I had my doubts about growing potatoes under mulch, but given the yield we got this year, I don't think I'll be digging a trench and hilling potatoes from now on. Take a look!
We will try the Ruth Stout method again next year even though we struggled with yields and animal damage. Congrats on a successful harvest! Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
One time I grew potatoes in a mettwilder method and got 16# from 1# seed potatoes. It takes a lot of water and fertilizer in the sawdust. I like Ruth Stouts method.
I'm right there with Charlotte with the spiders! I also think harvesting potatoes is like hunting Easter eggs, love it. Fantastic potato harvest! A nice size moon and stars watermelon too. Our biggest harvest this year has been green beans, we're still canning them.
My girls: Tell me about it! They both have their driver's licenses and jobs now. Oldest has a long-distance boyfriend (her father's favorite kind) and youngest has several boys she meets for coffee or goes out to dinner with and such "but it's not a date Mom -- we're just friends!!" I am dumbfounded because just yesterday they were playing tea party and boys had cooties. . . . Sigh.
Michigansnowpony both my younger boys have their drivers licensees now also. Talk about anxiety. Lol momming is hard sometimes. Nice to know we’re not alone. 😳😳😳
You know, you bring up an interesting idea -- planting potatoes in the Fall for the next season. I've never heard of anyone doing that, but I always have "volunteer" potatoes from the ones we missed the year before, so they obviously can survive our winters here. (Perhaps another experiment is in order, eh?) I mean, people plant garlic in the Fall. . . . Why *don't* we plant potatoes???? Hmmm. . . . got my wheels turning.
@@Michigansnowpony I have never done this and I may be wrong but I have seen people leave their root crops in the ground through the winter and cover them with mulch, leaves, straw to insulate them. Then they dig them up as needed throughout the winter to harvest. Before I posted I looked up fall planting potatoes and saw that the potatoes will get a start on the root system and be ready to go by spring. If you have some that are really green and those green parts are going to get thrown out anyways then why not plant them and see. Cut the green off with an eye like you cut the large seed potatoes into sections and plant them. You aren't really losing anything and it would make a good video.
