Did This Heat Ruin Our Potatoes?
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- We thought this rapid onset drought was an issue until we started digging them up! We made an unpleasant discovery. We also show you a side by side harvest comparison between our garden beds and container growing with potatoes! #potato #flannelfarms #garden #mice #harvest #Homestead #growyourownfood #grow #farm #diy
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Moles, voles, mice and rats ate my entire bed of potatoes and half of my sweet potatoes 5 years ago. So I used the sonic devices 4 years ago & still lost a third of my potatoes and sweet potatoes to critters. So 3 years ago, I planted in both 18” tall raised beds and in the ground, but the ground gardens were closer to the house and had lots of foot traffic by them. I lost about 20% in the ground gardens, still using the sonic devices, but the raised beds produced double of what the ground garden did and no losses in the tall raised beds. So this last year and this year, potatoes and sweet potatoes went into the tall raised beds. I amend all the garden beds with composted chicken & cow & goat manure and mulch with 6-8 inches of shredded leaves, adding more leaves as needed. I get beautiful harvests that usually need little watering until this year. No rain for +3 weeks, temps 90F+ and blistering sun means I’m watering daily or every other day as plants were still getting established. My potatoes are ready to harvest now and I’m hoping for a good harvest.
Sounds like a fantastic system!
Hurray for potatoes!!! They look great, and next year will be even better. God is good
I have not been notified of your videis, kind of lost in moving, settling in,but glad to see you all doing well. Sad for potato loss, but always learning!!! God bless you, thank you.
I hope you're getting settled in!
Still something to be proud of 💯⭐🌞well done you guys..
glad you still got a good harvest, and glad to hear you'll be adding more barn cats.
Brian, nice to see you as usual. Just wanted to ask you and your family to join me in both prayer and praise. My husband's bone scan showed no growth outside the prostate (thank you Jesus). I on the other hand was not using my brain and had an accident that ended in me having surgery to reconnect a tendon in my right pinky finger. (don't ask). Thank God he sent excellent medical folks to take care of me. I hope things are good with you, I keep you in my prayers also.
Oh goodness! We will certainly pray!
I've found with the potatoes, growing them in containers keeps them from self sowing where I don't want them. If that's not a concern and you want them to, definitely in the ground is best. But I needed to rotate, and they keep coming back up in the same spot, 3 years later. I have about 50 bags (made from feed bags) that I grow them in now, for only that reason. Plus the two rows they keep coming up in.
P.s. Mrs. Flannel, I too have a gray plight in my garden.
Try the grow bags. Working well my 1st time and I'm not far away (Urbana v. Cape Henry). Always following advise from your brother, Gary at rusted garden , millennial gardener and others on the east coast.
Good to hear from you. Maybe you can salvage the critter-eaten for food or for seed potatoes. We have had almost no rain this June here in Atlanta.
Woo, maybe!
Bad year. Many pest Deer, Squirrels,Voles, bugs. This year. Still time to plant more potatoes for fall harvest now. Last year I harvested 100# potatoes in July. This yeah looks pitiful. Garlic too. Combo of weather and pest. But freezer is still full from last year. ,
And that's the exact reason we put up on good years. Glad you're set my friend
It would have been interesting to see the comparison of the same number of plants and same soil. Was the ground garden get more fertilizer and more soil to grow in?
Good question! Nothing got fertilizer and the container had deeper better soil.
Next season I'm going to try again and do a more detailed comparison.
Hi Brian, looks like a true learning experience. I have not grown regular potatoes here in FL9B. I do know that sweet potatoes for me have been very drought tolerant and hardy. Production is always impressive, and they come back strong every year. Just curious if you are or have tried growing them. Great vid.
Hey Brett! We did try last year to grow sweet potatoes and had some success. A friend of ours is really good at getting slips started and he helped us out with them. We might try them again when we expand the garden area.
@@FlannelFarms Nice!
Get some ground sonics, I have 1 in each 8ft raised bed, does 50 to 70 ft radius
I'll add that to our list!
@@FlannelFarms i got them on Amazon 8 for like 50.00 but well worth it, they have different ones i will try to send you an email of what i got
@jenniewolford1631 thanks kindly!
Well, last March I got 2/10 of an inch of rain, and that's the last time I had seen any rain. Have you thought about filling up some barrels with rainwater. Just in case this happens again.
Wow that's a long time!
I haven't, since we have a well, but I might going forward. Who knows what can happen to the water table
My best crop was in straw