THE ULTIMATE POTATO GROWING GUIDE -- TIPS & TRICKS
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- This week the guys explain their tips and tricks for growing the best potatoes in the vegetable garden. When to plant, different varieties, best fertilization schedule, and so much more.
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You have become my #1 favorite TH-cam channel. Great content, thank you for what you do.
Thanks for watching! Don't keep us a secret!
Old timers around here always say plant on Good Friday... Central Indiana Zone 5B.
“I can’t remember what I had for breakfast” 🤣 me too Greg, me too.
LOL! You are so right! If hubby got me a bag of seed potatoes and helped me plant on Valentine's Day, he'd get a lot of smoochin'!!
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This was a great video, lots of great info. You guys are my favorite garden channel here. Keep up the great work, we all count on you!
Thanks Katie!
Thanks for bringing the account stuff back! I don't remember stuff so well since my TBI in the Army days. Having a history and lists will definitely help me out big time in the future.
Oh my Goodness. You guys crack me up! Laughed and learned something!
Excellent show guys, thanks.
Got my order in for the Elephant Garlic. Thank you for the discount. This will be my first time growing it.
Just for reference, you said zone 6 generally has last frost early-mid April. I live in southeast Kentucky in zone 6b and we dont get our last frost till about early-mid May. We call it our Blackberry winter and last year it frosted May 9,10, and 11 and finally on May 16 we finally started seeing days in the 70/80s and nights in 50/60s. Just wanted to share that, as Im trying to start keeping records of that to start my garden.
Thanks for sharing.
glad to hear about the parsnips. asked yall about them a couple years ago. planting time can be a little tricky in the south. in zone 7b we plant at or before the fall cole crops and they are ready in the spring. planted Targa variety suitable for clay soil. have done Harris Model in the past but struggle with our soil.
HAHAHA tatters on Valentines! Love it. My man needs to watch this now so he is on the right path
Great show as usual!
I followed your advice about valentine's day and potatoes a few years ago and you are correct . She will NEVER FORGET.
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Really enjoyed the potato thing! I always grow kennebec because of their good storage. I just may widen my horizon and see what shakes out.😉
You guys are so funny, and cute. I always learn from you. Thanks for the info and the laughs. God bless. 👏🏻💕👏🏻
Thank you for the wish list feature soon. I've been screenshotting what I wanted to buy.
Thanks for the coupon. I really appreciate y'all doing what y'all do and sharing the information and education old-school and new-school side by side.
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Awesome show and the seeds are great!
Great tips, cant wait to grow potatoes for the first time in about a month!
I concur with Greg on no-till being inviable for many modern veg varieties (or in general). I tried one of those fad no-till plots. First off let me say, the bug pressure was through the roof. I had well over 100 potato plants eaten down to the ground and the yield was awful. I would go out every morning with a feed scoop and shake the bugs off my potatoes into the scoop and by the time I finished, there would be 1/4 scoop of Colorado beetles (my chickens loved them though). The same was true for 800 bean plants. Those little Mexican beetles ate so many beans, I wouldn't be surprised if they turned into June bugs! It was a disaster!
The only plants that did well were heirloom hickory king corn and butternut squash. Everything else in that plot was an utter failure.
Great information! Thank u!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Got my homestead sampler pack last week, with the viking,kennebec, red norland and Yukon gold...Got me a bunch of cover crops too👍..look forward to ordering all my seeds from yall fellars this year and in the future..you guys are class acts.
Thanks for your order! We hope you have a great potato crop this spring!
i already planted some elephant garlic...now, I'm on the notify me list. dag blasted work. just saw the video this morning 1/22 Friday. Oh well, I'm glad to have what I already do.
This is my favorite show! Get some learning and some laughing!
And some eating
Love the show guys. I learned a lot about potatoes 🥔. Just ordered some from you.
Thanks for your order Donna!
Good Friday is the day to plant here in central Indiana
Thank you for bringing back the account feature. It's frustrating not being able to log in and look at past orders.
THANK you
😂 thanks for humor with the great info!
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Good show
Hello guy's from Tennessee. Love all your videos...
Just placed a order for more corn and garlic...
That purple variety you have I believe still keeps it color after cooking, I may have missed it. Excellent in potato salad....
Lot's of good information here, guys! I can't hardly wait for the warm up, but I've also got to get my transplants started. I'm still up to my corpulent butt in boxes, so the going is S L O W.
You'll get there. Rome wasn't built in a day.
You guys crack me up.
Got some of that biggarlic deal. Thanks y'all. Keep digging away
I always learn and laugh with every show . You guys are the best . I am looking forward to having the best garden I've ever had this year and a whole lot of the credit will go to Hoss Tools .
Thanks Ronnie! We hope you indeed have the best garden ever!
Hi gentlemen I didn't plant potatoes last yr. I'm going to this yr.!
We hope you have a great harvest!
im looking forward to trying the austrian crescent potato
It's a good one!
In western NC we get our last frost usually with the full moon in May. I've been here 15 years and my neighbor told me to not plant until after that. She was right. I've paid attention every year. We get frost 2 or 3 nights with the full moon in May.
Good show, u guys are funny.
Amen brother I definitely got the itch!!..been seeing some of plants coming up
I still a tad confused about when to start planting potatoes..everyone has a different time...what times do you start yours??thankyou for all you share with us..I mostly grow red Pontiac and russet..I am in Central Virginia..we have weird weather about 60 miles from Charlottesville VA
You and me both!
Jason does have a good garden right now. I would faint if my husband planted potatoes any time.
I'm so glad you are bringing back the account feature!!
Any chance you are going to add the navone rutabaga variety?
I received my seed taters today, mu husband sends me a text....."another hoss package arrived today......" haha my kids tease me too, "really momma, how many seeds do you need?"
Have not heard of that variety. We will be carrying American Purple Top Rutabaga and the Laurentian Rutabaga, although seeds are a little short right now. I really like the Laurentian variety.
I love to try all the varieties of seed potatoes. You guys should offer a "rainbow mix" of seed potatoes - like a grab bag - so that we get one or two of everything you have left over! oh, and thanks for the garlic offer, I just got mine!
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Always enjoy your show and love my high arch. Not sure if it would be possible but have you ever considered adding a fertilizer hopper as an attachment?
We have. We tested several different prototypes a few years ago and had a difficult time achieving a good balance with the hopper, whilst keeping the unit easy to push. Since then, we (and our customers) have been doing much more fertigation through the drip system. So we haven't been doing as much side-dressing.
Here in Central Arkansas our average last frost date is mid April.
Pops was strugglin with that word lol
Love your videos. I’d love to see the seed pull down menu in alphabetical order.
Hey Travis and Greg,
First off, I always look forward to seeing this show every week! I recently got my garden soil tested and the test showed my soil is low in potassium. I'm not sure what the best way to evenly apply it would be, or when would be best to apply it. The test just said at or before planting broadcast 1.3lbs/1000sqft. I figure hand-strowing it ain't what they had in mind. So I got some potassium sulfate which was supposed to be dissolvable and was going to spray it over, but it just clogged up my sprayer. I got some that is much finer, but I don't want to waste my money and clog my sprayer again. Any thoughts or recommendations would be much appreciated! Thanks guys!
Hand application should be just fine. Might want to incorporate it into the soil a bit if you have a means of cultivation.
I know this is an old video, but the power's that be apparently knew I was itchi' to do some tater experimenting, cause popped up in my feed. We eat a ton of russet's, but so far my favorite Spud is the purple majesty. And last yr (2024) we only planted 4 seed potatoes of that variety & they were basically neglected after the first 3-4 waterings because of some neighbor & irrigation issue's, only didn't produce at all. But the rest had some good sizes for soups & stews & some at least for a meal or 2 of fried or mashed taters. They can get bigger then what you guy's show, just not as big as a russet. They make great fries & mashed didn't have enough the first time we grew them to fry them. They don't seem to have a high starch. I'm hoping to increase the amount we plant, so we can eventually stop buying spuds. And start adding fertilizer & such, which we never have before. Just need new neighbor to quit interrupting water.
Love the show. Great information. Question, can you use all potatoes as your seed potatoes?
You technically can. However, seed potatoes are "certified" as they have been tested for diseases. Whereas store bought potatoes haven't. You can plant the store bought potatoes, but no guarantees that they might have some inherent diseases.
Please tell us about chitting potatoes. How to and when to.
I'm very interested to hear more about the study that you are going to research. It makes sense to me that if a parent plant has been grown in conditions where synthetic fertilizers were used and in an environment where consistent watering was given, then the seeds from those parent plants would need similar conditions to grow. I've been trying for the last few years to do compost and no till as much as possible, but to be quite honest, I feel like it is a struggle compared to the years that I used synthetic fertilizers. I still like the idea of no till (more for not stirring up weeds), but I am really considering adding synthetic fertilizers back into my soil. I grow more hybrids than heirlooms because of where I live in East Central Alabama. Too many diseases and pests to fight with given our hot and humid conditions.
Moderation is the key with anything. It's not always as black and white as no-till or no synthetic fertilizers. After all, we are all trying to maximize our harvests based on the efforts we have given to the garden.
Awesome video. This year I’m going to plant my potatoes in pots. I have several huge pots. I live in Sacramento CA. Just received my potatoes slips. When you say cut the potatoes, do you let them dry and skin over for a couple of days? Blessings
Yes. You'll want to let the flesh of the potato "heal" after it is cut. This usually takes 3-4 days.
Thank you for bringing seeds to us whom want to grow our own foods
Love your show! Question: I have never grown potatoes, my soil is clay and full of rocks. Putting in a 17 inch raised bed this year for potatoes, about 6ft X 3 ft. Suggestions for spacing and anything different I need to do for a raised bed? Thanks and keep all the great info coming!!
For a 3' wide bed, you'll just plant one row down the middle. Make a furrow down the middle of the raised bed and put the seed potato pieces about 8" apart. A good 8-10" layer of compost in the top of the bed will be your best friend.
@@gardeningwithhoss I’ve got 5 pounds of Red Norlands coming 😭. Guess I need a lot more room then I thought 😜
Lmfao..39 seconds in and I'm dead 😂😂
I ordered the gourmet bundle of taters from y’all so I’ll be getting some of the Adirondack Blues and I’ve never grown a blue tater before. Can you tell me what to expect as far as, are they as big of producers as other taters and also do they taste the same? Are they a big or smaller potato? They sure do look pretty! Great show as always!👍👌
They will produce just like the others will. The potatoes are pretty good size. Larger than a red potato, but not quite as big as the Yukon Golds.
From Mike Daniell Jesup Ga. My granddad say if the wife helps plant them taters be sure she doesn't wear a dress. Them taters have eyes.
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Great video as always! I'll be excited to see another video indepth on preparing the potatoes for planting. This will be my first year planting. I planted your elephant garlic in the fall. How would you plant "seed stock" this time of year? (7a, KY) Also, did the zippers come and go already?
Same way you plant it in the fall. Still waiting on field peas. Might be another month, but we'll have them by the time you need to plant them.
@@gardeningwithhoss thank you! Figured my ground was too frozen now. Didn't know if the garlic will still be good and make by the time I got them in the ground.
Yes it would still be good. That stuff keeps very well.
Where in kentucky is zone 7a
The wish list feature would be great. Would also suggest throwing in a free hat with a large purchase. Would be a great promo for you guys. It wouldn't have to be an expensive hat either.
We have talked about doing that with the hat. We'll probably start that soon for orders over a certain dollar amount.
Very helpful videos, 👍
On potatoes , do you need to wait in till the last freezze?
We aim to plant ours 2 weeks before the last freeze. This is because they usually take a couple weeks to emerge after planting.
Looking like German butter ball for me l like that yellow color 🥔 👍
It's a good one for sure!
Have you ever tried or considered incorporating humid acid/humates into your soil health program especially for root crops.
We've experimented with some humid acid products that some companies have sent us over the years. Can't tell it makes a huge difference compared to heavy applications of compost and cover cropping.
Hellos gentleman! Thank you for all you do. What are your thoughts on bloodmeal as a source of nitrogen?
Bloodmeal is good stuff, it is just slow -- as is the case with most organic fertilizers. Need to apply it way ahead of time to give it time to be broken down into smaller molecules that can be absorbed by the cell walls of the plant.
When you don’t see any eyes on the potatoes how do you cut them up? I just got my order in from you guys and they look amazing.
You can usually see the faint indentions where the eyes will be. Or you can just put them in a dark closet for a week or so and you'll see them then.
What do you recommend to till in, pull and compost, or pull and trash/burn when it comes to plants when they are done in the garden?
If you can get your compost hot enough to kill fungal spores and insect eggs, put them in the compost pile. If not, burn them.
Always lived in zone 9a or 9b and wouldn't change it cause my sanity requires year round gardening!
Thanks for answering my question. Hopefully the new name is easier to read 😄
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What are your thoughts about using phenology as planting time guide?
I think it can be very helpful, as long as you realize it is relative to your area. Around here, many folks will plant or do certain things in the garden when the pecan trees start putting on new leaves.
Here in Australia it's getting close to tater time - harvesting em, that is!
I’ve got a plot that used to be a (cow) barn lot. I remember my mom & dad used to grow some really nice taters in old barn lots. I mowed it off and have tarpped the lot to plant taters in this spring. My question is, can I leave a tarp on too long? I tarpped it late summer/early fall and have left the tarp on.
If you leave it on for a long time during the heat of summer, it can get too dry. When it's really hot, we recommend pulling it back and letting a sprinkler run for an hour or so then putting the tarp back on the plot.
Do you boys sale 🌽 meal corn seeds. I have an old corn handed down thats white with purple.Very good producer.
We sure do. You can see all our field corn varieties here: hosstools.com/product-category/premium-garden-seeds/corn-field/
Travis.. Could you send a link to the UC Riverside article?
You can't read the study unless you pay $30 for it. But here's the link where you can buy it: phys.org/news/2020-03-domesticated-beneficial-soil-microbes.html
Thanks
I’m going to try growing potatoes in grow bags. This is my first time growing potatoes. How would you recommend fertilizing in grow bags?
A small handful of fertilizer per plant should be sufficient for bags.
I''ve heard a good side dressing of potash is needed for tubers?
I got my email from y’all that my taters shipped. I’m excited the bed is ready, just need some dry weather as it’s been a little wet here in central Texas. Question I’ve seen you wear it several times and my wife likes it, where did you get that sweater/jacket Travis? Who’s it made by?
It's a Patagonia fleece pullover. I've had it for years. Not sure they make this particular design anymore, but they probably have something close.
If I am trying to save seeds I know they need to be open pollinated to be true to type because hybrid won't be the same if I save them but if I am going to save some and plant both hybrid and open pollinated heirloom type then how far apart do I need to put them? I usually put my garden out back of the house but my garden area is only 80 feet by 40 feet. Is this too close to plant both in this spot? Should I separate them by maybe using pots in the front yard for one type then plant the others out back or is this still too close? ( We are only on 1 acre of land with heavy tree cover) Thanks. Love your show guys!
Each crop has its own recommended isolation distances. If its a self-pollinating plant like tomatoes, peas, peppers, you don't have much to worry about. If it requires insect pollination, you'll need more isolation than you have if you plan on saving seeds.
@@gardeningwithhoss Ah thank you. I was planning to save tomato and pepper seeds this year. Good to know I can save them and they will be true to type. Thank you for the response.
When hilling, at what point should I hill? Is there a height on the plant that you should hill at or should you hill every few weeks?
We usually like to do it when the plants get 6-8" tall, and then once more when they're about 1' tall.
So we are new to potatoes and we ordered 10 lbs of seed potatoes (the gourmet mix) about how much can we expect yield wise?
That can be highly variable, although on average you can expect to get about 5 lbs of potatoes per lb planted.
Do you think y’all could do a video about your watering and feeding practices? I am a disabled veteran and we are growing our food not just for us but to help the needy. Because we live in zone 7a in New Mexico we are purchasing from y’all a drip irrigation system and would like to see a video on your watering practices and how often/how much y’all use of the 20-20-20 fertilizer I got from y’all. So maybe something like we turn it on every morning for 15 minutes and use 1 tablespoon of the fertilizer in the injector every week...make sense? This will be my first time using this system so don’t want to mess this up.
Sure, we can talk about that.
Do you have trouble with Colorado Potato Bugs? Last year I lost the whole crop. I sprayed spinosad, Bt, Neem Oil and seven. lost all but 50# planted 250#.
We don't have issues with those. Might see a few of them here and there, but no real outbreaks. We do rotate heavily and be sure to remove any plant debris. Not sure if that's why we don't have a big problem, but it is something we're very proactive about doing.
Great show guys! Always enjoy and appreciate it! The "G Man"......that's hilarious! I know we've got an awful LOT of new folks who have no clue what you're talking about! I don't have to worry about being politically correct, so I'll tell em. They're talking about "Gypsies" or nomadic wanderers that show up in these parts, wanting to fix your roof, pave your driveway, clean your gutters, paint your place, etc. Now, we all know..... I'm with Greg on the taters, you've got to cut up those seed taters! Straight to jail if you don't! :) Travis, glad you filed that "tarp tip" away. We all know those heavy rains are coming about that time, and that soil just won't dry very fast. I won't put that tarp up until those taters have sprouted either. I have had to pull it back on right quick when big rains were coming. It saves me some topsoil too, when that water comes barreling down out of my neighbor's pasture right across my garden plots! Great advice to the beginning gardeners, especially about starting small and keeping things manageable!
Never thought about leaving it on until they sprout, but I like that idea too!
@@gardeningwithhoss I usually just fold it over to the side, out of the plot, and put the sandbags on it. Just keep it on "standby". Once they're up good, I'll move the tarp or store it.
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do you use the drip line when planting potatoes? If so how do you do it with the drip tape in the way?
We don't, but you can. I'd recommend putting alongside the plants once they emerge from the soil. This will keep the area around the actual potatoes from becoming too wet and having them rot.
I have to say, I just cut mine from you, they were the most beautiful seed potatoes I have seen. Full of sprouts, none was all wrinkled up .
Thanks Wayne!
QUESTION on the business side. I've heard great things about your (162?) cell tray that releases plants easily, and lasts a lifetime…urban (read:small) gardener here. Is there any chance you might ever offer a 48 or 60 of the same design and sturdiness? Would save repotting for me, I like to have things in what they can stay in, which has mostly been Park starts, but I would definitely love to try your tray, but 162 is just too many and too small for me. Also, what is the general (I know it varies per plant) amount of time seedlings can stay in the one you currently sell?
P.S. Please start your answer with "alright alright alright" 🤣😉❤️
Those 162 and 338 trays are commercial grade trays that are made by a company called Proptek in California. I don't think they have any intention of making a smaller version, because they cater to the commercial greenhouse growers.
I thank you for the tater info!!
Thanks for watching!
Just curious you said it’s a good time to check your pH of soil, what pH do you shoot for?
6.0-6.5 is good for most vegetables.
If you have an account, will the website updates have a process to shoot you an email when an item in your wait list comes in stock? it would be cool to order on the fly really quick (phone) when you get notified.
The website already does that without the account feature. If you enter your email on a product page for a product that is out of stock, you will be notified via email as soon as it is available again.
How long can I store seed potatoes before planting and what's best way to store them?
They'll usually keep for at least a month or so. Just put them in a dark, dry place until you're ready to plant.
what about people who plant in containers, I know you dont talk about it much but in the last year there has been more people growing vegetables and such in about anything they can grow in. great show and keep up the great job. Thanks
We have lots of customers who grow potatoes in the fabric grow bags and do it very well that way.
@@gardeningwithhoss I really appreciate you answering questions!
Hey idk if you grow peach trees but I have a young one rn and it’s starting to bud already! Isn’t it to early for budding? I’m currently in zone 7
A warm spell in January can cause that to happen. Let's just hope we don't get another real hard freeze.
@@gardeningwithhoss yes I was thinking that to 😊 I don’t really want Fruit this year I just want it to grow this year so I just hope the leaf buds survive at least
I plant potatoes on Valentine's day. Each time I take my wife out for a nice meal I have dirt under my fingernails!
Could you put on your website a fertilizing tutorial for what is the best fertilizer for each plant.
We definitely need to do that!
When I grew up in south GA, we ate a white corn that wasn’t sweet.We creamed it for the freezer. Mama called it field corn. I would love to have some of that now. I know it’s different to not like sweet corn but guess it’s because I ate that kind as a child. What do I look for when trying to order that? Thank you.
might be "trucker's favorite"
@@ronbeck201 thank you. I will ask around and see if I can find that.
@A Piecemaker Sounds like you're referring to "field corn." It can be eaten fresh when the corn is in the "milking stage," or allowed to dry on the stalk for making corn meal and grits. I would highly recommend Hickory King White Corn (hosstools.com/product/hickory-king-white-corn/). It makes massive ears and big kernels.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you that sounds perfect as I would like to make both meal and grits but also creamed corn and fresh tomatoes with fried chicken. Yum! Enjoying learning from you guys.
I planted potatoes 4 40' rows of red pontiac and Kennebec under a row cover to supress weeds. holes every 12" on drip tape and fertilized with the 20-20-20 injection.. I could not hill obviously but also had zero weeds. weeded one time just where the 3" holes were burned thru the fabric. Also I had zero potatoes that had greened up, even the ones on the surface and my yields were excellent. Still eating them today
Thanks for sharing!
Travis, do you wait for your taters to develop full eyes sticking out of your tater before planting or just go ahead and plant where it looks like the eye is forming?
Not always. We've planted them with barely a semblance of an eye and done just fine.
Potatos will be arriving between Feb 14th- Feb 28th ......2022 ... God bless us all. 🙏🏻
I am wanting to grow potatoes but i dont have space to do it in ground. I would have to do it in containers any advice or thoughts & tips i would appreciate it.
We have lots of customers that use the fabric grow bags or buckets. This works very well if you have limited space.
I have already order potatoes and am supposed to get them in March. Will I still get them since I ordered them before people who are getting them now?
You will likely receive them before March. If you receive them before you need to plant, just put them in a dark closet and they'll be fine.