Thanks for that. I have never been brave enough to try growing sweet potatoes. I,watched a video from a guy in zone five who had excellent sweet potato harvests, so I know it can be done!
For sweet potatoes, I'm thinking they really need the right soil mixture to do their best and it would seem like a loose and not nutrient rich soil is what is needed. I will get it figured out.....eventually. 😀 Thanks for watching Klaus
Hi Steve, that's quite the haul of potatoes! I don't attempt sweet potatoes because I don't have the full sun exposure and room to run they need. I hope you get the mixture right next year! Your worms will enjoy those misfits. ~ Sandra
I will feed the roots to the worms after they go through a few freeze and thaw cycles. Maybe around the beginning of Dec. The few almost usable tubers will be saved for next year to grow out new slips. Thanks for watching Sandra.
That soil looked fantastic and tons of potatoes Steve!! Like you're thinking on the sweet potatoes aswell !! I feel like sweet potatoes are definitely hit add miss ?? We have a bunch more to harvest with some different methods so it'll be interesting!! Cheers 🌱🤞👍🤜🤛
Thanks for encouraging me to grow potatoes earlier this year. I used two 5 gal buckets with holes in them. We enjoyed the 1st bucket earlier this year and I just dumped out the second bucket yesterday. Not bad for a no-effort trial. Maybe I’ll try more next year
That's great Pam. Once planted, you really don't need to do much with them except watering. Maybe try 4 buckets next year and see how it goes. 😀 If you still have some small ones that around 1.5 to 2 oz. Those can be replanted next spring. Thanks for watching Pam.
I’m NW of Chicago. I did Beauregard 2yrs ago..my first time growing and did fantastic. Last year I did triple the plants and got skunked. Something nibbled the potatoes underground. I skipped trying this year. I might try them again in pots.
What did your soil mixture consist of the 1st year? I think my 1st year, I got a couple of usable ones but just barely. We have cold coming in Sunday night. Time to bring in anything that the cold can damage. Thanks for watching Robin.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 Had them in my raised beds …compost, vermiculite and peat moss. Top them every fall with 2-3” of compost. Yup we’ve been a frantic mess harvesting, preserving, gifting, clearing and storing. Always hate this point in the season..
WOW, almost 200 pounds of potatoes, not to shabby! I think I am going to grow my potatoes in root pouches next year. I pretty much eliminated the jumping worms from my potato bed, so I can use that soil in the pouches and return to the way I used to grow them, covering with leaves and compost. Plus I will use some horizontal wire to support the plants as you do. I think you are correct that less is more with the sweet potatoes. This year I grew them in a pretty small area 4' by 2'. They did OK, but I broke many of larger tubers because they buried themselves in the clay. I also messed up by planting on the north side of the trellis, they got to shaded by everything growing on the south side. All I give the sweet potatoes are worm castings at planting and drenches of worm and comfrey tea during the growing season. My best harvest was when I could grow them the Ruth Stout method (before JW's), unfortunately, that year the voles got many of my large tubers, always something. I guess we will all be turning our attention inside after this week. I saved some sweet potato vines and a few cuttings of hybrid cherry tomatoes to overwinter. Something to keep alive until onion planting time. Have a good weekend! Stay Well!!!!
The potato harvest will keep us going for a while. 😀 I was outside today using the mower to collect leaves and grass clippings for the compost bins. Last weekend I turned the patch where I grew sweet corn this year into a raised bed using 2x10s. (4ft x 24ft x 9.25 inches tall) That will need 2.75 yards of materials to fill it up (plus more as it breaks down) I filled it with the leaves and grass then started filling up the compost bins. Plenty of leaves still on the trees so, I will be doing that the next few weekends. I will need to get some more horse manure too for the new raised bed and for the compost bins. I will figure out something for the sweet potatoes eventually. Jason and Colleen did with the slips I gave them so I know it was an issue with the plants and the fact that they grew well in an area that wasn't nutrient dense kind of confirms my thought that they need a loose and somewhat poor growing medium. Thanks for watching Brian.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 That new raised bed will be huge, what will you be growing in it? Will cost a few bucks too. Most of the trees around here are still holding on to their leaves, no leaves for me to start picking up yet. I did find a source for free chicken poop from a local farm at the farmers market, finally a source of manure for the compost. Have to bring in all my worms today, and finish harvesting my leaf mold. I kinda made the mistake of dumping an entire worm bin in with the leaf mold last fall, just a ton of red worms, so far no jumping worms with about a 1/3rd of the way to go. Winter is knocking at our door, but that's OK, gives us a time to rebuild or soils and amendments for next year. Stay Well!!!!
@@brianseybert192 Next year I will grow tomatoes and peppers in the new bed. I had bought 4 of the 2x10x10s a year ago and bought 2 more 2x10x8s, 4 mending plates and 4 deck balusters last weekend. The balusters I cut in half, cut 1 end into a spike and drove them into the ground to support the outside center area of the bed.. Once I get add the horse manure to the bed, I will top it off with some Johnson Su compost and maybe a thin layer of leaf mould. I might wait until planting time before adding the leaf mould. 🤔
Awesome, I would wait until I planted to use the leaf mold, really holds the moisture in, try it over your carrots, unless you have a ton. Bad news up by me, found 2 immature jumping worms in my leaf mold bin today, I think I know how I goofed up too. I left a volunteer tomato grow on the outside of the bin. and a paper leaf bag I used to cover the leaf mold was in contact with the ground outside the bin.. This past month with temps in the 60's, plus the rain I think the little @#$%^& got in. Unfortunately, I can not use my leaf mold for potting mix. I was so good all year! Minor victories, huge defeats. Have aa good week Steve! Stay Well !!!! @@stevefromthegarden1135
@brianseybert192 JWs strike again. That sucks. I will wait until planting time to put the leaf mould down. I will have fresh compost by then too. Have a good week Brian.
It was about 140 days. Jason and Colleen were able to grow sweet potatoes in a fresh compost pile using the left over slips I gave them. That kind of confirmed some thoughts I already had. Also, Travis at Lazy Dog Farm mentioned that his sweet potatoes grow better in the couple of plots he has that are more on the sandy side. Anyways, I will keep make changes until I figure it out.....eventual. 😀 Thanks for watching Rick.
I can do that up until around early to mid Dec when the real cold sets in and daylength gets too short. To grow lettuce outside here through the entire winter, I would need to be build an insulated cold frame and use supplemental lighting and incandescent Christmas lights overnight to provide extra warmth. In zone 7, you should do well with using low tunnels or cold frames. If the plants are near 70% of full size by mid Dec, they should hold well outside until your daylength reaches 10 hrs again in mid to late Jan. (or whenever you location reaches that point) Thanks for watching Kipper.
Looks like I have to harvest my potatoes also. Those potatoes with the green, do not eat. Not good. Poison for some reason because they were exposed from the sun. The small ones can be used whole without peeling in potato soup. Those little ones are about $6/pound.
I might use some of the small ones in soups after I separate out the ones I will keep as seed potatoes for next year. (The ones that weigh about 1.5 to 2.5 oz) German Butterballs are considered a gourmet potato and you don't see them in the grocery store. (At least I never have) If you haven't harvested your potatoes yet, you will want to get that done before the cold hits on Sunday night. Thanks for watching Tom.
Awesome Steve! Looks really good! take cfae!
Thanks for watching Mike.
Great harvest.
Thanks for watching AJ.
Thanks for that. I have never been brave enough to try growing sweet potatoes. I,watched a video from a guy in zone five who had excellent sweet potato harvests, so I know it can be done!
For sweet potatoes, I'm thinking they really need the right soil mixture to do their best and it would seem like a loose and not nutrient rich soil is what is needed. I will get it figured out.....eventually. 😀 Thanks for watching Klaus
Captivating harvest scene 😮 Your skill excellent 😮 I wish growing sweet potatos someday😅 Thanks for good video 😂Full watching and Biglike+🎉
Thanks for watching. Next year I will replace German Butterball with a different variety. Not sure which one yet. Maybe Sarpo Mira 🤔
Nice harvest Steve, I put the small potatoes in soups if they clean up ok.🥔🤠👍
That is a good idea. Beef stew and various other soups would benefit from the small potatoes. Thanks for watching Nick
Hi Steve, that's quite the haul of potatoes! I don't attempt sweet potatoes because I don't have the full sun exposure and room to run they need. I hope you get the mixture right next year! Your worms will enjoy those misfits.
~ Sandra
I will feed the roots to the worms after they go through a few freeze and thaw cycles. Maybe around the beginning of Dec. The few almost usable tubers will be saved for next year to grow out new slips. Thanks for watching Sandra.
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Thanks for watching.
That soil looked fantastic and tons of potatoes Steve!!
Like you're thinking on the sweet potatoes aswell !!
I feel like sweet potatoes are definitely hit add miss ??
We have a bunch more to harvest with some different methods so it'll be interesting!!
Cheers 🌱🤞👍🤜🤛
Next year I will try something different with the sweet potatoes and I will grow the slips out from the 3 almost good tuber I got.
That's A Cracking harvest Steve should keep you going for a few weeks
We should be good until at least Christmas time. Thanks for watching Duncan.
Hi Steve, We're still on vacation and Mr. Rick, the Mad Driver is trying to make time. Your potatoes look wonderful 🥔
Take care
❤Peggy ❤
Thanks for watching Peggy. Enjoy your vacation
Thanks for encouraging me to grow potatoes earlier this year. I used two 5 gal buckets with holes in them. We enjoyed the 1st bucket earlier this year and I just dumped out the second bucket yesterday. Not bad for a no-effort trial. Maybe I’ll try more next year
That's great Pam. Once planted, you really don't need to do much with them except watering. Maybe try 4 buckets next year and see how it goes. 😀 If you still have some small ones that around 1.5 to 2 oz. Those can be replanted next spring. Thanks for watching Pam.
I’m NW of Chicago. I did Beauregard 2yrs ago..my first time growing and did fantastic. Last year I did triple the plants and got skunked. Something nibbled the potatoes underground. I skipped trying this year. I might try them again in pots.
What did your soil mixture consist of the 1st year? I think my 1st year, I got a couple of usable ones but just barely. We have cold coming in Sunday night. Time to bring in anything that the cold can damage. Thanks for watching Robin.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 Had them in my raised beds …compost, vermiculite and peat moss. Top them every fall with 2-3” of compost.
Yup we’ve been a frantic mess harvesting, preserving, gifting, clearing and storing. Always hate this point in the season..
WOW, almost 200 pounds of potatoes, not to shabby!
I think I am going to grow my potatoes in root pouches next year. I pretty much eliminated the jumping worms from my potato bed, so I can use that soil in the pouches and return to the way I used to grow them, covering with leaves and compost. Plus I will use some horizontal wire to support the plants as you do.
I think you are correct that less is more with the sweet potatoes. This year I grew them in a pretty small area 4' by 2'. They did OK, but I broke many of larger tubers because they buried themselves in the clay. I also messed up by planting on the north side of the trellis, they got to shaded by everything growing on the south side.
All I give the sweet potatoes are worm castings at planting and drenches of worm and comfrey tea during the growing season.
My best harvest was when I could grow them the Ruth Stout method (before JW's), unfortunately, that year the voles got many of my large tubers, always something.
I guess we will all be turning our attention inside after this week. I saved some sweet potato vines and a few cuttings of hybrid cherry tomatoes to overwinter. Something to keep alive until onion planting time.
Have a good weekend! Stay Well!!!!
The potato harvest will keep us going for a while. 😀 I was outside today using the mower to collect leaves and grass clippings for the compost bins. Last weekend I turned the patch where I grew sweet corn this year into a raised bed using 2x10s. (4ft x 24ft x 9.25 inches tall) That will need 2.75 yards of materials to fill it up (plus more as it breaks down) I filled it with the leaves and grass then started filling up the compost bins. Plenty of leaves still on the trees so, I will be doing that the next few weekends. I will need to get some more horse manure too for the new raised bed and for the compost bins. I will figure out something for the sweet potatoes eventually. Jason and Colleen did with the slips I gave them so I know it was an issue with the plants and the fact that they grew well in an area that wasn't nutrient dense kind of confirms my thought that they need a loose and somewhat poor growing medium. Thanks for watching Brian.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 That new raised bed will be huge, what will you be growing in it? Will cost a few bucks too.
Most of the trees around here are still holding on to their leaves, no leaves for me to start picking up yet. I did find a source for free chicken poop from a local farm at the farmers market, finally a source of manure for the compost.
Have to bring in all my worms today, and finish harvesting my leaf mold. I kinda made the mistake of dumping an entire worm bin in with the leaf mold last fall, just a ton of red worms, so far no jumping worms with about a 1/3rd of the way to go.
Winter is knocking at our door, but that's OK, gives us a time to rebuild or soils and amendments for next year.
Stay Well!!!!
@@brianseybert192 Next year I will grow tomatoes and peppers in the new bed. I had bought 4 of the 2x10x10s a year ago and bought 2 more 2x10x8s, 4 mending plates and 4 deck balusters last weekend. The balusters I cut in half, cut 1 end into a spike and drove them into the ground to support the outside center area of the bed.. Once I get add the horse manure to the bed, I will top it off with some Johnson Su compost and maybe a thin layer of leaf mould. I might wait until planting time before adding the leaf mould. 🤔
Awesome, I would wait until I planted to use the leaf mold, really holds the moisture in, try it over your carrots, unless you have a ton.
Bad news up by me, found 2 immature jumping worms in my leaf mold bin today, I think I know how I goofed up too. I left a volunteer tomato grow on the outside of the bin. and a paper leaf bag I used to cover the leaf mold was in contact with the ground outside the bin.. This past month with temps in the 60's, plus the rain I think the little @#$%^& got in.
Unfortunately, I can not use my leaf mold for potting mix.
I was so good all year! Minor victories, huge defeats.
Have aa good week Steve! Stay Well !!!!
@@stevefromthegarden1135
@brianseybert192 JWs strike again. That sucks. I will wait until planting time to put the leaf mould down. I will have fresh compost by then too. Have a good week Brian.
Nice harvest Steve! How many days were the sweet potatoes in the grow bag for? I like the idea of a looser soil mix for the sweet potato slips.
It was about 140 days. Jason and Colleen were able to grow sweet potatoes in a fresh compost pile using the left over slips I gave them. That kind of confirmed some thoughts I already had. Also, Travis at Lazy Dog Farm mentioned that his sweet potatoes grow better in the couple of plots he has that are more on the sandy side. Anyways, I will keep make changes until I figure it out.....eventual. 😀 Thanks for watching Rick.
Hi Steve, Can you grow lettuce in a low tunnel in the winter there? I'm going to try it for the first time this year in zone 7a.
I can do that up until around early to mid Dec when the real cold sets in and daylength gets too short. To grow lettuce outside here through the entire winter, I would need to be build an insulated cold frame and use supplemental lighting and incandescent Christmas lights overnight to provide extra warmth. In zone 7, you should do well with using low tunnels or cold frames. If the plants are near 70% of full size by mid Dec, they should hold well outside until your daylength reaches 10 hrs again in mid to late Jan. (or whenever you location reaches that point) Thanks for watching Kipper.
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🏆✌ You're on it this morning Tom.
I have to also harvest my ginger. How is your harvest of ginger?
I haven't harvested it yet. Might do that tomorrow since it's supposed to rain again.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 Good idea. They are calling for snow mixed with rain on Tuesday.
@@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 That will be fun. 😀
Looks like I have to harvest my potatoes also. Those potatoes with the green, do not eat. Not good. Poison for some reason because they were exposed from the sun. The small ones can be used whole without peeling in potato soup. Those little ones are about $6/pound.
I might use some of the small ones in soups after I separate out the ones I will keep as seed potatoes for next year. (The ones that weigh about 1.5 to 2.5 oz) German Butterballs are considered a gourmet potato and you don't see them in the grocery store. (At least I never have) If you haven't harvested your potatoes yet, you will want to get that done before the cold hits on Sunday night. Thanks for watching Tom.
@@stevefromthegarden1135 Will do. I will get it tomorrow.
What? Those small potatoes are delicious and worth cleaning up to eat!
The real little ones can be replanted and maybe grow some larger ones. All based on what you like. Thanks for watching 👍