My Pantry-Staple Garden Provides Abundant Harvest | Ruth Stout
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- Join us as we harvest out potatoes for the 2022 garden season ♥ We planted Kennebec and Russet potatoes back on April 15th (video here: • Ruth Stout Potato Plan... ). It's now August 7th, and it's time to see how they did ♥ If you want to learn more about Ruth Stout gardening, you can find our full playlist here: • Ruth Stout - Deep Mulc...
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Can you use straw instead of hay ? I’m always afraid of bugs in the hay.
Yes you totally can. However, it's really hard to find straw that hasn't been sprayed with anything. Most wheat farmers spray their fields right before they harvest the wheat, which can reside in the straw afterwards - if that crap ends up in your garden you're in trouble.
@@1870s Our straw hasn't caused problems. Your garden is fenced in. Hoping my potatoes won't get eaten by hungry visitors. Love your channel. You work so hard/canning too. In our 70's. Never tasted veg. so good, that I can remember. Be blessed with bountiful harvests.
@@1870s Thank you don’t need that problem.
Here in s.w., mo., We grow tons of fescue. The seed is harvested, then the rest is baked for straw, for bedding and etc. It's not sprayed, do great to use for anything garden wise. Not as pretty as wheat straw, but cheaper and works great!
@@1870s DE might be your answer to your slug and rolly pollies...
It is so sweet how Todd comes out with your coffee. Almost makes me wish my husband cared about gardening, but I guess this way I get to make all the gardening decisions. Y'all are sweet.
I thought that too how sweet and thoughtful that was!
Vlogs like this are a tease for me right now. Northern Canadas growing season is short and not for a long time. I love gardening with you. ❤
I absolutely love all your videos and have learned so much from your gardening and canning instruction. Please keep up the great work. Your husband is a sweetheart too. God bless❤️
I finally moved into a home where I have a bit of space to garden! I am so grateful
I was talking to my grandma about growing potatoes this year, and she said in their garden when their kids were little, they would have green mashed potatoes with all the green potatoes that “weren’t ripe yet” 😮 i guess eating a little green isn’t a big deal. 😂
Hi Rachel & Todd. I just love it, when Todd comes to help pick potatoes. Now, that is a great harvest and canning. God Bless you Rachel and Todd. May you both have a wonderful day. Maria. 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥔🍅🫑🌶️
I think I've said it before but, I'll say it again, you are my inspiration for getting my garden up and running! And oh what fun! Thank you guys for sharing. Blessings to you and yours.
Thanks for showing how you plant your potatoes.I tried the Ruth Stout method this year and loved it! It's so easy, I like not digging a fork into the soil since I always end up spearing some potatoes in the process.
I do my potatoes Ruth Stout as well and this year did corn and green beans and tomatoes and everything is growing amazing!
You did corn this way?! Did you plant seeds in the hay?
Did you plant the tomatoes from seed or how did you do that please?
I am so jealous!!! Our garden burned up here in texas. I am so glad yall are getting abundance harvest. God Bless
Hello, I came over from Acre Homestead. I look forward to watching your channel ❤️❤️
You are so right about little potatoes left behind. Just harvested volunteers out of my onion bed and got 1 bushel! Quite a bonus!
It is fun to harvest potatoes! This year Im growing mine in dark blue totes from lowes, because in ground is a bit of a pain here in my clay soil. I will need to harvest mine in the next couple weeks because I didn't get them in till late May. This year will be my first time potato canning. Thanks for the pleasant visit.
A plastic milk crate makes a great seat for working in the garden. Easy to move over when working. Close to the ground for weeding or picking, but easier to get up. Water proof if I leave it out. Warning some of the newer milk crates are very thin, make sure when purchasing one it does not buckle under your weight.
Yay a garden video! I’m going to try a modified version of this next year I think. Potatoes are one of my favorite things to grown because it’s so much bang for your buck maintenance wise.
wow what a great potato harvest!!!!!
174,000 people watch your show. 🥰 That's really good. That's above average for a You Tube platform.
Rachel, I am so happy for you and Todd that you have found out that play is very important in life,how long before you can retire and Todd also?
I had a mole nibble on some of my potatoes and I even caught it in the act when digging them.
I didn’t do any hilling, and I also had some green ones. But potato digging is literally my favorite garden “chore”. I did covert my potato bed to a bush bean row, and found a few straggler potatoes.
Just found y'all. Am about to start the Ruth Stout method. Thanks for your input.
Love your channel and everything it represents. God bless you and yours! 🙏❤🙌
What a beautiful and plentiful harvest.
you can use the small potatoes to make "papas arrugadas" a typical dish from the Canary islands, if they are the variety to boil not fry
How easy is that to just lift off the mulch and gather your potatoes!
Tempting to try Ruth Stout.
Green potatoes happen in our sandy soil also. I had to pull some of the straw because we have a really bad white C grub problem. I water a lot and then the sand shifts about and the potatoes poke up here and there. I did notice like you said some started to resprout. Not sure if we could do this method because of snakes and mice. Lol, you wouldn’t think I’d have both, but then there are also gophers. Plus I would have to find some old hay. Nice haul!
Rachel's squat game is strong. 💪
Very cool Rachel
Beautiful potato harvest! I set anything green aside as a seed potato for the next year. It's my first year trying just setting the hay on top instead of slightly burying the starts before laying hay. Mine will be ready in a couple of weeks, but I brought up a couple of whoppers yesterday for dinner!
I did Ruth Stout method this year. Mine are still waiting to flower and die. You always have a great harvest.
Lovely garden
What a great harvest guys- Todd Thank you for looking after our girl as well. I hope I get a harvest from mine this year- we will see. Cheers Denise- Australia
Another great video! You and Todd are so sweet together ❤️
I truly enjoy watching all your videos, this is so inspiring for me since I planted tons of sweet potatoes here in central Florida but never regular potatoes I have to wait until about December to grow my potatoes, thanks for sharing🌱🌱🥔🥔🥔
The best channel!!!
Let us see the surprise mystery beans too. Maybe someone can ID them for you.
You guys are just awesome 🥰
My potatoes are almost ready and this made me want to go out and start digging them up now! So timely!
Nice harvest there ! I love potatoes!! Thanks for the information. God bless!
I grew potatoes this year in a modified Ruth Stout way. I did bury them just an inch or two into the dirt then covered with straw. I added straw twice throughout the season and got a decent little harvest. Nothing like what I was hoping for but know now what I need to do for next year.
A beautiful harvest! I’m jealous I’m dreaming Of
Baked potatoes
With
Sour cream And
Butter Now
and fresh chives
I’m going to try the RS method this coming year. Sweet of him to bring you your coffee ☺️
Very nice.
We finished digging ours up today. We grew red potatoes.
Loved this. I saved this video in my library. Hugs Rachael and Todd ❤️
I think am going to try Ruth style bed...thanks so much for sharing God bless
Do you have a video on how you can your potatoes? I looked through the playlists and didn't see one for potatoes and skimmed through videos but I keep getting distracted by your other videos 😅
You certainly have a great garden!
Another great harvest to reward you for your efforts. I wonder how you’ll cope with the your “sabbath” rest next year, I’m pretty sure you’ll find it challenging in some ways as you’re normally so busy harvesting and processing.
I have tried twice now three different ways to grow potatoes. I get mush or nothing. Will try this next year.
The seed potato definitely turns to mush
@@1870s well the plants sure look pretty while they're growing it's just disappointing to not have anything as a result. I've always gotten the impression from all the videos I have watched that it's easy to grow potatoes but apparently not for me. :) I am new to your channel but I look forward to exploring your videos. Thank you for sharing all your experiences
Wow! That's amazing. I hope to have a garden like that one day
Oh my goodness, digging in that straw without gloves. I have so so many wolf spiders in my garden that I don't dare dig around without protection, I realized I was holding my breath while you were digging. I think I have a spider for every square foot of garden.
Great harvest, I use this method with grass clippings but I tried Kennebec and they came out very strange shapes so I saved a couple for seed and am currently growing them in grow bags but the best success with this method was with red lady variety
Hi Rachel!!! Haven't been by in a while. So nice to see you 😁
I'm growing potatoes for the first time this year. My experiment. I did my slips from store bought because I was too late to buy. Fingers crossed. I have them in pots.
Are you talking about sweet potatoes?
Yes I did sweet potato and I also did red potatoes. We will see what happens
I went on vacation for two weeks in July. Shortly before I left, the mice started eating the tubers. When I returned home I was too jetlagged to do much in the garden for several days. In the meantime, the rodents systematically went plant by plant gnawing away. By the time I harvested them last week, they had decimated my crop.
total bummer!
Oh no!
Oh, how awful! Maybe cats would take care of that problem?
Wow, those potatoes are beautiful. Will you share your canning fay with us please 💐💙🙏
So many potatoes. Yum!
My husband is so excited to try this method! I’ve been binge watching your videos. I wondered if you dried your nasturtium leaves and enjoyed using it as a pepper substitute.
My momma would say look at the size of them tators.😯
Great video guys. Your spuds look good eh.. I might try planting our spuds like this next year. Cheers 🌷🇨🇦
I'm looking forward to your sweet potato harvest. Will you be canning the leaves too? I've heard they taste like spinach.
Love your videos, thank you!
Hi guys,Love being in your Garden.We are going to plant in pots..Have 2 Words for you...Sweet Potatoes..hehe Bless you both.Hugz 🤗
Good job. Congrats.
Would you still recommend Ruth Stout if the only straw available is from the store? We live in town and can get bales from the garden center, but there's no real guarantee that they haven't been sprayed with something that might kill the plants. I'm not even sure where else to start looking for straw otherwise.
I just cut the green off too.
We planted some in buckets/experimenting. Would straw mulch work instead of aged hay? Trying to keep costs down. BTW Our fall crop of cukes is blooming and already harvested 1 cuke. Very rewarding. Our back yard garden is pretty small. Just the two of us.
Does the way you plant your potatoes have a name? I would like to research it a bit.
Thanks for sharing all of your tips! I have
Picked up a lot from you ? 💕
Ruth Stout gardening
The Vines ain't even dead yet that's why they're green cuz they're not ready yet
Question can in freeze banana peppers to can later, I’m not pickling them.
We have sweet potoes 4 to 5 kinds
We do too will be a couple more months before we harvest those
There's nothing like homemade potato chips, deep fried slices of potato. Just grab some salt, and some cooking oil of your choice from your pantry and some thinly sliced homegrown in your garden - simple ingredients for a simple snack.
Sounds great. I've got bacon grease so gonna give it a try in cast iron skillet.
I haven’t dug my potatoes yet this year, the vines are still standing, so I’m waiting. Yours look beautiful! I did mine the Ruth Stout method too. I put more straw on them a couple of times, so fingers crossed I don’t have too many green ones.
Do you think I could use leaves in replacement of the straw/hay?
We bought a home and our woods out near our pond has a giant pile of leaves that have been there for at least a year if not a few years. I think from digging out the pond. It would be a free option for me. I googled it but I only see them mentioning straw and hay. We just planted for giggles "moonbeam squash" from Hoss Tools in some cloth pots here in Texas. We already had one pop up. Excited to finally get going!
I'm not sure. Leaves can get pretty dense when they're wet. And may not drain too well.
Can we use straw instead of hay? Thank you for helping us rookie gardeners.
Sorry I can’t watch this…snif…snif…mine is a flop this year when I needed it the most….😪
H e l p ! I have seen tons of recipes and “how to can potatoes”, but they are all white russet potatoes and red potatoes are never mentioned. I grow red potatoes in my garden and I only have one question. Can I preserve red potatoes the same way I would preserve russet potatoes?
Question: I notice the fence around your garden is on the shorter side. Do you have a deer issue? I’m considering the height of fence to build around my garden, don’t want the deer to jump it but also like how you can reach over yours. Any thoughts?
We don't have any issues with deer
Does anyone know the name of the plastic baskets she uses in her garden hauls thanks
Lovely potatoes!! Ruth Stout method doesn’t work in a lot of climates, sadly.
So sometimes when I get potatoes from the grocery store some of them in the bag are green...should they also not be eaten? Thats happens more often than not.
I throw out any potato with the green poison on it!
I read that Russet potatoes are not good for canning. Is that true?
It is sort of true, they turn mushy but still good for mashed potatoes
great spuds, could you uses the burnt ones for seed?
I've been wondering this as well. Love to hear what others say.
@@trishapomeroy9251 if they keep till the following season and chit up they should be good
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When I use hay in my garden, I get tons of grass coming up in it. Did you not have that issue?
We did not it was almost 2 yr old hay
@@1870s oh, that makes perfect sense… ours was fresh🤦🏼♀️
I am not a fan of Kennebec potatoes, I havehad problems with them having more green on them than other varieties. I have better luck with Yukon golds and Pontiac reds. Even after harvest the Kennebec turned green while curing. And yes they were in a dark cool place.
We love them because they can so well
@@1870s I’m going to remember that for next year!
I love your relationship. Your husband is so attentive, as is mine. ❤😉
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I would be afraid to use hay with all of the pesticides.
We are fortunate to have an organic hay farmer just down the road
Where I live, it is traditional to harvest potatoes two weeks after the plant dies. Some of mine are just started fading.
That many potatoes going to last two years!? Not for me. I go through potatoes like many people go through bread!
That’s a lot of “taters”.
Never thought about canning potatoes...sure hope to do it next year.Thanks for this great video.Always enjoy them.
Outstanding work you two! Loved the black swallowtail on the dill too!
Wow that was an amazing potato harvest!! You guys do an amazing job with everything you do!!! Point it may not be right the 1st time but you always figure I for one really appreciate that!! I've been watching your older vlogs and I'm enjoying them very very much!!! God Bless!!!
You took in a lot of harvest there. I sure enjoy seeing what comes out of your garden, thanks again for sharing!
Hooray for a great harvest before your sabbatical year! So exciting!
We have a good storage area, so we save all the green ones to use as seed potatoes in the spring.
I just posted that question, thank you!
Questions: 1) With all that you grew and raised, what stuff do you still buy monthly/weekly at the grocery store? 2) Also have you ever considered or planning on getting a milking cow? 3) Also do you ever buy beef/pork/chicken at the grocery store especially certain cuts for a recipe? Or only use what you have stored?
We still shop for some things. Doubt we'll ever do a milk cow, meat cow yes someday. We also do buy certain meats and sausages sometimes.
Next year definitely trying this method. 2 years in ground with a low harvest. Thanks for sharing.