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No Dig Potato DISASTER | Sarpo Mira Potato Harvest Reveal From The Allotment Garden
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2020
- No Dig Potato DISASTER | Sarpo Mira Potato Harvest Reveal From The Allotment Garden
Hello, and welcome! Unfortunately I have had the best ever potato harvest absolutely ruined and I am sharing with you what went wrong... Just make sure you don't make the same mistake as me!
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That is so sad. But thank you for sharing your newfound knowledge. I will certainly learn from your mistakes. I pray that you will find some good potatoes as you harvest more of them.
Yes, it's so annoying isn't it? At least I have learnt now and should have a better harvest next year.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden I only have one potato plant that survived the mistakes I have been making. During my planning season I will be modifying what I do for next year. I need to re-watch Tony's videos on planting them in buckets.
Buckets all the way.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Update: today 10/22/20 was our first frost. I covered my one plant to protect it overnight last night. It looks like I will be covering it each night until I harvest the potatoes. I am determined to nurse this one along to give it a chance at success.
Thank you for sharing Erica
Thanks for watching. 😃
so sorry for you erica
It is ok, I have managed to get some potatoes and I won't make the same mistage again.
Omg listen to that rain. I lost 2 big pots of potatoes due to too much rain they literally melted into mush. As always stay safe and stay gardening 🇨🇦🥕🥬☮️🍆🌶🙏
It was sooooo noisy wasn't it? Got absolutely soaked.
Hello Erica
so sorry to see the harvest go bad. Sarpo Mira is a good potato so definitely try again next year.
I like it when gardeners on YT show their mistakes, It is not all glory and pretty pictures.
I grow my potatoes in buckets. That helps too.
Take care Joyce 💚👩🏻🌾🍀
I'm going to grow in buckets next year and maybe some in the ground too.
I haven’t used manure on any of my beds for the last 4 years. I simply spread 6x chicken pellets and blood, snot and bone. Never had a problem I grew Sarpo last last year and harvested them jan this year they were huge. Gardening is great as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t get too disheartened keep going cheers 🍻
I know I shouldn't wish time away but `I can't to see what next years harvest is going to to look like! Hoping for some big fat ones!!
I see a lot of comments that No Dig was the problem, but it actually seems like No Dig really worked well for growing potatoes! Just needed to be hilled up a bit more. Grass breaks down super fast, so maybe try some shredded leaves saved from a previous Autumn. It could be a better choice for a top up mulch. Or even wood chips?
I love the statement that you would rather learn from somebody else's mistakes :)
Haha, when it comes to potatoes I would! 😂
It's good to learn from the mistakes of others but that isn't always the case we will make our own mistakes and hopefully learn from them.
I agree
When you do know dig potatoes you have to keep the hay or straw in your case grass clippings about a foot deep at all times or you will get green potatoes not fit to eat…
Oh that's just so unfortunate. ☹
Luckily I managed to get a nice harvest of some big potatoes when I dug the area over and I have collected enough smaller ones to use as seed for next year. Thank you for watching. Hope all is well over your way?
All is good here, thank you! I must get my next update up soon - complete change of plans for next year now. I've decided to go into market gardening! 🙂 And there will be sheep and pigs joining us in the spring!
I emptied 2 x 30L pots of Potatoes yesterday, failure, no Potatoes, learn from my mistakes, next year I will keep to the Season, I think here in Wales with the rain and Blight it’s not worth the effort, I will do a load of 1st and Main Crops and store them, make more space and time for other things
Hi John, where abouts in Waes are you? Please don't give up on growing big spuds, sometimes it is just a rubbish year but I did manage to get a nice little harvest of untouched ones.
Erica's Little Welsh Garden I’m about 9 miles from Carmarthen
Ah, we're so close, almost allotment twins!
lol, where abouts are you, I have a confession , I don’t have an Allotment, just a decent enough Garden
Good luck sorting out good from bad. Such a shame they looked great size. Thank you for posting video, your pain is felt. 🙈👍
Thanks for watching. We live and learn. 😌
Refreshing for a gardener to post mistakes, good for you. Sarpo Mira are my favourites, try them again ... good video
Hello, I have about 15 seed potatoes held back for next year's seeds. Thank you for the lovely comment 😊
O, no! Wow, that was a terrible result after they had grown so large too. Live and learn, plant again.
Indeed, live and learn... Hehe. Thank you for watching.
So sorry Erica, big lesson for all of us, thank you.
It is was indeed an annoying lesson to learn but I am hoping I won't make this mistake again.
Glad you shared this. Yep. Definitely.
We live and learn as they say! Thank you for watching.
I feel your pain, really gutted for you. We all live & learn, I’m thinking maybe No Dig isn’t going to be for my Potatoes. Thanks for keeping up with the gardening news & tips, much appreciated.
Thanks for watching.
the slugs found them because they were on the surface, the part-sunken 40 litre
pot method is a much better way to grow sarpo's
You're right! Blasted slugs.
In the spring we had potatoes that were sprouting, but the spring weather was bad and stalled us and the potatoes got thrown away by the time the garden area was ready. No other potatoes this year became ready like those did, gg potatoes. On a good note, we grew strawberries from seed this summer and now they are in the ground, so next year we'll have something amazingly delicious in late spring~
Yay,. Nothing like fresh strawberries. 😌
Great harvest for two plants. Those potatoes a couple videos back.... Kara? Is that the name.
I have good varieties but I want to try others to see how they do in my garden.
These are Sarpo Mira. Such a shame but never mind.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Seems I am going to have to go on the hunt like I did for tomatoes.
Yay 😍
my wife and i are both disabled and we both know what it is like to make mistakes, this year due to covid we couldn't get a hold of wood to make some raised beds, by the time we could it was getting late in the planting season, we have a bumper growth of tomato plants and pepper plants and the frost just killed the lot, but next year we will be prepared.
Oh no! Mother nature does like to jump out at you when you least expect it! We had a late and an early frost this year! How annoying.
Sorry about the harvest I would think the slug and worm damage is caused by the rotting grass cutting s attracting them and they have eaten the potato s as well worms will always drag food from the top down I’m afraid you have just made a big worm compost pile unfortunately.
Indeed I have, thank you for watching.
What a shame Erica. Those potatoes would have been truly awesome. At least you know you can grow great spuds. Just need to earth up and try to prevent pest damage next year.
Yeah, everyday is a school day isn't it? Thanks for watching X
Erica I’m so sad for you and thanks for sharing what happened 💚 bless xxxxx
Thanks for watching. It is what it is... Love and learn as they say. 😃
I feel for you darling. I do think some tips being proposed by others need more research, and as with drugs combining some together in a non-perfect environment can bring about growing deficiences and issues. I do love that you did this video; learning from the upsets of others is so valuable for us all. 🤗👍🤗
Hi Paul, thank you for watching. I have used grass clippings on my early potatoes for 2 years with great results but it's not a good combination for the maincrops clearly! 😃
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden 👍👍👍
Sorry you had a hard lesson but can I just ask a really dumb but kind of crucial question - when you applied the grass clippings, were they green, or brown.
Green clipping could cause the issue here as they sort of rot into a smelly slime whereas if you used dried clippings that have turned brown, they act more like straw and insulate the ground underneath from drying out too much in the hot weather. And because they are dry, they are less likely to attract slugs and snails.
I also noticed that your potato plot was very weedy and had growing grass, also things that attract and harbour slugs.
Thanks for watching. 😃
Thanks for sharing - its how we all learn
Indeed, I hope you learn from my mistake, because this one was annoying.
Oh your doing amazing, it’s all learning. I really enjoy your videos your an inspiration x
Thanks Gemma. 😃
Love the dirt on the face bit
Haha... I always get mud on my face.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Your not a good gardener if you don't get mud on your face or on your hands😆
True that.
I absolutely love your channel, and I get excited when I see you have a new upload 😻😻 Thanks! ❤️❤️
Thanks for the lovely comment. 😃
35 rows x 24 potatoes sarpo mira dug by hand earthed up, trashed rotted in the ground total slug damaged. Every spud damaged, were cutting off the bad and dehydrating as much of whats left. The waste pile is a lot bigger than the good, worse year ive had.
Oh no that's so annoying. I'm glad I managed to get a very small harvest in the end.
Theres always next year, the size and amount was very pleased with. My xmas spuds doing well in buckets at home. Good luck next year.
I think it was the combination of rain and grass clippings, my main crop potatoes were the same and I put lots of grass clippings over the soil as a mulch, ( I did use a hand trowel to plant the potatoes). I'll keep the grass clippings for the compost bin!
They worked on the first and second earlies. 😌
Something similar happened to my maincrop potatoes this year. I used my own compost then partially composted woodchips to 'earth up' but they got attacked by slugs and then I reckon birds were scratching the woodchips away to get at them because everytime I went up I had to recover my greening potatoes... Probably around 1/3 to 1/4 were no good for anything.
Urghh... At least we learn what not to do next year. 🤣
Hi Erica so sorry about your spuds, i grow mine in 30L containers the same as Tony and like him have had great success, he actually puts his containers on the soil so why not try that one year and see what happens, Nigel (muddy boots) does the containers and then sits them on the soil as well so the roots grow out through the holes.
I have elevated raised beds in the back garden sitting only on flagstone not soil and no allotment, and if i can grow them in containers then surely you can too, plus you get to re-use the soil after a bit of Blood, Fish and Bone is mixed in or Chicken Pellets.
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Yes, that's my plan next year. Thanks so much for watching. 😊
I had a lot of slug damage to mine this year. Going to dose the ground that I am putting potatoes in next year with nematodes
Yes, Nematodes!! This is what I need... Never used them but I think I could do with a monthly dose.
Seems strange to like a video about a bad crop but I'm liking in support.
Aaargh, you must be gutted. Maybe you could try Tonys method of growing them in buckets next time. Then at least you can drag the buckets into the polytunnel to harvest when it's raining.
Yes I have lots of potato buckets to try Toby's method next year. 😃 Thank you for the like support. 😃
making mistakes is the best learning ground ever, erica.........................brian
So true! Hope you're well?
Oh dear Erica, what terrible luck. Bet you wont be complaining about your Wiljas being too big again!.That variety is the business imo as they have a rather rough skin which seems to deter the slugs and snails. Great videos though.
Hi Barry, it's so annoying. I'm hoping I find a few gems in there and it will be quite a faff cutting all the manky / green bits out but I won't waste them. 😃
Oh Erica, im so sorry. You put in so much effort. They are huge, so well done on that. One learns from things not going as planned, happens to me all the time girl. You are great to show us anyway. Thankyou
Hi Lorraine, it's a total bummer but at least I can learn from my mistakes.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden my heart sank for you,as you love your potatoes.Roll on next lot, and we have learned from it too. Thank you so much Erica. Virtual hug sent your way.
Btw,my phone crashed, i lost all my channels i follow, what was that girls channel you recommended recently. I found the usual crew of channels. Just couldn't rem her title.
Jen's allotment adventures. Thanks for the lovely comment. 😌
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden thanks so much
Erica I have only been able to grow 1courgette this year don't lose heart I did well with Sarpo last year but no good this year, I only grow a few new taters now
Thanks, such a kind comment. 😃 I have had a lot more wins than losses this year so I can't complain.
You win some, you lose some. If I remember correctly, Tony Smith and Tony Wales used rapeseed straw to mulch and both had great results. If you know a farmer, you might be able to get some. I think Tony Smith got his from Amazon.It's been a bad year for slugs and snails. My year is a bit of a write off. It's only in September that the beans started producing.
Next year I will make sure they gett buried deep and earthed up. I don't really want to buy in anything if I can help it (but sometimes it is better to buy and get a better harvest). The main issue I think was that they were sat on the surface and the slugs just wandered over and ate them, had they been earthed uo with soil too they would have got less attack! Thank you for watching.
I feel your sadness... ☹️ All my late potatoes dug into the ground got slug damage... 🥔☹️ I ended up with just enough to make a pan of mash potatoe and that was it.. I'm going to try the no dig potatoes next year.. 🤞Thank you for sharing, I will remember your tips ... 😊
Hi Lorraine, thanks for the lovely comment. Fingers crossed for next year. 🤞
I did the exact same with grass clippings Erica , spoiled my whole main crop harvest and got about quarter of them 😩
I'm never using them on maincrop potatoes again but they worked really well on the first earlies.
I did my little no-dig grass mulched spud trial Erica. Very similar to yours, sad to say. Green, scabby and slugged! I won't be using grass cuttings as a top mulch again.
It has been fine on every other crop but I had only ever done it with earlies. Lesson learned.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden I did two of each, 1E, 2E and MC all similar but I guess the 1E spuds were better as they were in the "ground" for less time. I think the slugs etc like the damp grass and where the grass is so wet it encourages scab (just my theory)
Live and learn.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden As they said at school "Must try harder" LOL
As soon as i heard grass clippings I thought there going to turn out bad, sorry about your bad harvest. I watch another youtuber and he lost a lot of veg due to some grass clippings had an infection in them from a lawn :( . keep going with your good work and videos
Hi Lee, grass clippings have always been great for my other early potaotes... Live and learn. 😔
Hi Erica. So gutted for you as I know how much effort you have put into this. I know it wont help much, but it's been awful this year for potatoes. I grow mine in 35ltr pots as Tony does, but still had an awful crop this year. My Maris Piper were as big as new potatoes!! You may have seen Dan's update on his channel 'Allotment Diary'. Not a good year for us all. But we wont be beaten Erica 👊👊 Take Care and much love, Andy & Karen 👍👍
I found potatoes was one of my most successful crops this year along with the onions, shallots and garlic but everything else either failed to grow or was attacked by pest and disease but I live in the North East of Scotland so that might have something to do with it.
If Dan has had a bad year then we're DOOOMED! hehe. What a funny years it's been.
@@ericaslittlewelshgarden Don't you mean if David had a bad year then we're doomed. But there's next year and I am not going to give up.
@@davidthescottishvegan Absolutely Mad David!! Garlic great, Onions small, spuds terrible!! But hey ho, Mother Nature 'eh David 👍👍
Erica sorry you had that problem, but thank you for the education.. hopefully you will get to eat at least some of that crop.. notice I didn't say crap..Haha....keep your chin up.. 👍👍
Haha, thank you for watching and leaving a lovely comment. Yes I did have a few lovely potaotes I showcase them in the next video. Thank you
I save healthy green potatoes for next years seeds and they work very well. I never have enough mulch or time to earth up, but I still get enough no dig potatoes for eating, and with such low effort I’m ok with that.
Will be saving the green ones. And with the amount I have I can grow a field of them next year. 😃
Better you can learn, than assume your always right.
True that!
Wouldn't mulching with grass encourage the slugs Erica? So disappointing for you to have such problems with your potatoes. We have a lot of rain here in Ireland and that encourages slugs but I've managed to grow a good harvest of potatoes in compost bags and containers and these are easy to tip out to harvest. I've never tried the blight resistant potatoes but usually early potatoes are ready before blight time of year. Keep safe. v
This is the third year I have used grass clippings as a mulch and I have never had this problem with the early potatoes. I won't make the same mistake again. Thank you for watching.
Gosh Erica, such a disappointing harvest, but guess valuable lesson learned for the future of your potato growing. I have had such bad potato harvests in my time and it sure doesn't feel good and is such a big let down of a fun crop to grow. At the end, as we wait for the "special time" of harvest, it's a guessing game and kinda fun not knowing what awaits us in the ground or pots. I'm sorry for your disappointment, but next year will be much better for you, I am sure of that. God bless you and your family. :-)
We live and learn and as annoying is cutting the bad bits out we won't go hungry... 🤣
That is just gutting.
Better luck next year I hope.
I blame 2020 in general. My potatoes were C*** this year too. I’ve grown Desiree for 5 years never had a problem before but I was so upset.
Yes I blame it on 2020 too... 🤣
I'm so sorry. I'm sure more fails and victories are on the way. No stress just taters.
Indeed! Thank you for watching. 😍
not a total loss save the green ones for seed
Yes and there was some hidden gems when I dug the entire patch.
along with worms in a compost heap are always slugs and their eggs..................brian
Urghh, tell me about it...
Talk about bad luck followed by bad luck. Just remember, there’s always next year.
Always next year for sure!! 😌
Aaaaaw poop 💩 xx
So annoying 🙄
Well, you are a novice, so it's expected that you will not be as diligent on your crops as a seasoned gardener. It's a sad lesson to learn. Can I ask, what size of jacket potato does a young child need? In 20 years time you will not have events like this because you will be more aware of what can go wrong. Good luck from a 72yo gardener.
200 - 250g for a jacket potato. What age do you class as a young child?
Hi Erica some pretty young lady you are,,,
makes one hell of a change to have a pretty lovely girl
gardening on video ;)
OK i live in Southern Arizona desert,, some 30 miles from the Mexican border,,, quite hot lol
before i came down south i live on a farm up in Utah
the world over chemicals are use to treat farm animals
hence their manure is not organic,,,, can contaminate
growing media,,,, compost is just brown garden rubbish composted down in warehouses,,,then resold as compost
i find Dr Earth products the best genuine organic products
here ,,, the other earthing up product you might consider
is stable bedding,,, i use that here dont use horse manure
any more ! vet injections the horses get hell knows what is in those,,,, chicken manure is ok if the chickens are your own
then you know how they have been feed,,, free-range
one little question when you were planting your potatoes
the trench,,,, what was the white stuff in the furrow ???
im interested to know please,,,
Erica stay safe ,,, our president Trump as coronavirus now,,
self insulating,,, presidential elections next month ????
what a mess we are all in,,, "god preserve us all",,,
Ed,, Sierra Vista Arizona USA
The white stuff in the trench was a bit of wood ash that I sprinkled in.... Those were on my potatoes the year before.
You're right about animals not given organic manure. Thank you for watching.