PURPLE Potato Harvest | Magic Molly Potatoes in Containers | Guten Yardening | Zone 5 Gardening
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- Massive PURPLE Potato Harvest 2021 | Magic Molly Potatoes Container Gardening | Guten Yardening | Zone 5 Gardening
100 days ago, we planted our first ever crop of Magic Molly Purple Potatoes in 50 gallon food safe plastic drums.
This provides us with a total of about 22 square feet of growing space.
This is the second time we have grown potatoes in this style, and the results this time are better than we have ever seen!
Magic Molly potatoes are a relatively new variety that were developed in 2007, and they are a vigorous plant. The stems on this variety are the largest we have seen, and from this harvest, you will see that each plant has large production capabilities. The potatoes themselves have a deep purple (almost black) looking skin, and an incredible deep purple interior.
We are harvesting now, even though there is still some green left on the stems because we are moving on to our next set of crops, and we have a large number of potatoes growing in other mediums and styles around our property.
We are confident that you will love these potatoes if you give them a try.
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How deep in the soil did you plant them? I have been really confused about how the potato plants actually grow.
In my area you could sprout the potatoes that have eyes and have another harvest in fall, in most years anyway.
Wow so amazing harvest molly potato.I love it.Thanks for sharing Sir.GOD bless you 🙏❤
What a beautiful harvest!
You have the best potato harvest videos I love it you take us along for the whole harvest instead of showing us just the end result thank you
Thank you Sabby! We really enjoy sharing the whole experience. The harvest is so much fun for us, we have to share. :D
@@GutenGardening but will you please show us start to finish on especially a growing of the purple Majesty or purple Molly potatoes? We need to know, or really want to know, just what you fertilize with and how you recondition your soil. I plan to plant a fall crop of purple Majesty potatoes and I don't know how to fertilize or where to get hay at a reasonable price in my area. Any help or inspiration would be much appreciated. Thank you again for such a wonderful video.
Thank you so much for providing this video. Very helpful! 👍
The BEST container crop of potatoes shown on CZcams. What a success.🥔🥔
Thank you! This episode was one of our favorites to produce. Magic molly in containers was truly a huge success.
Yuh really inspire mi to nuh give up trying with mi potatoe growing.
Definitely don't give up. Potatoes are a huge staple (both these and sweet potatoes) in our house, as they can add so much to the overall harvest. We hope you keep growing your own. :) Thank you so much for watching!
@@GutenGardening big up. Nuff respek mi bredda 👍
you did good, that makes you a winner !
I don't store my spuds, I make meals, i.e. Sheppards pie, cottage pie, etc. portion size then freeze them. Also cut into chips, wedges and freeze those.
We love Shep pie! Thanks for the tips.
I just added Magic Molly to my list for 2022. Thank you for sharing.
Please stop saying "look at this!" Dude, we are already looking at the video!😊
Hey there, new friend here from the Hickorycroft Farm! Looking forward to catching up on your other videos! :)
Thank you so much for coming over! Hickorycroft is one of our favorites. :) Welcome to the channel. We love our potato and sweet potato harvests, and we hope you enjoy them with us. Have a wonderful weekend!
That was so satisfying.
And...we get to eat them. :D Yes, I agree with you. To us, there isn't much that is more satisfying than a good potato harvest. Thank you so much for watching!
Hello my new friend very nice how to plant potato i like big🤝👍👇👋💫💛💙
Thank you so much. We loved growing this variety this year, and even moreso, we loved harvesting this variety.
Impressive harvest of the Magic Molly potatoes!!!!
We are very pleased with this harvest. :)
I would like to try a purple potato one day
Are you located in the lower 48?
Beautiful potatoes
Purple potatoes are my favorite. So much tastier and way more healthy than white potatoes. Can’t buy them here expect in the mini potato mixes. Color is strange on your plate at first, but very pretty lavender and so delicious.
Hello Althea, It does take a bit to get used to the color when you are making mashed potatoes, for instance, but you are right, we find them so tasty, and they are great for you. We were very pleased with this harvest this year. This is certainly a variety worth growing. Do you have a favorite potato recipe?
THAT is a gorgeous potato harvest
Yhank you for cutting one open to show everyone how beautiful they are inside more than the purple majesty 😃
You are welcome! The insides are so beautiful, and the keep an amazing color after cooking! I love that about them. We will definitely be growing them again next season.
I grow also this potatoes ,are my favorite😍
They are a delight to grow, harvest and eat. A winner all round!
@@GutenGardening Yes,true. Me i grow in pots on balcony,i wish i have a garden to grow more.
How can I get to start plant the Purple magic 🔮Molly potatoes? That's having seeds too or that the one you harvest need to put on the soil?
Sorry am curious only cause am not try to plant potato but I want to try
That's my plan now🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭❤❤
Hello! Great question. We grew these from seed potatoes that we purchased from our local greenhouse. But, next seaon we will grow them from the purple potatoes that we got in this harvest. It is also possible to grow them from seeds (those form inside of berries that sometimes grow at the top of the plants), but they will not be exactly the same if you do it that way, so the best way to ensure a good harvest is to grow them from the seed potatoes. :)
I like purple potatoes. Wow, you did good! I'd love to get some of those Magic Molly ones.
Hello Ann! Thank you so much! We'll see what we can do. :)
@@GutenGardening - Should I email you? : )
I have to learn to grow sweets bc my dogs , rabbits and I love them. At 98 cents a pound in the grocery, it will be worth growing them. Thanks!
It is so worth it (taste alone) in our opinion. We are so glad you enjoyed the video!
Goodness gracious!!! Phenomenal harvest. Have never planted before, but this has given me courage to do so. Thanks for sharing this.
This is one of my favorite harvests of all time. Those purple potatoes were so plentiful and so delicious!
Wow! Is this different from purple yum? Great harvest!
Nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent Harvest!
Thank you so much! We loved this harvest.
So beautiful
Thank you so much! We really enjoyed this harvest. Have you grown potatoes before?
I am so excited, this is inspiring me to keep trying to improve.
Thank you so much! We LOVED this harvest and thes taste of these potatoes. It was such an amazing addition to our garden this year. Best of luck!
Excellent jobs 🙏🏽🌸
Thank you! These were such vigorous growers, and they are so delicious! Personally, I think this is one of my favorite tasting potatoes we have grown so far. Thank you for watching!
Awesome harvest purple potatoes are great for blood pressure says DR.Oz. I started gardening after surviving Breast Cancer three years ago. Where can I get them for planting. Keep the great videos coming.
Hello Noreen! Thank you for the comment. We got ours from Jungs this year. I am not sure if you have a Jungs near you or if they will even offer them next season; however, you can pre-order them from Urban Farmer here: www.ufseeds.com/product/magic-molly-seed-potatoes/POMM.html
Though, they are more expensive than what we paid for them. The best part of is, though, we won't have to pay for them again since we will have our own seed potatoes from this harvest. :)
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Potatoes are amazing, I got 21 pounds out of a 12 foot row of grocery store potatoes that I figured I'd plant instead of throwing away.
Not bad considering I only planted two pounds of potatoes in that row.
Oh my gosh what a beautiful harvest. I love watching Potato Harvest👌💕
Congratulations
Thank you! It might be one of our favorites to-date. The most recent Ruth Stout was a winner as well!
@@GutenGardening where can I get the purple seeded potato to buy? I live in a Condo Town House my space is limited but I will try anything I can find space for 😊 🇨🇦
Awesome Potato harvest!
Thank you so much! Have you tried growing purple potatoes before?
What a beautiful, bountiful harvest! Fun video to watch. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
They are gorgeous potatoes and so perfectly shaped. We might have to look for these next year
Thank you! Yes, they were so delicous too! These are a keeper variety, and I think they would do well for you for sure. :)
Gorgeous potatoes harvest. I was very pleased with my purple potatoes this spring. I saved some back for my fall crop. Well done! I did not get the harvest you got but I didn't amend my soil very well this last spring.
Excellent! Glad you had a good harvest. :). We also plan to save some for fall. I really like the taste of these, and they were definitely great producers for us. :)
Wow 🤩 Amazing harvest.
Thank you! I am not exaggerating when I say, these are some of the most delicious potatoes we have eaten, in my opinion. They are so worth growing. Have a wonderful rest of your day!
Can you please do a video of how you start your potatoes.? Thank you
Hello Melanie, we have a few of them. Here is the video we did where we planted this specific variety this season. czcams.com/video/0xp71HVeH8M/video.html&ab_channel=GutenYardening Let us know if that helps enough. :)
Please tell us about the soil, any additives, depth u planted them etc. What kind of containers? Did you fertilize and how often? I am so amazed, I am repeating myself. Thanks.
Sure! Magic molly did really well in these shallow containers. Here is the video of us planting the potatoes: czcams.com/video/0xp71HVeH8M/video.html. Let us know if you have additional questions. We routinely fertilize with bone meal and a good all-purpose fertilizer once the plants starts to flower. A bi-weekly application of supplements at this point should promote good tuber development and healthy plants.
Love your videos, we always started to grow purple potatoes, we live in Orlando Florida... Our plant is almost ready to harvest some stalks are getting a greenish yellow and are wilted..! Question: Do we have to wait for all of the potatoe plants to get yellow and sort of dying stage to harvest..? We fertilize every two weeks and we check for moisture and are covered in black mulch, almost 6 hrs of sun.. We can't wait to harvest.. we're just city folks from The Bronx NY.. our parents planted many fruit trees in Puerto Rico.. we are trying try something new..! We started planting in a 5gal container and it's been 8 weeks and we are amazed how they grow especially over night.. I guess we have two more months give and take a week more.. we need the stalks to die off a little more. I wish I could send you a photo..! Thanks..!
Oh my goodness I want grow these this is amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
They are outstanding! You should definitely give this variety a try. We are absolutely thrilled with these results, and want to grow these again in the future.
They look great! I would love to try some from seed next year.
Thank you! They are really tasty, and well worth the grow. :)
Nice job with your channel! Those are nice looking tubers, and the color is amazing.
Thank you Matt! The taste is even better than the appearance. They are definitely a new favorite for us. :)
Wow, great harvest. Purple potatoes is one I am looking for seeds. Love to plan but rear of that seeds. Also I like when cut and show. From Saipan CMNI Marianas near Guam watching.
Thank you so much! We have another video where we focus on adirondack blue potatoes as well, and they are also almost purple in appearance. We also love that beautiful inside. They are amazing! Thank you so much for watching.
Thanks for the video. I bought a small box of purple potatoes online with the intention to use as seed. They say purple potatoes are a powerful cell builder.
Dr. William Li and his book Eat To Beat Disease has me on this journey. Going to use your link for the Mykos. Is there any other advice you have for the 1st time potato grower? Thanks , they look nice.
I think 120 days will be better.
Yes, the plants had some life left.
I’m starting my first container potato planting and hoping to do this one. When should I plant the Molly? I live in south Texas and how m at months before I see a harvest
You said the plants flowered, did they give you a second exciting harvest on the greens with a few potato berries?
We did harvest one berry from these potato plants to experiment with. Interestingly, this variety had fewer than our other varieties. We will have some fun with them over the winter, I think. :)
@@GutenGardening One berry is all you need! You can get so much seed from that berry. Do as many plants as you can and have room for if you can get it to germinate. You many only get less than a pound from a plant but you can get all kinds of colors and shapes! Fun! If you get more on your other plants save those berries because you never know what you might get back. Love True Potato Seed.
I love the suggestion. We are definitely going to have some fun in the coming months. :) Thank you so much!
I don't think I've ever grown a variety of potatoes that were truly ready to dig in less than 120 days.. Even the supposed "90" day varieties will go 120 days most of the time.. Letting the plants go those last few weeks can make or break a harvest.. That's when the tubers are growing at their fastest rate.. That's why the plants die, because they are putting every ounce of energy they make into the potatoes at this stage of their life.. The potatoes can actually double in size every few days during that period if the conditions are right..
I don't disagree with you at all. Unless we are having a hard time with voles or some other critters, we like to leave our plants as long as possible regardless of the start date. I could say the same for sweet potatoes (even though they are a different family). We try to take advantage of as much of the growing season as possible here in zone 5. That being said, especially for the shorter seasons, I can see where people could run out of time and need a variety that could at least yield a decent harvest sooner. Thank you so much for the comment Mark!
@Guten Gardening I'm in East Central Indiana, zone 6.. If we have a late spring.. I usually have to dig my potatoes before the plants die back all the way.. Because I need the plot for fall crops.. Normal weather years, which are becoming less and less frequent around here.. I have just enough time to let my potatoes finish, and then plant broccoli and cabbage.. I've never grown the magic mollys, but I found a blue variety called Adirondack Blue that looks very similar to them.. They seem to do really well also if you have to dig them early.. They've yielded better than my Yukon Golds the past couple years, but not as well as my pontiac reds..
Good morning Sir!!
I've planted about 30 purple potatoes and I have them all pushed thru the soils top and are growing. I've side dressed them with some compost and add some Dr Earth organic fertilizer (4-6-3). I planted Yukon and red Pontiac at the same time and the purple potatoes came up much later and are growing much slower (height and plant fullness). Any suggestion on what to do, to help them along? I have another 50 purple seed potatoes to plant and I'm concerned that I may be doing something wrong. Thanks so much for the inspiring videos!!!!! Greg
I was wondering how you did the drainage for those containers? did you do a youtube of when you planted those potatoes?
Nice harvest my friend. I'm afraid I'd lose many of those down here because I can't really store potatoes unless they are canned or dehydrated.
I completely understand. One thing that was suggested to us was to try storing potatoes in a barrel of sand. Have you tried anything like that before?
@@GutenGardening I have heard that but never tried it.
What is the taste of these potatoes comparable to? I have never grown these.🤔
We just had some for dinner. They were earthy and fantastic with a little butter. They were not starchy. I thoroughly enjoyed the taste.
We grew mostly Purple Magic potatoes this year. I have wondered if Magic Molly is actually the same?
It looks like the purple magic potatoes have a white ring under the skin that does not occur with the Magic Molly potatoes, so it looks to me like they are similar but likely not the same. Thank you so much for asking! We’re your harvests successful, and how have you enjoyed the taste?
How do you water your bins, and your square foot garden boxes? How much water per week?
Hello Juanita, I would say we water about 1-2 inches per week during most of the growing process. We have a combination of rainwater from our rain barrels and water from our hose, and then rainfall itself. This season we had some pretty long stretches without rain, so the first and second options were the most common. We typically try to water early morning if we can. :) I hope that helps! Have a wonderful week.
Beautiful!
Will you use the tiny ones for planting next year?
Thank you. They are beautiful! This was our first year growing Magic Molly and we plan to continue growing them. We will plant the tiny ones that have sprouted, however we prefer to plant the larger potatoes. Are you growing potatoes this season?
I stumbled on your videos. You are so helpful! The purple Molly have me 😍. I would like to buy these. Do you sell them or have a link where I can get these? I’m in TX.
Hello Linda! Thank you so much! We love those purple Magic Molly potatoes as well. Here is where we got them last season, though the cost has gone up a bit. Best of luck! www.jungseed.com/product/J04622/614#:~:text=A%20large%20fingerling%20with%20deep,full%20maturity%20for%20large%20tubers.
@@GutenGardening Thanks! Just ordered.
This was really enjoyable to watch! Are those 55 yall o n drums you planted in?
Hi, I’d like to score a few seed for next spring. What company did you buy from? Hoping I can get in Alberta. Thanks
Hello Deb! If you were in the US, we would send you some, but I don't know about sending outside of the US. :( We got these from a place called Jungs, and it is possible they will have them again next season. Here is the link to their website: www.jungseed.com/product/J04622/614 They are so worth it. I believe we will continue to grow this variety based on how prolific they were this year. Thank you for watching!
@@GutenGardening Hi, no way to get to me, but I appreciate the thought. Sorry, I was thinking you were in Eastern Canada....then realized you're over the wall. Thank you for replying....I'll continue my hunt. I grow way too many varieties just to keep heirlooms going, but decided this year to stop growing varieties I don't actually care for and just keep 15 or so favorites plus my tps. These look really intriguing, kind of a cross between my Purple Peruvian and Russian blues....could be a new fav if I can get my hands on a couple. Happy growing, Deb. ✌
Hi new subscriber, are these determinate or indeterminate potatoes ?
Thank u
Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
Hello Josette, we are not actually 100% sure. It looks to me like they are likely determinate, and so you can see when didn't mound them at all. But in researching them, that was one answer that was really hard to come by for us. One thing is for sure, though, they are great producers!
What is the name and brand of the root stimulator that you use for your potatoes? Thanks so much and your videos are so much fun!!!
how deep was the container? does it have a bottom. I've got 3 types of purples and I've never grown them before. there is almost no one growing mini tubers on you tube. I wish I could get a good mini tuber video. I'm excited I hope I have the same luck as you. How long did these store? If I pull them in August or October then How could I store them to last till March again for planting? I read purple doesn't store well but I spent $35 for mini tubers and I dont want to sound that again next year. ??
hi there can I ask wear you got your Magic Molly seed Potatoes I have not seen any in my local shops also do you sell them and if so would you be able to ship to the uk I am happy to pat shipping cost if you are able to sell these Magic Molly Potatoes variety
I have tried multiple times to he w potatoes in plastic garbage cans but haven't had much luck getting many p otaoes. What did you do to have succes s?
Can you eat the leaves of this kind of potato?
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Slightly different reason behind this potatoes name. Thank you for watching!
Hello. Do you sell those potato? Im interested to buy
Hello! We currently just keep them for eating, but have not really sold them. That being said, could you let me know which state in the US you are in, and we can see what we can do.
Hello! Do you have a link to the 50 gallon food drum?
I'm sorry we don't. You could check your local craigslist, and do a search for food safe drums. See if that works for you. Thanks for watching.
where can I GET seed
We purchase our original magic molly seed potatoes from Jung Garden Center. Usually they are available in-store during the early spring months. According to google Urban Farmers online store is accepting preorders. You could try looking around online for other suppliers. Most places will be accepting preorders and might not have them in stock.
Where do get your seeds?
Great question! These we got from here:
www.jungseed.com/product/J04622/615
Hey yall I'm from NC and would love to get some magic Molly's and a big bag but not break the bank can you help me find a place and I watch all yall videos hey from NC Wilcox family
I think you are going to find that most places are out of stock right now, but the least expensive we have found is about $6 per pound from Jungs.
www.jungseed.com/product/J04622/615#:~:text=A%20large%20fingerling%20with%20deep,full%20maturity%20for%20large%20tubers.
The nice thing is, if you plant that once, you will have plenty of seed potatoes for the following seasons.