Harvesting Potatoes Late: Our Unexpected Discovery!

[@thenewyorkredneck4735]

Great haul. May I make a suggestion? After forking out potatoes and radishes put in rows of carrots and cover with cardboard for a week. It still acts as a cover crop but with the recently turned soil yoi should get some decent side carrots. The best is that if they aren't a good size or flavor the animals will love them.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That’s a great idea!

[@cory1641]

I'm thankful to have found your channel a few years ago when I started with chickens and a garden. Although my homestead has grown and my free time to watch youtube has decreased it is always great to see your content. I continue to learn from your channel. Take care.

[@amyb5339]

My favorite thing to harvest is potatoes of any kind. It's like A treasure hunt. My favorite corn to husk is glass gem. A surprise of colors in every ear. With that horseradish removal, will it grow back? SUCH an impressive harvest.

[@vonmajor]

Once you have horseradish, you always will have horseradish.

[@hootiebubbabuddhabelly]

According to somebody's grandma, I forget who, potatoes can stay in the ground until it freezes. If you can keep the ground they're in from freezing in winter, THAT'S how you "store" potatoes.

[@mountainsidefarm8357]

Yes works great!!

[@e.c.5994]

We do that with carrots - a deep mulch of leaves and they'll store till late April!

[@stephanievaladez5286]

"Rub A Dub Dub. Its Time To Sit Down And Grub!" I LOVE THIS SAYING. 😅😅 I have to borrow it.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

You are welcome to it, my friend!

[@stevehall9256]

Good soil is the greatest asset. Great soil is even better

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That should be on a T-shirt, my friend!

[@emilypulled312]

Just figured out my subscription had to be done again. Old Man Jeff here from the mountains of Arkansas. Love the content today and hope to see more on the raised beds.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That sort of thing has been happening to a number of our subscribers. We will try to keep them coming, my friend!

[@OrganicMommaGA]

What a wonderful potato and horseradish harvest! And yes, when you're doing your soil right, so many earthworms show up for the party that there's one more layer to that permaculture princilple to help rectify any deficiencies in the soil. We've done so many experiments on our tiny homestead garden this year, and are learning so very much, I am excited to try some more new things this season and the next! When we stop learning and growing, we start stagnating and dying so I'm always game to learn new stuff! Thank you for sharing today!

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Thank you so much for the kind words, my friend!

[@janebadon3988]

You guys teach AND inspire me!❤️

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That is such a joy to know, my friend!

[@briangoodman1581]

amazing couple, amazing results

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Thank you so much, Brian!

[@zhuanjifarms5050]

Just promise me you will keep drilling down hard on soil building. Fellow priority #1 soil builder myself in arid Colorado. I preach 6-8 inches or more of hay if ya ever wanna witness an easy diy worm farm under a wet alfalfa blanket while growing nutrient dense plants! Yes-worms everywhere!

[@vonmajor]

Pretty much do the same. Have access to large round bales for mulch. Breaks down for a rich topsoil over my sticky and rocky clay soil. Plus the whole range of nutrients harvested by that hay, the grasses,broadleaves are now delivered to your garden.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I think you and I would get along quite well!

[@teresaprice5070]

I'm with Michelle; LOVE ME SOME HORSERADISH!💕😊

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

You can definitely have my share!

[@teresaprice5070]

@@PermaPasturesFarm21 🤣😍

[@hootiebubbabuddhabelly]

And the worms won't eat your potatoes. So, if you live where the ground don't freeze, you can simply leave your potatoes all winter as long as they're covered and don't turn green, they're edible and you can just dig up what you need when you need it, and leave the rest. they're like tulip bulbs. They don't die. They go dormant.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That’s great advice, my friend!

[@hootiebubbabuddhabelly]

@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Somebody else talked about how her aunt or grandma or somebody cut their potato peelings kinda thick and kept them in a bag in the fridge and then simply planted THOSE after the ground thawed during the depression...don't know anyone who has tried that but the other, leaving them in the ground, has worked for several people which is just like storing them in a dirt root cellar. I haven't done it as I don't grow potatoes but several others who live where the ground doesn't freeze are doing it and having year round potatoes because they leave some to grow. One guy said he even planted something on top of them for winter, don't remember what. But I didn't know that guy so whether he actually did that or not, who knows? I suppose one COULD do that...don't see why not. Depending on what one planted.

[@dwighthires3163]

That was indeed a much better haul than last year. It pays off when we keep doing the right thing.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That’s what I’m talking about Doug!

[@MiddleEastMilli]

:) Lots of love folks!!!

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Thank you so much, my friend!

[@monettecarole]

We need your worms at our house to go fishing!!!! Fresh water bass. Hey, attach your horseradish recipe please.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I don’t think we have much of a recipe for horseradish. Michelle just eats it straight.

[@bluegtturbo]

A much better method for potatoes is to grow them in buckets. That way you can tip them out, not miss any, and not damage them with the fork😊

[@Blynn-md4dx]

Really like that y'all aren't scared to show success and failures. By the way, what type of wood did you use in the beds?

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I’m guessing it was heat treated pine.

[@GrandmomZoo]

I have some late taters to harvest too! Fixin' to plant more taters for round 2!😊

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That’s what I’m talking about!

[@janew5351]

So what should i plant in the garlic bed ? Clover and peas?

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

That sounds like a winner!

[@lawsonlawnandfarm8073]

Hey Billy it’s Andy from truegrit nice looking potatoes! And some dang good looking soil there.

[@amyb5339]

@@lawsonlawnandfarm8073 really loved you folks on the pimp cast Andy

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Thank you so much, Andy!

[@DanlowMusic]

I will say horseradish doesn't go with potatoes like PB and jelly. I was at an NRA auction once and they put the horseradish next to the baked potatoes so I slathered it on like it was Sour Cream. Yep. Wrong move. Lol

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I would’ve been equally disappointed, my friend!

[@rogerpadgett3189]

What do you do with with the clover Aft it matures tiller or Fork it under great show

[@AlleyCat-1]

I haven't harvested my spuds yet. But last yr when we harvested we had a ton of big fat worms & only a few in the rest of the garden. I thought it was interesting. In my experimental garden/food forest plot area I've got some time b4 I can harvest.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Worms are always a great sign!

[@annakozlowski4837]

Can I use shredded pine bark as mulch Thanks for all you both do❤ Praying for you❤

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I probably wouldn’t use it unless it was really really aged.

[@annakozlowski4837]

@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Thank you🌹

[@karenmarcinkiewicz7467]

Hi. From New England, we THINK we found a jumping worm?? IS THAT SOMETHING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT??

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

They seem to be everywhere these days. I found a bunch of them, but they haven’t yet caused any problems that I’m aware of.

[@Jackman77100]

how are you going to remove the clover when you it's time to replant?

[@nephilimninjaofnibiru2907]

Faith and begorrah that's a lot of potatoes.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Yes, indeed!

[@ericenos1097]

clover is a great nitrogen fixer

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Yes, it is!

[@christinenatvig2313]

Which potatoes do you use to replant?

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Michelle will typically pick out the best ones.

[@christinenatvig2313]

@@PermaPasturesFarm21thank you.

[@rogerpadgett3189]

Do you use chicken litter or any kind of manure or commercial fertilizer

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

No sir. We just use biological resources.

[@A_Real_McCoy]

Nice taters!

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Thank you very much!

[@Jerry-yk1fh]

I'm jealous, question, I've heard that potato and tomato tops should not be put in compost because they are night shade, what say you? Thanks for sharing.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I see absolutely absolutely no problem with it.

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

I see absolutely no problem with it.

[@happyhobbit8450]

blessing is be lessing you're telling people to be less! 'take care' you're telling people to take care like they wouldn't if you didn't tell them to 'take care' 'drive safe' Why wouldn't you drive safe ... because someone didn't tell you? What if you didn't get a memo about some law -- can they stop you and fine you or throw you in jail? The only laws man has to live by are the Laws of Nature and Nature's God I experimented with growing potatoes in buckets but they got scorched in the sun and I didn't water often enough forgetting that potted plants need to be watered more often. I harvested them a couple days ago but they were small potatoes ... I should have moved them sooner. I'm not too fond of bucket potatoes I think anything planted right in the ground is always better. I have been opening more space in the garden so I won't be planting potatoes in pots again Thank you for video!!!

[@PermaPasturesFarm21]

Better luck next time on those potatoes, my friend!