The True Cost of My Potato Failure In Tubs
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- The True Cost of My Potato Failure In Tubs
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Welcome to my channel! In today's video, I'm sharing my experience with growing potatoes this season. Unfortunately, it wasn't a success - and I want to show you the true cost of my potato failure.
I'll go over the mistakes I made and what I could have done differently to have a better harvest. I hope that by sharing my failures, I can help others avoid making the same mistakes and have a successful potato crop.
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I really need to get out in the garden for my mental health. Feeling so miserable and stressed. Guess I will just have to brave the weather and get busy in the garden despite the weather. Can’t wait for the spring to come. Thanks for your videos. I really enjoy them 😊
Gardening is definitely good for your mental health.
Once you make that first move, the day will fly by while you're out there and the exercise leads to a good night's sleep.
Great! Keep positive Tony. As they say, “Smile, things could be worse.” “So I smiled, and sure enough things got worse!”😅
Thats it old man, get after it and get it sorted...job done...Steve..🙂
Hi Tony , I have been doing the same job this week on my plot in the Black Country with the potatoes but I grow my new spuds in tyres , I found the Jazzy all rotted but Charlotte wasn’t to bad I think it was all the rain we had in October just ruined the crop .keep up the good work 👍 7:53 8:04
Oh my Tony cracking that you are so chipper about it. I panicked 3 days into the cold snap and harvested everything. I had mine stored stacked up with a tarp over. So the compost was dry and hadn't frozen and everything was OK but my attempt at a late crop in the polytunnel was obviously flattened and the wet compost had frozen solid. Who knows if they would have survived the entire 10 days at one point it was -10C but that tarp saved the crop for me. Hope this helps for this year
I actually had quite a good potato crop I use Charlotte and Picasso...ALOT were no effort potatoes from where I hadnt dug up every single tiny spud LAST year :)
my first year growing in 30ltre tubs Tony, had a great crop thought I would keep some tubs for Christmas, big mistake once the frost came I lost 6 tubs of spuds that went like yours, its a learning curve. I will make sure I harvest the lot this year and put them in a potato sack.
wel done, hope the salad's still good. the kettle thing is not true, just put one cup of water in it. if it's full it takes longer to heat and if you do 5x 1 cup takes the same amount of 1x a whole kettle worth 5 mugs. what yoiu can do is put a pan ontop of another pan while you're cooking to warm up dish water or tea water, if you're using elextrix xooking plates they stay hot long after cooking and then you can heat up water for rinsing dishes too
That resembles to my last years results - 10kg seed potatos resulted in not even 3̶0̶ 40kg harvest - to say it politely. This year I took care of dry feet - got over 60.....
I had two forgotten about buckets that were same as yours too but salvaged enough for wedges for tea! I’d say try what I did; use that potaty bucket bed and hummock compost on the ground and cover with plastic and pop a seed potato through a cut cross. It keeps the moisture in and is easy to pull up as they grow in the fluffy compost. Could even cut a big hole in the face of a bag and lay that on the soil then plant through the cross in the top side 😊
It’s amazing to me that you got any at all, what a nice surprise that all were not lost. Maybe next winter put them in the poly tunnel?
Good tip with the flask Tony. Thanks
I really love it whe. It get lighter earlier!!!
Great update, at least there were some spuds salvaged 😊
Is it a space saving reason that you plant potatoes in pots rather than in the ground? Love your channel, I'm a new subscriber
Well done Tony on facing up to those bastard !! Potatoes and for doing the yoga !! .onwards and upwards ,its a new start lol x
Great video, plot looking tidier, u sorted those potatoes out which is good
Lifted my buckets of potatoes into the polytunel early and they have been champion
Hi Tony, fancy leaving your pickings in the polytunnel! What are you like 🤣 keep yourself going, it happens to us all. Note to self, put your potatoes in the polytunnel next Winter. Thanks for sharing and take care🙂
I e never done potatoes, but a friend has, I don’t think I have the patients to do them.
Wish I had a dry day to go to the garden pal. But in future take the spuds in :)
Chin up Tony.
Plenty of potatoes in the shops.
Just a thought about the tubs. Maybe the old school trenching method is out of fashion, but during droughts I have no doubt, especially in clay soil that the potato crop will fair better and probably survive penetrating frosts better.
Tony don't feel bad about the potatoes, mine here in California were rotten also, due to the hot weather we had.
Bonjour félicitations pour vos bacs super merci 🙏🙏🙏
Tony, if you want to gain another growing bed, put one of your potato pots in the corner of each of your beds and that will free up the big bed next to the compost bays 😉😁🌱☀️
Don't doctor yourself and buy from Amazone Your reading glasses, but go to an optician. Your eyes are very important
Spring cabbages will keep growing even after you cut the heads off, you will get more leaves.
Never mind Tony you will chitting for the next round of potatoes in a few weeks🤣🤣
I’ve stopped using my electric kettle, bought a whistling one to go on the gas oven, gives heat as well as boiling the water
Hi tony I think it’s good to try new things but potatoes in buckets in winter ??😮not normal I don’t think. Grow things in their season that’s what I say. But it’s good to experiment I guess👍🙋🏻
I surprised that you didn't accidentally empty the potato pots next door just in case you got some volunteers.
May be you could slowly start covering next doors plot with any more cardboard or membrane you have through out the year, I know you are not able to get it but at least it would stop the
weeds. Is that allowed within your allotment rules?
i lost all mine to the frost i,ve just ordered from Potato House for this years potatoes hope they will be ok
U r the man he hev
Tony just one question i can never solve when you harvest your potato crop you always miss a few they stay in the ground all winter through rain hale and snow and when the spring arrives they form great volunteer plants why did the frost not kill or the rain rot ????
Not alone Tony my volunteers yield won hands down on potted potatoes ( both pathetic ) Going back to growing in beds this year !!!!!!!
tony would you give that bed a dressing of worm castings
Hi Tony, I'm not sure if it make any difference to you, mind you heaven knows what next winter will bring. I did my celeriac a bit late and so I put them in the tunnel. They are coming on and I have had tons of leaves and stems off of them to eat. Also, I had minus 9.5 in the tunnel, but the late (august) potatoes were ok. I wonder if you had a chill wind or it was the snow. it wasn't a huge harvest mind you. It may have been because they were small of course. All the best.
I lost all mine also..and the ones I did get were the size of peas and a few cherry tomatoe size!!!??? Ugh!!
tony next time pick up the containers and put them in tunnel
Mine froze in the bags
Chin up fella, it's only tatties, oh and celeriac and beans and lettuce.... What's the bloody point? It's fun and we love it, failures and all. I lost my tatties by September, all my peas got eaten by rats, my carrots went mouldy in the ground, I got 3 courgette and 2 measally cucumber all season. Will I do it all again? Damn right but hopefully learn from my failures. Don't give up Tony your doing great.
Oh no ! I was planning on growing potatoes in tubs this year . What do you think you could have done that would have saved them ?
Hi Daisy.
Yes do so. I had really good results myself last year.
This year I'm going to grow in old compost bags, so expect an even bigger yield.
Oi Tony, get yourself a camping kettle and put it on ya wood burner all day like we do, saves a bloody fortune.
Why not a live yoga on potty mouth
With you and Steve 😱
I tony I lost mine and it does upset you and I guess if it doesn’t then it shows you care lost 14 buckets onwards and upwards
new year new failures to look forward to tony. that's why we grow veg lol
Well then... I wont feel too bad!
I lost 6 tubs to frost. Ahhh
Plant weed, not potatoes.