Interesting. I had not heard of this before. Thank you. This year in the northeast we got a few very warm spells and a lot of my garlic sprouted. We lost some, and the remainder were very small. Always next year!
They crawl back to the plants if you throw them Close i used to do that, I Feed them to my black widows now, well the ones they don’t catch in my Greenhouse, i Just throw it on their nets, I live next to A reserve and wild park so i get too many pest worms.
All of my California early Witches Broomed they also threw scapes even though they are soft necks. I had a good handful of the hard necks witches broom as well! We didn’t experience any of that last growing season. It was nuts pulling them most of those I will dehydrate for garlic powders
I always remove all of the flowers. It is just extra energy devoted away from the potatoes. The plant will function as normal with the flowers, but I also remove them because I have a small dog and the fruit can be poisonous for them.
@@PinkpumpkingardenerI try to start another round of just about everything. The difference will be that a lot of my plants will be coming from cuttings instead of seeds now. The big thing to start right now is pumpkins to have them ready for Halloween.
@@brettsbackyard8222 I started my pumpkins to early 😬 I may try a few more I’m learning 😆 it’s been a couple years of a lot of failures but if I get any harvest I feel blessed Potatoes are so fun though I’m planting new ones today So I’ll have different varieties at different times So fun 🤩 💚
The potato fruit will grow to resemble a cherry tomato. This can take up to about 6 weeks. You can harvest and dry these seeds the same way you would tomato seeds for replanting. Make sure Noone mistakes the two. The potato fruit has the highest concentration of solanine on the plant. These seeds may not grow true to the type of potato you planted. They can also take several years to produce potatoes. It is a fun growing experiment though.
I always add a few inches of soil underneath my potatoes. This helps lift them to allow more drainage and prevent rot. Whether in ground, a container, or a cardboard box. I do the same thing.
We've had WAY more rain this year thankfully but that late freeze we got really interfered with the growing season. We're in Northeast Tx here. Are you NE or SE?
Thank you for watching. I don't think I would survive with the amount of cold days y'all have up north. Do y'all have basements or root cellars in your area. I have been getting into long term food storage more here. Our warmer winters and high water table make it more difficult to find great areas for things like hanging braided garlic and onions. They tend to want to sprout before it is time to plant again.
Great video! I never considered using boards this way. We just do the spacing by rough estimate. Boards are definitely worth considering though. We use shredded leaves for covering the garlic over winter as well. Good over winter insulation is much needed up here in Chicagoland. Cheers!
It is a great time to plant. Garlic likes to have around 40 days of cold weather early in it's grow time. This helps it to split into the cloves later on. You can plant even into January, but the later it goes in the ground, the less time it will have to produce good roots, and you could end up with smaller bulbs.
I see the exposed cloves. Do you cover those with soil now? To clarify, you leave the boards in until when? Then you add soil to the empty spots where the boards were? As for mulch, when does that go on, relative to removing the boards, etc.?
Good morning. Yes, I covered the remaining cloves as soon as I was finished making this video. I had left a couple of rows exposed to show what they looked like before adding the soil. The othere rows in the video are already covered. I will leave the boards in place for a month or two. They could be removed after you are finished spacing the cloves, but I want to let the roots begin to grow before removing them. This will help keep the critters from digging them up also. When I remove the boards, I will add some soil where the boards were and begin putting in the mulch at that time also. Garlic and onions can stand fairly low temperatures, but the mulch helps for a few reasons. Here we have had an unusually cold period the last few winters. The mulch will help keep the soil from completely drying out. It will also break down, adding nutrients to the soil.
@@brettsbackyard8222 I didn’t plant all the potatoes at same time. I have harvested 6 of the 5 gal containers…Yukon gold. Weighed in at 5 lbs. I have 5 more in 5gal containers, a 10 gal grow bag and two boxes. One of the boxes the plants are dying back so maybe in two weeks. I discovered a bag of store bought Idaho potatoes in the kitchen yesterday with 3 that have chitted. I’ll be planting them this weekend. I’ll do 2 each in containers, grow bags and boxes. I’ve inspired a friend to grow her own potatoes as she watched my ‘great’ reveal. She was so fascinated with the idea that she has 3 co-workers planning on doing the same this weekend. 😊
@@brettsbackyard8222 Here’s an update from a friend of mine. Because she liked my big reveal and the fact she could grow her own potatoes….well she works in an office and she shared her enthusiasm. Here’s her text message to me: “Potato update! - we started an official potato challenge today on my team at work. There are now 26 people growing a bucket or more of potatoes 🤣” What a ripple effect! 😂
Looking good. I am a bit jealous. I am mainly growing potatoes in clay, woodchips, and some 2 dollar discount soil that gets pretty hard. Using grass clippings has helped me soften it up a bit, but I only have so many grass clippings. Hope my neighbor mows soon so I can rake clippings from them too.
Those woodchips and clippings should break down and help supply nutrients to the soil as well as beginning to break up that clay. You are going about it the right way with the resources you have. The good thing about potatoes, is they like yo be mounded up, so you can keep adding material as you get it, and they will help to break the clay up with their roots to some degree. When you do your crop rotation for next year, try using some root vegetable and peas to help break up that clay and put nutrients back in the soil. Prepping our garden soil is a lifelong process and a bunch of trial and error as we compete with the elements. For quicker results, you can always grow vegetables in containers. These can be as simple as a 5 gallon bucket. At the end of the season, add this soil to your garden area. Keep growing! Whatever the results, they are satisfying.
I am going to have to see if I can find some more or try another plant. These work well and conserve space, but I did not have a single strawberry get going this year. I am pretty disappointed with the ones I got in.
I did this last year and got pretty decent results. This year I am growing some in a loose mix of woodchips and soil, some in plastic tubs, some in medium sized pots, and some in trenches. I had to diversify my methods because I am growing over 60 potato plants from seed for breeding. If I was just growing them normally I would definitely still be using the cardboard box method.
I am right there with you this year. I splurged and bought a couple sacks of seed potatoes. I've got some in composted chicken manure, some in compost in grow bags, some in just leaves, and started a bunch at our farm this year. First time planting there in a long time. Can't wait to see which does best
@@brettsbackyard8222 I am growing most of mine from actual seeds so I am curious to see if it will turn out well for me at all. I do have some seed potatoes to fall back on though.
I did a video yesterday about potato flowers and seeds that I guess I accidentally deleted. I have never used actual seeds, but from what I've read, they may or may not grow true to the variety you harvested from. They could take 2-3 years also to reach an edible size. A lot of the potato breeders use them to develop new kinds. You may come up with something completely new.
@@brettsbackyard8222 I am making a hybrid between S. ajanhuiri and a cultivar with better disease resistance and yield. So this would be an interspecific hybrid. S. ajanhuiri has remarkable frost hardiness, down to the low 20s. It is a cultivated variety and as such is perfectly edible with appropriate levels of glycoalkaloids. I also have two other varieties I am hybridizing and one of those is one that gives great flower and seed production. The ultimate goal is to then hybridize the hybrids and select for offspring that display the best traits of all 4 parents. Will probably be a years long endeavor, but I think it is worth it to have a super frost resistant, high yielding, disease resistant new cultivar.
Wow! You are really getting into it. I would love to see the end results of this research. McDonald's spent a lot of effort to produce a potato specific to their fries. You could end up having the next potato phenomenon.
The sides have held up nicely so far. I have potatoes in 2 square boxes, bell peppers in a 3ft long rectangle box, pole beans in another rectangle and I’m trying purple beans in my last rectangle box. There’s no moving them as they all have ‘soggy bottoms’ 😆 So plan ahead. I’m also using buckets and grow bags.
I did not do a video on that last year. I got a few, but by the time these plants were going, the drought had set in and my tomatoes were so large, it was hard to get in there. I have made some more planting videos already this spring and will be doing harvest videos as the season progresses.
You are right. One tatter could do just fine in this box. I may go with 2 in this spacing in an open area. This was a bit later in the season and I was just trying to squeeze some extras in anywhere I could
You still have plenty of time to get them planted. They should still make a good size bulb. The further you get into the season, it just takes away some of the days away from before it gets too hot. You will get smaller onions and green onion tops.
The research I have been reading suggest staying away from glossy covered or paper with lots of ink. I usually avoid these because they take longer to break down. Dioxin is one thing people worry about. These same levels have been found in our coffee filters. The glue in most boxes is made of a starch. The main reason I started using boxes on occasion was a study I read about the trace heavy metals found in the paper. It was showing rollie pollies and other bugs ingest these heavy metals and form them into larger particles that the plants do not take up through the roots. These are some of the reasons I am more concerned with the actual soil we use.
It's not like he made the boxes with treated wood... It's just a cardboard box. Alot of people put cardboard in their compost heaps and use it to layer in high raised beds too...
@@salemdesigns65 yeah, i used to work for Georgia-Pacific, who makes boxes and other paper goods. If you think they're not using chemicals in that paper you are ill informed. Unless you go hemp boxes or in that direction, perhaps with this starch glue on boxes, like the gentleman said he knows of, than it has chemicals. I wouldnt want to feed anyone even the smallest amount of leached chemicals in my food, but thats just me. To each their own.
@@ShnozzleShabizzle Unless Georgia Pacific sends a press release to tell the public that cardboard boxes used as planters or used as fill in planters/beds are toxic, we're good. I aint heard or seen anything regarding this. Have you?
@@salemdesigns65 dont have to I worked there. Also you wouldnt see a label on a lolli pop saying dont stick in your butt, does that mean it is safe? Do you bro, just stating facts, do with it what you will, i'm not judging.
Thank you for subscribing. It is awesome to have another person so close to talk gardening with. I have had success starting garlic in January because we still have enough stratification time. The bulbs may be a bit smaller than starting in fall, but you can save some cloves to start for next year. I have some other videos on the channel. If you have a question that you do not see covered in one of those, be sure and leave a comment. I will be trying to make more videos this year.
New subscriber in Tyler. I need a lot of information on gardening. Glad to hear you say it wasn’t too late to plant garlic. Planted mine January 1. Also planted carrot seeds 3 weeks ago.
I recently compared the growth rate of cloves that had been completely peeled to those cloves that retained the last paper layer. Same variety, same soil, same everything except the paper layer. Turns out that the completely peeled cloves broke through the soil more quickly than those on which a layer of paper remained The peeled cloves emerged about 10 days sooner.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes I have some other videos on the channel of different ways to plant and at harvesting time. I am going to be making more this year. It is going to be my largest potato planting year yet
Hi Brett. Growing in Longview here--raised beds and containers. My tomatoes and peppers produced nothing until our temps finally cooled down. We still haven't had nearly enough water. One thing I learned from A&M's Ag program this year is that pollen actually dies in heat. The flowers still appear but the pollen in them is sterile with temps are consecutively as high as our were this summer. Now that it's cooled down, we've got tons of peppers and tomatoes and enjoying the harvest we should've had a few months ago. Looking forward to seeing an update from you soon.
That is some great info. Dad had always told me that tomatoes would have a hard time setting fruit when the temperature was above 95°. I had never heard of the pollen lacking its potency before. The one I was most shocked by this year when it cooled off was my grape vines. They are setting fruit again. I hope they make before the cold sets in.
Happy to hear from someone from a different zone. I hope y'all are receiving some of this rain we have been getting the last week! Garden is finally starting to go again.
New Subscriber. 😊 Thank you for the video. I'm going to plant some pumpkins, peas, winter squash, and tomatoes if I can find plants this late in the season. I was too busy to plant in the spring.
Thanks for commenting. RU-vid has just started allowing me to read the comments. Hopefully we will be better able to communicate on here now. I hope your garden has been going well. Let me know what you did this year.
@@brettsbackyard8222 I really thought I subbed to you, but I just did it again because for some reason I wasn't subscribed. 😊 Thank you for replying. My plants are looking good. I hope I get enough to bless other people.
I am close to harvesting my container potatoes so this is a great informative video. It was interesting to see and hear how it is done. Just subscribed, Thanks.
