Don't Make THIS Mistake Growing Potatoes
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- Join me for an exciting potato harvest adventure! Watch as we dig up the potatoes and share all the tips and tricks to avoid common mistakes.
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@@rickirizarry5079Thank you so much!
I went to the website. It's very easy to navigate. I can't wait to start reading all the blogs.
@@lindapedersen-hylka7170thanks so much for checking it out
85F degrees is the magic temperature. Development will be poor above it. I'm a little north of you in Sylacauga Alabama. Our last frost date is April 10th. I've experimented trying to grow succesion crops without success. We get hit with a freeze around February 20th, so any sooner than that last freeze will delay growth. In my area the ideal time fo the best crop is planting the first week of March. April is too late to get a decent crop. I've grown Red Pontiac, kennebec, and Yukon Gold. Last year, I chitted Idaho Ruset potatoes from the grocery store and got my best harvest. They easily out produced the other potatoes by 3 to 1. This year, I am growing Idaho Russets exclusively. For white rot, I'd try quenching the soil with boiling water to sterilioze it.
Thanks for the tips, especially the white rot. I will do that. 😊
You should still consider hilling the potatoes even if with straw or pine needles. It will help keep roots cooler and extend season some.
Great point!
Yay! What an awesome harvest! My first time planting and getting a harvest back in March, was very small, but I was overjoyed and thankful! I will follow your lead and advice for my next planting! Enjoy your abundance! 😊 -Rosa
Thanks so much! Every harvest is a celebrated, small or large
love your videos they are very informative. I had the best harvest this year using sprouted potatoes from Publix and planting them whole in grow bags with very loose soil and perlite.
That is awesome! Gotta love Publix!
I grow a lot of Irish and Yukon here in coastal Mississippi.
Cut, dip in lime and plant immediately in February..
Worked really well for last five years.
Some full sun, some shade. I tease out a lot of new potatoes, then let them go till plants die off.
Cheers.
I was considering cutting them next year but only for the spring season when we don’t get as much rain. Fall planting is tough because we get crazy amounts of rain and hurricanes
Great harvest. My spring harvest is always better than fall/winter. I plant whole potatoes that have sprouted. Otherwise nothing comes up. And I have had great success using organic potatoes from store bought potatoes.
Thanks! Yes, spring does seem better than my fall harvests too. Must be a daylight length thing
Any potato harvest in the south is a blessing. I'm happy when I get a 5-10lb harvest from 5 or so chitted potatoes.
Never really thought about the time of year 🤔.
I'm in florida also so I'll make note of that in my gardening journal.
Thank you for sharing your experience so we can learn too.
Many blessings to you as always💞
You are absolutely right. Any harvest in this heat is a blessing. Thanks so much for watching
I think a spading fork would make your harvest job a lot easier, gently outside and under the plant and lift the whole thing up, just a thought.
That’s a great suggestion. I’ll definitely try that next time. Save my back some pain lol
Thanks for saying that about using whole potatoes. It makes sense with how much rain we get during hurricane season. Gonna try my first potatoes this fall!
That’s awesome! I’m so excited for you
Congratulations on your website! and thank you for the temperature tip - I didn't know potatoes don't like 90-plus heat. I just planted some a couple weeks ago, but I'm in central TX so, we'll see.
Thanks so much! If you mulch them super heavy you might be able to shield them from the heat longer. Good luck
Nice job in the tader patch!
Thanks!
I harvested my first potato crop. It was a fail. I grew less potatoes than I planted. But watching this video showed me some of the things I did wrong. I didn't fertilize that much, I planted them in a place I thought had sun but the winter sun moved so they had a lot of shade. I will be trying again this fall. I'm sure it will be better this year. Thanks again
I’ve always learned so much more from my bad years than my good. It keeps things interesting for sure
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a That's so true. Each time I fail, it makes the next crop better. I'm failing upwards, lol.
The website looks amazing. I think planting potatoes in large growbags might be better.
Thanks so much! I’m actually going to try that with sweet potatoes this year and then I might do the same with potatoes next time 💚
I am thankful to have gotten to watch you grow, thru the time I’ve watched. It makes me feel better about my own journey. I live much further south of you. I think this years winter rain was not at all normal. I’ve had to resort to growing potatoes in grow bags for this reason. I live in the Naples area. I’m still learning. Thanks for all you do! 🙏😇
Thanks so much for watching! I’ll have to try grow bags next season
Have you heard of a Florida Red Potato called “Larouge”?
I haven’t. Have you grown them before?
Something we do here in sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵 to sanitize soil is to dry it out and then seal it (the best you can) with black plastic.
The black plastic acts as a solar oven and raises the temperature of the soil to kill molds. 💖🌞🌵😷
Thanks for the tip!
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a much easier than boiling water. And cheaper than peroxide. 💖🌞🌵😷
There's something about spring. Love is in the air, April in Paris is a wonderful time but we must snap back to reality. We're not in Paris We're in Florida where it's hot and sticky. We have to have people like you to bring us back to that reality. Thank you for showing us everything you do. I know I always learn more from my failures than I do from my success. For your white rot you might even want to consider a weed burner. It's about 6' of flexible hose with a 3' wand on the end. You hook it to a propane tank like you would use for a gas grill and sterilize your soil with that. Be careful though. Sturdy shoes and a nearby water hose are a must.
@@1boortzfan the guy that used to own this property used a weed 🔥 burner. There are black scorch marks halfway up my queen palms. 💖🌞🌵😷
The tighter you can seal the plastic around bed the hotter the air, the hotter the soil. The reason I like the black plastic method is because the heat stays in the soil longer. I may leave the plastic on for days or even weeks.
Chemicals, hot water and even the torch, only effects the area they come in contact with. This crude solar oven, eventually heats every bit of soil. Even at cooler temperatures. I've seen videos where they roast chicken in a solar oven and the outside temperatures is only in the 70s.
Put it on and walk away until I'm ready to do something with that bed or pot. By the time I get to it, I'm pretty confident that ever bit of the soil has been sanitized.
There's also very little cost as I can reuse the black plastic over and over again, as well as it can be used for other applications .
I use black plastic garbage bags for pots. Because I buy these anyway... they are essentially no cost for this application, because they are reused (eventually) for garbage. 💖🌞🌵😷
I loved the website! Great job!
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I don’t know if this would help but maybe start treating the soil with JMS. It’s a Korean farming method that puts native microbes in the soil. The native microbes may get the mold in check by balancing everything out. All it takes is a hand full of native leaf mold, water and a few boiled potatoes to make.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check that out
Great harvest . I am in fl zone 10a , planted Yughon Gold, Fingerling, Red Pontiac , Huckleberry Gold and German Butterball.
YG isnt very productive for me so far ,but that bed was shaded so maybe that was the issue.
I haven't harvested the fingerling or HG as yet because I planted quite a bit and its only 2 of us.
Homegrown taste way better , so am not complaining.
How does the German butterball do for you? I’ve been wanting to try that one but I’ve not heard a lot from folks in warm climates
I like planting in large pots- no digging when harvesting just dump them out! Love it and easy two pots on my deck growing taters right now freeing up my reg garden for other plants. Love your videos for Florida growing I’m in Pa with different weather
I’ll have to try in bags next year. It would make harvesting a lot easier on my back 🤣
I planted a bunch of potatoes in buckets and raised beds middle of February, NE Fla. Zone 9A or B - on the border. I've dug a few that had died back but I think I'll wait for the others to die so they will cure in the soil a bit before I pull them. They've been pretty lush. It's been kind of a hot spring, and next week is supposed to be brutal - mid nineties. I planted Yukon Gold, Viking Purple, Red Norland and a couple more varieties, and some unnamed white potatoes. I think it will be a nice harvest. I did plant Publix and WD potatoes in the fall, but most of the gnarly WD ones rotted. Did OK with the Publix ones.
Publix seems to have the best luck for people. I hope u have an awesome harvest!
Did you use straw in the buckets with the potatoes? I grew them that way up north ages ago. I wasn't sure if it would work here. I can't mulch with grass clippings because our service uses a mulching mower.
@@TheHootsNest No, just potting soil with amendments. I can use free pine straw, though, as it abounds where I live.
Nice! I’m gonna have to try those golden nuggets!
You should! And they taste great too
I was thinking that growing potatoes in a bag here in Florida might be a good option. That way if it rains, you can easily move them to a lanai or patio if need be.
That is a really great option. 💚
I put my Yukon golds in the ground this past February. This is my 3rd time trying but the first time I’ve gotten anything to grow. Plan was to harvest after die off but now you have me wondering if I should harvest nowish (in SW FL)…
PS - was on the new site a couple of days ago, it looks great!
You may want to. Do you have a thermometer that you can stick in the ground to check the temp? That might help you decide.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9aoooh I will find a thermometer, great idea
That's a great haul. I wonder if I too can plant potatoes in the fall in TN. I have two rows planted inground and one in a raised bed.
Can't wait to see how you store them.
It’s always fun experimenting with timing. Sometimes it really opens up a whole new season of growing for me.
I think you did the right thing with sterilizing the soil with hydrogen peroxide. You may want to do it again and then plant one pant in that area in the fall that you won't mind losing if the disease is still in the soil. Nice harvest. I planted my potatoes in October and harvested them in March. I did end up losing almost all of my tops due to the rain and maybe over watering. I cut the tops off and left the potatoes in my bed until the last potato top died back. I probably left them in the ground for another two weeks. I had a medium-sized harvest for the amount I planted. But they were all beautiful looking. I had planted some organic red, white and purple potatoes I got from Publix. I saved some in a brown paper bag in my vegetable bin in the fridge that I'm going to use for planting in September. You did an awesome job on your website. Donna from Sarasota 😊
Thanks so much Donna 💚 I like the idea of just cutting the tops off. I bet that saves curing time.
Nice harvest Patrina. I havent tried planting those yet, but maybe this fall. Have u grown peanuts?? I want to learn how to grow them in fl. I want them as a cover crop to replenish my soil. Any tips?
I grew them for the first time last year from store bought peanuts in the shell and they did okay. I got some seeds this year so I’m hoping for a better harvest this year. They are similar to planting beans.
Well I think I might have made some of the same mistakes I'm not sure yet I'm going to harvest my potatoes probably this week.
Question you had mentioned about waiting for them to die off because the weather's 90° We are in the same sector so does it hurt to let him stay in the ground? I understand that they're not growing but is it affecting anything by leaving them in there cuz I'm in the same situation.
If the plants are still alive, it doesn’t hurt anything to leave them. Once they die or if we start getting our daily rains, you will want to get them out so they don’t start sprouting or rotting. 💚
What kind of irrigation do you have?
They are called micro sprayers although I think drip are better options.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a thanks! I have a lawn maintenance company I always worry about them running over the lines going to the garden
@@marilynearl6887I had an irrigation company come out and run a tubing from my sprinklers underground to my beds and that’s what I hook into so no lines above the ground.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I’ll need to look into that
Potatoes do NOT store in Florida, darlin, you need to PROCESS them somehow. Welcome to Florida and our lifestyle!
Lol, I’ve been able to keep them going for 3 months but I’m on a mission to figure out how to store longer. I do plan on canning some but I want to store the rest 3 different ways to see if any of them work better than others.