2020 Potato Harvest, Episode 66, Best Homestead Potato Variety Reveal.

[@kristinawrites238]

Great video. My one seedling from last year reminds me of Yog Shagoff. It’s stolens went literally everywhere. I was finding potatoes 6/7 feet away from the row. But the yields are fantastic with that kind of potato. Really cool to see.

[@esotericagriculture6643]

Thanks for watching and commenting . Yes, the yields are better from these indeterminate, super spreading types for sure!

[@WhiteWolfeHU]

Here in Texas with a long growing season we plant potatoes twice. Put them in February, and can replant what you harvest again in late august. It’s a good way to keep your seed spuds fresh.

[@esotericagriculture6643]

Thanks for watching and commenting. This is fascinating. I never knew that this was possible. How do you deal with the heat? Here, potatoes definitely suffer in the heat. Thanks again for commenting!

[@torptomaten3981]

Great harvest and video 👍 The long stolons are maybe helping with draught resistance. I have noticed it most the other way round. The commercial varieties with neatly packed potatoes right under the plant are suffering right away when it's hot and dry. The others are way less impacted. A bad year with late frost is unfortunate for the harvest, but it shows which ones are truly indestructible and still make a good amount of tubers. It's fascinating how different food habits are in different parts of the world. I would eat your harvest in a year. Alone 😳 ☺ For us two I need to double that amount for winter storage or we run out before the next harvest. And last year I could not even blame dinner guests or friends and family staying over hahaha we really eat that many! Omg lol

[@esotericagriculture6643]

We eat more potatoes than anyone we know. We gave away probably 100 pounds of potatoes, and still had some left in April-May. We do grow other staple starch type crops. I harvested at least 100 pounds of sweet potatoes last year , several bushels of Maize, and 3-5 wheelbarrows full of winter squash. I do expect though that there are places in Northern Europe that eat way more potatoes than we do. I’m certain my Grandparents are a lot more potatoes than I do. I’m definitely zeroing in on the all around toughest, hardiest varieties.

[@torptomaten3981]

Food habits are an interesting cultural part of everyones identity and they impact every one of us more than we think :) Maize and winter squash/pumpkin for example, that is missing in my diet completely and I only have a very vague idea of how they are eaten. Pasta is a thing maybe once or twice a week and rice... it's in the pantry, but I'm not even sure when I cooked some the last time lol February maybe? It's mainly potatoes in all it's different ways of preparing them. We even have a soft flat bread (lompe) with the main ingredient being cooked potato. Thinking of food habits, a gardeners spinoff from the 'what I eat in a day' videos would be interesting to compare between different parts of the world.

[@esotericagriculture6643]

This is an excellent idea! Right now all I have from the garden is herbs, rhubarb and sweet potatoes from last year. In a few weeks I should have summer Squash and green beans, then later, sweet corn and tomato and peppers. I would imagine what I grow and eat is pretty different from you throughout the year and would make a good topic for a video series. 😊

[@trillium7582]

Superior meme choices! It's June 2021 - when did you end up running out of potatoes? And where roughly are you growing? You mentioned hot/dry summers, are you in the pacific northwest? Thanks for sharing!

[@esotericagriculture6643]

I’m in southern Pennsylvania. We actually didn’t run out of potatoes until about 3-4 weeks ago. That’s by far the best potato result ever. Although the potatoes were sprouting badly and getting shriveled for a few months at the end. Thanks for the compliments and thanks for watching and commenting!