Surprise Harvest | Sarpo Mira Potatoes | River Update | Green Side Up
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- Surprise Harvest | Sarpo Mira Potatoes | River Update | Green Side Up
Even after 50 years of gardening, there are still surprises every year, this video is one of them. I also add an update on how our local river is.
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Surprise Harvest | Sarpo Mira Potatoes | River Update | Green Side Up
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Going through your videos again my friend, always in my thoughts rest in peace 🕊️
One potato two potatoes three potatoes four lol love your channel learning so much cheers.
Just discovered your channel. Great stuff! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦👍❤️
I've never seen farmers intentionally chit potatoes, and even if they did the chits would probably be knocked off in the process of getting them out into the field. And they still get good yields, else they would change the way they plant. As humans, there is a certain amount of showmanship in just about everything we do. Oh, and the river segment was spectacular!! Thank you for that.
Look forward to your test next year. Great footage on the river . Well done on potatoes . Regards
Khoai lang được gieo trồng được mùa thu hoạch, cách trồng đạt chất lượng như vậy thật là hay !👍👍👍
Brilliant idea about the tests for next years potatoes, I, for one, will be very interested in the results,,,
Just been up the greenhouse found some baby potatoes in the cupboard chitting away so they v gone in some plant pots to grow on I thought nothing to loose if they do come nothing ventured nothing gained my thoughts fingers crossed
Lovely aerial video. I could almost see you outside the tunnel waving 😎 your potatoes have inspired me
Look forward to seeing your trial next year Steve I've done a bit of fiddling about over the years I start 6 x 30ltr buckets of earlies in the polytunnel I fill up the bucket about 4 inches place to 2 seeds adjacent to handles then another 4 inches of compost and place another 2 seeds at opposite sides of bucket then fill bucket till 2 inches of the top and top up with grass clippings the same for salad potatoes but for main crop I found my best crop came when I only had 2 seeds in the bucket the beds the buckets grow in was well covered in cow manure and as yourself I have large holes in the buckets to let the potatoes grow its roots outside the bucket for fertiliser I used to always mix a handful of blood fish and bone in the bucket but was tortured with the foxes smelling it and digging the compost out of the buckets as I say be great to see your results I'm never to old to change my methods when I've seen a better method to follow and I don't chit as your say space to valuable at that time of year at home as my allotment is 6/7 miles away and I go to work and return in the dark till the daylight hours lengthen Thanks for your videos they're brilliant
Your quite right Steve .First year ,I knew nothing popped two Charlotte's in a 45 litr potato bag .Best harvest ever ! Years on I've been following advice to put four in each 30ltr bucket and never yet had anything close to that first harvest despite "chitting".Going back to my old ways this coming year .
Great harvest of potatoes Steve well done 👍
I have had so many volunteer potatoes from what I've missed when digging them up. They definitely don't need to be chitted, just stick them in the ground haha
Very nice harvest there 👍👍👍
I'm with you now, just 2 in a bucket.
I chit my seed potatoes as I find that the easiest way to "store" them until planting. I've never managed to store them without them sprouting ... and seems a waste of energy to have to rub sprouts off. Mine are in the conservatory, its well insulated, won't fall below 5C, so I can just put them in trays and forget about them until planting time.
Incredible drone trip to your plot. Loved that 🥰
Looking forward to seeing the results of the potato test next year.
You have done amazing this year. It’s certainly not been easy with blight & weather but you’ve achieved & produced a lot. Well done 👏🏻
Morning Steve, I do 3 or 4 in a pot simply because we like smaller potatoes and I find this works for me, but if all potatoes needed chitting then you would think there’d be no “volunteer” potatoes as they wouldn’t have been chatted. Lovely video of the river thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
Look at you with your quadcopter :) Great Video Steve
Yes then Steve 👍👍👍 great harvest & drone footage there lad, looks like an awesome River to Fish in also 🎣🎣
It's all Salmon fishing here on this River Carl, occasionally we see an angler walking of the river with a fish...Steve...😃
@@GreenSideUp ❤️it 🎣
I can never tell how much yield I get because I keep skimming a few off the top every couple of days. If I can rat around in the soil and find a decent potato then I'm going to eat it. I still get decent harvests at the end but untold pounds of potatoes have met their maker already.
You are getting a harvest Brad that is what matters. I like to be analytical about such things and make comparisons to what I have done before or something I might try next year so to speak. There are many ways to grow potatoes, will I still be growing the same way in ten years, I doubt it!...Steve...😃
Great input again Steve. For 2 people (wife and me) I put 1 charlotte or Nadine in a 10" cut flower bucket and there is always enough for a meal with a few left over. I do 20 plus buckets and when they are ready I cut the foliage off keep them dry and these will see me well past Xmas.
Great vid Steve. I experimented with potatoes in buckets this year. 2 in some, 4 in others. The ones with 2 did better. But I'm a comete novice and I don't video. Really enjoyed your drone vid of your locality, now I know exactly where you are...sort of. Thanks Steve for your dedication
Great harvest 🥔🥔🥔👍 I'm curious about the outcome of your potato 🥔 experiment next year 🤔 I'm sure you will keep us updated. The drone footage was amazing 👏
Hi, love your content, getting a lot of value out of it so thank you! I was wondering also where do you buy your sarpo Mira seed from?
Great result with the tatties Steve👍
First year doing Sarpo Mira for me this year and thought they were brill. Will definitely be doing them again next year.
Loved the birds eye of the plot
That is some BIG harvest, I think I would have covered the spuds after removing the tops cause they can't grow any more with no foliage and it has been very wet as you know.
Cracking 👍
After a miserable fail on growing potatoes in bags this year I think I'm going to try your method of proper big tubs and 2 per tub. Do you always buy new seed potatoes or do you save your own?
Great info thank you. Look forward to seeing how you get on. I wonder if you might do some pots with 3 potatoes in as well to see if there is an optimum middle ground?
Lovely countryside.
Interestingly we did not get our seed potatoes till mid February this year. I had wanted to go for a really early crop of a few potatoes, planting in February under cover, I had done this successfully about 30 years ago after a tip from an old gardener, whom I had and still have great respect, for, but the Arron Pilot was not chitted. I planted some straight away into a pot un-chitted in the conservatory and started chitting the rest in the same conservatory. The pot potatoes where growing with lots of green foliage a foot or more high, before the other potatoes started to chit. This led me to conclude that possibly being in moist compost encouraged the potatoes to chit and grow earlier than chitting the potatoes. The limiting factor for planting seed potatoes therefore being weather conditions the plant will grow in rather than chitting first.
This is where I think the "chitting" revolution started. As I say in the video seed potatoes where stored somewhere dark, cool and frost free until little green flecks of life could be seen in the eyes, then they are fetched out into the light. But smart gardeners going back decades knew they could chit half a dozen very early in the year, grow in pots or the greenhouse border for an extra early crop. Gardener B saw this and chitted all his first earlies the next year, Gardener C saw that and chitted his earlies and seconds, etc etc ad infinitum. The real reason to chit is because they are starting to grow in storage, they are put into light to chit, mainly to stop the green eyes becoming long and white as they search for light in storage. Potatoes dont need chits to grow, they just need planting and that is it. Hopefully my trials next year will show that, it winds me up that people have no windowsill space to grow other plants because they think they have to chit potatoes...Steve...😃
Hi Steve, I totally agree with you that potatoes don’t need chitting to grow, but if you do chit them you do get a earlier crop, so if you chit half your early potatoes you can spread the length of harvest of new potatoes and have more to eat when the new spuds are in there prime . For me it’s 4 new potatoes, 3 second early and 2main crop in a bucket, take care kind regards
alan……………. THE DAWN CHORUS PLOT 🌿
I've never chitted any spuds, straight into the ground as intended and come out fine every time. In erratic climates I see advantages maybe but here in Yorkshire/Lancashire, its pretty consistent.
Thanks for the vid Steve. What I'd like to know, off you and everyone else commenting, is how to these Sarpos measure up for taste?
Before answering that queation Steve, it is important to understand why I grow them. Sarpo potatoes where developed to resist blight, a devastaing fungal disease at the Sarpo institute. Blight can easily wipe out whole Potato and Tomato crops, something that many are aware of this year as it has been a bad blight year all round. So I grow Sarpo Mira Potatoes and Crimson Crush Tomatoes every year without fail, in case the rest of my crops get blight, which they did this year! And that is the only reason I grow both of them, it's a fall back. Now taste or flavour, both of them are better than tasting than any from the supermarket, but not quite as good as some others you can grow. This is the chance you take, grow them as a fall back alongside other more tasty varieties and you will always have a crop/harvest, in a blight free year I might give the Sarpo miras away as I will have grown other more tasty varieties. LOng winded I know, but I hope it helps...Steve...😃
@@GreenSideUp Thanks for the reply Steve. Yes, I'm aware of the blight resistance being the rationale for breeding these. I must say the Crimson Crush I grew this year were really bland and watery, which is frustrating - surely the flavour genes aren't excluded by the anti-blight ones?
I've read that there's a Sarpo variety which is very good for roasting and has a good flavour, a blue skinned one? Anyway, I'll give them a go next year - will report back.
Save all the tiddlers for a feed on Canary potatoes!
Great video how are your sweet peas doing
my sarpo mira were terrible this year they were very small like salad potatoes and about 2lb or less in each bucket
I usually get a good harvest from Sarpo Mira, but this year blight has destroyed 30% of the Tubors. Probably it is my complacancy at fault, thinking Sarpo is invincible, well this year I proved it isn't. I knew we had blight around but I thought it wouldn't be a problem. How wrong I was, another lesson learnt for me.
I got about 9lb from my first bucket earlier in the year.
The rest had blight and were much smaller than the previous bucket. It was very warm this summer and maybe i didnt water enough, lesson learned for next year.
Certainly seems it is more efficient to use fewer seed potatoes if you are going to end up with the same weight in potatoes anyway. I guess it depends what you think is most important. The value of seed potatoes might not be very high to you.
Then there's efficiency of larger potatoes in terms of work done to prepare them for eating. Having to peel one big potato instead of four small ones is pretty desirable to me as someone who cooks a lot.
But then there's flavour too. How much does size affect flavour? People tend to prefer smaller new potatoes but not sure how size affects taste of main crop potatoes. Is bigger better? Variety and maturity seem more important I would think in terms of taste for main crops.
I'm also wondering about the specific reasons for the tradition of spaced planting. Is it that the plants roots fight for nutrients and/or water when too close together so tubers (or whatever veg you're growing) don't grow as big - or do plants have some chemical messaging where it knows it doesn't have much space so can't grow as big. My guess is for potatoes it's just the former - water and nutrients - but both these things can be resolved by the grower by increasing watering and feeding for pots that have more seed potatoes. But then some growers might not need the hassle of worrying about feeding/watering more - a lot of people seem to want a plant and forget approach with potatoes which I think would favour a fewer seed potatoes approach - especially if you end up with similar overall weight anyway.
Hi Steve, fantastic harvest of potatoes, how long were they planted in the buckets?
I plant all of my potatoes at the end of March, regardless of type or variety...Steve...😃
do you always use the same variety of potato?
Fist! Great spuds but not much flavour from what I remember?
This is quite true, not too much of a flavour although I have found they taste far better when grown in a drier year, for example this year and last...Steve...😃
Hi,just wanted to know what fertilizer you would use and about how much,and what after care you may give to your spuds. I have grown s.mira but have only got out of 30lt pots 1,3,4,and a very few at 5lb, I did keep them damp, o and most were a good size many tnx
When I use fertiliser I always use Blood Fish and Bone, it is a good longer term feed and I use approx half a handful per 30 litre bucket, too much feed and you get far too much top growth. The draainage holes on the bottom of my pots have been enlerged and the bottom few inches of each bucket is buried in the ground, this allows the roots to get out of the bucket and find feed and water if they need it...Steve...😃
What compost do you use?
I really must get my garden and myself organized over the winter so that I can start to get some crops to harvest next year, also dose it affect your utube payment if I hit the skip button on adverts
Thank you for asking Richard, I put the ads on to make a little money, of course...that is what youtubers do. But mine always allow the viewer to skip if you wish. Please skip the ads if you wish and do not ever feel bad for doing that, it is set by me so you can if it improves your viewing...Steve...😃
@@GreenSideUp Iowa's just wondering after a comment by another utuber it's good that you all get a payment of some sort a reward for your efforts