@@bradleymiller437 we used to heal or pull soil to the potatoes 2 or 3 times before we laid them by to grow. By time to harvest there would be big beautifully potatoes, and lots of them. Out of 4 or 5 rowe's. Would be nothing to harvest any were from 3- 5 hundred pounds, my father in-law also! Miss those days, lots of work but so joyfull to see the blessing! The rowe's were fairly long.
Heeling not healing or kneeling. Can just mulch the plants. Sunshine on the potato tuber encourages chlorophyl. Just use the stem to pull up the tubers.
I liked using the temporary fire pit rings for potatoes. When the greens were really set, id add another ring on top and fill it half way with soil. In a really good year I'd have three rings. To harvest I could just disconnect the circle and remove. Im disabled so these were such fun easy set ups.
Tips: the potatoes that exposed on the sunlight are tend to turned green an it's not edible therefore, you need to cover them properly with the soil. when harvested, it must be kept inside the paper bag & store them in a dry, dark, cool place. enjoy your potatoes 😊👍🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔
Harvest potatoes only when the plants die and dry. Moreover , cover your maturing potatoes with dirt to prevent sun exposure. Follow this, and you won't have to worry about green potatoes, again, for 95% of the time.
I think he harvested these early as the leaves were really diseased and letting it go farther would risk spreading the disease in the soil around and the actual potatoes
potatoes are usually harvested after the plant completely dies down. As the plants die all of the energy in the roots goes to growth of the tuber rather than the plant. You'll get bigger potatoes and a larger harvest.
And no curing as it will happen automatically in ground, he will need to just leave them out to dry the dirt off so they wouldn't start to rot in winter 😅
This just happened to me... I planted my first potato plant this year. Yesterday, I thought the plant was dead, so I yanked it up thinking that this year was a bust. But when I pulled it up, I got a handful of baby potatoes. It was a pleasant surprise!
Same with onions, when the above ground part dies its time to harvest, i think he knew rhat tho since he was acting like it was an early harvest due to health concerns
@@WasBrownNowGreensmaller potatoes are actually used as the seeds, so that must have been one of the seeders, and not the regular ones, generally seed potatoes are smaller, as large potatoes just rot in the ground
Next time, cut the potato plants down and leave the potatoes under ground for about 2-3 weeks. This allows the tubers’ skin to set properly and the potatoes last longer in storage
This is the way. Farmed Yukon golds with my papaw in Kentucky for a few summers when I was a teenager, and this is how he taught me. Had taters through the full winter off a plot the size of a single wide.
I plant in a couple inches of soil n compost in a box , bag or on the ground..I usually use a base layer of straw or leaves, then I cover the seeds in just enough soil to make them disappear..and mulch in leaves or straw, watering a couple times weekly. You must either add soil or my preference, grass, weeds, straw, leaves, weekly or biweekly, to the entire batch, between plants, around the edges, lightly, though, and watch for compaction of mulch, or yellowing leaves, because it means the mulch is too wet and heavy, it needs air, just no sun, zero sun on potatoes..greenery of course, but about 6 inches of mulch settled, or 2 months in, I quit adding mulch, and wait for yellowed , tops that fall over and wilt. Tadashi tons of taters almost no digging, cleaner, and easy to find big taters. Good luck.
Yay! You’re right! And yet they’re sold (and bought) at the grocery store. Why don’t more people know this? Some grocery stores have burlap bags covering the potatoes so they don’t turn toxic
We warmed up for spring and I planted potatoes for the first time. After a couple of weeks we had a few small plants, inch and a half high, maybe two. Then we suddenly froze pretty bad for a couple nights. Plants all turned black and wilty. Damn. A week later, wouldn't ya know it, they are growing again!
Assuming you planted them deep.enough (6" soil, then a potato, then 2" soil. Then add soil as the plant grows). If you did that and the potatoes are popping out the top of the soil, first - you have a variety that is indeterminate and will continue to set tubers all season. If you see them popping through the top, cover them with soil. You shouldn't eat the green potatoes, they can make you sick. I love planting potatoes. The end of the season is a treasure hunt😊.
I’ve not been able to grow potatoes since moving to Louisiana. This year I was so hopeful because I had GIANT vines! Unfortunately, that’s ALL I had. Not a potato in sight. 🤦🏻♀️
You know it has just occurred to me that a lot of plants need to be cured after harvested. Do you have anything I can watch regarding plants that need to be cured after harvest?
As another commenter said, more dirt on top will help. I know they were probably all well buried when planted but rains can move soil around just like with runoff. Add more soil as necessary.
The reason you add soil to, or mound, potatoes is because as the plant grows up, so too does it's root system, usually after the first tubers being growing they will offshoot new roots and grow more tubers at the point where the soil covers the roots. Depends on how loose the soil is, but usually by then its compacted enough that it takes less energy to grow higher up in looser soil than lower down.
Those potato plants are infected by fungal disease, is not clear but it looks like alternaria alternata. Anyways does not affect humans in any way, they just reduce plant productivity.
I tried growing potatoes this year and the biggest one I got was a size of a quarter. Do you happen to have any tips? This was my third time growing potatoes, and I had no idea what I was doing wrong.
Some people do not realize that the potatoes you harvest all grow above the seed potato you plant in the ground. So yes you should "hill" them up with additional dirt, sawdust, or shr edded leaves or hay.
I grew potatoes last year and you have to pile dirt on them as they get taller. We did it in a raised bed in rows and by the end there were two very clear lines from where I had taken the dirt. I planted mine a little late (last minute decision because we hade spuds on a bag of potatoes) so they were small but the perfect size for homefries. Not doing them again this year since we’re trying new stuff (fingers crossed the Brussels sprouts survive) but I’d definitely do it when I get my own place.
I grew up on a farm in the breadbasket of Europe-that soil looks too loose for potatoes. As someone mentioned-plant deeper and I say add some humus or at least composted manure. The soil greatly impacts the flavour of potatoes. Still looked good though!
I read that it's good to replant the green potatoes as they're more resistant to pests. I wonder, though, can you just cut off the green parts then eat the rest of the piece? Or would the solanine still be strong in the remaining part?
@@drasco61084 Yes it does. Potatoes that are toxic to eat will be very bitter. As a general rule, if the inside of the potato is green you shouldn't eat it.
Please do not cure them in the sun this turns them green and inedible. When the potato plant starts dying down it is ready to cut down . You can leave them in the soil for a while they are safe as long as they have not had any blight in which case you remove as soon as any sight of blight. The curing can have in the soil or if you lay them in the DARK before storing . I have never bothered to cure mine after digging them up as sometimes they have stayed in the soil for a couple of weeks and cured themselves before I harvested . Always cover any tubers coming up as it grows . It is like a tomato plant the more soul you add to the base the more roots grow and add to the plants strength too . They are the same family by the way . He is a really rubbish potato grower
I know that you should leave onions to dry off after you dig them up, but never heard about curing potatoes. Surely if you leave them out in the light, they will all go green? I also wouldn't wash them before storing them though.
That's really great and you do awesome work and very knowledgeable and usually break it down for us but I am curious cuz I thought potatoes and the carrots are best to be harvested biannually 🤔🤷🏽♂️ I'm not doubting you again like I said you were very great at this and that's so awesome harvest right there so congrats and thank you for sharing and educating and promoting a healthy lifestyle
I miss our big potato bin! It’s still out there, but it’s used for storage. 😂 If you didn’t grow up with a garden full of potatoes, you really should try a small scale. Potatoes are fun. So are onions, just don’t mix them. 😊
As an Irish man may I say I am devastated for your loss, I would recommend burning any of the ones that were in contact and getting some pesticides. TRUST ME
Not enough soil is why they're rising to the top they go bad when the light hits them. When the green comes through cover with more soil. You had a good crop regardless od the few that got exposed. Awesome job!👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
If you take off the vines and leave the potatoes in the ground for 10 days, the skins will thicken and toughen up. Last longer. Store in a cool dark place. If they're green, you didn't have enough dirt over them.
I thought you left in a clean bag with holes in the sun for several days then kept in a dark cool bag for 6 wks before wrapping each one in newspaper!?
@Bronson Cool curing is actually the process for sweet potatoes. @warriormamma was correct on that. These look like they could be sweet potatoes but the plants do not.
some people leave potatoes in the ground all winter & harvest in spring... with global warming speeding up climate change a lot more places will be able to also do this.. Potatoes are known for growing in cold climate & is why it is among the vegetables offered during Thanksgiving...
You let them dry in a dry well ventilated dark place. It makes the skin thicker so you can store them longer. Of course, you can gobble a few up right away. New potatoes are especially yummy.
Living traditions homestead used weed blanket on one of their videos and it worked well for them. The potatoes that were above ground but under the blanket didn't turn green. 😊
I'm from Caribou ME and I remember when I was in middle and high school we'd get a couple weeks off for harvest break because a lot of kids would go make some quick cash picking potatoes on farms and in the fields. It was awesome, even thought I never worked picking potatoes I still got the vacation lol It was in October I believe...
That's how my grandparents survived during the war. Their supplies were taken by the military, they were left with a few very small potatoes so they cut everything smaller still and planted them.
Cut the green parts out before you cook them. They contain solanine and can easily give you flu-like symptoms if you eat that part. If you cook a potato with green inside it, the solanine spreads throughout the potato. It's best to chop up home grown potatoes before you cook them, so you can identify any green spots and throw those parts out. The rest of the potato should be safe to cook and consume.
Schau mal ob du eventuell schafswolle oder anderes Mulch Material auftreiben kannst. Dadurch werden die Kartoffeln nicht grün und das Wasser bleibt im Boden
Tips Potato's turn green when they are exposed to sunlight and turn poisonous. Usually you harves in September but you can harvest them June . They are a Hardy plant that is why they grow in England alone and you don't normally harvest until the plant is dry and beigh
My mom taught me you could harvest anytime after the plants bloom. No, they will not be large as they are still growing. But I remember her digging down and getting some of the "new" potatoes to add to creamed peas once they were ready. So yummy and fresh.
Well I didn’t see any green ones, but could have hilled them. The irrigation helped to get larger potatoes and need to hold off as greens dry up, then harvest. Pretty good for being so close together.
Yeah, when potaoes make chlorophyll (which turns them green), they also make solanine which is pretty poisonous. This is why potatoe leaves are poisonous. Generally you can just cut off the green parts and eat the rest.
We grow as many potatoes in Colorado as they do in Idaho. Green skin is sunburn for potatoes. They need more dirt added on top. Potatoes also need sandy soil to grow bigger & they are too close together.
❤ your garden ! Having a wonderful garden like yours is a dream for me. I have a condo patio where I grow Blueberry, Raspberry bushes in large pots 3 yr old Gala tree , 1 corn stock, 2 Tomato Plants 1 bell pepper bush 6 cucumber vines and a 3 yr old mini rose bush our kitty nibbles on 😺 LOL 💕 😆 I would like to try growing peanuts from raw nut. In a planter box . Blue Jay's and squirrels like them. What do you think ? Much Respect and enjoying your tutorial Videos thanks for sharing😊 Make Your Happiness 😊 ❤
We feed the squirrels raw nuts to eat.then they hide them everywhere in the garden so we always have fresh peanuts growing everywhere !!! They garden for us!
In addition to everyone else talking about burying those plants deeper you can graft tomato scions to the rootstock of potatoes for a resilient and productive graft-chimera.
DON'T LEAVE THEN IN THE LIGHT . You need to cure them in the DARK not in the daylight . Leaving them in the light they will all go green from the solennin . You should have kept banking the plants to make sure the tubers did not grow exposed to the light
Oh my he got chubby. Just became my type. Might have to look at this channel a whole different way. Lolll jk you come such a long way from the hydroponic stuff man :)🎉
About 4 years ago we moved into our new house and the last owners and construction people left the brown bin filled to the brim and it costs money to get the council to empty it so we've just left it. One say my brother bins an old sprouted bag of spuds but puts it ontop of the brown bin and last year we started seeing flowers bloom from the bin each summer, this year I got curious and it's filled with freshly grown spuds XD Ofc i'd never eat em, but its pretty neat that some old binned spuds grew into a flourishing plant. It even made itway through a crack in the lid
Weird green ones? That's called chlorophyll. When you see a potato above ground cover it over with the soil. Green is bitter. Even russets and others will turn bitter green after you dig them if you leave them in the direct sunlight. Yeah I know sweet potatoes aren't potatoes.
What on earth are you doing? PULL the stems and you 1. Get many of the potatoes up 2. Loosens the soil so it's easier to get the rest up. And always put on more soil on after the stems atarts ti show to cover them and most importantly do not eat the ones that turned green! Light turn them green. Keep them for next years planting. Do not eat them, I can't remember the words for it in English but not healthy
Alternaria fungus seems to have killed those potato plants earlier than expected. Careful with this fungus since it can drop performance of the crop more than 50%.
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I guess the problem is they were too close to the surface of the soil, usually kneeling the potatoes with more dirt around them prevents that
Came to say the same thing. Should have added more soil. The stems like it and the home grown potatoes need it.
@@bradleymiller437 we used to heal or pull soil to the potatoes 2 or 3 times before we laid them by to grow. By time to harvest there would be big beautifully potatoes, and lots of them. Out of 4 or 5 rowe's. Would be nothing to harvest any were from 3- 5 hundred pounds, my father in-law also! Miss those days, lots of work but so joyfull to see the blessing! The rowe's were fairly long.
Heeling not healing or kneeling. Can just mulch the plants. Sunshine on the potato tuber encourages chlorophyl. Just use the stem to pull up the tubers.
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I liked using the temporary fire pit rings for potatoes. When the greens were really set, id add another ring on top and fill it half way with soil. In a really good year I'd have three rings. To harvest I could just disconnect the circle and remove. Im disabled so these were such fun easy set ups.
Tips: the potatoes that exposed on the sunlight are tend to turned green an it's not edible therefore, you need to cover them properly with the soil. when harvested, it must be kept inside the paper bag & store them in a dry, dark, cool place. enjoy your potatoes 😊👍🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔
So no need to “cure” them?
@@nyomicasey definitely no need to
If you cut off the green part, is the rest edible?
@@demeris07 no, the toxins are in the whole potato unfortunately :(
@@demeris07Unfortunately not, the toxins are in the whole potato
Green is exposure to air and sun. Potatoes need to be continually topped off with dirt.
Gosh !! Thank you for that answer. Ive been really concerned about my potatoes. So much Tall greenery.
Potatoes exposed to daylight and sun are producing solanine which is toxic in humans and animals.
And green potatoes are poisonous.
Also green potatos are better for planting. We green them before planting. Keeps both the pests and funguses away.
@@honeybear3965 That's a great oversimplification
He thought his potatoes were malnurished but they just grew too big for their planter😂😂 what a wonderful problem to have. God blesses you brother
Grandpa always stacked old tires and grew potatos in em. When it was time for harvest he kicked over the stack and gathered the spuds
And no one was poisoned by the heavy metals/toxins leaching out of the tires?
@@njk9989 we're all still here and no one has any health defects from it
That’s cool
@@njk9989 Maybe try using like a plastic sheet inside to just be safe?
@@njk9989yeah they cause cancer. Mostly from contaminants such as butadiene and Benzene that can leak into soil & water, huge health hazard.
Harvest potatoes only when the plants die and dry. Moreover , cover your maturing potatoes with dirt to prevent sun exposure.
Follow this, and you won't have to worry about green potatoes, again, for 95% of the time.
Well said.
I think he harvested these early as the leaves were really diseased and letting it go farther would risk spreading the disease in the soil around and the actual potatoes
Thanks
Be careful of the solanine buildup in the green ones!!!
Luckily frying them removes the solonine
Can you just cut off the green part or does it wrap around the inside of the skin
@@themagicknightress7132 I always just cut off the green bit
@@joshuarichards8065 Isnt that boiling them in water?
Good thought. I'm sure the guy who plants vegetables for a living wouldn't know that.
Green part can really hurt you lol
The genetic manipulation of the potato is actually a crazy story.
potatoes are usually harvested after the plant completely dies down. As the plants die all of the energy in the roots goes to growth of the tuber rather than the plant. You'll get bigger potatoes and a larger harvest.
And no curing as it will happen automatically in ground, he will need to just leave them out to dry the dirt off so they wouldn't start to rot in winter 😅
This just happened to me... I planted my first potato plant this year. Yesterday, I thought the plant was dead, so I yanked it up thinking that this year was a bust. But when I pulled it up, I got a handful of baby potatoes. It was a pleasant surprise!
Thank you! We're trying to grow a few, and I didn't know that.
Same with onions, when the above ground part dies its time to harvest, i think he knew rhat tho since he was acting like it was an early harvest due to health concerns
@@WasBrownNowGreensmaller potatoes are actually used as the seeds, so that must have been one of the seeders, and not the regular ones, generally seed potatoes are smaller, as large potatoes just rot in the ground
Love the varying shapes. Funny!
Next time, cut the potato plants down and leave the potatoes under ground for about 2-3 weeks. This allows the tubers’ skin to set properly and the potatoes last longer in storage
Thanks for sharing!
This is the way. Farmed Yukon golds with my papaw in Kentucky for a few summers when I was a teenager, and this is how he taught me. Had taters through the full winter off a plot the size of a single wide.
Wow thanks
That's what I do to and they last me all year.
Yep that's how I was raised. They lasted us all year also!
What a surprise you got !!
As a gardener, I think this is the most satisfying plant to harvest! A type of adult surprise egg 😂
Carrots too. Sometimes they make a huge head and a massive green, only to be pulled up no bigger than a thumb
Except ones that I can actually find
Oh my god yes it's so fun to see how big they have grown and how many 😂
I luvvv digging underground plants.
I plant in a couple inches of soil n compost in a box , bag or on the ground..I usually use a base layer of straw or leaves, then I cover the seeds in just enough soil to make them disappear..and mulch in leaves or straw, watering a couple times weekly. You must either add soil or my preference, grass, weeds, straw, leaves, weekly or biweekly, to the entire batch, between plants, around the edges, lightly, though, and watch for compaction of mulch, or yellowing leaves, because it means the mulch is too wet and heavy, it needs air, just no sun, zero sun on potatoes..greenery of course, but about 6 inches of mulch settled, or 2 months in, I quit adding mulch, and wait for yellowed , tops that fall over and wilt. Tadashi tons of taters almost no digging, cleaner, and easy to find big taters. Good luck.
They're green because they got exposed to the sun
Cover with newspaper to keep the rest from direct light. Otherwise you’ll have more green potatoes.
Always fill over potatoes as they grow - piling soil over the exposed growth.
Potatoes 101
Depends on if they’re determinate or indeterminate
@@kellieh4807 what determines that? Pun intended... potato newbie here
Yeah they are toxic if exposed to sun light makes them great planting tomatoes since bugs die if they eat them
I’m growing my potatoes now and I did not know you need to cure them when you harvest them. Thank you for letting me know that.
Yea, if you want them to last for a while. If it's a case where they'll be used immediately after harvesting then curing isn't necessary.
I have never heard that in any videos I watched about potatoes!
thats because you dont cure potatoes.
you just put them in a dark, dry and cold place and they stay edible for up to a year without problem.
Like the others said ,the green comes from sun exposure. Don't eat the green parts.
At my grandparents garden had to hand pick the potato bugs off. I hated it, but loved helping my grandmother.
Minecraft has taught me, those green ones are poisonous potatoes 😅
Yay! You’re right! And yet they’re sold (and bought) at the grocery store. Why don’t more people know this? Some grocery stores have burlap bags covering the potatoes so they don’t turn toxic
Arthur taught me this one
The green surfaces is basically inedible due to the light exposure...
We warmed up for spring and I planted potatoes for the first time. After a couple of weeks we had a few small plants, inch and a half high, maybe two. Then we suddenly froze pretty bad for a couple nights. Plants all turned black and wilty. Damn.
A week later, wouldn't ya know it, they are growing again!
Wow! That is good to know! Thanks for sharing!
They are root plants, kinda makes sense. I'm glad you were able to get a harvest out of them. A win win situation there.
Tubers for the win
We have potato fruit this year. Sadly they too are quite toxic, but we're keeping them for the seeds.
Those are the CLEANEST potatoes I’ve ever seen fresh out of the dirt
Almost like he stuck them in there they almost didn’t seem attached to the roots at all 😂
Dry soil
because the skin is pretty flat, and the soil is very dry/ Sandy.
Fishy 😑
Yea all depends on soil and how dry it is, i love when you harvest them and theyre pretty much clean :)
Better check those green ones. I was always taught that the green ones were bad meaning toxic
I learned so much from the video and even more from the comments! Thx all!❤
Yeah im a little surprised he didnt mention the toxic part in the video im glad you mentioned the comments cuz thats a pretty big thing to forget lol
It looked like sweet potato 😊
Assuming you planted them deep.enough (6" soil, then a potato, then 2" soil. Then add soil as the plant grows). If you did that and the potatoes are popping out the top of the soil, first - you have a variety that is indeterminate and will continue to set tubers all season. If you see them popping through the top, cover them with soil. You shouldn't eat the green potatoes, they can make you sick. I love planting potatoes. The end of the season is a treasure hunt😊.
I’ve not been able to grow potatoes since moving to Louisiana. This year I was so hopeful because I had GIANT vines! Unfortunately, that’s ALL I had. Not a potato in sight. 🤦🏻♀️
You know it has just occurred to me that a lot of plants need to be cured after harvested. Do you have anything I can watch regarding plants that need to be cured after harvest?
As another commenter said, more dirt on top will help. I know they were probably all well buried when planted but rains can move soil around just like with runoff. Add more soil as necessary.
The reason you add soil to, or mound, potatoes is because as the plant grows up, so too does it's root system, usually after the first tubers being growing they will offshoot new roots and grow more tubers at the point where the soil covers the roots. Depends on how loose the soil is, but usually by then its compacted enough that it takes less energy to grow higher up in looser soil than lower down.
Those potato plants are infected by fungal disease, is not clear but it looks like alternaria alternata. Anyways does not affect humans in any way, they just reduce plant productivity.
We keep adding fresh straw in layers throughout the grow season, as the plant reaches taller. Helps prevent greening.
Oh why straw and not soil tho?
@@osirusj275 for me, I do it because it's cheaper than piling on more top soil.
He bought botanical interest seed company. The seed stocks are going to be empty by 2025😂😂😂😂😂
You need to cover the potatoes when they poke out of the soil or else tgey will turn green
Ok what else should you have told me…😉
The green parts are seriously poisonous, can even cause death in large quantities.
@@tinawindham6958???
I tried growing potatoes this year and the biggest one I got was a size of a quarter. Do you happen to have any tips? This was my third time growing potatoes, and I had no idea what I was doing wrong.
Tip! Use hay over the top layer of soil to prevent the exposure. You have to top potatoes off a couple times per season as they tend to rise up
Some people do not realize that the potatoes you harvest all grow above the seed potato you plant in the ground. So yes you should "hill" them up with additional dirt, sawdust, or shr
edded leaves or hay.
@@deborahlawing2728 yep! We either learn the hard way or have someone teach us beforehand. I learned the hard way 🤣
Nothing tatstes better than fresh cooked potatoes right out of the ground. So tender too.
I grew potatoes last year and you have to pile dirt on them as they get taller. We did it in a raised bed in rows and by the end there were two very clear lines from where I had taken the dirt. I planted mine a little late (last minute decision because we hade spuds on a bag of potatoes) so they were small but the perfect size for homefries. Not doing them again this year since we’re trying new stuff (fingers crossed the Brussels sprouts survive) but I’d definitely do it when I get my own place.
Those are so pretty. I have never seen potatoes, so clean right out of the dirt.
I grew up on a farm in the breadbasket of Europe-that soil looks too loose for potatoes. As someone mentioned-plant deeper and I say add some humus or at least composted manure.
The soil greatly impacts the flavour of potatoes. Still looked good though!
Why did I holler at your first reaction!? Potato harvesting always feels like a treasure hunt.😆
I read that it's good to replant the green potatoes as they're more resistant to pests.
I wonder, though, can you just cut off the green parts then eat the rest of the piece? Or would the solanine still be strong in the remaining part?
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Usually when store bought ones are a little green I just cut that off and the rest of the potato tastes fine. Doesn't the solanine taste bitter?
Yes you can Just don't eat the green.
@@drasco61084 Yes it does. Potatoes that are toxic to eat will be very bitter. As a general rule, if the inside of the potato is green you shouldn't eat it.
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DO you know potato leaves are edible 😋 . Harvest tender potato leaves and cook it with Nijela seeds garlics and shrimps 🍤 . BENGALI special
Thank you so much for posting this I just started growing potato’s n I had no idea you had to cure them! 😊🙏🏽 you’re awesome!
Please do not cure them in the sun this turns them green and inedible. When the potato plant starts dying down it is ready to cut down . You can leave them in the soil for a while they are safe as long as they have not had any blight in which case you remove as soon as any sight of blight.
The curing can have in the soil or if you lay them in the DARK before storing . I have never bothered to cure mine after digging them up as sometimes they have stayed in the soil for a couple of weeks and cured themselves before I harvested .
Always cover any tubers coming up as it grows . It is like a tomato plant the more soul you add to the base the more roots grow and add to the plants strength too . They are the same family by the way . He is a really rubbish potato grower
I know that you should leave onions to dry off after you dig them up, but never heard about curing potatoes. Surely if you leave them out in the light, they will all go green? I also wouldn't wash them before storing them though.
That's really great and you do awesome work and very knowledgeable and usually break it down for us but I am curious cuz I thought potatoes and the carrots are best to be harvested biannually 🤔🤷🏽♂️ I'm not doubting you again like I said you were very great at this and that's so awesome harvest right there so congrats and thank you for sharing and educating and promoting a healthy lifestyle
I miss our big potato bin! It’s still out there, but it’s used for storage. 😂 If you didn’t grow up with a garden full of potatoes, you really should try a small scale. Potatoes are fun. So are onions, just don’t mix them. 😊
As an Irish man may I say I am devastated for your loss, I would recommend burning any of the ones that were in contact and getting some pesticides. TRUST ME
Wow. That was unexpected. It’s hard to keep up with what to cure and clean and when. Thanks for that tip.
Once you do it a few times it becomes natural :)
Not enough soil is why they're rising to the top they go bad when the light hits them. When the green comes through cover with more soil. You had a good crop regardless od the few that got exposed. Awesome job!👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Why do you have to cure the skins on the potatoes?
To lengthen storage. You let them dry in a well ventilated dark place. You could eat them up uncured, if you have a big appetite.
If you take off the vines and leave the potatoes in the ground for 10 days, the skins will thicken and toughen up. Last longer. Store in a cool dark place. If they're green, you didn't have enough dirt over them.
I thought you left in a clean bag with holes in the sun for several days then kept in a dark cool bag for 6 wks before wrapping each one in newspaper!?
@@warriormamma8098 Im learning in these comments but I know ur on some bullshit w that one
@Bronson Cool curing is actually the process for sweet potatoes. @warriormamma was correct on that. These look like they could be sweet potatoes but the plants do not.
some people leave potatoes in the ground all winter & harvest in spring... with global warming speeding up climate change a lot more places will be able to also do this.. Potatoes are known for growing in cold climate & is why it is among the vegetables offered during Thanksgiving...
Someone explain what curing their skin means
You let them dry in a dry well ventilated dark place. It makes the skin thicker so you can store them longer. Of course, you can gobble a few up right away. New potatoes are especially yummy.
Also applies to onions, garlic
The green ones are toxic because the sunrays, and I mean the entire potato not only the green part, be careful
Living traditions homestead used weed blanket on one of their videos and it worked well for them. The potatoes that were above ground but under the blanket didn't turn green. 😊
I went and bought that weed barrier for my gardens. Its expensive but on year 3 and its still holding up great
It's due to photo synthesis from the sun, the green parts are seriously poisonous.
I'm from Caribou ME and I remember when I was in middle and high school we'd get a couple weeks off for harvest break because a lot of kids would go make some quick cash picking potatoes on farms and in the fields. It was awesome, even thought I never worked picking potatoes I still got the vacation lol
It was in October I believe...
Potatoes grow real well from peels in the compost.
That's how my grandparents survived during the war. Their supplies were taken by the military, they were left with a few very small potatoes so they cut everything smaller still and planted them.
Cut the green parts out before you cook them. They contain solanine and can easily give you flu-like symptoms if you eat that part. If you cook a potato with green inside it, the solanine spreads throughout the potato. It's best to chop up home grown potatoes before you cook them, so you can identify any green spots and throw those parts out. The rest of the potato should be safe to cook and consume.
Yep. Once vomited for 2days nonstop, like migraine. Lucky to live.
Yes plants constantly try to end us as part of their self preservation techniques.
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how do you spend so much time in the garden and not notice that your taters are not covered?
Cause he’s got a thousand other things to attend to 😂
He didn't. Look how heavy he got. Draw your own conclusions.
Tell me you don't watch his videos without telling me you don't watch his videos.
@@naolink. I mean he goes past it daily. My adhd would spot it like fly on crap.
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Someparents are growing them on the couch
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You needed to keep adding soil to keep them covered.
Also if you store in dirt, in a cool dry place, they last longest
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Potato's turn green when they are exposed to sunlight and turn poisonous. Usually you harves in September but you can harvest them June . They are a Hardy plant that is why they grow in England alone and you don't normally harvest until the plant is dry and beigh
My mom taught me you could harvest anytime after the plants bloom. No, they will not be large as they are still growing. But I remember her digging down and getting some of the "new" potatoes to add to creamed peas once they were ready. So yummy and fresh.
He's harvesting early because the plants have blight, he knows it's not the "proper" time.
Those potatoes looks too clean to just be coming out of the ground.
Love how ppl are saying stuff about the green ones like he doesn’t know 😑😑😑
I always check my potato plants and if any are growing near the surface, I cover them with more soil to Robert the green colour from developing.
They always look so much healthier and cleaner grown at home
Well I didn’t see any green ones, but could have hilled them. The irrigation helped to get larger potatoes and need to hold off as greens dry up, then harvest. Pretty good for being so close together.
Hopefully you dug all the way down. I've had some totally buried at the bottom. Lol
Green becomes poisonous?
If the inside of the potato is green it's probably poisonous. When potatoes turn bitter they are toxic as well.
Yeah, when potaoes make chlorophyll (which turns them green), they also make solanine which is pretty poisonous. This is why potatoe leaves are poisonous.
Generally you can just cut off the green parts and eat the rest.
You can eat sweet potato leaves.
Yes,
Poisonous! Same when they turn green in your home!
Potatoes are in the nightshade family of poisonous plants. Don't eat the green parts.
We grow as many potatoes in Colorado as they do in Idaho. Green skin is sunburn for potatoes. They need more dirt added on top. Potatoes also need sandy soil to grow bigger & they are too close together.
Oh mine might be ready for harvest since they look similar. Here's hoping for good haul!
❤ your garden ! Having a wonderful garden like yours is a dream for me. I have a condo patio where I grow Blueberry, Raspberry bushes in large pots
3 yr old Gala tree , 1 corn stock, 2 Tomato
Plants 1 bell pepper bush 6 cucumber vines and a 3 yr old mini rose bush our kitty nibbles on 😺 LOL 💕 😆
I would like to try growing peanuts from raw nut. In a planter box . Blue Jay's and squirrels like them. What do you think ?
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We feed the squirrels raw nuts to eat.then they hide them everywhere in the garden so we always have fresh peanuts growing everywhere !!! They garden for us!
Your potatoes are so clean no soil no roots
Tell us your secret 😊
Good drainage, low clay content.
Can you or should you grow more potatoes from a green one??
Chop off the green part
Yep, the green ones are totally fine as seed potatoes.
Those are some long potatoes 😉
That one that he called a weird green one was looking real sus and the way he said oooh My god😂
In addition to everyone else talking about burying those plants deeper you can graft tomato scions to the rootstock of potatoes for a resilient and productive graft-chimera.
Always keep your potatoes covered. They turn green because they are getting burnt by the Sun.
You have to cover potato with soil. Sun makes them green.
Potadas become grean when exposed out if the soil.
The soil might be acidic try spreading some slaked lime
Don’t eat the green potatoes, they have too much solanine. And with it being a member of the nightshade family, I wouldn’t even play around.
They become green if exposed to direct sunlight
I handle my potatoes like they are egg's so I won't damage them lol
Look like my richard! 1st pull gotta go diggin
Is it normal to have no roots and be so clean when digging?
Bro got a poisoned potato from Minecraft 😂
DON'T LEAVE THEN IN THE LIGHT .
You need to cure them in the DARK not in the daylight . Leaving them in the light they will all go green from the solennin .
You should have kept banking the plants to make sure the tubers did not grow exposed to the light
Oh my he got chubby. Just became my type. Might have to look at this channel a whole different way. Lolll jk you come such a long way from the hydroponic stuff man :)🎉
One question: why don't you plant on the ground? How do you work the soil when you've harvested something and want to plant again?
How did those potataoes come out so clean.
About 4 years ago we moved into our new house and the last owners and construction people left the brown bin filled to the brim and it costs money to get the council to empty it so we've just left it. One say my brother bins an old sprouted bag of spuds but puts it ontop of the brown bin and last year we started seeing flowers bloom from the bin each summer, this year I got curious and it's filled with freshly grown spuds XD
Ofc i'd never eat em, but its pretty neat that some old binned spuds grew into a flourishing plant. It even made itway through a crack in the lid
Weird green ones? That's called chlorophyll. When you see a potato above ground cover it over with the soil. Green is bitter. Even russets and others will turn bitter green after you dig them if you leave them in the direct sunlight. Yeah I know sweet potatoes aren't potatoes.
There are gorgeous model like potatoes lol
What on earth are you doing? PULL the stems and you 1. Get many of the potatoes up 2. Loosens the soil so it's easier to get the rest up. And always put on more soil on after the stems atarts ti show to cover them and most importantly do not eat the ones that turned green! Light turn them green. Keep them for next years planting. Do not eat them, I can't remember the words for it in English but not healthy
Alternaria fungus seems to have killed those potato plants earlier than expected. Careful with this fungus since it can drop performance of the crop more than 50%.
I always wondered, can you just cut off the green part or does the potato having even a little green on it make the whole potato bad?
The greenness is just from that part seeing the sun too much. It doesn't impact the flavor, taste, or--despite rumors to the contrary--toxicity.