5 Tips for a Continuous Potato Harvest from Late Spring to Early Fall (Zone 5)

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We use 5 strategies to create a continuous potato harvest from late spring through early fall from our zone 5 garden. You can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20 5 Strategies for a continuous potato harvest from late spring to early fall: 1) 0:48 - Start planting before the last frost 2) 2:00 - Grow early, mid, and late season potatoes 3) 3:03 - Succession plant potatoes with similar days to maturity 4) 3:55 - Harvest new potatoes 5) 4:28 - Grow in grow bags 5:41 - Oscar's Cameo One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost and mulch. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution

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Which potato varieties grow underground and which grow up the vine and need to be covered so that they are not exposed to sunlight?

Your kitty looks like batman!

In zone 7, I plant my potatoes 5 weeks before the last frost under protection, about February 20

I bet because you harvest some of the potatoes and leave the rest you get more consistent larger potatoes then if you would have harvested the whole plant all at once. Maybe I am wrong but I would think if you find a larger potato and harvest that then the plant could put more energy into the smaller ones that are left behind.

Thanks for all you efforts! Greatly appreciated. How many sq. ft. Does you garden consist of?

Great video! Love the concept. In Australia we call it bandicooting (I presume after the bandicoot animal) when we dig around the potato plant and gather some early potatoes before they all are ready for harvest.

So you just go to the store to get the potatoes that you want to grow and put them in the ground to grow. I gonna have to try it

You must have a good source that sells small amounts of seed potatoes. I was a long while finding one in Canada but I have been buying from Eagle Creek in Alberta for a couple of years now and it is great to be able to grow a variety of potatoes.

I would love to know what the potato varieties are that you show at the end of the video.

Great Tips ! I love potatoes and have grown them and harvested them....in warehouse quantities in North Dakota when working for a corporation. But growing them in a private garden brings just as much fun.

I stagger potatoes, too. I've got a few grow bags of potatoes I haven't dug up, because I have potatoes in the kitchen. Just leaving them there. Wow, seeing you without a baseball cap..that's a first, haha! Well, now I guess I won't be doing a potato episode, haha, you have covered it all here. Do you have a vid that talks about what you cover them with, besides worm castings...? Thumbs up!

Fantastic video! I was debating my strategies for potatoes with my husband, this video really helped...thank you xx

I need to adopt this strategy. I struggle to get out of the mindset of getting one big harvest of eveything...aka the way I was taught. Thanks for the info. If nothing else it gets people to think in a different way. Thanks for your channel. I learn more from here than anywhere else on youtube. I appreciate all the work you put into it.

love your soil

Thank you, Patrick, for the great ideas. Planting in March is wonderful. Did you put the row cover over the plastic or under? Did you double hoop it so there was a air gap between the plastic and the row cover?

Patrick, your garden is looking better than ever my friend! I haven't been keeping up much with your progress (or updating my own) this year because of work and trying to grow my other channel, but every time I come back and see one of your videos it makes me realize how much work I didn't get done... but at least I can live vicariously through your garden, lol. Keep up the good work!

Your videos are the ones I learn the most. Unfortunately, due to all the flooding early in my season, then the HEAT (I'm in Louisiana), my potatoes were almost a complete failure. Oh, well. Better luck next year! Maybe I can find some for a late season planting after it cools a bit. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!

Another excellent video you really should be on the TV : ))

Not in Zone 5 over here but this is GREAT info, I am passing it along.

I am in zone 5 and plant them as I dig them. They are under the wood chips all winter and pop up in spring and I get them all summer and fall. Then it starts all over again