Potatoes 2012 Planting to Harvest
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2012
- 2012 potatoes, due to the very wet summer and potato blight it was the worst year for yield in over 20 years I have been growing potatoes...maybe next year will be better..can't be much worse lol.
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yield may differ year after year, but the patience you show for this video from sowing to harvesting shows your interest in this field. Even with poor harvest you uploaded this video... hats off to you
I just cant believe how they have access to just such a large variety of fruits , trees and plants. Feels like they live in paradise. Fresh produce right on their door step , surrounded by nature and enjoyed together in a close knit family and community! All the money in the world cant buy what they have.
Thanks for showing the entire seasons progress & problems. It was very educational for me. Also, this video is strangely encouraging. Though, it was a bad season, you got more than many of us, beginner gardeners, will, I'd wager!
Nice, thank you for making this planting to harvest video. It was awesome!!! The different seasons you shoot for this and the patience of uploading the whole video. Great work!!!
+Nuvali Homes Thanks for watching...glad you enjoyed it
hey you know what ? that was really , really , interesting i will never look at a potatoes the same way ever again , ,,,, thankyou
I like the fact that you are showing us what to do. instead if yapping at the camera expecting dull people like me to understand what you mean. I need to be shown. not told what to do. I did plant mine today. the first time ever. I dont know anybody that grows potatoes either. ive done it wrong I see that now. I will try and fix it tomorrow.
wattamutt I grew potatoes for many years. First i didn't have a clue but I improved every year & had fun making mistakes
I thought of posting a comment that’s inline with this. Action speaking louder than words. Big ups!
Love this video, just fell awful about the potato blight. Of course it happens from time to time.
Thank you for sharing:)
This is enjoyable! I just can't stop watching this video
Nice clear video with everything included. Thanks
I was checking how to plant potatoes and this is the 1st video i landed on. Thank you very much for sharing this. I hope you got better harvests later.
Thanks for watching ....Last years harvest was a good one,looks like the stored potatoes will see me through to when I start digging this years crop,that's gardening,good years and bad years
Love that Dibble you made! Very cool
At least you were honest enough to admit that it was a poor yield. A very nice video though, got to see the whole plant life cycle. Thank you for sharing!!
AMAZING!!! LLLOVED IT!!! WELL DONE!!! THANKS FOR SHARING.
Thank you sir for your good potato harvest teaching.
i bought my first place last October. i am 42 and havnt had a garden since i was a child, this year i will have one a 1/4 acre in size. you grew potatoes as i have pictured in my head. great looking crop, good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks....and good luck with your new garden.
did you get gardner yet
i have learnt more from you, i want to start and like you i hope i will never give up. Thanks.
Great video, lots of work to be done how ro grow potatoes, amazing!!! thanks for sharing 👍
Great looking soil, i would love to have something besides clay. 3* down - hard pan! I have been building raised beds and wheeling dirt up from around the creek. Your tatos looked great till that wind- i understand,and it is hard to watch them get flattened when they are so healthy. At least you got enough for awhile. Thanks for sharing. blessings
I am watching your video for the first time and i dont consider it a failure. What i love most of all is that you showed what to do rather than the lot of talking which i detest.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Failure stories are usually infinitely more informing than success stories. Thank's for sharing
+Austemagne Because that is the only way you learn.Everyone fails at some point.Bouncing back and to keep going and LEARNING from those failures is the trick>
Thanks for your video. You got the important information across in action, rather than talking about it. All except the pelletized chicken manure, and your response fixed that! You rate a 10!
Many thanks for your comment
beautiful soil and great technique/diligence
Thank you Mr.Grizzly9871 for teaching potatoes harvest procedure. Thank you so much Mr.Grizzly sir.
This is my first year as an allotment owner and have only ever seen the trench and happing up method that my dad always used but I am certainly going to give your method a go! Thanks found this really useful :)
***** That's what they call community garden plots in England and perhaps other places. There are many people on youtube with garden allotments. You should check them out if you like gardening video's. I will name a few off the one's I know off hand; Rickvanman, Thehortchannel and Aaron's allotment. There are many good one's. Janice
Thanks...My soil has had manure and organic material added every year for the past 20 years and is better each year,I dug all my potatoes today as they had a touch of blight so I dug them before the blight spores washed down onto the spuds if it does they will rot in storage,the yield was better than last year though.Good luck with your spuds.
Hello
Great video, thanks for sharing. Great just to see how its done instead of being talked at BUT. Could do with a bit more info. depth of potato, spacing, timing for adjusting soil etc. Thanks
...good post! Sorry about the blight at least you still had a few in the end.
Excellent instructions. I am in France and about to go out and strut those tatties!!
Thank you and I am so sorry about your poor crop due to potato blight, what a shame.
Blessings from France May 2017.
Thank you :)
Nice video regarding potatoes cultivation, thanks :)
Great video. I agree with the last comment that being yapped at is not always helpful. I have planted for the first time this year and also done it wrong however I will see what happens and next year will know better. Sorry to see you had blight it is good to see what it looks like though as I would not have had a clue.
I have never seen anybody plant tatters like that your soil looked fantastic about 2014 I had great plants and got nothing
I find if you plant dwarf beans in with the rows of spuds it keeps blight at bay works for me
Wow... !!! My best friend, Great... We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks Have a happy day!
Hi there, this is great information . Thanks
That was very good. Thank you
Better luck next year brother...
Great video and lesson...thank you.
I grew 4 varieties here,Foremost,Vanessa,Kerrs Pink & Cara.......Cara did the best as the top growth lasted a bit longer and the tubers were hardly affected by the blight.
thanks for an awsome video
Still the neatest, cleanest garden I've ever seen.
Thanks....it was a lot of work to get to look like this,keeping on top of the weeds by hand weeding,but now it only takes about an hour a week weeding through the summer now
There's something about growing that is so badass! Those are your potatoes
Over watering results in blight, it destroyed by beautiful tomatoes , may be you over watered it, I love your technique and I am definitely going to try your method , but I am going to install a slow drip tape and monitor the moisture with by moister tester. the pH should be between 5-6 for potatoes (Acid). Very nice video, Thanks and better luck next time.
+Aiden Singh Thanks......I didn't over water them as I didn't water them at all,we are in the bottom of a river valley and the soil is moist enough not to need to water them....if the humidity and temperature conditions are at a certain level and blight spores blow in on the wind,the potatoes will succumb to blight.
I'm getting ready to plant today. I'm in Puerto Rico.
Thanks for the video. I would liked to have heard you talking about what was going on, what you were doing, etc.
Thanks....yeah you have to take the rough with the smooth...hopefully next year will be better.
Thank you for sharing your technique. I'm sorry that you didn't have such a bountiful yield, but something is better than nothing, and you've got all that brown for your compost. If you compost, however.
Cheers!
First time growing potatoes no guides I just use my common sense and it works. It's doing very well!
Great vidio, thanks for the help.😊
+Daniel DiBiaso Glad I could help,and thanks for watching
great video
faith like potatoes is a good movie. everybody should watch it.
Heartbreaking after all that work and expense to loose the crop to potato blight. Being a farmer is not for the faint hearted. Thanks for the video and God bless you.
Thank you....that's the thing working with nature nothing is guaranteed
So nice video friend
This was still a great video
thanks for your instruction from Sri lanka
مرسی از کلیپ زیبا و اموزندتون
Excellent
potato family grows every year!
Great thorought work! I have my first year growing potatoes and beetles eating and stems browning at ground level some fungus going. Can u recommend anything? Txs.
The yield may have been down that year for you. But you had some nice size potatoes. Nice video.
Thanks...the potatoes I had were good :)
Gutted for you, hope you have had better luck since.
+tony elstone I've had some better yields since thanks
Thanks those varieties are worth a try, will keep an eye open for them in the Spring
a wonderful vid, very honest, i could,nt help thinking about the dreaded famine in the mid 19century that killed so many.nice to see you got some spuds after your careful work.
Thanks... we are very lucky not to have to rely on the potato crop for survival nowadays.
It’s weird for me I planted potato’s last year and my yield wasn’t great but I re tilled my field March 1st and found a bunch that grew over the winter like feral potato’s or whatever. I’m gonna do it again in the same spot a raise earth box and some in the tilled ground but idk it’s almost like they grow good in colder weather. I’m thinking there’s timing involved in the process. I’m gonna fertilize organic this year also. Anyway cool video.
This is a great video but would be nice to know a few of those things he added and the width between rows and how deep or high the rows are in the end, and when or do you ever stop hilling them?
Fine looking tators buba! Don't cut yourself so short...
Thanks :)
good jop man....from algeria
Thanks :)
I was showing my 5 yr old, how they grow and harvist poatoes.
Cool vid mr mcgregor :)
I like this
Love it
wow..nice
Thank You! I live in Toronto Canada. Today I ate potatoes and wondered what kind of work it is for people to harvest potatoes. I have looked at a number of different videos that include everything from gardeners to huge farming machines, and, sizes in between. My question as a city dweller is, what kind of food do the people who grow food crops, have the safest, healthiest, most enjoyable time growing?
I can't really pick the safest and most enjoyable to grow,if your crops are grown without the use of chemicals they are all pretty well safe to eat,and anything you enjoy eating is a joy to grow....thanks for watching
I use a mild lime wash spray This has been my 3th. year without blight problems Its not foolproof on every variety as i have been told. I grow Queens as earlies and Kerr pink as main crop about a stone in weight of each Lime wash mix --handful of hydrated lime to a squirt of organic (most windows cleaners use it)washing up liquid and spoonfull of Jeyes fluid to about 3 gallons of tepid water--works for me up to now
+Sean Reilly OK..think I will give that a miss...Jeyes fluid is not really that organic considering what's in it..hydrated lime is also an inorganic compound...but each to their own. PS I grow Foremost as earlies which usually are pretty much dug before blight is too much of a problem,and I have now found Sante is a good blight resistant variety.
Very nice presentation. It's a pity it was a very rainy year, so your harvest is not optimum. I liked the soil: - it looks very soft and well balanced. Do you mend it? Thanks and Regards.
+Corvallito Thanks....the soil has plenty of organic material added each year,and after 25 or so years,the soil has a lovely texture
another question. How often do you cover the tubers? Do you wait until you see leaves then leave them alone.
My toms have escaped the blight...probably the protection the greenhouse gives them...I'd better not talk too soon though, as there is plenty of time for them to be caught yet.
@ - john i heard if u lay soakin wet card board down first then dirt then taters compost manuer n so on or how ever u do it the wet card board keeps the weeds from growing that n tar tape or sumthin like that
well..I planted mine today. I already see what I did wrong. ill be out again tomorrow to try and fix it.
I like the way that tiller works. Looks much easier than my stihl.
my husband was the gardener and died of small cell lung cancer 18 months ago. I am going to try the gardening myself and am encouraged by your patience and time you took to make the video! Very much appreciated, do you do sweet potatoes the same way?
Good luck with your garden,you wont regret keeping it going,don't know if you do sweet potatoes the same way as I have never grown them
Great Video, I was happy to see the potato growing, then my happiness turned to sadness when some of the potatoes died. Then it turned happy again to see the potatoes that made it.
The leaves of the potato plant is very edible, you should harvest them and sell then to the West Africans in your area, they are used for cooking.
Thanks... we haven't got any West Africans in our area,I don't think the leaves would be any good after the blight has got them anyway.
grizzly9871 Please forgive me, I meant the sweet potato leaves. West African use the sweet potato leaves for cooking. Good luck with your next harvest.
Round House Yes, the standard Europe/USA type of potato has poisonous leaves; indeed most of the plant is poisonous raw. It is a member of the Solanum (nightshade) family, as are the sweet pepper and the tomato incidentally. The potato we know in Europe/USA is only very distantly related to the African "sweet potato". The yam is related to neither the potato nor the sweet potato, though it may be found erroneously labelled as a sweet potato, but it's a different species entirely. Note that the tuber (flesh) of our standard Europe/USA potato has to be cooked to be safe to eat, as it contains toxic glycoalkaloids that cooking destroys. The ancestors of our Western "spuds" originated in Peru and Bolivia.
Um, potatoes are part of the nightshade family. Consuming a lot of them could kill you.
It's the green parts that are poisonous
You built up the furrows so high, I'm surprised moisture was an issue, looks like the rain could be channelled out of the garden straight away.
Getting water channeled out of the garden was not the problem,the moisture that is the problem with blight is in the air,high humidity
That was an excellent work,sir.,so sad to see your crops die.
Thank you for your comment
great video! true this has been quite a poor year for some crops
Nice video would of liked to of seen how you hilled the rows enjoyed watching.
Thanks...I used a rake to pull the soil up around the spuds.
Thats a lot of raking to do, I've done that but on a much smaller scale if I get a hiller for the tractor I may expand my potato growing.
Great video! One question: Any tips for what and how to turn the soil with? I don´t have fancy machinery like you :-P
Thanks...If you haven't got any machinery the only way is to dig over by hand with a spade....or hire a rotovator from a hire shop for the weekend,does't cost a lot and saves a lot of hard work.
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Now I know how to grow potatos
Heartbreaking!
great video.
Thanks :)
great vid , would be nice to have a little narration on when you earth up and such :)
Thanks....I'm not one for talking to the camera,you've either got it or not,and I ain't got it,I don't even like talking to an answering machine lol
+grizzly9871 thanks for not talking. every body talks. I need to SEE what to do. not hear it.
Nice
Perfect! Thanks a lot! Just one question, how did you convert it into raised beds?
Thanks...I did it by hand using a rake
Okk........u inspire me....and video you have made is very practical.....good day...
Mine are all chitted when I get them at the hardware store. I grow smaller batches in containers.
lovely dry soil
nice
yep lost me toms as well
I plant them every year some years are good and some are bad it’s all up to Mother Nature the old farmer by me said just dig a Ferrell and put your tatters about a foot apart and cover and every time they get six inches high cover them up he said they are eazy and he is right
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