I WISH I WOULD'VE KNOWN THIS EARLIER!
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Gerritsen from Wood Prairie Organic Farm in Maine. Jim has been a producer of organic potato seed for over 30 years and knows everything there is to know about growing potatoes.
He'll share how his organic seed potatoes are produced and some of his favorite tips for maximizing the potato harvest in your backyard garden. He'll talk about cutting potatoes, chitting potatoes, planting times, and more!
0:00 Intro
2:29 What is Wood Prairie Farm?
4:52 How Are Seed Potatoes Produced?
12:34 What is a Nuclear Potato?
15:32 Do Potatoes Need to Be Chitted?
19:34 When Should You Plant Potatoes?
22:23 Planting Whole vs Cut Potato Pieces?
31:34 Do You Plant Potatoes with the Eyes Up?
33:05 Growing Potatoes in Straw
35:45 Should You Remove Potato Blooms?
39:26 When Should Potatoes Be Harvested?
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Have you ever tried "green sprouting" or "chitting" seed potatoes? Let us know!
GET YOUR SEED POTATOES HERE: bit.ly/3U1p4Hj
Use code "LAZYDOGFARM" for a 5% discount
0:00 Intro
2:29 What is Wood Prairie Farm?
4:52 How Are Seed Potatoes Produced?
12:34 What is a Nuclear Potato?
15:32 Do Potatoes Need to Be Chitted?
19:34 When Should You Plant Potatoes?
22:23 Planting Whole vs Cut Potato Pieces?
31:34 Do You Plant Potatoes with the Eyes Up?
33:05 Growing Potatoes in Straw
35:45 Should You Remove Potato Blooms?
39:26 When Should Potatoes Be Harvested?
Thank you for this invaluable information from one of our nation’s expert growers!
Thank you, Travis & Jim! What an informative session ! How exciting to have much more info moving forward with our fun backyard gardening. So many questions answered! OK, on to session 2. 😊
EXCELLENT video!
Quality content like this is why you are one of the best gardening channels on CZcams. 👍🏻
Thanks!
Agree with this comment for sure.
Travis, this is the best gardening interview I've seen since I don't know when! Keep up the good work, you are one of the best!
Travis...Excellent .
EXCELLENT part one. Thank you.
Awesome interview and informative!!
Thks👊
Excellent show!
Thanks Jim!
Absolutely fascinating conversation, this man is a walking encyclopedia. I can't wait to hear the next video. I'll be looking to purchasing some of his products and I'm also looking at his sweet potatoes.
Great podcast Travis!
This was GREAT information - loved part 1
Well very interesting
Wow! Great info! 👍🏼
Excellent questions.
Good job Travis very helpful
Excellent video thank you
Awesome content Travis. Thank you!!
My pleasure!
Very informative thanks
Great content
Learned ALOT. Thankyou thankyou
Great potato show , thank you
Our pleasure!
Thanks for the Master Class!
You bet!
Been growing spuds for several years, and I still learned such wonderful details. Jim is a good teacher. Thank you.
Aroostook County. I grew up in the Bangor/ Brewer area.
Great channel here. I am learning a lot. Thanks!
Great video 👍
thank you
You're welcome
This guy knows his stuff on potatoes 🥔 👍 👌
Great info in the comments too
That was great!
Thanks Gail!
wow great show.
Great vid great information Travis 👍💪as always!!
Thanks Julian!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Now that’s some Potato School! Exceptional interview and very informative information. I need to convert this into a document to print for my garden binder. Thanks Travis and Jim for sharing this knowledge.
Thanks for the video Travis. I will be planting Caribe and Baltic Rose this season. Great info. Now I have to figure out that green sprouting thingy. 🤞
Me too. I am confused on how they get that many potatoes to 75°, and then down to fifty.
WOW! Travis, this was perhaps the best gardening interview/video I've ever seen anywhere! What great questions you presented and what a world of information Jim has stored in that brain! Outstanding.
Absolute gold mine of information for being successful at growing potatoes! Thanks for bringing us this interview!
Our pleasure!
Jim is a wealth of Potato knowledge. I learned so much. Can't wait for part 2
This is my favorite interview of all time...seriosly...from any channel ect north2 which his voice knocks me out to sleep...and i have yet to finish his denisovian or neanderthal one after well iver a year.
In middle TN I harvest about 1 lb of new potatoes from each plant stem. If a seed potato has 1 or 2 eyes I plant them 3" apart. Seed potatoes with 3 to 4 eyes I plant them about 6" apart. Seed potatoes with 5 to 6 eyes plant them 8" apart. Our last frost is April 20 and first frost is Nov 1. Our summer weather is 95° to 100° very dry 1" of rain per month June to Sept. Potatoes are a 3 month crop April 1 to June 30 is good, Aug 1 to Oct 30 is better. I use 15-15-15 fertilizer. Too much nitrogen produces very large plants and not many new potatoes.
Great interview. Educational!
the hens egg analogy really helped. aphids being the vector for potato disease was good to know.
I've learned from another potato farmer if you are growing in a back yard food forrest polyculture type situation with lots of flowering species ( making some of your brassicas go to flower attract lots predatory wasps and other bugs that eat soft shelled young bugs like baby potato beetles) you don't have to get that scared if you get hit with potato beetles ...because if you just wait a week or so the prey brings in the predators and you'll see see they disappear....I couldn't believe it myself...they were just gone...also they have done studies where if half of the potato plant gets hit with potato beetle damage it actually increases the nutrition of the potatoes and yields....probably the plants fear its getting eaten so it better hurry and produce.
Great episode. I got my Hoss and wood prairie farm potato seed order already pre ordered.
Another thing from me… Travis you are a great host/ speaker. That’s a skill, not an accident! Great job on your side of the mic.
Thanks Eve! Jim is really easy to interview because he's so knowledgeable. He deserves more credit than myself.
This is GREAT content, Trav! Jim is a wealth of information! Seek out more of these type guests! You did well, Grasshopper! 😉
Thanks Tom!
My nephew stops watrring after blossoms and is always in a hurry to harvest at the first sign of die-back. I'll see if he'll watch you experts, so we can improve the yield.
Thank you!
I can’t believe how much I just learned! It may take awhile to absorb all this but I’m so grateful that I had this to listen to! What a. Wealth of knowledge Jim is!
WOOD PRAIRIE is in Maine. I'm in Connecticut Valley. Wood Prairie seems to be an awesome place to get organic seed potatoes but I would struggle again this year.
Newbe to potato growing. Limited space we have so can't chance it. We had to use buckets to extend our garden for the potatoes we grew last year. Heartbreaking for me. Dirt and compost can be used again. Few potatoes though.
Excellent!! Aphid excluding ? Have to look that up thx Travis interesting info.
Very interesting Mr. Travis. Now if I can remember all this, would be nice. 😂
Well, not sure how I'm going to chit at 75 in the dark (that part I got)... but then lower the temp to 50-55 with the lights on... it's Florida, wish I could see 50-55 in February. Maybe at daylight for 30 seconds... :)
Yeah I haven't figured out how I am going to do that either, but I'll try to get close.
Thank God there are folks like this in the world or else We'd all starve 😅
I've only been a sub for less than a month, so I just now saw this video. What an education! I began attempting to grow potatoes two years ago. First year, I used a few old seed potatoes, second year I experimented with organic store-bought potatoes that had sprouted, and both years, I got very whimpy results. This year, I decided to start with fresh seed potatoes but the results have yet to be revealed.
The plethora of wisdom I learned from the first five minutes of this video not only made a lot of sense, but explained why I haven't been very successful.
I'm going to have to listen to this man at least two or three times, just to process everything he's teaching us. And I am DEFINITELY ordering my seed potatoes from this guy, for next year.
I just missed the window for fall planting, but you can be sure that next year, I'll be planting spring and fall potato crops.
Thank you so much for introducing us, and for doing this interview. The week be so many more of us little guys with successful potato yields with these amazing tips.
Glad you enjoyed it!
For mystery story fans: Ruth Stout is sister of Rex Stout, author of Nero Wolfe mysteries.
Wow. That’s interesting. Loved reading Nero Wolfe as a boy. Love learning from Ruth Stout as a man.
Hey Travis, Todays show was awesome. I so enjoyed the content! Looking forward to part 2. Now, you may have to keep reminding us of some of the great tips! There was a lot! Please express my gratitude to Jim.
Loved the interview exploring the intricacies of the life cycle of potatoes and how man learned to utilize the natural tendencies of this wonderful food source to further maximize it's productivity. Mr Gerritsen sure knows his stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I laid seed potatoes on top of soil and covered with 4" of wood chips and they did great here in south-central Indiana last season
Thank you, that was so informative. My summer (Australia) potatoes are dying off as we speak. Now I know to wait until they are fully spent before harvesting 👍🏼🥔
This is my second year of venturing into growing food and so far I’ve been blessed with a good amount of backyard groceries grown on very little knowledge and no experience.
I’m pretty sure it was Jess Sowards who said, “Start now right where you are at.” I did and I’m loving it 🪴☀
Wow, my knowledge of growing taters just grew exponentially!! My mind is blown by Jim's depth of knowledge and wisdom. Great questions Travis!
My question for Jim would be, after you cut up your potatoes into half egg size, is it necessary to let the pieces rest (heal) a few days before planting?
I personally have always just cut and planted same day. But curious to know his thoughts
Great video Travis! Best gardening channel out there!
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I’m sure it must be covered in planting instructions, but I always let them dry after a cut to prevent fungus entering the cut. Looking forward to hearing growers answer.
That is a good question that we didn't cover on the interview. But I've always let mine heal as well.
I'd let it heal and seal over so you don't get rott.
FYI, Ruth Stout method uses old hay, not straw.
Excellent! BUT!! Warning for those looking to use the Ruth Straw method... you need to find organic straw. Know the source of your straw... because I ruined a 30' x 4' bed mulching with a straw sprayed with a broad spectrum weed killer. It's become more and more prevalent. I was an avaid strawbale gardener (It's where you condition the bales with fertilizer and wait for decomposition to start and plant directly into the strawbale). I was very successful and brought in HUGE yields until this spraying became so popular that I can no longer source reliable strawbales. It's taken 4 full years of remediation attempts and now we've decide this year to scrape it all up and use it as fill dirt in some holes our dog dug up. We're seeing this in manure products as well. Cows and horses are eating sprayed hay and it's transfering the poison into their manure. It's inspiring me to get started on a rabbitary (a little earlier than planned) where I have more control over my organic manures. God Bless. 🙏💚
Holy cow! What a great interview! And about potatoes no less. So informative and this is just part one!
Thank you sir !
Great stuff Travis. Will try warming the taters up then storing them in the cool once sprouted and before planting. Just ordered mine from Wood Prairie and used your code. They are going to be here in Rio Rancho NM 3rd week of Feb. Thank You Sir again great stuff.
I picked out caribe and prairie blush to plant this year. Both are early or mid early varieties.
I absolutely love the video. I learned a lot I didn’t know about growing potatoes. Which isn’t much apparently. But there’s one I do know. The horned frogs are going take care of business come Monday. Gonna turn them dawgs into mashed potatoes.
Rah Rah TCU!!!
Rah Rah TCU!!!
Can't wait!
@@LazyDogFarm Really, that’s it? No fun. 👎🤮🐸🐸🐸
I love the science with this interview, this is so helpful.
GREAT video! We’re gonna watch this over again and take notes! Really enjoyed the discussion with Jim.
One thing useful, I got from what he said, concerns specifically harvesting a few hills of potatoes at a certain stage after blooming before full maturity in order to get the best seed potatoes for the next crop. Instead of waiting til full maturity and just using the small ones. That might make a big difference in yields.
This info is golden. One of your best, if not the best, show you have done. Next level stuff. Much appreciated.
Thanks Rusty!
Taking notes for a blog post summary on this. I've been gardening for 20 + years and the ONE thing I've never been able to really get deep dive info on is growing potatoes. This is WILDLY helpful! Thank you!
Great video, I really appreciate growing videos that explain principles to vegetable crop production. It allows me to get maximum yields in my small garden. Thank you for taking the time to provide the videos.
Travis, Outstanding part 1 !! Thank you
American here. I have heard “chitting” from other Americans WAY more than “greensprouting.” I didn’t even know the terms were synonyms. That’s how little I hear people say greensprouting.
Yeah I've heard chitting way more than greensprouting too.
I am looking forward to planting potatoes this year. I may have missed it but I didn’t hear how far apart it is recommended to plant the seed potatoes. I will either be planting in a raised bed or in approx. 27 gallon tubs. (Too old to fight Texas red clay 😣) My other question is when I plant in the tub and hill the plants will I be making potatoes all the way up the plant or just in the bottom 6-10 inches of soil the seed potato was planted in? I am in zone 8A. You and your family have a Blessed week Travis.
We usually plant our potato pieces about 8" apart. But you can plant them 1' apart too.
Great info thank you!
so much incredible information!
So very informative. He did not get too technical - it was fascinating. Thank you both. I'm looking forward to the next video.
I have hell growing good potatoes in south Texas….
Great interview, thank you!
Great interview. Thanks, Travis, very helpful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! So much info! Thank you for sharing
Thank you Jim and Travis for the excellent information. The temp of the ground was interesting. Down here in the panhandle of FL it can be cool, hot and then cool again for several days so that was very helpful & educational on measuring everyday at same time.
Credible! Informative! Thanks.
Amazing amazing wealth of information! In writing out down to use this year. So so grateful for the wise and generous people that share their knowledge with us!❤️
Thanks!!! VERY informative!! Can't wait to watch Part 2
Good to hear from the pros.
Wowzers, so much GOOD stuff!
Great video learned a lot
Much more nuanced than I ever thought! Thank you for putting this information out for us.
You bet!
That was fascinating
Great info from a grower!
Thank you Travis for a very informative video, looking forward to part two. God Bless
That was interesting part 1 story from Jim, thanks Travis😊
I'm going to need to re-watch this in a few weeks to try to understand his sprouting method
It didn't sink in the first time around.
Whew, I thought I was just too distracted. Will re listen for sure.
I have a question on the Ruth Stout method... if she just lays the potatoes on the ground it seems like the roots would have a harder time penetrating the ground under neath... Even though she covers with straw and the ground is kept wet.
I think it works under the assumption that you have some nice, soft, no-till soil underneath the straw. Otherwise you're probably right.
Do the bees and native pollinators like potato blossoms?
For sure!
Dang that’s was some awesome information, thank you
It's definitely one of the most informative videos I've ever seen. Unfortunately ran out of time will watch the rest later. Thank you, Travis
Best and most informative video on growing potatoes I’ve ever seen! Can’t wait to see the second half of the interview.
Awesome information, thanks Trav for doing this interview, learned alot.