Up next in 10
How to Harvest Christmas Potatoes | Festive Tips from an Allotment Gardener
7K views
Nov 10, 2024
🥔 Harvesting Christmas Potatoes: Tips and Tricks from an Allotment Gardener! There’s nothing like digging up your own homegrown spuds just in time for the festive feast! 🎅🌱 In this special seasonal video, I share my top tips for harvesting Christmas potatoes — when to dig them up, how to check they’re ready, and how to store them for the big day. Whether you're growing in bags, containers, or the ground, this guide will help you get perfect potatoes for your plate. Have you grown Christmas spuds this year? #ChristmasPotatoes #FestiveHarvest #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentGardening #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #WinterHarvest #HomegrownChristmas
View Video Transcript
0:00
hey everyone and welcome back to
0:01
gardening with Ben well we're harvesting
0:04
our Christmas potatoes
0:06
[Music]
0:25
today yes I know it's only November but
0:28
the plants have died off as you seen in
0:30
my previous tour videos so we planted
0:33
these around beginning of August hoping
0:36
to harvest them around Christmas time
0:37
but the plants have died off now so it's
0:40
ready to get them harvested so let's
0:42
stay tuned and let's see whether we've
0:44
had a success or we've had a failure
0:47
fingers crossed we've had a success but
0:50
yeah you will be with me along this
0:52
journey to see how well we've actually
0:54
done with
0:55
them so these are my Christmas potatoes
0:58
as you can see the plants have died off
1:01
we've got four different types of
1:03
potatoes in here we've got M pot M Piper
1:08
we've got jacket
1:09
potatoes we've got an
1:12
allrounder and we've got a baking potato
1:14
as well now these we didn't buy them
1:17
from the garden center we bought them
1:18
from Tesco we just used normal potatoes
1:21
and yeah let's see if we have actually
1:25
had a success so we need to take these
1:27
outside to empty them out cuz we don't
1:29
want to empty it all in the poly tunnel
1:31
and see what we've actually grown so are
1:35
you excited because I know I certainly
1:38
am fingers crossed we have some potatoes
1:40
in these
1:41
hopefully thing is about growing
1:43
Christmas potatoes is that you usually
1:46
plant them around August time but you
1:48
have to plant them indoors as it gets
1:51
colder and the frost or the cold weather
1:54
will kill the plants off so that's why
1:57
we've grown them in boxes we've grown
1:58
them in the poly tunnel so where it's
2:00
warmer obviously we've had to keep them
2:02
watered and yeah we grew all our normal
2:06
potatoes in boxes as well this year and
2:08
they did absolutely fantastic if you saw
2:10
them we had so many potatoes from them
2:12
yes it cost quite a bit for the compost
2:14
and stuff like that but we had a good
2:16
success and they tasted absolutely
2:18
fantastic in the air fry so let's stop
2:21
blabbing on and let's have a look see
2:23
how well we've going on now they were
2:25
heavy lifting them out wow whether it's
2:28
because they were wet because there's
2:30
lots of potatoes in them we'll soon see
2:33
so yeah the best thing about growing
2:34
them in boxes is that you don't stab
2:37
them when you dig them out
2:39
and there's less chance of them getting
2:42
wi worm and stuff and loads of holes in
2:44
them so hopefully we're going to have
2:47
some produce in these potatoes so let's
2:51
do the first
2:53
one now the first one we're going to
2:55
harvest is Maris Piper hopefully fingers
2:58
crossed a good crop let's have a
3:07
[Applause]
3:15
look see if there's any potatoes in have
3:18
this rotten ones whether there's any
3:20
potatoes in it that is a question
3:37
hey everyone it's gardening with Ben
3:38
here a short little advert in between
3:40
the video that you are watching just a
3:42
reminder to keep listening to my
3:44
podcasts available on Spotify Amazon
3:48
Alexa Apple anywhere you can listen to
3:52
podcasts on just search for gardening
3:54
with Ben and you will find lots of new
3:56
episodes posted on a regular basis for
3:59
you to listen to so if you're not
4:00
listening to my podcast go and have a
4:02
listen to them and make sure you give
4:04
them a follow as well let's get back to
4:06
the episode oh
4:10
dear that one has been a total
4:18
failure oh is it we've got a few got one
4:23
two
4:26
three six seven
4:30
we have to check because we don't want
4:31
to miss any although start growing all
4:34
over my
4:36
plot so yeah complete failure that one
4:40
not done well at all with that like I
4:43
said I'm an honest Gardener we show you
4:46
success and
4:48
failure let's have a look in the next
4:50
one jacket potatoes
5:04
[Music]
5:07
whoa
5:09
success absolute
5:11
success that's made me
5:16
happier look at them ones not as big as
5:19
jacket potatoes but they're perfect them
5:24
ones absolutely fantastic now that's the
5:27
original ones I put in so we don't want
5:33
them absolutely Lo in this
5:39
one that's made me happier that's made
5:41
this video
5:43
worthwh let's get all these ones
5:46
out these are the jacket potato ones
5:49
which I harvested quite a few out of
5:51
that one happy with that not L but it's
5:55
good enough for me so next on to the
5:59
baking
6:01
take this don't seem very
6:09
heavy Oh Come
6:15
minute got some dly
6:20
ones oh yes not size of the baking
6:24
potatoes that were planted but got lots
6:28
of little small ones so these are
6:31
certainly get
6:33
eaten but yeah there's loads of
6:37
these I have these in my air fry these
6:39
ones look look the little ones com
6:47
out maybe I should have watered these a
6:49
bit more really probably that's the
6:52
thing with growing them indoors you have
6:53
to keep them watered absolutely alerts
6:56
coming out of this one
7:01
so this one's been a good
7:03
success that's the thing we're doing it
7:05
on a video showing you whether we've
7:08
successfully done it or not but like I
7:10
said I'm an open and honest Gardener
7:13
I'll show you success the
7:19
fails that's the thing about gardening
7:22
is that you do have failures things
7:24
don't always go to plan
7:29
I'm just getting all Diddy ones out as
7:31
well because like I say if we leave them
7:33
in they'll start growing plants next
7:35
year the piles building up lots and
7:38
potatoes coming out we're just going to
7:40
P them all together it don't matter
7:41
about separated them what variety they
7:42
are we'll still stick them all in air
7:44
fryer and just eat them as Chi
7:47
it oh this one's ever but yeah we're on
7:51
to the last one last one of the potatoes
7:54
so fingers crossed we have another
7:56
success
8:01
wow this one's wet this one but I can
8:04
see lots of potatoes in there absolutely
8:07
love of
8:08
potatoes which is a good sign
8:14
spiders oh yeah plenty in
8:19
here so let's get all these ones out so
8:23
overall we've done pretty well out of
8:25
them four boxes one were a complete
8:26
failure at the mouse Pipers but the
8:28
others did well well they're a decent
8:30
size and yeah they'll do well for
8:32
chippies
8:34
then so there we are we washed them all
8:36
up and they look absolutely fantastic
8:38
well L of that one that one's G green
8:40
they're poisonous green ones but yeah
8:43
hopefully we'll have some nice chippies
8:45
out of
8:47
them so I hope you've enjoyed that video
8:49
like I said I'm an honest Gardener I'll
8:51
show you whether stuff works whether it
8:53
fails and I'm happy we've had pretty
8:56
good success one absolutely failed but
8:59
the the others did absolutely fantastic
9:01
yes probably I should have maybe watered
9:03
them more to make them grow bigger but
9:06
we've got a decent Harvest and we'll be
9:08
having chippies for the next month from
9:11
how many we've got from them so yeah
9:14
success all around if you don't follow
9:17
me do give me a follow give it a like
9:19
leave your comments in the box below as
9:21
well so until next time everyone
9:23
remember keep smiling keep shining and
9:26
keep gardening with everyone
#Cooking & Recipes
#Healthy Eating
#Home & Garden