Harvesting Rooster potatoes from grow bag - Gardening with Brendan - video Dailymotion

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There's something very satisfying about going out into the garden with a bucket or basin and picking vegetables and fruit grown by your own hand.  Here is the results of the few seed Rooster potatoes planted out a few months ago.

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00:00what we're going to be doing is basically these are some of the potatoes the seed potatoes that

00:14I sold earlier in the year and these are a rooster variety an Irish potato we've got a

00:22bucket here I don't know how this is turned out but for all of us tell me that you know

00:27when the potatoes are ready to harvest because the foliage starts dying back and as you can see a

00:33lot of this foliage has already died so I'm hoping I can see a few poking out here already they're

00:41quite small but at least they grew so there's two straight off the bat at the top of the mound now

00:50all I've done I've grown two different varieties of potatoes Kelly's and these roosters in these

00:57grow bags so we'll tip it out onto here and then see how it went just leave that over there for now

01:07and it's been a good year generally for things like fruit and vegetables well I'll just do

01:18we actually is pull out the plants first there's another potato there's some quite tiny ones here

01:30so some of these may not have been ready to harvest yet but most of them have died so we'll just have a

01:37look you can see well they're quite small it's quite a small space and I'm growing them in but just

01:47you can see there

01:50and I got these seed potatoes in a gardening center ah yep you can see some of them these are the seed

02:09potatoes here that were on the roots of those some of them are actually in mush so I may have left them

02:18too long some of them are still growing actually as well so this greener plants those ones don't seem

02:30to be ready yet there's one that one's growing roots as well so I may put some of these plants back in

02:40actually but let's see yeah there's the actual seed potatoes so throw that away yeah some of them are still

02:53growing little baby potatoes um but most of them have died off so we'll have a look here

03:02you can see all the little baby potatoes growing on it so I may shove that in with the others

03:20ah and here's two potatoes must have been the wrong you can see the difference there those are white

03:28potatoes so must have been one of the seed potatoes from the other bag got in there so here we have

03:36some honesty that needs to get into the ground for next year now this was sown last year but it didn't

03:42flower this year so it walled next year and honesty came in really only performs good in the ground

03:50so what I'll do is

04:06I'll just puff it

04:13because the grow bag is basically gone I'm going to just replant some of these

04:19and here and maybe get another harvest out of them

04:22so

04:48all right it's very good soil actually so and this is just compost there's no nothing special on it

04:59and I probably should have been feeding these a lot more I don't think I ever fed them

05:06but they still come on ground and we've still got a bucket there with a lot of potatoes on it

05:12so all I'm going to do now is replant these ones that are still green

05:24let's see if we get an hour harvest then

05:26let's see if you can see that that's the seed potato that's gone right now

05:40it's done it's done it's job

05:53still got this one and this one I've still a couple here so we'll get them in somewhere else

06:01and this whole compost there I will reuse I will just put it on

06:15up of the bed here behind me

06:17waste nothing

06:31so then we'll probably get another harvest from this one

06:46and these ones as well so we need another pot for these I might even put them on the raised bed up

06:52here

07:08right

07:12I'll just show you now what we have so a whole host of smallish potatoes these are rooster potatoes

07:18good to go

Harvesting Rooster potatoes from grow bag - Gardening with Brendan

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