Red Potato Harvest June 2020- Best Ever

My best red potato harvest ever. 4 pots, 8 plants. Never have I harvested so many potatoes from 4 pots. Check this out. Gardening is good for the soul.

[@nancybenner2496]

David the potatoes are ready to harvest when the plants die. They aren’t diseased. You got a great harvest!

[@GrowAndEatThis]

These last few days of really high temps has the potatoes nearly done. Have to get them harvested in the next few days. The space gets refreshed and planted with sweet potatoes!!! I have 3 new to me varieties coming next week!

[@abidinadiallo9398]

Awesome God is great 🤲🏿

[@lg216]

i just saw another potato video where the plants look awful and that's when they are ready for harvest. The ugly greens are a result of the potato taking in all the nutrients and signal they are ready. im just learning. your plants are not diseased lol. Great potato harvest!

[@GrowAndEatThis]

Really hot weather will knock the potatoes down quickly. But the timing is perfect since I follow them up with sweet potatoes.

[@ClausenWorld]

Awesome harvest! Your channel came up on my feed. The tops die back when they’re ready to harvest. Mine looked like that as well when I pulled mine. I grew mine in bags. Would have loved to have caught those type buckets on sale. 😊🌱

[@GrowAndEatThis]

Goodwill has been a steady source of big containers. They are always $2-3 because they never have lids. I do not want the lids anyway so bonus for me.

[@ClausenWorld]

@@GrowAndEatThis I will have to visit the Goodwill more often. Thank you for the info.😊

[@GutenGardening]

Great job! We love growing our own potatoes. So rewarding. Thanks for sharing.

[@Jomama02]

This really gives me hope for my harvest. I planted 3 containers of red potatoes for the 1st time! The plants are still growing well for me so I won't harvest till they start to die off....🤞

[@djrramsey]

Good for you. They will definitely tell you when they are done. They look great one day, couple days later they look just horrible. Then time to dig. Have you dug around with your fingers to see if any are growing just under the service?

[@roselinprimrose1637]

Love the potatoes you got plenty from 2 plants fabulous

[@theghostofsw6276]

Glad to find your video. Looks like I planted the same variety, and at the same time as well, so I'm happy to see that my plants are dying back at around the same time. Mine look a bit like "blight" hit them, so maybe this is just the way the plants should look? I let some flower this year, so also looking forward to propagating from actual seed next season. Cheers.

[@suevalenti9584]

GREAT harvest!

[@ericaslittlewelshgarden]

Nice harvest there. Got to love a good potato reveal.

[@natashanagy1117]

Love your enthusiasm!

[@trumplostlol3007]

Potato is a cool season plant. They need good afternoon shade in the hot summer.

[@hubberts]

Any concerns about the fact that the buckets are made from plastic that isn’t food grade?

[@judyvg2000]

Awesome harvest I need to check out your videos on growing regular potatoe 🥔🥔 I'm currently trying sweet potatoes🍠🍠 for the first time

[@OldTimerGarden]

You could replant some of those for another late harvest of potatoes.

[@elizabethwatson3193]

looks like they are ready to harvest

[@Rammshtyn]

8:03 Worm Alert at 4 o'clock! Nice Harvest!

[@Steamtramman719]

Well done, different breed to those we use in the UK but enjoy the flavour!

[@poolsidedreamer]

Great harvest

[@meg91190]

Input ten pounds of Pontiac red seed potatoes in the ground in april 2020 one row about 3 foot long and got about 180 pounds in return

[@normanrhone2791]

Thanks David, I hope my crop turns out even a fraction of yours mi wi happy and thankful. Thank you for sharing your hard work. Do you have any pepper harvest videos?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

I have a hot weather playlist. Bound to be some pepper picking in there. I grow so many peppers. Even now I must have 15 quarts of chopped peppers in the freezer. I eat about a half pint of peppers with breakfast every morning. Just never get tired of them.

[@kristaj428]

Might have gone faster if you laid the sifter over an empty bucket and poured the entire bucket over it could have sifted the potatoes out, this way looks like you missed some.

[@peggyharrison5377]

Oh my use those in your compost… all of that is normal!

[@MrAirsoftNstuff]

see I had the same thing happen to mine but there was some signs of worms. there definitely was a decent yield bit I'm not so sure they looked like that bc of the stage of maturity. I had a late blooming bush that popped up next to the others and it seemed to spread to this new plant while it was still very small. I found black specs on the leaves that you could brush off and also cutting damage to the leaves in small holes

[@GrowAndEatThis]

My fall planting last year was amazing. So I am doing it again this year. The tubers are sprouting and with the coming cooler weather they just might do a great job again this year. Fresh potatoes for The late fall/early winter months will be awesome.

[@sherry2836]

David, nice harvest! I recall you originally planted these in mid February. I am in zone 6b and planted my Burbank Russets in containers in mid March. Perfect timing for this video as my plants are already behaving like yours; like they are crying Uncle to the extremes in Michigan weather, but they aren't even 90 days old. Should I pull mine up also? Or let them dry out? Two days ago they looked beautiful!

[@cathyrobi3891]

I'm trying to figure out when to harvest my (store bought) potatoes. They say when the top growth dies off, but yours look great and the top growth isn't dead..so when do I harvest them?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

Dig around with your fingers to see if you have potatoes. I really harvested a week or so early but I really needed the space for the sweet potatoes. So I did them early. Plus the day after day high temps will do them in.

[@cathyrobi3891]

@@GrowAndEatThis ok thank you

[@lilv3966]

I've been watching a lot of container harvests and I think there is a clear limit if not overrated effect to hilling potatoes. The idea came to me from watching the mulching method. Rarely does a potato grow at the bottom of the bucket. Seems very localized to where the original chit was placed. Any thoughts?

[@kristaj428]

I was watching a homestead channel, they said their are two types of potatoes when growing, can't thing of the name. But some grow in a single line and others grow all the way out.

[@daniellebailey6802]

@@kristaj428 yes, Determinate vs Indeterminate. Norland are determinate.

[@ChiTownTino]

Just curious…could you hot compost the plants with blight?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

I do not want to compost any plants that have any disease on them. That will just move the disease to the compost and help the spread the next year. Means that most of the squash and cucumber vines end up tossed way in the back of my property or put in trash bags.

[@micktepolt6276]

i think it was just time to harvest

[@jdamelines]

That was awesome. David what do you plan to plant next?

[@thegatheringgarden]

Did you keep adding soil as the plant grow or put all of the soil in originally?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

I added soil as the plants grew. But, for the varieties that grow here I have never found the buried stem to produce more potatoes. I think the stem potatoes come from longer growing varieties. Our 'Spring' and 'Fall' are just not long enough for anything other than the quick growing potatoes. For example, the potatoes I have out now are the third planting. The two plantings before were wiped out by weather in the teens. Yet yesterday was near 80F, same for today. But down near freezing three days from now. Not good weather for spring plantings.

[@thegatheringgarden]

@@GrowAndEatThis thank you so much! We are in Canton, so I know exactly what you mean! It’s been a wild winter!

[@ellawinkler4434]

New gardener- these red potatoes are spring potatoes. I heard you say you fertilized weekly. Did you water every day or how does that work. Trying to learn

[@uppanadam74]

I've got some reds that are due to be harvest!! Mine have been in the ground since November last year!! But they never came up until February!! How long did you have them in the pot for before you harvested them?? Cheers!!

[@c.r.m476]

serious mistake, first cut the branch and leave them 5-7 days so that the potato skin hardens and increases its duration

[@djrramsey]

We still have a few of these potatoes left. Having some tonight. None have rotted or gone bad. So the 'duration' has been very good.

[@jaimesillett118]

What area do you live in? Your weather sounded like mine in Pa. I have a few 15 gallon (drums cut in half) going of red potatoes. I planted April 19th and it's July 13th. Mine aren't quite ready though

[@djrramsey]

I am a far out NE suburb of Atlanta. Lawrenceville, GA It is 92F right now, supposed to get a lot hotter the next several days.

[@MR_UNOoo]

You probably left 20 potatoes in there..Always dump it out

[@blogphongthuy412]

How long is the time from planting to harvest?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

I planted May 1. Harvest was June 7. I would have liked them in a little longer but the heat finished them off early. Still very happy with the potatoes.

[@carolnelson4433]

Can I save the half potatoe/eye for planting a couple weeks later or would it dry up?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

Should be able to save it and use it. This year I have replanted some of the sprouting really small harvested potatoes. I am hoping for some little red potatoes for Thanksgiving or Christmas. So far the plants are outside, growing and look great. We have had a couple of nights down in the low 30Fs. Not frost. So I hope they will make it through that. The next week or so is lows in the 50s/60Fs and highs in the low 70Fs. That would be great for the potatoes.

[@carolnelson4433]

@@GrowAndEatThis wow cool!! Good luck with your harvest!! 👍

[@พวงครามสวย]

Hi David, how many month to grow this potato. Thank you. 👍🤩🤩👍

[@GrowAndEatThis]

These were planted on April 1. Harvested on June 1. 2 months. Usually 2 1/2 - 3 months but these were really quick. We actually had more cool nights than usual. I think that made the difference.

[@twinfin8571]

How deep did you plant them?

[@GrowAndEatThis]

The containers have space to add more soil as the potatoes grow. If the potato has already sprouted then I bury the potato but make sure some of the plant is above the soil level. If just little nubs then 2-3 inches deep. I add more soil as the plants grow. Remember I am in Lawrenceville Ga where it gets really hot. MY potatoes look great now (May 7) but if it gets really hot then they may just fall over in a few weeks. I am hopeful for a longer season since it is supposed to be a little cooler for the nights in the next week.

[@twinfin8571]

@@GrowAndEatThis . Dang. I’m in humid, hot Oklahoma. I guess I should plant in November

[@GrowAndEatThis]

@@twinfin8571 The super heat of summer is sweet potato time. Then as it thinks about cooling down get the regular potatoes in. They want it cooler but freezing does them in. So it is that fall 'in between' time that is golden.

[@twinfin8571]

@@GrowAndEatThis . Thanks. I don’t think I can handle the sweet potato process..lol. I’m not a big fan anyway but I do want regular potatoes so I’ll look forward to them.

[@GrowAndEatThis]

@@twinfin8571 Try the purple skin white flesh Japanese sweet potato. Treat it like a baking potato. I cook them until the skin is dark and thick like a big baking potato. So good. More like a baked potato than a sweet potato both in taste and in the texture. I do more of these than I do the orange ones.

[@makulitchannelvlog1446]

Marami pa yan sa ilalim hindi mo hinalongkat lahat.. sayang un

[@patelyog8101]

i want to buy red poteto. india. in gujrat. plase reply me.

[@djrramsey]

I can not ship to India. I do not have any of the agricultural export licenses.

[@michaelburgess1187]

For gods sake, get some plastic and dump the damn container on it.