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My Norlands died off early too, but great tasting golf ball size baby potatoes
I planted 12 Kennebek and 10 Red Pontiac in the ground and we had an amazing harvest. I will continue to plant them in the ground rather than in my raised bed. Those in thr bed got too much rain here in TN.
Potato beetles are weird. This year they left the new potato patch mostly untouched. This area I also bought new seed potatoes for, but the other area with last year’s seed potatoes was loaded with beetles. I used Captain Jack’s dead bug powder and it took care of them.
They say the best seed potatoes to use are egg sized. I did buy larger seed potatoes and of a different variety so hard to say, but they were much more robust and great producers than last year’s harvest.
The skin is tender because you harvested too early. If the soil is too alkaline you get scab on skins. Potatoes need nitrogen to start, but not later because too much nitrogen gives all leaves and not tubers.
Because of abnormal amount of rain some plants were advanced in growth, some flowered two weeks earlier than normal. I planted later and the potatoes died back already by end of July. Too soon to dig as there is no place cool enough to store.
WI, Z5 grew Red Pontiac, Kennebec and Yukon. Also used last year’s small Kennebec and German Dumplings.
Hey, MIgardener what happened?? I clicked on a vid link in notifications about 250 sq ft space on 'business' BUT this video on potatoes came up via the notification link on YT here. What's up???
Love harvesting potatoes like digging for gold 😊 i alsso planted purple potatoes they stay purple even after cooking 😊 not sure the name my neighbor gave me them last year and i save some to replant this year they did well about 80 lbs . I still have kennebecks and russets
grabbed 1lb of kennebec spud at the feed/seed on a whim this spring. i chit and cut them into six plants and unearthed 7lbs. probably helped i used my soil ph meter and used it to find the most agreeable spot in the garden for them. and that was in spite of some considerable earwig damage.
Me also on how to store if you don't have a basement.
I saved a bunch that sprouted from store bought and kept burying them in a leaf mulch pile i had near my garden bed. I harvested about 3 pounds of little spuds! they were delicious!
Thanks for sharing your education!
Hmmm….I've had rain for at least a week. Every day, two or three showers and even harder per day. I've been waiting to dig raised bed potatoes until it dried a little. I hope it won't be a negative surprise.
Hey Luke, can I grow potatoes in a 12" deep raised bed?? If not, how deep of a bed do I need?? I have to leave plastic down under my weed block cloth so the impossible to control rhizomeous grass we have doesn't invade my beds from underneath. Love your enthusiasm, gardening passion and ALL the great information you share with all of us! AWESOME harvest, btw!
I had a brand new pest this year – blister beetles. Really went to town on the potato leaves and stems. Took me awhile to figure out what I had because those stinkers are fast – great at hiding. I got them under control finally – and things are looking up. A few weeks from harvest so we'll see.
I always plant Yukon Golds. They do great for me in Ohio and I love the taste. I do mine in 5 gallon buckets. I plan to dump them on Sunday so will see how they do. Hoping for a good harvest like yours. Thanks for a great video.
Whoa, gorgeous soil and potatoes Luke! But for those who have had a Japanese beetle issue, I urge y'all to address it as follows:
Milky spore to treat the soil in the spring and fall. These address the grubs that turn into beetles next year; takes up to 3 years for best effect.
Knock off JB's into a container of soapy water every morning and night when present.
Consider a leaf treatment as soon as they appear in June. Among the options are:
Spraying insectcidal/natural dish soap solution or neem (or alternating both per package directions) and
Sprinkle kaolin clay on the leaves, reapplying after it rains.
Do nothing and those mated JBs fall in a Lover's Leap into the soil in your beds, laying eggs for an even bigger infestation next year. Then there are the JBs who fly over from other, untreated yards after they emerge next year. Nope. Not without a fight over here where our strawberry bed has the worst battle each summer.
Thanks for the cue to harvest early. The leaves are dying off and we are also in between rain storms here in NE Indiana. Time to harvest! :J
Hi Luke, how can I tell the difference between beginning of late blight or the potatoes are nearing harvest time and are just starting to die back.? Thank You. .
My neighbor who is a row crop farmer sprays his corn with sugar water..he says it clogs the reproductive parts of the jb….
Lollipop was not a great performer for us this year. The Kennebec were awesome and exceeded expectations
So is that why mine were all fallling over and bent but still alive? To much water?
And there is no normal amount of japanese beetles they arnt supposed to be here
I planted kenibec, russet, and Pontiac reds.