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Yield from potatoes and onions
Looking at doing my first SFG (any garden really), and I am wondering what the expected yield for an onion plant and potato plant is.
mark.curole- Posts : 3
Join date : 2011-04-24
Location : LaFayette, GA
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
For onions you get one onion for each onion you plant. They aren't multipliers.
For potatoes you can get up to 10 times as many potatoes as you plants. Sometime you get more and sometimes you get much less, but 10 times is about average. Potatoes are a finicky crop.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
For potatoes you can get up to 10 times as many potatoes as you plants. Sometime you get more and sometimes you get much less, but 10 times is about average. Potatoes are a finicky crop.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
dizzygardener- Posts : 668
Join date : 2011-01-26
Location : WNC 6b
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
Hi Mark and Welcome!
I agree with dizzygardener. I haven't done potatoes before, but I got a 1 for 1 yeild from my onions last year. Best wishes to you!!
I agree with dizzygardener. I haven't done potatoes before, but I got a 1 for 1 yeild from my onions last year. Best wishes to you!!
nancy- Posts : 595
Join date : 2010-03-16
Location : Cincinnati, Ohio (6a)
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
I use 10x minimum as a potato yield. They grow like weeds for me in the ground or even a 6 inch SFG box. I haven't had consistent results in stacked tires, boxes, or garbage cans.
I had wanted to avoid the onion part of the question because it gets into slips, sets, and seeds oh my! But, there are multiplier onions. Ander introduced them to us last year, and some of us purchased them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Mine should be ready to harvest in a couple months, but until then, I can't offer much more.
http://www.southernexposure.com/perennial-onions-multiplier-potato-onions-c-120_219.html
I had wanted to avoid the onion part of the question because it gets into slips, sets, and seeds oh my! But, there are multiplier onions. Ander introduced them to us last year, and some of us purchased them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Mine should be ready to harvest in a couple months, but until then, I can't offer much more.
http://www.southernexposure.com/perennial-onions-multiplier-potato-onions-c-120_219.html
multipliers
There are some rare onions that multiply mine are called Egyptian Travelers that do just that, they spread everywhere you don't want them to. The division occurs atop the stalks forming clusters of new small ones. Somehow mysteriously they do show up in odd places making new colonial starts.
westie42- Posts : 512
Join date : 2011-03-22
Age : 82
Location : West Union, Iowa
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
ooooooOOOOOOoooooo!!!
Multiplying onions?! I'll have to get some for next year. How exciting.
In the meantime, I have Shallots in. They multiply as well.
Multiplying onions?! I'll have to get some for next year. How exciting.
In the meantime, I have Shallots in. They multiply as well.
dizzygardener- Posts : 668
Join date : 2011-01-26
Location : WNC 6b
onions
DizzyGardener these are very durable onions if you would like I would be glad to send you some for a start. Soon I need to make a sweep and put several new bunches in my composter otherwise.
westie42- Posts : 512
Join date : 2011-03-22
Age : 82
Location : West Union, Iowa
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
Ok, let me make sure I understand how these work.
I plant the bulbs, they send up stocks with more bulbs on top. The tops fall over the the bulbs are replanted thus producing more?
How do you harvest them? Do you harvest what is on top or what is in the ground? How big are the bulbs when you harvest?
Thanks.
I plant the bulbs, they send up stocks with more bulbs on top. The tops fall over the the bulbs are replanted thus producing more?
How do you harvest them? Do you harvest what is on top or what is in the ground? How big are the bulbs when you harvest?
Thanks.
dizzygardener- Posts : 668
Join date : 2011-01-26
Location : WNC 6b
onions
If you need pull and eat onions these are not what you want. A friend gave me the starters and honestly I am not sure if I ever used them for more than soup flavoring or diced in a casserole etc. What you usually harvest is from the cluster a ways up the stalks that way it is milder and the main plant is reserved, just pull of what you want to use. In a way they are kinda like something for depression times. Mine are mostly a conversation piece but always ready for use in a pinch since I want something milder. If you start them it is easiest to jet a rooted clump that may or not have the top clusters on them. Right now mine have not set any new top clusters this season.
westie42- Posts : 512
Join date : 2011-03-22
Age : 82
Location : West Union, Iowa
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
Dizzy:
The green tops can be cut anytime and used like green onions, but they are just a bit stronger tasting. The bulblets that grow on top of the stalk have a mild onion flavor, and the bulbs in the ground are stronger tasting and are the size of small to medium shallots and can be used as such. Be brutal when trimming and harvesting, or they will take over your yard!
TC
The green tops can be cut anytime and used like green onions, but they are just a bit stronger tasting. The bulblets that grow on top of the stalk have a mild onion flavor, and the bulbs in the ground are stronger tasting and are the size of small to medium shallots and can be used as such. Be brutal when trimming and harvesting, or they will take over your yard!
TC
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Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
Join date : 2011-02-16
Age : 59
Location : Zone 4A - NE SD
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
10 potatoes per plant, huh? I had a bunch of volunteer potato plants in my compost (note to self: when you try to compost a potato apparently it thinks you're trying to plant it). And I just can't bring myself to throw away a volunteer plant. So I moved them into the garden.
I just went out and counted the plants....oh my....what the heck am I going to do with 120 potatoes?
I just went out and counted the plants....oh my....what the heck am I going to do with 120 potatoes?
kilda- Posts : 15
Join date : 2010-07-03
Location : Maryland
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
kilda wrote:what the heck am I going to do with 120 potatoes?
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=1090752
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
If there is a local food bank or soup kitchen nearby, they probably wouldn't mind taking some of them off your hands.
MasonGarden- Posts : 284
Join date : 2010-03-17
Location : Mason, OH
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
kilda wrote:I just went out and counted the plants....oh my....what the heck am I going to do with 120 potatoes?
Potatoes are notorious for growing in compost piles, or in the woods where I throw them over the fence sometimes! Just leave them in the ground until you're ready to use them. If you still have some when winter gets here, cover them with mulch to prevent deep freezing, and keep them accessible.
Learn some new ways to prepare potatoes!
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
I believe Dizzy, what Westie has are called Walking or Egyptian onions, I have some and they are very cool and fun.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t4265-madisyn-dd-and-the-walking-onions?highlight=madisyn
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t4265-madisyn-dd-and-the-walking-onions?highlight=madisyn
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Join date : 2010-04-25
Age : 46
Location : Idaho Panhandle
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
kilda wrote:10 potatoes per plant, huh? I had a bunch of volunteer potato plants in my compost (note to self: when you try to compost a potato apparently it thinks you're trying to plant it). And I just can't bring myself to throw away a volunteer plant. So I moved them into the garden.
I just went out and counted the plants....oh my....what the heck am I going to do with 120 potatoes?
Wow this girl would be so excited with 120 potato plants. I have 4 sons living at home still. They eat more than their Pa and I put together 3 times over. lolololol They are huge people, ( like they were steeped in compost tea from birth).
I love volunteers as well. I have found a ton of volunteer basils this year and they are looking more like weeds!!! I think I have cayenne pepper volunteers too, time will tell there!. Im saving soda bottles and any other container to make pots. I too have a hard time with tossing plants at all. But I figure I better learn to give away or compost stuff or I will have too many of something and waste.
Ha-v-v
Ha-v-v- Posts : 1123
Join date : 2010-03-12
Age : 64
Location : Southwest Ms. Zone 8A (I like to think I get a little bit of Zone 9 too )
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
fortunately I love potatoes. I figure I can harvest some as new potatoes so they don't all come in at once. Potato salad, potato pancakes, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes....mmm. Of course this is all assuming they're going to produce, which my root crops usually never do. I also love the suggestion of donating them to a food bank, I think I will do that.
kilda- Posts : 15
Join date : 2010-07-03
Location : Maryland
Re: Yield from potatoes and onions
kilda wrote:fortunately I love potatoes. I figure I can harvest some as new potatoes so they don't all come in at once. Potato salad, potato pancakes, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes....mmm. Of course this is all assuming they're going to produce, which my root crops usually never do. I also love the suggestion of donating them to a food bank, I think I will do that.
Im excited for you !! I figured you liked taters Cant wait to see your harvest. I planted a tub of potatoes, and 32 sqs. Today I will plant a big plastic pink tote with purple potatoes. The last of the seed potatoes this season.
Ha-v-v
Ha-v-v- Posts : 1123
Join date : 2010-03-12
Age : 64
Location : Southwest Ms. Zone 8A (I like to think I get a little bit of Zone 9 too )
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