We are in Michigan. I grew red potatoes and have a beautiful harvest. We’ve had a lot of meals from them, I have a 5-gallon bucket 3/4 full, plus have 4-5 more plants to dig up. (They ending up getting intertwined because of a groundhog running from my dog. 🤣) It’s actually amazing how I managed to get that crop. I hadn’t pre-ordered seed and because of Covid-panic buying I couldn’t get a hold of seed-potatoes. I was so bummed. Then I look over at my potato bag from last year and there were little potatoes that had sprouts coming all the way through the bag!! Even though the potatoes were very small I figured it was worth a shot and planted them. 16 plants later!!! It was very hot and dry this year, but I watered often and it’s paid off. This Irish girl is thankful!!
Here in Idaho we wait to harvest the potatoes until the plant has died all of the way back. That’s when the energy is completely done storing into the roots and the potatoes are full size. They also do like a lot of consistent watering after they flower.
Hey, neighbor! I'm in the big city.😉 I'd probably lose my Idaho residency if they found out that I really don't much care for potatoes.😂 Baked and hash browns is about it.
I grew potatoes for the first time in a container and got a couple meals worth. It was cheap and easy and I plan on putting more effort into it next year. Thanks for the inspiration.
I want to see more of this. Actually teaching someone. Really good video Luke. The change in pace is nice. I'd like to see more "guests" like this PLEASE. I like to hear real questions & real reactions. Teaching/watching some kids learn really adds to the experience I think.
I harvested mine in July since I planted in early to mid-April. Out of one-pot for Yukon Gold, I got 5 lbs worth, but it was only 3 potatoes. Two of those weighed almost 2 lbs each. I have tried to do a second batch since we had time, but I think the soil was too hot for the potatoes to germinate. I also did something different this year and planted two pots in early April, waited 12-14 days, planted another set, and then 12-15 days after that planted the last 4 pots. I thought it was getting too warm to wait another 12-14 days for the last two pots. This has been a really good year, with 6 lbs of Snap Peas, 7 lbs of Snow Peas, 70+ Peaches, 40+ tomatoes (so far - learned some important lessons there too). I have 20 purple bell peppers ripening, I am trying Italian Roasting peppers (maybe a dozen on one plant), 20+ cantaloupe, 3 pumpkins (all volunteers), 3+ Suger Baby watermelons (my first), lots of green onions, and two sets of radishes. Not bad for a patio and two raised beds that are 7'x10'.
Same here! I planted in $19.99 resin whiskey barrels from Home Depot. Drilled lots of holes in the bottom and added bagged organic dirt. Worked out great! Easy but digging out the taters was hot and dirty! I did it on a tarp and let them cure for an hour in the sun and then wrapped in packing paper / plain newsprint and set in boxes over my A/C vent to chill.
We tried to grow Fall potatoes as well. You are right, the warmer soil "baked" a few of ours. We love the volunteer pumpkins and tomatoes. Some years our volunteer plants do better than ones in the main garden, especially when they pop up from our compost piles.
Actually the potatoes grow between the seed potato and the green point ( where the stalk is exposed to light) there are determinant and indeterminate varieties the determinants don’t need to be hilled but the deeper you can get the better. The potatoes don’t technically grow on roots but the tendrils they grow on can sometimes go deeper than the seed potato but it starts above.
I learned this lesson the hard way this past spring and only got a small harvest. But I saved what little I got and will be planting them correctly for my fall garden.
Sorry, I know this is late. You seem to know your potato facts. He said that they didn't get many potatoes due to lack of rain. Wouldn't watering have helped the crop? Or no?
I planted potatoes late....they're sprouting, so yay! I wasn't sure how to tell when they're ready to harvest, so this video came at the perfect time for me! Thanks, Luke!
I've never seen potatoes harvested so early! We wait until they completely die back, then those little guys that were still attached to the roots might be a good size :)
Tried my hand at growing potatoes this year, (following your advice). I thought it failed miserably; never did flower, half of them started dying off while others grew tall, etc. Decided to dig them up a few weeks ago and to my surprise, I had some! Some were very small but there were a few good ones. Thank you for what you're doing.
Harvest is just the most fun ever! I love watching you pick your veggies. I harvested my rainbow carrots today after 120 days. They’re gorgeous! I was so glad I left them in the soil until the later end of the maturity range. 🥕
Zari A One pot was 15 gallons the other was 10 gallons. I likely crowded them my second batch is wider spaced with lots of loose moss mixed in and added as the plants start to come up.
BernieYohan thanks for replying. Yup makes sense that adding additional peat moss (which is acidic) to the mix is loved by potatoes (preferring ph of 4-4.5).
Oh oh, about the green potato. Now I know why I got sick last week. Yay! I LOVE DIGGING THEM UP WITH MY FINGERS. I LOVE WATCHING TOO!!! Yes, that awful heat we got ruined the beans made small tomatoes and destroyed the squash, too.
I put my biggest potato back in the hole from each plant when I harvest. The next spring they come right up with a new plant. I only have to disturb the soil once. Less labor, less weeds, don’t have to buy seed potatoes.
Wow, I have already eaten quite a few of my potatoes. Just grilled some last night as kebabs along with onions, green peppers, okra, and mushrooms. All from the garden except for the mushrooms.
My first year growing potatoes. Didn't use seed potatoes, just forgotten ones with eyes from the bottom of the pantry. Huge crop! Makes me so happy! 12 plants, 3 pounds and up per plant! Delicious!
I'd love to know some more details about the canning small potatoes, if you don't mind. I've got a box full of those small ones and don't know what to do with them. Thanks in advance 👍
Kira S I’m sorry, i am just now seeing this! I cut my washed potatoes into 1” chunks, then heat them thoroughly, or for about 3 minutes at a simmer on the stove, drain them, toss them into quart jars with a tsp of salt, top off with fresh hot water, clean the rim of my jar, add a new lid and a ring, fingertip tight. Then process in a pressure canner at 11 pounds for 40-45 minutes, i cant remember for sure. Your altitude can affect pounds/time though so make sure you check on that. I’m near sea level. But as for the little ones i just act as if they’re 1” chunk and heat/process with the rest in the same jars.
With a small garden I grow all my potatoes in pots and they work fine for a good crop. With my tiny potatoes I put them in a colander with a couple pieces of gravel or small stones and sluice them in a sink of cold water. Cleans them great and then fry them like a mini hash brown.
I'm growing mine in a 5 gallon bucket...first time. We had weeks of hot and now non stop rain -- I'm not sure they will be good. I'm harvesting one tomorrow just to see
@@zaria5785 I planted Yukon Gold potatoes this year in 10 gallon grow bags and I think it worked out great! I averaged a pound of potatoes per seed potato planted. They didn't flower so I was worried there was nothing in the soil but when I dumped it all out and searched through we were quite pleased!
Zari A I got 15 potatoes today from the 5 gallon bucked. Most small and couple of medium ones. I'll wait a couple more weeks to see if they get bigger. I used a grocery potato that sprouted and I threw in a container. Think I'll try seed potatoes next year!
I tried to grow potatoes this year. I got food grade buckets- planted potatoes that started to form eyes- and they did not produce any- not one- potatoes. I know now that I need to buy seed plants. You live you learn. Looking forward to next Spring. I currently have sweet potatoes in a pot that I did the same way. I wonder if they will produce any potatoes... time will tell. I love your informative videos!!!
Thank you for the video, I enjoy each and everyone that you make for us. My soil is 100% composted horse manure. I planted potatoes 1st time this year and yielded 50lbs from about 10 plants. Also a raised bed garden. I harvested them in July added fertilizer to the bed and decided to try a secession garden per your recommendations (never tried that before) and am now growing bunching onion, beets, and broccoli on one side of that bed, the other side more bunching onions, spinach, and carrots with bush beans on one end of the garden. The carrots have not come in yet but there, however in my smaller succession garden where I have peas planted, I decided to plant carrots in front of them on 8/4 and they are already coming up and growing like mad. I Have had trouble with carrots this year so hopefully the ones that are growing will give us a little yield.
Learn sumthin every time. I have a 2 x 2' potato tower that has more than 6 seed potatoes in it, and all the plants are about 4' high. It is an experiment, where I'm hilling it using saw dust and add a 1''x4'' board for each level. This thing is growing strong and fast with lots of flowers. I'm hoping it will have alot potatoes for such a small area. It is massive compared to my other potato plants.
I’ve learned right away that I can’t grow potatoes in my summers here because either they won’t grow at all or they’ll grow suuuuuper slowly. We get super hot, humid summers so we have to do a super early spring planting (like February!) or a late summer/early fall because we have such mild winters. It’s my first year in this climate (8b East Texas) so it’s been an interesting learning experience! We will keep trying though! 👍🏻😂Now I’m very excited to plant sweet potatoes here next year and I’m getting my slips growing as early as I can! 🤷🏻♀️I mean why not? It’s a good thing I love sweet potatoes.☺️
I grew my potatoes in my 50 pounds rice bag after I'm done with the rice. It's so wonderful and i used the potatoes which I brought at the store that I kept too long that they are sprout.
I harvest mine about 2-3 weeks ago here in wisconsin. Potatoes were actually one of the first things I had in the ground. My plants had started to die back a bit and I just got antsy after seeing them get pushed up through the dirt to the surface. I certainly could have let mine go longer. I got quite a few small potatoes, but I also got a potato that was about the size of a softball! I did red norland, and man are they good!
Hey I'd love to see you do a video specifically for starting beet seed for a fall harvest and all of your tips and tricks for it. That seems to be the one vegetable that i always struggle with. They always seem to do just fine in containers on the back porch , but down in the garden i rarely can manage to get them past the seedling stage when planting in late summer before something wipes them out, while all of my other fall seedlings are thriving.
Very cool, nice and chill. we planted big-time down here in west TN, and probably got back what we planted if that! Still waiting to see what the sweet potatoes did! 😏
first year planting potatoes and i got 53 lbs off of 40 seed potatoes. i did not water at all just tilled the ground and then hilled with aged wood chip mulch
Nice part of being a yooper potatoes do well up here but stuck to mostly containers takes to long for soil to warm up but containers do great especially the potatoes
Kennebec potatoes are from here in Maine. It's a pretty good all around white cultivar, bred by the UMaine farm program in Presque Isle. However, it is susceptible to scabbing (which you control for), and Verticillium wilt, since this was developed in the forties and cultivars resistant to those were not discovered yet. It does have resistance to many other common pathogens, though.
@@ryanbordeau4583 I'm, ironically, not a potato grower, but I grow other nightshades. Tomatoes and peppers have similar pests, and neem oil works well on them. Maybe try that.
Solanine is what is in green potatoes, not arsenic; arsenic is found in apple seeds. Solanine is the poisonous compound that is found in all the green parts of the nightshade plants, including green potatoes and tomatoes (although it’s in small enough amounts in green tomatoes so you can still eat them, although some people are extra sensitive and can’t handle any solanine without digestive upset)
Love videos. I had a small harvest of potatoes this year.only got about a 3 gallon bucket and a small fruit bucket this year. Thinking I may of harvested too early. But the tops died back so I went ahead in mid July and harvested. Got some good sized bit mostly small potatoes this year.
If I leave my potatoes in too long, they start sprouting again. Same with Kumara/sweet potatoes. I dont mean leaving over winter, but sometimes just a month over the die down of the plant.
eldiaz You can just cut off the sprouts and grow them. Atleast that’s what I did. I left atleast 1/3 inch or half a centimeter thickness of potato on the sprouts to help it get off. I did decide to root them before planting because it was my first time trying it. And it did root and grow from just a small piece of potato.
Very nice vid. New York had very little rain this summer as well. I love to see young kids interested in gardening. It should be taught in elementary, Jr. High and High Schools. Luke, where can I keep my potatoes while I wait for them to form eyes? Thanks. Have a good one.
Yah your soil looks great. So does my potato's soil too. I love it. This year is not like last year, is it? sigh.. But yep the garden is the boss, not us. We get used to it. Thanks for the good potato video. I feel better about this year now. : )
Those vines aren't dead yet. They would have continued to grow a little longer. We don't harvest potatoes until the vine is dead. Those still had a lot of life in them.
You had a previous video where you said to only water once a week. I think that was the reason your yield and potato size was less than satisfactory. I would deep water twice a week in hot dry weather.
@@GrowHealthTV My raised beds are hay bales filled with straight, bulk potting soil. I did that because the initial planting in my existing garden soil failed due to heavy clay compaction. I had to play catchup and soil cost was no object. You are right in that my potting soil drys out very quickly hence the twice weekly waterings. My plants look great and are very lush. Two days ago I reached down into the soil for the first time and pulled out the first potato I felt. It was huge. I expect a great future harvest. I'm in extreme southern Michigan near the border.
He does core gardening so that might be why he doesn't water as much. I tried it this year for the first time. It really cut down on my watering! My potato harvest so far has been good--only got one row dug up the other night. Hopefully, the rest will be just as good!
My sweet potato plant grew some potatoes but the plant still looked healthy so I replanted it and it's still growing and will hopefully grow some more.
Don't despair, they might grow over the winter, come up next year, or even maybe they're hiding somewhere in there even now. My garden tends to do whatever it wants to, including giving me potatoes after I've already harvested them.
I had potatoes grown out of compost last year. Harvested two dozens of them. This year they came up again from two missed potatoes I guess. I moved one to a 5-gallon bucket and it’s been doing well.
I put a sweet potato in 2 years ago. No potato the first year. No garden 2nd year. Went to plant in the spring and dig up HUGE potato. It was deeper than I thought
One of my volunteer potato in the middle of cabbage bed yield total of 25 potatoes and 11 of them are a pound and over. The biggest potatoes I've ever dug up. I was hysterical.
I'm not an expert but there might be some little ones growing down there that haven't sprouted above the ground but my dog dug a hole around the same spot and I found a bunch of small potatoes in there that probably would have started growing later.
I'm doing potatoes in both 17 g tubs and in ground. Comparing Avg potatoes per plant, so far in ground has done much better. Only pulled some of the Superior potatoes so far. Most of the Kennibeck and Rio Grand Russets are still going so cant compare them yet. I wait until the plants die back completely
I grew some tiny ones that were sprouting in my pantry. I only got two small ones per plant, but it was an increase! I will plant more purposefully in the future.
Did the actual plant get tall and bushy, just small potatoes from it? I planted 5 from the store and only one sprouted into a tall bushy plant. Im curious to see whats going on in the dirt.
I’ve had better results with kennebec if you leave them until the plants are completely dead. All the same, those small kennebec potatoes are delicious. Real butter, salt, pepper, fresh dill.
I grew potatoes this year for the first time, I planted four seed potatoes in four growing bags I had gotten for my birthday and 3 in an old wine cask half. I ended up with a mediocre crop from the bags
and abetter crop from the barrel half. I’m going to dedicate a raised bed, 10 foot by 4 foot, to potatoes and try to get some of those Kennebec’s you mentioned.
That was cool experience for your friend even though the crop was small. Just like my carrots couple of years ago, the pant was over 5 feet tall with beautiful flowers and the carrots where small and woody. This year ones were small again but edible, actually pretty good.
The tall, flowering ones mean that they were bolting/going to seed. Never gunna have normal carrot when that happens, the plant is focused on the seeding out. I didn't think that happened with a carrot planted that year ( they're a biennial I thought) but maybe, like with other plants, stressful conditions can trigger it.. ?
I did my first grow this year in potato pots. I haven't harvested yet though and I'm in NJ 7a. I'm hoping we got something. Lol I never saw the plants flower, I'm wondering if I didnt pay close enough attention
This was also my first year to grow potatoes in containers, using regular yellow potatoes from the grocery store that had started to sprout. I started them on 2 different dates, about five weeks apart. Totally missed seeing the first potato plants flower! In fact I was still waiting and expecting them to flower when they began to die back. I did manage to see my second set of plants in flower. The flowers only lasted a few days so I'm sure that's why I never saw the first set flower. My curiosity got the better of me leading me to harvest one container way too early. The potatoes were mostly tiny, about the size of large grapes. I'm going to wait until my remaining plants completely die back to harvest so that hopefully the taters will be a bit bigger.
From back in May when you were talking about yellowing plants I got a close up of your nail beds. They have white spots and that is indicative usually of a deficiency of zinc and/or calcium. You might want to look into supplements. Be well.
I have sweet potatoes growing in my kitchen. I left 2 on the counter for too long apparently because they're trying to be air plants lol. Not sure what I'm going to do with it now. My whole yard is fill sand to a depth of about 3 feet.
Luke! serious dilemma on my hand..... i have harvested and waterbath canned my sterile jars (pint) for 30 minutes.. hot packed my still simmering tomato sauce into these containers for 30 minutes once it came back up to boil. after 2 days i noticed afew seeds sprouting inide the jars....sauce was hot, lemon juice was added.... hoping it is still safe 2 put up and eat, i made 6 pint jars...
You’d think that if you didn’t have enough rain you would water your garden yourself especially when your crops yield depends on it. I water my garden beds twice a week with a very heavy watering here in hot Alabama.
Nice having someone there with you who asks the questions we viewers are dying to ask. Gives a different perspective.
Pic on your end
Great suggestion!
I was thinking the exact same thing 👍🏼
That is true.
He is a perfect guest on the show!! He asks natural good questions. Such a great episode!
We are in Michigan. I grew red potatoes and have a beautiful harvest. We’ve had a lot of meals from them, I have a 5-gallon bucket 3/4 full, plus have 4-5 more plants to dig up. (They ending up getting intertwined because of a groundhog running from my dog. 🤣)
It’s actually amazing how I managed to get that crop. I hadn’t pre-ordered seed and because of Covid-panic buying I couldn’t get a hold of seed-potatoes. I was so bummed. Then I look over at my potato bag from last year and there were little potatoes that had sprouts coming all the way through the bag!! Even though the potatoes were very small I figured it was worth a shot and planted them. 16 plants later!!! It was very hot and dry this year, but I watered often and it’s paid off. This Irish girl is thankful!!
Here in Idaho we wait to harvest the potatoes until the plant has died all of the way back. That’s when the energy is completely done storing into the roots and the potatoes are full size. They also do like a lot of consistent watering after they flower.
Hey, neighbor! I'm in the big city.😉 I'd probably lose my Idaho residency if they found out that I really don't much care for potatoes.😂 Baked and hash browns is about it.
That's what he does too
@Trish the homesteader haha, it my husband who always insists on having potatoes! I’m with you! You’re in the big city😂
Flat Earth Sage hmm, it looked like there was still green on the leaves in the video. If Baby taters are preferred sometimes🤷♀️
Poison Ivy it sounds like you could plant the seed potato deeper or hill up around the base of the plant more so they don’t sprout.
I grew potatoes for the first time in a container and got a couple meals worth. It was cheap and easy and I plan on putting more effort into it next year. Thanks for the inspiration.
Yes, keep trying. We struggled so much with growing potatoes but this year we had our first epic harvest.
I want to see more of this. Actually teaching someone. Really good video Luke. The change in pace is nice. I'd like to see more "guests" like this PLEASE. I like to hear real questions & real reactions. Teaching/watching some kids learn really adds to the experience I think.
I harvested mine in July since I planted in early to mid-April. Out of one-pot for Yukon Gold, I got 5 lbs worth, but it was only 3 potatoes. Two of those weighed almost 2 lbs each. I have tried to do a second batch since we had time, but I think the soil was too hot for the potatoes to germinate. I also did something different this year and planted two pots in early April, waited 12-14 days, planted another set, and then 12-15 days after that planted the last 4 pots. I thought it was getting too warm to wait another 12-14 days for the last two pots. This has been a really good year, with 6 lbs of Snap Peas, 7 lbs of Snow Peas, 70+ Peaches, 40+ tomatoes (so far - learned some important lessons there too). I have 20 purple bell peppers ripening, I am trying Italian Roasting peppers (maybe a dozen on one plant), 20+ cantaloupe, 3 pumpkins (all volunteers), 3+ Suger Baby watermelons (my first), lots of green onions, and two sets of radishes. Not bad for a patio and two raised beds that are 7'x10'.
Dang!!! Great job👍
Same here! I planted in $19.99 resin whiskey barrels from Home Depot. Drilled lots of holes in the bottom and added bagged organic dirt. Worked out great! Easy but digging out the taters was hot and dirty! I did it on a tarp and let them cure for an hour in the sun and then wrapped in packing paper / plain newsprint and set in boxes over my A/C vent to chill.
We tried to grow Fall potatoes as well. You are right, the warmer soil "baked" a few of ours. We love the volunteer pumpkins and tomatoes. Some years our volunteer plants do better than ones in the main garden, especially when they pop up from our compost piles.
I grew potatoes in a clear container for educational purposes and it's provided way more than expected! Super cool
Actually the potatoes grow between the seed potato and the green point ( where the stalk is exposed to light) there are determinant and indeterminate varieties the determinants don’t need to be hilled but the deeper you can get the better. The potatoes don’t technically grow on roots but the tendrils they grow on can sometimes go deeper than the seed potato but it starts above.
I learned this lesson the hard way this past spring and only got a small harvest. But I saved what little I got and will be planting them correctly for my fall garden.
Sorry, I know this is late. You seem to know your potato facts. He said that they didn't get many potatoes due to lack of rain. Wouldn't watering have helped the crop? Or no?
@@barbaravance6774 He should have watered once each week, unless it rained an inch or more.
I planted potatoes late....they're sprouting, so yay! I wasn't sure how to tell when they're ready to harvest, so this video came at the perfect time for me! Thanks, Luke!
I've never seen potatoes harvested so early! We wait until they completely die back, then those little guys that were still attached to the roots might be a good size :)
stschubs me too.. I harvest on October 1st..and the frost hits in September in Wyoming..especially this 2020 year..September 8th and snow.
Tried my hand at growing potatoes this year, (following your advice). I thought it failed miserably; never did flower, half of them started dying off while others grew tall, etc. Decided to dig them up a few weeks ago and to my surprise, I had some! Some were very small but there were a few good ones. Thank you for what you're doing.
Harvest is just the most fun ever! I love watching you pick your veggies. I harvested my rainbow carrots today after 120 days. They’re gorgeous! I was so glad I left them in the soil until the later end of the maturity range. 🥕
Love seeing a newbie get hooked on gardening. Potatoes are the gateway plant.
My first potato harvest from two large copper pots was 75 decent size potatoes I replanted more potatoes in the last week of July in southern Vermont.
Curious: how many potatoes did you plant to get that kind of yield?
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Zari A One pot was 15 gallons the other was 10 gallons. I likely crowded them my second batch is wider spaced with lots of loose moss mixed in and added as the plants start to come up.
BernieYohan thanks for replying. Yup makes sense that adding additional peat moss (which is acidic) to the mix is loved by potatoes (preferring ph of 4-4.5).
We are also growing Fall potatoes, fingers crossed for a good harvest!
Luke. Take those little potatoes,some fresh carrots, and some fresh peas and boil them a little. Add a white sauce and I’m in heaven.
Luke got Aiden to dig potatoes just like Tom Sawyer got his buddies to paint the fence.
😂😂😂😂 YESSSS!
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LOL!! 😂
Oh oh, about the green potato. Now I know why I got sick last week. Yay! I LOVE DIGGING THEM UP WITH MY FINGERS. I LOVE WATCHING TOO!!! Yes, that awful heat we got ruined the beans made small tomatoes and destroyed the squash, too.
One of the best parts of gardening..... the harvest!
You are right! We harvest our own and routinely binge watch potato and sweet potato harvests.
I put my biggest potato back in the hole from each plant when I harvest. The next spring they come right up with a new plant. I only have to disturb the soil once. Less labor, less weeds, don’t have to buy seed potatoes.
that is genius. so treat them like jerusalem artichoke?
Wow, I have already eaten quite a few of my potatoes. Just grilled some last night as kebabs along with onions, green peppers, okra, and mushrooms. All from the garden except for the mushrooms.
Sounds yummy.
Thought it was mission impossible 😂😂😂😂
My first year growing potatoes. Didn't use seed potatoes, just forgotten ones with eyes from the bottom of the pantry. Huge crop! Makes me so happy! 12 plants, 3 pounds and up per plant! Delicious!
I love the real small ones for canning. They’re my reward every time i open a jar, I snack on them while cutting the rest to make fried potatoes 😆
I'd love to know some more details about the canning small potatoes, if you don't mind. I've got a box full of those small ones and don't know what to do with them.
Thanks in advance 👍
Fried potatoes is a staple for us! Yum
Kira S I’m sorry, i am just now seeing this! I cut my washed potatoes into 1” chunks, then heat them thoroughly, or for about 3 minutes at a simmer on the stove, drain them, toss them into quart jars with a tsp of salt, top off with fresh hot water, clean the rim of my jar, add a new lid and a ring, fingertip tight. Then process in a pressure canner at 11 pounds for 40-45 minutes, i cant remember for sure. Your altitude can affect pounds/time though so make sure you check on that. I’m near sea level. But as for the little ones i just act as if they’re 1” chunk and heat/process with the rest in the same jars.
Its better to cut them down and let them sit for 2 weeks to toughen skins. Then take them out the soil. I planted kenebecs too
I say the same. It's the correct way.
Potatoes! 🥔🥔🥔 One potato, two potato, three potato, four! I've never grown potatoes before, but I sure will someday! Great info. Thank you.
my first year planting potatoes, I am amazed at the quality and the quantity here in PA.....love your videos and all the help you give to us
You have a “headquarters “ congratulations 🎊🎉
With a small garden I grow all my potatoes in pots and they work fine for a good crop. With my tiny potatoes I put them in a colander with a couple pieces of gravel or small stones and sluice them in a sink of cold water. Cleans them great and then fry them like a mini hash brown.
The tiny ones are great deep fried. Use bigger ones for baked and medium for cut potatoes
Good format....I enjoyed the banter for a change
I'm growing mine in a 5 gallon bucket...first time. We had weeks of hot and now non stop rain -- I'm not sure they will be good. I'm harvesting one tomorrow just to see
We did the same.... wasnt worth it.
Can you please update us here what your results are? I’m planning to do that in a 20 gallon container. Not sure how many potatoes to plant in it?
Zari A will do! From what I read, I could put two seed potatoes cut in a five gallon on bucket.
@@zaria5785 I planted Yukon Gold potatoes this year in 10 gallon grow bags and I think it worked out great! I averaged a pound of potatoes per seed potato planted. They didn't flower so I was worried there was nothing in the soil but when I dumped it all out and searched through we were quite pleased!
Zari A I got 15 potatoes today from the 5 gallon bucked. Most small and couple of medium ones. I'll wait a couple more weeks to see if they get bigger. I used a grocery potato that sprouted and I threw in a container. Think I'll try seed potatoes next year!
I tried to grow potatoes this year. I got food grade buckets- planted potatoes that started to form eyes- and they did not produce any- not one- potatoes. I know now that I need to buy seed plants. You live you learn. Looking forward to next Spring. I currently have sweet potatoes in a pot that I did the same way. I wonder if they will produce any potatoes... time will tell. I love your informative videos!!!
Thank you for the video, I enjoy each and everyone that you make for us.
My soil is 100% composted horse manure. I planted potatoes 1st time this year and yielded 50lbs from about 10 plants. Also a raised bed garden. I harvested them in July added fertilizer to the bed and decided to try a secession garden per your recommendations (never tried that before) and am now growing bunching onion, beets, and broccoli on one side of that bed, the other side more bunching onions, spinach, and carrots with bush beans on one end of the garden. The carrots have not come in yet but there, however in my smaller succession garden where I have peas planted, I decided to plant carrots in front of them on 8/4 and they are already coming up and growing like mad. I Have had trouble with carrots this year so hopefully the ones that are growing will give us a little yield.
Learn sumthin every time. I have a 2 x 2' potato tower that has more than 6 seed potatoes in it, and all the plants are about 4' high. It is an experiment, where I'm hilling it using saw dust and add a 1''x4'' board for each level. This thing is growing strong and fast with lots of flowers. I'm hoping it will have alot potatoes for such a small area. It is massive compared to my other potato plants.
I’ve learned right away that I can’t grow potatoes in my summers here because either they won’t grow at all or they’ll grow suuuuuper slowly. We get super hot, humid summers so we have to do a super early spring planting (like February!) or a late summer/early fall because we have such mild winters. It’s my first year in this climate (8b East Texas) so it’s been an interesting learning experience! We will keep trying though! 👍🏻😂Now I’m very excited to plant sweet potatoes here next year and I’m getting my slips growing as early as I can! 🤷🏻♀️I mean why not? It’s a good thing I love sweet potatoes.☺️
Ha! Thats exactly how i planted my potatoes. First time grower ♡
I grew my potatoes in my 50 pounds rice bag after I'm done with the rice.
It's so wonderful and i used the potatoes which I brought at the store that I kept too long that they are sprout.
I harvest mine about 2-3 weeks ago here in wisconsin. Potatoes were actually one of the first things I had in the ground. My plants had started to die back a bit and I just got antsy after seeing them get pushed up through the dirt to the surface. I certainly could have let mine go longer. I got quite a few small potatoes, but I also got a potato that was about the size of a softball! I did red norland, and man are they good!
Thank you for a great video. Ready to harvest my potatoes. This is first year I grew them.
Hey I'd love to see you do a video specifically for starting beet seed for a fall harvest and all of your tips and tricks for it. That seems to be the one vegetable that i always struggle with. They always seem to do just fine in containers on the back porch , but down in the garden i rarely can manage to get them past the seedling stage when planting in late summer before something wipes them out, while all of my other fall seedlings are thriving.
Very cool, nice and chill.
we planted big-time down here in west TN, and probably got back what we planted if that!
Still waiting to see what the sweet potatoes did! 😏
I had many of the little forgotten potatoes sprout this spring among my peas and peppers
This is the first time I've heard that potatoes need an acidic soil. Thank you!
Me too! I did mine in a high quality soil/compost mix and they did very well! No acid added. Will do next year though.
@@tassinmonkeys add sulphur once a month and you can add coffee grounds instead but not as strong.
@@vladtheimpaler5550 Are you adding the wettable sulfur, or some other form of sulfur?
@@shashakeeleh5468 pellets
@@vladtheimpaler5550 Thanks!
I love your positive outlook.
first year planting potatoes and i got 53 lbs off of 40 seed potatoes. i did not water at all just tilled the ground and then hilled with aged wood chip mulch
Good job Aiden! Well played, Luke...
Nice part of being a yooper potatoes do well up here but stuck to mostly containers takes to long for soil to warm up but containers do great especially the potatoes
Comparing videos from 8 years ago to new videos is like watching Clark Kent transform into Superman. Glad things worked out so well for you!
I’ve been wondering when I should harvest! Thank you! I’ve learned so much from your channel this summer!
Kennebec potatoes are from here in Maine. It's a pretty good all around white cultivar, bred by the UMaine farm program in Presque Isle.
However, it is susceptible to scabbing (which you control for), and Verticillium wilt, since this was developed in the forties and cultivars resistant to those were not discovered yet. It does have resistance to many other common pathogens, though.
Fellow Mainer here, any tips on preventing potato beetles? They infest my plants every time and I’m ready to give up on them.
@@ryanbordeau4583 I'm, ironically, not a potato grower, but I grow other nightshades. Tomatoes and peppers have similar pests, and neem oil works well on them. Maybe try that.
Solanine is what is in green potatoes, not arsenic; arsenic is found in apple seeds. Solanine is the poisonous compound that is found in all the green parts of the nightshade plants, including green potatoes and tomatoes (although it’s in small enough amounts in green tomatoes so you can still eat them, although some people are extra sensitive and can’t handle any solanine without digestive upset)
I agree about that soil looking awesome! … and left over spuds annoy me to no end… lol
POTATO harvest!! My favorite video of the year second only to the garlic harvest!! Great haul!!
Potato, sweet potato and carrot harvests are at the top of our list.
Potatoes are such great entry level plants!
Keep those small potatoes and put them in a pot of green beans with a couple slices of bacon. Yum, yum....
Love videos. I had a small harvest of potatoes this year.only got about a 3 gallon bucket and a small fruit bucket this year. Thinking I may of harvested too early. But the tops died back so I went ahead in mid July and harvested. Got some good sized bit mostly small potatoes this year.
Squirrel in the background at 12:12 haha.
Great video btw!
Your potatoes are beautiful! 😊
If I leave my potatoes in too long, they start sprouting again. Same with Kumara/sweet potatoes. I dont mean leaving over winter, but sometimes just a month over the die down of the plant.
I buried the scraps peeling of my potatoes and I harvested potatoes.
You must peel them really thick 😅.
What?! 🤯
@@erdiaz13 yes. If I knew how to send a pic
@@erniehodge-carty8569 I haven't heard of using just the peelings. I may have to try this next year!
eldiaz
You can just cut off the sprouts and grow them. Atleast that’s what I did. I left atleast 1/3 inch or half a centimeter thickness of potato on the sprouts to help it get off.
I did decide to root them before planting because it was my first time trying it. And it did root and grow from just a small piece of potato.
Very nice vid. New York had very little rain this summer as well. I love to see young kids interested in gardening. It should be taught in elementary, Jr. High and High Schools. Luke, where can I keep my potatoes while I wait for them to form eyes? Thanks. Have a good one.
Oh my goodness...such a coincidence...I’m planning on making a dish with sweet potatoes 🍠 & your video popped up! ❤️🙏🥰
I'm getting ready to harvest my very first potato crop here in a few days. Getting excited to see how they did.
Yah your soil looks great. So does my potato's soil too. I love it. This year is not like last year, is it? sigh.. But yep the garden is the boss, not us. We get used to it. Thanks for the good potato video. I feel better about this year now. : )
I can't wait to dig mine out. I have a good feeling! Michigander here and I used Trifecta. I've been waiting for my plants to die off more.
Those vines aren't dead yet. They would have continued to grow a little longer. We don't harvest potatoes until the vine is dead. Those still had a lot of life in them.
I have seen people have great luck in grow bags with potatoes. It might be a better option for next year! I do love the harvest though
You had a previous video where you said to only water once a week. I think that was the reason your yield and potato size was less than satisfactory. I would deep water twice a week in hot dry weather.
Depending on your soil, yes. Raised beds with fluffy soil always need more water than crops planted in the ground.
@@GrowHealthTV My raised beds are hay bales filled with straight, bulk potting soil. I did that because the initial planting in my existing garden soil failed due to heavy clay compaction. I had to play catchup and soil cost was no object. You are right in that my potting soil drys out very quickly hence the twice weekly waterings. My plants look great and are very lush. Two days ago I reached down into the soil for the first time and pulled out the first potato I felt. It was huge. I expect a great future harvest. I'm in extreme southern Michigan near the border.
He does core gardening so that might be why he doesn't water as much. I tried it this year for the first time. It really cut down on my watering! My potato harvest so far has been good--only got one row dug up the other night. Hopefully, the rest will be just as good!
@@johnvasko4035 Hey,bruh.I'm not native American.Sort of hard to catch Luke's talk.Do most of u Michiganese folks speak English as fast as he does?
@@JY-um4su A little slower but the same accent.
Really enjoy this style of video where you have a beginner there.
My sweet potato plant grew some potatoes but the plant still looked healthy so I replanted it and it's still growing and will hopefully grow some more.
James Prigioni, Self-suficient me and MiGardener are my favorite gardening channels!
...wait...does MIgardner really stand for Michigan Gardner.......
.ive been watching for a year plus and just realized this
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😆👍🏼 Yep
Took me around a year for me to click too haha
We followed your method with leaving seed whole. I can’t believe how many more potatoes we got!
I just pulled my blue potatoes, super harvest, all,those under one inch go for seeds, the rest look great.
I planted 2 potato's this year, just to try it out.
Nothing came up.
Oh well.
Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.
Don't despair, they might grow over the winter, come up next year, or even maybe they're hiding somewhere in there even now. My garden tends to do whatever it wants to, including giving me potatoes after I've already harvested them.
I had potatoes grown out of compost last year. Harvested two dozens of them. This year they came up again from two missed potatoes I guess. I moved one to a 5-gallon bucket and it’s been doing well.
I put a sweet potato in 2 years ago. No potato the first year. No garden 2nd year. Went to plant in the spring and dig up HUGE potato. It was deeper than I thought
One of my volunteer potato in the middle of cabbage bed yield total of 25 potatoes and 11 of them are a pound and over.
The biggest potatoes I've ever dug up.
I was hysterical.
I'm not an expert but there might be some little ones growing down there that haven't sprouted above the ground but my dog dug a hole around the same spot and I found a bunch of small potatoes in there that probably would have started growing later.
Potato harvesting videos is my kink! Ahahahah
I'm doing potatoes in both 17 g tubs and in ground. Comparing Avg potatoes per plant, so far in ground has done much better. Only pulled some of the Superior potatoes so far. Most of the Kennibeck and Rio Grand Russets are still going so cant compare them yet.
I wait until the plants die back completely
The grasshoppers ate leaves and flowers so I wasn't share when to dig. I don't think I would have gotten more as the leaves were gone. Small harvest
I grew some tiny ones that were sprouting in my pantry. I only got two small ones per plant, but it was an increase! I will plant more purposefully in the future.
Did the actual plant get tall and bushy, just small potatoes from it?
I planted 5 from the store and only one sprouted into a tall bushy plant. Im curious to see whats going on in the dirt.
@@ale347baker I got seed potatoes from a local farmer this year and got three full sized potatoes per plant.
I don't use fertilizer and my garden has fluorished! I did use some horse manure this year but no other poisonous fertilizer
Some of my best potatoes came from those I missed. Gonna plant my potatoes this fall.
I just harvested mine. Five containers.Got about 15-20 pounds of Red Pontiacs.
Future potato farmer
I’ve had better results with kennebec if you leave them until the plants are completely dead. All the same, those small kennebec potatoes are delicious. Real butter, salt, pepper, fresh dill.
You are amazing....
Thanks so much
Great video! Trying potatoes for the first time this year...they grew good so far...will harvest them soon!
I remember my first potato harvest 😊
I grew potatoes this year for the first time, I planted four seed potatoes in four growing bags I had gotten for my birthday and 3 in an old wine cask half. I ended up with a mediocre crop from the bags
and abetter crop from the barrel half. I’m going to dedicate a raised bed, 10 foot by 4 foot, to potatoes and try to get some of those Kennebec’s you mentioned.
You really must try Ruth Stout method for potatoes. So much easier.
That was cool experience for your friend even though the crop was small.
Just like my carrots couple of years ago, the pant was over 5 feet tall with beautiful flowers and the carrots where small and woody. This year ones were small again but edible, actually pretty good.
The tall, flowering ones mean that they were bolting/going to seed. Never gunna have normal carrot when that happens, the plant is focused on the seeding out. I didn't think that happened with a carrot planted that year ( they're a biennial I thought) but maybe, like with other plants, stressful conditions can trigger it.. ?
I did my first grow this year in potato pots. I haven't harvested yet though and I'm in NJ 7a. I'm hoping we got something. Lol I never saw the plants flower, I'm wondering if I didnt pay close enough attention
This was also my first year to grow potatoes in containers, using regular yellow potatoes from the grocery store that had started to sprout. I started them on 2 different dates, about five weeks apart. Totally missed seeing the first potato plants flower! In fact I was still waiting and expecting them to flower when they began to die back. I did manage to see my second set of plants in flower. The flowers only lasted a few days so I'm sure that's why I never saw the first set flower. My curiosity got the better of me leading me to harvest one container way too early. The potatoes were mostly tiny, about the size of large grapes. I'm going to wait until my remaining plants completely die back to harvest so that hopefully the taters will be a bit bigger.
I feed all the really small ones to my dog. He likes to wait for me to dig them up
All plants keep giving. That's how they exist.
From back in May when you were talking about yellowing plants I got a close up of your nail beds. They have white spots and that is indicative usually of a deficiency of zinc and/or calcium. You might want to look into supplements. Be well.
Just love your channel ❤️😊
I have sweet potatoes growing in my kitchen. I left 2 on the counter for too long apparently because they're trying to be air plants lol.
Not sure what I'm going to do with it now. My whole yard is fill sand to a depth of about 3 feet.
thumbs up to Aiden. Your better off than 99% of the population.
Luke! serious dilemma on my hand..... i have harvested and waterbath canned my sterile jars (pint) for 30 minutes.. hot packed my still simmering tomato sauce into these containers for 30 minutes once it came back up to boil. after 2 days i noticed afew seeds sprouting inide the jars....sauce was hot, lemon juice was added.... hoping it is still safe 2 put up and eat, i made 6 pint jars...
That's pretty odd.🤔 You may want to get in touch with your county extension service. They always have great answers. 🙂
You’d think that if you didn’t have enough rain you would water your garden yourself especially when your crops yield depends on it. I water my garden beds twice a week with a very heavy watering here in hot Alabama.
Did he say that the soil smelled earthy? LOL