My Potato Harvest not too bad

[moonwolf]

well, finally I uncovered the mulch to get the final tally from my 'no till' potato patch. It's a total of 180 lb. from 5 rows of 25 ft. each.



Yukon gold. Some upwards of 2 lb.

[DoubleD]

Looks good moonwolf! How is the soil doing in your no till garden? Do you have alot of worm activity?

[moonwolf]

Originally Posted by DoubleD

Looks good moonwolf! How is the soil doing in your no till garden? Do you have alot of worm activity?

Oh my gosh! I forgot to mention about the earthworms. Can't help to notice how many are under that mulch working the soil like mini tillers. The potatoes are easy to harvest and cleaner than digging out of the dirt. I just love this method. Now I have to do some fall fertilizing to give the soil a boost for next year's planting. Gonna rake up a bunch of pine needles, chopped corn stalks and mix that over with the staw chicken manure bedding from the poultry shack. Cover that over with what grass mulch is there and let it decay with the help of those earthworms I'm hoping that will keep the patch in good shape.

[elkhound]

looks good moonwolf.my taters are dug ..had a o.k. harvest of them but hope for much better next year for sure.keep up the good work.

[sammyd]

Our kennebecs under the mulch did quite well this year, the yukons did well, but the pontiacs were disappointingly small.

Sure is easier to fork off some mulch than to fork up dirt isn't it?

[COSunflower]

My Yukon Gold did good too and my reds also for that matter. I still have to dig my Russian Fingerlings. I have a big spot that has alot of grass mulch from a previous year that I'm going to add my winters bunny cage shavings to. MW - if I put down my potato sets on it next spring, can I add GREEN mulch over them? Or maybe put down some old straw first and then the green mulch???

[HazyDay]

Moon Wolf, where abouts in Canada do you live?? Any wheres near NB? NS? PEI??

[turtlehead]

Was a poor year for potatoes here. Decent quantity but very small potatoes. It was SO dry, that's the only thing I can think of that was different from last year. Plus I rotate and this year's bed was heavy clay, which potatoes just hate but heck you gotta get it into shape somehow, right?

I have one 4' x 30' bed and only got about 45-50 pounds I guess. I also had a little bit of wormwood in that bed so 4' x 25' was probably actually potatoes. I planted Yukon Gold, Carola, and Rose Finn Apple fingerling. The Carola did the best but still small.

[MoonShine]

I like the looks of your setup there,Moonwolf. It looks like they would be easy to harvest. I plant in hills,in a traditional row style garden. By harvest time,the ground is so hardened,they're very hard to dig up(without cutting into the potatoes by accident).

Anyway,I haven't harvested mine yet this year....I just gravel out however many I need at a time. Will probably harvest them all before the month is over,though.

[moonwolf]

Originally Posted by HazyDay

Moon Wolf, where abouts in Canada do you live?? Any wheres near NB? NS? PEI??

Northwestern Ontario