Surprising Results Growing & Harvesting Potatoes in Containers

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Are you interested in growing potatoes in containers? In this video, we uncover the truth about this popular gardening method. Join us as we take you through our experience of planting potatoes in containers in September (our Spring) and harvesting them in January (our Summer).
We'll show you the total harvest, including the yield and quality of the potatoes. Plus, we'll share with you how planted a new potato bed over the Summer.
In our Autumn update, we'll share with you what we're doing with our potato harvest. And if you're looking for a delicious way to enjoy your freshly grown potatoes, stick around for our simple and tasty potato and beef hash recipe.
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00:00 Planting potatoes in containers in September (Spring)
01:17 Harvesting potatoes in January (Summer)
05:10 The total harvest
05:42 Building a new potato bed and planting over Summer
07:10 Autumn update in the garden and kitchen
13:42 Cooking a simple and delicious potato and beef hash
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@BernieYohan Год назад

I grew 50 kilos of potatoes and 20 kilos of leeks last year in Burlington VT. As soon as I see dandelions I plant all kinds of local potatoes. 😊

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

That's a pretty good calendar plant to know of.

@billj.widmann112 Год назад

I have had good luck using either seed potatoes or leftover store bought potatoes. As others have commented the potatoes should be cut in pieces with one or two sprouts/eyes per piece. Once the plants have gotten to be about 6 inches tall I begin mounding more soil around the plants. I generally use a layer of old hay or straw between the plants to keep the soil from becoming to hot from the sun. And I water them well. Good luck.

@BentWyre Год назад

Yes cut the seed potatoes, let them dry for a day or so then plant them. You can actually grow them from peels, I've seen skins sprout in my compost bin. Also I just wanted to add, don't replant in the same soil, you must rotate the crop otherwise not only will the yield be less but it also allow insect damage. Oh and NO they do not spray grocery store potatoes to keep them from sprouting....sheeeesh..Commercial seed potatoes are certified virus free, so beware the seed you make may not be as robust as commercially made seed.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

This is the method we're trying next. The spoiled hay from the goat pen is perfect for this.

@laclefdeschamps28 Год назад

Bonjour pour faire germer des pomme de terre , il faut une période de dormance ou si on veut supprimer cette période , il faut les mettre au réfrigérateur pour faire cette période de dormance et ensuite on peu les planter (2 semaines à peu près ) . Bonne semaine et bon jardinage. Hervé le Vendéen

@rickgarland8543 Год назад

It's so crazy to me that where I live spring has just started and for you guys it's just becoming fall. It's amazing this spinning rock we all live on together 😀

@ReapingTheHarvest 3 месяца назад

Yes this flat stationary Earth is an amazing creation of God.

@jay_behr Год назад

Another excellent video! One of our fave spud dishes is "Bubble & Squeak" i.e. a leftovers dish of mashed potato (together with any roast spuds you might have left over, which you can crush/mash and/or roughly chop) mashed together with any cabbage leftovers, so white or green cabbage, or Brussels Sprouts (chopped up is best), or Spinach, or Cavolo Nero (the Italian Black Cabbage, our fave of the winter brassicas) which you just shred roughly, and frankly any cabbage-type veg would be good. So you mix your mashed spud with your cabbage greens and then fry up in a cast iron skillet with plenty of butter (but don't go mad with the butter, just enough to get it frying nicely) and then fry over quite high temps, turning and re-hashing the crispy bits until the dish has loads of crispy bits in it, then serve, maybe with a small knob of butter in the pile of mash if you like ... needs plenty of salt & pepper too, but is one of the great potato dishes of the world, IMHO at least :) Also, to go with it, try a decent Piccalilli - our fave recipe is "Pam The Jam's" (Pam Corbin) "Preserves" handbook version (she used to appear on the River Cottage series, and her book on Preserves is a standard work, absolutely brilliant recipes), so the veg in her Piccalilli recipe isn't cooked it's just salted overnight then rinsed and turned over in the mustard & spice mixture. If you don't already have a copy of her Preserves book I'd thoroughly recommend it - I use mine every Autumn when there are gluts, as it has so many good recipes and ideas. I remember my late grandmother telling me about when she worked as a "silver service" waitress at a Director's kitchen for Shell, the oil company, back in the 60s, that the French chef there (they employed only the best!) was always very disparaging of British food, until one day when he had loads of mashed spuds and greens left over, and my nan suggested Bubble & Squeak, and Chef pronounced it the single best vegetable dish he'd ever tasted. She used to do a brilliant impression of him saying "zees Burble an Squeeks is ze most delish! Ees perfectly balanced flavours wiz just the right amount of veggies!" ... and my nan always used to say 3 parts spud to one part veg. I dare say, being Aussies, that you've tried it before, but if not, give it a go, you won't be disappointed :) All the best again guys for yet another slice of Homestead life - we adore your videos.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

LOL at the Michelin Star bubble and squeak :)

@jay_behr Год назад

Well yes, but good Bubble & Squeak *IS* that good isn't it :)

@kamil-ov9gn Месяц назад

The fresh patatoes are so delicious u'work so hard.

@ijahdagang6121 7 месяцев назад

Happy harvesting potatoes..beautiful garden...wish you success and good health as well... Q

@danshadoin7661 Год назад

We grew our potatoes in an old cow lot. First we scraped away about 6" of top compost and cut the seed potatoes into quarters and then scattered them wherever they landed. Then push the soil back on top and turn on the sprinklers. We harvested late July, the first cool evening we could. 100 lbs of seed potatoes would yield almost a ton of Yukon gold.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

You did this on the last frost?

@gregzeigler3850 Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving One can plant before frost is done(early to mid April). The potato is under 6 inches of soil and doesn't know it's chilly outside. I too will be harvesting some of my potatoes by July. Wait until the tops entirely die out and you will have bigger potatoes. It also gives the skins of the potato time to harden up a bit, underground.

@almostoily7541 4 месяца назад

Lazy Dog Farm did an experiment with cut vs whole potatoes. The plants averaged the same per plant or very close. However, since the cut ones were two to three plants from one potato, it made more potatoes. Also, I see people telling you the potatoes grow up the stem. That's only true with indeterminate varieties. Most are determinate. They only grow potatoes right above the seed potato. You don't have to hill them. We do because it prevents the potatoes from greening if they push above the surface. We live in an environment that has acidic soil. We do roll ours in ash as others suggested. However, it's more from tradition. My pawpaw did it, my dad does it. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It's made no difference I can tell. Also, we just planted our potatoes. Don't tell the potato police but we planted on the same day we cut them. My parents are going out of town and we happened to have a lot of help yesterday so we went ahead and planted. We've done this before and, also, haven't seen any rotting or a difference. We prefer to let them heal over after being cut, but it honestly hasn't mattered. We live in Texas so we are hot and humid. We have more of a problem with fireants some years. Or when it rains heavily when it's harvest time they may rot. Then, we will harvest early if we can. We literally walk down the rows and throw the pieces in. It doesn't matter if the eyes are up or down. How they land is how they will remain 😂. We rake the dirt over to cover then leave them until they get several inches above the soil. Then my dad fertilizes and hills with the tractor. He will hill once more. If we would plant them deeper we probably wouldn't need to hill. You should be proud of your harvest. Any thing from potatoes that people normally throw out is a win. I plant my sprouted ones, too.

@abder1349 Год назад

Really enjoyed this episode- your potatoes look wonderful. Maybe the potatoes in the bags didn’t get enough water and/or suffered from the heat. They are rather a temperate crop.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We skipped spring here. It was cold and wet, then BLAM hot and dry. Some locals said it was a poor season for peppers, so perhaps that may be related.

@bobuncle8704 Год назад

I’ve a similar meal that’s a go to for me. Butter, onions, small potato, and 3 eggs. I have a fatty liver, and turmeric is good for that, and pepper helps with its absorption. So I add the turmeric and pepper to my meal and that’s basically it. I’ll alternate between eggs and ground beef.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Interesting, what you mentioned re pepper acting that way.

@bobuncle8704 Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving a couple of different doctors mentioned it in their RU-vid posts. They stated powdered form is best, but it still has absorption issues. The pepper helps with that.

@sarah_farm 5 месяцев назад

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.

@naviramos Год назад

Thank you guys! 🤚

@nooneanybodyknows7912 Год назад

Great looking hash. 👍😋

@alanrobinson5109 Год назад

Hi Troy & Pascale, well done with your crop of potatoes. Really interesting video. All the best to you both from the UK.

@englishmaninfrance661 Год назад

Your usual high quality :)

@mariemorrissey9378 Год назад

Mid Missouri USA Plant cut up seed potatoes in Srping Harvest in fall to over winter. Dig a few hills to treat yourself to new/small potatoes. creamed peas and new potatoes yum! You might plant varieties that produce early and small and others to dig in fall. Best Wishes.

@mikhailmikhaylenko9148 Год назад

Hello, guys! :) Watching your videos for many years and l very glad see you throw thees years having same enthusiasm in living human life! ❤ Last video given very good ideas for me! Thanks! 😊

@dirtywetdogboatsandsailing6805 Год назад

Hash with Branston pickle (UK) yum

@thomasspainhour1112 Год назад

Awesome garden

@davidmontgomery1016 Год назад

My mother used to make a dish similar to your hash when I was a kid. It was pretty good. I might have to make that some day but tonight I'm making stuffed zucchini. I recently found a potato variety at the market that I really like. They are Yukon golds and they are small like yours. They have a naturally buttery flavor and are very easy to prepare.

@sahilahmad-zn1mc Год назад

great work dear queen

@DreadDoctor Год назад

You need to cut the potatoes just before planting. One eye is all you need in each cut. Sometimes you can get 3-4 plants out of 1 potatoe. defiantly dont pick the sprouts off. Each sprout is a plant. And where I'm at we use potash to fertilize them. I plant them with 10-10-10 then as they grow I side dress with potash. You did really good with what you planted but you could have had 2-3 times that many had you cut them.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Thanks for the tips!

@shabbydoris Год назад

Thanks for the immensely useful info! 👍

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@dougsrepair1060 10 месяцев назад

Yum.

@DLBard-bv2nd Год назад

Yummy. I am going to try this hash with salsa Verde. It sounds so good. 🙂

@thestu7066 Год назад

Never been so intrigued by spuds! Thanks for sharing another great episode, awesome!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Our pleasure

@dirtyoldfarmhand3 Год назад

Awesome

@gilbertloranger5561 Год назад

I used to cut the seed potatoes in two or three pieces as long as I left one or two germs on each pieces .

@BernieYohan Год назад

I dont cut my potatoes and the more eyes the better just put the side with the most eyes up plant and keep filling in with loose soil water well.

@rayyoung7780 Год назад

We enjoy the small potatoes diced and sprinkled w olive oil and roasted. So good.😀

@davidsears5576 Год назад

Great video. Potatoes are one of my favorite things to grow and one of the most successful, I have made hash using left oner corn beef.

@americanbornwalkaway9110 Год назад

I grew My First Potatoes LAST year and YES THEY taste SO Much Better than Store bought Great Garden

@woodsmn8047 Год назад

It's customary to cut the seed potatoes into pieces with at least one or two eyes per piece ... that way your seed will go further and if you use food potatos from supermarket there is a good chance they have been sprayed with a chemical to stop sprouting and even if they are sprouted when planted they won't grow as well as they should .. better off to buy seed potatos from a farmer's co-op or seed store ...I learned this the hard way myself in my own garden ...!

@BernieYohan Год назад

If you buy potatoes from your farmers market and let them sit for a month room temp they are almost seed potatoes. Fingerling, purple, reds etc. Lots of loose compost and plant and keep filling it in you will get more potatoes as more roots develop.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

The local feedstuff store has seed potatoes at the start of the season, so we'll definitely give them a go.

@andrademeza Год назад

This is already proven as a myth. They are not sprayed 😂

@woodsmn8047 Год назад

@@andrademeza I live in southern Idaho and tho I'm not a grower I have worked in the harvest and all growers here blow chemicals into the pile to retard sprouting so the spuds don't sprout and turn into a giant interwoven mat of rotten spuds .... they have to ..!

@billberry557 Год назад

Why pull the sprouts off? I would have taken the potatoes with eyse and cut the potatoe in quarters and planted the quarters with the eys that are on them. Everything looks great great job both of you.

@donnarocchio936 Год назад

Yummy 🥰🥰🥰

@marksaxon2468 Год назад

Thanks

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Thank you very much

@edie_perty 10 месяцев назад

Hi just found your channel. Im in Adelaide amd use permi principles in my little garden. Nice tp find some Aussie content. I seem to get 2 x seasons of potatoes. I just leave some of the biggest in the garden to resprout. I literally get a winter and summer harvest.

@rolandtb3 Год назад

That potato mash looks tasty. Have to give it a try.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

It's so good!

@helenabaier7823 Год назад

I live in Adelaide ,SA,l planted potatoes in autumn last year and harvested in winter,then had some resprouted and harvested in spring and some planted in spring and harvested early summer. I noticed they grow best over winter when we have the rainy season, super effortless. Agree,home grown are the best taste!❤

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We do have an experimental potato here that we will watch as things get colder.

@jaredcolahan759 Год назад

love watching you two, but I do miss the the sailing

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We understand, thanks for sticking around though.

@leo169 Год назад

Hi Pascale, it is possible using the bags for the spuds produced a compacted soil. Just picking the bag up and putting it down will cause some compaction. That soil compaction will prevent them getting larger. But likely cause the plant to produce more fruit to make up for that.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

I think that's a very likely theory. We have plenty of food for thought now.

@bryrensexton4618 Год назад

👍!!!!

@DiscusRussell Год назад

You need to bank up the beds EG when they start growing keep adding soil on top of the beds. Try this on a couple of plants and I will guarantee that those plants will yield more. That's how we grow them in the UK. Hope this helps you guys

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We are going to try this with compost and also used animal bedding and see what results.

@DiscusRussell Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving Just use soil nothing fancy or in vouge. Old ways are the best as tried and tested. Don't over think things is my advice. My best friend is a potato farmer on the Romney Marsh here in Kent England. Just try one plant this way if it don't come out top I will send you £20

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Very persuasive! We'll give it a go, we're both fairly traditional.

@bmunday Год назад

yes, vertically.

@bud1971 Год назад

That hash looks yummy. I make pastrami occasionally, may try a pastrami hash.

@pnuttheclownh2254 Год назад

try cutting the seed potatoes in half and dipping the cut side in wood ashes from the stove or burn pile. it gives the potato seed a fertilizer/chemical boost to start growing.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Thanks for the tip!

@trongod2000 Год назад

Others have told you this but I thought I'd add my 2 cents worth of advice. I live in Florida, USA and it is pretty hot here all year but we do get freezes and frosts from December until March. The methods people use vary but most successful ones cut their seed potatoes AND, the plants are burried in soil as they grow. the tubers actually grow of the main stem! It's not like some other plants where the roots spawn the food on them. It may look like they do but what you see are roots growing off the potato not the main plant it's self. This may sound odd but I actually plant a potato in an old tire and fill the tire with dirt/straw or hatever you've got.when the plant reaches the top of the tire I add another tire. You will end up with a plant a meter high and gobs potatoes in the tires. Cheers Great to see you posting again.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

I have done a variation of this with sweet potato in tropical Australia so we'll give it a go. We have a few tyres with the sidewall removed which may be perfect for this.

@davidstoddard9160 Год назад

To make milk gravy and put that over your wonderful potatoes , meat and onions dish , would make it even better.

@jeffslaven Год назад

Potatoes are by far the most versatile vegetable that I know. Back in my chef days, I was known as the king of all things potato! Agrea are my faves!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Surprisingly nutritious too, now that we've done a little research on them. Wear the crown with pride!

@rogerstone3068 Год назад

I would suspect the potatoes in the bags would have been too dry; depends how much you were watering but potatoes are a thirsty crop, and love deep rich well-composted soil and plenty of rain. Those bags must drain quite quicly. I only have room for a couple of rows, so I tend to plant first earlies, because of the pleasure of lifting them and enjoying the flavour. Early in the season they taste quite different from later maincrop.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We'll stagger the next main planting to try that out. I can just imagine new season potatoes with home cured bacon!

@Thereminator101 Год назад

Droooool!

@casualobserver3702 Год назад

My farmer uncle always planted potatoes in the bar ditch next to the road. So I assume they do best fairly wet soil.

@richardp4544 Год назад

Growing potatoes is great because they are good with every meal and can be prepared in so many different ways. The large ones my wife uses for baked potatoes and mashed potatoes, and even french fries. The smaller ones are great for salads, salt potatoes, etc. As others have already pointed out to get more you'll have to plant more by cutting the larger ones into pieces with one or two sprouts on each. We have never had any real success with second plantings in the same season so we don't even attempt that anymore. I'm on top of a mountain and winter comes early up here on the hill as we call it and I think the ground gets too cold for the potatoes too actually grow. I like the idea of growing them in bags though because it makes harvesting easier: no digging for them necessary. Thanks for the idea, and the great video as well. Stay safe and healthy and am already looking forward to the next episode.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We were surprised by the amount of protein available in the humble spud once we got to looking. Absolutely worth the space.

@richardp4544 Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving So true............

@bruceday450 Год назад

Great ep. missed checking in with your animals though

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

You will love the next episode then

@nigelmorgan3449 Год назад

Hi the small potato’s are yummy my grandparents had a property in Rollystone and grew all there veg and the chippys and roast lunches were always small spuds

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We never expected them to be so good when we pulled them but we sure know now.

@johnburgess5534 Год назад

I’ve grown good spuds from peelings which have chatted. Grown in layers in an old dustbin using compost from replanted flower plants.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

That's pretty good economy!

@SteifWood Год назад

Just had lunch and you made me hungry again. Gotta summon a curse on you Pascale .... hahaha

@mikegray-ehnert3238 Год назад

Here in the states we have a one pot meal called a pot roast. It's made from a browned beef roast, a cheaper , tougher cut of beef, that is cooked low and slow with onion, carrots, garlic and potatoes. The longer you cook the 'bad' cuts of beef the more the collagen ( sp?) liqifies and gets yummy. Best I've ever had was made with new potatoes! Add a bit of water for a good broth, its great on the spuds and meat and turns the left overs that are chopped up into superior hash when it's added to the end of the frying. The protein in it browns nicely as it reduces! Try diced onion in cider vinegar on the hash too!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Diced onions in cider vinegar is on the menu for tonight as of this moment. Sounds fantastic.

@jennifercash1093 Год назад

It is amazing how much water potato plants need - even in the comparatively cool damp UK climate I would be watering them quite heavily every day, so that might be part of the reason you've had so many small ones. Another thing may be the varieties you planted - first earlies will always be smaller, compared to a late variety for example. Another thing may be that they didn't get enough potash in the soil - I think this is unlikely given the mix of substrates that you used for the beds, but when you come to mulch the beds try using some of the manure that comes from the chickens (or compost that had chicken muck in it) to help boost the potash content

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

The garden will be getting a good dose of wood ash this winter so we will see if it changes our results.

@Waterverf51 Год назад

In the bags they dont have enough space. Every year plan on an onther plot, because of risk Patato disease. 👍

@ragnoxten4158 Год назад

A G'röstl is a very Austrian dish :)

@RichieFairlamb 2 месяца назад

When you grow potatoes in 10 gallon containers you really need to keep on top of the watering..I notice your soil was really dry and that's how the spuds were so small...Container growing is the way to go but requires a good supply of water..

@nellykinghorn Год назад

Hi, great episode as usual. With potatoes/tatties particularly grown in a bag or container, the more seed potatoes you put in, the smaller the tubers. Another seed in the bag and you would have gotten marble size spuds! One or two seeds will give you bigger tubers if thats what you want. I don't think removing chits and size of seed has ever made a difference to the size or weight of my harvests, but im on the north coast of Scotland with very different conditions! All the best to you both

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

We have seen a few avid gardeners give this advice and it makes perfect sense to us. Thanks for taking the time to help us out.

@nellykinghorn Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving thanks for the years of great episodes.

@banjopete Год назад

Many people plant spuds in a trench and as the plant grows gradually fill the trench….then stand back!!

@nautichunt84 Год назад

If you lay a car tyre on it's side full of soil and plant potatoes in it then as stack more tyres and soil on top as they grow, then come harvest time just push the stack over onto a tarp to dig through

@nautichunt84 Год назад

Could the smaller potato's be because of the amount of space they have in the bag compared to the IBC?

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

sounds pretty reasonable

@davidstoddard9160 Год назад

To produce potatoes I never used whole potatoes,unless they was really small, but instead i would take one nice sized potato and cut it up to make sure you have at least two eyes on each hill in order to get spouts started.

@SV-Flying-Tigress Год назад

Time for a freeze drier .... get the largest one because cycle times are around 25-35 hours.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Are those expensive?

@-hopskinny5865 Год назад

You've done really well with your spuds! I suspect the potatoes in the lasagne patch didn't come on because they were way too dry as you suggested. We are just finishing a harvest of Red Rascal spuds that were grown from kitchen spuds that had sprouted and I just "planted" them in a raised garden (they no longer looked appetising!) and we got a huge return on our investment! I wouldn't worry about the disparity in size - like you, we love the small ones (they are great in salads and are very tasty). Just a thought - I have been told that you should grow a maximum of two crops of tatties in the same place, otherwise you risk disease. I wonder what that means for you re-using the contents of your bins and bags? Should you maybe keep that soil aside and use it for green crops, legumes etc? I don't know - just thinking aloud! Keep loving lovely Manjimup!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Good advice. We are pretty conscious of rotating our crops, but we think we should get away with reusing the bag filling as it was upset into the sunshine for a spell. We'll see what is the outcome. There's so much to learn!

@OleNavy Год назад

Just slightly different than Bill J. Widmann, we cut our seed potatoes in a fashion that there were at least 2 or 3 eyes on each piece. Our seed potatoes were generally what was remaining from the previous year's harvest and didn't often purchase seed potatoes. We would furrow the ground, put down a reasonable layer of straw, place the seed, put another layer of straw on top, and then pull dirt up over the straw. When the plants were about 10 to 12 inches in height, we would pull more soil up over the bed and around the plant. I don't remember what type of fertilizer we used. We didn't want the plant to go crazy and take nutrient from the potato's growth. Planting in the bags was a novel idea but I think the bags might constrict the soil and cause the potatoes to be smaller because the soil would be to packed as they grew. The potato hill must be loose enough for the potatoes to grow, which is the reason for pulling more soil up around them. We called it hilling the potatoes. It also kept soil over the potatoes to prevent them being sunburnt and turning green and bitter. That is also the reason for the straw; to keep it loose!!!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

I like the straw, spud, straw, soil technique you describe. It makes perfect sense to us.

@nigelmorgan3449 Год назад

We would go out a pick out the small spuds every weekend

@bryanbadger6841 Год назад

Hi Pascale. Um I tend to plant my spuds about 60cm apart to get the bigger ones. This small ones, just boil them, check with a fork, pour off the water and melt an amount of garlic butter and a smidgen of salt. Swirl them around in the pot and serve. You can kill them with kindness if add too much herby stuff. You want to taste the spud, not the add on. Try blood and bone fertilizer. Don't forget they originally came from Peru. I cheated and Google says they started around Lake Titicaca. That's pretty high up in elevation. Perhaps they had a natural fertility in the soil,.up there. All the best. Thank you for sharing guys.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

The experiments shall continue! The flavour is worth getting it just right, so we'll try all good suggestions

@brettkirkpatrick8211 Год назад

Commercially grown potatoes use low generation seed as they tend to have more vigour and less chance of disease ,we have been using our own seed for years choosing good looking potatoes we mix it up by planting round seed and cut seed to help stimulate vigour ; yields are good but not massive,but we have demonstrated that you can continue with your own seed for years,they likes regular watering but not too much ,very wet soil leads to rotting in the ground and they prefer well broken down compost ,phosphorus and potassium and the usual trace elements,in the southwest we can plant up to February and have a crop in by may June these usually keep better than summer grown

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Thanks, Brett. We will soon have to start bookmarking your comments for the info you share.

@brettkirkpatrick8211 Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving thanks will have to meet up one day ,we regularly travel to Walpole from Donnybrook

@patraic5241 Год назад

Tubers are kind of like fish. They tend to size themselves to the space available to grow in. Use a restrictive space and you get smaller tubers.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Good explanation

@patraic5241 Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving That's a pretty rough analogy but as a rule of thumb it serves.

@thomasthornton5737 Год назад

😀👍👍👍❤❤

@johnelias9823 Год назад

We didn’t get to see if Troy enjoyed the hash! ;)

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Enjoyed and went back for more till it hurt

@bmunday Год назад

suprising noone mentioned it. reason for quartering the potato seed is to reduce the amount of irrelevant tissue and prevent rot. a whole potato would fail by rot. the seed flesh only needs to be enough to allow the eyes to develop the root system. the roots come from the green and the green provides the photosynthesis. the original seed flesh is irrelevant and should be minimized, yet assures some hydration and calorie to establish the root. any more is rot risk, in the root zone and can even later impact nearby potato fruit later in the season.

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Fantastic info, Thanks!

@boonedalton6201 Год назад

Ive been a sub of you guys for soo long, i sure miss the sailing days ... Any chance your going back out

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Yes, but it will be a while.

@KartizaK Год назад

maybe they need to push the dirt away from them to grow larger?

@feel7251 Год назад

the bigger the potatoe you sow the smaller the potatoe you get , no idea why but that`s what happens cut your seed potatoes in half let the cut glaze over and dry , then you can plant them add plenty of manure to the bottom of the bed chicken cow, other poultry, sheep, goat but avoid horse manure ( source of tetnaus) but it doesn`t break down well, blood and bone and let that break down for two weeks before planting water as you layer and keep building the mulch as the days get hotter , seaweed emulsion helps the plant grow , but the manure makes the tuber grow be generous with it, water prudently !

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

The advice about horse manure is new to us. I just thought it was a source of unwanted weeds but I'll be sure to thoroughly compost any we happen upon now!

@markroy3630 Год назад

Your late potatoes didn't go through a winter rest we call it a winter freeze!

@andrewparry6106 Год назад

I always mulch as they grow up then they shoot off the side laterals

@andrewparry1474 Год назад

Waahh kool name!

@andrewparry6106 Год назад

@@andrewparry1474 you know it!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

You found each other!

@williamlockhart5031 Год назад

Troy is seriously sporting those socks! What kind are those, brother, and what are they for?

@sheerluckholmes5468 Год назад

If you are referring to about 5:50 they are called sock savers or bowyangs and are to stop muck and dirt from falling into your boots.

@Potsie Год назад

Do you mean his Gators? ..they are to keep dirt out of ya boots mate :)

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

It's grass seed season here so those cotton gaiters keep me from having to stop every 15 minutes and pull sharp seeds out of my socks.

@KLRBugeater Год назад

Next year: 2x potato & 1/2x the rest of the garden ?

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

1/2 the Zucchini, that's for sure!

@danahsutton101 Год назад

Is January fall down under? My first try at potatoes came out tiny.

@taniacoustley7959 Год назад

December, January, February is summer March, April May is Autumn/fall June, July, August is winter September, October, November is spring

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Thanks Tania

@donzie13 Год назад

Hay makes heat.Might be too hot.try taking the hay away.

@bmunday Год назад

also, extra seed potato flesh will harbor slugs. they will find it, and those rotten ones can be full of slug :(

@brentclarke1841 Год назад

each eye on the potato will produce a plant,, I cut my potato into pieces containing a eye,, no big deal just makes your taters go farer,, like 3 or 4 hills instead of 1...👍👍

@arthurme1911 Год назад

Don’t forget to save enuf potatoes for meat year that what I do . I tried the green bags like you didn’t get much in it won’t be using them again

@KartizaK Год назад

perhaps the confinement of the bag was too tight to let them grow large?

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

It sounds like a good theory.

@davidbrayshaw3529 Год назад

I'll be interested to get any feedback on this as I'm certainly not an expert. I harvest potatoes as required, once the leaf has died back, of course. Spuds seem to last far longer in the ground than they do in the pantry. Also, can anyone enlighten me as to the virtue of "seed" potatoes? I wait until the local supermarket is selling sprouting potatoes for nicks and plant those. I reckon that I get about a 90% strike rate. As far as potato size is concerned, I put it down to luck. I've never had any consistency, whatsoever. Some years I end up with one million chats and other years I get potatoes the size of small planets. There was a time when I refused to grow potatoes because they were too cheap at the green grocers. A big hello to everyone from 2023 and me!

@FreeRangeLiving Год назад

Sounds like you do a variation of 'clamping' where vegetables are stored in earth mounds. With regards to the seed potatoes, one commenter here said that the store spuds are treated with a compound to prevent them from sprouting while on display. Sounds about right, but your strategy of getting them once they have shot seems to bypass that concern.

@davidbrayshaw3529 Год назад

@@FreeRangeLiving Thanks for your reply. Yes, I believe that potatoes are treated to prevent sprouting but they do still sprout. It's hard to find seed potatoes where I am, but you've given me the idea to use organically grown potatoes for my next crop. I can find those locally, easily.