Soil, Straw or Towers - which produces best over winter?
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2022
- Samuel and I are digging the winter (greenhouse grown) potatoes and comparing the success of different growing methods we have used over the years.
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Great one, the young man is so eager to help.
Wow, beautiful potato harvest. I have potatoes growing and I have a few more to put in soon. I forgot all about them. I do enjoy harvesting them. Nice one, John & Samuel.
What a joy seeing Samuel get so excited 🥰
I grew potatoes for the first time this winter only using one sprouted potato as an experiment. I got two kilos. It had lots of eyes which I believe now I could have cut into smaller pieces
Lovely to see the little fella get so excited to help find the potatoes 😊
Good test. Thanks for taking the time to do it and keeping records. Keep the videos coming.
Brilliant yield for winter potatoes!
Have you ever watched potato reveals from Allotment Diary? The most impressive spud grower ever! He grows all his spuds in 30 litre tubs, 2 or 3 seed potatoes in each, in Yorkshire. They seem to have a much better variety than we have here, the Sarpo Mira, which almost bursts its way out the sides of the buckets.
John that’s great to hear. To have the ability to grow some for the lean season is better than nothing. Samuel is growing up and learning alongside you which is another positive thing a good young helper
Hi John and Samuel
I have followed you all for a few years now I enjoy and appreciate the knowledge and time you invest in your videos,
I particularly enjoy the potato harvesting videos as the excitement you both have when you begin to dig is contagious 😀
Fill the bucket fill the bucket 🪣 😁
Thanks guys
Take care an all the best
Not a bad crop at all,John.
Samuel already shows love for gardening and i so enjoyed his enthusiasm digging those tubers out the soil. It is so important to introduce youngsters to gardening at an early stage, as too many people turn to shops to get fresh produce, because they do not know how to grow food. Very informative video, thank you! Your potatoes are so beautiful and healthy, did you add any nutrients in any form to the soil while they were growing? I just love your videos and never get tired of watching harvesting of produce grown over weeks, it is so rewarding and satisfying. Please keep your videos coming and include Samuel, dogs/cats, if you have them, it makes the watching experience more real and homely. Greetings from South Africa
Thanks for taking the time to run this experiment. Which species of potato is this? Have you tried to grow other species, and if so, what were the species names and how well did they produce?
These were Dutch Cream - or favorite variety. Have grown others, but keep coming back to Dutch Creams!
I started following you for the potatoes! Great to see this experiment result.
I tried growing Kipflers in raised (on legs) beds and I hardly got more than I planted.
But I just moved to a place with enough yard to plant a good sized bed. And I have plenty of time to get it ready now I guess!
Great video. Love to see your greenhouse……
Such a joy it is to watch your son enjoy gardening with you. Can I please ask when you planted your crop and how you amended your bed.
Very nice,it's always so exciting to dig out the potatoes. Potatoes are an absolute staple in our family, would love to be self-sufficient in potatoes. How do fertilize the soil and is that a determinate or indeterminate variety,which one would you recommend ?
Used a little meat and bone meal plus a little phosphate. The variety was Dutch Cream which is determinate. I find less "green" potato problems with determinate varieties. But you may get a higher crop from an indeterminate one.
Very informative. Thanks
I'm on my 3rd crop, although only a few plants I was pretty pleased to get 5kg off one batch, grown in soil. I'm SE Queensland and just got about 1kg yesterday. I thought the season ended. I've got chooks, would their manure be enough for the soil or do I need to add something else? Thanks again
Your climate is little different...best to check with a local
Just curious, how long will the spuds last once harvested (current crop) shop bought 3 - 6 weeks before turning green?
John what a beautiful room & aspect it has to it to finish your video ❤ May I ask what varieties of potatoes do you grow. I buy all my seed potatoes from Agronico in Tasmania & have had amazing success so far here in Brisbane. Cheers Denise -Geebung Brisbane
Thanks. These were Dutch Cream, which the variety I most commonly grow.
I’m in a rather wet Melbourne & have seed potatoes chitted for pot planting but am a bit worried about planting with all this rain & the possibility of having them rot. Should l wait or go ahead and plant them?
I would plant them. They don't usually root in the ground because of the wet, but they may have more blight issues if it keeps up.
What's your thoughts on planting density for potatoes? I plant mine a lot denser than your bed because we have very limited space (6 to 8 plants per square metre) and I do get more smaller potatoes but not as many as grown in pots. And by small I mean 5 to 6cm but still most of them come out around 8 to 10cm. We grow Dutch creams and royal blues and I find the royal blues consistently make bigger spuds with denser plantings than the Dutch creams. 🍻
How much weight do you get per seed potato? I expect there is a maximum production capability dependent on the nutrient in the soil and available water. I have no set ideas - I haven't found what that maximum level is yet! This bed is 2.5m2 and I had 10 seed potatoes, got about 10kg. Have previously tried 15 seed potatoes in the same bed and harvested 16kg. Outdoors I plant at about 3-4 per m2 and harvest around 1-1.5 kg per plant. But that is in summer. Steve Solomon likes to plant at 1 or less per m2 - gives larger potatoes, but less demand for watering. Royal Blues are good potato - I have also found they give less small potatoes.
@@homesteading I harvested the first 1/2 square metre of our main potato bed a week ago, the spuds were planted early here, back in June as we don't get damaging frosts and our coldest morning was only 0.5c. I got 3.25kg from 3 plants, all royal blues and like you said there weren't many small ones, mostly medium to large which I've found also with that variety. I get less small blues than I do Dutch creams which is interesting. I also have very loose soil, it used to be a sandpit when the kids were young and I left most of the sand and built it up with compost and cow manure and mulch. It's loose enough that I can harvest the spuds with gloved hands and no fork and any potatoes that go down enough into the clay can easily be popped out like geodes!
which variety did you plant ? good crop.
Dutch Creams
@@homesteading Thanks My earlies were Aran Pilot good crop grown outside but main crop was Wilja and because in UK it has been very dry they were hardly worth harvesting. Any chance of seeing something of Penguin ?
Great looking potatoes. What type of Potatoes do you prefer to grow John? We eat mainly Green leafy Asian veg but there’s nothing like a tasty potato salad over the festive season.
We prefer Dutch Cream. But sometimes also grow Nicola and Royal Blue.