After your potatoes dry it might be best to just take a dry brush and brush off the big chunks of dirt. Potatoes store longer when they are dirty. Also when you overwinter your beds you might want to add some salmon or fish bones to where you want your tomatoes next year to help with possible calcium deficiency but either way it would help you build up your soil.
3 years ago we started to grow our potatoes in bins, totes, stacked tires. We are in our mid 60's and getting down in the dirt is hard on old knees and backs. So I noticed guys our age in England were growing theirs in totes and bins. So I had a lot of old totes. And hubby drilled a bunch of holes in the bottoms for drainage. And we started out with 27 totes etc. And we plant in March the first harvest. Then harvest them the end of July. Then we plant again the first of August and we can harvest those in early November. This year I have I think, 38 bins and totes planted for our fall harvest. Got to get the ones we harvested a month ago canned. Our potatoes on the southern oregon coast don't store well with all our humidity here and rain. So I can all of our potatoes we grow, plus more that I buy. As we go through alot of canned potatoes.
I watched a video over on that 1870s homestead. She picked her tomatoes green and put them in boxes and stacked the boxes in her basement she said she will get slowly riped tomatoes for 3-5 months.
Hi my name's Ellie. I'm a retired English teacher and I live in Hellas ( Greece). I just came across your video. You seem like really nice people, so I thought I would subscribe to your channel. For beginners I think you're doing a mighty fine job of it. Looking forward to more videos.
I am really looking forward to the Q&A video, thanks for doing this! I have been binge watching your videos to try and catch up, and to get to know you and your family better. The dog plopping down in the front of Arron was so cute.
Hello from central Texas! Starting our fall garden here. This coming week will still be in the mid to upper 90's, no rain. Next week should be dropping to the 80's. Its our second summer...lol! Can't wait for some real fall weather!!
My Grandma always made green tomato pie and green tomatoes jam. My favorite is always fried green tomatoes with ranch dressing. I guess it is a southern thing
I am new to your channel from central Minnesota. We are also harvesting. Freezing corn, stewing tomatoes, freezing peppers and digging potatoes. Soon harvesting squash, pumpkins, leeks and carrots. Our Brussels sprouts did not do well this year.
My son in law grew a garden this year and we are eating the harvest it's delicious. It's just a few plants that the animals didn't get. Next year we have plans to fence it off and plant more. I wish I had the equipment to can. Your garden is wonderful.
Thank for sharing with us. I LOVE the NATURAL sounds, Especially the Rooster ; PLEASE DON’T Add MUSIC 1! Your conversations ,the SOUNDS of the Harvesting Help Me feel like I’m Back in Alaska.My Late Husband & I were Married ,1953, in the Territory of Alaska; Lived there over two years; ; Grew & Harvested a Family garden. I WISH we could have stayed in the Mananuseka Valley, & Home steaded. God Bless
John Wayne played Marshall Rooster Cogburn in the film Rooster Cogburn. Kathryn Hepburn was also in the movie. I remember watching it many times with my Grandpa. Find memories.
Congratulations on your harvest. Have you thought about trying the Ruth Stout planting method for your potatoes? It is a no dog method of planting and harvesting is especially easy.
Wow if I get as many tomatoes this year in my little veggie garden I think I will call the 6 o’clock news, your garden for being first season did fantastic. Well done We are coming into growing season in Perth. 🇦🇺🌻🍪🧁
I had found a recipe to use green tomato's called Chow-chow. Is a relish. But I can't find any green tomato's here in Colorado. Might have to grow some.
Oh that looks like some of the cherry tomatoes that they sell over at mid valley green house , behind the Harley shop! Snap a pic and go ask them , my matsu express are still going , they are hardy to like 40 what we are we are in temp wise in wasilla , but they would know! By the way great job on your garden! 👋🏻
Oh goodness I was so proud of that garden I still feel deeply greatful for it. I had Covid when we planted it. I have never grown anything ever and I was just so fantastic to see it grow!
Nothing wrong to say and feel proud of your first garden. I'm proud every time I grow something. My pepper garden has out harvested everything I've planted this year and last.
You might want to look online for green tomato pie recipe. I have made them and they were very good, similar to an apple pie, it’s a double crust pie (I cheated and used frozen crusts). Can always make a freeze for later. Just an idea to use your tomatoes
Harvested one cabbage took the outer leaves and made a pot of sliced cabbage, onions and bacon bits was very good along with fried chicken from Polaris farms amazing wish I could afford those all the time. Harvested my potatoes last week wasn't a Hugh harvest but got a few. Pulled the crock out to make kraut as I have two more heads of cabbage to still harvest. You are going to be busy for sure might think about some green enchilada sauce or fried with those green tomatoes I am sure it will be delicious what ever you decide. 👍
I smile each time I hear your intro. My youngest is Wyatt, the next one up is Kody (Kodiak) their dad was a bush pilot out of Lake Clark Air when I met him. Currently in Oklahoma helping my daughter with 3 babies but hope to be back in AK in the Fall of 2023
True Grit! which you all have in abundance ❤ you know I was looking forward to your tater harvest and WOW it did not disappoint! super awesome job on your very first garden ever! yay you!!!
You did amazing for being your first time ever! Wow! Beautiful and delicious harvest! For the potatoes, you can leave them in the ground until the ground freezes so they might make more because they aren't done until the foliage dies back. For the ones that start popping up, just cover them with more soil. They are a cool weather crop and many people (not in Alaska 😀 though) even start a second crop in August to have Christmas potatoes. You do need to fork the soil because they aren't all going to be in the easy top area. What I do now is grow mine in potato grow bags so I can just empty the bag. You can get them inexpensively on Amazon. It's a lot easier. But, I spent a lot of my childhood digging potatoes and I never minded because it's like finding treasure. 😀 a Anyway m you did GREAT! Nothing tastes better than homegrown food and I know you will enjoy it.
P.S. tomatoes will ripen even without the paper bags. We used to do it on the window sill, but it might be faster in the bags. I love fried green tomatoes with a spicy remoulade sauce and I have a lot of green ones myself so I might just have to make myself some while I am on PTO next week now that you have made me hungry for it. 😀
One more thing, I leave a few potatoes in my grow bags each year and so they come back on their own without me "planting" them again in the spring. Not sure if that will work in your area but it might. I discovered this by being too sick one year to harvest and they just started growing new plants the next spring. 😀 You do need to add a little new compost and fertilizer to the grow bags, especially when they start growing and then the fertilizer again when they start blooming, because they are heavy feeders,
