Hello sweet BFF Molly and HGV! Haven’t seen ya in a few months. Hope you’re well. Been a little set back here but on the mend now. Hope you have a very Happy Christmas! ~Lisa
Them’s some purty taters! (That’s Texan for, “Those are some pretty potatoes!”) Too bad about the middle plant. Kudos to the Potato Patrol, ever vigilant.
Heavens, what a haul! I just harvested my first sets, two pots and two planters and didn't get that much, ROFL. Though, I did learn and will adjust my planting for next time. Molly was eyes on the ball for those potatoes, lol.
Judi Wood here in Rhode Island USA, great amount of potatoes! Our first will be ready soon, we were late planting. Warm and very dry here this summer! Good to see both you and Molly.
I feel as though I have been on a Buddhist meditation retreat or something after watching your videos. All relaxed and calm and therapied or something. I wonder what that music is.
Here in the U.S., our potatoes are still MAKING potatoes when there are flowers on the plants, so we don't harvest ours until all the flowers are gone and the plant looks like it's dead.
My grandmother Hazel Kier loved to eat raw potatoes like Miss Molly and her daughter Donna my auntie would clammer on telling her mother she was going to get worms if she kept on eating raw potatoes. Is that an old wise tale or can you get worms from eating to many raw potatoes.?... Anyway my auntie's clammering has always kept me from eating raw potatoes regardless. You are seemingly the potato king is this an old wise tale?
i didn't count that potato that died so i think you had 8lb for two potatoes winner winner chicken dinner ...i could tell Molly sure was feeling her oats that day ,you all have a good day, and thanks Jim
Absolutely the most beautiful potato plants I’ve ever seen!!! Almost to beautiful to cut them off. Wonderful harvest!! Good for you. You’re the best. Hello Molly. She’s watching and waiting for her treat. Love Miss Molly!!
Wow Jimbo, those are tater plant beasts! You got it going with the proper soil - the harvest results say that much. And yeah, dear Molly knows the word potato ... :-)
Hello Dori-ann. It's more usual to take main crop potatoes after the flowers have fallen. This potato was a second early and can produce a good return even when the flowers are still on the plant (earlies are the same). I don't think there is any hard and fast rule. The driver for me to harvest the potatoes when I did, 'there were no potatoes on the veg rack'. With 120 plants lifting one or two might give you a 'heads up' HGV
Hello Jason. I have some main crop potatoes in a raised bed, the tops are about 4 foot tall and look lush, but as we say at Home Grown Veg, Its whats on the bottom that counts. Should be finding out over the next week or two. HGV
what would happen if you waited till the vines died off? or Is it best to harvest Maris Peer while they are still flowering? by the way I read recently "If you find a man who grows his own potatoes; He's a decent sort of Fellow".
Hello Debera. The potatoes would probably be slightly bigger if I had waited until the flowers had dropped. The driving force was the veg rack. It had no potatoes on it. I was well pleased with the 8lb+ from the 2 potatoes. HGV
Seems early. Could they have not gotten larger if left in longer. Mine are flowered and some even lost their flowers but are still nice and green like yours. Yours are certainly beautiful. I dislike using forks for that very reason. Awesome bounty.
Hello Catherine. It's more usual to take main crop potatoes after the flowers have fallen. This potato was a second early and can produce a good return even when the flowers are still on the plant (earlies are the same). I don't think there is any hard and fast rule. The driver for me to harvest the potatoes when I did, 'there were no potatoes on the veg rack'. You never fork the little ones only the big ones. It's always the way. HGV
Hello Ian. It's more usual to take main crop potatoes after the flowers have fallen. This potato was a second early and can produce a good return even when the flowers are still on the plant (earlies are the same). I don't think there is any hard and fast rule. The driver for me to harvest the potatoes when I did, 'there were no potatoes on the veg rack'. HGV
Have you ever tried to grow potatoes from seed as in the tiny seed from the plant... if not could you try it please to see what result you get.. thank you...😊
Great video! Molly's adorable. My pup vandalized some new basil plants I had just transplanted yesterday. She gets jealous when I pay too much attention to the plants :/
Nice haul. ☺ Do you give your potato plant tops the same lawnmower treatment as you do to the autumn leaves and seaweed to prepare them for composting?
I just pulled some out of my garden bed!! I only had three on there!! But they were huge!! Better than the ones I'm growing in containers!! I've still got two plants left...so I'm hoping for some baking sized potatoes!! :-)!!
HGV, I've just emptied my first pot from many as my first try at potato's ever, they were potato's i bought from a farm shop earlier this year and a few went to seed so i planted them in 10" pots as I've watched you do many times, 2lb 7oz's i was jumping around my garden like a nutter the neighbours must think i'm mad lol, thank you very much for putting me on the potato path if it wasn't for your video's i would never have learned how to do this, I hope you and Molly are well. regards Steve
Hello Steve. I know I didn't mention it in this video, but the potatoes in this video that produced 4lb each were also not 'proper' seed potatoes. I kept them back from a bag we got to eat. It's amazing that a potato in a small pot of garden soil can produce so many potatoes. Your 2lb 7 oz is an excellent result . One thing that strikes me is at the outset you fill the pot with soil and plant a potato in it. When you empty out you have all the original soil ans half a bucket of potatoes. How does it all fit in there? HGV
Morning HGV, boyed by my success i promised some potatos to a couple of people so i've just gone and chosen two pots to empty both had plenty of growth and had been in the pots for 14 weeks, nothing not even a Molly, they were shop bought King Edwards that had gone to seed both had the seed potato with plenty of growth but nothing else, the only thing i can think of is they were treated with a growth inhibitor, any ideas why this happened mate?
After your 2lb 7oz that's got to be a big disappointment. I think growth inhibitor is a bit of a myth. If potatoes were sprayed with growth inhibitor the shops would have to tell us and nobody would want to buy or eat them. But in any case shops or farmers are not bothered what you do with your potatoes as long as you buy them. We are not going to outgrow the farmers with a few potatoes grown at home or in an allotment. If you had lots of top growth, perhaps not long enough in the pot, not enough water???? hard to tell. Good luck with your next pot it could hold the 'mother load'. HGV
It certainly is strange they all get watered at the same time so it cant be that and if they hadn't been in there long enough i would have thought there would still be a few small ones in there, anyway i still have loads to empty hopefully i'll get a few more, thanks for replying.
HGV - I looked up that pub and it's in a place called Eastham, which from where i live is a 25min drive by car, or about an hour or so by bus. I have relatives who live in Eastham, small world eh as they say. I don't have a garden so i grow all my stuff in planters and raised beds, which is one reason i'm glad i found your channel, and subbed straight away. Barry (Wirral, ENG)
It's about 40 years ago that I visited that pub. My sister lived at Eastham at the time. It had a Scottish theme. The bar staff wore tartan and the bar food was pezzas. A strange combination. Back to gardening. It's amazing what can be grown at home in pots buckets and beds and when summer is a distant memory we go to work on the soil. Your not far from the coast, no excuses, check this out. HGV th-cam.com/video/RHGF5fcsq64/w-d-xo.html
HGV - Small world, as for the video, i have watched something similar in another video in which you got the Seaweed and the Leaves then shredded them up with the Garden Shredder or the Lawn Mower on the garden, great idea. Barry (Wirral, ENG)
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Hello sweet BFF Molly and HGV! Haven’t seen ya in a few months. Hope you’re well. Been a little set back here but on the mend now. Hope you have a very Happy Christmas! ~Lisa
Hello Lisa. Glad to hear your on the mend. Hope my Christmas video that I will be posting shortly makes you smile. HGV
Them’s some purty taters! (That’s Texan for, “Those are some pretty potatoes!”) Too bad about the middle plant. Kudos to the Potato Patrol, ever vigilant.
Heavens, what a haul! I just harvested my first sets, two pots and two planters and didn't get that much, ROFL. Though, I did learn and will adjust my planting for next time. Molly was eyes on the ball for those potatoes, lol.
Hello Callie. The 'Mother load' could be sitting under the next potato you lift! Now that's something worth holding on to. HGV
Hello Sir impressive harvest of potatoes from 2 plants. Happy gardening Sir
Nice result ;-) Molly would like dig your own lol.
What a great harvest and I love the way Molly watches you with the spuds lol
WOW!!! ha ha I love the rolling off the edge simulation. :D
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Amazing! I love growing potatoes.
molly is a good friend
FLIPPIN ECH HGV... CANT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS ONE MATE... CRACKING RESULTS...
Judi Wood here in Rhode Island USA, great amount of potatoes! Our first will be ready soon, we were late planting. Warm and very dry here this summer! Good to see both you and Molly.
I feel as though I have been on a Buddhist meditation retreat or something after watching your videos. All relaxed and calm and therapied or something. I wonder what that music is.
Here in the U.S., our potatoes are still MAKING potatoes when there are flowers on the plants, so we don't harvest ours until all the flowers are gone and the plant looks like it's dead.
My grandmother Hazel Kier loved to eat raw potatoes like Miss Molly and her daughter Donna my auntie would clammer on telling her mother she was going to get worms if she kept on eating raw potatoes. Is that an old wise tale or can you get worms from eating to many raw potatoes.?... Anyway my auntie's clammering has always kept me from eating raw potatoes regardless. You are seemingly the potato king is this an old wise tale?
i didn't count that potato that died so i think you had 8lb for two potatoes winner winner chicken dinner ...i could tell Molly sure was feeling her oats that day ,you all have a good day, and thanks Jim
What a great harvest! 🎉😊Molly needs a promotion. She is a great supervisor.😄
Absolutely the most beautiful potato plants I’ve ever seen!!! Almost to beautiful to cut them off. Wonderful harvest!! Good for you. You’re the best. Hello Molly. She’s watching and waiting for her treat. Love Miss Molly!!
And so clean, must have been the bath water. HGV
Wow Jimbo, those are tater plant beasts! You got it going with the proper soil - the harvest results say that much. And yeah, dear Molly knows the word potato ... :-)
Hello Rebecca. In a Month or Two when the bed is empty it will be Autumn and 'Chop and Drop' time. Feed the soil, that's the way. HGV
Wow 8 lbs from 2 plants. wonder what i am going to get from 120 potatoes I plant :) .just wonder why didn't you wait till the plant had died off some?
Hello Dori-ann. It's more usual to take main crop potatoes after the flowers have fallen. This potato was a second early and can produce a good return even when the flowers are still on the plant (earlies are the same). I don't think there is any hard and fast rule. The driver for me to harvest the potatoes when I did, 'there were no potatoes on the veg rack'. With 120 plants lifting one or two might give you a 'heads up' HGV
Good crop HGV, my spuds have been plentiful but tiny this year
Hello Jason. I have some main crop potatoes in a raised bed, the tops are about 4 foot tall and look lush, but as we say at Home Grown Veg, Its whats on the bottom that counts. Should be finding out over the next week or two. HGV
what would happen if you waited till the vines died off? or Is it best to harvest Maris Peer while they are still flowering? by the way I read recently "If you find a man who grows his own potatoes; He's a decent sort of Fellow".
Hello Debera. The potatoes would probably be slightly bigger if I had waited until the flowers had dropped. The driving force was the veg rack. It had no potatoes on it. I was well pleased with the 8lb+ from the 2 potatoes. HGV
I know... your personal life is that, but do you have someone who partners with you to cook aa liibthis that you produce? I hope you do!
Been married to the same girl for the best part of 50 years. I think I've got the right one. HGV
Seems early. Could they have not gotten larger if left in longer. Mine are flowered and some even lost their flowers but are still nice and green like yours. Yours are certainly beautiful. I dislike using forks for that very reason. Awesome bounty.
Hello Catherine. It's more usual to take main crop potatoes after the flowers have fallen. This potato was a second early and can produce a good return even when the flowers are still on the plant (earlies are the same). I don't think there is any hard and fast rule. The driver for me to harvest the potatoes when I did, 'there were no potatoes on the veg rack'. You never fork the little ones only the big ones. It's always the way. HGV
I've always thought I had to wait for the vines to die back before taking potatoes in. I know better now.
Hello Ian. It's more usual to take main crop potatoes after the flowers have fallen. This potato was a second early and can produce a good return even when the flowers are still on the plant (earlies are the same). I don't think there is any hard and fast rule. The driver for me to harvest the potatoes when I did, 'there were no potatoes on the veg rack'. HGV
Great Stuff HGV... Absolutely love these Spud reveals, as does Molly ;-)
Great result..great potatoes..I emptied my two buckets and found nothing this time ..neither took🤔🤔 a first for me..but won’t give up 🤗
Have you ever tried to grow potatoes from seed as in the tiny seed from the plant... if not could you try it please to see what result you get.. thank you...😊
Hello Manda. If this was worthwhile farmers would do it. It's a long job and I have given it some thought but thats about all. Never say never. HGV
Good. Small new potatoes fried with green beans and whatever meat hits your fancy--- yum. Those small ones are also good for canning in soup.
Great video
Great video! Molly's adorable. My pup vandalized some new basil plants I had just transplanted yesterday. She gets jealous when I pay too much attention to the plants :/
U done good buddy!
why is it eaasy to cut of the stems with a tiny siccor?? just rip the plant out, this takes forever
Hello Martin
Very nice ! ! !
Molly is as close to God as you'll ever get, here on earth. May God continue to bless and keep you happy & growing!
Great outcome. I'd be happy with that for sure. Good job
Nice haul. ☺ Do you give your potato plant tops the same lawnmower treatment as you do to the autumn leaves and seaweed to prepare them for composting?
HGV hello, great reveal of spuds! Nice! God bless.
Always great to see your success in garden production, really great to see Molly and you too.
Just love your videos! What a harvest of only 2 plants!
Molly is so well behaved. I love your video. Thank you
Nice Harvest, Enjoy them.
Beautiful Spuds. Molly is a sweetie.
I just pulled some out of my garden bed!! I only had three on there!! But they were huge!! Better than the ones I'm growing in containers!! I've still got two plants left...so I'm hoping for some baking sized potatoes!! :-)!!
If they look lush, keep watering and good luck when you do harvest them. HGV
HGV, I've just emptied my first pot from many as my first try at potato's ever, they were potato's i bought from a farm shop earlier this year and a few went to seed so i planted them in 10" pots as I've watched you do many times, 2lb 7oz's i was jumping around my garden like a nutter the neighbours must think i'm mad lol, thank you very much for putting me on the potato path if it wasn't for your video's i would never have learned how to do this, I hope you and Molly are well.
regards
Steve
Hello Steve. I know I didn't mention it in this video, but the potatoes in this video that produced 4lb each were also not 'proper' seed potatoes. I kept them back from a bag we got to eat. It's amazing that a potato in a small pot of garden soil can produce so many potatoes. Your 2lb 7 oz is an excellent result . One thing that strikes me is at the outset you fill the pot with soil and plant a potato in it. When you empty out you have all the original soil ans half a bucket of potatoes. How does it all fit in there? HGV
Morning HGV, boyed by my success i promised some potatos to a couple of people so i've just gone and chosen two pots to empty both had plenty of growth and had been in the pots for 14 weeks, nothing not even a Molly, they were shop bought King Edwards that had gone to seed both had the seed potato with plenty of growth but nothing else, the only thing i can think of is they were treated with a growth inhibitor, any ideas why this happened mate?
After your 2lb 7oz that's got to be a big disappointment. I think growth inhibitor is a bit of a myth. If potatoes were sprayed with growth inhibitor the shops would have to tell us and nobody would want to buy or eat them. But in any case shops or farmers are not bothered what you do with your potatoes as long as you buy them. We are not going to outgrow the farmers with a few potatoes grown at home or in an allotment. If you had lots of top growth, perhaps not long enough in the pot, not enough water???? hard to tell. Good luck with your next pot it could hold the 'mother load'. HGV
It certainly is strange they all get watered at the same time so it cant be that and if they hadn't been in there long enough i would have thought there would still be a few small ones in there, anyway i still have loads to empty hopefully i'll get a few more, thanks for replying.
After seeing those vines, I'm afraid to see what's growing in my pots :(
Hope you get a pleasant surprise. HGV
Great harvest cheers 🍻
Impressive
Fab haul :-)
Beautiful mine still growing
Hello Christopher. Good luck with your harvest. HGV
Tell you what, i agree 8lbs off 2 spuds is a good harvest in any ones book, well done.
Barry (Wirral, ENG)
Thanks Barry. I can recall once visiting a pub on the Wirral. It had a really long name. It was The Argyle and Sutherland Highlander. HGV
HGV - I looked up that pub and it's in a place called Eastham, which from where i live is a 25min drive by car, or about an hour or so by bus. I have relatives who live in Eastham, small world eh as they say.
I don't have a garden so i grow all my stuff in planters and raised beds, which is one reason i'm glad i found your channel, and subbed straight away.
Barry (Wirral, ENG)
It's about 40 years ago that I visited that pub. My sister lived at Eastham at the time. It had a Scottish theme. The bar staff wore tartan and the bar food was pezzas. A strange combination. Back to gardening. It's amazing what can be grown at home in pots buckets and beds and when summer is a distant memory we go to work on the soil. Your not far from the coast, no excuses, check this out. HGV th-cam.com/video/RHGF5fcsq64/w-d-xo.html
HGV - Small world, as for the video, i have watched something similar in another video in which you got the Seaweed and the Leaves then shredded them up with the Garden Shredder or the Lawn Mower on the garden, great idea.
Barry (Wirral, ENG)