Just dug my red and gold potatoes couple of weeks ago that I planted this fall first time fall planting . Zone 9B . It was real nice to get fresh potatoes mid January. I will definitely do fall planting again besides it gave me plenty of seed potatoes for spring. Happy gardening everybody.
I've planted fall potatoes last year, zero came up, planted again this ladt fall, just noticed that 2, just popped up 🤣🤣 Although we're not done with freezing yet. I just can't seem to get the fall planting to work.
Boy, I'll tell ya, potato talk gets me excited for next year! I had a GOOD crop this last year. Mostly Wood Prairie seed potatoes and using exactly the same raised bed method you used this last year of hilling as you needed to.
I usually grab a few from the crate in the garage, throw them in a cabinet in the house. Every once in a while, they get forgotten about and when the shoots start poking out of the cabinet, then they’re ready to plant.
Night before last I watched the interview with Jim again. Last night I watched your last year’s potato videos again. I’m in zone 9 and I’m following your guide lines to a tee. With the exception that I’m 2 weeks behind you. I waited too long to order seed potatoes. If I get half the production you got last year I’ll be happy.
Had a great harvest from the Sarpo Mira last fall in Zone 8A.Planting those again this year along with the Elba from Wood Prairie. Like the disease resistance on these varieties.
Kentucky doesn’t start planting potatoes until March 21 bought my seeds from the same company you did. I wish I would’ve gone on and had them sent to me sooner so I can do the process that you were doing, but I chose for them to send it to me during my growing season.
25 years ago, when I first began gardening where I live now, my soil was heavily infested with nematodes. I would plant a 100 ft row of okra and there would be hot spots where okra would get destroyed before it was knee high. I still have a few hot spots. That's why I like Better Boy tomatoes, because of its resistance to nematodes. Of all the indeterminate nematode resistant varieties I've grown, it consistently survives the longest. I usually put out two Better Boy plants and at least one will survive and produce some tomatoes till frost.
@@LazyDogFarm I have always rotated crops and planted cover crops. My problem is that I'm on a slight slope and nematodes move in runoff water. We just had two heavy rains that sent water from across the road into the ditches. It overflowed the ditches and ran across the road and into my yard. I have ditches on the sides of my garden to channel water away but it still stands for days and you can't walk in the garden without going in up to your knees. About the best I can do is keep doing what I've been doing, since it's a lot better than it was before. I have them almost eliminated from a couple of beds. I just hope they weren't reintroduced in the runoff.
Good video. I know we won't stand a chance at winning but I do like the cobalt blue raised beds they have. I'm also going to check out Wood Prairie for seed taters. Thanks for sharing.
I grow potatoes and sweet potatoes in deep cardboard boxes…. Once it’s done producing just throw the cardboard(no plastic or tape) into my back flower/ veg beds…. It’s falling apart anyway lol great compost …. It’s great idea for those that don’t have loads of room 😊
I’m using raised beds similar to yours. Last fall, I used the cotton gin compost from Lenox to fill my beds, the Ali added some potting soil to the top and mixed that layer. My onions are there now. I’m prepping to fill several new beds now. Should I change over to mushroom compost? Does it matter which one to fill my bed?
I planted some potatoes back in November. I only planted 4 in a 25 gallon pot, I think that’s the size. Is it about 180 days before they are ready to harvest? I’m in SW Florida.
What makes the bought-starts so prolific compared to last season's left overs? That's the question that maybe no one answers. If your previous year(s) potatoes could produce like bought-starts, you wouldn't need to buy any. What is it that they do to make it produce so well?
He did an interview with the guy who runs the seed potato farm a year ago or so. He explained that as each year goes by the potatoes become less vigorous. Seed potato farmers start with fresh cloned stock every year.
As Rob mentioned, Jim Gerrittsen covered this in an interview we did last year. Potatoes are prone to developing viruses. You can't always look at a potato and tell it has a virus. It will look the same and taste the same. But over time, those viruses can cause decreased production in saved seed stock. We noticed this with a strain of red potatoes that we saved for about three years. Each year we replanted, we got smaller harvests. That's why the commercial growers always start each year with new, certified seed stock.
I had some fall taters that were sprouting like crazy so I went ahead and planted them in containers and some have already popped through the soil. I put a couple inches of potting soil over them and hoping to have early taters from these. I have my Sarpo Mira's chitting right now and they are very slow to break dormancy.
Hi! I'm in McDonough, Georgia. I'm doing 6 grow bags this year because it's easier for me to harvest them this way. If you were to choose 1 pound of one variety of potato - would you choose Huckleberry Gold, or Baltic Rose. I think 2 pounds would be too many. Thanks a bunch!
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you so much! I went back and rewatched your videos. Now I am trying to choose between Sarpo and Rose Gold. I may just need to add more bags!
How do you break dormancy for recently dug summer harvest potatoes if you want to grow them as fall potatoes? I'm digging taters at the moment as I live in New Zealand and want to grow some fall taters for next years seed.
I need help with how to stop getting bug holes in the potatoes I have nice plants and I don't see bugs in my soil but when it come time to harvest they will have holes all in them. What can I use to stop this.
We used to get that a lot. But since we started doing a lot of mustard and brassica cover crops through the winter (prior to planting potatoes) -- not so much.
another good show thanks for that . i really really want a wheel hoe but there is no way i could afford to have one or even better 2 of them shipped to australia it would be very expensive so i am going to have to build my own i think .
Is it just me or are seed potato prices ridiculous? 1lb of 3 varieties - 3lbs shipped to me is $73.38. Even with a good harvest I don't find that to be worth it.
Sir, my recommendation is to take those potatoes that you get from your harvest and replant them next year. There’s a concerning possibility we won’t even be able to buy seed potatoes next year.. there is a global war on food production…
How will anybody have potatoes to harvest by February. Most people aren’t even planting them yet. I planted mine this month but I’m in Southwest Florida.
That's why I mentioned this contest is going to benefit those who take good records and photos. You'd have to use a photo from a previous year's harvest.
you Need to plant when they start to chit.. not too much sun or shade .. lots of organic compost.. 90 - 120 days your done depending on variety.. choose early variety for a fast lesson 90 days
I’m confused I guess- How can you take pictures of potatoes harvested by end of month when they’re not planted yet or even planted this week -they take time to grow??
That's why I mentioned this contest was going to reward those who take good pictures and records. You'd have to use a photo of a previous year's harvest.
You dont need seed taters.. Rule Number 1 : if them taters are a sprouting plant them, including store bought If they dont sprout .. eat them , and dang it ..dont cut them up 😛 Dont ever over water. Feed them lots of organic compost 🤗.. all my taters are store bought, that chitted . i had way more success then them overpriced seed taters 🤗
Nobody digging taters now? 😂. I was out root'in 'round the garden today and dug up some sweet taters AND... found a stash of some reds; made some twice baked, and still have a crate full of fall sweet tators that we made some sweet tater chips with as well (air fried).... Nobody out digg'in tators....?? really? We grow stuff year round in Ocala. Additionally, I've got hundreds of birds feeding my soil. I hang bird feeders in the garden and man alive, they eat and s everywhere in it, and they swarm the ground like chickens scratching for the dropped feed. They eat bugs like crazy. I had a problem with those stink bugs, grubs, and those... red looking leaf deals... once I hung those feeders, the bug population is near extinct. I dont even notice those little white flies anymore; when spots got kinda damp, those little buggers would be flying around the veggies, not any more. Birds don't seem to bother the veggies, they just scratch 'round and pick n peck. Swallows, blues, and cardinals, finches... they all join in.
You started talking about how long it takes for them to break dormancy but then you didn't finish which is the main thing I came to the video to find out. Great vid otherwise.
Travis your corrugated raised beds are expensive. I purchased 4 from amazon 2×3×6 for $120.00 per bed 2 years ago. your asking over 300.00 and there not 2 ft tall like the ones i got as you age you need taller beds. Very disappointed in your prices. Love your channel just not your prices i know you need to make money to support your family.
I don't set the prices. The manufacturer (Olle Gardens) does. We just offer them on our site so folks can easily find the same beds we use in our garden. Makes it easier than answering a ton of emails and messages about where to get them.
Well first the more expensive ones on his site are 32 inches tall. That is 8 inches more than 2 feet. Second Olle, Vego and Birdies are high quality garden beds. Much better than the ones you bought. Top quality beds will last much much longer.
Just dug my red and gold potatoes couple of weeks ago that I planted this fall first time fall planting . Zone 9B . It was real nice to get fresh potatoes mid January. I will definitely do fall planting again besides it gave me plenty of seed potatoes for spring. Happy gardening everybody.
I've planted fall potatoes last year, zero came up, planted again this ladt fall, just noticed that 2, just popped up 🤣🤣
Although we're not done with freezing yet. I just can't seem to get the fall planting to work.
I don't care about winning anything. I just enjoy your excitement about growing groceries
@@VictoriousVictoria He calls them groceries. I know the correct word 😂
Boy, I'll tell ya, potato talk gets me excited for next year! I had a GOOD crop this last year. Mostly Wood Prairie seed potatoes and using exactly the same raised bed method you used this last year of hilling as you needed to.
Listening from Michigan zone 5b. Really like fresh potatoes! All different varieties your planting to me.
Good Friday is planting time for central Indiana. Atleast it used to be. The last 2 years not so good.
So glad you’re doing these! It’s my second time growing potatoes and I need this! I’m in 9a in southeast Texas.
I usually grab a few from the crate in the garage, throw them in a cabinet in the house. Every once in a while, they get forgotten about and when the shoots start poking out of the cabinet, then they’re ready to plant.
I got some seed potatoes at tractor supply yesterday
Night before last I watched the interview with Jim again. Last night I watched your last year’s potato videos again. I’m in zone 9 and I’m following your guide lines to a tee. With the exception that I’m 2 weeks behind you. I waited too long to order seed potatoes. If I get half the production you got last year I’ll be happy.
We get our seed tators in bulk bags from Mom and pop feed stores.
For small amounts I've gotten at Lowe's or Tractor Supply.
We're zone 9.
Had a great harvest from the Sarpo Mira last fall in Zone 8A.Planting those again this year along with the Elba from Wood Prairie. Like the disease resistance on these varieties.
Great video.
Thanks!
Kentucky doesn’t start planting potatoes until March 21 bought my seeds from the same company you did. I wish I would’ve gone on and had them sent to me sooner so I can do the process that you were doing, but I chose for them to send it to me during my growing season.
OMG!!! I would love to win!! Good luck everyone.
25 years ago, when I first began gardening where I live now, my soil was heavily infested with nematodes. I would plant a 100 ft row of okra and there would be hot spots where okra would get destroyed before it was knee high. I still have a few hot spots. That's why I like Better Boy tomatoes, because of its resistance to nematodes. Of all the indeterminate nematode resistant varieties I've grown, it consistently survives the longest. I usually put out two Better Boy plants and at least one will survive and produce some tomatoes till frost.
I realize cover crops aren't for everyone, but they have helped us significantly as far as nematodes go.
@@LazyDogFarm I have always rotated crops and planted cover crops. My problem is that I'm on a slight slope and nematodes move in runoff water. We just had two heavy rains that sent water from across the road into the ditches. It overflowed the ditches and ran across the road and into my yard. I have ditches on the sides of my garden to channel water away but it still stands for days and you can't walk in the garden without going in up to your knees.
About the best I can do is keep doing what I've been doing, since it's a lot better than it was before.
I have them almost eliminated from a couple of beds. I just hope they weren't reintroduced in the runoff.
@@dvrmte Makes sense. Sounds like quite the uphill battle -- literally. lol
I am planting in March and instead of using store bought potatoes this year i ordered seed potatoes.
Good luck with that .. i grew tatters the size of a pea from last years harvest best harvest i ever had .🤗 from store bought
Good video. I know we won't stand a chance at winning but I do like the cobalt blue raised beds they have. I'm also going to check out Wood Prairie for seed taters. Thanks for sharing.
I grow potatoes and sweet potatoes in deep cardboard boxes…. Once it’s done producing just throw the cardboard(no plastic or tape) into my back flower/ veg beds…. It’s falling apart anyway lol great compost …. It’s great idea for those that don’t have loads of room 😊
I’m using raised beds similar to yours. Last fall, I used the cotton gin compost from Lenox to fill my beds, the Ali added some potting soil to the top and mixed that layer. My onions are there now.
I’m prepping to fill several new beds now. Should I change over to mushroom compost? Does it matter which one to fill my bed?
I planted some potatoes back in November. I only planted 4 in a 25 gallon pot, I think that’s the size. Is it about 180 days before they are ready to harvest? I’m in SW Florida.
April 1st last frost date here. Just put my taters in the ground and covered them with a plastic tunnel. Hopefully we don't get another hard freeze 🤞
What would be your go to determinate tomato to planet here in Georgia?
Red Snapper and Roadster are both winners for me.
What makes the bought-starts so prolific compared to last season's left overs? That's the question that maybe no one answers. If your previous year(s) potatoes could produce like bought-starts, you wouldn't need to buy any. What is it that they do to make it produce so well?
He did an interview with the guy who runs the seed potato farm a year ago or so. He explained that as each year goes by the potatoes become less vigorous. Seed potato farmers start with fresh cloned stock every year.
As Rob mentioned, Jim Gerrittsen covered this in an interview we did last year. Potatoes are prone to developing viruses. You can't always look at a potato and tell it has a virus. It will look the same and taste the same. But over time, those viruses can cause decreased production in saved seed stock. We noticed this with a strain of red potatoes that we saved for about three years. Each year we replanted, we got smaller harvests. That's why the commercial growers always start each year with new, certified seed stock.
@@LazyDogFarm Thank You.
Whoa! Das alotta Chit meyn!
Holy Chit!
I had some fall taters that were sprouting like crazy so I went ahead and planted them in containers and some have already popped through the soil. I put a couple inches of potting soil over them and hoping to have early taters from these. I have my Sarpo Mira's chitting right now and they are very slow to break dormancy.
Hi! I'm in McDonough, Georgia. I'm doing 6 grow bags this year because it's easier for me to harvest them this way. If you were to choose 1 pound of one variety of potato - would you choose Huckleberry Gold, or Baltic Rose. I think 2 pounds would be too many. Thanks a bunch!
I'd probably choose Baltic Rose.
@@LazyDogFarm Thank you so much! I went back and rewatched your videos. Now I am trying to choose between Sarpo and Rose Gold. I may just need to add more bags!
How do you break dormancy for recently dug summer harvest potatoes if you want to grow them as fall potatoes? I'm digging taters at the moment as I live in New Zealand and want to grow some fall taters for next years seed.
Our potatoes that we buy from grocery store breaks dormancy just laying in our kitchen
I need help with how to stop getting bug holes in the potatoes I have nice plants and I don't see bugs in my soil but when it come time to harvest they will have holes all in them. What can I use to stop this.
We used to get that a lot. But since we started doing a lot of mustard and brassica cover crops through the winter (prior to planting potatoes) -- not so much.
Just wondering travis do you plant tatters by the signs by the dark of the moon is that right
another good show thanks for that . i really really want a wheel hoe but there is no way i could afford to have one or even better 2 of them shipped to australia it would be very expensive so i am going to have to build my own i think .
Lastc week, Zone 9B planted my potatoes in 25lb grow bags this year for the 1st time. Wish me luck 🙏 😅 🙂
Sweet taters count for the contest too? Or want regular potatoes only?
Instant follow for your tater enthusiasm
This is my 1st real year growing potatoes,so really don't have any pictures 😞
Tator contest entered
Theses potato seeds are crazy expensive 🙄
Good video, good info, but don’t keep photos so contest is a no go.
Is it just me or are seed potato prices ridiculous? 1lb of 3 varieties - 3lbs shipped to me is $73.38. Even with a good harvest I don't find that to be worth it.
Sir, my recommendation is to take those potatoes that you get from your harvest and replant them next year. There’s a concerning possibility we won’t even be able to buy seed potatoes next year.. there is a global war on food production…
How will anybody have potatoes to harvest by February. Most people aren’t even planting them yet. I planted mine this month but I’m in Southwest Florida.
That's why I mentioned this contest is going to benefit those who take good records and photos. You'd have to use a photo from a previous year's harvest.
Okay..I didn’t take any pictures of how many taters that I harvested last year
We don’t plant our taters in Texas until Feb 14th
Guess that rules me out
you Need to plant when they start to chit.. not too much sun or shade .. lots of organic compost.. 90 - 120 days your done depending on variety.. choose early variety for a fast lesson 90 days
You would have to plant your taters in November for them to be ready to dig in February ..I just recieved my seed taters yesterday
I know when to plant taters in Texas
For this contest is for someone who has grown potatoes before, not a new gardener.
I’m confused I guess- How can you take pictures of potatoes harvested by end of month when they’re not planted yet or even planted this week -they take time to grow??
That's why I mentioned this contest was going to reward those who take good pictures and records. You'd have to use a photo of a previous year's harvest.
I’m calling them Taters from now on 😊
Why call the tators? 🤣
You dont need seed taters.. Rule Number 1 : if them taters are a sprouting plant them, including store bought If they dont sprout .. eat them , and dang it ..dont cut them up 😛 Dont ever over water. Feed them lots of organic compost 🤗.. all my taters are store bought, that chitted . i had way more success then them overpriced seed taters 🤗
Nobody digging taters now? 😂. I was out root'in 'round the garden today and dug up some sweet taters AND... found a stash of some reds; made some twice baked, and still have a crate full of fall sweet tators that we made some sweet tater chips with as well (air fried).... Nobody out digg'in tators....?? really? We grow stuff year round in Ocala. Additionally, I've got hundreds of birds feeding my soil. I hang bird feeders in the garden and man alive, they eat and s everywhere in it, and they swarm the ground like chickens scratching for the dropped feed. They eat bugs like crazy. I had a problem with those stink bugs, grubs, and those... red looking leaf deals... once I hung those feeders, the bug population is near extinct. I dont even notice those little white flies anymore; when spots got kinda damp, those little buggers would be flying around the veggies, not any more. Birds don't seem to bother the veggies, they just scratch 'round and pick n peck. Swallows, blues, and cardinals, finches... they all join in.
3000 Years🤣 of documented history.. and we are still looking for way to grow tatters ?.. something wrong with this picture ?
You started talking about how long it takes for them to break dormancy but then you didn't finish which is the main thing I came to the video to find out. Great vid otherwise.
Travis your corrugated raised beds are expensive. I purchased 4 from amazon 2×3×6 for $120.00 per bed 2 years ago. your asking over 300.00 and there not 2 ft tall like the ones i got as you age you need taller beds. Very disappointed in your prices. Love your channel just not your prices i know you need to make money to support your family.
I don't set the prices. The manufacturer (Olle Gardens) does. We just offer them on our site so folks can easily find the same beds we use in our garden. Makes it easier than answering a ton of emails and messages about where to get them.
Well first the more expensive ones on his site are 32 inches tall. That is 8 inches more than 2 feet. Second Olle, Vego and Birdies are high quality garden beds. Much better than the ones you bought. Top quality beds will last much much longer.
You cant compare 2 years ago. I used to build raised beds for $40 and now those same supplies cost well over $100. You have to love those bidenomics.
@@JustSewTrish I believe, I found the garden beds that they are talking about. You can still get them for the same price