Harvesting in The unpredictable world of root crop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- I was shocked by this when I went to go harvest my potatoes from my garden.
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You are correct let the plant be a plant
In my book, yours was a very decent sized harvest! I plant my potatoes in pots and bins. Last year, I had a good harvest of 60 lbs from grocery store Yukons that I cut up and planted. However, the last potatoes I planted in May (zone 5a) were some purple seed potatoes in a large 20 lb grow-bag. They looked gorgeous with dark green lush foliage. However, when I tried to harvest, there was NOTHING below ground. I was pretty upset as I had fertilized and watered regularly. Not sure what happened. This year, I'm not using any seed potatoes. My red potatoes from the store are fast-growing maniacs. We'll see. Always a surprise.
What a great teaching/learning experience for us all. It should not be hard to have failures or talk about them. That's how we all learn! Our potatoes are also coming on harvest time. Some vines have flopped over and look wilted, some look healthy and are blooming. I learned from a local that at planting time to add (Hi-yield brand) potash to the soil for root crops. In the absence of bugs, etc. I think the wilting/dying vines means the plant has produced all it's meant to and it's harvest time! Yum. Thank you for the latest video,
I agree They just seemed pitiful the whole time. All is not lost though.
Good Morning!! We have had some crazy weather patterns in Coastal Carolina. Heat spells, No rain for awhile. My garden is busting out right now. I planted a couple weeks early on my Squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes and I have already been canning Pickles. Cherry tomatoes are turning early this year!! Potatoes in one bed doing great but another bed dying. Maybe should check that one closer!!! Gardening to help the budget and also to keep learning more about how things grow and what I myself can do to tweak the production. Bottom line Mother Nature has the final say!!!
It has been weird. I think the heat is about to turn up now. I have alot of green tomatoes early this year too
When I planted potatoes the crazy raccoon must have been watching because he dug some up to see what I was hiding. When I scolded him for stealing the bird seeds he came and dumped out my carrots in a planter. I tried coating the bird seeds in very hot pepper powder and he seemed to love it. But it works to stop the bunny from nibbling my seedlings and keeps armadillos out of my mulch.
It was too to get decent potatoes in Salisbury NC when I lived there so I imagine heat might be an issue. Now I live in North Central Florida and I grow true yams (not sweet potatoes).
Looking at your harvest I can say you are far better with potatoes than I am.
Good morning 😊awesome video 📹 great info 👍 thank you 😊 😊😊😊
Good morning!
Great video,growing potatoes in the south seems challenging. I’m starting mine now in Colorado. Just passed the last frost. The thing I’ve heard is just because the plants start to die, you don’t have to harvest the potatoes. The countdown on their storage starts when you take them out of the ground, but I guess if you have pests you better get them out. I will be growing in 20 gallon pots to avoid pest and Rocky Mountain soil issues.
That is a surprising "tomato" 🥔 🤣
Makes good salsa
Totally agree that it was probably the heat. The only other thing that came to mind was maybe double checking what you planted in that bed last year..? I haven’t personally come across such bad combative planting that a plant just didn’t thrive at all, but maybe something to consider. Still a good harvest though all things considered! 🎉
Good morning.
I was as surprised as you when you started finding spuds in there.
Yeah this year is definitely off as far as the weather.
My garlic has scapes already here in NW PA, I planted on Halloween and they are about a month early.
I think it's due to the warm winter.
Have a great day.
Good morning 🌞 my garden seems to be early this year as well
I planted some little red store potatoes this year to make seed potatoes to plant this fall and next year since store potatoes sometimes don`t produce well because of chemicals. I thought they were just baby sized potatoes sorted from a large variety but the plants produced tiny red potatoes only. I don`t go to stores and got my sister to get a bag of them and two bunches of green onions to plant. I thought the green onions would bloom then die but after blooming they continued growing and some seem to be growing extra green onions and starting to become bunching onions. I just got a large heavy bag of Paris Market carrot seeds. They`re easy to grow and they produce tubers very fast compared to other types.
Happy Tuesday!
Morning!
I collected old taters from family and friends and bought zero seed taters this year!
My red taters did the same thing. I dug up a bunch of small taters after the plants dried up earlier than usual and the plants were smaller than usual. 😊
red taters seem to be more sensitive to the heat.
I garden in my living room right now but I have a potato crop at my daughter's house, grown in bags and no watering 😂. Will be interesting to see what happened to them. She lives a good distance away, trying to get her to send me a video but I think I just need to go down and harvest them in the next couple weeks. Potatoes are weird for me, never know what to expect.
That's why I like root crops. They are always a surprise
Riverside County, Calif. Low desert.
Small suburban plot... But better than none.
Your videos have revived my curiosity in gardening. I've dared to try a lot of stuff with potatoes this year.
The quick growing potatoes were done in 90 days. Saved Viking potatoes were the quickest and I'd suggest planting them first for cold hardiness. The next week I put in red potatoes (Pontiac maybe?) Then a white rose type. These earliest kinds grew mid to late January until late April to mid May. Last to plant were sprouted store russets. They went in the first few days of Feb and harvested the last week in May. They need 120 days. Again. Adequate. It was nice that harvests were spread out for two months.
Like your family, we don't eat a lot of potatoes. Each variety was just a 5 foot row in a full sun suburban garden plot. I got 3 lbs of russets, and probably about the same for the others. I did save seed from it for next year.
I suggest you put aside the potatoes that are about the size of an egg. If you have room in your refrig, save them a few months to 18 months until you replant. I've heard they need 3 months chill before replanting. My Vikings were saved seed. I'd been disappointed with last year's crops. But, I'd heard they can adapt to land and improve yields. Experiment success.
Because we've been cooler and rainier longer this year, I put an experimental replanting of rose potatoes. They've sprung from the ground and will harvest late July. Being a desert... theorize failure. But. Until I try, I won't know for certain. So many crops have been adapted since the 1950s, and maybe there's a good potato to grow for Summer potato salads, right?
But. I'm also realistic. A few feet away are sweet potato slips that'll harvest in early Nov. I'll dig the red potatoes about the time the sweet potatoes need the space.
Honestly. Potatoes are kinda cheap. But I like having the knowledge .
Thats how I am they are fun to grow. If I decide to do another planting in the fall I ll use some of these. I am not big on saving them for seed into the second year. The fall crop I would save for the next season as after we harvest those we would only have about 60 days intil the next planting.
I would be interested in the weight difference between the bed you just harvested and the still existing bed. Our potatoes just came out due to blight...still got a little harvest we were happy to find.
We will find out very soon
For your morning sun plot.
1) check the pH. If it's more alkaline than the other plots, it may be nematodes. Pull a plant and check the roots. The roots will be bulging and deformed.
Then, I'd plant a lot of marigolds and crops unaffected by them. I've salvaged crops by top dressing with a bag of steer manure and watering in. Not great yields, but crops survived. I've heard a Fall or Winter crops of hot mustard, tilled in, will cure an area of nematodes for next Spring.
2) There are a few crops that like afternoon shade. The first that comes to mind are bell peppers. Then, most culinary herbs and tomatoes. Im experimenting with solanova lettuces this Summer. Some will get afternoon shade, some full sun. Some under shadecloth.
Thank you but I feel like the heat got to them. It seems that the red taters are more sensitive to the heat which makes sense. ph levels are fine and I dont do marigolds for pest control. How ever I do plant mustards in each nightshade plot and till in the plant when done. The afternoon shade seems to be ok as it gives relief from the heat.
Might have needed hilling I’m not sure
We did hill them a bit. That wouldn't cause the plants to die back like they did
@@sandybottomhomestead I’ve had mine start to die, then once hilled they’d take off again, I’m no pro I just try things until something works lol. At least you got some taters from it