a box of seed potatoes we had saved from last year’s harvest. Instead of throwing them away we just scattered these seed potatoes on the ground and covered them with hay. This is the resulting harvest.

22 thoughts on “VIDEO: Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes May 19, 2019

  1. I harvested about 13 pounds of red norland potatoes last week from three 20 gallon grow bags. The dirt was left over from last year with some peat moss and bone meal added at the time of planting, so the return on the two pounds of seed potatoes was well worth it. I have five 20 gallon backs of Yukon golds and then an entire raised bed of red norland and purple majesty potatoes that’ll be harvested over the next couple of weeks. Hoping for a total of 60 pounds or more for this years potato harvest. I’ll replace the raised bed with sweet potato vines and I have a very small bed of sunchokes going which will give me a harvest of tubers by the first frost.

  2. Good try, bad result. You should be getting at least 30pounds in that much ground. Try a different variety and plant deeper, at least a foot down. Maybe try planting in containers, 'Buckets', results are better and work is cut in half. Do a youtube search on planting potatoes in containers. This is not a criticism you tried and you were chuffed with the result so you are a winner.

  3. Ok I'm new here I'm a Michigan girl!
    I have always planted my sprouted old potatoes. Up here we plant them about 6" deep and don't harvest till the top flowers or dries up. Why did you choose not to bury them and wait until they were done?

  4. May 19?? You need at least 3 to 4 months to have a good potato harvest. Perhaps you can spread a layer of a couple of inches of dry straws and dry tree leaves before you plant your potatoes to improve the drainage. Straws don't absorb a lot of water. This way you don't need to worry about your potatoes getting rotten.

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