Finally Harvesting This Year’s Potatoes! How did We Do? 

Nice having someone there with you who asks the questions we viewers are dying to ask. Gives a different perspective.

He is a perfect guest on the show!! He asks natural good questions. Such a great episode!

Here in Idaho we wait to harvest the potatoes until the plant has died all of the way back. That’s when the energy is completely done storing into the roots and the potatoes are full size. They also do like a lot of consistent watering after they flower.

We are in Michigan. I grew red potatoes and have a beautiful harvest. We’ve had a lot of meals from them, I have a 5-gallon bucket 3/4 full, plus have 4-5 more plants to dig up. (They ending up getting intertwined because of a groundhog running from my dog. 🤣) It’s actually amazing how I managed to get that crop. I hadn’t pre-ordered seed and because of Covid-panic buying I couldn’t get a hold of seed-potatoes. I was so bummed. Then I look over at my potato bag from last year and there were little potatoes that had sprouts coming all the way through the bag!! Even though the potatoes were very small I figured it was worth a shot and planted them. 16 plants later!!! It was very hot and dry this year, but I watered often and it’s paid off. This Irish girl is thankful!!

I grew potatoes for the first time in a container and got a couple meals worth. It was cheap and easy and I plan on putting more effort into it next year. Thanks for the inspiration.

Actually the potatoes grow between the seed potato and the green point ( where the stalk is exposed to light) there are determinant and indeterminate varieties the determinants don’t need to be hilled but the deeper you can get the better. The potatoes don’t technically grow on roots but the tendrils they grow on can sometimes go deeper than the seed potato but it starts above.

Luke. Take those little potatoes,some fresh carrots, and some fresh peas and boil them a little. Add a white sauce and I’m in heaven.

I grew potatoes in a clear container for educational purposes and it's provided way more than expected! Super cool

I've never seen potatoes harvested so early! We wait until they completely die back, then those little guys that were still attached to the roots might be a good size :)

I harvested mine in July since I planted in early to mid-April. Out of one-pot for Yukon Gold, I got 5 lbs worth, but it was only 3 potatoes. Two of those weighed almost 2 lbs each. I have tried to do a second batch since we had time, but I think the soil was too hot for the potatoes to germinate. I also did something different this year and planted two pots in early April, waited 12-14 days, planted another set, and then 12-15 days after that planted the last 4 pots. I thought it was getting too warm to wait another 12-14 days for the last two pots. This has been a really good year, with 6 lbs of Snap Peas, 7 lbs of Snow Peas, 70+ Peaches, 40+ tomatoes (so far - learned some important lessons there too). I have 20 purple bell peppers ripening, I am trying Italian Roasting peppers (maybe a dozen on one plant), 20+ cantaloupe, 3 pumpkins (all volunteers), 3+ Suger Baby watermelons (my first), lots of green onions, and two sets of radishes. Not bad for a patio and two raised beds that are 7'x10'.

I planted potatoes late....they're sprouting, so yay! I wasn't sure how to tell when they're ready to harvest, so this video came at the perfect time for me! Thanks, Luke!

Luke got Aiden to dig potatoes just like Tom Sawyer got his buddies to paint the fence.

Tried my hand at growing potatoes this year, (following your advice). I thought it failed miserably; never did flower, half of them started dying off while others grew tall, etc. Decided to dig them up a few weeks ago and to my surprise, I had some! Some were very small but there were a few good ones. Thank you for what you're doing.

My first potato harvest from two large copper pots was 75 decent size potatoes I replanted more potatoes in the last week of July in southern Vermont.

Harvest is just the most fun ever! I love watching you pick your veggies. I harvested my rainbow carrots today after 120 days. They’re gorgeous! I was so glad I left them in the soil until the later end of the maturity range. 🥕

One of the best parts of gardening..... the harvest!

I put my biggest potato back in the hole from each plant when I harvest. The next spring they come right up with a new plant. I only have to disturb the soil once. Less labor, less weeds, don’t have to buy seed potatoes.

Solanine is what is in green potatoes, not arsenic; arsenic is found in apple seeds. Solanine is the poisonous compound that is found in all the green parts of the nightshade plants, including green potatoes and tomatoes (although it’s in small enough amounts in green tomatoes so you can still eat them, although some people are extra sensitive and can’t handle any solanine without digestive upset)

The tiny ones are great deep fried. Use bigger ones for baked and medium for cut potatoes

I want to see more of this. Actually teaching someone. Really good video Luke. The change in pace is nice. I'd like to see more "guests" like this PLEASE. I like to hear real questions & real reactions. Teaching/watching some kids learn really adds to the experience I think.

Oh oh, about the green potato. Now I know why I got sick last week. Yay! I LOVE DIGGING THEM UP WITH MY FINGERS. I LOVE WATCHING TOO!!! Yes, that awful heat we got ruined the beans made small tomatoes and destroyed the squash, too.

Love seeing a newbie get hooked on gardening. Potatoes are the gateway plant.

You have a “headquarters “ congratulations 🎊🎉

I grew my potatoes in my 50 pounds rice bag after I'm done with the rice. It's so wonderful and i used the potatoes which I brought at the store that I kept too long that they are sprout.

Its better to cut them down and let them sit for 2 weeks to toughen skins. Then take them out the soil. I planted kenebecs too

Potatoes! 🥔🥔🥔 One potato, two potato, three potato, four! I've never grown potatoes before, but I sure will someday! Great info. Thank you.

I’ve learned right away that I can’t grow potatoes in my summers here because either they won’t grow at all or they’ll grow suuuuuper slowly. We get super hot, humid summers so we have to do a super early spring planting (like February!) or a late summer/early fall because we have such mild winters. It’s my first year in this climate (8b East Texas) so it’s been an interesting learning experience! We will keep trying though! 👍🏻😂Now I’m very excited to plant sweet potatoes here next year and I’m getting my slips growing as early as I can! 🤷🏻‍♀️I mean why not? It’s a good thing I love sweet potatoes.☺️

I love the real small ones for canning. They’re my reward every time i open a jar, I snack on them while cutting the rest to make fried potatoes 😆

This is the first time I've heard that potatoes need an acidic soil. Thank you!

Wow, I have already eaten quite a few of my potatoes. Just grilled some last night as kebabs along with onions, green peppers, okra, and mushrooms. All from the garden except for the mushrooms.

My first year growing potatoes. Didn't use seed potatoes, just forgotten ones with eyes from the bottom of the pantry. Huge crop! Makes me so happy! 12 plants, 3 pounds and up per plant! Delicious!

Good format....I enjoyed the banter for a change

Comparing videos from 8 years ago to new videos is like watching Clark Kent transform into Superman. Glad things worked out so well for you!

I'm growing mine in a 5 gallon bucket...first time. We had weeks of hot and now non stop rain -- I'm not sure they will be good. I'm harvesting one tomorrow just to see

With a small garden I grow all my potatoes in pots and they work fine for a good crop. With my tiny potatoes I put them in a colander with a couple pieces of gravel or small stones and sluice them in a sink of cold water. Cleans them great and then fry them like a mini hash brown.

James Prigioni, Self-suficient me and MiGardener are my favorite gardening channels!

Ha! Thats exactly how i planted my potatoes. First time grower ♡

Those vines aren't dead yet. They would have continued to grow a little longer. We don't harvest potatoes until the vine is dead. Those still had a lot of life in them.

my first year planting potatoes, I am amazed at the quality and the quantity here in PA.....love your videos and all the help you give to us

The grasshoppers ate leaves and flowers so I wasn't share when to dig. I don't think I would have gotten more as the leaves were gone. Small harvest

Potato harvesting videos is my kink! Ahahahah

first year planting potatoes and i got 53 lbs off of 40 seed potatoes. i did not water at all just tilled the ground and then hilled with aged wood chip mulch

...wait...does MIgardner really stand for Michigan Gardner....... .ive been watching for a year plus and just realized this

Very cool, nice and chill. we planted big-time down here in west TN, and probably got back what we planted if that! Still waiting to see what the sweet potatoes did! 😏

I agree about that soil looking awesome! … and left over spuds annoy me to no end… lol

I tried to grow potatoes this year. I got food grade buckets- planted potatoes that started to form eyes- and they did not produce any- not one- potatoes. I know now that I need to buy seed plants. You live you learn. Looking forward to next Spring. I currently have sweet potatoes in a pot that I did the same way. I wonder if they will produce any potatoes... time will tell. I love your informative videos!!!

Kennebec potatoes are from here in Maine. It's a pretty good all around white cultivar, bred by the UMaine farm program in Presque Isle. However, it is susceptible to scabbing (which you control for), and Verticillium wilt, since this was developed in the forties and cultivars resistant to those were not discovered yet. It does have resistance to many other common pathogens, though.

Learn sumthin every time. I have a 2 x 2' potato tower that has more than 6 seed potatoes in it, and all the plants are about 4' high. It is an experiment, where I'm hilling it using saw dust and add a 1''x4'' board for each level. This thing is growing strong and fast with lots of flowers. I'm hoping it will have alot potatoes for such a small area. It is massive compared to my other potato plants.

Squirrel in the background at 12:12 haha. Great video btw!

Nice part of being a yooper potatoes do well up here but stuck to mostly containers takes to long for soil to warm up but containers do great especially the potatoes

I harvest mine about 2-3 weeks ago here in wisconsin. Potatoes were actually one of the first things I had in the ground. My plants had started to die back a bit and I just got antsy after seeing them get pushed up through the dirt to the surface. I certainly could have let mine go longer. I got quite a few small potatoes, but I also got a potato that was about the size of a softball! I did red norland, and man are they good!

Good job Aiden! Well played, Luke...

Hey I'd love to see you do a video specifically for starting beet seed for a fall harvest and all of your tips and tricks for it. That seems to be the one vegetable that i always struggle with. They always seem to do just fine in containers on the back porch , but down in the garden i rarely can manage to get them past the seedling stage when planting in late summer before something wipes them out, while all of my other fall seedlings are thriving.

I had many of the little forgotten potatoes sprout this spring among my peas and peppers

Thank you for a great video. Ready to harvest my potatoes. This is first year I grew them.

thumbs up to Aiden. Your better off than 99% of the population.

Thank you for the video, I enjoy each and everyone that you make for us. My soil is 100% composted horse manure. I planted potatoes 1st time this year and yielded 50lbs from about 10 plants. Also a raised bed garden. I harvested them in July added fertilizer to the bed and decided to try a secession garden per your recommendations (never tried that before) and am now growing bunching onion, beets, and broccoli on one side of that bed, the other side more bunching onions, spinach, and carrots with bush beans on one end of the garden. The carrots have not come in yet but there, however in my smaller succession garden where I have peas planted, I decided to plant carrots in front of them on 8/4 and they are already coming up and growing like mad. I Have had trouble with carrots this year so hopefully the ones that are growing will give us a little yield.

You had a previous video where you said to only water once a week. I think that was the reason your yield and potato size was less than satisfactory. I would deep water twice a week in hot dry weather.

Keep those small potatoes and put them in a pot of green beans with a couple slices of bacon. Yum, yum....

Future potato farmer

I'm getting ready to harvest my very first potato crop here in a few days. Getting excited to see how they did.

I planted 2 potato's this year, just to try it out. Nothing came up. Oh well. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose.

If I leave my potatoes in too long, they start sprouting again. Same with Kumara/sweet potatoes. I dont mean leaving over winter, but sometimes just a month over the die down of the plant.

I’ve been wondering when I should harvest! Thank you! I’ve learned so much from your channel this summer!

I buried the scraps peeling of my potatoes and I harvested potatoes.

It was a wake up for me to realize there are many many folks who don’t know what the growing part of a plant looks like. That is foreign to me and sad that people are detached from their food.

I love your positive outlook.

You are amazing.... Thanks so much

I grew potatoes this year for the first time, I planted four seed potatoes in four growing bags I had gotten for my birthday and 3 in an old wine cask half. I ended up with a mediocre crop from the bags

I’ve had better results with kennebec if you leave them until the plants are completely dead. All the same, those small kennebec potatoes are delicious. Real butter, salt, pepper, fresh dill.

I just harvested mine. Five containers.Got about 15-20 pounds of Red Pontiacs.

We followed your method with leaving seed whole. I can’t believe how many more potatoes we got!

Your potatoes are beautiful! 😊

Yah your soil looks great. So does my potato's soil too. I love it. This year is not like last year, is it? sigh.. But yep the garden is the boss, not us. We get used to it. Thanks for the good potato video. I feel better about this year now. : )

I don't use fertilizer and my garden has fluorished! I did use some horse manure this year but no other poisonous fertilizer

Potatoes are such great entry level plants!

Young guys parents must be proud of him.

My sweet potato plant grew some potatoes but the plant still looked healthy so I replanted it and it's still growing and will hopefully grow some more.

Really enjoy this style of video where you have a beginner there.

I have seen people have great luck in grow bags with potatoes. It might be a better option for next year! I do love the harvest though

Me and my brother were able to get 100 lbs of Pontiac reds from only 5 lbs of seed potatoes we tried a few white potatoes that grew eyes on the counter they were a bust 🤷‍♂️

Great video! Trying potatoes for the first time this year...they grew good so far...will harvest them soon!

You’d think that if you didn’t have enough rain you would water your garden yourself especially when your crops yield depends on it. I water my garden beds twice a week with a very heavy watering here in hot Alabama.

POTATO harvest!! My favorite video of the year second only to the garlic harvest!! Great haul!!

Oh my goodness...such a coincidence...I’m planning on making a dish with sweet potatoes 🍠 & your video popped up! ❤️🙏🥰

I just pulled my blue potatoes, super harvest, all,those under one inch go for seeds, the rest look great.

This reminds me of when my brother and I were kids. My grandfather asked him to get rid of all the weeds in the garden and he pulled out all the potato plants because he thought they were weeds.🤭

Some of my best potatoes came from those I missed. Gonna plant my potatoes this fall.

You really must try Ruth Stout method for potatoes. So much easier.

Love videos. I had a small harvest of potatoes this year.only got about a 3 gallon bucket and a small fruit bucket this year. Thinking I may of harvested too early. But the tops died back so I went ahead in mid July and harvested. Got some good sized bit mostly small potatoes this year.

I can't wait to dig mine out. I have a good feeling! Michigander here and I used Trifecta. I've been waiting for my plants to die off more.

Did he say that the soil smelled earthy? LOL

I grew some tiny ones that were sprouting in my pantry. I only got two small ones per plant, but it was an increase! I will plant more purposefully in the future.

I'm doing potatoes in both 17 g tubs and in ground. Comparing Avg potatoes per plant, so far in ground has done much better. Only pulled some of the Superior potatoes so far. Most of the Kennibeck and Rio Grand Russets are still going so cant compare them yet. I wait until the plants die back completely

I remember my first potato harvest 😊

All plants keep giving. That's how they exist.

Omg. Thank you for info!

You can cut small pieces of potatoes so don’t have to use full potatoes. Even from peels you can grow and get potatoes

Hello. I just stumbled upon your channel because I was searching for others that have also planted potatoes and want to see their yeild. I'm sorry but this is not the way to harvest potatoes by ripping them out from the stems. I never saw this before and it will not allow you to store seed potatoes if that is what you also wish to do beside eating them. You are too rough with the potatoes. You should cut the stems and leave them in ground for 10 -14 days to make the skins tougher and you cannot toss the potatoes like you have into a bin , they bruise easy like that especially that you did not toughen skins.

At least little rain means good golf.