I love how excited you got when you started finding the spuds. I grow in pots and they do very well, I can cover them with translucent plastic if we get a wet spell, and you end up with pots full of potatoes which can be stored in the same pots until you're ready to eat. It's a great solution for people like me who have no outside garden, I only have a wee yard. It gets loads of sun and is very sheltered from wind and frost though.
Last year was my first time to grow potatoes and I got a wonderful harvest from 3 - 10 gallon grow bags. There were a few large potatoes but mostly medium sized Yukon Golds. I was so excited and enjoyed the experience so much that this year I grew 8 bags of potatoes, mostly Kennebec potatoes. I harvested 4 bags earlier today and got another great harvest! (Approximately 14 potatoes per bag, plus some “babies”!) I plan to harvest the other 4 bags tomorrow and when my seed potatoes are ready for the soil, I will be starting my late potatoes. (Probably in another week) ❤❤ Thank you for sharing your experience with us and mostly the information about blight. I will be watching for any such problems.
For a late planting its a great harvest Niall, well done. Your face at your first find was super. It was like my daughters yesterday when i left her dig the start of yesterdays haul. Congrats on your first of many potato growing. Good info on potato blight, its a curse,but its mother nature and she deals out so much for us to battle through. Enjoy the greatvweather we are meant to have this week.
Hi Lorraine! Thanks - I'm so glad that I got a harvest... I'd thought things were starting to go wrong! Yeah I was a mix of seriously excited and seriously relieved!! Enjoy the week! ❤️ Summer's back!
Thank you so much. That has been really useful, I'm away to dispose of my blight leaves and hopefully harvest some potatoes!🤞 I don't feel half as panicked as I was a moment ago when I decided that Blight was what was wrong with my potato leaves!! 🙏 Such a helpful video. ☺
I think what you have is maybe early blight here rather than late blight which would explain why you can't see the white fungus rings on the underside. I think early blight prefers hotter humid temperatures whilst late blight tends to spread during cooler wet periods a bit later in the season.
Thanks Niall - that was really useful - I went it and found my potatoes were affected - so all harvested and headed for quick use - planning to burn foliage and rotting potatoes on the soil they were planted in over the weekend to hopefully get rid of the fungus completely - and start new beds for them next year. :-) the very er cold spring stoppled the seedpotatoes doing anything at all for 6 weeks- so mine didn’t get going till May either
Hi! Apologies for such a late reply, but that's great that although your potatoes were affected, you managed to get them lifted nice and quick! Nice to know I wasn't the only person getting their potatoes in late! 😂
Your face when you dug up those first potatoes just sums it up - it really is like finding treasure isn't it?! Great video Niall - I look forward to catching up with a lot more!
Thank you so, so much for this Niall because I am terrified of my potatoes getting blight!! I nearly broke my neck running out to the garden to check mine and thankfully they appear to be ok. You have answered all my queries and made me feel less apprehensive about the dreaded blight!!! I don't know about you but I was praying to potato angels, blight angels and any kind of angels when you first put that fork in haha!! So happy you had a great yield, and the delight you expressed was just lovely! I shall be keeping a tight eye on mine from now on Niall and thanks to you I know what to look for! Lovely to see your wee girls make an appearance..adorable! Thank you so much again Niall...take care x
Hi Geraldine! You're welcome! I think the main thing is truly not to panic. Unfortunately, it's pretty much a fact of life around these parts, but at least it doesn't necessarily have to spell disaster for the crop. To be honest, I assumed it would, so this video has been as much about my learning as well as passing on the info! Great that you're potatoes still seem to be untouched. I hadn't planned on putting the bit into the video with the girls, but I couldn't resist!
Great video, thanks. Question... I had blight in my raised beds and lost most of my potatoes crop, in California of all places. We had a late spring rain. My potatoes were in half wine barrels. My question is, should I dump the soil and how do you disinfect a barrel post blight infection to limit it coming again? Thanks.
One potato two potato three potatoes more 😂😂 like a kid on Christmas morning. I always think this “gardening should be a sheer pleasure to enjoy your home and the sun and be outside, harvests are an added bonus” to everything else. If you plant 1 potato and get 2 that’s 100% return 🥳🥳. Thank you for sharing Niall ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
So true - I kinda was like a kid as I was discovering them! 😂 I really like your quote and 100% agree with it, plus I also like how you view the return on investment! I think I might've been bitten by the potato-growing bug!!
Loving the videos. Try growing your potatoes in bags or pots. I find used feed or compost bags I can get from friends are a fabulous cheep solution to also getting better results for potatoes and with very much less work. Plus you can filter the soil from the bags and use the soil for the next seedlings you are planting. Best wishes.
Thanks Derek! Funny, I was thinking of doing exactly what you suggest as I was digging the potatoes... mainly because of the reduced workload! Next year, the potatoes won't be in the raised beds - plus it leaves more room for other crops. Thanks very much for the comment! Speak to you soon!
Interesting video Niall. Thanks for showing blight and proportional ways to assess and treat. Not a lot out here in Sydney Australia, that I’m aware of at least, but I am aware of the historical effect this potato fungus had on populations and migration in the past. Thanks!
Typical wet, muggy, humid, dreary August here in Northern Ireland my friend 😔 and I totally agree very late season I’m hoping for a sunny September and a dry October it’s well deserved I think ☘️
Thankfully I’ve planted potatoes in three different locations and only one spot has this. Thanks for this info. The weird part is that it is extremely dry right now. How I get a few spuds out of it. I’ll be out chopping potatoe greens.
Blighted leaves can be safely composted as the blight cannot overwinter in leaves without a potato to infect. Just make sure you don't put any potatoes into the compost heap.
So a question- since it is a problem fungus in the soil, is their a soil treatment? Can you or will you reuse soil the next year because blight doesn’t just go away right?
Very clear video thanks. I have same problem at start of June with Premier Earlies. Cut out stems and only small tubers available. I used 7 new potato bags with new compost. Question is WHAT TO DO WITH THE COMPOST / SOIL / BAGS. DOES IT ALL HAVE TO BE DUMPED. CAN IT BE TREATED. IF I MISS ANY PLANT MATERIAL WILL IT PROPAGATE AGAIN. Thanks Brendan
Although this is an old vid, did you fertilise the potatoes? I used tomato fertiliser (England but I'm Irish and understand sometimes in Northern Ireland the NPK ratios are not ideal) with an NPK ratio of 2 4 10 and the yields increased dramatically. Good effort boss
My potatoes are only 56 days old are they are getting blight all over them :( not a good potato year for me. Hopefully it doesn't happen next year. Thank you for the information :)
Thank you for this great information I am going out to look at my potato plants, I have tried 3 years in a row to grow potatos, first year I loved them to much with watering, last year we had a very hot summer and even with my light watering once a week they didn’t do well, this year we got a lot and I mean a lot of rain at first so I am praying I get something this year.
Hello I am growing in containers my leaves have turned brown, I don’t want to lift them yet as I live alone and can’t use them very quickly. Can I cut foliage and leave in containers till I need them without watering?
Hi i planted mytubers in April. I use a planter as i have no earth in the ground. I also put the earth into plastic bags to help with growth. The stems are very tall and are blowing over in the wind. How can i stop them from breaking?. Also how long before they are ready?. Thanks for your help
@@niallgardens awesome!!! Honestly I’m yet to find a potato I actually am excited about except for some we used to get from the local farm shop but they sold it 😢 maybe I’ll find it one day 💙🧚♀️💙
My potatoes 🥔 got blight. I’ll have to harvest early in order not to affect the yield. However, are there preventive measures to take against blight ??
I don't have a dedicated how-to video, but if you watch this one, I have a whole section where I plant the potatoes! 👍 th-cam.com/video/muAN9BXkcHE/w-d-xo.html
Yup, got blight, but knew what it was as we had it back in Scotland too. I was taught to pull and burn the foliage. Anyone else get it in their tomatoes too this year? And mine are in a polytunnel! :/
Yes, I'm in the Scottish Borders and got blight on my spuds - which like Niall's were late second earlies - outside and my tomatoes inside my polytunnel. It's my first year with a tunnel, and I blame myself for planting them too close together, allowing too much foliage and perhaps also unwittingly bringing the spores in from the potato patch. You live and learn 🤷♂️
You're 100% right Gareth, it's all learning! I planted my tomatoes very close together this year and because of that have had to clip away foliage so often to try and maintain proper airflow.
@@garethmoore1276 I'm in the States, but I deal with blight on my tomatoes every year. I'm going to get ahead of it next year! My potatoes do well here in North Carolina in the mountains. It's not overly humid and we had a drought this summer. Now, it won't stop raining! So I'll keep an eye on my potatoes. This is my first time here. I subscribed and like it already.
My potatoes were sad this year! I planted them in a raised bed and too shallow. Their stems were too tall and a storm knocked them over and they stopped growing! 😪 I have one-half bushel of fancy new potatoes! 😕
Aw I know exactly what you mean - I think for next year I'm going to plant mine in containers or bags where I can easily earth them up and also harvest them without having to dig dig dig!
Hope you enjoy the video everyone! And… if you’re growing potatoes, that you have loads of success this year! 😃
I pulled mine. Even after pulling leaves and organic spray they still speckled. They were early but look good. Thanks for video
I love how excited you got when you started finding the spuds. I grow in pots and they do very well, I can cover them with translucent plastic if we get a wet spell, and you end up with pots full of potatoes which can be stored in the same pots until you're ready to eat.
It's a great solution for people like me who have no outside garden, I only have a wee yard. It gets loads of sun and is very sheltered from wind and frost though.
I love the excitement in your voice when you got your first second and third potatoes 😊
😁
Yay for potatoes! And thank you so much for joining in the collaboration 👏🏻I love seeing everyone's late greatness 😉
I was delighted to be part of your collab - it was a great idea and it's been lovely to get a group of people together! Late yes, great DEFINITELY!
Last year was my first time to grow potatoes and I got a wonderful harvest from 3 - 10 gallon grow bags. There were a few large potatoes but mostly medium sized Yukon Golds. I was so excited and enjoyed the experience so much that this year I grew 8 bags of potatoes, mostly Kennebec potatoes. I harvested 4 bags earlier today and got another great harvest! (Approximately 14 potatoes per bag, plus some “babies”!) I plan to harvest the other 4 bags tomorrow and when my seed potatoes are ready for the soil, I will be starting my late potatoes. (Probably in another week) ❤❤
Thank you for sharing your experience with us and mostly the information about blight. I will be watching for any such problems.
For a late planting its a great harvest Niall, well done. Your face at your first find was super. It was like my daughters yesterday when i left her dig the start of yesterdays haul. Congrats on your first of many potato growing. Good info on potato blight, its a curse,but its mother nature and she deals out so much for us to battle through. Enjoy the greatvweather we are meant to have this week.
Hi Lorraine! Thanks - I'm so glad that I got a harvest... I'd thought things were starting to go wrong! Yeah I was a mix of seriously excited and seriously relieved!! Enjoy the week! ❤️ Summer's back!
@@niallgardens i hear you Niall,we thought the same and were thrilled,from.lotty straight to the steamer. Whoohoo Summer sure is back.
You are an adorable man! Very engaging and easy on the eyes. Your info was very helpful. Thanks!
He a doll, isn't he? LOL.
@@laurenholladay oh, yes he is a doll indeed. But best of all, it’s obvious he’s a very good human being.
Thank you so much. That has been really useful, I'm away to dispose of my blight leaves and hopefully harvest some potatoes!🤞 I don't feel half as panicked as I was a moment ago when I decided that Blight was what was wrong with my potato leaves!! 🙏 Such a helpful video. ☺
I think what you have is maybe early blight here rather than late blight which would explain why you can't see the white fungus rings on the underside. I think early blight prefers hotter humid temperatures whilst late blight tends to spread during cooler wet periods a bit later in the season.
Thanks Niall - that was really useful - I went it and found my potatoes were affected - so all harvested and headed for quick use - planning to burn foliage and rotting potatoes on the soil they were planted in over the weekend to hopefully get rid of the fungus completely - and start new beds for them next year. :-) the very er cold spring stoppled the seedpotatoes doing anything at all for 6 weeks- so mine didn’t get going till May either
Hi! Apologies for such a late reply, but that's great that although your potatoes were affected, you managed to get them lifted nice and quick! Nice to know I wasn't the only person getting their potatoes in late! 😂
Your face when you dug up those first potatoes just sums it up - it really is like finding treasure isn't it?! Great video Niall - I look forward to catching up with a lot more!
Haha! Yeah, I was more than a little excited (not to mention relived too!!). I think I might be a convert to growing potatoes! Thanks Jane! 😃
Thank you so, so much for this Niall because I am terrified of my potatoes getting blight!! I nearly broke my neck running out to the garden to check mine and thankfully they appear to be ok. You have answered all my queries and made me feel less apprehensive about the dreaded blight!!! I don't know about you but I was praying to potato angels, blight angels and any kind of angels when you first put that fork in haha!! So happy you had a great yield, and the delight you expressed was just lovely! I shall be keeping a tight eye on mine from now on Niall and thanks to you I know what to look for! Lovely to see your wee girls make an appearance..adorable! Thank you so much again Niall...take care x
Hi Geraldine! You're welcome! I think the main thing is truly not to panic. Unfortunately, it's pretty much a fact of life around these parts, but at least it doesn't necessarily have to spell disaster for the crop. To be honest, I assumed it would, so this video has been as much about my learning as well as passing on the info! Great that you're potatoes still seem to be untouched. I hadn't planned on putting the bit into the video with the girls, but I couldn't resist!
The dreaded blight , at least you got some nice potatoes,thanks for sharing your experience I shall be extra vigilant this year now.
Great video, thanks. Question... I had blight in my raised beds and lost most of my potatoes crop, in California of all places. We had a late spring rain. My potatoes were in half wine barrels. My question is, should I dump the soil and how do you disinfect a barrel post blight infection to limit it coming again? Thanks.
Great video - very informative!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Carol! 😃
One potato two potato three potatoes more 😂😂 like a kid on Christmas morning. I always think this “gardening should be a sheer pleasure to enjoy your home and the sun and be outside, harvests are an added bonus” to everything else. If you plant 1 potato and get 2 that’s 100% return 🥳🥳. Thank you for sharing Niall ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
So true - I kinda was like a kid as I was discovering them! 😂 I really like your quote and 100% agree with it, plus I also like how you view the return on investment! I think I might've been bitten by the potato-growing bug!!
Loving the videos. Try growing your potatoes in bags or pots. I find used feed or compost bags I can get from friends are a fabulous cheep solution to also getting better results for potatoes and with very much less work. Plus you can filter the soil from the bags and use the soil for the next seedlings you are planting. Best wishes.
Thanks Derek! Funny, I was thinking of doing exactly what you suggest as I was digging the potatoes... mainly because of the reduced workload! Next year, the potatoes won't be in the raised beds - plus it leaves more room for other crops. Thanks very much for the comment! Speak to you soon!
U
Interesting video Niall. Thanks for showing blight and proportional ways to assess and treat. Not a lot out here in Sydney Australia, that I’m aware of at least, but I am aware of the historical effect this potato fungus had on populations and migration in the past. Thanks!
That's great that you're in an area that isn't generally struck with blight - thank goodness!
I bet those will be some of the best tasting spuds you’ve ever eaten! Enjoy 😁
They are! (Having already taste-tested and quality-assured them!) 😃
Typical wet, muggy, humid, dreary August here in Northern Ireland my friend 😔 and I totally agree very late season I’m hoping for a sunny September and a dry October it’s well deserved I think ☘️
Hey Neilo! Yeah it's been such a late season - I'm exactly the same as yourself... hoping and wishing for a decent September and October!!
@@niallgardens was lovely today Niall tomorrow is looking promising fingers crossed ☘️
Nice Video and information Niall
Glad you think so! Thanks! 😃
Thankfully I’ve planted potatoes in three different locations and only one spot has this. Thanks for this info. The weird part is that it is extremely dry right now. How I get a few spuds out of it. I’ll be out chopping potatoe greens.
Blighted leaves can be safely composted as the blight cannot overwinter in leaves without a potato to infect. Just make sure you don't put any potatoes into the compost heap.
That's great info, thanks very much Carl! Cheers! 😃
great advice..Thankyou!! my Dr in Australia is your twin brother!! same voice & tone too.😁
No way! My doppelganger!
So a question- since it is a problem fungus in the soil, is their a soil treatment? Can you or will you reuse soil the next year because blight doesn’t just go away right?
You can compost blighted leaves,tomato or spuds...it's not a problem
Very clear video thanks. I have same problem at start of June with Premier Earlies. Cut out stems and only small tubers available. I used 7 new potato bags with new compost. Question is WHAT TO DO WITH THE COMPOST / SOIL / BAGS. DOES IT ALL HAVE TO BE DUMPED. CAN IT BE TREATED. IF I MISS ANY PLANT MATERIAL WILL IT PROPAGATE AGAIN. Thanks Brendan
Although this is an old vid, did you fertilise the potatoes?
I used tomato fertiliser (England but I'm Irish and understand sometimes in Northern Ireland the NPK ratios are not ideal) with an NPK ratio of 2 4 10 and the yields increased dramatically.
Good effort boss
My potatoes are only 56 days old are they are getting blight all over them :( not a good potato year for me. Hopefully it doesn't happen next year. Thank you for the information :)
Do I need to remediate the soil after digging up potatoes with blight? What can I plant in the same location next crop?
Oh boy! 10lb.of beautiful potatoes 🥔
Yeah I was mega chuffed!
@@niallgardens "chuffed"...adding that word to my list of words from across the pond. 🤣
@@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 It's a great word!
Thank you for this great information I am going out to look at my potato plants, I have tried 3 years in a row to grow potatos, first year I loved them to much with watering, last year we had a very hot summer and even with my light watering once a week they didn’t do well, this year we got a lot and I mean a lot of rain at first so I am praying I get something this year.
Hello
I am growing in containers my leaves have turned brown, I don’t want to lift them yet as I live alone and can’t use them very quickly.
Can I cut foliage and leave in containers till I need them without watering?
Nice pilant tips
You're welcome!
My potato plant have been growing for almost 3 months, but I recently seen brown spots on the leaves. Would it be blight or is the plant just dying?
Hi i planted mytubers in April. I use a planter as i have no earth in the ground. I also put the earth into plastic bags to help with growth. The stems are very tall and are blowing over in the wind. How can i stop them from breaking?. Also how long before they are ready?. Thanks for your help
nice video
nous avons exactement le même problème en France ! c'est le temps pluvieux qui est responsable
Exactly, the rainy weather and the warm temperatures in the summer mean that the blight happens so often!
awww so sorry you got potato blight hun :( that's really sad but you did get some yummies and thats the main thing :D :D :D
Yeah exactly! I thought all might be lost, but in the end I was actually quite happy with the crop... plus they tasted delicious!
@@niallgardens awesome!!! Honestly I’m yet to find a potato I actually am excited about except for some we used to get from the local farm shop but they sold it 😢 maybe I’ll find it one day 💙🧚♀️💙
My potatoes 🥔 got blight. I’ll have to harvest early in order not to affect the yield. However, are there preventive measures to take against blight ??
Nialli can you explain to me what makes pottato plants wither and rots at the bottom of the stem am experiencing that problem
I have to be honest, I'm not too sure? Hmmmmm
It would have been nice if you could have shown some potatoes with actual blight and not just Septoria Leaf Spot.
Have you got video how to plant these potatoes?
I don't have a dedicated how-to video, but if you watch this one, I have a whole section where I plant the potatoes! 👍 th-cam.com/video/muAN9BXkcHE/w-d-xo.html
Yup, got blight, but knew what it was as we had it back in Scotland too. I was taught to pull and burn the foliage.
Anyone else get it in their tomatoes too this year? And mine are in a polytunnel! :/
Yes, I'm in the Scottish Borders and got blight on my spuds - which like Niall's were late second earlies - outside and my tomatoes inside my polytunnel. It's my first year with a tunnel, and I blame myself for planting them too close together, allowing too much foliage and perhaps also unwittingly bringing the spores in from the potato patch. You live and learn 🤷♂️
Yeah getting blight on the potatoes is almost inevitable isn't it... my tomatoes have fared ok this year and so far I seem to have dodged it!
You're 100% right Gareth, it's all learning! I planted my tomatoes very close together this year and because of that have had to clip away foliage so often to try and maintain proper airflow.
@@garethmoore1276 I'm in the States, but I deal with blight on my tomatoes every year. I'm going to get ahead of it next year! My potatoes do well here in North Carolina in the mountains. It's not overly humid and we had a drought this summer. Now, it won't stop raining! So I'll keep an eye on my potatoes. This is my first time here. I subscribed and like it already.
How do you know if it’s snails or blight? They look the same to me.
Ps the ladies are adorable 🥰
Aw yeah, they're wee beauties aren't they?!
My potatoes were sad this year! I planted them in a raised bed and too shallow. Their stems were too tall and a storm knocked them over and they stopped growing! 😪 I have one-half bushel of fancy new potatoes! 😕
Aw I know exactly what you mean - I think for next year I'm going to plant mine in containers or bags where I can easily earth them up and also harvest them without having to dig dig dig!
Its annoying, its a fungi thing to and almost impossible to do anything about
Goddamn blight !
It's pretty much inevitable isn't it?!
@@niallgardens yes it is , but blight will never stop this irishman from growing spuds. They are delicious
PUPPIES!!!!
Puppies! 😃
potato plight is a nightmare, every year you WILL get bight just hope its very light lol