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.
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!
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 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. 😂
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.
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 just want to let you know that your channel is one of my favorites. I've learned so much! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to miss you next spring for your sabbatical!
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.
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. 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥔🍅🫑🌶️
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?
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.
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.
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.
I've had several potato's pop up in my compost bins. So much fun. This is my first year growing some in a container. Next year I am going to be doing a bunch more.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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🌱🌱🥔🥔🥔
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!
Always enjoy your potato harvests. I canned a 50# bag last year and LOVED IT, so this year I am growing my own. did Potatoes in the Ruth Stout method from your recommendation. We will see how they do. 🤞 Thank you!!
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!!!
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
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 😅
Thank you Rachel on the time line of the Ruth Stout method, you inspired me to buy a Ruth Stout Book, what a lady ! I can't put the book down. Thank you for bringing her to the foreground. I'm in Australia and intend to use sugarcane mulch ( excited much )
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.
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.
So pleased to see a great garden harvest! I had to delegate my garden this year to a paid helper one day a week and a none gardening OH as I had a hip replacement at the very wrong time to be laid up and out of action, and not even able to go & supervise. One bed of potatoes has been a disaster, as "earthing up" was a compost sprinkle, and no watering. The second bed of Ruth Stout is about to be lifted, and look much better as the "add another layer of straw" was done well. Great Harvest .... looking forward to your next potato canning!
WOW what a nice harvest! It's amazing to see how green everything is. We are going to harvest ours this weekend. not sure if we will have any luck with the drought but we will try. For some reason our sweet potatoes are not blooming, not sure why. Water, sun and feed but no blooms. Always good to see yawl, God Bless. Mike
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.
What a nice potato harvest. My potatoes wouldn't take, I only have 1 plant, my garlic & onions are harvested so I'm gonna throw some in that bed, hopefully I'll get a fall harvest late oct if I'm lucky
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.
I grow in ground potatoes and have the sunburn issue also. It's like you say, you have to hill them up and watch them closely. That is not easy to do when you have the rest of the garden to take care of and the rest of what life brings. Great yield. Thanks for sharing!!!
@@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
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!
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. 😂
I finally moved into a home where I have a bit of space to garden! I am so grateful
Rachel's squat game is strong. 💪
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. ❤
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 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❤️
Hello, I came over from Acre Homestead. I look forward to watching your channel ❤️❤️
I just want to let you know that your channel is one of my favorites. I've learned so much! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to miss you next spring for your sabbatical!
Oh, she’ll still be posting, just other type of content.
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.
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. 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥔🍅🫑🌶️
174,000 people watch your show. 🥰 That's really good. That's above average for a You Tube platform.
And the little baby potatoes we call them volunteer potatoes
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?
What a great spud harvest!! The other veggies look fantastic too. Well done both of you
This is our very first year growing potatoes and we decided to do the Ruth Stout method. I am excited to see what we get!
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.
I am so jealous!!! Our garden burned up here in texas. I am so glad yall are getting abundance harvest. God Bless
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!
You are so right about little potatoes left behind. Just harvested volunteers out of my onion bed and got 1 bushel! Quite a bonus!
Got some really nice russets!
Baked with fresh butter, sour cream, Montreal Seasoning!
Michigan Garden Girl
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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.
Outstanding work you two! Loved the black swallowtail on the dill too!
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?
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.
How easy is that to just lift off the mulch and gather your potatoes!
Tempting to try Ruth Stout.
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.
Hooray for a great harvest before your sabbatical year! So exciting!
Let us see the surprise mystery beans too. Maybe someone can ID them for you.
We always just peel the green away, too. Never a problem. Great video as usual 😊
We do potatoes Ruth Stout method. So easy and productive.
I've had several potato's pop up in my compost bins. So much fun. This is my first year growing some in a container. Next year I am going to be doing a bunch more.
Never thought about canning potatoes...sure hope to do it next year.Thanks for this great video.Always enjoy them.
Some potatoes you buy in the grocery store have green on them and they sell them. You just cut the green off. You can still eat them.
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.
Awesome potato 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
wow what a great potato harvest!!!!!
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.
Love your channel and everything it represents. God bless you and yours! 🙏❤🙌
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!
You took in a lot of harvest there. I sure enjoy seeing what comes out of your garden, thanks again for sharing!
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.
Just found y'all. Am about to start the Ruth Stout method. Thanks for your input.
Rachel, I aspire to be as awesome as you one day. Thanks for being a great motivator and mentor 👩🏻🌾 Great harvest 👍🏻
Next year definitely trying this method. 2 years in ground with a low harvest. Thanks for sharing.
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🌱🌱🥔🥔🥔
Wonderful harvest!!!
Another great video! You and Todd are so sweet together ❤️
What a beautiful and plentiful harvest.
First time watching keep up the good work
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!
Thanks Rachel & Todd 8-10-2022😊😊
My momma would say look at the size of them tators.😯
Always enjoy your potato harvests. I canned a 50# bag last year and LOVED IT, so this year I am growing my own. did Potatoes in the Ruth Stout method from your recommendation. We will see how they do. 🤞 Thank you!!
Very cool Rachel
I think am going to try Ruth style bed...thanks so much for sharing God bless
You guys are just awesome 🥰
I would love to know how you two meet! You seem perfectly matched❤
Hi.i like your garden. Alot of vegetables
A beautiful harvest! I’m jealous I’m dreaming Of
Baked potatoes
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Sour cream And
Butter Now
and fresh chives
The best channel!!!
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!!!
so great guys, Ruth Stout potato best method!
I did Ruth Stout method this year. Mine are still waiting to flower and die. You always have a great harvest.
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
So happy to watch you have a wonderful harvest! Thanks for sharing.
I’m going to try the RS method this coming year. Sweet of him to bring you your coffee ☺️
That is quite a bounty! As always, thanks for posting.
Lovely garden
nice harvest
Loved this. I saved this video in my library. Hugs Rachael and Todd ❤️
Wow, those potatoes are beautiful. Will you share your canning fay with us please 💐💙🙏
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 😅
Thank you Rachel on the time line of the Ruth Stout method, you inspired me to buy a Ruth Stout Book, what a lady ! I can't put the book down. Thank you for bringing her to the foreground. I'm in Australia and intend to use sugarcane mulch ( excited much )
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?
Hi Rachel!!! Haven't been by in a while. So nice to see you 😁
Great channel, New sub. I put out 100 pounds this year of potatoes. I’m in northern Indiana, been picking potatoes like crazy. Happy gardening.
Nice harvest there ! I love potatoes!! Thanks for the information. God bless!
We finished digging ours up today. We grew red potatoes.
Thank you for the idea about hay.. I plan on trying it with potatoes
You certainly have a great garden!
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.
So pleased to see a great garden harvest! I had to delegate my garden this year to a paid helper one day a week and a none gardening OH as I had a hip replacement at the very wrong time to be laid up and out of action, and not even able to go & supervise. One bed of potatoes has been a disaster, as "earthing up" was a compost sprinkle, and no watering. The second bed of Ruth Stout is about to be lifted, and look much better as the "add another layer of straw" was done well.
Great Harvest .... looking forward to your next potato canning!
So many potatoes. Yum!
WOW what a nice harvest! It's amazing to see how green everything is. We are going to harvest ours this weekend. not sure if we will have any luck with the drought but we will try. For some reason our sweet potatoes are not blooming, not sure why. Water, sun and feed but no blooms. Always good to see yawl, God Bless. Mike
Nice garden haul yall.
My potatoes are almost ready and this made me want to go out and start digging them up now! So timely!
Very nice.
Awesome haul of potatoes n other veggies
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'm looking forward to your sweet potato harvest. Will you be canning the leaves too? I've heard they taste like spinach.
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 🤗
What a nice potato harvest. My potatoes wouldn't take, I only have 1 plant, my garlic & onions are harvested so I'm gonna throw some in that bed, hopefully I'll get a fall harvest late oct if I'm lucky
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.
Def going to try this method next year. I love potatoes but I despise growing them. This looks like a good solution!
Great video guys. Your spuds look good eh.. I might try planting our spuds like this next year. Cheers 🌷🇨🇦
I grow in ground potatoes and have the sunburn issue also. It's like you say, you have to hill them up and watch them closely. That is not easy to do when you have the rest of the garden to take care of and the rest of what life brings. Great yield. Thanks for sharing!!!
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