Want to grow your own tasty tatties? Sample home grown splendid spuds? In this week’s video, Ben guides us through four options for growing potatoes, no matter what your growing space, from raised beds, to bare ground, straw and even in pots or bags.
Mashed, boiled, roasted, chipped, you name it, there’s a potato for you! Ben explains which spud is which, when to plant and harvest and everything in between in this comprehensive guide to everything spud related!
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Hi Ben, 1st, 2nd and main is this variety dependent or gardener choice? ie when to harvest. hope that makes sense.
Old Miss Bitting
Wanted her spuds to be grown,
But they're just sitting and chitting
'Til they grow on their own.
Hmm, also how I felt about my son going through his teens. 😆
Any woman in the US who's given birth can easily convert centimeters to inches. Remember when they FOR HOURS kept saying you needed to be dilated to 10 centimeters? Well, that's @ 4". 😁
Potatoes are one of my favorite things to grow. I've never chitted them before, so I'll give it a go this year! I found last year I didn't water enough, so more watering will be done for sure. I like growing them in bags and hilling them a few times before harvest. Digging through the bag is like Christmas for me😂. This year I'm trying a new method, as well as my tried and true bags. Chicken wire with straw. I try experiments every year to figure out what works best for me. Happy growing!
Hi Ben, I love watching your videos because you teach us so well! Thank you. I am waiting on my Russet seed potatoes and Sweet Potatoes to arrive, it is the middle of March, but I don't know how long it will take for them to grow? How do I know when it's time to Harvest them? This is my first time planting potatoes, so I am hoping I will do good. I am so tired of buying potatoes at the market, and each one usually has something wrong with it, or is bad on one spot or another. I figured growing them myself might be better, I hope so. What about growing Sweet Potatoes? Is it the same process? I will look to see if you have a video about those. I plan on using 20 gal "Grow Bags" for planting all the potatoes.
Hi, I come from an Asian family and they really like eating leaves of different vegetables, I know that potatoes also have lots of nice lgreen leaves, but I've recently heard they're poisonous to eat? are they really? So we couldn't add them to a type of spicy Tom yum soup type thing?
I love your channel I always learn something new thank you Ben.
wow what great info!! I just put my seed potatoes in the store bag in my dark basement. hmm I'll be bringing them out to chit. also we have triple layered paper bags that our bulk grains come in. I'll be using those for my potatoes. and starting them indoors to give them a head start. also I'll pay more attention to watering. thx for this.
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Thank you!
I saved many small potatoes from my harvest last year. They started to chit all on their own, and they're ready to be planted out in a few weeks!
My daughter has now got an allotment and has asked me to help her sort it out. After watching some of your videos, I am feeling more confident that we can make a go of it. Thank you for being very informative.
Such a great helpful video!
A potato plant came up in my compost bin several years ago. I decided to leave it alone and ended up with a few free, effortless taters!
Always plant a row of onions in your potato patch, it makes em cry their eyes out.
last year i "only" had mid earlies-late 36 seeds which gave me arround 100 pounds of potatoes…. this year i have 3 types and arround 160 seeds (50 more then i orginally anticipate… but my wife ordered double on 1 type 😉 … lol)… .so it will be a busy potato season for me 😉 … but then i again the "grow area" i have to work with has quadroupled or more…. i will be using 40 lt containers / 60lts and high raised beds (3m2 / 90 cm high hugulkulture)… i cant wait till i can start harvesting …. lol in a few months (im most anxious about the seeds i made from the crop i harvested last year 🙂 to see if i can continue doing that each year)
Very helpful
I had already planned on using more of my garden to grow things using the raised bed/no dig technique, and this channel and Ben has really excited me for the future, so thank you!
I have a load of potatoes that I saved from last year, I kept them in the dark and in sand, but they have sent loads of long shoots out. Can they be salvaged? Or shall I just chuck them?
great video. Covering up everything about potatoes. Thank you
I noticed you have nasturtiums growing near your veg beds; they do seem to keep most bugs away, much the same as French marigolds?
I find it really difficult to have enough compost! The chucks have been there though and i have used the pellets – hoping; as first time i have used the land. We are a bit suspicious of the straw having glyphosphates in it as the French government said they would ban it and then went back on their word, putting their money first! So we stopped using it and now trying to find an alternative difficult. Thank you so much for your info hubby a day off so planting today!!!!!
Harika 😊
Another idea I have used in the past is to get 4 to 5 old tires, place the first on on the ground and fill with compost. Plant 4 or 5 healthy 'eyes' and wait until they have grown at least 12-16", then place the next tire on the bottom one, fill with compost leaving the topmost leave showing. Do this as long as you can and in the fall disassembling the stack will provide you with lots of spuds.