Defying Nature: The Incredible Longevity of Sarpo Mira Potatoes

[@colleenfirz2857]

Amazing harvest 😮

[@GutenGardening]

These are some of our absulute favorites!!!

[@vilmabritton7451]

Very nice harvest and great information. Thanks

[@GutenGardening]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@gertwolmarans6974]

You really nailed the soil mix. I am very happy for your success. Looks so satisfying doing this harvest.

[@GutenGardening]

Thank you so much Gert! I tell you, I have so enjoyed harvesting this year.

[@MsValmark]

Your potato harvest vids make me want to go out and jusy grow every variety of potato. Your soil is so light and fluffy. I'll work on that!!

[@GutenGardening]

I was out there this morning (33 degrees) wishing I could be planting more outside. :D

[@sabbyjones2308]

I love to watch the sarpo harvest every year on allotment diary it grows so well over the pond

[@GutenGardening]

I will have to check it out. This was our first introduction to these potatoes, and I was really pleased with them, and I am sure we will have to grow these again next season.

[@lorianderson2008]

My favorite, so far, is Purple Viking. Truly a beautiful, delicious, prolific potato. Haven't harvested my Sarpo Mira's yet. 🤞

[@twilightgardener9366]

Another informative, exciting video!!

[@twilightgardener9366]

Question: where did you obtain seed for the Sarpo Mira potatoes?

[@GutenGardening]

Thank you!

[@GutenGardening]

We got our these seed potatoes from Wood Prairie Farm. :)

[@twilightgardener9366]

@@GutenGardening thanks!

[@melodyh.781]

Phew!😮‍💨 You found the walnut! 😂 About halfway through the harvest I was like…’but wheeeere’s the walnut?!’ I am totally Team Potato and love these videos. I’m going to try my hand next year at growing Clancy potatoes from seed and magic molly’s because yours always look so lovely 💜

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I enjoyed this. I’m growing a russet type but mostly Kennebec in 2024. I’m growing in 35L pots.

[@GutenGardening]

Nice choice! Growing them in pots is a smart move, especially for managing space and controlling growing conditions. How's the growth been in the 35L pots?

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

@@GutenGardening well, for the last couple of years I was using two spent 30L wine barrels, just to try out my technique. The barrels worked well (except for earwigs) so I got six pots for this season, I’m very excited! The pots are filled with Promix and I will fertilize weekly with half strength water soluble fertilizer. Each pot has two potatoes 🥔 near the bottom and two about half way up. I carefully put a tomato cage in each pot to help keep the foliage from flopping. I grow in the Toronto area.

[@earthladyadventures5018]

You too are Relentless Growth!❤❤😊😊 That's my modo "Never Give Up, Relentless;Always keep Growing (in all areas of life) Growth! Learn from everything you do and learn from the experience and moving forward with Growth and experience.!

[@tateneve2264]

Great video, I'm growing sarpo mira it's my 3rd year growing food 🙏🏽 wish you abundance for this year

[@id.littlejewel]

The soil look so perfect 😍

[@vilmabritton7451]

I would love to know how you put your soil together I love how light it is but so productive 😊.

[@GutenGardening]

This soil initially was just our native clay soil, but we have (over the past three years) added a lot of coco coir, some peat moss, a few inches of compost (each year), and some perlite. Last year, we really re-worked that mix in the bed, but I think it is all coming together this year. :)

[@MsValmark]

I was going to ask that very same question.

[@malcommitchell7748]

Wonderful harvest. Have just ordered my sarpo mira potatoes from Randall at Wood Prairie Farm and am super excited. Down in Eastern Georgia I plant my potatoes at the end of January and keep them under cover until it warms up in March. Had a great potato harvest last year. This will be my first attempt at the sarpo mira variety. Just have a small backyard garden with raised beds.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

They ran out fast last year. I was able to snag some for this year too. I’m exited, but likely should have ordered more.

[@marilyn-is9qw]

I think i love that pinkish potato very beautiful ilove to taste it coz here in our country has yellow potatoes only ..

[@BiLuOma]

I'm getting jealous seeing your harvests. This year I planted only one russet potato and was too lazy in my gardening efforts (chasing Pokémon instead of pulling weeds), so I got no potato harvest at all. Next year I will definitely plant a variety of potatoes in a variety of ways. I also think it is good to have stray cats, raccoons, and opossums hanging out here to help against other pests that could be more damaging.

[@GutenGardening]

Variety really has helped us determine which potatoes grow best for us, but also helps us to ensure against pests attacking one area and our losing everything. This year has been far better than last year, so, yes, we encourage you to keep experimenting and growing more potatoes! :)

[@tawanaconaway499]

What is the variety of tomato is that???? Beautiful harvest by the way❤❤❤❤

[@geekygardens]

Fall/Winter is my best growing season down here, mainly because July & August are so brutal. But then, we do things a bit different here in Central Fla.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

I Was able to get Sarpo Mira this year from Wood Prairie Farms. I had German butterballs from them last year which came out huge and flavorful. The All-Blue variety made a great roasting potato and was very productive. Similar to “Magic Molly”? It’s so cool growing your own potatoes and eating them.

[@bluewolf4915]

Wanted Sarpo Mira last spring but couldn't find any. Next year. 👍🏼

[@GutenGardening]

We got ours from Wood Prairie farm. They are a bit expensive, but now we have a nice supply to plant for next season!

[@toaster5666]

Eva potato, Yukon Gold, Red Pontiac, Kennebec in ground. Russet in a potato tower.

[@Elizabeths_kitchen_garden]

Nice harvest, i thought tomatoes cant grow together with potatoes because they have the same related diseases.

[@GutenGardening]

You are absolutely correct. There is a recommendation that you don't plant tomatoes with potatoes. They are in the same family and do share the same diseases, but we that bed didn't suffer when we planted them there last season, so we decided to do it again. I don't believe it is necessarily best practice to do so, though.

[@winniejack2492]

That soil is making,me,salivate as I love feeling it between my fingers. Yes I don’t use gloves. 😂😊

[@GutenGardening]

Right!!

[@doinacampean9132]

Now I'm wondering if transplanted in some pots, those would continue to produce indoors... Maybe next year you could extend the season a bit by starting them off in plastic cups.

[@GutenGardening]

That seems like a great experiment to try. I knew they were supposed to keep growing, but even then I was pretty amazed by how they looked after every other potato variety had died back.

[@keyphabenyisrael3219]

I grew clancy potatoes from seed for the 1st time as almost an afterthought because I thought the tiny seedlings had died, but they reemerged from the seed tray I hadn't cleaned out after planting out the spring/summer garden. They were small because I crowded 6 plants into a small container just to see what they'd do. I think I will save some as seed potatoes for next season.

[@GutenGardening]

We haven't grown Clancy potatoes before, I am reading about them now, and it looks like they would be really tasty. The description I see is that they are somewhere between a yukon gold and a russet. How interesting. Where did you get yours?

[@keyphabenyisrael3219]

@@GutenGardening I bought the clancy potato seed packet from Botanical Interests during one of their sale events.

[@darrybush5293]

I grew Sarpo Mira potatoes this year planted them in February ( that’s the idea time in z10b SoCal). They will get bigger if left in for a longer period of time, even the larger ones will have the same shape. They are a little dryer than I like but work great for mashing. I just planted this week some of the smaller Sarpo Mira from my early summer harvest that were starting to sprout. I haven’t decided what new varieties I’m going to plant in February, maybe try some Charlotte’s and Caribe’.

[@GutenGardening]

They are really an amazing potato. Yes, they definitely have a high dry content, and mashing seems to be the way to go. Was this your first year growing Sarpo Miras?

[@darrybush5293]

@@GutenGardening Yes this year was the first time that I grew Sarpo Mira, I got my seed potatoes from the same supplier as you did. I had been looking for a US source for a couple of years when I found Wood Prairie Family Farm a year ago in December.

[@darrybush5293]

@@GutenGardening One other thing is my Russet potatoes never get big like the ones in the store.

[@akdenyer]

Sarpo Mira in New Brunswick Canada

[@RWM1955]

Potato’s like tomato’s have determinate and indeterminate variates. Some are short lived and others keep growing.

[@michaelburgess1187]

Can I buy sarpo mira seed from you? I want to grow them but can't find seed.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

Wood Prairie Farms, Maine

[@garyweaver317]

Why do 90% of the people grow red potatoes not white?

[@rlportillo]

White potatoes do not grow well in many places. They do horribly in the deep south. The red do great

[@lorianderson2008]

Better flavor, better nutrition, better storage.