I have such a new appreciation for our farmers and what I think is such reasonable prices at the grocery store for beautiful fresh food. Growing food takes so long and a lot of work I don't think farmers are appreciated enough. Those potatoes in the first bucket just looked so pretty rolling out.
Isn’t it funny ? We Gen Xers were told that technology was on its way to make life comfortable yet many of us are bored with it and are wanting to return to the land ?
I enjoyed seeing your results with this experiment, I grew Sarpo Mira for the first time this year after watching yours and Chris's results & in one pot i got 18lb and the other pots 8 -9 lb - Awesome! I may try the Shona next year as I like a waxy potato. Thanks for this one, Regards Joan : )
Great video Dan. Think I went a little over the top growing potatoes this year. I've still got around ten or so pots to empty. Thanks for the info on the Sarpo varieties, Good stuff. Cheers. Chris.
10, 9,8,7...5? My Obsessive Compulsive Disorder would have me tipping 30 litre pots until my back got permanently damaged, again. Two days later,as they carry me away, " Six pounds of potatoes, Six pounds of potatoes! SIX POUNDS!!!!! (mad laughter)"
I have a question …. How do Sarpos cook ? What are the best for ? Stews ? Fries ? Baked ? Mashed ? I like that they are resistant but how do they compare ?
Great haul and look forward to knowing which is best for which method of cooking. Enjoy your eating spud week! I didn't grow any of them. I've got charlottes in pots for Xmas. They're doing ok and we tried one pot the other day and already good new potatoes. Might hav to harvest well before Xmas at this rate.
Interesting video Dan I like the look of those Blue Danube spuds might try them next year as well as the trusty Sarpo Mira! Looking forward to your 50ltr reveal!
+Potato Strong I received a Kings Seeds catalog because I bought some seed online last year and they have Sarpo Mira for sale. I'm hoping they will ship to the USA.
Wonderful Potato's, I really hope the states will start selling these eventually .. and the Spuds galore too can't get that here in the states!! Well done Dan!!
There's that music again!! I've finished digging up all my Sarpo Mira. They were amazing!! Very interesting experiment. I'm a Sarpo Mira convert now. I won't grow anything else...Well apart from a few King Edwards.
You seem to be doing pretty brilliant growing your potato plants in large pots, if any of us we're to grow potatoes in pots similarly what would you recommend? From your experience, what should be be mindful about? I built a raised garden bed for my parents this summer and filled it up with home made compost as well as gardening soil and leaves from this fall, I grew pumpkins in it this year and plan on trying out for squash next perhaps some heirloom tomatoes however I am considering potatoes I can think of a few advantages and disadvantages of growing potatoes in a pot but done right the advantages probably outweigh the latter.
Great reveal Dan, thanks for the info as always, the result of which means I've just added Blue Danube and the Shauna? (white mira) to my list for next year. I too don't like the mash the Mira's make, lovely chips though and great to grow!
+catscats50 Just tried Axona tonight as mash and it will mash. The potatoes disintegrate a bit but not as much as Sarpo Mira. Made a tasty creamy mash too, more taste than Mira. Will be Mashing & boiling Una tomorrow to test those. This week I am mainly going to be eating potatoes !
+allotmentdiary You can avoid disintegration if you microwave in skins until soft, split in two then use ricer to make mash. Skins stay in ricer. Mash is dry but then add anything you like to get the mouth-feel you want. I can have mash on the table in 10 minutes.
Hi Dan....a good reveal for the varieties. It's my third year of growing Mira and am well pleased. I left them in the ground over winter last year with hardly any slug damage. The tops,do grow enormous though!. Apart from Axona, do you know,if the other varieties are available from the big seed companies? Cheers........Nigel
really really good experiment..im getting ready to plant mine here in New England,, (new hampshire),,,, We try to plant here in may. if we get those Endless may rains that have really affected getting them in the ground in May. I grow mine for storage (Burbank Russet, Beaugard Sweet Potatoes, and Yukoon Gold. so, One for baking and eating with sour cream on top. The sweet potato,,,filling food in the winter. love them, i can just pop them in oven in winter and go relax as they cook,, so those with butter, sea salt,, i like them baked since it ez,,, you can do more with them, and these store very well,,,,, They need 120 days and like heat, i found a part of the yard that is lower and warmer with full sun (the chickens have been there 2 years now... So Im going to make that spot the sweet potato patch now, very excited, I'll grow sweet potatoes there for about 2 years,, see how things go. I have goals of 100 lbs of each type,,, so 300 lbs of potatoes, (im not there yet but i'll get there,, mine are all gone from last year and it's only March,,, i wish i had boiling white potatoes right now. SO, im figuring my needs. 300 lbs, yes,,,, but then you have to save plenty of Seed potato. (?maybe save 20 lbs of seed potato from each. SO that would be down to 240 lbs so now i'd have more than i need,,,i can help my daughter as she needs them. im going to get some happy frog soil before i plant so i can sprinkle some down the rows as i ma ke them,,, (happy frog soil, has ?microbes that they say gives the roots exactly the living stuff they need),,, i just know people say if they have some seeds and want to be Sure they sprout and grow good they use that soil. SO, i'll add that this year. i grow in rows. I only have 1/2 acre and half of it is woods,, and then turns wetlands and a little river, it's just cattails, not a river, all the old properties here slope down in the backyards because the melting snow over the years makes it slope from the snow melting off teh streets. I guess im pretty blessed even if im prettty poor,, lol :) i could talk potatoes forever lol,, i don't know how people make 'crisps',,, french fries in UK,,, just vegetable oil in a pan with the right temperature?? people here don't make french fries (chips) at home much at all!,,, it must be more english than american,, Do english people buy and eat those frozen 'chips' and bake them in the oven. Im Really fussy about fried potato. I like hash browns though.... Thank you SO much for the video. LOL, i live alone i have no one to talk potatoes to :) those were beautiful looking potatoes,,,, meaning high quality, no soft spots no green ones,, and no defects. being in new england, we get just about the same weather (except the 2-3 months of the Ice Age we get here in NH,,,,,,, it's all fine,, Really interesting how the yields went from 10, 9, 8, 7, and then Five,, That was Incredible,,, you would have won the cardgame lol... take care,,,,, i DO have trouble understanding your english accent,, But the more i listen the more i understand,. thanks thanks so much for video :)
Oh,,, and i saw that video where you got 25 lbs!!!!!!! in one 13 gallon pot!,,, Good Lord,,,,, i sent that video to my daughter (the 25 lb potato yield),,, she has only space for pots there and im encouraging her to just grow a few pots, (have to pass these skills down to the next generation),,, Bless you and thank you :)
Hey Dan awesome harvest! Do u go farmers market & sell some of ur produce because if u do & if i was there i would buy them all i would make some homemade mashed potatoes!!
Great video as always Dan. I grew Sarpo Mira this year and nothing touched them, they are indestructible. Dan, any chance of swapping some of your garlic for some beans I have trialled for the last couple of years that I know you will love?
+Michael Brotherton For me it's a bit of both worlds. If I can get a decent tasting blight free masher I'll be happy. Mira are OK for taste and great for chips & roasts. I'd just love a blight free King Edward but that's not going to happen. Cheers, Dan.
Is this the First year you grew Sarpos Dan. You have now have a great choice after you tasted them. Will be interesting which ones you will choose for next season. A great Haul. Cheers Patrick
+Patrick Meehan Grown Sarpo Mira for a few years but tried these other varieties for the first time. If i can find one that mashes well I'll be happy. Cheers, Dan.
You seem to have a lot of carrier-bags Dan, you should go and stand outside your local Tesco or Asda and flog them for 4p a throw ;0) Good ald haul there
Enjoyed the show as usua Grew Mira and Blue Danube this year (got from local nursery in foots cray) Mira as good as expected, Blue Danube pleased with, they do taste great BUT they cook very quickly so if you don't pay attention you have potato soup, best for mash, very tasty mash though
Must say, despite enjoying gardening anyhow, it's solely this channel that will be responsible for a massacre of seeds that will happen in my garden next year. I will also be unashamedly be copying anything I can find in your videos. Keep em coming
great variety, pretty fun as far as potatoes, but I dig potatoes so ... you should try a test of all of the varieties at once, baking, chips (or as the French call them, not french fries) boiling and eating, mashed and maybe combinations just to check it out since you seem in the experimental mood with potatoes.
Hey Day thanx for that. As far as I know we can't get any of those varieties here in the US. You might be able to grow them...but I made a living cooking them. Dry mashed? Copious amounts of sour cream. To heck with the milk or potato water. Whole butter & sour cream will make any spud smooth and creamy. Thanx for the vid. Randy
+R W Glavin Trouble is the Mira tend to disintegrate in the pan as you boil them so they disappear before they're cooked. Hoping that some of the other varieties are a bit more stable. I like to add loads of butter myself. Cheers, Dan.
great vid. i did the mira's and axonia this year. i don't rate the axonia over the mira's i did 10 tubs of each and got more of the mira's. i also like the taste of the mira's over the axonia as well.
Hi Dan. Top haul there with your Sarpo's. Definitely going for the Shona next year. Spoken to David Shaw from the Savari a few times via email and nice to see he's posted your last haul on their website :-) Have 1 Sarpo Mira left now. It's 8ft still flowering and bulging like mad! Looks like a Dalek so I've called it Davros! hahahahaha. Top video Dan. Takes Care, Andy & Karen.
Hi Dan i feel very rude for asking this but on your next video can you please give us a shout out as i Know your channel has lots of subscribers and ares keeps jumping around at 117 to 120 many thanks if you can do this.
I have such a new appreciation for our farmers and what I think is such reasonable prices at the grocery store for beautiful fresh food. Growing food takes so long and a lot of work I don't think farmers are appreciated enough. Those potatoes in the first bucket just looked so pretty rolling out.
Isn’t it funny ? We Gen Xers were told that technology was on its way to make life comfortable yet many of us are bored with it and are wanting to return to the land ?
Wow. What a great harvest. I sure wish we could get out hands on those varieties.
Me too!
I enjoyed seeing your results with this experiment, I grew Sarpo Mira for the first time this year after watching yours and Chris's results & in one pot i got 18lb and the other pots 8 -9 lb - Awesome! I may try the Shona next year as I like a waxy potato.
Thanks for this one, Regards Joan : )
Thanks for the video. If the leaves are showing no signs of blight Cant hey go in the compost bin?
Wow! Never in my life have I seen a yield in these size pots! If I didn't witness it wouldn't believe it.
Great Job!👏👏👏🎉
Great video Dan. Think I went a little over the top growing potatoes this year. I've still got around ten or so pots to empty. Thanks for the info on the Sarpo varieties, Good stuff. Cheers. Chris.
liking the tune while bagging up the potatoes. keep up the good work!
Awesome update thank you for sharing Dan many thanks for taking the time to film have a blessed day
10, 9,8,7...5? My Obsessive Compulsive Disorder would have me tipping 30 litre pots until my back got permanently damaged, again.
Two days later,as they carry me away, " Six pounds of potatoes, Six pounds of potatoes! SIX POUNDS!!!!! (mad laughter)"
LOL 😂😂😂 I know what you mean 😂
😂😂😂
What does the blue Danube look like on the inside ?
hi dan, what do you do with all the spent potato compost?
thx Sean
Here Dan, did you do a video on the taste test. Any verdicts? Cheers. Phil.
Wow-- you got some impressive yields from those containers. Great job!
I have a question …. How do Sarpos cook ? What are the best for ? Stews ? Fries ? Baked ? Mashed ? I like that they are resistant but how do they compare ?
Hi Dan , huge amount of spuds , what do you find is the best way to store them ? Thanks , love the updates and the videos
Great haul and look forward to knowing which is best for which method of cooking. Enjoy your eating spud week! I didn't grow any of them. I've got charlottes in pots for Xmas. They're doing ok and we tried one pot the other day and already good new potatoes. Might hav to harvest well before Xmas at this rate.
Hi Dan once again another great potato video thanks for showing us all the comparison between each Sarpo variety bye...
Interesting video Dan I like the look of those Blue Danube spuds might try them next year as well as the trusty Sarpo Mira!
Looking forward to your 50ltr reveal!
Can we get sarpos in Canada? I love yellow fleshed for baked fries and mashed potatoes.
+Potato Strong I received a Kings Seeds catalog because I bought some seed online last year and they have Sarpo Mira for sale. I'm hoping they will ship to the USA.
What do you add to your pots i.e BFB or anything?
Wonderful Potato's, I really hope the states will start selling these eventually .. and the Spuds galore too can't get that here in the states!! Well done Dan!!
+Lori cook They're quite hard to get hold of over here.
Hopefully soon for you.
Cheers, Dan.
They sure are!! Thank you again Dan and have a wonderful Evening!!!
Did you plant just one seed potato in each pot? Even at 5lbs yield, that would be a pretty good harvest from a single seed potato
There's that music again!! I've finished digging up all my Sarpo Mira. They were amazing!! Very interesting experiment. I'm a Sarpo Mira convert now. I won't grow anything else...Well apart from a few King Edwards.
Que hermosas papas, felicidades 😀👍👍 cuántas semillas pones en una maceta!
Nice harvest. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes Bob.
Hi - how do I go about purchasing some Sapro Mira blight resistant potatoes for growing. There is no such potato in South Africa.- cheers Martin
Where can I buy Sarai Mira seed potatoes
You seem to be doing pretty brilliant growing your potato plants in large pots, if any of us we're to grow potatoes in pots similarly what would you recommend? From your experience, what should be be mindful about?
I built a raised garden bed for my parents this summer and filled it up with home made compost as well as gardening soil and leaves from this fall, I grew pumpkins in it this year and plan on trying out for squash next perhaps some heirloom tomatoes however I am considering potatoes
I can think of a few advantages and disadvantages of growing potatoes in a pot but done right the advantages probably outweigh the latter.
Great reveal Dan, thanks for the info as always, the result of which means I've just added Blue Danube and the Shauna? (white mira) to my list for next year. I too don't like the mash the Mira's make, lovely chips though and great to grow!
Keep us updated about the best tasting one. Cheers.
+catscats50 Just tried Axona tonight as mash and it will mash.
The potatoes disintegrate a bit but not as much as Sarpo Mira.
Made a tasty creamy mash too, more taste than Mira.
Will be Mashing & boiling Una tomorrow to test those.
This week I am mainly going to be eating potatoes !
+allotmentdiary You can avoid disintegration if you microwave in skins until soft, split in two then use ricer to make mash. Skins stay in ricer. Mash is dry but then add anything you like to get the mouth-feel you want. I can have mash on the table in 10 minutes.
catscats50
What happened to the potato's in the sand?
Hi Dan....a good reveal for the varieties.
It's my third year of growing Mira and am well pleased. I left them in the ground over winter last year with hardly any slug damage. The tops,do grow enormous though!. Apart from Axona, do you know,if the other varieties are available from the big seed companies?
Cheers........Nigel
+MuddyBootz I think Marshalls do a Sarpo collection but not too sure what's in it.
Cheers, Dan.
Dan, In 2014 you used "potato Magic" fertilizer, cant find the results? Was it great? or rubbish?
I've just been looking for that info, too.
Thanks mate. Great video. Big up the Sarvari massive
really really good experiment..im getting ready to plant mine here in New England,, (new hampshire),,,, We try to plant here in may. if we get those Endless may rains that have really affected getting them in the ground in May. I grow mine for storage (Burbank Russet, Beaugard Sweet Potatoes, and Yukoon Gold. so, One for baking and eating with sour cream on top. The sweet potato,,,filling food in the winter. love them, i can just pop them in oven in winter and go relax as they cook,, so those with butter, sea salt,, i like them baked since it ez,,, you can do more with them, and these store very well,,,,, They need 120 days and like heat, i found a part of the yard that is lower and warmer with full sun (the chickens have been there 2 years now... So Im going to make that spot the sweet potato patch now, very excited, I'll grow sweet potatoes there for about 2 years,, see how things go. I have goals of 100 lbs of each type,,, so 300 lbs of potatoes, (im not there yet but i'll get there,, mine are all gone from last year and it's only March,,, i wish i had boiling white potatoes right now. SO, im figuring my needs. 300 lbs, yes,,,, but then you have to save plenty of Seed potato. (?maybe save 20 lbs of seed potato from each. SO that would be down to 240 lbs so now i'd have more than i need,,,i can help my daughter as she needs them. im going to get some happy frog soil before i plant so i can sprinkle some down the rows as i ma ke them,,, (happy frog soil, has ?microbes that they say gives the roots exactly the living stuff they need),,, i just know people say if they have some seeds and want to be Sure they sprout and grow good they use that soil. SO, i'll add that this year. i grow in rows. I only have 1/2 acre and half of it is woods,, and then turns wetlands and a little river, it's just cattails, not a river, all the old properties here slope down in the backyards because the melting snow over the years makes it slope from the snow melting off teh streets. I guess im pretty blessed even if im prettty poor,, lol :) i could talk potatoes forever lol,, i don't know how people make 'crisps',,, french fries in UK,,, just vegetable oil in a pan with the right temperature?? people here don't make french fries (chips) at home much at all!,,, it must be more english than american,, Do english people buy and eat those frozen 'chips' and bake them in the oven. Im Really fussy about fried potato. I like hash browns though.... Thank you SO much for the video. LOL, i live alone i have no one to talk potatoes to :) those were beautiful looking potatoes,,,, meaning high quality, no soft spots no green ones,, and no defects. being in new england, we get just about the same weather (except the 2-3 months of the Ice Age we get here in NH,,,,,,, it's all fine,, Really interesting how the yields went from 10, 9, 8, 7, and then Five,, That was Incredible,,, you would have won the cardgame lol... take care,,,,, i DO have trouble understanding your english accent,, But the more i listen the more i understand,. thanks thanks so much for video :)
Oh,,, and i saw that video where you got 25 lbs!!!!!!! in one 13 gallon pot!,,, Good Lord,,,,, i sent that video to my daughter (the 25 lb potato yield),,, she has only space for pots there and im encouraging her to just grow a few pots, (have to pass these skills down to the next generation),,, Bless you and thank you :)
Hey Dan awesome harvest! Do u go farmers market & sell some of ur produce because if u do & if i was there i would buy them all i would make some homemade mashed potatoes!!
I've not grown Sarpo potatoes. What is the flavour and cooking qualities of these spuds?
Great video as always Dan. I grew Sarpo Mira this year and nothing touched them, they are indestructible. Dan, any chance of swapping some of your garlic for some beans I have trialled for the last couple of years that I know you will love?
Interesting I suppose the taste or cooking test will be the decider.
Cheers Mike B
+Michael Brotherton
For me it's a bit of both worlds.
If I can get a decent tasting blight free masher I'll be happy.
Mira are OK for taste and great for chips & roasts.
I'd just love a blight free King Edward but that's not going to happen.
Cheers, Dan.
What was the taste / dryness / floury-level like for Sarpo una, Sarpo blue danube and Sarpo shona like? Would love an update :)
Looks like no update . 2 years .
Is this the First year you grew Sarpos Dan. You have now have a great choice after you tasted them. Will be interesting which ones you will choose for next season. A great Haul. Cheers Patrick
+Patrick Meehan Grown Sarpo Mira for a few years but tried these other varieties for the first time.
If i can find one that mashes well I'll be happy.
Cheers, Dan.
You seem to have a lot of carrier-bags Dan, you should go and stand outside your local Tesco or Asda and flog them for 4p a throw ;0)
Good ald haul there
Sarpo mita, axona, blue, and other variety?
Enjoyed the show as usua
Grew Mira and Blue Danube this year (got from local nursery in foots cray)
Mira as good as expected, Blue Danube pleased with, they do taste great BUT they cook very quickly so if you don't pay attention you have potato soup, best for mash, very tasty mash though
Wow! Just wow!
Nice harvest! I don't believe those varieties are available here in the states...sadly.
Must say, despite enjoying gardening anyhow, it's solely this channel that will be responsible for a massacre of seeds that will happen in my garden next year. I will also be unashamedly be copying anything I can find in your videos.
Keep em coming
great variety, pretty fun as far as potatoes, but I dig potatoes so ... you should try a test of all of the varieties at once, baking, chips (or as the French call them, not french fries) boiling and eating, mashed and maybe combinations just to check it out since you seem in the experimental mood with potatoes.
well done mate, I'm gutted I've already run out of spuds
+Peter Edwards Well, you know what to plant next year.
Cheers, Dan.
Почему сажаете в емкостях. Где можно купить сарпо мира.
Hey Day thanx for that. As far as I know we can't get any of those varieties here in the US. You might be able to grow them...but I made a living cooking them. Dry mashed? Copious amounts of sour cream. To heck with the milk or potato water. Whole butter & sour cream will make any spud smooth and creamy. Thanx for the vid. Randy
+R W Glavin Trouble is the Mira tend to disintegrate in the pan as you boil them so they disappear before they're cooked.
Hoping that some of the other varieties are a bit more stable.
I like to add loads of butter myself.
Cheers, Dan.
cover with foil, bake then mashed. But you'd really have to be jonesin' for mashed spuds for that one pal. lmao
@@rwglavin3794 I've zapped potatoes in the microwave and mashed them!
great vid. i did the mira's and axonia this year. i don't rate the axonia over the mira's i did 10 tubs of each and got more of the mira's. i also like the taste of the mira's over the axonia as well.
Fantastic show Dan. You like your mash my wife says :)
+Marks Sussex Allotment I like spuds full stop.
Cheers, Dan.
Great potato reveal.
+Teresa H Cheers, Dan.
Fascinating.
Hey potato man, I love your videos and wonder what you do with all your potatoes? Don't tell me you eat them all.
Of course he does!
Can't get these Sarpos here in Switzerland.....pitty!
Dyshof TV You can buy those from Lubera
great video cheers
+drdmac Cheers, Dan.
oh for the perfect potato for mash!!
Container size friend
Hello ❤
sarpo mira great for mash. just dont put milk in em only butter or marge
I always get sucked in on these spud reveal / harvest videos … its a bit like Christmas … lets see whats in this pot etc …
This man don't tell you the secret of his big harvest. I have no idea what kind of fertilizer n soil he used.
I've seen him use blood fish and bone, a bit of chicken manure pellets and some pelleted potato feed. So nothing special.
Very ice harvest.
Hi Dan. Top haul there with your Sarpo's. Definitely going for the Shona next year. Spoken to David Shaw from the Savari a few times via email and nice to see he's posted your last haul on their website :-) Have 1 Sarpo Mira left now. It's 8ft still flowering and bulging like mad! Looks like a Dalek so I've called it Davros! hahahahaha. Top video Dan. Takes Care, Andy & Karen.
+Little Garden Diary Can't wait to see how many you get out of that plant.
Cheers, Dan.
+allotmentdiary Dan....It's bloody mad!!!!
Hi Dan i feel very rude for asking this but on your next video can you please give us a shout out as i Know your channel has lots of subscribers and ares keeps jumping around at 117 to 120 many thanks if you can do this.
53 pounds altogether
Boil them with a little salt. Afterwards throw half of the water away, and let the potatoes sit overnight with a lid.
What does this do? Thanks!