I am enjoying your videos. I have gone back and watched most of them. I watch all the different gardeners but yours are my favourite. Thanks. Always informative and entertaining
This was the first year I've planted potatoes since, oh, 35 years? It worked out much better than the last time. 😅 I put a bunch in pots (some are still there) but I had leftovers so I nestled them in the soil about halfway, then fertilized and covered them with maybe 6-8 inches of half-rotted pine litter. I barely had to dig at all and I got a lot of nice-sized potatoes. Fun! I was short on beds, so I'll keep using the pots, I guess, but I think the bed was a lot easier.
LOL I was marveling at how you never seem to damage the potatoes with your digging stick when you stabbed right through one. Great harvest! That's a lot of food!
You're an awesome Ramblin Man. I love growing potatoes in Atlanta. I still have fresh potatoes I harvested in early May down in my DIY potato pit which days at 49 to 55° regularly. I definitely learn a lot from you thank you.
I love to grow potatoes, Greg! Always successful...and if I miss one, it comes up the next spring...and I'm not that good a gardener ha ha...so nice to always have one big success.
Hello,from west central Ark. Mar.31& and just ran across the 'potatoe,rambling,digging' video. I am ENJOYING your 'make sense' approach on your videos ,as opposed to the 'all knowing,do it my way' approach some take. Keep up the make sense approach!👍🤠
Hello Greg. Beautiful! It has been too long since I’ve had a bake potato. It’s about time to sit myself to one. 😋 30 pounds, nice!👍🏼 Especially since you mentioned the bed didn’t receive optimal sun.😉
I like russets because they're very firm and store longer than most other potatoes and because they're resistant to scab. This year I had very few weirdly shaped russet potatoes. In the whole harvest of about a bushel and a half or more russets I only had about 5 or 6 odd shaped potatoes. Usually I have more. I grew them in a bed of semi-rotted wood chips with hay over top. I think the dryness of the season may have kept them from having uncontrolled growth spurts. I also grew a new type of russet beside my regular ones this year called gold rush. Very nice. Very uniform and very firm. I'm glad I dug them up a little early (a few weeks ago) because it's raining heavily now and it would have been less pleasant harvesting them. I quit planting russian banana potatoes this year because of their susceptibility to scab but they had other ideas. The bed I planted them in last year had lots of volunteers this year which ended up being a good thing because almost all of the squash in that bed died from vine borers.
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Part of my potatoe plot had less sunlight due to shadow from close by trees. There was no size difference but there was a yield difference compare to the more sunny part of the plot.
Keep in mind, as you are getting closer to the fence you are also getting closer to the wild growth just outside the fence. The wild growth will compete with the potatoes having an impact on the size of the potatoes nearest the fence.
Nice harvest Greg! I have a similar tool! I am in 5a and threw some in the ground last month as an experiment. The plants are doing well I just have to keep them warm and hope it doesn't freeze.
The potato videos just never get old, do they? I'm jealous of your ability to not water all season: that's not really an option in northern Colorado. But then again, we don't get black flies, so maybe the effort of setting up my drip irrigation isn't such a bad tradeoff...
Hey Greg...great video and nice harvest! I always laugh at your "clay" soil! It may be clay but not brick making clay...my garden soil is now excellent but man 30 years ago when we moved here it was a challenge! I grew a bed of the russet this year and had a similar sized results. Excellent potatoes for sure. We are still a month away from first frost but the weather has really cooled down...so my kale and collards are exploding with growth. Thanks again for the video and have a great day man! Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
I grow russetts in tall fabric containers. I sow them in about 6” of soil and “top up” as needed with leaves. I need to water by hand, that’s the down side, and the containers sit in the driveway in the sun. I get tubers at multiple levels, but a lot of them are small. Only the bottom ones get big. I guess that stands to reason. I wonder if I should have watered more?
My potatoes didn't do well this year. Part of the problem was bad seed. I purchased eyes instead of full potatoes and they didn't look too good when I got them. The other problem was one bed where I grew them needs a soil overhaul. I'm replacing the bed this fall so will probably do a Hügelkultur bed. Can't win them all.
Russets is my favorite because of the taste and size, really good for French fries you get a real good browning evenly over the fries and they make for bigger fries also. Still good for baking and boiling, for me a good over all potato. If any body like baked potatoes??? buy the small ones (or as Greg does grow them) about pong ball size or smaller you can get them in small bags most places. Then clean them but don't cut them, put into a small dipper and cover with water, them remove the potatoes and add kosher or any non- iodized salt to the water about 2 Cups, yes I said 2 cups stir to dissolved then add the potatoes back and bring to boil until potatoes done. Test from time to time but when you stick the potato to test don't put back in the water, when done drain water and add butter if you like and eat whole you will love these and the taste is awesome. When you pour of the salt water they will take on a dry silver color coating from the salt also looks awesome, the baked flavor will be intense and just slightly salty taste and the butter and to de moon. lol lol I like to cut in half and dip in the butter;) on the side. lol If the skin is broken when cooking then you won't be able to eat they will be to salty so you have to use small whole potatoes because you cant cut from big potatoes need the skin all around. I never tried with full size potatoes. Also may be a bit of a mess with salted water flicking around on the stove but clean up is very easy just wipes right off. you will love these....
So fun to watch! That’s one of my favorite garden “chores”, too, and I’ll probably be able to do that in the next week or so. Thanks for the info on russets.
I guess when we are harvesting potatoes the no dig method is no longer applicable. Mind you Ive seen some potato harvests where the soil is so soft that they just lift the plant and all potatoes right out of the ground without any digging. This is the time of year where I'll harvest and then add a layer of compost on top of my beds. In some beds I just add compost and then mulch and leave it untouched but in other beds where I think the soil is too hard or not enough organic material, I'll add compost and then lightly turn it over to mix the soil and compost for better airation. So what qualities as no dig I'm not really sure by my 200 pounds of squash harvest likes my soil. Fall greens are growing nicely but with the recent cold weather I maybe should have started then a little earlier but still getting daily greens to eat
Very nice haul, i made a mistake when i planted mine and didn't wait for them to chit. Most are up now except a few of the russets. All growing in grass clippings/sugar cane mulch and doing good so far I've already found a few growing in the mulch
"Whilst not acutely toxic in humans, there are a number of reports suggesting that ingestion of potatoes containing high levels of glycoalkaloids have led to poisoning incidents where the main symptoms displayed are irritation of the gut and also drowsiness. These symptoms have also been shown at high doses of glycoalkaloids in controlled experiments using human volunteers." www.fsai.ie/faq/green_potatoes.html
Ok question.... isn't the russet an indeterminate variety..? I've been staying away from them, because of the hilling..... but it doesn't look like you did any hilling. Did you plant the potatoes deeper...??
My potatoes all got eaten. They greens looked great but when I pulled the potatoes they had holes all thru them. What can I do to not have that again. I put them in the same spot as last year and last year was excellent.
@@michaellippmann4474 I thought they would ignore my parsnips too, but nope. I’m sure they had to widen their tunnels after feasting on all my roots crops.
@@laurahockman6341 wow that sucks...the Voles here tend to leave the parsnips alone but really go after my beets and potatoes. It is a pain to deal with for sure! Good luck with them...maybe they will pass away from obesity issues? 😄
I am enjoying your videos. I have gone back and watched most of them. I watch all the different gardeners but yours are my favourite. Thanks. Always informative and entertaining
Thanks Deirdre!
This was the first year I've planted potatoes since, oh, 35 years? It worked out much better than the last time. 😅 I put a bunch in pots (some are still there) but I had leftovers so I nestled them in the soil about halfway, then fertilized and covered them with maybe 6-8 inches of half-rotted pine litter. I barely had to dig at all and I got a lot of nice-sized potatoes. Fun! I was short on beds, so I'll keep using the pots, I guess, but I think the bed was a lot easier.
LOL I was marveling at how you never seem to damage the potatoes with your digging stick when you stabbed right through one.
Great harvest! That's a lot of food!
what were the odds!?!
You're an awesome Ramblin Man. I love growing potatoes in Atlanta. I still have fresh potatoes I harvested in early May down in my DIY potato pit which days at 49 to 55° regularly. I definitely learn a lot from you thank you.
Thanks Dwayne!
I love to grow potatoes, Greg! Always successful...and if I miss one, it comes up the next spring...and I'm not that good a gardener ha ha...so nice to always have one big success.
Hello,from west central Ark. Mar.31& and just ran across the 'potatoe,rambling,digging' video. I am ENJOYING your 'make sense' approach on your videos ,as opposed to the 'all knowing,do it my way' approach some take. Keep up the make sense approach!👍🤠
Cool, thanks
Hello Greg.
Beautiful! It has been too long since I’ve had a bake potato. It’s about time to sit myself to one. 😋 30 pounds, nice!👍🏼 Especially since you mentioned the bed didn’t receive optimal sun.😉
I like russets because they're very firm and store longer than most other potatoes and because they're resistant to scab. This year I had very few weirdly shaped russet potatoes. In the whole harvest of about a bushel and a half or more russets I only had about 5 or 6 odd shaped potatoes. Usually I have more. I grew them in a bed of semi-rotted wood chips with hay over top. I think the dryness of the season may have kept them from having uncontrolled growth spurts.
I also grew a new type of russet beside my regular ones this year called gold rush. Very nice. Very uniform and very firm.
I'm glad I dug them up a little early (a few weeks ago) because it's raining heavily now and it would have been less pleasant harvesting them.
I quit planting russian banana potatoes this year because of their susceptibility to scab but they had other ideas. The bed I planted them in last year had lots of volunteers this year which ended up being a good thing because almost all of the squash in that bed died from vine borers.
Part of my potatoe plot had less sunlight due to shadow from close by trees. There was no size difference but there was a yield difference compare to the more sunny part of the plot.
Keep in mind, as you are getting closer to the fence you are also getting closer to the wild growth just outside the fence.
The wild growth will compete with the potatoes having an impact on the size of the potatoes nearest the fence.
Could put a boarder all around the out side of the fence maybe two feet wide even planting something wildlife won’t bother.
Harvesting potatoes with a sharp stick; stabs a potato; "What are the odds?" Lol! Nice little potato patch. Thanks for sharing the treasure hunt.
Thanks for watching!
I used ellgrass this year, super easy to harvest . Lost a few to exposer but will keep anymore greenies for next year, thanks for that tip.
Nice harvest Greg! I have a similar tool! I am in 5a and threw some in the ground last month as an experiment. The plants are doing well I just have to keep them warm and hope it doesn't freeze.
Russets are the only ones Betty and I grow here in Gander Newfoundland and Labrador Canada!
They are huge 🤗 🥔🥔🥔👍
The potato videos just never get old, do they? I'm jealous of your ability to not water all season: that's not really an option in northern Colorado. But then again, we don't get black flies, so maybe the effort of setting up my drip irrigation isn't such a bad tradeoff...
I f I was given the choice: no flies vs regular rain - that would be a tough one.
@@maritimegardening4887 Easy choice: you'd never give up the seaweed! On the bright side, we don't have fire ants.
Hey Greg...great video and nice harvest! I always laugh at your "clay" soil! It may be clay but not brick making clay...my garden soil is now excellent but man 30 years ago when we moved here it was a challenge!
I grew a bed of the russet this year and had a similar sized results. Excellent potatoes for sure.
We are still a month away from first frost but the weather has really cooled down...so my kale and collards are exploding with growth.
Thanks again for the video and have a great day man!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Thanks Mike.
You need a "pitch fork spade" to turn that soil over. You probably left some behind!
I grow russetts in tall fabric containers. I sow them in about 6” of soil and “top up” as needed with leaves. I need to water by hand, that’s the down side, and the containers sit in the driveway in the sun. I get tubers at multiple levels, but a lot of them are small. Only the bottom ones get big. I guess that stands to reason. I wonder if I should have watered more?
Probably more water would help in that case
Yes, lots of "skeeters" in NS this year. A lot of rain and standing water makes for good breeding grounds.
My potatoes didn't do well this year. Part of the problem was bad seed. I purchased eyes instead of full potatoes and they didn't look too good when I got them. The other problem was one bed where I grew them needs a soil overhaul. I'm replacing the bed this fall so will probably do a Hügelkultur bed. Can't win them all.
Russets is my favorite because of the taste and size, really good for French fries you get a real good browning evenly over the fries and they make for bigger fries also. Still good for baking and boiling, for me a good over all potato.
If any body like baked potatoes??? buy the small ones (or as Greg does grow them) about pong ball size or smaller you can get them in small bags most places.
Then clean them but don't cut them, put into a small dipper and cover with water, them remove the potatoes and add kosher or any non- iodized salt to the water about 2 Cups, yes I said 2 cups stir to dissolved then add the potatoes back and bring to boil until potatoes done. Test from time to time but when you stick the potato to test don't put back in the water, when done drain water and add butter if you like and eat whole you will love these and the taste is awesome.
When you pour of the salt water they will take on a dry silver color coating from the salt also looks awesome, the baked flavor will be intense and just slightly salty taste and the butter and to de moon. lol lol
I like to cut in half and dip in the butter;) on the side. lol
If the skin is broken when cooking then you won't be able to eat they will be to salty so you have to use small whole potatoes because you cant cut from big potatoes need the skin all around.
I never tried with full size potatoes. Also may be a bit of a mess with salted water flicking around on the stove but clean up is very easy just wipes right off.
you will love these....
Great idea!
So fun to watch! That’s one of my favorite garden “chores”, too, and I’ll probably be able to do that in the next week or so. Thanks for the info on russets.
Thanks MG. Great job. Enjoyed your video.
Very welcome
I guess when we are harvesting potatoes the no dig method is no longer applicable. Mind you Ive seen some potato harvests where the soil is so soft that they just lift the plant and all potatoes right out of the ground without any digging. This is the time of year where I'll harvest and then add a layer of compost on top of my beds. In some beds I just add compost and then mulch and leave it untouched but in other beds where I think the soil is too hard or not enough organic material, I'll add compost and then lightly turn it over to mix the soil and compost for better airation. So what qualities as no dig I'm not really sure by my 200 pounds of squash harvest likes my soil. Fall greens are growing nicely but with the recent cold weather I maybe should have started then a little earlier but still getting daily greens to eat
Very nice haul, i made a mistake when i planted mine and didn't wait for them to chit. Most are up now except a few of the russets. All growing in grass clippings/sugar cane mulch and doing good so far I've already found a few growing in the mulch
No fire ants in my potatoes but I had a toad jump out at me yesterday. Was quite surprised by it. Didn't know they burrow under ground.
Yes - they do that and you always find them by mistake :)
Nice spuds!
Maybe it is just me but I have always eaten potatoes from my garden that have a green color to them and have never had an issue.
"Whilst not acutely toxic in humans, there are a number of reports suggesting that ingestion of potatoes containing high levels of glycoalkaloids have led to poisoning incidents where the main symptoms displayed are irritation of the gut and also drowsiness. These symptoms have also been shown at high doses of glycoalkaloids in controlled experiments using human volunteers."
www.fsai.ie/faq/green_potatoes.html
Ok question.... isn't the russet an indeterminate variety..?
I've been staying away from them, because of the hilling..... but it doesn't look like you did any hilling. Did you plant the potatoes deeper...??
I plant them under a mulch - no hilling needed.
did you find the lost spud?
Nope
I had a vole or mole for the first time this year. It/they did a lot of damage. How do you get rid of them?
moles are carnivores - so it was a vole most likely. Use mouse traps baited with peanut butter to deal with voles
My potatoes all got eaten. They greens looked great but when I pulled the potatoes they had holes all thru them. What can I do to not have that again. I put them in the same spot as last year and last year was excellent.
Put them somewhere else next year.
How about if the potatoes have scab on them. Can I use them for seed.
Yes and no. Yes, you can use them for seed - but, they will contaminate the soil where you plant them.
Green potatoes will lose the color and poison if stored in a dark place. I'm not sure how fast but by spring certainly.
Moles and voles deterred by potatoes?
nope :)
Nope and I have some of the best potatoe fed Voles around!!! They LOVE potatoes, beets, carrots but seem to leave my parsnips alone....Thankfully!!!
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@@michaellippmann4474 I thought they would ignore my parsnips too, but nope. I’m sure they had to widen their tunnels after feasting on all my roots crops.
@@laurahockman6341 wow that sucks...the Voles here tend to leave the parsnips alone but really go after my beets and potatoes. It is a pain to deal with for sure!
Good luck with them...maybe they will pass away from obesity issues? 😄
do you ever label your beds? you never seem to know what is in the beds
I know what is growing in them (e.g. potatoes vs carrot) but I don't always know what variety I planted (e.g. russet vs kennebec)