UK,Thank you can you do a video on the pruning process? As I understand as the plants growing you pull all the small tubas of and leave just 1-2?,,,TY73s
UK, in the bucket that produced small tubers, did you consider that it may have been due to the size of the cutting that you planted? It may not have been the fault of the perlite at all. My aunt and uncle were potato farmers years sago (among other things), and when they first bought their farm and started out, they were rookies, but learned to buy certified seed potatoes and divide them before planting. They were later disappointed in the size and quantity and thought it was the fault of the seed. My aunt's husband (a rather crusty and arrogant old coot) contacted the seller and raised heck making assorted accusations. The seller calmly asked him how many cuttings he made from each seed potato. When my uncle told him, the seller rattled my uncle's ego, telling him you never cut them apart with less than three eyes in each segment and enough bulk to give the sprouts enough energy to start to reproduce. They wanted to stretch the seed they bought because they didn't have many resources left after purchasing the farm. Just a thought..
Nice upload; thank you! As a kid I grew up in dry arid desert in eastern WA state, USA...and the spuds grown there were huge! Good luck; as you say, it's the journey! Great philosophy! Blessings.🙏💌👍👍🎶😊🍃Greetings, grandma WA state,USA
What do you do with the soil for after you’ve grown potatoes in it? Does it need to be enriched? Do you use it for another crop instead of spuds to avoid disease? Or is it back in with a new seed-tattie? Or simply discarded?
Been watching your videos for quite a while, was unable to comment from wifes computer. Started growing in containers like you and it's working very nice, watched lots of your videos, great job! I am in the pacific NW with similar climate. grew spuds in ground last year and found a few leftovers in the garden this spring and they were in great edible shape, actually Very Good (perfect) for being in our sodden ground all winter. Thanks for all the videos and information, really appreciate it, L & S!!
Thank you Tony for a very experimental and a competitive video. From what I understand the first bucket had large potatoes the second bucket you were disappointed because of the vermiculite the third bucket you were also disappointed but you didn't tell us why what's in the third bucket. And it's also nice to know what's in the first bucket so we can compare all three and see what's a better soil hope to hear from you soon thanks.
Hi Yaya, Just compost in both the third and first buckets, The idea behind this video was to get a single tuber as large as possible for a world record attempt. Sorry If I didn't make myself clear. Sometimes you lose your train of thought in front of a camera. You can practise a million times but as soon as you click to record the wrong stuff keeps coming ut lol
Tony I would be so excited if I got one potato- as you know I am currently growing my first time potatoes in a hessian bag & am really pleased to say I am having success so far- well I am getting shoots or plants growing out of the soil which I keep covering up with my home made compost & the bag is just about full so fingers crossed for me- now I just wait. Cheers Denise - Australia
Hi Tony, nice reveal. They are a decent size even though you were attempting the Big one.. Like you say, they make a nice meal so nothing lost. Thanks for sharing.
That's right Rod. The biggest of the year will go to next years seed and the rest will end up on the table in one form or another. Happy gardening mate
The heats been incredible here, 114F, with high humidity. I don't even have to cook my veg, I just go out to the garden with my salt/pepper and eat it off the vine...😉
Dear Simplify, You shouldn't be disappointed by that awesome yield!! I live in the s/w desert, USA, where 9months of the year it's around 110 degrees, there's 5-8 inches of rainfall a year, and the soil is almost pure CLAY. (Makes terrific homemade BRICKS though!) I would be ecstatic if I could sprout/grow ONE potatoe!
We're in Maine USA and haven't had any rain at all for over a month. It's nice though, no funk on anything! We are watering and potatoes have no bugs! Hope to have a lot but not sure where I will store them.
my first time to plant potatoes and I did it in a five gallon bucket. I will be harvesting in july. I am following the tips I see here in the different gardens I watch.
Sorry you didn't get the result you wanted mate,at least you got some nice eaters out of them.There's always something to learn by experimenting.In any case you don't know what the others will turn out like yet :)
A good lesson for us all with the Perlite and Vermiculite 👍🏻. You need a X-Ray machine to keep an eye on them.😄😄😄. Will you keep the big potatoes for next year seed?
Yeah Nigel I will keep all the biggest for seed. I have 5 other buckets as well as 2 120 litre ones, see what follows those . but the perlite and vermiculite really surprised me
@@simplifygardening funny that ,she didnt water them at all the soil has a bluish tint it was once covered by peat bog hence acidic and it held water quiet well.but god did the spuds teste really good.
It’s amazing… if I had a garden I will practically live in morning noon and nigh. I have a very small balcony space and I have grown tomatoes n they got lots of fruits n. Flowers, passionfruit creeper. Green pepper n curry leaves, green grass.I’ll soon grow potatoes as well.
Thank you so much I'm learning with you! We learn when we fail as painful as it is for me and others we can go forward! Thank you Thank you Thank you💕💯❤️😁
It looks like the purlite and vermiculite encouraged more roots at the expense of the potatoes, it also would have retained less moisture. I have had good results growing salad veg and carrots in blue plastic chemical drums cut in half. Less watering and I can take a seat to cut the leaves. Wood chips in the bottom, rotted compost in the middle and purchased potting compost on top. Filled six inches below the rim, the seedlings get a good wind break. The mice and rabbits don’t get a look in.
This same thing happened to the giant veg growers in Yorkshire. All their 'Single' spuds put out lots of tubers and they had lots of joined together ones.
Yeah the joined ones havent actually joined but the potato was a mutant shape, they are the ones that have the potential to get huge. I have 4 more containers for this years chance and will be opening them shortly. Who knows whats under the soil
Super hands on, dirt under the nails, voice of experience video Tony! I have been experimenting also. To date: a raised cone bed, wrapped with black plastic on the incline. 10 lbs one plant. I couldn't provide under plastic drip-irrigation. 😞Plastic in sandy soil can be your plant's best friend, or worst enemy. I don't use black plastic pots because: not enough oxygen, moisture expires too quickly, and when pots are in direct sun-light, temps reach as high as 120 degrees! Not uncommon in NW Wis. Pot's micro-organisms and roots get cooked. Gardeners learn something new, every year! 40 and counting 🙂
i,d say not enough sand and way to much compost, not at all like the potatoe patches i worked in, but i could be wrong, as i have not been cutting seed for over 20 years now and they produce some giants.. thank you for the video.. have a blessed and safe day
You have a great yield and a crop to be happy about. Speak only good words and project love peace and increase. See what happens next season. Beautiful bakers.
Live and learn Tony. Surprised that Perlite would slow the growth as it holds moisture and boy has it been dry to the last 2 months!!!! Growing loads of spuds to show - the reveals are on my RUclips Channel. Two unusual ones that I am hopeful for are the metre high potato tower (my tower is 1m+ and the haulms are taller than me LOL) and the other is a copy of your single eye on a sliver of skin that you did a year? ago ---- it is massive! A pity we cannot add photo comments. Steve
hi Tony, i dont understand this "perlite AND vermiculite" concept at all. Both can loosen up the soil but vermiculite acts like a sponge, it helps to retain moisture, you use it if you live in a relatively dry area and want to save on water(ing). Perlite on the other hand doesnt retain any moisture at all, so you use it to help drainage, if you live in an area with a lot of rain for example. So did you want to retain moisture (vermiculite) or get rid of it (perlite)? It should be an either / or not both. I live in Ireland, it's generally wet here, so i added a lot of perlite to the grapevines but i used vermiculite as a cover when i sowed carrots to make sure they dont dry out not even for a second before they have a chance to germinate. The other thing im thinking of is that if you found the potatoes pushing out, maybe you could use a larger container next time. Seems like the ones you have are good for average size potatoes, but if you want to grow giant ones, you may need something much larger than those to make sure they have enough space to grow huuuuuge comfortably. Anyway, not a bad harvest at all, especially not under such circumstances like the drought you have. I wanted to give them a try too this year, but couldnt get kondor seed potatoes anywhere so planted sarpo mira. :-) So dont be disappointed, you've been still much luckier than i was. :-)
The perlite can help to retain moisture but it wasnt there for that. it was there to help give structure to the soil to help with compactation and the vermiculite was to hold moisture. The idea behind it was to try and help create a lighter soil mix that would be easier for the tubers to grow in. This didnt work as we saw
When is the right time to plant potato and how do you know when to harvest..pls reply..thank you..I love to plant and eat potatoes specially the red potatoes..
Thanks for the recommendation for the Containers from Oakland Gardens shame you didn't get anything from them for all the recommendations you must of sent them loads of customers
regular black garden soil with some sand, since it is a root producing plant add bone and blood meal 1/2 cup of each in that size bucket and as I said leave only the largest stem
Than for another excellent interesting video. Wondering what you will do with that spent compost . Will you spread it on the garden as a soil improve or would you enrich it with fresh organic material and reuse?
Use old Horse manure , back in the 70s I seen one the size of a turkey platter my cribbage friend fed his horse a potato but a piece fell to the ground without old burt knowing he says? he went to get a board one day and this giant plant was in his corale / barn yard found a massive potato 18 " long 6 high .
Good spuds in the first bucket. Good result. I noticed the first bucket was a bigger size? I’m growing Nicola in 30 litre buckets done alright, considering the weather. I’ve just emptied 2 out of 6 so far I’m going to leave the rest for a while as hope they will be ok. I bet the cost of potatoes in the shops will go up this year, so glad to have some on hand. I had quite a few come up in the bed that were left behind from last year...nuisance but the onions coped with the invaders, although I bet they would have done better without. Those potatoes (same variety)are bigger and grew in the surface compost as I’m doing no dig in that bed. At least with buckets you don’t have the problem of them being left behind. The perlite experiment was useful, thanks, great video Tony.
Yes I have grown a lot of mine in the ground this year as a challenge by someone I do not hold out for great hopes to be honest. Perlite really surprised me. Nothing worse that spuds that keep coming up in the same space, As i am running my soil through the sieve this year to finally get all the rocks out of it I should get rid of the rouge spuds too, then I can no dig the plots, but need to do this as roots are struggling
last year my potatoes were woeful. can you overfertilize? i used large 60 litere buckets, compost and i added a handfull each of potato feed and blood fish and bone. the haulms were huge.. 6ft tall but no potatoes
Yes, you overfed, 3 ounces of feed at most. Reduce the pot size to 30 litres and make sure there is no nitrogen. the compost you used must have been packed with it to get haulms so large. the pot size will reduce yield so ensure you get a pot around 30 litres or 8 to 10 US gallons
Nice harvest. Nature is such a miracle. It's easy for people like me to forget that potatoes don't originate at the supermarket. They come from the Earth and with thanks to farmers.
Do you ever respond to questions like instead of having your holes in the bottom of your container. Have them about a inch up so the roots of the plant will always have water to drink that should help the plant to grow
2 year's ago i bought 10 of these tubs and did what you said with the blood fish and bone and potato fertiliser and only got about 3lb of spuds, so haven't bothered again.😭
I didnt try sweet potatoes this year as i didn’t think it would be warm enough! Still... consider yourself lucky, my potatoes are extremely poor this year due to lack of water. Thanks for the video. Tom
UK Here We Grow ok well good luck, this is my first full year and ive learnt my lesson, more than doubling my water storage off the hard areas around my property... and daisy chaining barrels together.
I have a video on that which may interest you as I am storing 8,000 litres at the garden, might help in what your doing ruclips.net/video/b-mdBUnjMLk/видео.html
Nice video and great spuds 🥔 Have you considered hydroponics and nipping of bulbs so all goodnesses just go to the one tuber. Also have you considered the Ruth Stout method of growing spuds. Again it’s easy to watch what’s happening as they are only covered in loose mulch so again you could remove all tubers except the main one to get the whole plants attention. Looking forward to watching more of your vids. Thank you 🙏
UK Here We Grow 👍 You bet easy on the back mate getting old. Just got over 2 inches of snow today and it won’t be leaving until next year now I reckon. Could you recommend greenhouse work over winter and what will grow in that time frame please. Thank you bros
Brilliant vid. Maybe next time, do them in potato bags, then whenwhen they get to “new potato” sized, have a rummage and remove all bar one of the forming tubers (as some do to harvest news, a little at a time). Might get a small growth check, but compared to splitting their energy between 6 or 10 tubers, it should still pay dividends. Also means you can start from a whole chitted spud to get it away better (plus a handy meal of new potatoes!)
I did this last year I bare rooted the plants and still had multiple spuds, I think next year I will have to bare root 3 or 4 times to ensure all the feed going to 1 spud
What's "blistering hot" in the UK? Where I live that could be up to 113 degrees F. We'll more typically have several weeks of high 90s degree F in August. We're in bliss when it's in the 80s!
@@simplifygardening I was being a bit braggy when I said, "My heat is higher than your heat." I should have taken where you live into account. I guess someone from Dubai could say to me, "You call 113 degrees F hot? That a Spring day here." I'm going to look online to convert your Celsius temperature to my Fahrenheit temperature. (I looked it up: 36 C = 96.8 F. That is hot for where I live, too!.) I should have told you that I enjoyed your video.
Those are great looking potatoes. I have to ask, what is that vine in the background with the red flowers? I've never seen such a plant (watching from USA).
Hello Tony, good experimenting and has encouraged me to remove any extra spuds as they grow in my attempt at a world record. Is 1.8 👍 good enough .....lol. ♻️Happy Gardening........Terry King.
Marie you remove tubers and leave one. Constantly pulling tubers off as they form. This is to try for a world record you wouldnt do this for large potatoes.Check out tonights video on growing potatoes ruclips.net/video/dtfWSv8IsD8/видео.html This might be of interest to you
Just wondering if it’s the size of the pot? Less room less potatoes? In the animal kingdom, animals don’t breed due to lack of food or surroundings. Maybe spuds won’t multiply with lack of room? Just a thought. 🌸💕
No because if you watch the results video which is on my channel its about a month ago and on all the potato playlists the spuds did superb in 30 litres, had awesome potatoes, I am going to be pulling 4 more on monday of the large potatoes see what happens then
Do you think the container might be too warm compared to being in the ground? Ever try just digging a big hole in the ground and fill it with growing mix and much the top heavy? I have not been impressed so far by potato container results in yields.
Have been watching various posts about growing potatoes. I think the man who got 25 lbs of potatoes from a 50 liter container was using the most fertile soil. I suspect having the vermiculite and perlite would have worked much better if the rest of the soil was much more fertile Perhaps you could tweak your idea about looser soil and get that giant potato that you want. Might adding some manure be an option?
I wonder if the abrasiveness of the perlite affects the potato size. or if some other factor was at play like adjustments to soil PH or available nutrients vs bound nutrients, etc.
I dont know. I have a couple more buckets still growing of the giants and one or two still has perlite. So before writing it off completely i will check the results of those
I know this isn't potato related but my radish has about 2 weeks left until they have been growing 6 weeks and they are being ravaged by something probably caterpillars yet my big deep pot of carrots isn't getting any pests or insects any tips also what other things are easy to grow this time of year ?
Here is what Ive been looking for! ? Finally an article trying to grow big taters. Thanks. What is your soil mixture ratio. I started about 5 years ago or a little before that , trying to grow nice size potatoes. I had better luck this year in that I got 10 to 12 potatoes per bucket. Half were eating size. Well all were eaten but half a dozen were big marble size. I tried Black Cow manure and garden compost well mixed with Perillite and spangam moss as my medium. Im not sure what Im doing wrong but next year Im going with one seed potato per bucket instead of 4 per bucket. Im going to water them more often and if its hot Ill shade them with a light cheese cloth. 16 buckets this year and only 17# of taters. Thanks.
Doug And Susan just use compost, I tried with perlite in some containers but it was a bad idea, the spds dont like it. I usually get around 15 lbs of spuds out of a bucket. I feed with blood fish and bone and some organic matter. Check out this video ruclips.net/video/khyl0KHmiKg/видео.html
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UK,Thank you can you do a video on the pruning process? As I understand as the plants growing you pull all the small tubas of and leave just 1-2?,,,TY73s
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UK, in the bucket that produced small tubers, did you consider that it may have been due to the size of the cutting that you planted? It may not have been the fault of the perlite at all. My aunt and uncle were potato farmers years sago (among other things), and when they first bought their farm and started out, they were rookies, but learned to buy certified seed potatoes and divide them before planting. They were later disappointed in the size and quantity and thought it was the fault of the seed. My aunt's husband (a rather crusty and arrogant old coot) contacted the seller and raised heck making assorted accusations. The seller calmly asked him how many cuttings he made from each seed potato. When my uncle told him, the seller rattled my uncle's ego, telling him you never cut them apart with less than three eyes in each segment and enough bulk to give the sprouts enough energy to start to reproduce. They wanted to stretch the seed they bought because they didn't have many resources left after purchasing the farm. Just a thought..
@@tacksscherbo7771 Same here, as a kid when we helped my grandfather he wanted at least 3 eyes and a decent "chunk" to get them started.
I’m in my 80 Th year and am growing potatoes in ground and in various reusable plastic bags. Thanks Tony
That is awesome Colin, I hope I am still gardening at 80. Good on you sir :)
I absolute love harvesting potatoes, you just never know what to expect
Huge potatoes!! Nice
Nice upload; thank you! As a kid I grew up in dry arid desert in eastern WA state, USA...and the spuds grown there were huge! Good luck; as you say, it's the journey! Great philosophy! Blessings.🙏💌👍👍🎶😊🍃Greetings, grandma WA state,USA
Thanks Meldoy. I dont suppose you remember the variety you grew?
@@simplifygardening tony my guess would be idaho.
What do you do with the soil for after you’ve grown potatoes in it? Does it need to be enriched? Do you use it for another crop instead of spuds to avoid disease? Or is it back in with a new seed-tattie? Or simply discarded?
Been watching your videos for quite a while, was unable to comment from wifes computer. Started growing in containers like you and it's working very nice, watched lots of your videos, great job! I am in the pacific NW with similar climate. grew spuds in ground last year and found a few leftovers in the garden this spring and they were in great edible shape, actually Very Good (perfect) for being in our sodden ground all winter. Thanks for all the videos and information, really appreciate it, L & S!!
That is awesome! welcome to tha channel. its great to have you hear :)
Thanks for This inspiration vídeo. You and some others garden youtubers are a inspiration to me . From Portugal a hug.
Thank you Tony for a very experimental and a competitive video.
From what I understand the first bucket had large potatoes the second bucket you were disappointed because of the vermiculite the third bucket you were also disappointed but you didn't tell us why what's in the third bucket.
And it's also nice to know what's in the first bucket so we can compare all three and see what's a better soil hope to hear from you soon thanks.
Hi Yaya, Just compost in both the third and first buckets, The idea behind this video was to get a single tuber as large as possible for a world record attempt. Sorry If I didn't make myself clear. Sometimes you lose your train of thought in front of a camera. You can practise a million times but as soon as you click to record the wrong stuff keeps coming ut lol
Tony I would be so excited if I got one potato- as you know I am currently growing my first time potatoes in a hessian bag & am really pleased to say I am having success so far- well I am getting shoots or plants growing out of the soil which I keep covering up with my home made compost & the bag is just about full so fingers crossed for me- now I just wait. Cheers Denise - Australia
Thats great denise, Just make sure they dont dry out as hessian loses water fast. Keep me informed how you do on them.
Hi Tony, nice reveal. They are a decent size even though you were attempting the Big one.. Like you say, they make a nice meal so nothing lost. Thanks for sharing.
That's right Rod. The biggest of the year will go to next years seed and the rest will end up on the table in one form or another. Happy gardening mate
The heats been incredible here, 114F, with high humidity. I don't even have to cook my veg, I just go out to the garden with my salt/pepper and eat it off the vine...😉
Yeah its been a very hot year for once. I guess the press are right for the first time in their lives lol
That's hilarious
@@simplifygardening Yes, but its been chilly and wet in other parts of the planet. If were in a sail boat we'd be in a bit of trouble.
Dear Simplify, You shouldn't be disappointed by that awesome yield!! I live in the s/w desert, USA, where 9months of the year it's around 110 degrees, there's 5-8 inches of rainfall a year, and the soil is almost pure CLAY. (Makes terrific homemade BRICKS though!) I would be ecstatic if I could sprout/grow ONE potatoe!
Oh damn sorry to hear that
In the 70s my parents had a moorland farm here on dartmoor, they used to grow potatoes in the peaty moorland soil they done really well.
I bet the spuds loved that medium to grow in
We're in Maine USA and haven't had any rain at all for over a month. It's nice though, no funk on anything! We are watering and potatoes have no bugs! Hope to have a lot but not sure where I will store them.
Hopefully they will do well for you. Sorry for the late reply
Simply, . . . amazing!
Cheers Kirk
Great video. I look forward to seeing the results on your future potato trials and hope you get the record-setting one. Mobile, Alabama USA.
Thanks Victoria. We can but keep trying methods and see what it throws
my first time to plant potatoes and I did it in a five gallon bucket. I will be harvesting in july. I am following the tips I see here in the different gardens I watch.
Wonderful! how did they do Sorry for the late reply
Very interesting thank you.. so glad to know about the perilite not helping!
Happy to help!
Sorry you didn't get the result you wanted mate,at least you got some nice eaters out of them.There's always something to learn by experimenting.In any case you don't know what the others will turn out like yet :)
Your right there Tracy who knows whats under that soil. However, The trial is what makes it exciting for me :)
Hi, I’m just getting started potato growing and really appreciate you. All great information delivered timely. I’m following:)
Hey Melody I have plenty of playlists full of potato videos, its one of my favourite things to grow
I cut trenches in clay soil, back filled with compost and manure, variety was Sarpo Mira and they were the size of bricks
Yes thats a great spud for size and traditional way will always be a good way to grow spuds
Wow wee, Worzel Gummage(hope i spelt that right)!
Grew up watching him in n.z,no doubt lol.
Hi Tony,How many seed potatoes would you use in a 30L container,planting charlotte and Maris Peer in late July.Any advice would be appreciated.
Can I plant potato in tropical climate and how long potato stay in the ground before harvest?
Thank you for sharing and blessings Tony
Thanks Linda, appreciate the support :)
A good lesson for us all with the Perlite and Vermiculite 👍🏻. You need a X-Ray machine to keep an eye on them.😄😄😄. Will you keep the big potatoes for next year seed?
Yeah Nigel I will keep all the biggest for seed. I have 5 other buckets as well as 2 120 litre ones, see what follows those . but the perlite and vermiculite really surprised me
have you tried to put a whole seed potatoe in, instead of cutting?it seems that the sandyer the soil the better they like it
@@russsherwood5978 not true. They love heavy clay!
Remgoing to my grans they were on acid soil wow were the spus ever soo good,no scab etc very clean and very tasty spuds mostly kerrs pinks.
She must have kept them watered well. Great I love it when they come out clean
@@simplifygardening funny that ,she didnt water them at all the soil has a bluish tint it was once covered by peat bog hence acidic and it held water quiet well.but god did the spuds teste really good.
geez man just be thankfull you even got a potato
Lol Tom. This is for a WR attempt as is tonights video been trying years and still trying, but its the journey not the destination :)
You already have that other guy beat, with his gnarly potato. Keep on keeping on.
He’s after world record. He said he’s still glad to have potatoes to eat. But it’s not what he wanted. Nothing wrong with that.
It’s amazing… if I had a garden I will practically live in morning noon and nigh. I have a very small balcony space and I have grown tomatoes n they got lots of fruits n. Flowers, passionfruit creeper. Green pepper n curry leaves, green grass.I’ll soon grow potatoes as well.
Any space is valuable
Thank you so much I'm learning with you! We learn when we fail as painful as it is for me and others we can go forward! Thank you Thank you Thank you💕💯❤️😁
You are so welcome!
It looks like the purlite and vermiculite encouraged more roots at the expense of the potatoes, it also would have retained less moisture. I have had good results growing salad veg and carrots in blue plastic chemical drums cut in half. Less watering and I can take a seat to cut the leaves. Wood chips in the bottom, rotted compost in the middle and purchased potting compost on top. Filled six inches below the rim, the seedlings get a good wind break. The mice and rabbits don’t get a look in.
Yes I have some of those barrels in the tunnel, Havent used them this year but we can but try lots of different things to push the envelope
This same thing happened to the giant veg growers in Yorkshire. All their 'Single' spuds put out lots of tubers and they had lots of joined together ones.
Yeah the joined ones havent actually joined but the potato was a mutant shape, they are the ones that have the potential to get huge. I have 4 more containers for this years chance and will be opening them shortly. Who knows whats under the soil
Super hands on, dirt under the nails, voice of experience video Tony! I have been experimenting also. To date: a raised cone bed, wrapped with black plastic on the incline. 10 lbs one plant. I couldn't provide under plastic drip-irrigation. 😞Plastic in sandy soil can be your plant's best friend, or worst enemy. I don't use black plastic pots because: not enough oxygen, moisture expires too quickly, and when pots are in direct sun-light, temps reach as high as 120 degrees! Not uncommon in NW Wis. Pot's micro-organisms and roots get cooked. Gardeners learn something new, every year! 40 and counting 🙂
Yeah you have to garden to your location and environment, it works well here as by the time the sun gets hot the foliage shades the containers.
i,d say not enough sand and way to much compost, not at all like the potatoe patches i worked in, but i could be wrong, as i have not been cutting seed for over 20 years now and they produce some giants.. thank you for the video.. have a blessed and safe day
Hey Russ Will be lifting the last 4 buckets over the next week or so, keep your eyes peeled for that to see how they did
You have a great yield and a crop to be happy about. Speak only good words and project love peace and increase. See what happens next season. Beautiful bakers.
Thanks Kathy. Yes always this season to go yet :)
Interesting to see what effect the perlite had. Interesting video all round this, thank you!
Yeah that really surprised me, I do have other buckets with it in so I will see if these results will follow
@@simplifygardening
I am wondering if one really needs to use perlite/vermiculite to grow plants at all.
Or is it just a trend?
Live and learn Tony. Surprised that Perlite would slow the growth as it holds moisture and boy has it been dry to the last 2 months!!!!
Growing loads of spuds to show - the reveals are on my RUclips Channel.
Two unusual ones that I am hopeful for are the metre high potato tower (my tower is 1m+ and the haulms are taller than me LOL) and the other is a copy of your single eye on a sliver of skin that you did a year? ago ---- it is massive! A pity we cannot add photo comments.
Steve
Once you get 10k subscribers Steve you unlock the community tab and you can post anything there like FB
Still some very large potatoes. Very long French fries there. Great video Tony . Good luck for 2019. 😎
Thanks Anna, Yes they will make decent fries for sure
Thanks for sharing, great tips 👍
Thanks for watching!
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Aw, don't be disappointed, I learned a lot! Thank you!
I'm glad! Sorry for the late reply
I just planted some potatoes for the first time yesterday, getting really into my gardening lately hopefully it will go well :)
Tiffany, Thats great to hear. let me know how your potatoes go :)
hi Tony, i dont understand this "perlite AND vermiculite" concept at all. Both can loosen up the soil but vermiculite acts like a sponge, it helps to retain moisture, you use it if you live in a relatively dry area and want to save on water(ing). Perlite on the other hand doesnt retain any moisture at all, so you use it to help drainage, if you live in an area with a lot of rain for example. So did you want to retain moisture (vermiculite) or get rid of it (perlite)? It should be an either / or not both. I live in Ireland, it's generally wet here, so i added a lot of perlite to the grapevines but i used vermiculite as a cover when i sowed carrots to make sure they dont dry out not even for a second before they have a chance to germinate. The other thing im thinking of is that if you found the potatoes pushing out, maybe you could use a larger container next time. Seems like the ones you have are good for average size potatoes, but if you want to grow giant ones, you may need something much larger than those to make sure they have enough space to grow huuuuuge comfortably. Anyway, not a bad harvest at all, especially not under such circumstances like the drought you have. I wanted to give them a try too this year, but couldnt get kondor seed potatoes anywhere so planted sarpo mira. :-) So dont be disappointed, you've been still much luckier than i was. :-)
The perlite can help to retain moisture but it wasnt there for that. it was there to help give structure to the soil to help with compactation and the vermiculite was to hold moisture. The idea behind it was to try and help create a lighter soil mix that would be easier for the tubers to grow in. This didnt work as we saw
Wow thank you.your potatoes look so fresh and clean,
Its a great way to grow them, Did you see the experiment video I did about a week ago? if not check it out might just confirm some stuff to you
When is the right time to plant potato and how do you know when to harvest..pls reply..thank you..I love to plant and eat potatoes specially the red potatoes..
Thanks for the recommendation for the Containers from Oakland Gardens shame you didn't get anything from them for all the recommendations you must of sent them loads of customers
Oaklands do help support the channel buy supplying me stuff i require
regular black garden soil with some sand, since it is a root producing plant add bone and blood meal 1/2 cup of each in that size bucket and as I said leave only the largest stem
Yes Mona. exactly how I was doing it, but been testing some ideas of late :)
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How do you leave “only the largest stem”?
Do you cut off the other ones?
Hi Tony, Whilst I know it was not what you wanted as you said a nice harvest all the same, Thank you for sharing,Take care.
Thank you, Ronald. Yes a great little harvest Be great if my main crop potatoes are that big lol
If there is really hot sun for a few weeks is it okay to water your potato plants with a wateting can or garden hose ?
Excellent info 👌👌
Than for another excellent interesting video. Wondering what you will do with that spent compost . Will you spread it on the garden as a soil improve or would you enrich it with fresh organic material and reuse?
Yes I will Sorry for the late reply
Use old Horse manure , back in the 70s I seen one the size of a turkey platter my cribbage friend fed his horse a potato but a piece fell to the ground without old burt knowing he says? he went to get a board one day and this giant plant was in his corale / barn yard found a massive potato 18 " long 6 high .
Great video again Tony :) can't wait for all the other potato reveals :)
Thanks Kath loads to follow :)
Bloody hell!! Better than my two spuds per seed potato!! LOL!!
They are great spuds I know I sound disappointed in the video as its not the results wanted lol
Good spuds in the first bucket. Good result. I noticed the first bucket was a bigger size? I’m growing Nicola in 30 litre buckets done alright, considering the weather. I’ve just emptied 2 out of 6 so far I’m going to leave the rest for a while as hope they will be ok. I bet the cost of potatoes in the shops will go up this year, so glad to have some on hand. I had quite a few come up in the bed that were left behind from last year...nuisance but the onions coped with the invaders, although I bet they would have done better without. Those potatoes (same variety)are bigger and grew in the surface compost as I’m doing no dig in that bed. At least with buckets you don’t have the problem of them being left behind. The perlite experiment was useful, thanks, great video Tony.
Yes I have grown a lot of mine in the ground this year as a challenge by someone I do not hold out for great hopes to be honest. Perlite really surprised me. Nothing worse that spuds that keep coming up in the same space, As i am running my soil through the sieve this year to finally get all the rocks out of it I should get rid of the rouge spuds too, then I can no dig the plots, but need to do this as roots are struggling
last year my potatoes were woeful. can you overfertilize? i used large 60 litere buckets, compost and i added a handfull each of potato feed and blood fish and bone. the haulms were huge.. 6ft tall but no potatoes
Yes, you overfed, 3 ounces of feed at most. Reduce the pot size to 30 litres and make sure there is no nitrogen. the compost you used must have been packed with it to get haulms so large. the pot size will reduce yield so ensure you get a pot around 30 litres or 8 to 10 US gallons
Nice harvest. Nature is such a miracle. It's easy for people like me to forget that potatoes don't originate at the supermarket. They come from the Earth and with thanks to farmers.
Yes are fantastic to grow
What lovely big potatoes you grew at 3.55 👍😃🥔🥔🥔🥔
Thanks Alice.
I saw this video! I know you had a goal! But so many don’t have food! You have an abundance of great sized potatoes! You have done well! Amazing well!
Yes! Thank you!
Great garden, full and healthy looking plants.
Thanks Lynda appreciate your views and your support by commenting, sorry about the late reply. Tony
Do you ever respond to questions like instead of having your holes in the bottom of your container. Have them about a inch up so the roots of the plant will always have water to drink that should help the plant to grow
Brian, Funny you should ask that. I am in the process of making a video with that sort of idea so stay tuned
Try growing potatoes in sandy soil! Its the best for potatoes 🥔!
Yes will try it next year. Thanks for the tip
With rocks and keep throwing the biggest ones you grow back in the ground.
Your soil is so dark and healthy. I'm amazed.
It comes from making quality compost. Something I am about to release a book on in the next few months
the old saying goes "at first you don't succeed try, try, try again" so there is always next year !!
Yes always next year and another 6 pots this year see what happens
2 year's ago i bought 10 of these tubs and did what you said with the blood fish and bone and potato fertiliser and only got about 3lb of spuds, so haven't bothered again.😭
I didnt try sweet potatoes this year as i didn’t think it would be warm enough! Still... consider yourself lucky, my potatoes are extremely poor this year due to lack of water. Thanks for the video. Tom
Tom I dunno what the rest will be like they are all going over slowly
UK Here We Grow ok well good luck, this is my first full year and ive learnt my lesson, more than doubling my water storage off the hard areas around my property... and daisy chaining barrels together.
I have a video on that which may interest you as I am storing 8,000 litres at the garden, might help in what your doing ruclips.net/video/b-mdBUnjMLk/видео.html
UK Here We Grow i somehow missed ur reply... ill watch later... cheers
Nice video and great spuds 🥔 Have you considered hydroponics and nipping of bulbs so all goodnesses just go to the one tuber. Also have you considered the Ruth Stout method of growing spuds. Again it’s easy to watch what’s happening as they are only covered in loose mulch so again you could remove all tubers except the main one to get the whole plants attention. Looking forward to watching more of your vids. Thank you 🙏
Ho Richard, You love the Ruth Stout method dont ya mate lol
UK Here We Grow 👍 You bet easy on the back mate getting old. Just got over 2 inches of snow today and it won’t be leaving until next year now I reckon. Could you recommend greenhouse work over winter and what will grow in that time frame please. Thank you bros
Well I guess that’s what you get for growing your potatoes in Ireland lol. I can’t even think of getting them that big here in Texas
I’m not in Ireland I’m in Wales 😀
Brilliant vid. Maybe next time, do them in potato bags, then whenwhen they get to “new potato” sized, have a rummage and remove all bar one of the forming tubers (as some do to harvest news, a little at a time). Might get a small growth check, but compared to splitting their energy between 6 or 10 tubers, it should still pay dividends. Also means you can start from a whole chitted spud to get it away better (plus a handy meal of new potatoes!)
I did this last year I bare rooted the plants and still had multiple spuds, I think next year I will have to bare root 3 or 4 times to ensure all the feed going to 1 spud
Do you still stand by perlite not being used in the growing medium?
My daughter grew some potatoes in 1990 that were really big. There were several in a hill and they weighed about one and a half to two pounds each.
What do you grown the potatoes in please? Is it just compost? Thank you!
Yes. Charles its home made compost
What's "blistering hot" in the UK? Where I live that could be up to 113 degrees F. We'll more typically have several weeks of high 90s degree F in August. We're in bliss when it's in the 80s!
Barbara it was 36c here for 8 weeks thats real hot for us
@@simplifygardening I was being a bit braggy when I said, "My heat is higher than your heat." I should have taken where you live into account.
I guess someone from Dubai could say to me, "You call 113 degrees F hot? That a Spring day here."
I'm going to look online to convert your Celsius temperature to my Fahrenheit temperature. (I looked it up: 36 C = 96.8 F. That is hot for where I live, too!.)
I should have told you that I enjoyed your video.
Thanks to see.
Thanks
Those are great looking potatoes. I have to ask, what is that vine in the background with the red flowers? I've never seen such a plant (watching from USA).
The vine with red flowers are runner beans
Hello Tony, good experimenting and has encouraged me to remove any extra spuds as they grow in my attempt at a world record. Is 1.8 👍 good enough .....lol.
♻️Happy Gardening........Terry King.
lol mate needs to be a little bigger
How would you control the number and of potatoes grown on the plant? Unless a specific variety grows that way, how can you control it otherwise?
Marie you remove tubers and leave one. Constantly pulling tubers off as they form. This is to try for a world record you wouldnt do this for large potatoes.Check out tonights video on growing potatoes ruclips.net/video/dtfWSv8IsD8/видео.html This might be of interest to you
Just wondering if it’s the size of the pot? Less room less potatoes? In the animal kingdom, animals don’t breed due to lack of food or surroundings. Maybe spuds won’t multiply with lack of room? Just a thought. 🌸💕
No because if you watch the results video which is on my channel its about a month ago and on all the potato playlists the spuds did superb in 30 litres, had awesome potatoes, I am going to be pulling 4 more on monday of the large potatoes see what happens then
Thank you for your nice video it's very useful
You are most welcome
you might not have produced the biggest potato YET but i would still pop round for a jacket with cheese and beans lol
mmmm jacket with beans and cheese, Might have that tonight lol
Was the soil just pure compost in the buckets? Bar the fertiziler obviously
Yes Karen Sorry for the late reply
It will be my first time planting potatoes in a barrel. I would like to know which fertilizer you used to grow giant potatoes. Thanks
Blood fish and bone meal
Do you think the container might be too warm compared to being in the ground?
Ever try just digging a big hole in the ground and fill it with growing mix and much the top heavy?
I have not been impressed so far by potato container results in yields.
the container is warmed quicker in spring which is better and shaded in summer so its fine
I know your growing for record size but I would be happy with them. I haven't had any luck growing potatoes in buckets
Barbara, where do you live? What medium was you using to grow? how often did you water them?
We have had SantaAna winds lately and my potato leaves were stripped. Do I leave them or they are pretty much dead.
Leave them they may throw more halums
Great video! Thank you!
What size buckets did you use, Tony?
Wow ,amazing potatoes
Thanks. I will be emptying the last 4 giant potato buckets very shortly
@@simplifygardening ,nice sir
Thanks Lyn :)
What do you feed those potato plants with? Thank you
happy harvest
Thank
What kind of fertilizer and soil did you used in your first bucket?
Have been watching various posts about growing potatoes. I think the man who got 25 lbs of potatoes from a 50 liter container was using the most fertile soil. I suspect having the vermiculite and perlite would have worked much better if the rest of the soil was much more fertile Perhaps you could tweak your idea about looser soil and get that giant potato that you want. Might adding some manure be an option?
Kathleen I am trialling some other ways this year, also have an experiment running about the medium used in containers to see which is better
I wonder if the abrasiveness of the perlite affects the potato size. or if some other factor was at play like adjustments to soil PH or available nutrients vs bound nutrients, etc.
I dont know. I have a couple more buckets still growing of the giants and one or two still has perlite. So before writing it off completely i will check the results of those
How often we should water the potatoes..live in Florida USA n it’s getting hot
Nora check out this video takes you through all the options ruclips.net/video/NWuBGJyO04A/видео.html
I know this isn't potato related but my radish has about 2 weeks left until they have been growing 6 weeks and they are being ravaged by something probably caterpillars yet my big deep pot of carrots isn't getting any pests or insects any tips also what other things are easy to grow this time of year ?
Beetroot are quick, lettuce, radish, bokchoi, pakchoi, spinach mizuna, xmas potatoes, indoor broad beans
@@simplifygardeningcheers dude keep up the videos really getting me into growing my own produce
Cheers Dave appreciate the support mate :)
Here is what Ive been looking for! ? Finally an article trying to grow big taters. Thanks. What is your soil mixture ratio. I started about 5 years ago or a little before that , trying to grow nice size potatoes. I had better luck this year in that I got 10 to 12 potatoes per bucket. Half were eating size. Well all were eaten but half a dozen were big marble size. I tried Black Cow manure and garden compost well mixed with Perillite and spangam moss as my medium. Im not sure what Im doing wrong but next year Im going with one seed potato per bucket instead of 4 per bucket. Im going to water them more often and if its hot Ill shade them with a light cheese cloth. 16 buckets this year and only 17# of taters. Thanks.
Doug And Susan just use compost, I tried with perlite in some containers but it was a bad idea, the spds dont like it. I usually get around 15 lbs of spuds out of a bucket. I feed with blood fish and bone and some organic matter. Check out this video ruclips.net/video/khyl0KHmiKg/видео.html
Where can you buy these black buckets are they 10 inch?
The soil is very healthy 👍
I love your videos!
I'm a new gardener so sorry if this question is so basic. Did you have support stakes in the potato plants? Why?
😊thanks
Checknout the watering potatoes video i show a new way i used that was great