This Will Change the Way We Grow Potatoes!

GET SEED POTATOES HERE: bit.ly/3U1p4Hj Use code "LAZYDOGFARM" for a 5% discount 0:00 Intro 0:52 Recapping Our Previous Potato Harvests 2:05 Digging Elba Potatoes in Raised Beds 4:18 Digging Fingerling Potatoes in Raised Beds 5:45 Digging Sarpo Mira Potatoes in Raised Beds 7:47 Weighing our Raised Bed Potato Harvest 7:49 What Was Our Return on Investment? 8:41 More About Elba Potatoes 9:36 More About Sarpo Mira Potatoes 10:30 More About Rose Apple Finn Fingerling Potatoes 11:11 2023 Potato Season Recap 11:58 Why Were the Raised Bed Potatoes So Productive?

Harvesting potatoes is so dang exciting - it's like a treasure hunt! In our tiny space, the hunt is over in 10 minutes, just when you're wanting to gear up, so I'm extra happy that you included footage of pulling yours. Makes me feel a little silly, actually, but I don't care. I'll take big fun wherever it presents itself. Thank you!

I got 6 to 1 on some yukon gold from the grocery store that sprouted eyes last December in the kitchen. Not a huge result, but better than tossing them in the trash.

Raised bed advice: mushroom soil when hilled the potatoes in raised beds. fertilized 3 times thru the growing period. watering he would water when they looked like they needed it however importance especially during the end. watering consistently every other day even if didn't look like they needed it, if it had not rained. Great advice thank you!

I just dug some of my Taters today.. I followed your videos and tried to do everything you told me.. Thank you. This will be my best Tater harvest ever.. I'm in South Carolina.

Kennebec is a favorite in the upcountry. It was so commonly grown 40-50 years ago, that I always tried other varieties when I could get them. The only other varieties available locally were Irish Cobbler and Red Pontiac. Cobbler had low yields compared to Kennebec and Red Pontiac isn't an all-purpose tater. This year most of my tater vines were hit with brown spot disease, which is similar to early blight. Asterix, a European variety was hit worse. Yukon Gold was nearly as bad. I killed the vines earlier than I wanted to, in order to prevent the disease spores from infecting the tubers. My Kennebec are still growing and only have a few spots on the older leaves. Kennebec keeps reminding me why I grow it every year. I've grown Elba before and it grew lots of baseball size taters on unirrigated land for me. Kennebec had larger taters with less consistent sizes on unirrigated land. Yukon Gold is the only variety that I've completely dug at the moment. The seed taters came from the tractor store and were the worse quality I've ever planted. I only planted 3 of the 4 lbs. I bought. They were soft and weakly sprouted. Most seed only had one sprout after chitting. I also had several skips in the row where the seed piece rotted. I haven't weighed them yet.

I harvested my potatoes a couple weeks back. I planted 10 lbs of red norlands,10 lbs of kennebec white, 10 lbs of Irish cobbler, 5 lbs of German butter ball. I ended up with about 350 -400 lbs total of taters.

Glad you mentioned about the water. I grew potatoes for the first time this year in raised beds, with a few in grow bags. The grow bags got more water as I was afraid to water the potatoes due to them rotting (following your advice on a previous video). The grow bags did really well, while the raised beds did okay. Now with this new knowledge and experience, I will give them more water next year.

A great harvest 😊

I have only harvested one grow bag of russets that I planted in March and I got about 20 potatoes from 2 seed potatoes. I was pretty happy with that though I harvested a little early as they’d just started to die back. I just couldn’t wait to see how they grew and they grew wonderfully! I then planted 9 more seed potatoes a month and a half later (mid April) of the same batch of seed potatoes that I let sprout a bit longer and they’ve all grown so huge! They are as tall as my chest and are all in grow bags on the ground. I’m excited to see what they produce. If they do really well then I’m definitely going to save some of these as seeds for my next batch. Russets are honestly my favorite variety. I got these from the grocery store last year and they were locally grown which I took as a good sign that they’d do well here. They grew sprouts pretty quickly over the winter in my cupboard so I decided to plant them in the spring. It’s really done well in my opinion. I’ve also grown a few other varieties via TPS this year and those are growing quite well in grow bags as well. I’m excited to see how they produce. They’ve all flowered but haven’t started to die back yet so I wait, albeit impatiently, but I’m waiting! I have Yukon golds and two other red skinned varieties so it’s an experiment for me.

Congratulations Travis on 50,000 subs, and a great potato harvest.

I got my seed potatoes from wood prairie I got the mountaineer which had the Sarpo Mira , huckleberry gold and Baltic rose last year and planted them in February , I had small 4 small seed potatoes all weighed a lb and the harvest in my grow bags were the best I I have had I got 4 lbs from each varieties a total of 12 lbs, waiting to harvest my 1 lb of Elba that was ordered later. My best harvest yet.

Between whole small seed potatoes and chits, my one-pound allotment of Sarpo Mira gave me eight seed potatoes to plant. I planted two each in four 7 gallon nursery pots. Started with about 4" of high octane amended potting soil, potatoes on top of that, and filled the pots with a quality bagged compost about 8" deep. At this time, all have poked through and are growing well. Green sprouted, drip irrigation, 20% shade. IPM program to ward off blights and potato beetles. We're high and dry at 6500' at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, good potato country, so we start with a climate advantage over South Georgia. Still, I hope to beat your breathtaking yield from a pound of Sarpo Mira grown in your raised beds. However, at $20/lb. for Sarpo Mira seed potatoes from Wood Prairie, I need to learn the absolute best method for saving about 10# of my homegrown Sarpos for next year.

I think you’re right about the water. I did that better this year, too. My potatoes are nearing 200 pounds, and I still have a row to dig. (South Mississippi, Zone B)

It looks great, nice job

It may also have alot to do with the light loose soil in the raised beds. I've gotten bigger taters and sweetpotatoes in my raised beds. And yes, daily watering due to all loose topsoil.

Thank you so much for all the advice and directions! I dug my Huckleberry Gold potatoes today between rain storms and cooked some for dinner. Wow, delicious, creamy potatoes. I was afraid they were going to rot with all the rain we’ve had. Garden paths were standing in water. Thank goodness I hilled them pretty high. Still have Caribe and Baltic Rose to dig.

Just a quick tip for future planting of Sharpo Mira - they will just keep growing until the frost gets them so the tops don't die back like other potatoes when they are ready. You can leave them for longer if you want bigger potatoes or crop them with your other varieties while the tops arre still green. Here in the UK they usually have red/pink skins though.

That really was a great tater year for you! Mine still need more than a couple of months. I’m sure getting out there to give them a drink tomorrow! Could I suggest one more point to add to your three: use high quality disease free seed from a reputable supplier! Klaus

I really enjoy your podcasts. Thank you