2022 No Dig Potato Harvest!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a longer video but you can see just how easy it is to pull up all these potatoes in this 16ft by 16ft bed with just hay and grass clippings on it. It only took about 20 minutes to get the whole bed done, so someone with not a lot of time between doing things could easily handle this bed.
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Why are you "dropping" your potatoes into the bucket?? Just because they are hard doesn't mean they will not bruise. They won't last long.
Understandable, but I have never had one bruise from putting it in the buckets the way I do. All my potatoes had actually lasted me months and I use them when I need them with no issues or wasted parts from bruising at all.
how were these planted???...atop of soil?...where are the seed potatoes?...I only saw 3 as your harvested.
Hey thanks for commenting! I have another previous video on my page preparing the bed and planting exactly how I do them. The seed potatoes are in the middle of the hay essentially where they can get plenty of water and air circulating around them. The seed potatoes are also in the other video I purchased a bag from the Amish where I live and let them "eye" in storage until I was ready to plant the just cut small slices with the eye off. Really one potato can have enough eyes on it to give you around 10 plants that will bare a whole stash of potatoes on its own. A 5LB bag of potatoes from the store if you let them eye will give you around 200 to 300lb of potatoes when you harvest depending on the variety. Most of the "seed" parts of the potatoes I plant rot away once the plant develops and grows into the actual plant. This year I will break down each stage before planting and all the way through. I hope this gave you a better understanding!
Does the hay effect the taste of the potatoes? Do you use a certain type or age of hay? What a great harvest you had.
No the hay does not effect the taste at all, it just acts as the bed for the potatoes to grow in. Using hay helps with not sticking potatoes when you try to use a potato fork or pitch fork to get them out of the ground, so you don't waste any or have to cook so many because you accidently got them with the fork. Age of the hay and quality doesn't matter really either, if you can find a farmer with some bales that they would sell cheap as bedding or just hay that they baled to get it off the field that got ruined I bet they would Love to get rid of it being that bales take a long time to rot. The hay I use is just a grass hay I get from my buddy who does round bales every year and usually has 5x5 rounds that hell sell me for $10 or just give me and there is more than enough in that to do what I do with my beds! Thanks for the comment and watching well being coming up on potato planting hopefully in a couple months as long as the weather cooperates!
I was fine till you put the camera on a head mount. Then it made me feel sick.
Yes unfortunately some how I hit the button to turn off the option to steady the camera with a lot of motion but did not realize because I was racing the storm! Haha sorry about that! Can only make this years harvest better!
Are you from Alabama?
Thank you for showing the whole harvest. I had to pause several times because your camera made me dizzy! Great job, I really enjoyed it. Thanks for not speeding up the camera.
Hey Helen sorry about that I used the camera mounted to my head haha! I figured it would be easier than moving the tripod and being further away thats all. Yes my goal was to show the real time it took to harvest the entire bed.
Put them in paper bags in your stand
Cannot imagine the many ways to grow potatoes. Thanks, God bless . Your patience is amazing .
Yes of course there is MANY ways to grow them this is just how I prefer to do them because when Im busy doing other things around the farm and cant water right away all that hay has my back keeping them moist for me!
I love potato harvest videos, thanks for sharing! You got some nice sized taters there.
Thank you appreciate it! There will be plenty more in the times to come thinking maybe this year expanding or doing multiple different beds of other kinds so stick around to check those ones out as well!
The green tells you they're poisonous. I hope you didn't use any of those that had green on them.
No I do not keep any of the green ones I usually leave them right where they lay so they can rot into the ground or pull them and get rid of them elsewhere! Also if you pull your potatoes and put them in the sun to dry will make them poisonous as well that is why it is recommended to keep them in a cool dark place to dry and store.
@@forcefamilyhomestead6898 I'm so glad you already know that. I'm learning quite a bit right now, so I just try to spread whatever I learn to help others that may not know either.
Thank you for the tip about NOT putting them in the sun. I did not know that.
Keep up the good work!
@@dragonlily7 Of course never hurts to spread knowledge or things you learn to everyone! Highly encouraged thank you!
I love that you show the actual harvesting
Of course! Everyone deserves to see the actual results from start to finish.
Hi , from Brazil, beatifull productions
Thank you I appreciate it a lot still somewhat new to things being I am not good at technology stuff but I'm trying and that is what matters right!? haha
😁 thank you, looking to try myself in the spring
Good Luck! There are other videos I have posted to help you along the way from start to finish if you want to follow those or try something different! Make sure to stop back and let me know how it turned out for you. The reward at the end of the "hard work" is always the best feeling.
camera is dizzying, good harvest. what do you do with the green ones?
I know sorry for the wild ride I had the camera mounted on the on the head mount. Thank you appreciate it was not my best harvest but will be better next year for sure! The green ones I typically just leave there I don't do anything with them unless I throw them in with the pig or the chickens to peck at. They break down pretty quickly and rot into the soil.
@@forcefamilyhomestead6898You can save the green ones as seed potatoes, too. Since they are so big, you can cut them in several pieces, making sure each has several eyes and let them chit, then plant for a second hatvest.