WHY Are You Growing Potatoes As Annuals? 4 Tips To Grow Perennial Potatoes For Massive Harvests
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Today im showing you how we grow our Potatoes as Perennials to get plants that are ahead of the game and even bigger harvests, how nature intended..
Diseases can be an issue with any crop, but with the correct conditions, care and harvesting at the right time can be avoided.
Plantsmen of the past found that their seed potatoes would perform consistantly for around 7 years before yeilds would reduce, so after that you can either grow your own seed potatoes from True seed or buy a new set of certified seed tubers.
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I've never bought seed potatoes. I just can't wrap my head around the concept. I've been growing potatoes from a bag of potatoes I bought 30 yrs ago. I'm glad to see more people waking up to this. 💜💜 They get bigger each year because they are becoming naturalized to the environment of your garden. I grow everything in containers since I rent so it's possible to just keep growing no matter where you live.💜 happy growing 💜
Great advice - thanks for sharing and for watching 💚✌️🌿
Excellent vid, we have also found that copying natural patterns sidesteps the problems associated with propper or traditional methods. We started a forest garden 10 years ago with design necessity of staples and efficient production, potatoes are our highest calory consumption. No cultivation, just mulch, no rotation. They grow like weeds as an understory below fruit trees, i guess there naturalized. We initially replanted large potatoes at harvest (no tools, too much damage to everything) but found without breeding we could replant lots of small spuds without negative selective effects. We harvest 300kgs a year which feeds us all year (cool pantry) and by mixing with dried stinging nettle an excellent chicken food. Keep up the good work.
Gavin Isle of wight
Hey Gavin, thanks for the lovley comment, oh thats cool to know others are doing the same and having good results too! Do you mean you store your potatoes with the dried stinging nettles?...
@@freedomforestlife we store the spuds as they are, monthly check and removal of any spuds with deteriation. These are then stored sepperatly and cooked as chicken food, mashed with lump hammer. Dried stinging nettle is then added and stirred, otherwise the chooks wont eat the nettles. The amount added is not scientific but rather depends on how much nettle we harvested. Nettles are cut and left to dy for 5 sunny days when females are hung with seed, then stripped from stem in one fluid motion from base to tip into a dustbin. It helps if a child regularly stands on the nettles to squash the airy pile down, to fit more in.
@@MegaLegend76 Sounds like a really nice system you guys have..Thanks for the detailed response, we wernt sure if you meant you store the nettles with your potatoes for some benificial reason, but got you now! Keep up the good work!!
Lots of good tips, thanks! P & P!
I planted spare potatoes in uncultivated patch full of different plants (i dont have lawn i have meadow like something) and I forgot about them.
This is secind year and they came even healthier that those that I planted in my veggie patch. Their folagie is much darker, so green, healthy. I need to dig them this year to try.
Hi Krzysztof, This is great to hear - its so good to experiment and try new things in the garden. Loved reading this - thanks for sharing your experience and thanks for watching too 💚✌️🌿
Background music giving that Judge Dread vibe 🇯🇲
Amazing. Thank you!
I just picked all my potatoes. Better put some back in the ground to continue this cycle. Great work.
Hey Brett! like your style..and thanks for your comment..
thanks
You're welcome! Thanks for watching & commenting ✌️🌿
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Thanks for the video,it helps.
You're welcome! ✌️🌿
Inspirational, I already follow a no dig culture so I am definitely going to give this a go. Thanks🌱
Good to hear your already into the no dig 👍 So pleased we can share these methods so we all get to the benefits! Thanks for commenting ✌️🌿
Love the music too. More time to chill.
Thanks for doing such great work. I just purchased 50 acres of some of the most beautiful land I've ever seen in Costa Rica and won't be able to spend much time there for the next three years. I'm looking for someone who might want to live in Costa Rica and build their permaculture skills and practice their art for a year or more. I'll provide the land, food and materials and they can learn and improve the land. This is an opportunity I would have jumped at when I was just learning about land development and wonder what the best way to locate people with these interests might be?
Awesome, that's a plan for next year.
Brilliant layman's terms video . I've learnt so very much Thank You ❤
Glad you enjoyed it cora!
Makes me wish I lived in a warmer climate
thank you for this!
A pleasure Kester
Brilliant!
lovely soil
If you like stuff grown in wood chips
Legendary channel, keep it up
Thanks Paolo 😊
Plant Mexican marigolds of the Tagetes Minuta variety to protect your potatoes as a companion crop. However the Mexican marigold of the Tagates Erecta is used as an antibiotic and a substitute for penicillin.
That sounds great, will look into them, thanks for your comment!
nice one dan. looking foward to spring to get out in my garden again .merry xmas uncle mick & sar
Hello guys! Thanks for watching, us too, and have a brilliant xmas!!!!
Goodluck👏👏
Would you include alder ore willow as company plants and top them annually in june to produce mulch?
This is from syntropic agriculture and it could work well wit potato
They would both be great to grow to make your own woodchip mulch, especially using their younger branches, grown together though in the same bed with potatoes they may take away too much moisture, as both are quite thursty trees, may also cast too much shade for potatoes , certainly in this country (UK) anyway, so depends where about you are in the world, the best way to find out of course is to try these things, as differnet things very much work in different gardens, depending on the environment 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
I ugrer about the sunn. But let's say you prune in mid may ant the tree are not to clost. The potato gets full sun till mid juli. It will take a way for trees to close again.
Just came across this milpa video
ruclips.net/video/r5GUcMXi4bc/видео.htmlsi=yjhtINY7Wf1xXPae
How the mayas grew about 40 species of plants together in freshly coppiced forest
GREAT VIDEO!
Thank you for sharing your experience.
This year I left a whole row of potatoes in the ground (never pulled any) as an experiment for next season. I have had potatoes overwinter before and wondered if I could grow them more as a perennial instead of annual.
I assume its better to pull and replant right away as you've demonstrated, but I was happy to hear that after leaving that patch alone overwinter for the next growing season, you still had success!!
This is good to hear. I am excited to see what I get next season.
Questions?
What do you do with the foliage once you pull the plants? Do you chop and drop it or compost?
Do you fertilize or add any nutrients to the beds before the plants sprout?
When you plant other veggies into your mulched garden beds do you add anything while planting? ie compost?
Do you plant seeds in your mulched beds or seedlings?
Any feedback is appreciated. I will look for some of these answers in your other vids this is my first video of yours that I've seen so please excuse my excitement and questions lol.
I just found your channel and love your style of gardening, I do things very similar to your way of growing.
I will be checking out your other vids too.
Thanks again for sharing.
Cheers from Ontario, Canada.
Hey thanks for the message, glad you enjoyed the vid too, to answer a few of your questions, we generally compost the foliage rather than chop and drop with potatoes to reduce the chances of virus's, blight persisting in the soil which are very common here, we usually just add a few inchs of mulch each season ontop of the beds, for us we get woodchips for very cheap, it breaks down to make a lovley compost which works great for perennial plants especially, but we do often stick a handfull of fresh compost in when we plant/replant something, for annuals or rows of things like carrots we pull back the woodchips in the strip back to the compost/soil underneath and sow seeds and add a sprinkle of fresh compost over them and water, for small seeds we dont pull the woodchips back around until they have germinated and have grown abit, bigger seeds like beans we pull a few CM of multch back over! hope that helps!
@@freedomforestlife GREAT! Thanks for the response. Cheers
@@IS-217 here's a couple of our vids that you might find interesting from your questions: ruclips.net/video/Ksfd2BKeTu4/видео.html&ab_channel=FreedomForestPermaculture-OffGridLife
ruclips.net/video/0o4S828uPsE/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/9fdqyKertME/видео.html
I think in all of these we talk a lot about how the mulch works for us, and the first link particularyly how we replenish and replant .. we've got quite a few tours of our growing beds and polytunnels too, where you can see everything growing - we use the same method in our Polytunnels too.. Hope you find the info useful ✌🌿
@@freedomforestlife
WOW! Thank you very much for your thoughtful response. You guys have a beautiful property food forest.
I have a small food forest plot in my urban backyard roughly 30' x 60'. I have 6 fruit trees, lots of fruit bushes and vines and ground cover strawberries, as well as veggie beds interplanted amongst it all, a mini wildlife/fish pond and a small greenhouse. This is my happy place. I love the fulfillment gardening brings me.
You guys have done so much / worked so hard to get where you are now. Good for you guys!
Thanks again for the video suggestions.
Cheers!
Near where I live there is a field of corn. It has been there each year for over 40 years and produces more each year. Is this possible or am I looking at a field of dreams!
I guess its possible if youve seen it? his corn must be massive now then after 40 years!
@@freedomforestlife The corn yields are go up about 1 % each year because of genetics. Around here farming is serious and they make the most because our soil provides a maximum yield by using scientific methods rather than some magic snake oil. When the cost of farming is a million dollar business only the most efficient can survive.
@@robertreznik9330 Great, were getting into selective corn breeding myself with american indian varieties, very exciting..
You mean it is replanted each year, not just doing on it's own right?
Do you think one could plant some winter salad on top of it?
Hi Lunadepana, Yes you could, when we plant into our mulched beds, we just pull back to woodchips to ground level (in our case we have 3-4 inchs of compost ontop the soil, so you never actually see it, and then if your sowing direct put a few handfulls of compost in the hole so the levels an inch or two below the top of the woodchips and then when your seeds have germinated and abit larger just pull the woodchips back around the new plant, and same for transpanting something, other than you can pull the woodchips straight back around it if its big enough already! Its cool to have the bed ready for next year and chill as everything starts sprouting!
I have a question will I be able to do this in Florida I am a new gardener trying so hard to grow my own food please help me
Hi Maureen, im not so familiar with the florida climate but i assume its subtropical, ive heard of potatoes being grown in the tropics, so as long as they grow there you can use this method, it would only be extreme cold or heat that may effect them storing in the ground, theres no harm in trying! Keep in touch to how it goes if you do give it a go..Thanks!
What kind of woodchip mulch do you use? Do you use compost underneath woodchip or woodchip directly on top of soil? What kind of compost do you use? Well rotted manure or veg or what? I sthat 3-4 inches of woodchip on top of soil?
Hi devakipriya, its best to use brushwood woodchips, which is what tree services produce when they put the branches into the woodchipper (with the leafs on is what you want)...hardwood or softwood doesnt matter..even if its conifer or pine, it all rots down to almost a neutral ph..we use a low fertility compost made from garden waste as its most economical on the scale we use it. Yes 3-4 inch on compost ontop of the soil first, then 3-4 inch of woodchips, wele do a video on it!
@@freedomforestlife So just to clarify, when we harvest pots put one back in ground then cover with 3-4 inches of compost then cover compost with 3-4 inches of wood chip? Do you think well rotted horse manure would do instead of homemade compost as only two of us so not so much veg waste, but end of our track unlimited supply of hoss muck, we grow a lots of potatoes about 120 feet so that's a lot of compost. Have been growing pots all our lives now old age pensioners so the less back breaking work the better. We have a couple of small no dig beds, but main area is field on its 2nd year this year...clay....if we can plant as we harvest is great and then can cover slowly throughout autumn and winter.
@@devakipriyahelenjohnson8016 You would cover the ground with 3-4 inches of compost, then place potato on top, then cover with 3-4 inches of mulch. Horse manure will be just fine as long as it is very well rotted. We certainly find this method easier on our bodies and very effective.
Grew a huge planter full of potato plants.. 5 .months later only got two peanut sized potatoes...what went wrong?. Used new soil. ..got great root system...no tubers.
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Hi, it could be a mix of several reasons, overcrowding posssibly based on what your comment said, likely due to irregular watering if they were in a container also, and if you replanted your own tubers that were very small instead of seed sized or larger tubers?
@@freedomforestlife Thanks so much for the response!
Why not plant potatoes as a perennial crop? Well, I think he covered that in the video, ie., build up of diseases and pests and lack of nutrients. Crop rotation works, that's why it's so popular.
I think he mentions crop rotation and pests and disease. But after revealing his overwintered bed that got white rot, and the new season plants were just fine and healthy. He goes on to say that crop rotation is not needed.
The longer a crop stays in one location, the more crop specific microbes you will accumulate thus improving soil fertility for that specific crop. If you practice "chop and drop" with each crop for each bed this will replenish the soil with the exact nutrients needed for said specific crop.
Hope this helps clarify things.
He grows potatoes as perennial crop, and doesn't rotate them.
I will never buy seed potatoes again 🙂
Something about the sound in this vid that's a bit too harsh
Strange dude he acts like he's doing an advertisement for somebody else's garden don't seem like he's the type to Gardiner he's trying to look too pretty
Sorry you feel that way Gary
You are wrong Gary, Dan is a genuine person and I know him personally, he is not "acting" at all and is enthusiastic about this topic.
Ha ha you have got him wrong, I believe he’s showing you do not have to work so hard with this method. Of growing great if you find him pretty I find him a great figure of a hardworking young man. I wonder if you will find him lounging on the ground in future!!