How to Know When Your Potatoes Are Ready
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are grown throughout the world as a nutritious, convenient, shelf-stable food. Potatoes are the #1 most-consumed vegetable in the Americas, Europe, and Asian countries. I cannot imagine life without potatoes, can you?
Potato cultivars vary in appearance, days to maturity, growth requirements, and culinary qualities. If you live in a temperate climate region like I do, your potatoes planted in late April will be ready for harvesting from mid-summer through early fall.
You’ll have the best results with your potato harvest if you choose cultivars best suited for your local growing conditions and culinary interests.
Learn More: Harvesting Potatoes: How to Know When Your Potatoes Are Ready
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my potato loving friends. It is your boy, potato daddy here. |
| 0:05.6 | Kevin Espiritu from Epic Gardening. I'm having some fun with today's intro and it's because I love |
| 0:10.8 | potato so much. If you followed along with me on my Apocalypse Grow challenge, |
| 0:15.2 | you will know that potatoes stole my heart |
| 0:18.5 | because that's really most of what I ate that month |
| 0:21.5 | because it's the easiest thing to grow in 90 days that actually |
| 0:24.8 | has a lot of calories, right? |
| 0:26.3 | But today we're talking about how to know when your potatoes are actually ready to go. |
| 0:31.1 | I did a lot of potato content on YouTube as well as |
| 0:33.7 | Instagram and I got a lot of messages from people saying how do I know if it's |
| 0:37.1 | ready here's a picture of my potatoes so let's go ahead and just dig |
| 0:40.9 | into it so first of all let's talk about how potatoes are actually grown. |
| 0:45.8 | What are the growth phases of potatoes? So the first phase, there are five different phases. |
| 0:50.6 | The first phase is when sprouts emerge from the seed potatoes and the growth of the new roots starts. |
| 0:57.0 | So that's phase one. |
| 0:58.0 | During the second phase, the plant is throwing up that initial first shoot, right? |
| 1:02.7 | So it's developing leaves, it's developing branches, |
| 1:05.3 | and now it has the ability to photosynthesize |
| 1:08.2 | and produce more energy and really speed up that growing process. |
| 1:12.1 | In the third phase, have new tuber development. |
| 1:16.4 | Tubers are swellings of the stolons of a tomato or a potato plant, excuse me, although they |
| 1:20.9 | are in the same family, usually the potato plant will develop flowers |
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