I'm in the PWN in Oregon and use landscape fabric in one of my growing spaces. I do use drip tape and it's under the fabric (some like to have it on top). Each year we amend the soil and we have a ton of worms under ours. I feel if you had drip, your soil would stay damp and you would see the worms. Just my thoughts :)
I agree with you! It seems the Ruth Stout has retained more moisture as well. My opinion. First year, I tried it. Before, I was doing the mounding. I appreciate everything you guys put out to learn from. Thank you.
Two thoughts as I was watching. Save the green potatoes and use them next year as seed potatoes. By using ones you grow, you are are creating a generation of potatoes that become better acclimated to your climate. I use grass clippings to cover my potatoes (instead of straw). They are free and we do not spray our grass, so they are organic. The clippings provide a lot of nitrogen to the soil and great coverage. I have no problems with green potatoes or too much moisture. I bought a leaf sweeper off craigslist (you can buy new at Home Depot) and I attach it to my ATV to pick up the clippings. Works great. In addition to leaves and a cover crop, I cover my entire garden with grass clippings for the winter. My soil has never been better. Take care.
Greetings from Wisconsin. I think those are beautiful potatoes. I agree with you about the earthworms. We use chopped up maple leaves and have tons of worms. Great photo of the two bushels in the tractor bucket at 12:40. Thanks for your video.
I used landscape fabric on my potatoes this year, 2 different ways. I put it on one of my raised beds and planted potatoes in it. The other way (which I have been doing the last few years) is placing the fabric on the ground and then adding compost, goat bedding and hay/straw to the top like a Ruth Stout garden. I feel like the Ruth Stout method worked the best. I have always had good results with that. This year I planted 50 pounds of Kennibec and we harvested around 400 lbs. I used landscape fabric on every single raised bed I had this year besides my onion and garlic and it’s helped me tremendously.
This is my best pepper season ever. It’s the first year I started them in my hydroponic set up. They were potted in big pots by the time it was planting time and already cranking out peppers and they are still lush and green and cranking out fruit ! I will always do my peppers this way.
All of the gardeners I watch are having a tough pepper year and they are all across the US. Weird! I am so tickled it is harvest season!!!! Harvest videos are the BEST!!!!
We grew for first time in our greenhouse we just built, our peppers are great we had our chickens in there over the winter and a lot of leafs as a carbon base we put on last fall and chickens scratched them up!
Could you put a nice layer of mulch on top of the landscape fabric to cover that black plastic? That would help hold in moisture and block the sun rays from baking the soil under the fabric. At least that's what helps me here in South Mississippi. I know what works here might not work anywhere else. Just a thought. Those potatoes look great and I'm jealous😘
Grow winter rye in the fall get them cover crops and start that garden late May, after Rye starts to form head. Rye will decompose and act like a mulch (Ruth Stout). Can add some diakon radish for minor tillage. (I am Organic) TH-camr is a good video to watch. That will help build the soil you won't need manures nor fertilizer soon as you get the system going. I recommend watching Glenn Rosenberg (Soil Works) TH-camr he speaks a lot about what is needed in our soil. Just thought I could pass some good information on!!
I garden in MN, in past years I have used the weed barrier fabric for green beans, cabbage, broccoli, flowers, tomatoes, squash etc and I really liked it. But I did not like it for onions, carrots or beets. I haven't tried it for potatoes. Maybe root veggies don't do as well with it? My pumpkins always have done well with the barriers. The size of the holes are different for different size plants. The larger the plant the larger the hole. Your potatoes looked pretty good, but you were right on the soil looking a little poor. I really enjoy your videos, you both perk me up, give good info and are so relaxed about life it seems. Thank you for sharing with us. Oh, and I love the Ruth Stout method with potatoes.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with using weed barrier cloth and describing the resulting garden soil condition, especially having no worms wiggling in it! That's concerning, and I hope you're able to rebuild and revive it to a healthier state soon. I liken garden soil condition to the foundation of a house; if it isn't strong to begin with then it becomes unstable. I'd heard Patera (Appalachia's Homestead) say she'd never use weed barrier cloth again either, but I didn't know why at the time. Perhaps she was referring to a similar situation with her soil as what you've experienced? Anyway, your harvest of potatoes looks great, and sending much appreciation to y'all from deep south Louisiana!
Thanks for sharing. I have always leaned towards natural ways in the garden. I use hay as it’s what I have from bales that go bad and the horses cannot eat. I have great luck with hay!
Glad to see I am not the only one to have to sit on my bum in the garden! I hope it is not for the same reasons I do. thanks for sharing! The black plastic for potatoes I would never do again for several reasons, 1 the black plastics gets so hot you can not walk bare foot on it, so what is that doing to the soil below, 2 the green potatoes. and 3 voles. The only pro I found was weed control. Ruth Stout was the best way I found too, but the voles like hay too.
Western Washington State here, around the Puget Sound. I use landscape fabric on my in-ground beds where I grow my big vining plants like watermellon, pumpkins, etc. I use it because its hard to weed eat the grass around the sprawling vines. I use ollas (specifically the brand ThirstyEarth) to water each plant. So the soil isn't dry, and we have lots of insects. I definitly think watering UNDER the fabric is the trick.
Aww Rachel, I know you are diligently striving to keep the soil healthy and well nutrient rich, but as we also have found out, barriers are exactly as they claim; barriers. Nothing or very little penetrates past it. So you figure, the potatoes take a lot from the soil but even with your leaf mulch I don’t think the worms were able to survive the heat underneath and closer to the surface. 🤷🏻♀️ You have a beautiful harvest! We grew ours in almost the same footage, but our soil is so much worse, it was dusty dirty conditions when we dug potatoes yesterday with our grandkids. The hot weather conditions just played havoc. However, it looks like the harvests are plentiful for both of us despite. God is so good 🙌🏻 Blessings continually to you and Todd
Rachel I use weed fabric with my potatoes and I go back in after flowering and put dirt on around the base of the plant and i to cover any possible potatoes that will stick out it doesn't take a lot. Works great.
My kennebec harvest was great as well. I live in NE Ohio. When I was a kid in the 1960's and 70's my cousins and I picked up kennebec potatoes for my grandfather who sold to several outlets.
Love that we get to see you back in the garden this year . Ugh I can't wait till the next harvest &canning videos 😊 Honestly you guys are my favorite I've learned so much from the both of yous ❤
I listened to a live video today about using copper wire on a pole ( clockwise and about an inch apart on a hole or stick in your garden that improves your crop
I was just harvesting my biggest potatoes ever (all in 10 gallon grow bags) a few hours ago. I'm thinking you probably solarized your soil a bit...a topping of compost and consistent water should bring that life back. I use straw mulch like Ruth Stout even in my grow bags and it reflects so much heat I doubt I'll change that. 💚
Would love to know what soil mix you put into the grow bags. I tried 2 years ago and got nothing! I have plastic pots this year (10 or 20 gallons not sure) and have a lot of greenery still. Hoping for a good harvest.
I plant potatoes in tall raised beds (thigh high). I mulch heavily with the previous year's partially composted leaves. Very, very little weeds. Had a great harvest. The soil stayed light and fluffy, I dug them all by hand, no forks. Your harvest is beautiful. (I'm in east central Minnesota. )
We never know until we try. Not much experience here with gardening for me. You said foliage dropped over and dried so fast and there were few ants in soil. Glad you did not wait to pick them I noticed ants on yellow leaf of squash plant and found a vine borer. Rotten blossoms. I agree a heavy mulch would be much better. Our potato foliage is still green. . Kennebec. Your 2 bushel harvest is wonderful.
I'm supposed to do potatoes this weekend too, i have a good wk leway, but w the humidity i might use that leway, and they can cook a little more. I just use poatoe bags, but i also plant in my raised beds once i pull my onions & garlic
Perhaps check in with your soil after the upcoming rain? Being open to the elements may encourage the worms to return. I imagine it was very hot under that fabric!
Potato harvest might be the most fun in a garden. 😁 The uv rays are doing a lot of damage to the soil we are a 9 out of 11 in WI and I'm sure you are about the same. Deep mulch should help and partial shade, even my heat lovers are struggling during the full sun of the day that they get. All that to say our sun is in a high uv cycle for our part of the world and yes its going to affect everything.
Im sorry along with you to see that sad soil. Hugs. For sure put on some mulched leaves and lawn trimmings in the Fall and it will be good to go next spring. I harvested my small 20 foot row the other day, only about 15 pounds. Thats ok, though, I really enjoy the treasure hunt. I didnt buy seed potatoes in spring just planted a pile of potatoes from my kitchen that sprouted. Im experimenting by putting in more kitchen sprouted potatoes for an October harvest.
This year i have been happy with most of my garden. Im very disappointed on my pumpkins and corn. I think next year i am going to try weed fabric for my pumpkins 🎃
The bugs are so bad in the garden its hard to pock and i dont like to put on the spray but man they are aweful Im in Michigan too.From what ive read you could save the green ones and plant them next year😊
So sorry Rachel my peppers seem to be doing doing best this year. However my beautiful cucumber plant was attacked by-a critter after only a couple cucumbers, and it was loaded with cakes and blossoms. Finally had one more germinate so far only one cuke. ❤️🙏 only 4-5 lbs from my first three or four bags of potatoes. However they were from potatoes I would have thrown away. We will sees how the next two bags do. Your potato harvest looks great.
What is your preferred way to can them? Zone 9a on the West Coast and we grow in 20gal grow bags. Harvest is easy, just dump over and remove the potatoes and we use drip irrigation to each bag because hot, dry California, we have water restrictions. Also with grow bags, no weeding. Each year we refresh the soil with compost and worms. It's not perfect but for hard clay soil, it's not too bad. We don't generally have basements in California so I want to can this year. I'm looking into dry canning, have you tried that? Always love your videos!! Thank you!
Drip irrigation would really help. Your soil is too dry and that's why it doesn't have life. Drip lines are easy to install and not horribly expensive. I think if you try it, you'll really like it.
I just think the fabric is too drying with the sun...maybe drip tape next year. I would amend your soil with horse manure This fall if you can get some. Awesome harvest 🎉
Also in SE Michigan and my peppers are doing terrible too with the exception of my Anaheim chilis which went bananas. Even jalapeños are not growing. My bell peppers look beautiful and then all the sudden rot out and die. It’s very frustrating.
I planted tomatillos for the first time this year and they have taken off!! Do you have any recommendations for long-term storage. Is it best to roast them and canned them or can I freeze them right off the vine as is? Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you so much. I love watching your show.😊
I wonder if you put amendments under the fabric, like leaves/hay...then fabric...if it would speed decomposition and bring more " life" to the soil. Perhaps this year things are just different, I amended the same way and have seen only a few worms. Could it be our tropical heat too? So the worms are seeking cooler soil, going deeper? Just ideas.
I planted potatoes in grow fabric for the first time this yeat and won't do it again. The soil was sooo hard underneath and the potatoes grew close to the surface. I love the fabric for tomatoes, peppers, and squash, but gonna pass on any root crops.
To me "Living Traditions Homestead" is the one to watch for information on using the fabric and what brand as well as the watering systems and how to install. I think, but don't quote me, that potatoes was the one crop they didn't like the results of using the fabric.
I think the lack of worms was because it was so dry. The worms need moisture. I have been using landscape fabric for 5 yrs now & my soil is beautiful. But I do use drip irrigation. And I pull up the fabric & plant a cover crop that I till in every spring before replanting. I also use a liquid fertilizer every 2 wks that has micronutrients in it.
I know they have different thicknesses of weed fabric and I used it before admiring soil stayed moist and lots of worms and so I’m wondering if you got a really thick one that didn’t let a lot of water through
I have never been a big fan of landscaping fabric, as a landscaper. I don't fault anyone who wants to use it, but I agree with you guys that it brings nothing to the table, and doesn't help make the soil healthy. I always do either Ruth Stout or just using cardboard or brown paper. It breaks down and turns into soil, and I just don't feel so uncomfortable using such a kind of plasticy product. But that's me. Your potatoes turned out really well, though...🙂
I follow a family farm family from Pennsylvania and they use a biodegradable fabric and drip tape under the fabric and they have great success. The fabric is made of corn syrup! But you still had a great harvest.
That landscape fabric you used is heavy duty but isn’t porous for water. You could do drip tape under the fabric. It should be fairly sterile for weeds now. Plant fall crops. Beets? Turnips? You’re saving the fabric. Sort of stuck with that hole pattern, though you can shift it. I use and swear by paper fabric. I cover it with last fall’s decomposed leaves and triple shredded wood chips. It’s not cheap, with shipping, but all disintegrates by the end of the season. It's just another alternative that works for me.
We've had tons of rain and my garlic and peppers did horrible. It's my 1st year doing garlic and I did both hardness and softneck and both were terrible. My pepper plants are tall but not many flowers on them at all.
Question. I heard you say “we like a red potato “, but then you said not anymore. Do you not like red potatoes? We do the Yukon golds and red because of less starch. And we use a drip system. Soil stays lightly moist, more like damp but not sopping wet. Love your videos.
@@1870s my friends are on that too. 🤔 Maybe I might give that a try. I know her husband lost 70 lbs. Lord knows I need to lose some. With Christ I can do all things. Have a great week.
You guys will be eating this winter! There is going to be a potato shortage because the farmer's in Idaho got their water cut off. So they will be very expensive in the stores.
Kennebec potatoes were bred for McDonalds fries. I imagine that is why they hold up to canning better. Not fond of the flavor, myself. My favorite potatoes are Yukon Gold.
living traditions uses drip tape with landscape fabric seems like you would need to water the garden if it doesn’t rain but it still looked like a good harvest to me
Just noticing weed fabric you use, the soil might do better w a fabric type instead of plastic. We have the kind that is used under the rds., it's fabric based
Mine have been in since March 10th, in Zone 6b, and they won't stop growing and flowering. I keep cutting back, covering up..and still, no die back. Do you think I should just pull now?
I'm in the PWN in Oregon and use landscape fabric in one of my growing spaces. I do use drip tape and it's under the fabric (some like to have it on top). Each year we amend the soil and we have a ton of worms under ours. I feel if you had drip, your soil would stay damp and you would see the worms. Just my thoughts :)
Thanks for sharing!
I love watching people harvest potatoes. It's like a treasure hunt!
I agree with you! It seems the Ruth Stout has retained more moisture as well. My opinion. First year, I tried it. Before, I was doing the mounding. I appreciate everything you guys put out to learn from. Thank you.
Two thoughts as I was watching. Save the green potatoes and use them next year as seed potatoes. By using ones you grow, you are are creating a generation of potatoes that become better acclimated to your climate. I use grass clippings to cover my potatoes (instead of straw). They are free and we do not spray our grass, so they are organic. The clippings provide a lot of nitrogen to the soil and great coverage. I have no problems with green potatoes or too much moisture. I bought a leaf sweeper off craigslist (you can buy new at Home Depot) and I attach it to my ATV to pick up the clippings. Works great. In addition to leaves and a cover crop, I cover my entire garden with grass clippings for the winter. My soil has never been better. Take care.
Greetings from Wisconsin. I think those are beautiful potatoes. I agree with you about the earthworms. We use chopped up maple leaves and have tons of worms. Great photo of the two bushels in the tractor bucket at 12:40. Thanks for your video.
I used landscape fabric on my potatoes this year, 2 different ways. I put it on one of my raised beds and planted potatoes in it. The other way (which I have been doing the last few years) is placing the fabric on the ground and then adding compost, goat bedding and hay/straw to the top like a Ruth Stout garden. I feel like the Ruth Stout method worked the best. I have always had good results with that. This year I planted 50 pounds of Kennibec and we harvested around 400 lbs. I used landscape fabric on every single raised bed I had this year besides my onion and garlic and it’s helped me tremendously.
This is my best pepper season ever. It’s the first year I started them in my hydroponic set up. They were potted in big pots by the time it was planting time and already cranking out peppers and they are still lush and green and cranking out fruit ! I will always do my peppers this way.
All of the gardeners I watch are having a tough pepper year and they are all across the US. Weird! I am so tickled it is harvest season!!!! Harvest videos are the BEST!!!!
Yes! Horrible year
My peppers suck this yr too, last yr was my 1st excellent pepper yr.
Interesting that last year everyone had great pepper harvests and I had none. This year I am growing in a Greenstalk and the peppers are doing great!
We grew for first time in our greenhouse we just built, our peppers are great we had our chickens in there over the winter and a lot of leafs as a carbon base we put on last fall and chickens scratched them up!
I had a bumper crop of Poblano peppers here in NE PA. I had thought I got sweet red pepper plants…. 🤷♀️
Thanks for sharing!
Great video!
Could you put a nice layer of mulch on top of the landscape fabric to cover that black plastic? That would help hold in moisture and block the sun rays from baking the soil under the fabric. At least that's what helps me here in South Mississippi. I know what works here might not work anywhere else. Just a thought.
Those potatoes look great and I'm jealous😘
Grow winter rye in the fall get them cover crops and start that garden late May, after Rye starts to form head. Rye will decompose and act like a mulch (Ruth Stout). Can add some diakon radish for minor tillage. (I am Organic) TH-camr is a good video to watch. That will help build the soil you won't need manures nor fertilizer soon as you get the system going. I recommend watching Glenn Rosenberg (Soil Works) TH-camr he speaks a lot about what is needed in our soil. Just thought I could pass some good information on!!
I garden in MN, in past years I have used the weed barrier fabric for green beans, cabbage, broccoli, flowers, tomatoes, squash etc and I really liked it. But I did not like it for onions, carrots or beets. I haven't tried it for potatoes. Maybe root veggies don't do as well with it? My pumpkins always have done well with the barriers. The size of the holes are different for different size plants. The larger the plant the larger the hole. Your potatoes looked pretty good, but you were right on the soil looking a little poor. I really enjoy your videos, you both perk me up, give good info and are so relaxed about life it seems. Thank you for sharing with us. Oh, and I love the Ruth Stout method with potatoes.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with using weed barrier cloth and describing the resulting garden soil condition, especially having no worms wiggling in it! That's concerning, and I hope you're able to rebuild and revive it to a healthier state soon. I liken garden soil condition to the foundation of a house; if it isn't strong to begin with then it becomes unstable. I'd heard Patera (Appalachia's Homestead) say she'd never use weed barrier cloth again either, but I didn't know why at the time. Perhaps she was referring to a similar situation with her soil as what you've experienced? Anyway, your harvest of potatoes looks great, and sending much appreciation to y'all from deep south Louisiana!
my peppers were amazing last year and so far this year it's horrible, but if I recall in late September and October peppers took off and were amazing.
I enjoy your videos. Its like visiting with friends and having a good visit.😊
Thanks for sharing. I have always leaned towards natural ways in the garden. I use hay as it’s what I have from bales that go bad and the horses cannot eat. I have great luck with hay!
Glad to see I am not the only one to have to sit on my bum in the garden! I hope it is not for the same reasons I do. thanks for sharing! The black plastic for potatoes I would never do again for several reasons, 1 the black plastics gets so hot you can not walk bare foot on it, so what is that doing to the soil below, 2 the green potatoes. and 3 voles. The only pro I found was weed control. Ruth Stout was the best way I found too, but the voles like hay too.
Western Washington State here, around the Puget Sound. I use landscape fabric on my in-ground beds where I grow my big vining plants like watermellon, pumpkins, etc. I use it because its hard to weed eat the grass around the sprawling vines. I use ollas (specifically the brand ThirstyEarth) to water each plant. So the soil isn't dry, and we have lots of insects. I definitly think watering UNDER the fabric is the trick.
Aww Rachel, I know you are diligently striving to keep the soil healthy and well nutrient rich, but as we also have found out, barriers are exactly as they claim; barriers. Nothing or very little penetrates past it. So you figure, the potatoes take a lot from the soil but even with your leaf mulch I don’t think the worms were able to survive the heat underneath and closer to the surface. 🤷🏻♀️
You have a beautiful harvest!
We grew ours in almost the same footage, but our soil is so much worse, it was dusty dirty conditions when we dug potatoes yesterday with our grandkids. The hot weather conditions just played havoc.
However, it looks like the harvests are plentiful for both of us despite. God is so good 🙌🏻
Blessings continually to you and Todd
My thoughts the landscape fabric attracts more heat and potato r a cool weather crop and like water .. moist
Illinois here and our peppers are crazy good this year.
Rachel I use weed fabric with my potatoes and I go back in after flowering and put dirt on around the base of the plant and i to cover any possible potatoes that will stick out it doesn't take a lot. Works great.
Todd's face when he ate that tomato when you were talking, you could tell how good it was lol.
My kennebec harvest was great as well. I live in NE Ohio. When I was a kid in the 1960's and 70's my cousins and I picked up kennebec potatoes for my grandfather who sold to several outlets.
So true. You need healthy soil that attract worms to get great plants 🙂So happy that you were able to get a harvest 🥰
Love that we get to see you back in the garden this year . Ugh I can't wait till the next harvest &canning videos 😊
Honestly you guys are my favorite I've learned so much from the both of yous ❤
I listened to a live video today about using copper wire on a pole ( clockwise and about an inch apart on a hole or stick in your garden that improves your crop
I was just harvesting my biggest potatoes ever (all in 10 gallon grow bags) a few hours ago. I'm thinking you probably solarized your soil a bit...a topping of compost and consistent water should bring that life back. I use straw mulch like Ruth Stout even in my grow bags and it reflects so much heat I doubt I'll change that. 💚
Would love to know what soil mix you put into the grow bags. I tried 2 years ago and got nothing! I have plastic pots this year (10 or 20 gallons not sure) and have a lot of greenery still. Hoping for a good harvest.
I thought it was just me on the peppers. In SE Michigan also and am really hoping next year is better. Only got a few peppers this year also.
Those look like half bushels. Nice harvest.
The red potatoes are so beautiful!!!
I plant potatoes in tall raised beds (thigh high). I mulch heavily with the previous year's partially composted leaves. Very, very little weeds. Had a great harvest. The soil stayed light and fluffy, I dug them all by hand, no forks. Your harvest is beautiful. (I'm in east central Minnesota. )
We never know until we try. Not much experience here with gardening for me. You said foliage dropped over and dried so fast and there were few ants in soil. Glad you did not wait to pick them
I noticed ants on yellow leaf of squash plant and found a vine borer. Rotten blossoms.
I agree a heavy mulch would be much better. Our potato foliage is still green. . Kennebec. Your 2 bushel harvest is wonderful.
I'm supposed to do potatoes this weekend too, i have a good wk leway, but w the humidity i might use that leway, and they can cook a little more. I just use poatoe bags, but i also plant in my raised beds once i pull my onions & garlic
Perhaps check in with your soil after the upcoming rain? Being open to the elements may encourage the worms to return. I imagine it was very hot under that fabric!
I have done 3 canners of Potatoes so far .
Potato harvest might be the most fun in a garden. 😁 The uv rays are doing a lot of damage to the soil we are a 9 out of 11 in WI and I'm sure you are about the same. Deep mulch should help and partial shade, even my heat lovers are struggling during the full sun of the day that they get. All that to say our sun is in a high uv cycle for our part of the world and yes its going to affect everything.
All look delicious!! Congrats on great harvest.
My understanding is that burdock burrs were the inspiration for Velcro when a man was out bird hunting.
The harvest was good, so it worked! Worms go deep when it's hot.
In Michigan too and already dug potatoes. The plants were dying off and ready.
Im sorry along with you to see that sad soil. Hugs. For sure put on some mulched leaves and lawn trimmings in the Fall and it will be good to go next spring. I harvested my small 20 foot row the other day, only about 15 pounds. Thats ok, though, I really enjoy the treasure hunt. I didnt buy seed potatoes in spring just planted a pile of potatoes from my kitchen that sprouted. Im experimenting by putting in more kitchen sprouted potatoes for an October harvest.
I wouldn't ever use that landscape fabric as I found the same no worms etc. Great Harvest though Cheers Denise- Australia
This year i have been happy with most of my garden. Im very disappointed on my pumpkins and corn. I think next year i am going to try weed fabric for my pumpkins 🎃
My pepper plants have also done pretty crappy this year as well :(
The bugs are so bad in the garden its hard to pock and i dont like to put on the spray but man they are aweful Im in Michigan too.From what ive read you could save the green ones and plant them next year😊
So sorry Rachel my peppers seem to be doing doing best this year. However my beautiful cucumber plant was attacked by-a critter after only a couple cucumbers, and it was loaded with cakes and blossoms. Finally had one more germinate so far only one cuke. ❤️🙏 only 4-5 lbs from my first three or four bags of potatoes. However they were from potatoes I would have thrown away. We will sees how the next two bags do. Your potato harvest looks great.
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@@leahgullion2196 oops so sorry, to many Chanel’s.
Beautiful harvest ❤
Nice Spud Harvest!
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2 bushels of potatoes! That's approximately 120 pounds of potatoes. Great harvest!
What is your preferred way to can them? Zone 9a on the West Coast and we grow in 20gal grow bags. Harvest is easy, just dump over and remove the potatoes and we use drip irrigation to each bag because hot, dry California, we have water restrictions. Also with grow bags, no weeding. Each year we refresh the soil with compost and worms. It's not perfect but for hard clay soil, it's not too bad. We don't generally have basements in California so I want to can this year. I'm looking into dry canning, have you tried that? Always love your videos!! Thank you!
I had to smile when Todd snacked on the potato at the end 😁
So satisfying to see the potatoes unearthed. 😊 But I just hate the landscape fabric. Of course I am not doing the work. Lol.
velcro was designed after the burr from the burdock flower :)
Oh No, I was thinking of using ground cover in my gardens this fall ... I already bought it .
you know I love that I am learning things to do and not to do after the ending of every season. We need to re-plan for next year lol
Loved the video. I have really missed you guys in the garden 😊
Where do you get your favorite potatoes from as seed? Happy 2024 harvest to you guys
I am trying growing my potatoes this year in 15 gallon pots!!! I can’t wait to harvest to see if it worked
I had heard that the green ones are fine for next years seed potatoes. Congrats.
Drip irrigation would really help. Your soil is too dry and that's why it doesn't have life. Drip lines are easy to install and not horribly expensive. I think if you try it, you'll really like it.
Girl. Great ❤❤❤
What kind of potato did you say for canning
I just think the fabric is too drying with the sun...maybe drip tape next year. I would amend your soil with horse manure This fall if you can get some. Awesome harvest 🎉
I am having trouble with green beans this year. The type that you grew on the trellis, can you pressure can them?
Also in SE Michigan and my peppers are doing terrible too with the exception of my Anaheim chilis which went bananas. Even jalapeños are not growing. My bell peppers look beautiful and then all the sudden rot out and die. It’s very frustrating.
Did you guys do the deep dive with the potato fork after? Either way, 2 baskets full is still pretty dang good.
It’s okay, now you can figure out what you want to do next time!
I planted tomatillos for the first time this year and they have taken off!!
Do you have any recommendations for long-term storage. Is it best to roast them and canned them or can I freeze them right off the vine as is?
Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you so much. I love watching your show.😊
I wonder if you put amendments under the fabric, like leaves/hay...then fabric...if it would speed decomposition and bring more " life" to the soil. Perhaps this year things are just different, I amended the same way and have seen only a few worms. Could it be our tropical heat too? So the worms are seeking cooler soil, going deeper? Just ideas.
I planted potatoes in grow fabric for the first time this yeat and won't do it again. The soil was sooo hard underneath and the potatoes grew close to the surface. I love the fabric for tomatoes, peppers, and squash, but gonna pass on any root crops.
To me "Living Traditions Homestead" is the one to watch for information on using the fabric and what brand as well as the watering systems and how to install. I think, but don't quote me, that potatoes was the one crop they didn't like the results of using the fabric.
Did you go back and dig up the ground to find the ones that were deeper?
I think the lack of worms was because it was so dry. The worms need moisture. I have been using landscape fabric for 5 yrs now & my soil is beautiful. But I do use drip irrigation. And I pull up the fabric & plant a cover crop that I till in every spring before replanting. I also use a liquid fertilizer every 2 wks that has micronutrients in it.
Looks like an amazing harvest. Wondered if you used drip irrigation?
I love my landscape fabric but not for root crops. I use it for tomatoes, brassicas, peppers, etc. but not for potatoes or carrots
Kalamazoo county, looks like a lot of work to me ! I’ve been growing traditional way for 60 years and not changing
GOOD EVENING TO YOU AND TODD ONLY USE FABRIC FOR THE WINTER
I know they have different thicknesses of weed fabric and I used it before admiring soil stayed moist and lots of worms and so I’m wondering if you got a really thick one that didn’t let a lot of water through
I have never been a big fan of landscaping fabric, as a landscaper. I don't fault anyone who wants to use it, but I agree with you guys that it brings nothing to the table, and doesn't help make the soil healthy. I always do either Ruth Stout or just using cardboard or brown paper. It breaks down and turns into soil, and I just don't feel so uncomfortable using such a kind of plasticy product. But that's me. Your potatoes turned out really well, though...🙂
I am thinking that the landscape fabric held heat since it is black and maybe caused the soil to get hot and dry. You had nice potatoes too.
I've heard about the Ruth Stout method. I can't wait to try it
I follow a family farm family from Pennsylvania and they use a biodegradable fabric and drip tape under the fabric and they have great success. The fabric is made of corn syrup! But you still had a great harvest.
Curious, who are you following with that fabric. I would love to know more about it. Thx.
the Veggie Boys? Made of corn starch?
That landscape fabric you used is heavy duty but isn’t porous for water. You could do drip tape under the fabric. It should be fairly sterile for weeds now. Plant fall crops. Beets? Turnips?
You’re saving the fabric. Sort of stuck with that hole pattern, though you can shift it. I use and swear by paper fabric. I cover it with last fall’s decomposed leaves and triple shredded wood chips. It’s not cheap, with shipping, but all disintegrates by the end of the season.
It's just another alternative that works for me.
We've had tons of rain and my garlic and peppers did horrible. It's my 1st year doing garlic and I did both hardness and softneck and both were terrible. My pepper plants are tall but not many flowers on them at all.
Question. I heard you say “we like a red potato “, but then you said not anymore. Do you not like red potatoes? We do the Yukon golds and red because of less starch. And we use a drip system. Soil stays lightly moist, more like damp but not sopping wet. Love your videos.
mostly just because of our recent diet change, we don't eat many veggies right now and are mostly on a super low carb carnivore diet.
@@1870s my friends are on that too. 🤔 Maybe I might give that a try. I know her husband lost 70 lbs. Lord knows I need to lose some. With Christ I can do all things. Have a great week.
You guys will be eating this winter! There is going to be a potato shortage because the farmer's in Idaho got their water cut off. So they will be very expensive in the stores.
Dr cloth works best for things that grow above ground I have heard
Kennebec potatoes were bred for McDonalds fries. I imagine that is why they hold up to canning better. Not fond of the flavor, myself. My favorite potatoes are Yukon Gold.
living traditions uses drip tape with landscape fabric
seems like you would
need to water the garden if
it doesn’t rain
but it still looked like a good harvest to me
Maybe because the fabric is black it heats up too much for worms and plant roots. May want to mulch the covered rows u have left just in case.
Just noticing weed fabric you use, the soil might do better w a fabric type instead of plastic. We have the kind that is used under the rds., it's fabric based
NYS here. Peppers stunted this year......Govt spraying or global cooling coming. Either way Ive been hearing from several others the same.....
What was the name of your weed fabric?
Your back from the cabin?
Mine have been in since March 10th, in Zone 6b, and they won't stop growing and flowering. I keep cutting back, covering up..and still, no die back. Do you think I should just pull now?
normal is to wait until the plants up top die back.
Do you have bees? Pollinating?
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But ur pepper were really late for starting right?? I remember thinking, that u won't get many peppers with them so late
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