Why Potatoes Should Not be Left in the Ground
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2021
- In this video I talk about why it's not always a good idea to leave potatoes in the ground for long periods of time once they are ready for harvest.
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What we always done back home during harvest time the potatoes would come out as soon as they start bend over, the only thing would change we would not do it on a sunny day... why because my dad wanted a cloudy day so when we dig the potatoes we could leave them on the surface for a while to dry off, so when the store they have very little dirt on them and they all be dry skinned over a little. Also we only dig enough that could be put away that day. A little breeze would go a long ways also to dry them. Back home we had a root cellar as well to store root vegies Also home is Newfoundland.
Good vid Greg Thx.
Thank you for your thorough information. Yeah my leaves are flat down for quite a while now so today I will dig them up and see how it’s going and about the curing down and putting them on the cardboard and letting the fan dry the skins. Thank you for that I never knew about that.
I am in southern Ontario and my potatoes were very small and I pulled them while the plants were still standing and all my potatoes were covered in those holes. Because they were so small there was no cutting away the bad parts. When I looked it up it seems that they are Wireworms or tuber flea beetles that may affect potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions
I harvested my potatoes (white & sweet; in different locations) by the calendar date (what 90-100 days or so) and a great number had these holes. Lots of black beetles and pill bugs in abundance. Some were even hollowed out completely.
However, last year I did a tiny patch in a raised bed, and let them totally die & they were spotless. The strangest thing.
I'll definitely be doing research on what bugs snacked on my potatoes. Hopefully it can be deterred with a cover crop and minor "other" strategies.
Hey my FRIEND…we just grow Russet potatoes! We do leave them until we need them….we do live in Gander Newfoundland and Labrador Canada and harvest and eat before winter….about 50 or 100 lbs we harvest during Christmas and keep in our heated garage.
Will you do an update on your sunchoaks? I planted some after watching your video this spring, and now what???
Great info on your channel, as usual.
Yes - coming soon! don't harvest till you've had some frost
I don’t leave them in the ground, but last year I re-sowed 3 Kennebec potatoes in my bed at the same time as I sowed garlic and flower bulbs. Amazingly they survived the winter, sprouted, and flourished. However, we had a mild winter :)
Sometimes they make it. I love kennebecs!
Glad to hear "Outdoors on the Cheap" is coming back; great videos, great advice.
Both channels are 👍🏻.
Thanks 👍
Wireworms make the holes. Friggen voles were heavy here this year in Alberta hit my potatoes, carrots and beets..
Thanks for this video. I definitely see this issue with my potatoes.
Glad your other channel will see some new content.
Thanks for watching!
Hey Greg
Thanks for doing the video! With me if I leave mine in too long the dang Voles have a feast!!!
Also thanks for the update on OD on the Cheap...great channel and thanks for doing it!
Have a great day!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
voles can be a problem too - I should have mentioned that!
I didn't know you had another channel. Definitely subscribed as I love your content. 👍
Thanks for subbing
Thank you so very much! The vast majority of my first time potato crop this last summer looked just like this! Thank you for solving the great mystery!
Glad it was helpful!
Wireworm i think, i have that too.
Wow....got busy and didn't get to it....YEP, did the same thing with my potatoes, when I did get around to digging them up, my "harvest" started growing....now I have a crop of fall potatoes I guess....🤣
I had also heard all that jazz about leave them in the ground, take them as you need them, etc.
Turned out to be a lot of hooey.
They either went to mush, or something got at them.
In my case, I wanted to Experiment with them to see how long they could stay and, to see what the plants would do.
They actually started new growth as if they would just keep on going, but when I pulled them up… Most everything I had gone to crap … and just a few cores were attempting to grow.
Don’t try to nurse the plant along, or think you’re going to revive it.
Potatoes don’t work that way.
When the foliage turns yellow from the bottom up and the leaves fall, the plant just flops over, as if it were dying… It is.
The potatoes won’t get any bigger, at that point. Take them out.
Great advice.
Wonder what the little “BB bugs” are?
wireworm seems to be the consensus among viewers - and I think they're right
Isn't it interesting that the carrots do fine in the ground in winter, but potatoes don't? I have a feeling that it's because the potatoes have been bred to be so large and starchy, so they're more of a target for pests once they're ripe and "sweet".
I just finished digging up my potatoes they’re beautiful they’re not all large I have some the size of a child’s best most of them and then the others are like baby potatoes. I had one only one mind you that had those holes in it maybe five or six holes. I have always wanted to travel to Nova Scotia. My traveled have always been to the Orient India, Iran Sri Lanka living in Japan for 40 years to Hong Kong. What is the best fly over there on the weekends? Have a good Chinese food and come back and start work on Monday again, now I am here in America living in a big city now on my hands and knees, pulling potatoes out
For a long time I had holes just like that on my potatoes, then I finally found a few with little black slugs in them. The damn slugs again. And the slugs are far more active in the fall, so the longer I wait the more slug holes there are.
Another issue I have been having is a small black dot that infects the tuber a few MM deep. The dots are all over the tubers and I have to peel them significantly. The extension office informed me they are flea beetles attacking the tubers. I had no idea that they did that and saw no evidence of flea beetles on the plants themselves.
You're absolutely correct when you say that if you don't harvest them - something else will.
I have flea beetles attacking the laves - but not the tubers yet... Yikes!!!
Hey Greg, those holes are from wireworm larvae. It has nothing to do with leaving the tubers in the ground.
I think you;re right
Click beetle larvae is the culprit for those holes. Had the same holes in mine and found a larvae sticking out of one of the holes. They seemed to be particularly bad this year.
I see the beetles flying around in the garden all the time - so that makes sense
Also just subbed to Outdoors on the Cheap.
Thanks
People are saying wireworms... I've found those holes in garlic, ginger, sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets. Guess I'd better look up what to do about wireworms!
Good information on the potatoes. I think I asked you what your process is for harvesting/storing potatoes in the summer when it's still too warm to put them in the garage and you said you eat them and refrigerate. I'm warmer here so I will always have the problem of harvesting potatoes when it's still warm so I guess leaving them in the ground probably not a good idea.
We bought a new fridge because the old one was falling apart inside (and after me repairing it twice with JB weld...) so the wife said it was too ugly and we got a new one. Now the old one is in the garage, full of beer, pickles, and potatoes :)
Wireworm beetle larvae I think. We get volunteer taters every year here M in Eastport MaineNo mater how well I think I picked them they manage to grow the next year. Sometimes in a different place from where I grew them, must have f off
basket we picked them in.
thanks - I think you're right
much research has been done concerning brassicas being a bio fumigant for soils which are then followed by night shade varieties. Would you be willing to do an experiment and plant potatoes in beds where kale, mustard, or cabbage had grown the year before, and share the results of perhaps one bed? that would be interesting I think. Keep the content coming. I never miss a video.
+1 to Wireworms
this study seems to warn against following brassicas with potatoes; vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/NewsArticles/Brassicas%20Factsheet%20Final%20August%202011.pdf
@@maritimegardening4887 I googled "growing mustard as a biofumigant" , this was from AG Canada, New Brunswick, which has done studies as such. I should have been more specific about mustard content, and not generally concerning brassicas.
I planted seed potatoes a few weeks ago and then yesterday I checked them and they were growing but they had these holes in them. Should I be worried about them?
I had some crazy volunteer potatoes from ones I missed picking last fall. These potatoes got severely neglected as they were on a property I wasn't getting to.
The majority of them never flowered, and never died back, and I finally thought I should do something with them.
I had 3 massive potatoes. The size of spaghetti squash!
I had one vine where it put out above ground potatoes all over the vine!
The productivity was low as most had above ground potatoes, and they were not cared for.
I expect to have a large number repopulate the garden next year as I missed many again! Oops!
Potatoes are usually dug out early but my carrots are another story which have the same results for me so soon I will dig them all out instead of leaving them in the ground....to many holes in them like your spuds!
It happens alot more to my sweet potato potato s.
Its voles that get mine...
Greg - You need to have this channel subscribe to your other channel and vice versa to allow people to find it. 'Outdoors on the Cheap' - the title was also hidden by the videa tags.
Good idea thanks
Get the pressure canner out and save those damaged potatoes that way, then they are all finished and you don't have to rush to use them or worry about them anymore.
How would you store your seed potatoes and prevent them from spoiling before spring when it's time to plant them. Thanks.
They need to be kept somewhere between 5c and 10c. A root cellar is ideal - but a fridge will also work. I keep mine in a fridge.
@@maritimegardening4887 Can you store fingerling potato seeds the same way?
I subbed, 797!
thanks!
That's wireworm damage.
Like little craters on the moon...