You are welcome, and agreed completely. We grow a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes using different methods, but this is one of the easiest styles. We would agree with you completely. This is one of our favorite tastes. Have a wonderful weekend!
Good harvest, again. I till haven't harvested two buckets of regular and sweet potatoes. I wanted to give them some more time to finish growing since we've been having good weather.
Our weather just shifted so severely. We had been holding on to warm weather up through yesterday (70s+) but now I see nothing but mid-30s and colder coming our way for the foreseeable future.
I'm in South Dakota, zone 4b/5a. Last year wasn't a good potato season for some reason. We'll get it this year! In 23 I am planting French Fingerling, Yukon Gold, Yellow Banana Fingerling and Red Gold.
I think what keeps my from trying to Ruth method is messy looking nature of the bed. The bales just decompose and flop all over the area they are in. Mounded decomposing hay is not attractive to me in a garden 😅. I do a no-till gardening style but in my raised bed. Maybe if it was done inside a raised bed of some sort I’d give it a try 🤔 Something to ponder for a future year, but my plans for next year are already large. Thanks to all your informative encouraging videos on potatoes I’m going to try to grow them in my garden next year. Magic Molly’s, here I come! Team Potato 🥔 ☺️
I get what you mean, and the look of it is an acquired taste. I like the idea of having a raised bed specifically for this purpose, so that might be interesting in the future. I really don't think you will regret going with the magic mollys. They have been productive for us, and the taste is exceptional! Best of luck!
I agree... I'm planning on trying this method in my front yard for a fall harvest and have a bunch of wood I chopped up from when my neighbors cut their trees.. my plan is to line the sides with the cut wood to make it look like a pretty raised bed😂 hope it works!!
just a heads up here. FYI the green is not a problem. Use your potato peeler and peel the green side. Keep peeling into the potato flesh until there is no more green. The rest of the potato is exactly like the rest of your potatoes. Hope this helps. Wade
We just asked that question of others. I am really not sure. I know it would prevent the potato berries from forming, but I don't know how much of a difference it would make. I kind of want to experiment with that next season and see.
We use hay only. Straw is a little harder to come by here (our local nursery has it for about $10/bail). Hay, on the other hand, we can get pretty easily from local farmers who don't spray, and the cost there is usually around $4-5/ bail for us, and we have sourced a good bit of that through craigslist, so you might give that a try as well.
