🥔 My Third Sowing of Potatoes: Purple Caribe
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I am making my third sowing of potatoes today. I will be sowing purple caribe potatoes in large containers. Purple Caribe are one of my favourite potatoes. They are purple skinned with creamy white flesh. Purple Caribe potatoes are early maturing so they make a quick turn around from planting to harvest. These potatoes also tend to be very high yielding. I find I don't get as large of yields when growing potatoes in containers, but it is still a good option if your in ground space is limited. Growing in containers also means you can move the pots around to get the best growing conditions or to protect plants from early frosts or storms. I will show give youapvice to get the most from your container grown potatoes as well as show you a trick to pre starting seed potatoes while you wait for garden space to become available.
I grow flowers and vegetables in Saskatchewan, Canada. My cold hardiness zone is zone 4. I have an average of 110 frost free growing days each year. The past few years have seen our temperatures go as low as -37C (-34.6F) to as high as 37C (98.6F). Come see what and how I grow in these conditions.
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Nice video
I can't get enough of garden-fresh baby potatoes! What a treat!! Trying Caribe, French Fingerlings and German butterballs this year! All are delicious so far! They all sprouted and grew their greens at the same time, but the butterball spuds are taking longer to grow, while the other two are pretty quick!
@PrairiePlantgirl
2 күн бұрын
All good choices! Fresh potatoes are amazing!
11:30 LOVE that repurposed jug made in to a scoop. Very nice.
@PrairiePlantgirl
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
Howdy, Prairie Plantgirl and handsome Buster!🙋🏾♀️ Great video. I never heard anyone speak on keeping the roots cool...it makes sense. Thanks! At the start of the year, I'm itching to plant something. We sow potatoes around February 14th. I start them early indoors in small pots...I saw a British gardener do it years ago. As you say, it works well.👩🏾🌾 The heat is on here...starting to hit 100 with the heat index being 11 degrees higher. I sowed my sprouted cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower seeds...they are up and growing on my grow shelf.🌱 This year seems to be going by quickly! 😃 Your garden looks like it is really taking off!👍 Wishing you nothing but warm days!💕
@PrairiePlantgirl
Ай бұрын
100 degrees! Stay cool!
I have most of my potatoes in pots as well. Last year I reclaimed a bed where lily-of-the-valley was growing. Those potatoes did ok but this year they are doing even better. The seed potatoes were supermarket spuds that had started to sprout in the bag. It sounds crazy but these are the healthiest plants I have! I bought a 5 pound bag of potatoes at the market last week and they taste pretty bad-too old! I’m not buying any more-I can’t wait until my new potatoes are ready!
@PrairiePlantgirl
Ай бұрын
Home grown potatoes are better and healthier than any I’ve ever purchased. I’m impressed you were able to reclaim space from lily-of-the-valley.
This is my first year seriously growing potatoes - I tried a couple years ago, but did not research much, just plonked some in pots/grow bags and didn't get a great harvest. So I just put in all the potatoes I had in one go, for some reason successions didn't occur to me. Do you keep the potatoes you get in spring in the basement and take some out every month to sprout, or buy more later? Thanks!
@PrairiePlantgirl
Ай бұрын
You can replant from the current year’s harvest (or past years). Part of my successions is due to availability of the varieties of seed potatoes, part is because I don’t have space to plant them all at once, part is so I am storing less potatoes harvested in July all the way until next year.
@matchynishi
Ай бұрын
@@PrairiePlantgirl makes sense! I got a health issue that started in the winter that is making a big impact on how much I can garden, so this succession wave of potatoes will work very well as I can take my time with it. Thank you for the idea and explanation!
@PrairiePlantgirl
Ай бұрын
I’m glad this idea helps you to continue gardening at a new pace.