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Looking forward to planting my second crop thanks for this 💪
Thanks for all your informative videos! I bought your book as well because I really like the way you approach things. 😄
Man that bumblebee in the background is having the time of his life.
Great advice I'm going to try this, this year as I'm on a lets see what happens year..
Thanks for sharing… A great vid we had not even thought of growing early potatoes later.. We loved sarpo Miras last year and plan to grow these in one of our raised beds and 10 buckets later in the year to be self sufficient through winter 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌
I'm experimenting with just using chunky peels from shop bought Roosters. If it works it's cheaper than seed potatoes 'coz' I still got to eat the bulk of the potato. Who knows!? Just planted them yesterday…wet wet wet!
Looking forward to the potato growing experiments. Also your new book I have ordered arrives in May here! Exciting… can't wait! Blessings on your day and your 2024 growing season Huw! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿
When you grow Potatoes it brings new meaning to the word You Tuber.
This was very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for a great video I definitely am going for blight resistant Christmas potatoes this year last year was disappointing but I'm looking forward to 1st earlys now 🥔🥔
Just got my copy!!
Mine are sprouting just now! 🙂
3:10 I live in the Great Lakes region, for potatoes like Red Pontiac and Dark Nordland that grow fast, I can do two harvests in one year. I am going to plant potatoes this weekend, which I will harvest the Pontiacs and Nordlands in early July or so. Then I will replant more Pontiacs and Nordlands and harvest those in early October or so.
My favourite potato variety is Solist. Matures within 60-65 days, so I am able to harvest them before potato beetles even start arriving 😁
Lovely book! Was still surprised that the no1 bestseller didn't have figure, table and picture references tho. I would have preferred those present than good paper and nice cover. Content I mean, content. Seemed full of it but little structure. Shame. Still a nice addition to the shelf. Where it will stay.
Try growing some from well developed chits without potatoes as well. Just like sweet potatoes, they are interested in getting energy storage in the ground.
I'm going to have to plant mine in containers,,, and I have plenty of cardboard boxes from the recent move!!😊
Huw, I cut Blue Danube potatoes in half. I put half of each spud in individual pots and left the other half to continue chitting. Less than two weeks later the potted ones have just been potted on again with huge roots and plenty of top growth. The chitting ones have hardly budged. Please could you give it a try and video the comparison. Your video skills are so much better than mine
Great video as always, Huw! I will be planting out my 2nd crop of potatoes today. Thanks for teaching us how to stagger our crops so we always have a fresh supply of food. It's so much easier than getting one big harvest and having too much.
I should know but what is that amazing yellow flower that bee likes so much?🌼🐝
I hear so many things about what you must do with potatoes especially here in hot, humid Florida. But I want to see for myself. I have a lot of larger grow bags so I can try different things. Take them into the dappled shade when it's hot, etc. Thanks for the inspiration!
I like the idea of planting, a second set of 1st earliest late in the season for a 2nd harvest to save the late ones stored for winter, eating the 2nd harvest of the 1st earlies
Growing Sarpo Una, Sarpo Mira and Java this year. (it was suggested to me that Java are even more blight resistant than SM). Happy to report they're all just showing their shoots over the last couple of weeks. 🙂
I saved some nicola potatoes last year and they became sprouted monsters. They were really long but I have still planted them. I just curled the sprouts round my container in circles as I burried them deep. they grew leaves really quickly and Iam already burying them deeper. I have no idea if I'll have a good harvest but usually they say that you want to keep burying cause you want them to grow a long stem, as thats what produces the tubers. So maybe I'll get a bumper crop this year? There's also no data on youtube about this. I have found video's of people burying monster sprouted potatoes, but they don't show the results.
potatoes are crazy resistant and will grow pretty much in any situation.
😮 cara você só fala,fala e fala,não mostra nada.
Acho linda suas plantas🥬🥒🫑🌶🍅🥔🥕🍆🍊🍉🍈🍇🍎🥭🥝🫐🍓 mais cadê elas ?
Superbe
A bientôt
I am doing an experiment with sweet and reg potatoes here by rooting in containers and multiplying the plants by slips once they come up. Have no idea if it will work or not but willing to give it a try. As for planting the spuds, I plan on doing a few lazy bed rows (Irish method) here as the ground has never been worked before and that seems like the best way to get things going from an economical method.
Hi Huw I'd love to plant potatoes for year round harvests-and the is a great idea of short season pots at different times…but in BC Canada we can only buy seed potatoes at one time of year. I've considered (and likely tried) grocery store organic potatoes but they have a lot of back flecks on them that I was told means the farms have a pathogen in the soil. I have been planting the potatoes I have left in the cupboard that sprout…but there's always too few as I always want to eat them 🙂 And sadly your favorite potato isn't available here …otherwise I'd definitely try it!
I love how you keep things simple and easy.
I had never heard of chitting potatoes until just a few years ago. We always cut our potatoes up with at least one eye per piece and planted directly in the garden. We always had a good harvest. I’ve planted a large raised bed in potatoes this year and I’m going to try grow bags as an experiment. My book won’t come in until the 15 May, here in the U.S.. I like simplicity, I like how you go about it. TeresaSue
I have the book and as a first time gardener it is so useful!
Hi, do you know Barry from moasure
Busy 🐝 loving life. Great spud advice 🥔
I love your videos! Always sharing great tips from your experience and making original content. Thanks for sharing
2 years ago I was cooking potatoes that were sprouting. I generously cut the sprouts out and planted them in workable soil very early in the spring. Fortunately I covered them with a piece of clear plastic because the next day I had 2 inches of snow. They grew well though, I got couple of meals worth of potatoes out of my little experiment.