Growing Potatoes By IGNORING Them (EPIC HARVEST)
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Date: 2022-07-18
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AnyKeyLady
I love how this is at your old place! Passer bys won't steal the yield as they just look like bushes to the layman!
On a potato growing vid binge as my generic sprouting white potato skin that i found in the composter is about 3 months of growing. I think i planted it end of Jun?
It started to flower and then the next thing is they are gone! It's about 5' now. The clay pot is about the size of a big SUV tyre. An upgrade from the leek science pot. Still crappy clay soil. It's more of an experiment brought about a luck of nature and curiosity.
RHS Gardens suggests to cut the plant stem, when the leaves turn yellow. Then wait 10 days before harvesting and then letting the potatoes dry for a few hours before storing unwashed.
I don't know what i am going to get from this plant but i want to test again and see if i can grow potatoes in London over autumn/ winter and see what happens.
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I love how this is at your old place! Passer bys won't steal the yield as they just look like bushes to the layman!
On a potato growing vid binge as my generic sprouting white potato skin that i found in the composter is about 3 months of growing. I think i planted it end of Jun?
It started to flower and then the next thing is they are gone! It's about 5' now. The clay pot is about the size of a big SUV tyre. An upgrade from the leek science pot. Still crappy clay soil. It's more of an experiment brought about a luck of nature and curiosity.
RHS Gardens suggests to cut the plant stem, when the leaves turn yellow. Then wait 10 days before harvesting and then letting the potatoes dry for a few hours before storing unwashed.
I don't know what i am going to get from this plant but i want to test again and see if i can grow potatoes in London over autumn/ winter and see what happens.
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Toothless
I've been trying to put together (on paper I'm still planning) a fancy raised bed (finally finished a draft, got a hexagon with 2ft sides making it a max of 4 ft from corner to corner. I'm attaching petals to each side, a 2x2 square with a 1 foot tall triangle attached at the end of the square, giving each petal bed about 5 sqft planting area. And in the center, a 2. 5 ft wide hexagon, they're gonna be stacked, petals at 15 high beds, the base hex at maybe 30 to 36, and the The center smaller hexagon will be 12-18 inches, but jammed into the dirt 8-10 imma add triells to the sides of some of the petals, not all, just 3 max. I'm excited)
Anywho, after maping out where imma plant everything, I came to the conclusion that all the leafy veggies and things I want to grow and eat, none play nice with potatoes. Imma have to just grow them in a bucket or something if I want potatoes
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I've been trying to put together (on paper I'm still planning) a fancy raised bed (finally finished a draft, got a hexagon with 2ft sides making it a max of 4 ft from corner to corner. I'm attaching petals to each side, a 2x2 square with a 1 foot tall triangle attached at the end of the square, giving each petal bed about 5 sqft planting area. And in the center, a 2. 5 ft wide hexagon, they're gonna be stacked, petals at 15 high beds, the base hex at maybe 30 to 36, and the The center smaller hexagon will be 12-18 inches, but jammed into the dirt 8-10 imma add triells to the sides of some of the petals, not all, just 3 max. I'm excited)
Anywho, after maping out where imma plant everything, I came to the conclusion that all the leafy veggies and things I want to grow and eat, none play nice with potatoes. Imma have to just grow them in a bucket or something if I want potatoes
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Daisy
Thank you Thank you for this video! Hilling and hilling did not feel right to me since I want small yields but more often. I mean, you can get five plats from one existing potato. Many plants in many smaller buckets is best for me. That way I can dump an entire bucket and feed my family of 4 for a meal or two.
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Thank you Thank you for this video! Hilling and hilling did not feel right to me since I want small yields but more often. I mean, you can get five plats from one existing potato. Many plants in many smaller buckets is best for me. That way I can dump an entire bucket and feed my family of 4 for a meal or two.
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Richard
I had some Irish and red last year good stuff put dem in my fish head soup and when I was till back up the this found some spoiled ones in the soil guess I didn't harvest every thing I have the small small red ones one year lots of fun to eat what u grow and it's a very good feeling in my opinion
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I had some Irish and red last year good stuff put dem in my fish head soup and when I was till back up the this found some spoiled ones in the soil guess I didn't harvest every thing I have the small small red ones one year lots of fun to eat what u grow and it's a very good feeling in my opinion
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Amy
Thanks so much for the smashed potato recipe. This is my first year growing them. Zone 7b Delaware. Adirondack Blue and Yukon Gold. judt harvested purples, now on to trying to cure. Thanks for your great videos. Though we are super zones away, much of your info translates to all zones.
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Thanks so much for the smashed potato recipe. This is my first year growing them. Zone 7b Delaware. Adirondack Blue and Yukon Gold. judt harvested purples, now on to trying to cure. Thanks for your great videos. Though we are super zones away, much of your info translates to all zones.
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Lanita
I'm planting potatoes for the first time this year and this video makes me very hopeful that I will have enough potatoes for not only my household but for the food-sharing-bank we have in our trailer park! Glorious bounty means spreading the spud love.
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I'm planting potatoes for the first time this year and this video makes me very hopeful that I will have enough potatoes for not only my household but for the food-sharing-bank we have in our trailer park! Glorious bounty means spreading the spud love.
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Andrew
I love the urban gardening, but the idea of growing food right on the side of the road next to diesel trucks driving by and stuff makes me nervous. I know it's absolutely silly because tractors on farms use diesel but I donno. So much exhaust around.
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I love the urban gardening, but the idea of growing food right on the side of the road next to diesel trucks driving by and stuff makes me nervous. I know it's absolutely silly because tractors on farms use diesel but I donno. So much exhaust around.
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St
Maybe you got lucky with good harvest because of extra rain in San Diego this yr? What happens if you set and forget plant those potatoes in yrs where it doesnt rain much? I am in Southern CA so I realize getting good rain can sometimes be rare.
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Maybe you got lucky with good harvest because of extra rain in San Diego this yr? What happens if you set and forget plant those potatoes in yrs where it doesnt rain much? I am in Southern CA so I realize getting good rain can sometimes be rare.
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Thijmen
someone i know saves the small ones to use as seed potatoes.
also i have read somewhere to just poke a few holes in a bag of potting mix and stick potatoes in them, basically growing a bag of potatoes.
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someone i know saves the small ones to use as seed potatoes.
also i have read somewhere to just poke a few holes in a bag of potting mix and stick potatoes in them, basically growing a bag of potatoes.
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Holly
I havent seen him dig around enough. I wonder how many are still in the ground. Grew mine in a swimming pool. Honestly, anyone can grow potatoes, corn, beans, peas, squash. They just thrive. You can do it!
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I havent seen him dig around enough. I wonder how many are still in the ground. Grew mine in a swimming pool. Honestly, anyone can grow potatoes, corn, beans, peas, squash. They just thrive. You can do it!
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Chris
10 lbs of potatoes is cheap in the grocery store and I live in an apartment. I wonder how well potatoes would grow from soil from the forest placed in a bucket (after sterilizing it at 180f in the oven.
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10 lbs of potatoes is cheap in the grocery store and I live in an apartment. I wonder how well potatoes would grow from soil from the forest placed in a bucket (after sterilizing it at 180f in the oven.
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Laure
I love red potatoes. I'm going to do this. Question tho: I'm in Texas and it's the end of May and already hot. How often should I water the soil and do I need to wait for eyes to sprout before planting?
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I love red potatoes. I'm going to do this. Question tho: I'm in Texas and it's the end of May and already hot. How often should I water the soil and do I need to wait for eyes to sprout before planting?
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Keira
I have some beds that are cement and cracked and hadn't been used for at least a decade. I just moved here. Dont know much about its prior use. Just a bunch of weeds coming out. Where should I start?
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I have some beds that are cement and cracked and hadn't been used for at least a decade. I just moved here. Dont know much about its prior use. Just a bunch of weeds coming out. Where should I start?
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Carol
How do you know when to harvest. I planted potatoes in grow pots in March here in Michigan. They are flurishing, can't wait to see what was produced. Yukons, idahoes and fingerlings.
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How do you know when to harvest. I planted potatoes in grow pots in March here in Michigan. They are flurishing, can't wait to see what was produced. Yukons, idahoes and fingerlings.
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Othman
Just out of curiosity, shouldn't you have waited till the top foliage died off? Wouldn't that have yielded a bigger crop?
Regardless, beautiful yield. congrats.
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Just out of curiosity, shouldn't you have waited till the top foliage died off? Wouldn't that have yielded a bigger crop?
Regardless, beautiful yield. congrats.
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