You are so educational, I put my potatoes in a cardboard box in a dark airy cupboard and cover them with a clean dry t towel so they don't go green , thanks, p s I Love watching your kids helping and speeding up the video looks so funny, very enjoyable
Interesting as a kid loved digging the potatoes it was like finding gold in the soil. I notice a difference my Dad would cut the mother potato in chunks using the biggest eyes plant that piece and cover. Took less seed potatoes I suppose. He planted them at least 12 inches deep. Nothing like new potatoes. You bring back treasured memories of my own family life.
We didn’t cut ours this year we got a bunch on clearance and had enough to plant whole, we’ve done it both ways though, might have to do an experiment one year and see if it makes a difference for us! The straw is supposed to mimic planting the potatoes deeper without the need for the dirt, it worked wonderfully last year!
2022 gardens weren't anything to brag about in my area (USA) , so I pray next year will be better. Glad you got some potatoes, new ones are the best!! It's Christmas Eve here, so wishing your family the best!!!
Our garden wasn’t a success either! We barely got tomatoes, only about 10 cucumbers, a few black eyed peas. No squash at all, watermelon, cantaloupe and some chilies. The year before we had so much we were giving it away, I just couldn’t preserve it fast enough! I’m in NC USA.
Merry Christmas family. My very tiny garden has been full of problems this year, bugs galore, and not producing anywhere near as much as in previous years.
We used to dig our potatoes up with a pitchfork you had to make sure you didn't pierce a potato then we would put them in our basement to dry after that my husband would bury a barrel in the ground close to the house leaving a few inches above ground we would layer with potatoes and straw and repeat til the barrel was almost full after putting the lid on we would put bricks on top to keep critters out.
I loved watching your kids help! What's your secret lol. My kids will eat the produce, occasionally help me water or plant but other than that...crickets lol. Seriously loved seeing your kids getting in there x
It is totally hit and miss to be honest! They only help when they want to or when it seems fun! there is a lot of the time I ask them and they have no interest whatsoever lol.
I hope you can do better in the autumn with the cold hearty veggies. Got my seed catalog in the mail today and I am already dreaming. Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful day with your family.
Looks like the red potatoes didn't have scab on them but the white ones did. Either the reds are not prone to scab or were not planted in the manure fertilized ground. Just my observation. Love how the family helped with the harvest.
Most of the red ones were in new spaces, we split the beds up, but that back corner where the white (spunta I believe) potatoes were was definitely the hardest hit and was the oldest soil I believe, but I'm going to look up what variety the red ones are to take note of too! :D
We did, but I think we had less access to straw and we bedded them a few times a bit lighter. I think we may have just put too much straw on not broken up enough because we managed to get a big round bale!
Well, I think you have a nice crop. I do try to plant potatoes every year but, I seem to get a much better harvest from sweet potatoes. Hopefully you will get a lot of worms this year. When I put coffee grounds in my garden I noticed that I had an abundance of worms the following year. I live in the states so you really can't go by my harvest. I did try putting on my manure at the end of the garden season this year. I am hoping that giving it the winter to mellow out will give me better results next year. I also stopped at a coffee shop and picked up used coffee grounds for the garden. It's now covered with straw waiting for the spring. Have a wonderful Christmas!! Blessings 💕💕💕
I’m pretty happy even if it is only half of last years, better than nothing and with all the issues we’ve been having! I definitely need to get better at bedding my beds down for winter, making sure they’re mulched well etc! Merry Christmas to you too!!
@@jenniferr2057 dig around. We call it bandicooting when we go digging for new potatoes and don’t want to pull the whole plant, just a reference to the critters :)
@@OurSmallFootprint could I use it for rocking around in a laundry pile for clean socks? That kind of just rifling through? Thank you. I love your descriptive words!
@@jenniferr2057 definitely, bandicoots/wombats, those kinda marsupials are known for ‘rummaging’ at least that’s how I interpret it hehe, they don’t necessarily destroy, though they can, but they more rummage through for the things they like, bandicoots eat bugs I believe and wombats eat certain types of grasses, so they forage around other things for that.
Hi Nyssa not to bad on potatoes, I really hope your feeling better, I would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year , I look forward to watching in the new year big hugs to all Mary. 🇨🇦. ⛄⛄⛄
OK a wild idea: how about raking up the straw in the paths and then harvesting the potatoes? And with your sandy/friable soil, why not just use a potato fork (impossible here)?
They were supposed to do that heh, put all the straw in the paths and then pull the potatoes but directing children is totally successful *rolls eyes* heh
Here in the US it is advised to rotate the potatoes into different beds each year. I have done this and gotten really good crops. (I rotate them in the beds that had beans and peas). Do you rotate them or do you just add nutrients to the bed? I add cover crops in the winter so I rarely add nutrients just maybe a very thin amount of well broken down compost/manure. Good luck for 2023.
I rotated to a degree, but also didn't really have a better spot to put them! I'm hoping to get cover crops in everywhere this winter though which might help with everything :D
Glad to see you got a small harvest from the potatoes this year. Last year you had a large haul of them. Potato salad is a great way to enjoy your haul!TFS!!!
Well, it is small comfort to say, some is better than none. You don't garden for pleasure but to eat. 2 days ago it was-30 below F with the wind chill.
Question! Do you not worry about spiders/snakes in this situation? I ask because I grew potatoes for the first time this year and I had *so* many spiders in my potatoes. I am in Vermont so nothing here was going to be an issue for me (no medically significant spiders/snakes here) and I'm used to the spiders overall but like...I had a palm sized fishing spider mama set up her nursery in my tall potatoes. There were *so* many spiders.
Hrmm, everyone has to be aware of spiders, everywhere here, but we didn't find any in the dirt! Snakes are more afraid of us, so theoretically as soon as you start rustling around somewhere they'll come out and try and escape, so we did a walk through before we got started! But yeah, other than tiny bugs, worms etc, we didn't find any spiders, I suppose we probably should have been wearing gloves just in case, but its so much more fun gardening without! :D
The netting is mostly for the galahs/cockatoos, we have some shade clothed areas as well, but there is bird/insect netting over a large swathe to deter the birds, we also have it going to the ground to deter the kangaroos :)
@@shogan0able I'd prefer not to, tbh, because when its netted the bee population and pollinators are very limited as well, but its one of those things, trying to find the happy medium lol
Why don't you just leave the tops of the potatoes to just break down? Do you put chook manure on your beds? We make a soup of chook poop.Our plants love it, especially the lemon tree! OK you use the pig manure.
With the disease in the bed and the bug life that were eating the potato plants, we decided it would be better to remove them, but tbh we got a bit lazy and didn't remove it all, we won't replant potatoes there next year, we'll find a new spot to try :D We don't use a lot of chook manure, we should, but our ground in teh chook pens is so sandy there isn't much to collect to be honest, we need to work out a better process of deep bedding their pens, we need a quad or something, carting the straw to them is a very long winded job.
You are so educational, I put my potatoes in a cardboard box in a dark airy cupboard and cover them with a clean dry t towel so they don't go green , thanks, p s I Love watching your kids helping and speeding up the video looks so funny, very enjoyable
I really need to find the best spot to store mine! We don't have a lot of cooler/darker spaces!
Nice to see a family working together. I love your pants!!! Colors are beautiful.
They’re pretty aren’t they! I don’t buy many new ones but sometimes a print really catches my eye heh
Growing up, my mama always boiled those small potatoes and made a white sauce over them...Nyssa, u remind me of her ❤
Yum! Heh, Thankyou!
Nice you had helpers! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Not hard to encourage the kids to dig in the dirt hehe.
Merry Christmas Nyssa, Darryl and family. 🎄
And to you Carol! Thank you! :D
Interesting as a kid loved digging the potatoes it was like finding gold in the soil. I notice a difference my Dad would cut the mother potato in chunks using the biggest eyes plant that piece and cover. Took less seed potatoes I suppose. He planted them at least 12 inches deep. Nothing like new potatoes. You bring back treasured memories of my own family life.
We didn’t cut ours this year we got a bunch on clearance and had enough to plant whole, we’ve done it both ways though, might have to do an experiment one year and see if it makes a difference for us! The straw is supposed to mimic planting the potatoes deeper without the need for the dirt, it worked wonderfully last year!
Your potatoes look great! I love the smaller new potatoes roasted. They're always so creamy.
new potatoes always have great texture and flavour! :D
Great harvest! Potatoes are so expensive at the moment so thats a good saving for you guys!
Any harvest is a good harvest! :)
2022 gardens weren't anything to brag about in my area (USA) , so I pray next year will be better. Glad you got some potatoes, new ones are the best!! It's Christmas Eve here, so wishing your family the best!!!
Our garden wasn’t a success either! We barely got tomatoes, only about 10 cucumbers, a few black eyed peas. No squash at all, watermelon, cantaloupe and some chilies. The year before we had so much we were giving it away, I just couldn’t preserve it fast enough! I’m in NC USA.
New ones are definitely awesome!
Yes, same position here, giving away and feeding to the animals last year and not even enough to can this year :s
Great team work! Love watching your family working together so happily.
The kids were so excited by the worms lol
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
and to yours! Thank you! :D
Searching for potato gold is fun for all. I'm sure you enjoy these potatoes today. Have a wonderfil Christmas Day you beautiful family.
Thank you Robyn, about to go put them on to boil now! :D
Merry Christmas family.
My very tiny garden has been full of problems this year, bugs galore, and not producing anywhere near as much as in previous years.
Definitely a disappointing garden year :(. Merry Christmas to you as well!
Considering the obstacles you faced .. I would say pretty good harvest!! God Bless and Merry Christmas!!!!
I’m grateful we got a harvest! Merry Christmas to you too!
@@OurSmallFootprint ♥️
Merry Christmas 🎄🎄
Merry Christmas!
Awesome. I look forward to your potato salad recipe (unless it's a family secret for Christmas, of course)😁🎄
Super simple and yummy! will be filming it while I make it today :D
Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and yours!
And to you and yours! Thank you! :)
Merry Christmas
Thank you Skye, and to you as well! :D
We used to dig our potatoes up with a pitchfork you had to make sure you didn't pierce a potato then we would put them in our basement to dry after that my husband would bury a barrel in the ground close to the house leaving a few inches above ground we would layer with potatoes and straw and repeat til the barrel was almost full after putting the lid on we would put bricks on top to keep critters out.
Merry Christmas Nyssa & beautiful family 🎄 Have a lovely day together 🥰🤗🎄
Thank you Karen and you have a wonderful day as well!
I loved watching your kids help! What's your secret lol. My kids will eat the produce, occasionally help me water or plant but other than that...crickets lol. Seriously loved seeing your kids getting in there x
It is totally hit and miss to be honest! They only help when they want to or when it seems fun! there is a lot of the time I ask them and they have no interest whatsoever lol.
Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄
And to yours! :)
My garden was terrible this summer. I'm in Montana USA. I even started everything in the green house.
Nothing I have done has done well this year, it is so frustrating!
I hope you can do better in the autumn with the cold hearty veggies. Got my seed catalog in the mail today and I am already dreaming. Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful day with your family.
Looks like the red potatoes didn't have scab on them but the white ones did. Either the reds are not prone to scab or were not planted in the manure fertilized ground. Just my observation. Love how the family helped with the harvest.
Most of the red ones were in new spaces, we split the beds up, but that back corner where the white (spunta I believe) potatoes were was definitely the hardest hit and was the oldest soil I believe, but I'm going to look up what variety the red ones are to take note of too! :D
Did you grow them with the straw method last year? My favourite way to have baby (chat) potatoes is just boiled/steamed tossed in butter with herbs.
We did, but I think we had less access to straw and we bedded them a few times a bit lighter. I think we may have just put too much straw on not broken up enough because we managed to get a big round bale!
Well, I think you have a nice crop. I do try to plant potatoes every year but, I seem to get a much better harvest from sweet potatoes. Hopefully you will get a lot of worms this year. When I put coffee grounds in my garden I noticed that I had an abundance of worms the following year. I live in the states so you really can't go by my harvest. I did try putting on my manure at the end of the garden season this year. I am hoping that giving it the winter to mellow out will give me better results next year. I also stopped at a coffee shop and picked up used coffee grounds for the garden. It's now covered with straw waiting for the spring. Have a wonderful Christmas!! Blessings 💕💕💕
I’m pretty happy even if it is only half of last years, better than nothing and with all the issues we’ve been having!
I definitely need to get better at bedding my beds down for winter, making sure they’re mulched well etc!
Merry Christmas to you too!!
Not a bad haul loved watching your kids bandicoot around LOL
They were fascinated by the worms lol, we have never had huge quantities before, still building the garden eco systems up!
Can you define bandicoot, please?
@@jenniferr2057 dig around. We call it bandicooting when we go digging for new potatoes and don’t want to pull the whole plant, just a reference to the critters :)
@@OurSmallFootprint could I use it for rocking around in a laundry pile for clean socks? That kind of just rifling through? Thank you. I love your descriptive words!
@@jenniferr2057 definitely, bandicoots/wombats, those kinda marsupials are known for ‘rummaging’ at least that’s how I interpret it hehe, they don’t necessarily destroy, though they can, but they more rummage through for the things they like, bandicoots eat bugs I believe and wombats eat certain types of grasses, so they forage around other things for that.
Hi there!..Salutations for the season..Merry Christmas..kind regards
And to you and yours as well Karolyn!
worms are good ,means healthy soil.,but they are small,still good eating,boiled ,mashed,roasted,all fills a belly,,well done xx
Yes. Much smaller than last year but meh, at least there was a harvest :D
Hi Nyssa not to bad on potatoes, I really hope your feeling better, I would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year , I look forward to watching in the new year big hugs to all Mary. 🇨🇦. ⛄⛄⛄
Thank you Mary! Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
Definitely feeling better than I was!
OK a wild idea: how about raking up the straw in the paths and then harvesting the potatoes? And with your sandy/friable soil, why not just use a potato fork (impossible here)?
They were supposed to do that heh, put all the straw in the paths and then pull the potatoes but directing children is totally successful *rolls eyes* heh
Here in the US it is advised to rotate the potatoes into different beds each year. I have done this and gotten really good crops. (I rotate them in the beds that had beans and peas). Do you rotate them or do you just add nutrients to the bed? I add cover crops in the winter so I rarely add nutrients just maybe a very thin amount of well broken down compost/manure. Good luck for 2023.
I rotated to a degree, but also didn't really have a better spot to put them! I'm hoping to get cover crops in everywhere this winter though which might help with everything :D
Glad to see you got a small harvest from the potatoes this year. Last year you had a large haul of them. Potato salad is a great way to enjoy your haul!TFS!!!
Yes, I'm glad to have gotten a harvest at all! and we will enjoy them a lot! :D
Well, it is small comfort to say, some is better than none. You don't garden for pleasure but to eat. 2 days ago it was-30 below F with the wind chill.
Yes, definitely better some than none! Yikes! Cold!
Where are you located?
@@jenniferr2057 Missouri USA
Question! Do you not worry about spiders/snakes in this situation? I ask because I grew potatoes for the first time this year and I had *so* many spiders in my potatoes. I am in Vermont so nothing here was going to be an issue for me (no medically significant spiders/snakes here) and I'm used to the spiders overall but like...I had a palm sized fishing spider mama set up her nursery in my tall potatoes. There were *so* many spiders.
Hrmm, everyone has to be aware of spiders, everywhere here, but we didn't find any in the dirt! Snakes are more afraid of us, so theoretically as soon as you start rustling around somewhere they'll come out and try and escape, so we did a walk through before we got started! But yeah, other than tiny bugs, worms etc, we didn't find any spiders, I suppose we probably should have been wearing gloves just in case, but its so much more fun gardening without! :D
Merry Christmas were on day 3 of a blizzard
And to you! Sometimes I think it’s be nice to have Christmas in winter, be forced to cuddle up inside but I guess means no family visitors either!
@@OurSmallFootprint 🇨🇦 here. Just like Santa we always get there on Christmas! Through snow, hail, wind and last year, 6c with rain😳
@@meg9779 heh, 28 here at 9am, will be interesting to see how high it gets to!
I'm a new follower is netting for pests or shade?
The netting is mostly for the galahs/cockatoos, we have some shade clothed areas as well, but there is bird/insect netting over a large swathe to deter the birds, we also have it going to the ground to deter the kangaroos :)
Thanks that makes sense good idea. :)
@@shogan0able I'd prefer not to, tbh, because when its netted the bee population and pollinators are very limited as well, but its one of those things, trying to find the happy medium lol
Not a bad crop of spuds there either
Not too bad! We'll definitely enjoy them :D
Hello when ur finding more worms than potatoes 🥔. It's time to go fishing 🎣. Heeheehee yupio time for a fish fry❤😂🎉...
Lol, true! Though we do need those worms! :D
Why don't you just leave the tops of the potatoes to just break down? Do you put chook manure on your beds? We make a soup of chook poop.Our plants love it, especially the lemon tree! OK you use the pig manure.
With the disease in the bed and the bug life that were eating the potato plants, we decided it would be better to remove them, but tbh we got a bit lazy and didn't remove it all, we won't replant potatoes there next year, we'll find a new spot to try :D
We don't use a lot of chook manure, we should, but our ground in teh chook pens is so sandy there isn't much to collect to be honest, we need to work out a better process of deep bedding their pens, we need a quad or something, carting the straw to them is a very long winded job.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you Sheron, and to you as well! :D