Great job guys! "A lot of potato farming in the Army" made me laugh. If you spoke to my grandfather, hed have you believe that all he did in the war was peel potatoes lol.
Those are some nice lookin taters!! 👍👍🥔🥔🥔 I like mine fried and baked! Yeah buddy!! 😎 Great job Tony and Tanja!! Maybe try for some carrots too, next year!
Those were some nice potatoes Tony and Tanja. Growing up with 8 siblings we always raised Kenabec potatoes. "Not fure of spelling". Dad and mom would always get 600#s of Kenabec and we'd plant em. Then we'd take a shovel plow and harness up the horse and cover the taters with the horse pulling the plow . Of course my bigger brother ran the plow. I was allowed to drive the horse with the line butts. I sure woul like to go back to them days.
We did it the hard way like you are for several years then got a middle buster for the tractor which made it a lot easier. Also when planting you can cut the eyes off the seed potato about 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick pieces and plant those each eye will produce a potato plant. We then made potato salad from what was left of the seed potato.
I believe your little "tomato" is a seed pod. You can grow potatoes from seed but most people grow them from seed potatoes like you did. Great video and enjoy the harvest.
@@TonysTractorAdventure The seed pods is how new varieties of potatoes are found, since using the tubers is basically cloning them. The seeds are genetically different and possibly crossed with other potatoes. But the fruits are poisonous! So I always pluck the flowers just so nobody in the family confuses them with a cherry tomato as it ripens.
Tony, those are some nice taters. The little green pods contain actual seeds that can be started in a small container. Most everybody just uses the seed potatoes since it is easier. A tater fork or a middle buster will make easy work of the harvest.
I was thinking about planting more potatoes next year. I may make up something to harvest. This small amount on took 30 mins. I never paid much attention to the green pods as a kid. I am learning more each year.
I hope you enjoy the spuds, last time I planted potatoes they kept coming up from ones that I missed for 3 years. I bought those bags of small potatoes for stews. They were Purple, Yukon Gold, and Red Skin. They all did super well. So don't be surprised if yours start growing again. Because I'm sure that you missed at least 1.
We are doing potatoes in raised bed containers that are simple HD 27 gallon bins. Used sprouted potatoes that we didn't eat fast enough. So far they are doing extremally well. Cant wait to see the yield. Also a garden fork will damage less than a shovel.
I may have to give that technique a try next year after I get my YTM 574HC this fall. We've got 38 raised beds and I'm thinking planting potatoes on the ground is a better use of the land vs. using the raised beds. I've got a bad back, but also have 5 grandkids adjacent to our property, so they can help dig them up. Using the tractor to prep the land and then mound the hills was an awesome use of the machine, and saves the back bending work. I also think you should have tried using the grapple for at least one mound to see how effective it would be to lift all the potatoes out of the ground = another back saver. Thanks for sharing.
We are going to amend the soil this fall and go for it big next year. The grass was horrible to fight. I know we will do better next year. with better soil.
Nice Potato's. Do you usually dig this early there. As long as the plants are green we let them grow. Your corn looks a little dry. Thanks Tony Happy 4th of July
Have you tried planting them in a pallet box? Take 4 shipping pallets and tie them together. Fill with hay and top soil mix. Plant about 4 potatoe plants. When it's time to harvest untie the pallets and pull them apart and knock over the dirt mound and sift out your potatoes.
Our corn is small, but it is making. We got a last min rain that saved it. We will amend the soil this fall, and do better next year. There is nothing to hold moisture in the ground right now.
It looks like you got a good amount of taters. It's best to plant 3.5 oz seed potatoes 8" deep & 12" apart in a trench & cover them with 3" of soil. After they have grown above the soil 6", then hill around the green part to bury all but the top 2 inches & then cover with a 4" layer of mulch after they have grown up another 6" in height.
Great video as always but why did you not have a bucket to put your potatoes into mate god bless you two are looking well hope you enjoy your potatoes. Yes I think if I’m right it’s the potatoes going to seeds that’s when they are ready to pick or they start growing into seed I think that’s what that is but my wife would be able to tell you but she is at work.
@@TonysTractorAdventure good on mate not a lot of people still grow their potatoes or vegetables we do but we don’t have a lovely home like yours love watching you both and again God Bless you all mate and my thanks for getting back to me so quickly c u in the next one.
Personally, I harvest my potatoes in the fall. Just think how big and how many more taters you would have if you let them be for 3 or 4 more months. I am growing in Michigan muck, we get the little bitty ones up to 2 and a half pounders. We have a potatoe digger, that is pulled behind the tractor, that digs out one row at a time, and lays them taters nice and neatly on top of the ground. My neighbor, who does 500+ Acres of taters, has a self propelled harvester that does a 20 foot swath at a time and loads them into wagons. All in one pass.
Our seasons are lot different. If I plant potatoes in the spring, they will be rotten by the fall. Once the plant turns yellow, we start harvesting. I have seen a potato harvester, and they are neat to watch. If we did more potatoes, I think I would make some kind of harvester up. This only took about 30 mins.
For a farmer you are awful... The weeds took nutrients and water from your crop of potatoes..... They made digging the potatoes from the ground very hard.... the soil should be almost like potting soil out of the bag!!!! Very loose soil so the potato product is twice to 3 times more and get bigger!!!!!! Your production is so low for the size of mound... 40 to 50 lbs. per mound not 15 to 25..... Next time a raised bed 10 feet long 4 to 5 feet wide and up to 3 feet deep? and you 200 Plus lbs. per bed ....Since your soil is so hard........ you dig with bent fork (potato fork) and or pull the vine out and the soil gives up the potatoes!!!!
You are always such a ray of sunshine. This soil is very hard. We have added a bunch of organics to the soil. Next year will be better. The potatoes are great.
Nice growing Tony! Not sure if it will work in your heavy clay, but we used a pitchfork to harvest potatoes as a kid. Tractor Hard! 🚜💪!
Nice harvest!
Yellow ones look like Yukon Gold. Really good eating potato. Nice patch
Great job guys! "A lot of potato farming in the Army" made me laugh. If you spoke to my grandfather, hed have you believe that all he did in the war was peel potatoes lol.
Very nice harvest!👍🏻
Thanks 👍
Great harvest of potatoes
Yes, thanks
We always plowed our up with a sub soiler on tractor. Worked great.
Yep. I don't have one anymore. I sold it with a tractor. The shovel it is this year.
Great video. Gizmo starts at 1:04….. playing wif him chikm
He brought over a toy a few months ago and we started playing with him before work. Now people are sending him gifts.
Nice harvest guys! If you do any better you will need to use the tractor and potato plow! The Lord definitely blessed the harvest!
Awesome stuff, as always it's just the simple stuff in life that make your day
You got that right!
Those are some nice lookin taters!! 👍👍🥔🥔🥔 I like mine fried and baked! Yeah buddy!! 😎 Great job Tony and Tanja!! Maybe try for some carrots too, next year!
Those were some nice potatoes Tony and Tanja. Growing up with 8 siblings we always raised Kenabec potatoes. "Not fure of spelling". Dad and mom would always get 600#s of Kenabec and we'd plant em. Then we'd take a shovel plow and harness up the horse and cover the taters with the horse pulling the plow . Of course my bigger brother ran the plow. I was allowed to drive the horse with the line butts. I sure woul like to go back to them days.
We did it the hard way like you are for several years then got a middle buster for the tractor which made it a lot easier. Also when planting you can cut the eyes off the seed potato about 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick pieces and plant those each eye will produce a potato plant. We then made potato salad from what was left of the seed potato.
Yum! Potato salad. I don't have a middle buster any longer. I sold it with a tractor. I may pick one up later this year.
I believe your little "tomato" is a seed pod. You can grow potatoes from seed but most people grow them from seed potatoes like you did. Great video and enjoy the harvest.
Makes sense. I have never seen potatoes grown from a seed, but it is bound to happen.
@@TonysTractorAdventure The seed pods is how new varieties of potatoes are found, since using the tubers is basically cloning them. The seeds are genetically different and possibly crossed with other potatoes. But the fruits are poisonous! So I always pluck the flowers just so nobody in the family confuses them with a cherry tomato as it ripens.
Tony, those are some nice taters. The little green pods contain actual seeds that can be started in a small container. Most everybody just uses the seed potatoes since it is easier.
A tater fork or a middle buster will make easy work of the harvest.
I was thinking about planting more potatoes next year. I may make up something to harvest. This small amount on took 30 mins. I never paid much attention to the green pods as a kid. I am learning more each year.
I hope you enjoy the spuds, last time I planted potatoes they kept coming up from ones that I missed for 3 years. I bought those bags of small potatoes for stews. They were Purple, Yukon Gold, and Red Skin. They all did super well. So don't be surprised if yours start growing again. Because I'm sure that you missed at least 1.
I am going to plant a bigger potato field next year.
We are doing potatoes in raised bed containers that are simple HD 27 gallon bins. Used sprouted potatoes that we didn't eat fast enough. So far they are doing extremally well. Cant wait to see the yield. Also a garden fork will damage less than a shovel.
I think we did well considering this was a first time garden. The soil is poor. It will be better next year.
I may have to give that technique a try next year after I get my YTM 574HC this fall. We've got 38 raised beds and I'm thinking planting potatoes on the ground is a better use of the land vs. using the raised beds. I've got a bad back, but also have 5 grandkids adjacent to our property, so they can help dig them up. Using the tractor to prep the land and then mound the hills was an awesome use of the machine, and saves the back bending work. I also think you should have tried using the grapple for at least one mound to see how effective it would be to lift all the potatoes out of the ground = another back saver. Thanks for sharing.
We are going to amend the soil this fall and go for it big next year. The grass was horrible to fight. I know we will do better next year. with better soil.
Nice Potato's. Do you usually dig this early there. As long as the plants are green we let them grow. Your corn looks a little dry. Thanks Tony Happy 4th of July
The first batch was planted earlier. The plants had yellowed. We came back two weeks later for the second batch. It was dry. Rain picked up.
Have you ever used a middle buster? Set it low and it pushes them up and out and the whole row is exposed in a couple minutes.
Nice spuds 🏆🏆👴🐕🚜🕺💪🤠
Yes, sir! Tanja did well on her garden at the house too.
@TonysTractorAdventure the best wen you grow m yourself 🏆🏆
Have you tried planting them in a pallet box? Take 4 shipping pallets and tie them together. Fill with hay and top soil mix. Plant about 4 potatoe plants. When it's time to harvest untie the pallets and pull them apart and knock over the dirt mound and sift out your potatoes.
Sound like a great idea for a small yard. We plan on amending this soil and doing better each year.
Yukon golds are baked favourites we got hit by a derrecho after a bit of a drought sweet corn wiped out hopefully everything else makes it😢
Our corn is small, but it is making. We got a last min rain that saved it. We will amend the soil this fall, and do better next year. There is nothing to hold moisture in the ground right now.
Yep you need a IH Cub preferably yellow and white it has the 12v sysrem
It looks like you got a good amount of taters. It's best to plant 3.5 oz seed potatoes 8" deep & 12" apart in a trench & cover them with 3" of soil. After they have grown above the soil 6", then hill around the green part to bury all but the top 2 inches & then cover with a 4" layer of mulch after they have grown up another 6" in height.
Great video as always but why did you not have a bucket to put your potatoes into mate god bless you two are looking well hope you enjoy your potatoes. Yes I think if I’m right it’s the potatoes going to seeds that’s when they are ready to pick or they start growing into seed I think that’s what that is but my wife would be able to tell you but she is at work.
It was a last minute decision to harvest potatoes. We had what we had at that moment. A box was in the truck.
@@TonysTractorAdventure good on mate not a lot of people still grow their potatoes or vegetables we do but we don’t have a lovely home like yours love watching you both and again God Bless you all mate and my thanks for getting back to me so quickly c u in the next one.
When there's a rainy day can you do a video on your food dehydrator, thanks.
Will do. My wife does a lot of it.
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Personally, I harvest my potatoes in the fall. Just think how big and how many more taters you would have if you let them be for 3 or 4 more months. I am growing in Michigan muck, we get the little bitty ones up to 2 and a half pounders.
We have a potatoe digger, that is pulled behind the tractor, that digs out one row at a time, and lays them taters nice and neatly on top of the ground. My neighbor, who does 500+ Acres of taters, has a self propelled harvester that does a 20 foot swath at a time and loads them into wagons. All in one pass.
Our seasons are lot different. If I plant potatoes in the spring, they will be rotten by the fall. Once the plant turns yellow, we start harvesting. I have seen a potato harvester, and they are neat to watch. If we did more potatoes, I think I would make some kind of harvester up. This only took about 30 mins.
Only one question comes to
What is your first thought after you take a bite out of a potato and you only see half of a potato worm 🐛
Never saw a potato worm.
@@TonysTractorAdventure right tasty protein
For a farmer you are awful... The weeds took nutrients and water from your crop of potatoes..... They made digging the potatoes from the ground very hard.... the soil should be almost like potting soil out of the bag!!!! Very loose soil so the potato product is twice to 3 times more and get bigger!!!!!! Your production is so low for the size of mound... 40 to 50 lbs. per mound not 15 to 25..... Next time a raised bed 10 feet long 4 to 5 feet wide and up to 3 feet deep? and you 200 Plus lbs. per bed ....Since your soil is so hard........ you dig with bent fork (potato fork) and or pull the vine out and the soil gives up the potatoes!!!!
You are always such a ray of sunshine. This soil is very hard. We have added a bunch of organics to the soil. Next year will be better. The potatoes are great.