Ruth Stout Method Follow-up: Soil Condition & Potato Yield
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2021
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I LOVE potato reveal videos!!!
Something enjoyable about harvesting potatoes
I think it's the "treasure hunt" aspect... :-)
agreed :)
A tiny tiny pinch of fire ant bait can wipe out a nest of them. I used it last year in tiny amounts and the problem was obviously reduced. Peanuts and Mammoth sunflowers have some great calories but potatoes and turnips are big on my list. A half cup of turnips contains over 2 grams of protein, plus black eyed pea leaves are 40% protein. I plant cheap dry ones from the store and cook the young pods. I don`t like shelling that type and prefer purple hulls or sweet peas for easy shelling. We had a bad heat wave and drought last year and it did something to many of my southern pea varieties making the pods change and become too altered to shell. Maybe this season they`ll do right.
Wish I could grow food outside my fences. Alas, what the deer don't eat, the pigs dig up.
BUT! Very happy we don't have bears in New Zealand 😂
I love watching your videos. They're so practical. I can't always use the same methods but they still inspire me.
Thanks! So glad I don't have pigs here!
@@maritimegardening4887 😂😂🐗
We have a second year Ruth Stout bed and we are "patiently" waiting for the harvest. Hopefully the vole damage is less this season.
You are right, this method is definitely great for creating new plots with minimal effort! Thanks for sharing.
Fingers crossed!
I was given a bunch of kathadin seed potatoes on July 5th. Did exactly the same method. It's about a hundred day potato, so my haul might be less than normal if there is a September frost. No matter. Having watched your potato videos in the past, I was confident of getting at least something. Minimal work and noting to lose by trying. Love your potato reveals. Of course, I knew it would be a great video the moment the famous Greg all purpose digging stick came into focus.
love tha digging stick. Just went otu this evening and dug about 30 - 40 lbs with my daughter using that same stick
@@maritimegardening4887 When you get the opportunity to go out into the garden and dig with your daughter, That is but one moment you realize that you have been blessed.
I can’t wait to dig mine up. I did one like that just lay them on the grass and cover with leaves.
Love the videos! I’m from Truro and watching you showed me what I could really grow out here I can’t wait until next year to get a nice vegetable garden up and running
Start now making beds and compost and don't forget to order seeds early to beat the rush. Good luck!
@@raincoast9010 yess! Thank you
I hope you have a great garden next year :)
Hello Greg, I followed your way about 2-3 years ago and resulted in two great beds to plant into. Thank you. 👍🏼😉
Thanks LC - though it's really not my way, since I got it from Ruth Stout :)
I pulled out my first ruth stout potatoes about a month ago, have 50 or so more planted just in grass clippings. Really looking forward to that harvest. Well done, don't have fire ants but plenty of nasty green ants have a painful bite. I've been hilling mine up to try and keep the light out
Nice harvest potato , thanks for sharing gardening tips
Thanks for visiting
@Maritime, that is a good bunch of potatoes. With my first time potatoes I grew this spring. I have another small potatoes bed. My dirt is to hard for most in ground animals.
I have a question for you, I been having a squash problem. The female blooms are failing to open all the way, it only opens enought to May be hand pollinate, and stays barely open for days and the flower stays kinda green. I just trying to find out what is going on with them. I hand pollinate all my squash.
I wish I knew what to do with that - I've never had that problem. Here's the 1st thing that google threw at me - perhaps it will help:
ucanr.edu/sites/Shasta_College_Master_Gardener/files/267738.pdf
@@maritimegardening4887 thank you, it could be squash bugs. They have almost been invasive here, last yr and this yr. I am going to get some the earth rock dust stuff, "that a do not know how to spell", and put it in the dirt, in hopes of killing some them off
That's amazing you got that many potatoes without doing any work in a new bed. When I saw you do this in the spring I decided to put a bed in for potatoes outside my fenced area but was not brave enough to try planting this year without doing any soil prep. I put some top soil and compost on top of cardboard and covered with mulch and will plant potatoes there next year. In any event I'm glad to see the deer did not bother your potatoes because I know we have a lot that walk right past the location of that bed.
I hope they leave your alone too. There's a lot of them that go by here - so I think it's not a preferred snack for them
Super love it, Greg.
I grew potatoes in fiber grow bags and they did great. I've learned that potatoes are maybe the easiest to grow things in the garden..., they even make good house plants!
And that is exactly how I prepare new beds. I tried it with a new plot using sweet potatoes instead of ol' solanum tuberosum, and the sweets became a fave of some kind of teensy little beetle. But they grew and took over the section as hoped.
We shall see what they look like in the coming months.
Really enjoy you and your channel
david
S. Carolina
Thanks! Hope your SPs turn out great
Agreed!
I love your potatoe gardening.... I've been trying to grow them for 5 years without success, but last year I followed your methods, and got potatoes....
I stored them in the garage in boxes, but it freezes here every night, and I guess it's too cold in the garage, because they all got soft really quick....
They have to be between 5c and 10c (42f-55f). If they get too cold they die. Find a way to keep part of your garage above zero - that's what I do :)
@@maritimegardening4887
Great info thanks...
thanks Greg. I'm waiting for mine to die down so I can flip back the eelgrass and harvest. I've been dumping a bit of water on every couple of days. it's great you can literally dump a bucket on them- no wash out of soil. think it's going to be a winner- here's hoping.
Hey Greg
Very good video! That is what is on my agenda this morning is to dig up my last bed of potatoes.
So far my yields have been very good.
Glad we do not Fire Ants to deal with here (yet)...
Your clay soil is a much lighter version of clay than we have here in SW Ontario. Our soil for the most part is so heavy it is suitable for brick making! That being said after many years of mulching, horse manure and compost my soil is pretty darn good and will grow pretty much anything.
My leeks are huge...most are an 1" in diameter and I have many that are pushing 1 1/2" in diameter.
Any way...thanks for the video and good luck with the Fire Ants...
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Those leeks sounds awesome! this was my 1st year with them, but not my last for sure!
@@maritimegardening4887 Leeks are way better than onions!!! Enjoy them!
I did not know there were fire ants in Nova Scotia. I live in the Valley and have not seen any yet.
I didn't see any this past summer. I wonder where they went?
Nice harvest. When you watch the video to edit do you go back and get the ones you missed? I saw several red taters in the leaves there. 👍. I haven’t harvested mine yet. I grew them in containers this year. Just for fun.
I always miss a few - it's inevitable :)
I feel your pain, Greg - fire ants are a plague
I injured my back many years ago. But I get so much joy working in the vegetable garden that I'll put up with the pain. It looks like you do too! I really like your method of placing mulch over a weeded area to convert it to a vegetable garden. I wish I had considered this years ago when I dug up part of the lawn for growing vegetables. My back did not appreciate all that digging.
I couldn't tell from your video, but did you notice any earthworms in the soil where you dug up the potatoes? Worms are one factor I use to gauge the health of the soil. As an experiment, I began burying kitchen scraps like apple cores, ends of vegetable stems, peels from root vegetables, etc into areas of the garden with poor soil. All in the hopes to attract earthworms. Do you have any thoughts on this?
You will probably attract the red wigglers, as they eat garden waste.. We had an area that was mostly gravelly and used newspapers and straw.. It's loaded with worms now! And we have rich soil there too.. Took 2 years
There were some - but not as many as in my best beds. I assume that number will increase over time.
We call them piss ants. They like to live next to mailboxes cause they can move in the box during heavy rain. As a mail man I hate them
Hello Greg, perhaps it would be better to know how many kilos with and without seaweed and the surface number 1 and 2. How do you process it before adding it to the soil? Thank you
The seaweed definitely gave me more weight. I have a few vids on seaweed - just do a search. short version - I don't process it - I get it from high up on the beach after a good rain. There is almost no salt on it.
@@maritimegardening4887 Nice!! I live close to the beach...10 km, so I am able to go and look for it too. Thank you. I will look at your videos. And after this season, I will tell you my experience if I got it from the beach. See you
I wish I had the space to grow like that. I mostly grow potatoes in containers and don’t get enough to store. I just enjoy the ones fresh from the garden. I get a yield ratio of 4-5 potatoes out for every seed potato in. Do you know yours?
in these beds I doubt it was even that high - but in my other beds it can get as high as 10:1
Yeah, I’m not convinced that containers are the best, but that’s all I can do without digging up the rest of the front lawn!
the take away is editor Greg 1, filmer Greg 0. seaweed wins!
Editor Greg thinks filmer Greg is an idiot sometimes :)
@@maritimegardening4887 lol.
I had my tomatoes getting eaten by a groundhog for a while this year, and one night he went for the green cherry tomatoes, and poisoned himself enough that he hasn't come back. He had been going for blushing bigger tomatoes and taking bites, then tossing them, but the cherries he was able to eat whole and thus got a tummy ache. So if anyone needs a way to deal with a groundhog, just leave it out a bowl maybe lol.
not a bad idea!
Given your other recent video, will you add horse manure for better fertility in the Spring? Also, I heard a great treatment for back pain is to let fire ants bite you over and over. :)
I might do that if I can get some.
@@maritimegardening4887 What? The Fire Ants or the Horse manure? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mike 🇨🇦🍁
Go easy on that back sweetie, we only get one ;-)
Nether regions! 😂😂 At least fire ants are not damaging POTATOE!
I guess that's the bright side - they leave the potatoes alone :)
Why don't you replant the green one and the chewed on
It's unlikely that it will survive the winter - and it's very likely to get bored into by a range of pests
@@maritimegardening4887 what about storing them and replant them when there's the right temperature
Or leaving them in the ground and making genetic selection of the strongest potato that can survive the winter
You missed so many potatoes
that always happens