Plant Potatoes With Us: The Most Delicious Fall Crop!
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Date: 2022-11-12
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Joyce
I did a ruth stout/no dig type potato bed as well as containers last year. I didn't use straw just put down a bit of compost mixed with bone and blood meal with more compost heaped over the top. They took a little longer to start dying back than the container plants and they were huge! I've just moved, don't have beds yet, and have used all my containers for garlic so I'm just going to go buy some organic russets and make some hills to plant them in and see what happens. Some of my stored potatoes are already sprouting so I might just continue on by planting those out as they sprout in a kind of succession planting. We'll see what happens!
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I did a ruth stout/no dig type potato bed as well as containers last year. I didn't use straw just put down a bit of compost mixed with bone and blood meal with more compost heaped over the top. They took a little longer to start dying back than the container plants and they were huge! I've just moved, don't have beds yet, and have used all my containers for garlic so I'm just going to go buy some organic russets and make some hills to plant them in and see what happens. Some of my stored potatoes are already sprouting so I might just continue on by planting those out as they sprout in a kind of succession planting. We'll see what happens!
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Mr
You mentioned that they need a lot of water. I grew some potatoes this year, and I didn't notice them wilting at all even though I hardly ever watered them. Most of them were less productive than I expected, but I'm not sure if that's due to the relatively high clay content of the soil, or if it was because of the low watering. I'm thinking the clay in the soil may have held onto water longer than other soil would and kept the potatoes hydrated longer. How do you know when potatoes need watering, or do you just give them plenty of water?
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You mentioned that they need a lot of water. I grew some potatoes this year, and I didn't notice them wilting at all even though I hardly ever watered them. Most of them were less productive than I expected, but I'm not sure if that's due to the relatively high clay content of the soil, or if it was because of the low watering. I'm thinking the clay in the soil may have held onto water longer than other soil would and kept the potatoes hydrated longer. How do you know when potatoes need watering, or do you just give them plenty of water?
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Danny
I was pleasantly surprised when potatoes grew fine in my horrible Virginia clay, though the size and quantity suffered from the sheer physical restriction. Breaking up the soil structure and adding a few buckets of creek mud per row, predictably, offered an incredible advantage. It's funny how delighted one can be by an unsurprising result.
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I was pleasantly surprised when potatoes grew fine in my horrible Virginia clay, though the size and quantity suffered from the sheer physical restriction. Breaking up the soil structure and adding a few buckets of creek mud per row, predictably, offered an incredible advantage. It's funny how delighted one can be by an unsurprising result.
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Dineen
I still got my all blue, red skinned, and small Yukon babies in my raised bed veggie cage, plus some from the store that got chits in the pantry. Those latter ones seem to be a short season variety, because they sent up greenery at the end of the season. Which promptly got killed by and early frost. I wonder if they'll come back.
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I still got my all blue, red skinned, and small Yukon babies in my raised bed veggie cage, plus some from the store that got chits in the pantry. Those latter ones seem to be a short season variety, because they sent up greenery at the end of the season. Which promptly got killed by and early frost. I wonder if they'll come back.
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littleratblue
I just watched the San Diego Seed Company video about potato growing, just before this one. She said that you don't want to slice the potatoes and immediately put them in the dirt. You'll have more success letting them scab over first, and start sprouting, before you put them in the ground.
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I just watched the San Diego Seed Company video about potato growing, just before this one. She said that you don't want to slice the potatoes and immediately put them in the dirt. You'll have more success letting them scab over first, and start sprouting, before you put them in the ground.
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Lorelie
I am so jealous I wish I can garden with you guys our garden season is over here in Spokane Washington snow are already here though it didn t stop me from going outside as I collect those garden gold falling from my 4 maple trees.
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I am so jealous I wish I can garden with you guys our garden season is over here in Spokane Washington snow are already here though it didn t stop me from going outside as I collect those garden gold falling from my 4 maple trees.
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Sue
omg, I had to pause the video and order these potatoes. They are legendary in the UK, and I've never been able to find them in the US. They are pricey though, 20/lb! But I placed my order before they run out! Can't wait to try them!
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omg, I had to pause the video and order these potatoes. They are legendary in the UK, and I've never been able to find them in the US. They are pricey though, 20/lb! But I placed my order before they run out! Can't wait to try them!
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Dean
Looking forward to grow potatoes next spring. Had some really good weather for November, it was awesome to be in double digits. But now a cold front is coming and it sucks. Did get some raspberries from my bush. Zone 5b out here.
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Looking forward to grow potatoes next spring. Had some really good weather for November, it was awesome to be in double digits. But now a cold front is coming and it sucks. Did get some raspberries from my bush. Zone 5b out here.
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Greg
2nd year now, growing the Purple Peruvian Potato (All deep purple throughout) you are really going to enjoy them. I make a garlic smashed potato with the blue, and another batch with Red Thumb. nice presentation
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2nd year now, growing the Purple Peruvian Potato (All deep purple throughout) you are really going to enjoy them. I make a garlic smashed potato with the blue, and another batch with Red Thumb. nice presentation
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K.
I don't deal with grubs. I have a millipede issue. I've always heard they were good. But these are eating my plant roots and killing them. Have you heard of this? I can't find much on the subject.
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I don't deal with grubs. I have a millipede issue. I've always heard they were good. But these are eating my plant roots and killing them. Have you heard of this? I can't find much on the subject.
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Lisa
Chickens absolutely love those grubs and my friends said they get more eggs after a heavy feeding of them. I found 75 of them while turning a compost pile and the chickens went crazy.
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Chickens absolutely love those grubs and my friends said they get more eggs after a heavy feeding of them. I found 75 of them while turning a compost pile and the chickens went crazy.
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Jason
Kevin, What happened to your experiment with Charles Downding. I ve been waiting a long time to see you both have the follow up. Am I waiting for something that will never happen?
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Kevin, What happened to your experiment with Charles Downding. I ve been waiting a long time to see you both have the follow up. Am I waiting for something that will never happen?
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jon
Chitting is when we leave our potatoes in an egg carton or wherever before planting so they start sprouting, then we know to put them in the ground: ) chitting is the process!
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Chitting is when we leave our potatoes in an egg carton or wherever before planting so they start sprouting, then we know to put them in the ground: ) chitting is the process!
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Robbie
Wish I could grow potatoes in the ground, but dealing with all kinds of critters, I grow in buckets in a way that cost really nothing, and are SO successful for us, Thanks
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Wish I could grow potatoes in the ground, but dealing with all kinds of critters, I grow in buckets in a way that cost really nothing, and are SO successful for us, Thanks
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