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Growing Potato is easy, fun and a great way to start a garden. Potato basically can be planted and forgotten until harvest time... BUT, potato needs a good start. Some people make it more complicated: Chitting, dividing, buying seed potato online, or more complex steps... Potato can be very easy.
Follow along as I show you the easiest way to get started with Starting Potato!
Most of you know, I prefer locally grown food. It's healthier for my family, and for the planet. In fact, I prefer to grow my own food. I know what goes into my foods, and what chemicals are NOT in my food. Also, It cuts down on carbon emissions, less trucking to get fresh foods to my table.
And that makes me smile... better for the planet, better for my own family.
Are you growing your own Potato? If so, what kind? Do you want to but not sure HOW to Get Started?
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This was interesting 🤔. I've never seen a red potato 🥔! My friend left potatoes in her cupboard once when she went on vacation. She came back to potatoes growing through the splits in the cupboard and doors 😂. We ended up planting them and she had a lovely harvest at the end.
Thanks for sharing 🥔
Cool! The pic above?
It has from LEFT to RIGHT:
Russert (brown skin w/ white flesh)
Red Bliss (red skin /w white flesh) My Garlic Smashed Potato Recipe!
1 Purple Potato (Purple Skin, white flesh)
bunch of Purple Peruvian (Purple Flesh and Skin)
Red Fingerlings (Red skin yellowish flesh)
Red Carolina (Red skin, white flesh)
Yukon Gold (gold-ish skin and flesh)
Russert is typical baking. yukon gold is a typical boiling.
The rest I leave the skin on and use for mashed! Sometimes for chips
I never knew there was so many different potatoes 🥲. I've been missing out... I love mashed potatoes 😋 and potato bake. I'll have a look and see if we can find red potatos here in Bloemfontein, but we don't have organic stores or cool veggie markets here 😅
You can use potato from regular store, it just may take longer to get the eyes to grow (chit).
I'd mail one from here, but I imagine a gazzillion rules being broken to do that.
I think we will end up being in trouble with many different world organisation 🤣. And the potatoes might start growing in the mail 🤭
I will label it "Nothing Illegal In Here. Do Not Look"
that'll take care of it
😌 That is a brilliant idea
I am from a countryside. As a kid we had a field of potatoes that would last us almost a whole year. Us an some for the piggies we had back then too.
The pain was to harvest them... manually! It was a two days job for the whole family and few friends that came to help.
But yea - own food and we knew what's in it.
right now, I grow in 3 bags of 25 gallon soil, and replant twice. Thats about 100 liters each. I plant all 3 middle march, and end of june replant, then harvest end of October. when I was a kid, I helped a cousin pick potato at his farm... follow along behind tractor and pick them up. UNTIL once, I picked up a bee hive, thinking it was a potato. NOT my favorite day ever. From the stings, my hand and arm ended up being the size of a large log. BAD DAY.
So that's probably very similar to what we were doing.
Except the bee hive :D
We don't do it anymore either. Just a small plot in the garden to have som fresh one every year. Nothing more.
I strongly recommend skipping the Bee Hive. A lot.
I'll keep that in mind 😂
Oh, so potatoes can be grown in a container? I haven't seen a potato plant before but I have seen that of cocoyam because I have them around.
Thanks for sharing this video, how long did it take to harvest and would you have had more potatoes if they weren't in a container?
As always, more grow in bigger spaces... but I plant a lot, and all in containers to get the best soil. My soil is very sandy otherwise and not great for growing.
5 gallon (20 liters) bucket (like the white kind you see on construction sites) is small maybe only plant 1 or 2 potato.
I grow in 25 gallon. About 100 liters. Plant 5 or so. I plant on March 17th. and harvest last week June, and replant a potato immediately in June for a second harvest End of October. I usually harvest 1 container a week, replant, harvest next container next week, replant, harvest my 3rd container, the third week. You could harvest every two weeks to let them potato stay in ground and get bigger a little.
It is admirable what you are doing for your family's diet, you are right to smile, it sure feels good to know that you are eating a 100% natural potato. We live in Peru, this country produces at least four thousand types of potatoes, it is impressive.
We loved your post. Greetings!
Do you have a favorite potato from your Country? Mine is called Peruvian Purple! I grew quite a few.
Wow, we didn't know that one, even though thousands of types are grown here, we had not seen that purple one. We particularly like the Criolla Potato, it's multifunctional and for mashing it's great.
Always endless choices and something NEW to try!
Interesting about the eye grow inhibitor. I wasn't aware of that. Go Bruins 😉
The chain stores, like Star Market, Stop and Shop, etc use the inhibitor. EXCEPT on Organic produce. So, get the Organic Potato for starter seed potato.
And yes, GO B's!
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Wow! That’s simple for me to follow. I did try to grow potato in a bucket a few years ago. When I harvested the plant, there’s hardly any potatoes inside the bucket! The plants looked green and big but no potatoes. I should try again and make sure I get organic ones!