After a very weird season of growing potatoes, we take a look at how the potatoes did, Did I get my prediction about how my potato harvest will do? What about the results and what can we learn?
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Interesting video. I have not done anything this year and I cannot remember why but now glad I didn't, but I will probably do some prep for Bucket Potatoes for next year.
The compost in the buckets containing the blighted potatoes, what do you do with it. Discard or something else.
I've seen many, many channels cover potatoes. This channel is the BEST channel on Youtube for showing how to grow potatoes. It's really top notch content and ideas.
Looks to me like some varieties prefer peat compost, and others don’t care. Also saving your own seed potatoes is growing plants used to conditions in your garden. I had a rough potato season in SW Missouri, USA this year myself. Went from abnormally cool and wet to hot and dry almost overnight.
even for a bad year your harvest was still decent, a testament to you!
This was my third year trying to grow in bags or buckets and tdespite green shoots as usual, this third year, I had no edible potatoes at all in all my buckets.
Where would you buy your coconut coir from Tony ?
I bought mine on Amazon in 5kg compressed blocks which will expand to around 10o liters and I have purchased 250kg of it
What is the best compost brand to grow potatoes in; if you haven’t got any garden compost? Just bought the buckets many thanks for the discount code 😊
How strange, I used peat free compost and had amazing results, but your trial did seem to show the peat free was alot worse, shame when you've invested all that time , but also very interesting how your self saved seed did better aswell , thank you for the bucket code fantastic saving I've purchased them for next year as I plan to grow masses of potato's two new variety I tried this year that did so well , so I shall be growing 10 buckets of each and then 10 buckets of salad potatoes , I'm hooked on growing potatoes
Great vid, I had about 4 buckets with around 4/5 rotten potatoes in. They were harvested after the heat. I got the 18kg out of the ground fromm 11 seeds
Looks like you growing medium has very high moisture content.
Same up here in Alaska. Very poor potato harvest this year. We have barely 90 days of decent growing weather and this year no rain for the first 2 months of that. My main crop potatoes look like new early potatoes.
Here's to next year. 😊
Your prediction was right Tony and I agree the peat free stuff has not done much for me either this year. Though I am a newbie and grow in containers only. What feed do you normally give your potatoes? A great video and have a lovely day.
I got a suggestion. Just plant your seed potatoes in your compost bins lol.
ha, sorry about the poor harvest
Excellent lessons you taught us. Thanks for taking us along for the big reveal!
Just a simple observation Tony, I spotted you tie the plant labels to the handles – I've had problems with cats/squirrels/rats digging in my buckets and pulling the labels out – It's an easy change so I'll defo implement that for next season – nice1
Just remember Coco Coir is an inert medium and will also need ph adjusted so when you mix it with your normal compost etc you will need to feed more often.
Why do you use plastic buckets instead of fabric grow pots?
Tony where can I find the code for discount on the pots I want to try thanks
Great video Tony, yes I tried 10 gallon grow bags this year. It was a terrible harvest 🤪. 8 grow bags and 3lbs of potatoes. Thanks again 👍👍
Well done Tony, yeah the first ones (Rudolph) you brought weren’t productive at all, perhaps try to keep a few for seed and trial a few pots next time to see if there’s any improvement and will let you know if it’s weather, soil or seed quality or even undesirable variety.
Liked the Condor and the Charlotte had a reasonable harvest, size in Condor but volume of the Charlotte.
Why do you have so much oilseed growing in the bucket's,????
I think alot of people have had bad harvests this year.
The Rudolf I grew did well but they have brown marks in the middles which will most likely rot. Maybe the hot weather didn’t help, check your middles before storing
Hi I am looking to put a veg area in our grounds of a care home want to plant potatoes which would be best in ground or pots plus to try and keep us going how many would we need to feed about 18 people thanks
I never thought I'd disagree with you, but I never use peat. I actually really hate it. I watched a video – I thought it was yours, but I guess not – that did a comparison of various growing media for potatoes and what came out best was leaf meal! The host was pretty shocked. I use a compost that's heavy on leaves, leaf meal and instead of peat, coir. When we get hit with hot, dry weather, the coir doesn't become hydrophobic like peat does. This year I bought ornamental plants that had been grown in peat and they struggled like I've never had to deal with before. I've vowed to rinse all the soil off of store-bought plants in the future. Additionally – and I feel bad mentioning it – but those unseasonably hot seasons we're getting are based, in part, on the devastation of our peat bogs – being one the main carbon sinks on the planet. Guilt about that is how I ended using coir, and I get along well with it and feel that it's best, despite the transport involved in getting it. Love and appreciate your videos.
This year in my tubs I have used BQ compost.. I've not had a single courgette at all ,My rhubarb died, and no brassicas at all either. Don't get me wrong They all started but some mushroom/toadstool sprung up and once that occurred everything keeled over.
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What do you do with the spent compost?
Sorry to see you had a poor harvest. I understand the UK is making it tough to get peat for gardening. You might try leaf mulch based compost with leaves for mulching in the growing season. It’s what I’ve been using in poor sandy soil, and it seems to be working pretty well. I think leaves, peat, and wood chips are all great for growing potatoes. Just keep the wood chips on the surface of the soil if you use them, or they sequester the nitrogen. Leaves break down fast, especially when you run them through a lawnmower on the mulch setting.
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Nevertheless you've been harvesting some really big ones 👍 This year I've been growing my potatoes 🥔 in homemade compost and the harvest was much better than in other years. So you're right Tony. Greetings Heidi 👩🌾🌼
Are those brassica in with the potatoes??
I planted Sarpo potatoes this year since I got blight last year which ruined about 75% of my crop. Although only blight on one potato and a mediocre late crop with a mixture of small and large potatoes. I found a high percentage of knobbly potatoes – potatoes with multiple 'bumps' – bumps still edible but will produce strange shaped chips!! – but what causes this?
What would you suggest for long storage potato?