Unconventional Potato Growing Advice You Need to Hear
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- čas přidán 4. 04. 2024
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When you grow Potatoes it brings new meaning to the word You Tuber.
You win the comments today 😂
I thought the same..that's really clever 😂😂😂
I don't think you can say that in Scotland any more. Be careful!
BRILLIANT
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Man that bumblebee in the background is having the time of his life.
I was SO distracted by it 😂 I just love love love bumblebees 💕
YES!!! I noticed that too....❤
I tried Hugelkulture once, when I first got into growing veg during lockdown. I collected the garden waste from all of the neighbours as they weren't collecting the brown bins. It worked brilliantly. But one year, loads of potatoes started popping up, we didn't plant any. We ended up getting 8 months of potatoes in one raised bed accidentally from potato peelings! 😂
Cool story! I planted 3 eyes of Red Potato two weeks ago and a clump of growth sprouted. It is now in a grow bag to see how far it goes!
I m growing from eyes this year see how it goes. So you can eat your potatoes and still grow more
2 years ago I was cooking potatoes that were sprouting. I generously cut the sprouts out and planted them in workable soil very early in the spring. Fortunately I covered them with a piece of clear plastic because the next day I had 2 inches of snow. They grew well though, I got couple of meals worth of potatoes out of my little experiment.
The thing about container growing potatoes in compost, is the compost then has a second life.
My 'spent' potato compost gets reused in part by riddling off to make seed & potting mix & the rest goes on my beds as the annual application of compost.
From 40, 30 litre containers, I end up with enough for sowing & potting on, plus enough to apply 3cm over 25m of 1.2m wide beds, which need no other fertiliser to grow great crops.
I had never heard of chitting potatoes until just a few years ago. We always cut our potatoes up with at least one eye per piece and planted directly in the garden. We always had a good harvest. I’ve planted a large raised bed in potatoes this year and I’m going to try grow bags as an experiment. My book won’t come in until the 15 May, here in the U.S.. I like simplicity, I like how you go about it. TeresaSue
My favourite potato variety is Solist. Matures within 60-65 days, so I am able to harvest them before potato beetles even start arriving 😁
I tried growing new potatoes in the PT last August, it didn't go well. The first problem was no-one sold seed potatoes at that time of year, even the Supermarkets didn't have many in, but I did eventually find some in Lidl. They took ages to come up and when they did blight took them all. They need better weather than we're currently getting here in the UK, even inside in some areas. This year i'll be growing them throughout Summer in buckets then cutting the tops off and leaving them to store like that until needed. From what i've seen if critters can't get to them they store very well when just left in the soil and it's cool enough to not allow re-growth.
"Plants just want to grow." I love it, Huw.
Try growing some from well developed chits without potatoes as well. Just like sweet potatoes, they are interested in getting energy storage in the ground.
It’s soo wet here in SW.I am glad I put them mostly in pots.You totally deserve best seller award.Getting that book on Saturday.
I have the book and as a first time gardener it is so useful!
I love how you keep things simple and easy.
Growing Sarpo Una, Sarpo Mira and Java this year. (it was suggested to me that Java are even more blight resistant than SM). Happy to report they're all just showing their shoots over the last couple of weeks. :)
Mine are sprouting just now! 🙂
I hear so many things about what you must do with potatoes especially here in hot, humid Florida. But I want to see for myself. I have a lot of larger grow bags so I can try different things. Take them into the dappled shade when it's hot, etc. Thanks for the inspiration!
I just saw a video this morning and they put smaller grow bags in seed watering trays and the larger ones they slipped a trash bag over the bottom to conserve moisture.
I'm trying feed bags from my chicken and dog food in Texas. They seem to hold the moisture ok.
@@almostoily7541 I do have some lined grow bags. But also get plenty of dog and cat and chicken food bags too. I usually use them for garbage bags but maybe I'll try this. Thanks!
I am doing an experiment with sweet and reg potatoes here by rooting in containers and multiplying the plants by slips once they come up. Have no idea if it will work or not but willing to give it a try. As for planting the spuds, I plan on doing a few lazy bed rows (Irish method) here as the ground has never been worked before and that seems like the best way to get things going from an economical method.
Looking forward to the potato growing experiments. Also your new book I have ordered arrives in May here! Exciting... can't wait! Blessings on your day and your 2024 growing season Huw! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿
I'm in Texas and have already started planting. I'm trying different things this year and I keep thinking...man, I wish Huw's book was here already 😅
Thanks for all your informative videos! I bought your book as well because I really like the way you approach things. 😄
Wow, how wonderful about your book hitting the number ST’s bestseller! So well deserved!
Thank you so much!
I'm going to have to plant mine in containers,,, and I have plenty of cardboard boxes from the recent move!!😊
Great advice I'm going to try this, this year as I'm on a lets see what happens year..
Huw, thank you so very much! This is an excellent bit of advice! I really appreciate your time and easy going delivery. I plan to plant this week - Sarpo Mira and Sarp Una - motivation has gone on vacation, but I am hopeful for its return this week🤔
Thanks for sharing... A great vid we had not even thought of growing early potatoes later.. We loved sarpo Miras last year and plan to grow these in one of our raised beds and 10 buckets later in the year to be self sufficient through winter 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌
I like the idea of planting, a second set of 1st earliest late in the season for a 2nd harvest to save the late ones stored for winter, eating the 2nd harvest of the 1st earlies
I so envy your weather. I am Canadian ❄❄😂.
Just got my copy!!
Thanks Huw. I live in Australia but I still get a lot of knowledge and information from you and your garden.
Have you ever spoken about horse radish?
Thank you for the tips! I just started my own vegetable garden channel.
This was very helpful. Thank you!
You have the absolutely best approach. Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Busy 🐝 loving life. Great spud advice 🥔
Thanks for a great video I definitely am going for blight resistant Christmas potatoes this year last year was disappointing but I'm looking forward to 1st earlys now 🥔🥔
Looking forward to planting my second crop thanks for this 💪
I love your videos! Always sharing great tips from your experience and making original content. Thanks for sharing
Great video as always, Huw! I will be planting out my 2nd crop of potatoes today. Thanks for teaching us how to stagger our crops so we always have a fresh supply of food. It's so much easier than getting one big harvest and having too much.
Congrats on the Best Seller achievement! I anm eagerly awaiting my copy here in the States!
I just ordered two of your books. :) Looking forward.
You are so right Huw 😊
30L tubs work really well for me, started early in the GH then brought out, as the spuds mature resow the tubs with carrots, I've just found insect net bags that fit over the tubs to stop carrot fly. Leave the medium in the tubs over winter, which will leave enough room to refil with 1/2 volume compost ready to plant fresh spuds early the next yr.
Having my first venture into potato seeds this year... Just started sprouting: will be interesting to see what comes up!
Thanks!
I'm experimenting with just using chunky peels from shop bought Roosters. If it works it's cheaper than seed potatoes 'coz' I still got to eat the bulk of the potato. Who knows!? Just planted them yesterday...wet wet wet!
I have plants growing now from store bought peelings. We ate the rest of the potatoes, too.
I'm from Texas and I have never heard the term rooster potatoes until recently.
Is that a variety name or a big roasting potato?
We call large russet potatoes baking potatoes or bakers here.
@@almostoily7541 Maybe it's auto-corrected from roasters.
@@almostoily7541 It's a type of potato. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster_potato
I have your latest book, and find it very good. But some things aren't possible for me to do, since we have hard frost until mid april so many sowings has to be postponed to a later date. I.e today 6th of April 2024, we have a new blanket of snow that is 20 cms thick....and I was looking forward to spring. But anyway, keep on issuing videos and give us nice advice and tips. Kenneth in Norway.
Great advice! How many seed potatoes were planted in that pot you tipped out in the wheelbarrow?
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Hi Huw I'd love to plant potatoes for year round harvests-and the is a great idea of short season pots at different times...but in BC Canada we can only buy seed potatoes at one time of year. I've considered (and likely tried) grocery store organic potatoes but they have a lot of back flecks on them that I was told means the farms have a pathogen in the soil. I have been planting the potatoes I have left in the cupboard that sprout...but there's always too few as I always want to eat them :) And sadly your favorite potato isn't available here ...otherwise I'd definitely try it!
Hi Huw! I would love to know the variety of spud that was at the start of the video. It looks like one I had once and was delicious smashed with butter pepper and salt. We seen to be limited to varieties to grow on Australia 😢
🇨🇦 I’m a dairy farmer and I have access to pure manure and composted manure with straw. At :52 you mentioned growing potatoes in well watered manure. Do you actually mean pure manure? It would be an interesting experiment to try but I’m not sure how the potatoes might taste 🫣
Hiya! I bought and read your book, The Self-Sufficiency Garden, and I must say it's a beautiful book and I really like it. It's got a great layout, simple steps, beautiful pictures and of course lots and lots of good tips that are easy to understand and follow (I assume - haven't gotten to that practical part yet, as I'd already started my seedlings). My only issue is that I'm in a different growing zone than you, so the dates are all a bit off. The book doesn't leave much room for differing zones, so I was wondering if you have any tips on how to adapt it to different zones? Say my plants haven't reached their full potential but the new seedlings are waiting to be planted out, do I just rip out the old ones anyway?
What advice would you give to growing in a tropical climate? Is it even possible? Cheers
I feel chitting makes cutting the potatoes easier as it's easy to identify the eyes that are going to sprout.
You mention putting tomatoes in after lifting early potatoes but I was always taught ( albeit over 50yrs ago ) that being in the same family I should not plant my tomatoes where potatoes had been growing. Has this been overtaken by more modern ways of thinking and doing? Talking about cutting up potatoes way back in the fifties my dad and my uncle used to do this with some of their saved seed potatoes and then post them to each other every year and certainly my dads did very well.
Re the legend: It is worth remembering that maincrop Sarpo Mira (and Axona) are high dry matter for chips/baked/roast while early Sarpo Una is lower dry matter for salad, boiling.
Always have a problem with earthing up potatoes never have enough earth especially with no dig I've tried putting woodchip over when shoots appear seems fine would you know of any potential problems with this method cheers Paul
I should know but what is that amazing yellow flower that bee likes so much?🌼🐝
Asturian Tree Cabbage and Kale :)
Hi Huw, do you buy special seed potatoes or do you grow them from store-bought potatoes? Seed potatoes are really expensive here in Australia!
Acho linda suas plantas🥬🥒🫑🌶🍅🥔🥕🍆🍊🍉🍈🍇🍎🥭🥝🫐🍓 mais cadê elas ?
I have grown both swift and sarpo mira and I love them both. they are both heeeavy croppers but very different. swift is great as new potatoes but sarpo mira is more like a good wine. you can eat it fresh but when all others potatoes start to be boring ,sarpo mira has developed the best flavour ever. I only have one problem; I cant get them here in Denmark and my sister doesnt live in the UK anymore. does anybody know where I can get some in the end of june when I holiday in Folkestone?
Hi, do you know Barry from moasure
Emptying the container in a wheelbarrow.... why did I not think of that
Huw, in your latest book, you grow potatoes in large containers; can you tell me what is the size / capacity of those containers please? 30 - 50 litres???? Thank you.
35 litres ☺️
@@HuwRichards Thanks for your answer Huw.
My pleasure! Have a great growing season 🌿
"More than a 100 ways to grow poatoes"
Yes, ♾> 100.
Potatoes r like weeds plant them in your raised beds they come back every year, you can’t get rid of em, like weeds. Put them in pots.
Lovely book! Was still surprised that the no1 bestseller didn't have figure, table and picture references tho. I would have preferred those present than good paper and nice cover. Content I mean, content. Seemed full of it but little structure. Shame. Still a nice addition to the shelf. Where it will stay.
What do you mean? Text referenced all the pictures and tables etc, and all information from the garden? I don't understand sorry
@@HuwRichards none of the tables, images or figures have references beneath them. They may be mentioned in the text, but they have to reference if we don't know which but they are referring to. For example, if you are sowing tomatoes, you many have three pictures. To those who have never seen a tomato before, how do we know which it is in the pictures. Is done also with the tables and other aspects in the book.
First example, guaranteed on every image also, page 194. Just opened at random. What is it? What time if year? We have no idea. It's dog rose hips. But could be Rowan, Hawthorne? Just don't know
@@hacgarimman9660 In the chart opposite it says dog rosehips, pictured left.
@@jannadickinson5391 not sure what page you are looking at or what book.you have but it doesn't in mine.
😮 cara você só fala,fala e fala,não mostra nada.
3:10 I live in the Great Lakes region, for potatoes like Red Pontiac and Dark Nordland that grow fast, I can do two harvests in one year. I am going to plant potatoes this weekend, which I will harvest the Pontiacs and Nordlands in early July or so. Then I will replant more Pontiacs and Nordlands and harvest those in early October or so.
Did you feel the earthquakes last night or this morning?
@@almostoily7541 no. I've actually never felt an earthquake. Even though there are occasional minor earthquakes in the region, I've never felt one or noticed one.