Did 3 more jars of small, whole potatoes.
2 jars russet
1 jar Huckleberry Gold ( a low glycemic potato)
Everything appeared to go as planned. I can hear the jars pinging as I'm typing this.
A got about 20 full sized. potatoes ( Yukon. gold and russet) which I'm hoping will last me through December.
Im going to open the canned potatoes one jars month just to see how they hold up over time. Assuming everything works out, this will allow me to have homegrown potatoes all year long.
I usually start harvesting mid June. I start with the buckets (about 5 gallon) which provide me with 5 - 6 potatoes. I used the buckets to plant potatoes when I run out of garden space. They are a little more high maintenance cause they can dry out if not tended to. I'll usually live off the potato buckets, 1 a week, until late August. Thats when the Red Norland and Yukon are about ready. Ill do my main potato harvest then. I sort the potatoes out by size. Big ones for baking, medium ones for soup, fries, typical cooking use, and the small. ones for roasting, home fries, potato salad. About a month later the russets are ready.
I grow way more than 2 people could use. I give some away, and store the others. Usually after a. few months they start to sprout ( I dont have a root cellar or anything that stays cool enough to delay sprouting. This is where the canning comes in handy. I can now can my excess for future use. I'm excited about this, cause years past I've tossed many away due to drying out, rotting or over sprouting. I've also made the mistake of throwing them in the compost, just to have them survived the winter , and have potato plants scattered around the garden, where they shouldn't be. I'm always stupid enough to think that I can just leave them and. they'll do fine. But what more than likely happens is I get poor potatoes from them and they also overcrowd the plants they are growing next too,