It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Very nice potato harvest. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.
@@myhomeandgardenchanneldwel7777 thank you for taking the time to watch and subscribe. Hopefully it gets better and better every year. I have a lot of plans for the future.
Thanks for the tips. I'm pretty new at potatoes. I can see now that I missed at least a few because I have some potato plants growing in between the corn I planted on top after the harvest.
Under the tree is Old North Sea and in the large garden bed is a mix of yellow and white varieties. I believe I got the seeds from migardeners website. The north sea were live plants from rareseeds.com
Your garden looks great. Enjoy your harvest. Your honeynut squash looks ready to pick, Once they turn orange and the tendril has dried it's ready to pick. I'm still waiting on ours and most are still green. We spent two hours today in the heat just picking tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, swiss chard, celery, carrots, cucumbers and some turnip greens. Came in with 3 bushel baskets of tomatoes all in blushing state to ripen indoors. Tomatoes, butternut squash, pumpkins, zucchini, yellow squash, honeynut and Trombonchino squash are on steroids this year. I'm afraid that after 3 to 4 days of all this rain we are suppose to get in northern NJ that the squash plants are gonna take over the yard. Most are grown vertically up over structures but have started to expand outward
@@karenfrankland7763 thank you! I need to get some more hog panels around the garden because I just don't have enough for the amount of melons I want to have growing. Luckily I have a big area of wood chips that they seem to love growing on and doesn't cause the same type of issues that regular soil can cause (disease). Are you talking about the butternut on the ground or that tiny one on the trellis? I was hoping to have a good amount of butternut for longer storage.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ Butternut squash are the bigger long lasting tan colored squash. I still have two from last year that are still perfect. The small orange one hanging is a Honeynut butternut. This is our 3rd year growing them. They are a hybrid so you can't save the seeds. The honeynuts are super sweet. The don't store like a butternut. You might get them to store about 3 months.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ your welcome, it's always nice to see someone else in NJ growing a garden. Wait til you taste that honeynut squash. I usually cook two at a time. One for hubby and one for me. They are so good. No butter or seasoning required. Slice in half, remove the seeds and bake with a little olive oil or avacodo oil sprayed on the top.
@@karenfrankland7763 I was looking forward to the honeynut but unfortunately that vine didn't do well. At least I have the full size to fall back on. I'll be sure to get some of honeynut going again next year.
A few recommendations from someone who has been growing potatoes for a while. Nr.1: dig deeper. Some potatoes can be quite far down. Nr.2: after the harvest put some organic fertilizer into your soil. Mix well and leave for a few days and then put in some new potatoes in the soil, so that you have a harvest in autumn. Those potatoes are great during winter months 😋 Nr.3.: worm castings are a great fertilizer for every plant, including potatoes. Maybe you could set up a worm bin. Nr.4.: little mini potatoes are great roasted. Greetings from Austria
@@jessicasturm5099 thanks for all the tips! I ended up putting a short season corn in after the potatoes. Another round of potatoes would be awesome though. Maybe I can squeeze them elsewhere in the garden.
Hubby and I have been gardening in NJ for our entire lives and we are both in our mid 60's. The thing we realized was to only grow heirloom varieties and save the seeds each year from the biggest and best fruits. It has paid off big time. It's been a good ten or more years since we have bought seeds . Our favorite two tomatoes are our Pink Heirloom Beefsteak and a striped Roma tomato. I gave up trying to grow san marzano tomatoes as they are just way too small. The only things I do buy are seed potatoes, cabbage and garlic depending on how our harvest went the year before. We do a ton of canning with all our tomatoes. This year alone we have harvested over 300lbs of tomatoes and so far have made tomato soup, salsa, ketchup and pizza sauce so far. It's a daily this time of year for us. 70 percent of our backyard is edibles and all is fenced. We grow in raised in ground beds.
I hope to be at that level one day. Waiting for these fruit trees to pay off big time hopefully. I do need to get into savings seeds. I'm sure you have plants that are perfectly adapted to your yard at this point
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ Yes we do. As for fruit trees, we lost our nectarine to the squirrels last year. It was loaded and the squirrels had a blast climbing it and breaking off branches that we took the tree down. We do have elderberries, an apple, and several fig trees. The deer ate all of our cherry trees. It's always a challenge but you do the best you can. We grow raspberries and black berries as well as blueberries in a enclosed netted area just so we can enjoy the harvest.
The little butternut looks like a Honey Nut squash. They are super tasty and sweet . This year for us in N. NJ the squash are on steriods and producing and growing like crazy. We just planted our Summer squash about two weeks ago to avoid the squash vine borer and so far so good. The zucchini are just now putting on fruit. We use our chicken and duck poo in all our garden beds as well as mulch heavily with comfrey leaves and grass clippings so we have a good 5 or 6 inches of mulch down to retain moisture. July and August are always jungle mode....we love it. Your gardens are looking great.
North Jersey here for the first time. Lovely potato harvest. You might want to go back into those potato beds with a pitch fork. A lot of times the potatoes can go deeper down. We grew blue potatoes a few years ago in a huglekulture bed and to this day they come back every year even when we think we dug them all. We start Garlic in the ground on Halloween, an easy date to remember to plant them. Usually we harvest ours end of June or at least by July 4th. This year we havested the garlic scapes early May and pulled all the garlic last week of May. Almost a month early with this crazy we have been having.
Thanks for watching and the tips! I've definitely missed a couple potatoes because I already see them growing again! This year I'm actually getting the garlic planted in time. I already have my seed garlic ordered. Good idea with doing it on Halloween.
Nice that’s looking pretty good. I always gently salt the eggplant, give it 30-45 minutes to rest, and then pat them dry before introducing them to the oil. Helps prevent them absorbing oil and keeps their texture from getting soggy.
Thanks! The next video will have some movement also. In the future I'll try to be more stable. Even if you don't get as many you can always try next year :)
I'll need to go back and see if they have more bags because I don't think I have any footage of the bags. I think it was a Canadian product though, or at least made with Canadian seafood. There was already a solid base in the beds before the compost. Look into promix for something light and fluffy that can be purchased from home Depot. It can get pricey if you need a ton of it though
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJthose small potatoes sell for a lot more per pound than the biggies. Mainly because you don’t have to process them, you can just throw them on a pan with some oil and salt and toss em in the oven
We’ve been using Cutter Backyard Bug Control. Has the added benefit of helping against ticks and other insects that may not make their way into the buckets. Are you in an area that has a bunch of standing water around of your property?
I plant a lot of things in the ground so I try to stick with things approved for organic gardening. Wondercide is a product I've considered trying. I do live near a lake so I need to stack multiple mosquito defenses.
Mine so far haven't because they are under bushes and trees. When you check on them monthly you can dump any excess water. Another option is drilling a hole or 2 at the level you don't want water going above so it just drains out the side.
🤣 'This lid from Amazon...' I like how you tried to make it sound like you didn't know, what a Bubble Bucket is... for anyone that does hydroponic... you know 'Tomatoes' if you have problems with fungus gnat larvae... dunks work for them too, that or try Spinosad.
Nope it is only dangerous to larvae. It won't harm mammals, birds, or humans. People use this stuff in fish ponds and bird baths. You just don't want your car falling into the bucket by accident.
