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24 Comments
Yikes. The soil I already planted my wee potatoes in is 7.0. How can I make it more acidic now??? Thanks love this video. 😊
I wouldn’t worry too much about soil acidity. My potatoes did great with just compost
Sorry for the criticism but the cost of all these inputs versus crop output for these small beds seems unsustainable. I notice the huge resources and financial cost of all these amendments – plastic bags of trucked in soils, amendments etc. I would prefer to go with the native soil and composted material from the locality for sustainability and self sufficiency.
potatos now? ….. wow …. was i really that early? (the netherlands, zone 8b-9a) 50% went in begin march (140 seedpot.) … rest went in middle march …. plants are 1mtr/3 feet high now
the way it goes now i can harvest mai-june…. and immediatly put in a new batch (already have another 100+ seed potatos waiting)… so i can harvest those in oct-nov
yeah i went a little overboard… but i just wanted enough potatos to last an entire year for at least 2 families 😉
Thank you Luke
What if I’ve already planted my potatoes and they are coming up. Should I add some sulfur powder at this point? Or is it too late?
Great video. Thanks!
thank you having grown potatoes for years, I find your instructive video so helpful…A volunteer potato last year produced an unusual number of potatoes, WARBA was the variety, the flavour of this potato was really good, as was texture..so soil was undisturbed, but clearly very healthy and nutritious, supporting a variety of flowers and vegetables in the preceding years…Pacific west coast salt spring island
p.s. the example I gave below was to illustrate that given the right natural conditions potatoes can grow very well, in DIRECT CONTRAST TO ONES I PLANTED NONE OF which produced as well…of course that volunteer potato began growing at the right time..,.I was too late planting the rest…hope to plant in the next days
QUESTION…. where do you garden? so important to note each time for your audience?
Almost all of my veggies are prone to the same types of blight because they are all from the nightshade family (peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant). I have very limited full sun exposure so the greens are always grown in the partial shade, and the nightshade always stay in the in full sun beds. I haven't experienced much blight, and I'm glad.
If you have a farmer's market nearby you can trust those potatoes to make great inexpensive seed potatoes. ❤
I’m so glad you posted this video because I’m getting ready to start planting my garden and I’m growing potatoes and I never knew you didn’t have to hill them up and I’m going to use one of my raised beds for them. I normally plant them in the ground or in 5 gallon buckets.
Luke! You’re a day late! I just planted my potatoes this morning 😂😂. Awesome info as always!
Please always show ‘the boring’ part!!! I learned so much
Luke, I forgot do you get bigger potatoes from whole ones or cut ones?
Thank you for the tips! I just started my own vegetable garden channel.
My soil Ph is about 7.7, so for potatoes (and others) not ideal. I guess sulfur is my friend.
never heard of making the soil acidic for the potaotes. I just put multipurpose compost down and bung them in, they grow really well in even the worst of soils.
Is it the same alfalfa pellets you feed rabbits? If not what are you using?
Actually I've learned a lot from you. & Not just potatoes which I love growing. But there seems to be a food shortage in my favorite dumpster. That's where I got my potatoes. So I bought some organics. Desperate times=Desperate measures.
as far as the hilling vs non-hilling question, you haven't touched on determinate vs indeterminate potatoes.
my understanding is that if a potato is indetetminate, it should be hilled up.
and if a potato is determinate, you don't hill it up.
can you comment on this?
thanks!
If you eat food with a sprout inhibitor will it inhibit your sprout?😂😂😂
Just like tomatoes, potatoes are determinant or indeterminant. some potatoes will produce more when hilled if they are indeterminant. most varieties are determinant and do not need extra hilling.