How to Harvest Potato Towers

Tips, Tricks

1. Hi Becky, the cages worked well, I think I'll put clips on the cages so I can push them apart easier.
2. What an ass...
3. Normally you should wait until they have flowered and the tops have died back before the harvest , but well done for your efforts , My wife and I just moved from the UK to 12 acres in France and are doing a similar lifestyle , we love your channel
4. I think Doodle is terrific. I miss Donk so much.
5. these tutorials really help, especially when it doesn't go perfect and we get to see the true results.  That's a win / win for we all learn easier from mistakes.  I have saw some potato barrels on here that looked liked the taters were put in the barrels just before the big filmed harvest.  none of us learn anything.  Becky is real that's why I am a subscriber.  She really knows how to homestead and is dong a great service to pass on so this knowledge can be preserved.
6. she can grow the taters and fry them too.  what a women.
7. I would make them a little rounder.... then build up the dirt and rich material around the stalk as it grows up. The potatoes grow off the roots and the plant always wants to go up. it will always go up. Potatoes grow off the new growth in the stem. Never stop learning and perfecting! You are awesome :D
8. I have a couple of tomato towers can i use those for potatoes
9. Harvest when vines die back.
10. A little late but here is my potato experience:
    
    First time- Threw some sprouting grocery store taters in the ground and left them for a long time and got a tone of potatoes. I grew cocky and felt like the master of potato growing.
    
    Second time-I purchased early season (80-90 days to maturity) and planted away. I got potatoes but not as many.
    
    Third time- Threw some store bought sprouting potatoes in a potato growing sack hoping to increase production by growing vertically. I was dissapointed with yields.
    
    I finally decided to RESEARCH. I ready that long to mid season potatoes will grow more roots as you hill more dirt on the plant thus getting more potatoes in a vertical growing space. The short season varieties don't do this and I've read that they may not even flower. This season I will be choosing long season taters for my growing bags.
11. The soil looks too dry. Should you have watered them a little more.
12. Great video , nice potatoe towers. I have never been able to get anything to grow so am learning all i can from gardeners like you all. My favorite video's to learn from are yours, Praxxus712 , and gardenforktv. Little by little am learning from all of you. GOD bless you and yours .
13. When you want to harvest, cut the greens first and wait a while for the skins to toughen. They will keep longer. Frost naturally kills the greens in colder areas but in FL that may never happen ;) This was last year, so my apologies for the redundancy if you've already learned this tip by now.
14. do I start to plant in FEB and harvest in May??
15. you should really consider growing sweet potato slips this way, I'm gonna try it if.  Less digging that way.
16. You will know its time to harvest when either the tops die off or they bolt and go to seed.
17. u r cool....love your videos....
18. Hi Becky, I just subscribed, I really like your intro and your videos, so I had to subscribe. Great Personality :D     Becky ; A thought for you potato towers, have you considered making U hooks when you wrap wire together, so when your harvesting your potato crop you can simply unhook stake open and easily pick your crop?
    Thanks for the idea, I will be trying this, as I currently have some planted in the ground and not too deep hope I get a few at least lol.
19. Hi Becky love your simple, to the point videos. I am going to try the potato cage this year. Although I have the space to grow lots of them, the cages have boundaries and I like that.  Can't wait to get my hands in there at harvest time and find those potatoes.