How come potatoes don’t seem to be attached to any roots and just sitting there in the soil (sorry,maybe weird question,but never been on a farm and been in city all my life
Actually the potatoes ARE attached to the plant by quite small underground "roots". I am uncertain if that's the correct terminology but I'm calling them roots or root stems. Most potatoes are harvested after the tops have begun to die and those root stems die and, for the most part, come or break off. Each potato is connected to the mother plant and depends on it for nutrition for growth. Harvesting them always breaks the stem off so it may seem as though they weren't attached but I can assure you that they were.
@@binadeen9078 Great question!! When you harvest your potatoes, you wait for your plant to start dying back. At this point, the plant is week and deteriorating. So when you pull on the plant, and the potatoes are in dry hard ground, the plant comes out but the potatoes stay in the hard ground.
Great job!
@@lindabyrne1645
Thank you!!!!
Looks great! I'm growing potatoes for the first time this year, hope it turns out as fruitful as yours!
@@harusameiro
I'm sure it will... but if it doesn't, keep trying. This is our third year growing potatoes, it gets better and easier each year!!!
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@maemaemay7013
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What variety are those?
@leahr.2620
We grew Russet, Red and Yukon. Are you growing any?
@@SorianoFarms sweet potatoes
@@leahr.2620 no sweet potatoes yet. We harvest those on September
How come potatoes don’t seem to be attached to any roots and just sitting there in the soil (sorry,maybe weird question,but never been on a farm and been in city all my life
Actually the potatoes ARE attached to the plant by quite small underground "roots". I am uncertain if that's the correct terminology but I'm calling them roots or root stems. Most potatoes are harvested after the tops have begun to die and those root stems die and, for the most part, come or break off. Each potato is connected to the mother plant and depends on it for nutrition for growth. Harvesting them always breaks the stem off so it may seem as though they weren't attached but I can assure you that they were.
@@binadeen9078
Great question!! When you harvest your potatoes, you wait for your plant to start dying back. At this point, the plant is week and deteriorating. So when you pull on the plant, and the potatoes are in dry hard ground, the plant comes out but the potatoes stay in the hard ground.
@@carlspring2511 well said.
Planting potatoes to grow potatoes seems redundant.
@veemann3158
Crazy right?!?! We planted about 10 lbs. of our previous seasons harvest and we ended up with 105 lbs of russet potatoes.