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Q5: Welcome to Amish Style Gardening. Harvesting and curing of potatoes - August 2026 Need a curing room - nearly ready to harvest spuds... My first attempt 2 grow bags yielded 15 potatoes, small chook egg size. That is 5 spuds per plant, and immature in size.
Another 3 weeks to go. Skin is firm. But size is small - more water to fill them. No water in the last 2 weeks of finishing.
This curing room will hold 3000 spuds for curing to get thicker skin for storage. Might make it 2.4 by 3.0 m instead? Also maintain temperatures at less than 25 degrees. Also maintain humidity at 80 to 90 % Plan to have a light, as room is in the dark - blankets - or light depending upon what the room function is - seedling - chitting or curing. 12Volt fans to remove humidity ans fungus as the curing air is ventilated. Need solar panels, batteries and stuff like that. The room serves three functions. Better use of the room. Shelves inside wire netting and sand bed.
The curing of the current King Edward potatoes - leave them in their bags / soil They are covered to exist at high humidity and low temperatures at night Notice the straw keeping the spuds frost free. Maybe a better curing room might work - but this is the simplest method so far. I am trying to make the growing as simple as possible.
Other potatoes still immature and growing.
Removed a metal box to make room for curing room / also chitting room / also seedling room. See red rectangle outline. Also new metal box coming along - number 13. (red arrow) Might have to wire netting the whole 13 boxes due to birds eating leaves etc.
A view of the new shed. (second arrow) A view of the new osarge orange tree from Canada, insecticide tree. Cut branches and cure poke in ground - repels all insects from garden. Exudes an oil chemical inside the wood for years. Be careful the old wild orange is toxic and has spikes.
A view of the shed coming along. The shed is 3.0m wide and 2.4 m deep and 2.0 m high. The metal floor makes the shed rat proof - to be covered with cement and sand.
Mixing flour over the metal boxes with milk powder in 4 :1 ratio Adding molasses brew in watering can. Like so
Garden hoed over the straw compost material, nice earthy smell, adding air to the material.
Inside the new seedling shed Empty pots ready for soil mix and corn seed.
Other view of inside seedling shed Water humidifier - a towel in water
Outside of the seedling shed - with fridge door to make water tight seal Metal floor, with cement - rat proof Plastic roof with shadecloth
View of flour. milk powder in metal boxes - before molasses is added, also urea for Nitrogen
Close up of flour/milk powder/overturned straw material Feed the microbes and make the compost faster. to be continued -
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