Your video is a great reminder of the value of patience and perseverance. It takes a lot of time and effort to grow and harvest melons and oranges, but the end result is so worth it. And the fact that you're able to make a living by selling them at the market is even more impressive. Keep up the great work! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 in my area in Kentucky the standard are Yukon gold, red norland, and a noname standard russet. This year just for fun I also bought a small bag of organic fingerling mix from Walmart that has Russian banana and a Peruvian purple variety and a couple others. They dont have that spray on them to keep them from sprouting. I'm not expecting much from them but I have plenty of space to play around with and experiment.
This is the 1st year where the containers really performed great. I really like how the root pouches did and there is really no worries about them getting flooded out like the plastic tubs. Plenty of potatoes going into the winter. I will get some more root pouches over the winter for next year. I want to try sweet potatoes in them also. Thanks for watching Amy.
I find potatoes to be fairly easy to grow. Most of the work in done at planting and harvest time with minimum care during the growing season outside of watering. It is helpful to have something 16 inches above the growing surface to corral the vegetation. This helps it stay upright and shades to soil. The great thing about growing your own potatoes is there are so many varieties to choose from. Almost none of which you will ever find at a grocery store. Thanks for watching.
Great to hear that you also had a huge harvest. 👍 This harvest will keep us well supplied for a while and there are plenty of seed potatoes for next year. Thanks for watching Lisa.
Thanks for watching MB. In your mind's eye, the frog eats the grub and the bass eats the frog. lol. The pond isn't quite big enough to support an apex fish like bass. The bullfrogs are the kings of the pond except when the herons come to visit.
Yes it's that time of year to get the beds cleaned up. The temps are dropping which makes it nice to work outside without getting too hot. Thanks for watching AJ.
Your pond is epic Steve:) nice harvest and we enjoyed the little post edit ;) Question: you worn gloves but you hands got dirty 🤣!! Grey Heron is awesome !!! Cheers Steve Jason and Colleen 🌱🥔💪🌱
I have enough potatoes to last us a while and plenty of seed potatoes for next year. 👍 I can't start and stop the camera with my gloves on, so while filming. I always end up getting my hands in dirt. 😅 For the pond. I also get 2 white herons visiting (Not at the same time...usually) They must be territorial because they will chase each other off so they have exclusive access to the pond. Hope you had a good trip and thanks for watching.
I did get a big harvest. The Superior and Kennebec varieties are great for frying. Browned potatoes, french fries, potato chips. Next year I will probably only grow in the root pouches or containers. The large bed I grew potatoes in this year will be used for popcorn. 😃 Thanks for watching Tom
@@stevefromthegarden1135 Always great to see your videos. Have you tried air frying your French fries? No oil needed. I also do sweet potatoes that way. I like boiled potatoes with cabbage or sauerkraut.
@@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 I have tried air frying fries. It works ok for 1 or 2 people. To cook for all 4 of us without deep frying, I use the convection oven. I need to get fries cutter tool. It's very slow doing it by hand and the size isn't consistent which is really need when making them. I usually make browned potatoes instead. I haven't tried this yet but the Kennebec/Superior would probably work good for making shredded hash browns. Hmm....might need to try that out. 😃🤔 What kind of cabbage do you like to use for sauerkraut?
I just found your channel and am learning a lot. How do you fertilize your potatoes? My grow pot potatoes are always so tiny. What's your secret? Thanks!
Each year I use a handful of balanced organic fertilizer at planting time that I mix into the soil along with some homemade semi-finished compost on top to act as a mulch. The semi-finished compost continues to break down during the season and some of those nutrients make their way into the soil below. When I originally filled the root pouches and buckets, I used a mix of finished homemade compost along with purchased bulk compost. (I didn't have enough homemade compost at the time to fill all of the containers) It was roughly a 30/70 mix of homemade/bulk compost. Overall the root pouches have worked out better than the 17 G buckets. Being smaller, they are easier to move around and any excess water easily drains from them. I lost the potatoes in 2 of the buckets in the 1st year using containers because I didn't drill enough drainage holes and the holes that were there got clogged causing them to get flooded after a bunch of rain. 😅
Nice harvest. My husband scored some grow bags for me last fall so it's nice to know they work for potatoes. Ill sure give them a try. I was wondering how you store your seed potatoes over winter in your climate. I'm in zone 5b in SE Nebraska.
I keep the potatoes in the attached garage. I use 27 G HDX totes that have 1 to 2 inches of play sand on the bottom. The sand helps control the moisture and evens out the temperature changes inside the tote. It also helps the potatoes on the bottom so they don't touch the plastic. (The plastic doesn't 'breath' at all, where as air can move through the surface of the sand.) In late Feb, I will sort out the potatoes to see which ones I will replant. Any of those that haven't started sprouting yet, I will move into a warm part of the house to encourage them to sprout. Once they sprout I will put them back into the garage. 7 to 10 days before I plant, I will cut up any potatoes that are larger so they have time to heal over. Estimating that I will plant them into the grow bags on the weekend of April 1. Thanks for watching.
Success! Thank you for sharing. I’m about to pick up some root bags. I’m planing on doing a few different types of sweet potatoes. Murasaki and Stokes purple. Can I ask you what size root bags are you using? I was going to try and get larger ones but I’ll save money on the bags dirt etc. if I can get a multi bag deal. Are yours 10 gallon bags? Thank you.
All of the root pouches I have are 10 G. I bought another pack of 10 in early Jan to give me a total of 40. These worked really well plus, once they are full, are not too heavy to move around if needed. 1 big advantage of root pouches over a plastic container is, if you get a lot of rain, they won't flood. Any excess water drains out of them. Good luck to you. It would be great to hear how your potato growing turns out this season. 😃
Wow that was an awesome harvest Steve. I will have to look for some of these varieties. Is one better suited for baking or boiling? I like the apple tree too. 😁
Any of these can be boiled for mash potatoes. Kennebec and Superior (my favorites) are good for baking, browned potatoes (pan fried), chips, french fries. They should work very good for shredded hash browns too although I haven't tried that...yet. (I will need to give that a try 🤔) German Butterball are known for being good as roasted potatoes and make excellent mashed potatoes. Prada are 1st earlies, so they get you potatoes earlier in the season. I mostly use them as mashed potatoes but they should be good for roasting too. Note: I don't make roasted potatoes often. I think I will explore a different 1st early potato next year. It's not that the Prada are bad but they don't stand out either. I will still grow some Prada from my own seed stock but fewer of them. I actually have 5 apples trees in my yard but 4 are still young. Eventually I would like to make my own apple cider.😀
@@stevefromthegarden1135 thanks for the info Steve. My brother bought 6 fruit trees a couple years ago. He has 2 pear, 2 peach, and 2 apple hope that they start producing soon.
Hello Steve awesome potatoes harvest congratulations. I think I have the same kind of growbags you have. How do you like your growbags? My family brought me some grown bags I have not used them and they look like yours.
I really liked these (10 G size) and am planning to buy some more for next year. They are just the right size for growing potatoes. I would like to try growing sweet potatoes in them also. The ones I bought are the Kangaroo root pouch off of Amazon (no affiliation) Unlike my plastic tubs, these won't clog up and not drain properly. So you if you get a big rain event, the excess water just drains off. 👍 Thanks for watching Wendy.
I put 4 seed potatoes per 10 G grow bag. 2 of them 1/3 from the bottom and 2 perpendicular to them at the 2/3 point in the bag. I cover this in more detail in my video from earlier this year titled: "Grow Potatoes in ...Bags? Season 2". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ocI4vzQGMqY.html If you have any more questions, just ask.😀 Thanks for watching Kevin.
There are roots mixed in with the soil. You see more of them near the surface but I pulled out any remaining vegetation before putting the pouches in the cart for harvesting.
Potatoes when matured have less roots, even planted in the farmland, because when the leaves died, roots will began to rotten, and potatoes fall away from the rottening plant. But when harvested early, roots are relevant. Unlike sweet potatoes, their roots are so many, but also become lesser when they mature.
I can do that Kathleen. Now that the weather is cooling off, it's easier to store them long term. I will have something in a couple weeks. I will show what I do alongvwith a couple of alternatives. Thanks for watching and the suggestion.
It's a mix I made myself. It's a combination of compost, peat moss and vermiculite. I added a balanced organic fertilizer when I started the seed potatoes. I cover the start up of the root pouches in my video: Growing Potatoes in ....Bags? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EY5O9J7IRhc.html I cover the mix I made in that video. Thanks for watching.
Lol thanks Jake. Tony is the potato guru. 🥔 Although he had issues this year because the UK banned peat moss. I will probably only use the root pouches and containers next year as I continue to work on increasing the yield.
