Potato Harvest Reveal

In this video I harvest home grown potatoes and give you the results of different fertilisers I used as part of an experiment.

[@myrustygarden]

Jase hope you’re all doing well, it’s been a while since you gave us an update. Have a great weekend, Ali ☔️🇨🇦

[@myhomeandgardenchanneldwel7777]

It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Very nice potato harvest. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.

[@glassbackdiy3949]

Good show, cheers Jase. 6x is just chicken poo mate, find somone with chickens and offer to clean their coop out for nowt ;)

[@leatonveg]

Hope to get our own chooks eventually. At £15 bag it’s cheap enough

[@jollyjosie]

Great to see and gives me some consolation as my potatoes in containers were small. My daughter named them spuddles!! Tasted lovely though

[@Sellers707]

Good job on your potato harvest. You will be enjoying potatoes for awhile. I enjoyed the video. Happy gardening 😊

[@leatonveg]

Thank you

[@jessicasturm5099]

Great video. Always enjoy a comparison of fertilizers/soil. The best fertilizer (in my opinion) is worm castings. Plants love the castings and grow/produce like crazy. No wonder it’s called black gold. Maybe give it a try. Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

[@chilliing]

Brilliant 👊

[@leatonveg]

Thank you 🙏

[@gregzeigler3850]

We keep all the tiny ones too. My wife will make brown gravy(beef flavored) and cook them in it. It makes a great side dish which she calls "New Potatoes". Oh and yes, it's been a difficult growing season this year and I averaged roughly what you had in mostly 10" pots. I have around 15 pounds of potatoes(so far, as I still have 12 more pots to go). At least we don't have the smoke from Canada covering the skies this year, which last year caused all my Red Sun shallots to bolt. I couldn't get a new set this year, but did get Dutch shallots and Yellow Potato onions. Happy gardening!

[@leatonveg]

Thanks for watching. We have hardly had a summer so far. Rain again today

[@jtharp9265]

New subscriber from Montgomery county, Texas 🙏 Great content , we get very hot here , just went through a week with no power ,due to hurricane Beryl from the gulf of Mexico. I started planted our potatoes in grow bags about 4 yrs ago ,due to my bad back issues Its so much easier to harvest like you did , just dumping them out in a wheelbarrow. Im using 15 gallon grow bags ,and they are ready to be harvested ,but putting in the sunroom to let the dirt dry out for about aweek , or should I pull them now ? As I dont want rotten potatoes?. I also plant our sweet potatoes/ yams in grow bags also , as its harder to plant in ground and constantly covering with more dirt or hay/ straw . Yes here in hot texas , my tomatoes have taken a hit , but getting ready to pull my determinate tomatoes, as they are done , our indeterminate tomatoes, Got blown over during the storm , but I got out there with my 2 granddaughters ( they love learning & helping in our garden ) . I look forward to watching more of your content . Mrs josette Montgomery county, Texas 🙏

[@DavidGibb-vo3df]

The problem with growing potatoes is the cost of the compost and seed potatoes but at least you know what was in them.

[@leatonveg]

I agree. But I reuse the compost on the beds as a soil conditioner after. You could just keep reusing it and add a fertiliser each year. Still nicee to grow your own

[@mikeross4]

I buy two of the large bags of compressed compost from Wickes and dilute it with my home made compost, sieved garden soil and last year’s compost mix. I add a couple of handfuls of fish, blood and bone so the cost is not excessive for me, but I am only growing for my wife and myself so I don’t need a lot. However, this year I also tried the “no dig” method of growing earlies and second earlies. I just made a slit in the soil with a trowel about six inches deep, planted the potatoes and as they grew I spread grass cuttings around the potatoes. They were harvested in mid July and I am very pleased with the results and I will certainly grow my early and second early potatoes like this next year but I will also grow my maincrop potatoes in six 30 litre .

[@sharonscott8358]

I may consider growing in pots next year if we have another wet winter and early spring like we did this year. I have an allotment and I was late getting the potatoes into the ground because of the weather, so haven't harvested them yet but must do in the next week or so. Just looking at the plants they don't look as good as last year and I am not expecting a particularly good harvest. In respect of 6x, I've used it in the past and it is good stuff. Also makes a great compost tea for giving plants a quick boost; the tea of which I offered to one of my fellow plot holders who's plants were looking a bit sickly.

[@leatonveg]

Hi Sharon. It’s a strange year for veg. Most things are under performing. Good luck. 🤞

[@1Gibson]

I enjoy the long videos thank you from El Mirage, Arizona

[@leatonveg]

Thank you

[@DGreg-li2sp]

Hope the building work next door isn't getting to you to stop you videoing? Difficult situation you have there, but did like your videos.

[@pamelabrown9800]

Awesome 🥔period 😊thank you!

[@Stephen474]

A nice harvest Jase. Steve Colwell

[@leatonveg]

Thanks Steve.

[@johnoconnor1948]

Hi it would be interesting to hear if you do a taste test re the various buckets, i'm trying similar method for the first time in 40 years gardening.

[@PuthyvanGarden]

Very nice 🙂

[@citylotgardening6171]

👍

[@mikeadams5971]

Had so many failures with germination this year also things bolting. But for the first time Kelvedon wonder peas have made up for it so far.

[@leatonveg]

It’s certainly been a struggle this year so far

[@susiespearing6165]

Well your Charlotte potatoes beat the hell out of mine this year 🥇Got blight and had to harvest after 9 weeks .My first poor harvest 😢

[@leatonveg]

The damp and cold hasn’t helped susie.

[@alantaggart51]

Good honest review my friend hope i can call you that

[@leatonveg]

Thank you 🙏

[@pinballwizard6906]

✌️😎

[@christinerees50]

Hiya ....this week some of my lettuces bolted which got me thinking about your potato compost experiment ...while you had slightly more spuds when you left the flowers on would it be quantity over quality after all potato flowering is the plant going to seed ...it would be interesting if there is a difference in taste as is often the case where other veggie plants have blown ...?

[@milsimjedi]

Thanks for sharing! What was the NPK of the fertiliser?

[@leatonveg]

Hi. Can’t remember off the top of my head but if you google 6X fertiliser it should throw it up

[@bipbip6626]

Can you re-usE the same soil[ more or less] for next generation of potatoes, this year? Just done that😊 Plants are growing again Wales

[@leatonveg]

Yes but maybe add some extra fertiliser

[@WILLITGROW]

im sorry sir i might sound a bit rude here but if thats how you store your potatoes then what was the point of taking them out to begin with?

[@leatonveg]

To weigh them as it was an experiment

[@WILLITGROW]

@@leatonveg isee good work

[@dalesman4530]

What was your base material that you added the fertilisers to?

[@leatonveg]

Just compost

[@peterpaliwoda1527]

Chin it…..the storage very interesting…….what stops the stored potatoes from growing ?

[@leatonveg]

They have a rest period so won’t grow until spring

[@MrLaking123]

the best thing to use for the scales is a plastic bag a decent spud harvest

[@leatonveg]

Thank you

[@franceswatts4001]

That bucket seemed to work perfectly well.

[@kimedmonson3134]

😮

[@brnttptr]

Are you using Vitax 6x or something else ?

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