How MUCH Can You GROW with a Handful of TINY Potatoes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I show you how much you can grow from just a literal handful of tiny potatoes! Supposedly, seed potatoes should be a decent size (at least bigger than a hen's egg) to grow a healthy potato plant and get a good harvest, so in this experiment, I used really small potatoes found in our garden to see what would happen.
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G'day Everyone, just a tip on how I cooked these up since they were sized from about duck egg to smaller than a quail egg. After giving the spuds another clean, I boiled the largest potatoes for 10 minutes, and then I added the medium-sized ones to the pot and boiled them for a further 10 minutes before removing them all from the heat and draining. I didn't boil the tiny ones at all. Then, as you saw in the video, I threw them all together added olive oil, salt, and oregano, and placed them in the oven at 210C (410F) for about 30 mins until golden brown and a bit crispy (you may need to remove at halfway or so to turn and baste for better results). I know roasting potatoes is second nature for most, but I thought I would write this quick "recipe" for those who were wondering. Cheers :)
Hey can I come to your place next weekend?
Thanks for the recipe. I was wondering what you put on them.
I cook the little ones...extra skin=extra nutrition. Here in New York, I have to wait months to plant the next garden, so there's no point doing anything else with them.
It's always worth the effort! The other day I planted tulip bulbs for the first time. I thought, well I hope this is successful, and if not, I hope I am successful in learning from my mistakes. ❤
@@SydneyBristow0788 I can't do tulips here, I wish I could! They're my friend's favorite! They're also very well liked by the deer tho...!
Best of luck with them!
@@echognomecal6742tulips are one thing American deer don't eat.
Doesn't matter how tiny it is, it's how you use it.
That's what i keep telling my wife
I see what you did there 😉
That's for bananas
That's not what she told me yesterday 😂😜😁
She still left me for a black man!
I'll never get sick of seeing a gardener's pure joy when digging up potatoes haha. I subscribed right away for more of this wholesome content
Thanks Marie garcelon for being one of my subscribers ❤❤
The ultimate prize at the end !😂 I get excited like that when I grow my stuff 🤣
Bella is absolutely adorable!! What a joy to see her bouncing up and down so excitedly at potatoes being dug up - I know EXACTLY how she feels!!
Sit! Down boy! Don't go digging in the potatoe patch to bury you're bone.
It's curious to me that the TH-camrs I prefer to follow all have their random 'pets' (a.k.a. "directors") making regular' non_scripted' appearances, whether it be a dog (kennel club breed or bitzer (the funniest I've seen is a guy smelting copper, aluminium, brass... with 2 miniture French Bulldogs... 45 seconds each video drop for Bullion and Ingot😂... gotta love Aussies))
She is a cutey-patootey!
I always use my small sprouted potatoes for seed. They usually outperform the seed potatoes I buy at the garden center. Love the self propagating potato!
rain sounds in the background, a man digging up potatoes, a cute doggo
Cant be better XD
Absolutely love the little dog with the delighted interest in what you were doing. Lovely to see that the little potatoes actually grow into decent sized edible ones. I always leave potatoes in the soil after harvest, they come up when they are ready. So now I now I know the littlest ones are still worth it.
I grew a bunch of potatoes from seedtubers and just harvested them a couple of months ago. Half of the original seed potatoes where still healthy so I pulled the dying plant out of them and replanted them. I now have 6 more potato plants healthily growing. I couldn't believe I'm getting two lots of potatoes out of the exact same seed tubers
That is so cool!
Lol. Mark, I got a kick out of watching your puppy. He seemed to get excited, just from knowing his daddy was excited. 😁
We love eating those teeny “potato pearls” and once we plant potatoes in a bed we always get a volunteer plant growing which I leave if space allows. Nothing better that fresh cooked potatoes
Loved the snippet at the end, seeing them make their way to the table - looked delicious!
I've always replant the smaller Potatoes and have been doing it over 30yrs. My longest run of replanting the same potatoes & harvesting is 9 years
Excellent return, Mark.
And no chitting either!
What a bonus.
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Thanks Douglas! No chitting 😁 Cheers :)
I didn’t notice that. That’s wonderful
"Let me just get my garden fork-"🤣🤣🤣Happens every time!😂
Good morninig Mark, your presentations are so professional. It is a joy to watch them mate.
Thanks Micky! Cheers mate :)
We have done this! It was worth the effort. A spare corner of garden, virtually left alone. Come early Summer, a beautiful crop. Worth a bash if you have the space... or a spare bucket or two. Thanks for the informative video. Fantastic as always 🥰
We used to use the old plastic rubbish bins with some holes drilled in the sides about 6 inches from the bottom for drainage. Then just tip the bin onto a tarp to harvest and lift the tarp to put the soil back in, top up with some fresh stuff and start over!
That's pretty amazing that those little potatoes produced the way they did
Even the smallest thing can make a deference. Those look to me like we have here in Canada called Yukon gold. Very tasty. Love the ending on how you cooked them. Cheers
i'll remember that, cheers Mark
Mark, you persevere through the rain; that’s a pro! I personally would have given up and waited for a sunny day, but you? No! You keep on keeping on, enthusiastically! You’re an inspiration, Mark; you produce not only perfect produce, but also vivacious video. Cheers!
Interesting Mark. Never discard is the answer,,,I bet they will taste pretty good too! All the best from Mullumbimby NSW..Been raining here too!
One of your best videos. I have always wondered myself but never given it a go in case I lose a season experimenting.
Yes Mark shows us so many things! And also some benefits of having a large garden, the extra space for experiments, volunteers to transplant, puppies, it's so fun to hang out in the garden ♥️
I've made this my standard practice for planting potatoes. As long as the soil is good, it doesn't seem to make much difference on the size of the sowed tater. I've also noticed that my plants tend to keep growing well past 3 months. I had most of them go from mid-May all through September green and flowering. The crop of yellow potatoes was ridiculous this year. I was finding them almost 2 feet deep. There were some real monsters in there. A lot of them were the size of large sweet potatoes.
Do you know what type of “yellow” potatoes you planted? My russets did poorly this year but my sweet potatoes did really good.
I'd also like to know what yellow potatoes they were that got so big
When I originally bought them for seeding, the box said they were "yellow fingerling potatoes", not much other info than that. A local nursery had them, but that was a few years ago.
@@7t2z28 Oh, well, thank you for taking the time to answer anyway ☺️. Glad you had a good garden season.
All my life I was told that ''potatoes are bad for ya'' or ''They will make you fat''. So i've not eaten any potatoes for years. But recently I decided to eat a baked potato, and then the next morning I woke up I felt incredible. I had not felt like that in years, I felt so strong and good.
I didn't make a big out deal of it, it was just a good day for me right? We all have good days. So a few days went by, and everthing kinda come back to normal. I then decided to eat another bake potato, the one the other day was just soooo good. The next morning I wake up, DANNNGG, whats going on, I feel like a super hero. Lots of energy and I just feel really good, ready to work.
Anyway ... it took me like 6-7 times to realize that every single time I eat potatoes, the next morning I wake up feeling incredibly good and healthy. Potatoes are in fact essential to our diet I believe. Its not the potatoes that are unhealthy lol, its how people cook them.
Long live potatoes !!!
That's very interesting! Personally, I still think everything in moderation is best but the biggest food issue society faces is refined sugar in my opinion... Not all carbs are equal. Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme Words of wisdom right there, could not agree more.
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I don't think potatoes themselves are so fattening it's all the things we tend to dress them with, butter, sour cream etc.
Potatoes are actually very healthy! They are one of the few foods that you can actually survive on if you ate only them and nothing else (provided you didn't peel them, as the skin contains essential nutrients). They are also very filling, and very versatile in the kitchen.
Love this! This rainy avo I got sick of the kids tv shows and told my 8 year old daughter I was going to put some gardening stuff on instead. She said “put Mark on!” She’s hooked too!
I just planted the exact same thing yesterday.
I'm a Thai cook myself and I started my own veggies and herbs in Adelaide, would love to have garden like yours!!❤❤
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Loved the video. I always enjoy digging potatoes or sweet potatoes, especially with kids or grandchildren. Such fun, one of life's simple pleasures
A nice haul of potatoes 🥔 considering what you put in.
Brilliant result, Cheers
Great tucker Mark, I had a huge crop of surprise potatoes grow from a discarded potato in my big compost pile! They were a very big baker variety I’m sure came from my local grocery store originally. The way taters grow so easily once an assortment of seed potatoes gets established I don’t think I’ll ever need to buy taters from the store again and home grown are much tastier 😂
So, you're not only adding food scraps to your compost pile but removing food (potatoes) from it! 👍😁
Man living the dream with his farm and chill enviroment. Keep it man!
That's impressive!
I adore your little helper. Love watching her pop up to see what you're doing. Such a sweetie.
Thanks so much Monique M❤❤❤
Your videos are pure magic and therapeutic please keep making these videos, WE ALL NEED THIS.
A nice and fruitful experiment for sure!👍
Your excitement over those potatoes is priceless! Great video.
That’s great! I’ve got a whole bag of tiny potatoes waiting to be replanted. Now if they’ll keep another 4 months I’ll get them in March.
We live in the same kind of climate but if the soil isn’t frozen much should be able to plant some now. I’ve had volunteers come up in the past when there was very cold snowy winters and come after the warmer weather the lost potatoes sprouted. But sometimes voles and mice may find them and eat them too unless you have raised beds with hardware cloth under the raised beds.
As an American viewer, I love its summer time there and I still get great garden videos ❤❤❤
Honestly, it's so satisfying digging for potatoes! It's a treasure hunt.
Hey Mark, I took advantage of the Black Friday sale at Epic Gardens, plus your discount code, and ordered 3 of the tall Birdies Raised Beds! Thanks so much for the heads up on your last video. I just moved into a house I've been building in the Missouri Ozarks. Our soil is rocky, and I'm no spring chicken, LOL, so I planned on raised beds. That sale was a great start for my homestead.
That’s an awesome deal. You’ll love the raised beds as we do. We had to add hardware cloth and landscape fabric underneath it because we had a vole population explosion and they ate 95% of my seed potato planting. We used two chipmunk traps and caught 27 of them. Had a great sweet potato harvest in the birdie raised bed. Have fun
@monicalinerode1783 Oh no! That had to be so much work to add later. I think I'll learn from your experience and do that as I'm setting mine up. Thanks!
Harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes is always such an exciting experience!!! I pulled almost 80 lbs of sweet potatoes from 3 of my raised beds last month, one of them was 6 pounds!!!
In weather like that I can imagine cutting them into wedges and oven baking them on cast iron sizzlers, topped with some diced bacon, melted cheese, and served with sour cream… brings back some memories of my youth!
Do you do home deliveries? 🤤
Count me in! 😋
Hi Mark, I've been watching your videos for a long time, and I really like this video. I just put a video on my channel showing how you can break the chits off of sprouted potatoes, and plant them ONLY without any potato attached at all. I was wondering if you've ever tried that! One I started in November had potatoes, about the size you were harvesting, growing in a 12 oz solo cup in my living room window! So far I've broken off 8 chits off of a shriveled-up potato from last year, about half the size of a golf ball, planted them all, and more chits are coming for me to break off and plant! So I love the idea of planting those tiny potatoes, but I can possibly grow 25 or more plants from one of those same-sized small potatoes! If you haven't tried it yet, it would make a great video. I love the spin you put on all your videos to make them riveting!
That's awesome, Mark! I have some small ones, that I almost didn't even save when harvesting, but now I will have to keep an eye on if they start sprouting!!! 👍👍
Good video Mark.
Have a ripper mate!
That’s a great result from a few tiny potatoes Mark 👍🇦🇺🇬🇧
😊 we do this every year when we harvest the potatoes! I have my kids put the tiny ones back in the soil or bring them inside to go back in the ground come fall. Haven't had to buy seed potatoes other than the first year. 💙 Plus I feel it strengthens the potatoes to my exact little climate because I get more from them each year.
as an Irish-Australian, this video makes me very happy! 😂
Wow. I always chuck the tiny ones away into the field because i thought they would not grow anything bigger than themselves (like garlic?). I'm super happy to be wrong!
Your excitement of 'ooo ooo ... hello ! ' was delightful!
Yay! When you said, "Let's...harvest!" I thought for sure you'd say, "Let's get into it!" 😊
I harvested some teeny tiny pearl potatoes this year. I'm going to try keeping them over winter to replant in the spring.
I planted small potatoes that i thought were going bad just to see if they'd grow. They did! I've not planted potatoes before. I'm going to from now on! Thank you, Mark, for this video. You have given me the courage to start gardening nd keeping up with it.
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I ran into this recently and left the small potatoes in a spot. Sure enough, they grew into bigger potatoes. It's pretty cool.
I grew potatoes this year for the first time. I bought purple ones and they were small too. I had them in grow bags but i didnt fertilize, so i got all small again. I kept one small for next year tho.
Dutch creams?
Did you know that some people grow tiny (pearl) potatoes intentionally, and them fry them whole?
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Good one Mandy! Cheers :)
I've planted the tiny ones myself. I dug them up because I thought they weren't doing anything and a few had a big potato attached to it. It's winter here in the States so I have them buried in a bucket and I because nothing is growing at the top, I'm going to plant on top of it. But that makes me happy. Thanks for showing us what happens.
I don't know why it is so satisfying watching potatoes be dug up. Almost like opening a present. You could make and hour long video of just digging them up and I would watch.
Love it!! I learned my mistake. I don’t prepare my ground. I just don’t!! Lesson learned. Thank you, brother!!
Fantastic harvest from the small ones Mark!! I have done the same with my Pontiacs so hopefully I will get another haul of them. :)
Never underestimate litter potatoes.
My favorite crops to harvest.
Can't wait 😊
I had a neighbor help me clean out my potato bed last year. She just left a good handful or more in the bed. This year, i planted tomatoes in that bed. I had potatoes all over that bed right next to my tomatoes. The potatoes that were in that bed were my biggest of this year. About 3 times the size of your biggest potato you just pulled up. I was amazed.
Come for the potatoes, stay for the darling dog!
This information is great. It's good to know what you can grow more of from something, but for me, the dog is the best part.😊❤
But yeah, replanting a handful of smaller taters gives you more.
Another great video, Mark. I thoroughly enjoy all of them. I'm trying to figure out where to plant my vegetable garden amongst my 4oo banana trees!
That's a ton of bananas! YUM... All the best sighting your veggie patch. I'm sure you'll find a good spot. Cheers :)
"You say potato, I say how many?" Nice.
Just goes to show it's worth it.👍❤
I planted potatoes right befre winter and they came up last spring. GOOD HARVEST
I save all of my tiny potatoes for planting in the Spring. Even if they're wrinkled beyond recognition, they still make potatoes. I planted about 5 pounds of chitted old tiny potatoes this past Spring for us and it made over 200 pounds of potatoes and will keep us in potatoes the whole Winter.
This is totally inspirational, I'll never underestimate the tiniest potato ever again. Thank you!
I'm in Ireland, i tried potatoes for the first time last year and we had extreme rain, they all developed blight :( hopeful that this year will be more successful!
Did you grow in containers? If not, I'm wondering if they might do better that way. Sorry your efforts were disappointing last time.
Hannah I’m in Ireland too. If you grow first or second early potatoes they’re usually lifted before blight season. If you really want to grow late potatoes there are some blight resistant varieties. Better luck for next year and maybe the weather will be kinder to us.
Growing potatoes is so gratifying when you see the results of many potatoes.
It is a ridiculous amount of fun to dig up potatoes! I planted 10 lbs of seed potatoes this year, and harvested 125 lbs! It's a treasure hunt for adults.
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I remember the time you talked to us about giving up on TH-cam because folks were not subscribing. Look at you now! Wow!!! Love your videos. ❤️👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Thanks, I had as much fun watching you as if I grew them myself. Great advice. keep safe, from Canadian Dairy farmer's daughter (retired).
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Im in Canada, zone 5b and ive had volunteer potatoes going on 4 years now!! Sometimes i just get too busy to harvest them. This year i had a whole bed of russet!! Not sure why ive had quite as many as i do but its taught me quite a bit. Keep experimenting 😊 Great video!! Thank you
Those potatoes turned out beautifully! Thanks for showing us your experiment with the tiny potatoes as seed.
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Good dog.
Last season (we're in winter now), I used 9 golf ball size organic potatoes I got from the supermarket, chitted the out (we have a shorter grow season in New England), planted them in storage containers and old reusable shopping bags with broken handles and ended up with 14 pounds of potatoes.
Good morning Mark from the USA. I always love watching your videos. They have a great amount of content and your candor is infectious. Keep up the good work😊
Waste not want not. By the way your new garden helper is adorable. He deserves a roasted potato for all his hard work.
I'll be the 800 commentator! I remember my grandpa in the early 70s taking me with him. He grab his pitchfork out of work shed and we ride his truck down to the field where he planted potatoes near the cal pasture. it was a bit chilly, damp and cloudy. It was definitely cool for Tennessee weather. They retired from the north. Before long we pitchforked up a big bushel of potatoes to take back to grandma. A week later we got the rest of them up. We took them back and covered them in lye and put them in the seller.
Last year I inherited a self seeded potato plant at my new community garden plot. When I dug it up I managed to put the fork through every potato but one. This year it was hands only. Great test of tiny potatoes and yes they look like King Edwards.
We tried the same experiment with almost identical size & amount of potatoes initially & a similar harvest!! We had enough potatoes as accompaniment for 2 meals! It's a win for sure! We've got the next batch of teeny tiny potatoes growing well now! YAY! Blessings from South Australia
Great to see the joy of the doggy at your excitement! Make sure if you're doing a carrot pulling she gets the tiniest ones, the crunchy and the sweetness is like the healthiest heroin for doggies!
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Thanks for showing this experiment!! I set aside some tiny potatoes from this year's harvest because I was contemplating if they were worth planting! I will definitely plant them out in the spring.
I found your videos roughly two years ago Mark it was a time where when the ole girl walked out the front door and never returned and left me to raise 4 young beautiful kids, when the night rolled in the kids would fall to sleep a quietness would come over the house and I'd find the mind wandering asking myself where it all went wrong but that changed when I found your channel mark!! Your videos truly helped me thru a tough time mate I know a bloody gardening channel of all things lol keep the videos coming absolutely love them mate
Its amazing how plants just do this Mark. I threw a load of potato peeling into my compost last year, they grew so I left them go to term. I harvested 71lbs of potatoes out of my compost from peelings. Totally agree, never discard them.
Potato harvesting is a blast. Just like a treasure hunt!
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Nice return on what most would consider waste.
And a lesson to all of us to keep trying different things and be amazed at how well it can come out.
have a Great Day.
Hi Mark, I loved this vid because that's exactly what I did in the hope they would grow again, they sprouted and now I can look forward to another harvest, yippee! I love that your new baby, Bella, is now more of a part of the family, today is the first time I've heard you talk to her and refer to yourself as "daddy" cheers and a great big "thumbs up" !!!🥰🥰💕👌👍👍👍🙏🐕
Yes! Wonderful!
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An idea for washing off small veggies: Save the lid from one of those buckets you were collecting in....Get out your electric drill and a nice small bit, like 1/8 inch....drill several dozen holes to make a colander when you wash your veggies!
Had this happen accidently for me. Harvested the potatoes from a raised bed at the end of the summer last year and just tossing aside the tiny taters. In early spring this year potato sprouts were coming up all over the raised bed. Got a nice little harvest (plenty for 1 person) in July. Spread some fertilizer over the bed, mixed in good and then planted (more like tossed in) all of the shriveled potatoes and all the long sprouts some with tiny potatoes on them. Mulched good and then had another nice little harvest in late October right before a killing frost.
Great lesson in what can happen. I once accidently grew a small crop of potatoes from some buried peeling scraps. It was truly just peels but there must have been eyes.
I saved some tiny potatoes from my late fathers harvest last year. They've been sitting on my window sill photosynthesizing. I was wondering if they would grow much but this has given me hope
Some times i just watch you for your....symbiotic...Dad jokes...that just sprout!
I could feel your joy digging for those potatoes 😀
Love those dirt apples ❤, we have started to grow the purple ones for baking.
I personally like the really little potatoes to add into stews, soups and chillies. They are also good in savory porages!!
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