Zone 6 (Chicago, IL, USA)
Hey there! This is the third year I’ve grown potatoes at home and I while the harvest was small, I am excited that I had a chance to pressure can some of my harvest to enjoy this Winter!
🎥: Fall 2022
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17 Comments
Nice harvest, Happy growing !!!!
I get the frustration…but as you say anything is a plus..especially if you use store bought potatoes its basically free food…so have you settled on one method next year?..or doing both again?
I had the same results with my potatoes grown in grow bags this year. I think I'm going to grow them in one of my raised beds next year, but still have a few in grow bags.
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Po ta toes… i got a taste for baked potato
Potatoes are the most fun thing to grow- it’s like Christmas….. you either get something great, or a lump of coal 🤣 And something is better than nothing in my opinion!!
Abundance and Blessings Batavia!!! 💗
I had wonderful results with the Ruth Stout method this year… and very easy to do!!
I don't much like those grow bags either. When you water them the water just runs out the sides, nothing goes into the soil! I had to bottom water my peppers in them this summer. Left the pots sitting in Rubbermaid tubs and poured water into them, the pots wick it up. Almost killed all my peppers before trying that! 😩
Do you compost with garden leavings?
Hi Ms. B! I know you were expecting much more, however, I think you still received a nice harvest of potatoes. I wish I could get that many. Next year, I'm hoping for the amount you received. 😊instead of 6 small funky potatoes 😄. I just purchase 2 potato grow bags.
Thanks for sharing!👍😊
I can understand the frustration, and thanks for sharing. I appreciate you trying different size grow bags to see if that makes a difference. Have you thought of using grow bags designed for potatoes? I always wonder if it will make a difference.
Oh, that is so exciting, isn't it?
How did you happen to have a volunteer potato? Did it sit all through last winter in your garden? How wonderfully cool, if that can be done!
We just harvested potatoes this past Sunday (two days ago) because the plants signaled they are done and anyway we've had some stiff frost.
I did so many things wrong (not that I didn't know better even though I've never grown potatoes before), I'm amazed we got any harvest at all and I'm always absurdly, ridiculously thrilled when anything I haven't grown before a) germinates; b) grows; c) looks like its photographs; and d) tastes the way it's supposed to taste.
First, I bought this box of seed potatoes at the garden center on a whim because this variety was at the checkout, on clearance.
It was already sort of late in the season for a potato variety that wants 85 to 100 growing days, but if I'd been prompt they might have done better.
Then they didn't get planted right away.
Finally something had to be done with them, and the needed bed wasn't prepared, so as a stop-gap measure I lined a square Sterlite brand laundry basket with a heavy black plastic bag and filled that with a decent vegetable potting mix.
Shoved the six little potatoes in there, thinking I'd be able to get back to them in a timely fashion and that during the interim I'd get the bed ready to receive them as transplants.
Life interfered.
Compromise? Maybe just dig a hole and drop the whole laundry basket full of soil and potato plants and their shoots and leaves and so on, into it and leave the plants to sort it out, probably spreading outwardly and hopefully not competing with one another.
More life interference, and gardening any thing in any way was strictly forbidden until nearly the end of October.
Mentally, I made my apologies to my potatoes which had been making stems and foliage like gangbusters, and I said my goodbyes and promised to try again next season only in a proper garden bed.
By Sunday, there were no green leaves, no green stems and in fact barely any stems at all.
O.K. Probably ought to clean out the container, right?
Pulled up some stems, most of them rather slimy (eewwwww!)
"What the heck," and I started digging, just scooping up soil and sifting it through my fingers.
Lo and behold!
A little potato! And so pretty! (These are Huckleberry Gold, just beautiful with their rich purple skins and their creamy gold-white flesh. The flavor is described as "already buttered" and this particular variety has a low glycemic index, for anyone who needs to know that.) That purple was gorgeous against the dark, wet soil and even more gorgeous after I got them washed clean.
A bit less than half of all the potatoes produced had issues with rot but I truly believe the rot was due to inadequate drainage and the potatoes were (are) smaller than what's typical for this variety but I'm attributing that to them having been crowded and having to compete for nutrients.
Taste-testing happens in about twelve days or so, when a gardening neighbor gets back from his vacation. He's usually game to try anything new especially if he doesn't have to stretch his pension to afford it.
I've read that potatoes are dead-easy to grow, and right now I'm disposed to believe that! So excited to think about growing potatoes next season! More of these, if the flavor's as nice as folks say, and a few others selected from whatever's available at the gardening center, such as German Butterball, or Norland Red, or Yukon Gold….
I'm so happy for you for your potato harvest!
I understand you were expecting more potatoes but still a good harvest. Glad to hear you were able to can some for the winter. I tried growing potatoes in a grow bag for the first time this year. I was underwhelmed with the results but will definitely try again.
This is my first year growing potatoes in containers. It's not time for me to dump them yet (probably closer to Thanksgiving), but I can say that you still got a decent harvest even if it wasn't what you were expecting.
I know how frustrating it can be to dedicate so much time and water to something and not reap a bigger harvest.
I didn't use seed potatoes, just the sprouts from a store bought bag that started growing eyes on my counter.
I'm anxious to see how things turned out after watching this.
Congrats on getting some potatoes! "One potato wonders" lol. Thats what my results were this year for my first time growing potatoes. I stated with just store bought and grew in containers. Nice green growth but only 3 of the tiniest potatoes resulted. I'll definitely work on my strategy and try again.
Our potato harvest was underwhelming as well but not as underwhelming as our carrots. It's all tasty though. Enjoying your channel. (Chicago)
I'm SO glad to have found you we, as recommended by Lisa of Gardening with Lisa. She said to come find you on here since I'm in Chicago as well. I hope to learn lots…like.. enough to have a successful garden next season. I'm a brand new (don't know nothing) first time gardener. This year's garden was pretty much a disaster. But I'm determined to be better at it next go round over here in Southshore. Thank you for being here. My taters didn't grow at all before I just shut thangs down😔.. But I loved it all nonetheless.