I don't know what it is about a potato harvest video, but I could watch them every day lol 😆

IDEA. ...... Lift buckets up onto a screen, and empty content out, so that compost drops through, leaving clumps of compost, and potatoes. ...... Saves time and effort, as if you use a trailer or wheelbarrow, you simply wheel the compost to where needed. ...... Potatoes in buckets is so easy to do, anyone can do it, plus it makes use of odd corners of ground. ...... You can also wheel a bucket or two to your back door, and harvest just before you cook!

Takes me back to when i was a kid, potato picking following an old grey fergie tractor bent over with a basket all day picking up the spuds into a battered wire basket then tipping it into another old tractors trailer just edging along beside us, they were hard days but it helped us young ones then feel a sense of worth .At night our gang would meet up to play in the streets after dark go to the chip shop with our well earned cash ,then under the street lamps wed play kick out can, a bit of bulldog then maybe a bit of hedge bombing ,great days back then no computers just your own imagination and your push bike. im 63 now but its like yesterday.

I sometimes use two smaller ones for jacket potatoes. I microwave them until soft and then stick them in a hot oven for a few minutes. They don't taste microwaved, but it's fast. Many years I told my College professor about how I do them as she didn't like microwaved potatoes. She was surprised at how good they were.

I've grown Markies and it's a beautiful potato in the kitchen.

Pretty decent harvest all things considered. I always top my potato containers with a thick layer of bark mulch which stops them drying out too quickly

I planted potatoes for the first time, German Butterballs, I was really excited about it. Didn't last long when dumped the container, I did one large container, 3 hills in the ground. To be far, everyone where I live says we just can't grow potatoes here, apparently maybe not even in a pot =^\ I will try again. Aaaand I've bought sweet potatoes that sometimes have black in them, really glad you mentioned that, I do cut that out or just throw it away depending on how bad it is, pretty crappy the grower still bags those, sold in the grocery not at market.

You are so winsome and positive. Gardening has good and bad crops. Happy for your yield.

Great , I seed it in my garden ,and then i made moonshine with potatos , and this is 100% my product . Terrific . Yummy :)

Hi Katrina. Nice video of your Potato Reveal. You asked for feedback on this years potato harvest. Well, I hate to be controversial, but the potatoes I grew direct in the soil did better than the ones I grew in buckets! Both were Charlotte Second Earlies. The only difference was I used peat free compost for the bucket grown potatoes. Both lots were fed with liquid seaweed. That's gardening! Enjoy all your Allotment Tours.

That's nice, planting and harvesting a potato and sweet potato that's a sustainable

I had a really good potato year here in Germany. I had a variety that is ready for harvest near the end of July. And while the whole summer has been really wet the potato's didn't get blight. The tomato's did but much later, just in the last couple of weeks. So I'm really happy the potatoes were done and harvested way before that. I got 22kg from 14 plants, 1kg more than last year.

Take that compost and dump it into your compost bin or piles. That would provide the fuel that would kick start the process for getting your pile or bin going.

She is so adorable! And great information as well.

i wish i have many potatoes like this in my sack grown potatoes along with my sack grown gingers🤭👀

Love your attitude! Potatoes grown in pots are significantly better that grown in the ground. Wonderful

Hello love, Good on ya! I was nervous after the first potato reveal. It was all fantastic after that one. You entire face lit up and you were obviously happy and excited. I was very happy for you and loved your fabulous smile. I have missed seeing you and am thrilled to see you are OK and back on it again. Many thanks and blessings for you and the rest of your summer. bye for now!

Like watching someone open their birthday presents... Fun! Thanks for sharing! Glad you're feeling better!

Yes, I live in Poland and this year we had a very small crop of potatoes. I think it is because summer was very late and hot and sunny days in summer were only a few. We have 10 raised beds 120x120cm for potatoes . In the year 2020 we had 4 big baskets of potatoes ( we eat it in 4 months) now we had maybe one.

Outstanding crop, well done. My potato crop was good this year at my Allotment in Norfolk. I was totally inspired by the Thai lady who was on Gardeners World way back last year, she lived in Somerset. I grew Thai Cucumbers, Loofahs. Had a few Cucumbers. The Loofah climbers totally overwhelmed my greenhouse to the extent that I couldn't get inside it, lots of yellow flowers but no Loofahs. I will try again next year.

I always grow maincrop spuds in the ground as get a better sized crop. First and second earlies and Christmas potatoes, I grow in bags :)

You lucky look at your potatoes that is organic when you have to eat tham that is so nice thanks for sharing 😊

SMALL! I grew most in pots and they produced all small. The ones in the ground disappeared. To be fair, the ones in the pots disappeared also at the top.and I dumped them as you did to find mine. The ones in the garden - well I didn't search as I didn't even know where to begin - But my garden was cold and dry for a month even though I watered, then it rained for two months and was severely HOT here in Florida. Armadillos tossed the seedlings out to get to damp ground worms when I watered due to the drought. Then the rabbits ate the cukes and squash seedlings then the deer ate all the squash and sweet potato leaves even thought I started them all three times! Last year I had tons of okra and roselle and none this year due to animals. They must have been very hungry! Even the Green Stalks planted with bush cukes were destroyed by white flies once it started raining every single day, heavy rain and cloudy skies for most of days with abnormally high heat. This was not a great garden year for most people is what I've heard. You did great with your potatoes considering you got some food!.

Thanks for posting your maincrop harvest. Always fun to watch and see what emerges from the pots.

Nothing like a lovely thick crust baked potato with a little sour cream or some lovely mature cheddar on top. HAH, and then you said it. Looks like you also crave a Jacket potato. Im liking you and your hobby more by the minute. 😁

Love watching your channel, and love any mention of potatoes. Imagine my surprise then, with your maincrop potato reveal. Imagine more surprises when you gave a brief overview of the King Edward. And Lincolnshire. (We always thought your accent reminds us of a friend who is from Lincolnshire). Early spring here in Sydney (Australia), but we are growing some Royal Blue potatoes in pots and in a raised garden bed. Dutch Creams and King Edwards will be sought after next year to plant and harvest for sure. Glad you are back, and thank you for the videos that your subscribers derive so much enjoyment from :)

Cara great Irish potato with excellent resistant to blight.

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Happy to see your video. I have tried a different method and found successful, probably you can also give a try.. instead of filling the whole container with soil and compost, bone meal, fill a little above half of container. As the tuber forms keep backfilling the container with tiny wood hip/saw dust mix with soil. The filling will be airy, moist, preventing from drying. As the new tubers forms, you can backfill 5cm layers by layer. I got good results. Encourage every one to grow own food minimum possible

Great video! It looks like you have many weeds in your potatoe buckets. Here in Holland we are told to take out all the weeds early, otherwise they steel the nutients from the soil which could give you less and smaller potatoes.

My pots were definitely smallish this year. The ground was something else. Got loads of proper jacket potato sizes. Will definitely plant on the ground again next year!

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It has been a tough year, I think you still have got a beautiful harvest and maybe next year will be better!🧡

My pots still have green growth on them, so not harvesting yet. I’ve had some bad white fly damage and got some lacewing eggs which are hatching. But hopefully I will harvest a few spuds & yams in the next few days. I’ve only got 4 grow bags similar in size to your containers. Your harvest gives me encouragement!

The other side of the ocean has been a great year for potatoes and onions. I just throw mine on the ground and put hay over top seems to work well for me.

It seems everybody I've talked to has had a difficult gardening year. I did both last year and this year. I'm thinking I will need to adjust to find different crops or varieties next year to deal with the hotter (and smokier) summers we've had. Glad you still got a decent yield. Smiles are contagious.

Great vid. Informative, entertaining and to the point. No waffling. So refreshing.

Just found you! Loving the calming tone of your voice and all this information. I also find the potato harvest pleasing to watch.

Congrats! Any crop is a miracle, to me really. Exciting reveal. I appreciate your transparency and your on-camera wondering aloud :) Dave

If you don't have time to get down and water in the hot dry spells it's tough - I think you've done pretty well. The black plastic really heats up in the sun. I had a fantastic crop from my pink fir apples this year. 2 seeds per tub, just on concrete rather that on soil like yours but they're outside my back door so watering doesn't become a chore.

I planted potatoes for the first time in pots this year and had a really good crop of Kestrel. I will definitely be growing more of them next year.

Still a very respectable harvest! Thank you for sharing.

You have a lovely bag of tates there Katrina. Nice🙂

cracking crop well done katrina

Wow,nice harvest 😍

I grew in large grow bags this year and had the same problem with keeping them moist. I got a very small harvest from 6 large bags. However, I’m in zone 7 in the USA and have a longer growing season. So I took a few and planted them in the corners of my raised beds as an experiment. I pulled one just today that also looked like blight, and got 3-4 decent potatoes from it! The other plants are much healthier and so I’m waiting to see how they do when I pull them in another month or so. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Well done my dear, you did well.

Watching to see what variety gives the most in a container. Thank you.

What a bumper crop ! ! ! You are lucky to have grown potatoes in buckets . I am sowing potatoes in mid september

My harvest was also much smaller this year. Potato beetles were my problem. Thanks for sharing!

gonna dig mine up soon.. eat 7 of them last week and tasted Amazing

Beautiful harvest, God be praised. He always provides

Massive harvest 🥰 wow

Great harvest. Enjoy ! 👍

Looking awesome!!

We have grown Cara also and from the first 6 plants harvested we have some good large potatoes. Not a huge yield but pretty good. Enjoy baking them! We have also grown rocket 1st early, jazzy (like charlottes but seem to break up less when boiling) and acoustic, also a 2nd early which is very tasty and very high yielding. Enjoy

Love a potato harvest video! 😍🥔🥔

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I took mine out early but did very well. Cara are an excellent potato.

Looks like a happy harvest to me.

I won’t harvest my potatoes until the end of September hopefully a good crop but we’ve had a lot of rain lately. I’m planning on doing a video on it when I do harvest them. Last year’s potato dig was one of my favorite videos to make. Your crop looks good I’m hoping no blithe. Thank you for sharing with us

You're giving me an inspiration. Thanks for this nice video.

With so many difficulties, it was a great harvest, enjoy them (:

Nice harvest. thanks for sharing. Going to harvest my first bed of potatoes next dry day.

Nice Haul - Congratulations!

my maincrop harvest has been down this year also, Cara is also one of my favourites, managed to get a phew decent sized ones!

I live in Texas. It was so wet this Spring and Summer. I sprayed Neem oil on my plants when they started shooting up. I stopped spraying because it was useless with all the rain. My plants got really tall then earwigs made their way into the bottom part of the stem. The plants started toppling over and drying. I did manage to get some new red potatoes off 1 plant early on. The rest were duds not spuds. I was about to dump the compost and reuse it when I noticed a small potato plant emerging. It was probably from a tiny potato that I missed. I am crossing my fingers for fall potatoes.

Excellent harvest

Hi katrina it's Tina on daves ipad I've had a good tates crop I just use normal buckets as I can't manage the bigger ones (to many birthdays) and I've been feeding 5 of us since the end of May and still have 10 buckets to harvest no blight on them but my Christmas and new year tates had a bit of blight on the leaves which I kept picking off and for the last 2 days I've not had any to pick off the blighted tates are stood next to others that were unaffected and not far from my outdoor Tom's which are also fine lovely to see you last year's cara I think I will give them a go next year as I love a good jacket tate love the vlog

My have to try this !! enjoyed your video.

Maybe you should do a potato taste test one year like you did your chilli taste test. I enjoyed that video. A lot of growers making KZfaq make sowing/growing/harvesting videos but not so many taste tests. Say grow 3 similar types (e.g. 3 second early varieties) then do a cook and taste video once they're ready (as well as a yield comparison of course). It's my second year growing potatoes. I am absolutely sold on growing in containers have watched your videos and Simplify Gardening's videos. So many benefits. I had good success last year although I only grew one variety (Elfe). This year I am growing Sarpo Blue Danube (as I have heard they make great roast potatoes) and International Kidney AKA Jersey Royal just because Iove the taste and wanted a new potato as well as later one. Maybe I will try Cara next year. A few decent jacket sized potatoes would be nice.

Beautiful

Well done again. You did say when you planted that you might struggle this year because of the compost. I really like Kifler potatoes - they are the best for potato salad.

I had a great potato crop this season. 10 lbs of seed gave me 100 lbs back. I did mine in the ground and used cow manure from my neighbor

It looks to my non-professional eye that the low/almost no yield from the first bucket was mainly because of lack of water. You didn't mention if you irrigated or just relied on rain water but seeing that all the pots were in the same area, if they were all getting the same amount of water it seems 'jolly strange' as you English say.

nice harvest!

Thought 💭🤔 I was going to skip video tapping my red potato harvest. Now thanks to your comment, I'll make 😃😊 sure to post the 2022 showing of the Spud Southern California U.S.A KZfaq

Had to harvest mine a bit earlier than normal because of blight. Three different varieties in 11 tubs, 'Markies', 'Kifli' and 'Satanta' all performed well in terms of quantity but suffered a lot from scab but at least no slug damage!

Great upload 👍 thanks for sharing

Amazing what you can harvest out of a medium sized pot of potatoes 🙌🌱👍 thanks for sharing gives me hope as I have limited digging spaces living in a small house with a pebble Crete backyard ( no soil) I do have a square veg patch out the front I erected myself in the middle of my kitchen courtyard & a wheel barrow with herbs ; pots with a huge rhubarb ! ☝️thank you for your video and sharing your progress on different kinds 🧤👒🐨🦘🇦🇺Karen 🥰

Nice harvest. I planted 5 cara seed potatoes this year,4 in 2 30L containers and one in ground.The one in ground is just dying off now but has produced 40 or so berries.The ones in containers are still green and healthy looking with a few flowers. I was thinking of planting some of the true potato seed next year to hopefully produce my own seed potatoes for the following year. Might not work but fun to try. : } x

Picasso is another good one - its bred off Cara that gives a good sized tuber. As to compost I always used to use 50:50 peat (or peat free) and John innes. it makes them easier to water and holds a bit more nutrient. Add some Blood fish and Bone to your spent compost and use it for your Dahlia's :)

Great video!!!!

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So wonderful. So good with olive oil and spices tossed together with a salmon crochet and an IPA. Maybe a bit of grilled lemon pepper asparagus on the side.

they look goodxx

wow spudtastic

So good to see you looking stronger! Here in New England ( US), we are drowning in rain and an abundance of rodents from woodchucks to mice, chipmunks etc. and can we talk about rabbits? Mine are actually nesting in the garden! I replanted 3 times and finally threw in the towel. Only thing they don't bother is the peppers. sigh.... I should have planted potatoes.....oh wait, I found a mouse with a nest in my big pot.

great !

awesome channel. thank you

Very informative, thnx fr shring :)

Brill video hope no after effects of covid....think ill try cara next year....many thanks paul somerset

We grow in 5 gallon buckets and I make my own soil. Peet, black cow, perlite, potting mix, garden lime and Epsom salt.

Nice

I've got mixed results with potted potatoes. 1 got nothing(no even the seed potato), the plant grew really well and big, perhaps I watered too much. The other potted potatoes yielded about 7 lbs of 3 to 4 inches of potatoes and some fingerlings as well. The ones in the ground were a lot bigger and yielded about 20 lbs with 3 plants. There is one that did particularly well was in the hugelkultur grow bed, which coincidently contain more inputs than the other methods. I put logs and branches on the bottom, lined with clippings and manures to help with the decomposition. second layer I put in rock dust and native soil. The top layer I have finished composts, vermiculite, rock dusts, DR earths soil, peat and a portion of native soil. the 3x6 bed had garlic, onion, lettuce, brassicas, shiso and the potato plant that grew in there last spring was a volunteer. They all grew very well. The only issue I saw in that bed was roly polies or pill bugs and a few cabbage moths caterpillars which the birds kept them in check. I am letting the rest of the plants go to seeds and dress up the soil in November and plant garlics again and see if it will create any problem next year. Sorry for rambling on, the focus was potatoes. Just yesterday I was inspecting the bed and found another volunteer potato plant came up! probably did not dig wide enough on my last harvest 2 months ago. 😃

Great spuds

Very nice gaeden

I like it