TOP Potato Variety for Container Gardening Revealed!

TOP Potato Variety for Container Gardening Revealed!

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Guten gardening everybody, and welcome to potato harvest day! I’m so excited to dig into this container gardening project and see what kind of production from these homegrown potatoes we get. These gardening tips should help you grow your own vegetable garden!

In this potato harvest video, we are growing baltic rose potatoes, one of our all-time favorites, and believe me when I say, they may be the perfect potato to grow in containers. The vast majority of the seed potatoes this harvest comes from are from Wood Prairie Family Farm organic seed potatoes.

Let’s just say, for taste, consistency of production, and overall yield, Baltic rose potatoes have provided us with some of the best results over the past three seasons.

We hope you enjoy this potato harvest video!

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Ooh. Okay. That’s nice. That’s really nice. You watch those archaeologists get in there with their brushes and they’re just sweeping away. So, I’m I’m the potato archaeologist today. Guten Gardening, everybody. Well, this spot behind me, year after year after year, has been an incredibly productive spot for us, especially for potatoes. And what we have here is two 50gallon drums. These are food safe plastic that have been cut in half long ways and set side by side connected together with some bolts so that they don’t roll over. And we’ve been growing so much food in here. Today we’re going to be harvesting some awesome potatoes. Or at least I think they’re going to be really awesome because the variety that I planted in here is Baltic Rose. One of our best producers. We had some Baltic rose seed potatoes from Woodpra Family Farm. And we also had some that we saved from last year’s harvest that we planted in here. And I am so excited to see how well they fared this season. All right, we’re going to go ahead. We’ll talk about the potatoes. We’ll talk about it as we get into this harvest. But we’re going to go ahead and get started with our first half of a 50-gallon drum. Now, in most of my potato harvest videos in recent years, I’ve talked about how we always find a walnut in here. But this season, and I’m just going to say it, I think the thing that I’ve talked about the most is that there are so many mosquitoes this season. So many out here. And so, I’ve just been getting eaten alive. Even today, you see, I’m uncovering I’m uncovering some potatoes in here. You know what time it is? It’s time to get up nice and close so you can see as I uncover this harvest. Look at it’s just sort of wiping away the top layer here. I think what I’m going to do actually is I’m going to pull this particular plant up. We may not do it that way with all of them. Let’s see if we can loosen it up and see what’s attached. Oh, I can already see one of them that came off. Look at that beauty. All right, here we go. Let’s pull it up. Pull it out. Shake it off. Wow. You couldn’t see half of them, but there’s a whole bunch. A whole bunch. Now, this is one of the reasons why we love our Baltic rose potatoes because they have a great great yield. That’s what we’ve noticed so far with with growing them. Great yield, great productivity, and nice consistent tubers, and beautiful size here. All right. Well, I didn’t get you too close for that first one. So, I’m definitely going to get you closer to pull out these. Again, you can see there’s another weed in here, but you see the stinging nettle, which a lot of people use, but I don’t want it all over my hands. Oh, look, look, look. There’s another one right there. All right. So, I’m going to push this right off to the side. Get you a little bit closer for our next plant. Now, as far as containers go, this plastic is super thick plastic. This was originally used to hold vinegar. We actually got this. I I went on Craigslist and at the time I went on Craigslist, the person selling these was selling them for $5 a piece. So, I bought a couple of them. I actually bought a couple white ones, too. I’m going to uncover what’s underneath here. I bought a couple of white ones as well. And we wrapped those white ones. Oo, we wrapped them in black plastic to keep some of the warmth in there. Look at that. whole bunches. Now, this plant in particular actually looks like it died back a little bit before. The other one had some life in it, but one of the reasons I’m harvesting these have been in the ground for about 100 days, a little bit over a 100 days, actually. Some of the plants still have life. Some of them died back a little bit earlier, you know. So, I wanted to get in here. Tell you what, I planted five potato seed potatoes in in each of our beds. As far as I can tell, in each of these containers, all five showed up in all of them. So, we’re looking at about 20 plants, and this is two out of the 20 plants. So, when I talk about yield, I talk about a good variety. That’s one of the reasons why we like why we like this so much. Right below the surface. So, at a maximum depth, we’re probably looking at about 11 in. But I plant these up to the side. And so, really only the potato that’s in the very center gets the full, you know, full depth. And still we get really great production out of here. So, they still produce Well, that that’s not going to work when you pull the potatoes off there. They still produce really well with this limited depth of this container. So, growing potatoes in containers, not going to be a problem, as we have discovered in recent years, not going to be a problem. There we go. There’s some more. And as I think I’ve made it pretty clear, if you’ve watched some of my other harvest videos, I’ve talked about this a little bit, but one of the benefits, look at I just shake them all off there. Oh, I was tilted down too low for you to see as I pulled that one up. Look at all of these. But I’ve made it pretty clear. I think that when you when you do container gardening, especially for a root crop like potatoes, if you can call it a root crop, these ones that you typically have to dig into the ground because you have so much control. There it is. Well, we got a walnut anyway. How about that? But because you have so much control over the mixture, I mean, it really really creates an ease of harvesting. Absolutely creates an ease when it comes to harvesting. So, I can get in here with just my hands. Makes it super easy to move around. Look at this. I can just work all of this mix. And I think that’s a really nice additional benefit to growing in containers. Look at those. Look at those. All right, let’s get this last plant out of our first bin. Again, some plants still had life. Some plants are dead. This plant is actually the most shade or this, I should say, this this part of the container is the most shaded. So, out of all of the four that we’re going to be harvesting out of today, this is the one that is right underneath our sour cherry tree. So, we’ll see if the others produce as well or better. All right. Well, I can tell you if I’m going to get this kind of productivity though, I’m going to be very, very happy. Now, it doesn’t do me any good just to talk about it. I really want to show you so you can understand the color of the flesh. of these Baltic rose potatoes because it is this shockingly shockingly bright yellowish color that is really unlike just about any other potato we’ve grown. It’s absolutely stunning. And flavor-wise, it’s got like a a nuttier kind of flavor to it, I think. As we move into our second container as I pull off every single potato, you can see some of my sweet potatoes from our containers are moving over into into the shot here. It’s all right. We’re not ready to harvest our sweet potatoes yet, but we’re going to get there. Now, last season, I did a video where I harvested these Baltic rose potatoes. Wow, those are that’s a beautiful one. And thank you, Mr. worm for all that you do. I harvested these Baltic grows right alongside some Sharpo mirror potatoes, the the first of the Sharpo varieties that we got access to from Wood Prairie Family Farm. And I I grew both of those together because they were both super productive varieties and they did not at all disappoint. So I had a lot of the Baltic rose. had a lot of the sharpom mira to eat this season. Look, it’s another worm. I tell you what, there’s plenty of worms in here. I appreciate that. Both of them really produced well. And now we’re back, you know, with the Baltic rose. When you find a variety of potato that you love, you keep that variety and you keep growing that variety. Absolutely. You know, find a variety you like the taste of. Find a variety you like the texture of. Find a variety that’s going to be a really good producer, especially if you don’t have a ton of room. And we probably allocate more, take a look at that. We probably allocate more space to potatoes than most small space gardeners. That would be my guess. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but even so, we don’t have an unlimited amount of space. about 0.13 acres total on our entire property. And so we’re always going to be trying to grow potato varieties. I mean, of course experimenting around trying new ones, but we’re always going to be trying to grow potato varieties that are as productive as possible. So once we found these Baltic rose potatoes, once we got those growing on our property, once we saw just how good they were, just how productive they were, we had to keep going. We had to keep growing this same variety. All right, there we go. And it’s a versatile potato in my opinion. Goes, it can be cooked in a lot of different ways, a lot of different preparations that work really well. And I suppose that in and of itself is kind of an interesting thought process as you decide, you know, what what ways, what means of preparation you like for your potatoes. How do you prefer to prepare your potatoes? Do you want a a waxier? Do you want a a more I guess you could say starchy or or mealy mealy potato? What is your preference? And then you make your decisions as to what you grow based on that. I like potatoes of all shapes and sizes. I I don’t mind if my potatoes aren’t as consistent in terms of shape. That doesn’t bother me. I know that does bother some people, but I do like when I get potatoes with strong yield. All right, here’s another I I could just feel the size of these. Okay, see the consistency? Let me pull a couple of them in here. Consistency of size. To me, seeing that many potatoes that size off one plant, that’s a rationale for for getting a hold of this particular type of potato. And I can also tell you, and I think maybe this is pretty important, the organic seed potatoes, getting high quality seed potatoes is an essential part of this growing process. And as I said, most of our potatoes here, most of the seed potatoes, I think except for maybe two, came from Woodpra Family Farm. The rest were potatoes that we harvested last season that came from originally Wood Prairie Family Farm stock, if you can call it that. Oh, all right. Let’s move over. Oop, what am I uncovering right here? What is this? Oh, I know. Another beautiful potato. And there’s another one, too. I almost missed it. I would say max depth right now for these potatoes probably about five, six inches most of them. I’ve seen one or two a little bit deeper in here. Again, not not hard at all to move my hands through here and pull everything out. Now, I suppose you could argue about how many potatoes we put in here. As I mentioned, we put five. We go one, two, three, four, five. We put five seed potatoes in here. I think there’s plenty of space for that, especially given the year overyear yields that we’ve been getting as we’ve been growing in these containers now for about a half a dozen years. So, I think that our our spacing is just fine. I don’t think we’re over Oh, look. Look. Oh, I didn’t mean to disturb you, buddy. Man, so many worms in here. Love it. Good sign. Good healthy soil. The mosquitoes that are eating me, I don’t love so much. But I would say that given our yield, I would say we have plenty of room for those five seed potatoes. We’re getting plenty of productivity. We have grown purple magic molly potatoes in here. I think we even grew Yukon Gold. Don’t quote me on that one. I don’t want to mess that one up. I think we grew Yukon Gold in here one year. They did well. Boy, the vibrations of my hands. I’ve never seen this many worms disturbed as I’m harvesting potatoes. I don’t really love disturbing the worms, but I love disturbing the potatoes. Uh, but we’ve harvested carrots out of here. We’ve grown so much and it doesn’t take up a lot of space. Oo. Okay, that’s nice. That’s really nice. It doesn’t take up a lot of space to grow a large amount of produce using these containers. And one of the nice things about these, they’re not that heavy. I mean, they’re heavy duty, but they’re not that heavy. They’re easy to find a spot, a place. Oh, there’s another walnut. A place to place them or to put them. That’s not so difficult. There we go. And then once you found a spot, if you need to move it, you can. I actually think this second one was a little bit more productive. So, we’ll see what that means for the third here. Now, this one definitely had a little bit more of a struggle with weeds than the first two, but let’s get in here. Well, I just did a bite count, if that’s a thing. I just did a bite count and I’m up to 12 bites on both both my arms and I’m fighting. I’m fighting these mosquitoes. I’ve I’ve claimed about four or five of them so far that won’t bite again. But given the billions that are out there, I mean, maybe I’m not really doing much to do my part in this in this fight. All right, let’s get down in here. All right, I’m going to bring you over. Be honest. I hope you don’t get tired of me mentioning some of this, but one of the joys of growing potatoes, probably the greatest joy besides eating them is the the harvest itself. And I really love being able to show or share that harvest with all of you. And so getting you right down there like that firsterson kind of point of view so that you can see what I’m what I’m seeing as I’m seeing it. To me, that’s just a little bit extra special is I’m sharing I’m sharing my growing with you from my garden. I’m sharing this my favorite time of year with you where I’m harvesting potatoes. I’m harvesting sweet potatoes. Just such a wonderful time. And I should mention something else, too. And I maybe, especially if you’ve watched a lot of my potato harvest content before, one of the great benefits of growing in these plastic containers, I’ve drilled some holes in the bottom of them. I can’t show you that. That’ be a little bit difficult. Drilled some holes in the bottom, but we have never had bowl damage. We’ve never had bowls get in here and really attack our potatoes up to this day anyway. And so to me, that’s an additional benefit of growing in this type of container. It it just, you know, you can have some some moments of devastation when you see the vos come out, the vos attack and get some little critter damage, but not losing a whole bunch of potatoes. That is that is wonderful. Again, you you’re looking at nearly a hundred a little bit actually in this case a little bit over a 100red days of growth. And so when that’s the case, you do not want to lose that 100 days worth of time. You do not want to lose that harvest. No matter what these critters want, you want to be able to keep as much as possible. Bring inside to store. Now, this particular variety of potato has a pretty good storage life. Look at him. Look at him right there. You see him? That one is never going to bite anybody ever again. But it didn’t feel good. So, these have a pretty good storage life. That’s what we found in this particular variety. That’s important for us. You know, if I’m growing this many potatoes, I do not have a seller, so I cannot unfortunately store in any kind of cellar in my basement, but I want varieties that are going to last a little bit longer. or at least I need to know how long they’re going to last in their, you know, dormant state so that I can eat them in the order they need to be eaten. As I’m uncovering this, you watch those archaeologists get in there with their brushes and they’re just sweeping away. So, I’m I’m the potato archaeologist today. Sweeping in there, getting some of this this soil out of the way. And what I’m going to do, get underneath here. Keep it all. Oh, I was going to say keep it all attached. Well, I’m not going to keep it all attached, but I’m going to go ahead and pull this plant up. Oh, it’s big. Oh. Oh, it’s nice. Oh, wow. Yeah, it’s really nice. Probably the most misshapen of all of the Baltic rows so far and still not all that misshapen. But let’s see what else is down here. Look at this one attached to say five potatoes there. One. Yeah, five potatoes in one. Look at all those. Yeah, that plant that plant knows how to produce. Look at those babies. This is beautiful. All of these from that plant. And oh, there’s another one. Here’s another one. All right, let’s get a little bit of audience input in here as I pull out the rest of that plant. Looks like this was attached to the the rest of that plant as well. What is it? Trying to get these two together. What variety rather is it that has produced the best for you? Like the the greatest return on investment, the greatest yield based on how much you planted. What variety is that for you? you know, your maybe your favorite variety to grow. And I’m not talking about taste necessarily, although that’s probably a part of it. I’m talking about yield right now. Which variety would you say has had the greatest yield for you from what you’ve planted in the past? That’s something I want to know about. Whoa. Yeah, because All right, here’s what we’ve gotten so far from this container. because maybe it’s a variety I haven’t tried before. Maybe it’s one that I can get my hands on and give it a try. So, you know, can I replicate this with something other than the Sharpomas? Maybe the Sharpo unas. We’re going to see how the Sharpo unas do. That’s the second variety of Sharpo potato that we’re growing from Wood Prairie Family Farm. So, we’re going to see how well they perform for us. Don’t want to miss you how well they perform for us. We’ll go from there. All right, we got one, two, and now three. Do you see what I’m saying when I say consistency, consistency, consistency with regard to size, etc. This is a pretty quick harvest. I mean, you’re basically seeing this in terms of real time length. again, partly because of how easy it is to get in here and harvest everything, work my hands through here, but it’s also such an incredibly enjoyable harvest. Hey, and this is a gentle reminder. If you’re interested in getting some seed potatoes from Woodpra Family Farm, we do have a link in the description of this video and you’ll use code guten at checkout to get 5% off your order. And remember that Woodra Family Farms will take an order and then ship out at the appropriate time for your grow zone. So, keep that in mind as we head into our last of these bins. Watch this. Watch this. That’s all right. That’s all right. We’re going to have plenty. A garden of plenty. Man, just I can feel the potatoes underneath here. I know that these potatoes that I’m feeling over here are attached to that plant. The ones I pulled out of there looking great, man. It’s just so so enjoyable. For those of you who have never grown potatoes, look, I realize you can buy potatoes at the store. Although you are variety limited for sure when you buy it at the store. I know you can probably buy them at a farmers market or what have you. There is nothing that can replace the experience. This is as close to replacing it as you get being there with me, but there’s nothing that can replace the experience of growing and then harvesting your own potatoes. This much, I promise. Let’s have fun with this. Let’s see what we got. Let’s see what we got. Yeah, I’m just shaking them right off of the plant. Got a couple small ones on here. Yeah, look. Look what I just Look what we just grew. Look at these beauties. I’ll always remember the time somebody commented on my video. You keep saying look at this. Look at this. We are looking. Well, look at that. Popping through. This is going to be a phenomenal harvest. I tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to weigh each of our bins. See how each one did. And then we’ll do a total weight for this. Now, the most we’ve ever gotten out of here out of these four bins, to my knowledge, was 40 lb. And that 40 lbs came in the form of our purple magic Molly potatoes. It was also the first time that we had grown potatoes in here. So, I don’t know if this will get there, but we’re going to find out. We’re going to find out how close we got cuz I can tell you right now, we got a good bit of weight coming off of here. By the way, this area of our garden is really close to the very back of our property. And it’s actually one of the harder areas to access. And so, other than trying to water a little bit, and we haven’t had to do too much watering this season because we’ve had rain at the right time, but other than that, I haven’t really been able to get back here too much or too easily in order to care for these potatoes. So they have done this work other than you know taking care of the soil making sure there was a good fertile soil they’ve done this work on their own. It’s a good variety apparently if that is your case if that is your your situation where you may not have either not have access too easily or may not have as much time as long as it you know gets good watering when it’s supposed to. Maybe this is a good variety for you. as well. All right, we are down, I think, here to our last two plants. Now, my tomatoes cascaded over. I’ve got sweet potato, tomato, everything kind of cascading over this corner. So, we should try to try try to reach around that, see if anything. I think this one particular plant may have been shaded out a little bit by that. But I still think overall yield. Oh, look at that big worm. Hey, buddy. I do not mind celebrating the worms in here one bit. All right, this will be the last plant. Shake it off. Last potato plant of this harvest. Some beauties. Getting sun’s pretty important for our potatoes. So, making sure they get adequate sun make sure that they also see really good development. One of the things we found is if there not enough sun, they get shaded out, they tend to die back a little bit faster, don’t produce as much. So, we don’t like that to happen so much. But still, Oops. Still got a really good number out of here. All right, let’s take a look at everything we got out of the fourth bin. Well, there’s where we ended up with for number four. A great bit of production as well. So, I’m going to walk the line here. Walk the whole way back. And what I need to do now is find the scale. And one of my free icing buckets that I use to grow all kinds of things in. That’s what we’re going to use. And we’re going to do the weight in pounds. So, I hook up one of my buckets. which weighs 1.44 lbs. And we’ll tear that out. And now, let’s load up a bucket. I think the way I’m going to do it, I don’t think I have enough room in this bucket for all four. So, I’m just going to go ahead and load up one at a time, get a weight, and then empty these out into a different container. So, we’ll get the weight of each one. This needs to be eaten, but we’ll get the weight of each of these. So maybe I can do it all. Well, we’ll see. Anyway, let’s see what the weight of the first one is. Bucket number one coming in at 7.99 lb. All right. 7.99. All right. Container number two. Just as I suspected, a little bit bigger. 9 Oh, the wind is blowing. Can’t get it to settle. I’m going to go with 9.79 lbs because that’s where I see it sitting a lot. Bucket number three. Oh, it’s our biggest one so far. That’s exactly what I thought. Come on, hold a weight. It’s hard to do with one hand. I’m going to go with 10.94 cuz I see that I see a little bit higher, but 10.94 lbs. And last but not least, oh, heavier than I thought. Let’s go with 10 35. 10.35. So, I put the other potatoes into bags. And what I want to do just to try to get a little No, it’s not going to happen. There’s just too many of them. Well, let’s do the math and see what we ended up with. Now, if I did the math correctly, we’re just over 39 lbs of potatoes in this small space. Really delicious, really goodized potatoes. I am thrilled. That means it’s the second biggest harvest to come out of here. We were just over 40 lbs with the purple magic molly potatoes. So, we’re super close here. That’s a lot of food to come out of this spot in the garden. and I’m super excited to try it out. Hey, I hope you enjoyed today’s potato harvest, today’s massive potato harvest video. If you did enjoy today’s video, don’t forget to give us a like, leave us a comment, remember to share and subscribe, and most importantly, remember, when you’re with us, you are good to Bro.