Props to a TH-camr who took the time to follow a plant an entire growing cycle...that’s very rare and shows dedication to his craft. Most videos are less informative because they follow growth during the exciting early growing period only.
I agree, this guy's good. So many TH-camrs these days make a video every week. I love how this guy isn't like the others. Also makes me want to go out to the countryside away from the city.
I live in Idaho. Potatoes grow here spontaneously! I am not joking. Last year we bought a load of topsoil for our garden and a few potatoes popped up in it lol. Gotta love Idaho.
I opened TH-cam to learn how to replace the oil pressure sensor on my 2003 5.3L Chevy Silverado. It’s about a hour later and I’m not any closer to fixing my truck and I seem to have lost almost all my motivation to do so somewhere in the TH-cam land vortex. I couldn’t tell you how or why I pressed the play button on your video but I’m glad I did. I’ve never had a garden before but thanks to your awesome video I’m going to have one by the end of tomorrow!
I did that, fixed it. It wasn't taking the oil pan off video. Silverado sensor. Low oil pressure on dash doesn't always mean low oil pressure for real because it's the sensor is bad. Grow some Kahlrabi or cabbage too, it's wonderful!
My mom used to let the older kids plant the potatoes . We all did the harvesting. During the cold winter months my mom and I would go thru the seed catalogue and plan the Spring and Summer garden. I can remember at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners my sisters and I boasting to our guests about our gardens and the crops we grew a in d 90 percent of the meals we grew and harvested ourselves. Thanks for sharing. God bless
Growing up we would immediately clean them and let them dry. We gunny sacked our potatoes and kept them in a cellar during the winter. I'd say we sacked close to 1,400 lbs of taters every season and we gave away quite a bit also. It was just the 4 of us but what we saved would feed us almost to the end of April most years. Your big red was about average size to what we were yielding. The soil was sandy but it used to be a hog pen where we were planting and we kept the water to them almost every day. So yes, watering makes a difference with the size and yield. If you plant in heavy soil that compacts you'll usually get a hard, almost stunted tuber compared to something grown in loose loamy soil. And it doesn't hurt to put some liquid Natures fertilizer to the whole garden. Trust me, it makes a difference. Just subbed your channel. Very informative. I will try the deep planting method you're using next time.
Thank you so much ! I learned more about potatoes in 23 minutes than I ever thought I would. Your week by week approach is so valuable and instructive. Please continue to roll out more awesome videos like this. The are so edifying!
I have to tell you thank you so much for posting this video. I started digging my potatoes up today n I've only dug 1/4 of what I planted. My potatoes are huge n there are a lot of them. I didn't want to keep mounding dirt on my potato plants so I did what you do n what a awesome way to plant potatoes. I have 75#'s of potatoes in just the 1/4 of what I dug up. Thank you very much. I continued to water my potatoes n the green on the potato bush was still green but I wanted to dig them now. If I had waited until plant was completely dead I think my potatoes would have been huge. So far the largest potato I have is 6 inches long by 4 inches wide. Beautiful potatoes. I can't thank u enough because it was so easy with your help.
Seve Sheldon I second this. Even if we grow a lot of vegetables ourselves I still love seeing how other people do it. I have an issue growing onions so I watched his video and I’m crossing my fingers now for a better crop this yr.
This was like watching a full documentary! Thank you for the effort you put into this video, and I feel ready to try planting my first bed of potatoes this spring.
Some interesting details. Thank you. Possibly some of your plant die off and rotting potatoes are blight. I've learned to not grow potatoes (and tomatoes) in the same soil again until the third year. Still I did replant in the same soil some this year.
Sir, you are an absolute gift to humanity for making these videos. I often spoke to my granny about growing my own vegetables when i get older. She told me potatoes involve a lot of digging and hard work, so I can really appreciate what you do. I subscribed and look forward to seeing more vegetable growing. I'm gonna check out the rest of your videos now too. Keep up the good work Joe! Thanks, from Ireland.
I love taking the small red potatoes, skin and all, halving them, then coating with olive oil, salt, pepper and seasonings (Italian seasoning, garlic powder, etc) and then roasting in the oven until done. OH MY GOODNESS THEY'RE GOOD!
Hey I grew potatoes in Vermont one year I bought a 50 lb bag. Of seed potatoes kataden I got back 900 lbs the fall before the farmer spread manure ... your reds were great I really enjoy potatoes and onions Thanks for your video nice garden I just purchased a 10 acre farm so let’s see what happens this year
I got a tiller and I'm going to start my 1st garden first today. Glad I came across this, thank you for making the video. Friend of mine said it's mandatory to plant potatoes on St Patrick's day if you're Irish. Lol
My daughter decided to plant a potato with eyes today. I decided to see if she did it right and according to you, she did! She's experimenting. We already planted onions and are growing carrot roots in water. If all this works out, we'll make a bigger garden for root veggies and one for above ground. Her tomatoes are in cups and have 2 leaves with 2 more growing. She started them from tomatos (seeds) we bought at the store. So glad I found you! We live in north Georgia where the weather turns from freezing (last night) to 90+ in the summer.
Fascinating to see the potatoes in by Good Friday thing survived in the US as well as the UK. My grandfather told me exactly the same thing. The fact that Easter can move by over a month mattered not a jot to him too. He also insisted on putting in the whole potato, but he did tell me when times were hard you can grow a small crop from a peeling with an eye. Good informative video.
In short, yeah it worked. But I got impatient and dug them up too early so I was left with only a few small potatoes. I'm sure that this works if done correctly lol.
Thank you. A gift that really gives back 7x. Potatoes and carrots can be stored outdooors in a pile of damp sand covered by a tarp to keep it from getting excessively wet. Whenever you jrrd supplies just dig in and pull out what you need.
Thanks, especially because every YouToob video about growing potatoes talks about everything BUT growing potatoes. Thanks God that someone doesn't beat around the bush!
Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? It’s not necessary of course but I tried it once and I’ve never planted potatoes in the ground ever since. I planted them in large pots filled with a mix of old and new compost with chicken manure pellets and buried the bottom 4 inches of the pot in the ground. I got double the amount than I would normally if I planted it in the ground. You have a lot more space than I do so maximization of space isn’t an issue for you. Great video! I always love seeing these large, homestead style gardens. I hope to one day move to a country estate, when my kids are grown and done with school. Right now I can’t since I want my children to spend time with their grandparents and they attend a private school their mother graduated from. One day I’ll sell my home in Hawaii, where I currently live, and move to a state that has all 4 seasons. All my life in Hawaii, it’s always summer or spring, winter or fall has no noticeable difference here.
Wowee, reminds me as a kid being raised in Chickasaw County, IA, and having "garden duty." Potatoes were one crop we KNEW we could count on; stored them in the basement of the house. Thanks for the memories. Y'all Be Safe!
I was going through the sack of Russets and found one that was aggressively sprouting so i took it out and set it in a large planter pot in the front yard that i had been making compost in three weeks later they are filling the pot and almost a foot tall! it gets good morning to noon day sun, i have had good success with peppers and tomatoes in that spot last year so here's hopping we get some nice spuds. next year I will have access to at least 400SqFt of garden space to play with. Thanks for posting these great videos, they are very inspiring. I will say that gardening in the Pacific Northwest has it's challenges, but i do love it. --Rick
I am so excited ! This will be my first year growing the red potatoes. I grew up on a farm years ago and I couldn't to leave because my dad grew anything that God had created. Now that my dad is no longer around, oh how I missed the fresh vegetables. My husband and I are starting our first full garden this spring in our backyard. I just love potatoes especially sweet potatoes. Your video helped me tremendously. It brought back all the things that my dad had taught me. Do you have a video on growing sweet potatoes ?
I’ve been seeing videos that you can eat the green leaves but the flowers are poisonous. I’ve tasted some of mine. Not bad. I think sweet potatoes grow the same way but the vine looks like a morning glory a whole lot. Can eat those cooked like greens When they start to turn yellow they get bitter though I wonder if you ate some of the greens would they make more potatoes as a survival instinct so to speak. I would see that as a win win
Very interesting...You taught me that I dug my potatoes up way too soon. Good lesson for next year--plant sooner, and let the plants flower and turn yellow before I start digging them up...plus wait longer than 3 months!
I get it, that you don't want to put a lot of extra effort into growing potatoes (I'm also, all for the "medium effort growing"). But a good tip: When the tops starts dying back due to mold, remove the tops. Otherwise the mold can leach into the soil, and infect the tubers, this can be the reason why some of them rot. (And in any case, it can make storing less problematic. As a sidenote to cutting the tops of: You want to remove the tops and potentially burn them or maybe compost them, to avoid moldspores to spread. The potatoes can, in most cases, (depending of variety) stay in the ground just fine, for later harvest (or harvest as you eat them, until winter set in), good way to store them, and that will also harden the skin, so they store better. Just the same as if you dry them above ground.
Kenney Madsen I tried growing them in 8 buckets and pretty much failed. I planted 2 per bucket and for Yukon gold I got nothing and for the Red Norland I yielded approximately 8 potatos. I did drill many holes in the bottoms of the buckets but I'm thinking they were not big enough to allow proper drainage. Based off what I have said are you able to recommend anything? Thank you!
@@chrisrobinson2112, here's an idea for you... you should check this out!!... (it's essentially a "big bucket with pre-drilled holes"!!) :) th-cam.com/video/mc8nsAX-FQI/w-d-xo.html
My dad used to dig a big hole and cover the bottom with about 6 imches deep of hay then place all your potatoes on it then cover with dirt about 3 to 4 feet deep and he could dig up potatoes all winter. Oh yeah you gotta cover them with hay before the dirt foes over them.
joe. I came across your videos by accident, I have not been able to stop watching them. you sir are a very talented man and hard working also. the tent, what can I say its just unbelievable along with the things that you do. what a inspiration you are. I can relate on the divorce thing mine left after 30 years wow is all can say i did not see that coming, but that a another story . wish you and Melissa the very best. rick
I grew potatoes last year for the first time. I live in northern Michigan that has a similar climate to Minnesota. A farmer told me to plant potatoes in saw dust. I did and they did great! It was just a couple of plants, yet, it was nice to discover those potatoes at harvest time. I used heavy nylon twine and iron shepherd hooks to string a one line fence three feet high to keep the deer away. Deer don't like to feel the twine against their legs when they investigate my garden. It worked to keep them from eating my plants.
This "life cycle" video was really helpful. If I hadn't seen your potato plants die back, I would have panicked and thought mine had a disease. This is my first year of growing and we'll see how the harvest turns out.
Thank you for taking the time to make such a great presentation of growing potatoes. I have watched other videos of people giving advice, but you gave evidence of how your methods actually work. Thank you! The rest of your garden looks very well kept. Good job on all of your hard work
Great video! I appreciate the update through the season and all of the helpful tips. Also, pretty epic stache man.. Keep up the good work! Best Wishes to you and yours
Super fine and thorough video on ground growing potatoes. One of the best videos I have seen from beginning to end. Congrats on the great harvest. I loved growing potatoes and had pretty good luck here in Central Florida. I used alot of my own homemade mulch and lots of compost leaves. My compost was like "GOLD" to my garden....just have always had great luck with it and good returns on all of my plantings. My tomatoes always went absolutely to the moon, big around and tall...even planted suckers, grew as big as mother plant. We canned to death...even had to feed some to the animals...GOD Blessed us dearly with tomatoes. We sure shared a plenty. I had a couple of pigs and bunch of chickens and Rabbits. I played hop-scotch with my pens or Leap-frog with my chicken yards and pig yards....so didn't take long for my entire acre of planting area to get rich....I let my animals do the work and then mixed my leaves...tons of leaves...and compost all in with tiller....DELICIOUS!!! Very few weeds....kept using the droppings caught in trays from both chickens and rabbits. Made my own bug kill....with hot peppers / marigolds / garlics few other things..blended and strained...hardly any bugs / pests...for FLORIDA that is essential feat to achieve. My yellow corn was 12" tall....photo proof, here in Florida....most unheard of LOL.....those were the days. I had HAPPY Chickens and Pigs....big yields. Now I am past my gardening years due to physical abilities..but still I love watching videos such as yours and think back with the similarities we both had and the enthusiasm you share in your wonderful experiences as a gardener. Yours looks SUPERB!!! So now I am a "VISUAL" gardener....but I can still do some bucket gardening on small scale. Goes to show....you can't take the "garden" out of the boy....not really aye? God Bless and Happy Growing and Harvesting... Ken from Orlando, Florida, USA
A minute into your video you say-“up here in Minnesota.” Perfect! I grew up on Mille Lacs lake and now live an hour south of MSP. My great grandfather grew Kanebecs. This is my first year growing potatoes. I’ve got Burbank Russets in the ground. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Looks like you have some nice sandy loam. Soil tilth is important for potatoes since they must be able to spread and expand underground. Heavy clay makes for tough potato farming. Well done and nice looking garden.
Your method worked for me!! I have potatoes :) I didn't plant them super early, but I'm already able to harvest them. Thank you! I took a couple videos of my progress if you're interested. I live in northern Massachusetts.
God bless you 🙏 so much for helping mankind. I watched your video from here Kisoro... Uganda... And am making good use of our volcanic soils in the foot hills of mufumbiro ranges.
Thank you! I'm about to plant my potatoes here in southern Georgia where we plant right around valentines day! I enjoyed your potato journey very much!
It is Cinco de Mayo here in Southern Indiana and just about 1 month ago I put my potatoes in the ground, just as you had instructed and yesterday the first green Sprouts from my potatoes came through the ground! I am extremely excited and thankful and grateful for your instruction. Thank you!
Thanks for not confining it to yourself. You have said it all about potatoes production. I have already been looking forward to seeing how to venture into it ; now with the little time I spent on viewing this clip I believe I can start something. Thank you for making this video available
Nice video and great yields on your Pontiac Reds. I agree with you on Pontiac Reds, though Yukon Golds are equal in my book. As I have gotten older (now 65) I have modified how I grow potatoes. I use a modified Ruth Stout method (no straw or hay). I till the ground and place the potatoes on the freshly tilled ground and use a garden rake to cover the potatoes with 8 inches of soil. I have a hilling attachment for my Troybilt tiller and when the potatoes break ground, I use the tiller to hill them more. I do this twice in the season. What is nice is when it comes time to harvest I can grab the plant and pull it out of the ground and don't have to use a fork to dig them. The soil is still loose and can be easily dug with my hands. It is so much easier on my back. A soil treatment I use is MycoGrow from Fungi Perfecti. It is a symbiotic fungal soil treatment and it definitely produces more and larger potatoes. I just found your channel and have been binging. I have cousins in Ely so your road shots sure reminds me of them and the BWCA. Thx for your videos.
I’m an okie as well, best practice (passed from my grandpa as well) Is plant on St Patty’s day. That was always the standard, we also would cut them into chunks with eyes sticking outward. But like skinning a cat there’s more than one way. Watering when needed is a good practice as well.
This is the BEST video Ive seen for growing potatoes ourselves. LOVED that you kept coming back and great video of what to expect and how to's ect.. thank you!!
I love this. When I dig out my potatoes, I always am glad that I am not one of those poor Irish women who were digging out their patches during the potato famine. They experienced a horrible time.
Minnesota and Iowa you guys have that magic soil lol😊 .I have a buddy that lives in iowa lol he can throw a rock in the ground and it would grow a tree lol im jealous 😊.
I appreciate that you went to the trouble to put the potatoes where each plant was. It really gives me a good idea of what to expect. You did a wonderful job from start to finish. Thank you. ☺
i grew potatoes for the first time this year and I planted reds because I read they canned the best. Got them in way late but still had a pretty good crop. They were so tasty we ended up just eating them.
Wow, so that's where food comes from! Just kidding. Brand new gardner here. Been putting up food stores for a couple years now. (Beans, 8uLL3ts and bandaids, y'know, for SHTF) But the wife and I have come too late to the realization that we need to garden. We are trying and you gotta start sometime, right?Videos like yours are a great help. Thank you and God bless you and yours!
I bought a 20kg bag a few weeks ago to be apocalypse ready. Had a look at them today and they have all started sprouting, so tomorrow I’m planting them to make more potatoes. The way coronavirus is going we’re going to need them.
Absolutely loved your video. I grew up raising a garden and now have moved to a place to have one again. Thank you so so much for putting together this video with all it's helpful information. Your garden is wonderful and again, thanks for taking the time to share it with us.
I think your soil up there is great for potatoes. Here in Ohio I am adding sand to my soil, plus manure and fertilizers to help my garden. Very helpful video, Thank You !!
Mate that was one of the best informative videos I have ever seen. Your content is simple yet amazing good on you. You now have 1 more subscriber and I look forward to your past, present and future videos good sir well done mate.
Such a great video! Always wanted to try to grow potatoes, but never knew how to do it haha! This helped me so much! Thank you! :) Best wishes from Sweden!
Thank you so much! I planted red potato in plastic containers and now that I have seen your video. lol I realized I am in trouble and need to put those plants in my ground. lol Last year I planted potato turned the pot over no potatoes. I really did not know when the potato would be ready. But I now know. Thank you!
You did get A Great Mess of Tater's out of your planting of them. Good Job. We used to keep our's in the Well House year round and they did Fantastic in there.
(1) Grandfather did his own style, and made newspaper-reported 2-3# huge spuds. Rototill totally deep to the rotor. Dig out entire trench with side walls of dirt. Throw in deep layer of hay/straw. Layer over with dirt. Put in potatoes along the trench. Dirt ayer, straw layer, then final top layer of dirt mounding, and then strawing the mound. Straw sucks up excess water, keeping the soil moist and humid, but not wet and sloggy, and loose and airy. At spuds grow out, continue to put on higher and higher atraw onto mound, not dirt. (3) "Uncle Marvin" above ground potatoes. Just lawn cuttings, no fertilizer, dirt, straw, etc. Mound up lawn cuttings, and put in potatoes. Grass cuttings give off methane (global warming) gasses (fres cut grass smell). Worms come running from entire neighborhood. Mounds have proper humidity and moistness, not soggy. Continue putting on spring, summer, and fall lawn grass cuttings. When you want potatoes, DO NOT DIG UP! REACH INTO, dig around in loose cuttings for potatoes and break off. Pull out, wipe off excess dry grass clippings. Wash outside. Sweet, tender potatoes. Leave plants in mound all year round. Continue piling up huge lawn grass mound, or put into wooden bin. Bottom eventually decomposes into black gold soil, and continues to make further decomposition and nutrients for the potatoes. (3) My style is to rototill down to rotors, and continue to rototill until soil is aery and fluffy. Then dig out entire tilled area, leaving open over winter, with dirt side walls. Lawn cuttings (and worms) kept in separate wood bin in warm weather. Pour in cow/horse manure, and lawn cuttings intermixed, and allow fall/winter/spring snow and rains to percolate down manure compost tea and lawn grass nutrients into deep soil, while the fiber manure and grass keeps a soft soil texture. In spring, put soil back onto pit mound, and plant. Coninue this for many years, and deep fertilization, manure and grass fiber soil (yearly ground and mixed up), and soil becomes intensely productive black gold soil. All processes work at West and East coastal lands up to (at least) Latitude 45 degrees North
Thank you .. very informative. I've been growing mine from chits/peels in buckets lined with a plastic shopping bag which saves this old woman's back. How often do you water your spuds?
Amazing and extremely informative video about growing potatoes 🥔 !!! Thanks for posting it on TH-cam !! I'm a dude from Inglewood California and I'm growing potatoes 🥔 and you just gave me a great advice !!! Your grandfather was a cool man !!! Keep on posting videos there are lots of people watching your videos !!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🍉🍉🍉🍉✌️
Props to a TH-camr who took the time to follow a plant an entire growing cycle...that’s very rare and shows dedication to his craft. Most videos are less informative because they follow growth during the exciting early growing period only.
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I agree, this guy's good. So many TH-camrs these days make a video every week. I love how this guy isn't like the others. Also makes me want to go out to the countryside away from the city.
Exactly! Seeing the whole process was extremely helpful. Hope you do more of these videos!
Yes, my favorites are the complete ones, certainly easier to manage in my mind.....Thank You..
@@fliegels87 I am agree with you. Hope my videos will be helpful too - th-cam.com/video/kmnjEOthrlE/w-d-xo.html , see links below video.
I live in Idaho. Potatoes grow here spontaneously! I am not joking. Last year we bought a load of topsoil for our garden and a few potatoes popped up in it lol. Gotta love Idaho.
I opened TH-cam to learn how to replace the oil pressure sensor on my 2003 5.3L Chevy Silverado. It’s about a hour later and I’m not any closer to fixing my truck and I seem to have lost almost all my motivation to do so somewhere in the TH-cam land vortex. I couldn’t tell you how or why I pressed the play button on your video but I’m glad I did. I’ve never had a garden before but thanks to your awesome video I’m going to have one by the end of tomorrow!
I did that, fixed it. It wasn't taking the oil pan off video. Silverado sensor. Low oil pressure on dash doesn't always mean low oil pressure for real because it's the sensor is bad. Grow some Kahlrabi or cabbage too, it's wonderful!
Good for you Todd.
We're all trying to become a new and better me.
Pp,.! On.
Todd Musgrove haha
How bout that oil pressure sensor?? 😆🤣
My mom used to let the older kids plant the potatoes . We all did the harvesting. During the cold winter months my mom and I would go thru the seed catalogue and plan the Spring and Summer garden.
I can remember at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners my sisters and I boasting to our guests about our gardens and the crops we grew a in d 90 percent of the meals we grew and harvested ourselves.
Thanks for sharing. God bless
Very awesome comment James. I still today look through the spring seed catalogs and get excited for the upcoming season. Thank You.
Growing up we would immediately clean them and let them dry. We gunny sacked our potatoes and kept them in a cellar during the winter. I'd say we sacked close to 1,400 lbs of taters every season and we gave away quite a bit also. It was just the 4 of us but what we saved would feed us almost to the end of April most years. Your big red was about average size to what we were yielding. The soil was sandy but it used to be a hog pen where we were planting and we kept the water to them almost every day. So yes, watering makes a difference with the size and yield. If you plant in heavy soil that compacts you'll usually get a hard, almost stunted tuber compared to something grown in loose loamy soil. And it doesn't hurt to put some liquid Natures fertilizer to the whole garden. Trust me, it makes a difference.
Just subbed your channel.
Very informative. I will try the deep planting method you're using next time.
Wished I had found this earlier. Great video!!
Beautiful garden. One of the best tutorials I have seen on You Tube.
Thank you Shane.
Excellent presentation from start to finish.
Thanks for showing the entire cycle of growing, it takes lots of time, I did learn few things from you Thank you
I am a VA native. We always planted the Red Pontiac and the Kinnebec potato. They both have great flavor.
Beautiful garden!
Thank you so much ! I learned more about potatoes in 23 minutes than I ever thought I would. Your week by week approach is so valuable and instructive. Please continue to roll out more awesome videos like this. The are so edifying!
I have to tell you thank you so much for posting this video. I started digging my potatoes up today n I've only dug 1/4 of what I planted. My potatoes are huge n there are a lot of them. I didn't want to keep mounding dirt on my potato plants so I did what you do n what a awesome way to plant potatoes. I have 75#'s of potatoes in just the 1/4 of what I dug up. Thank you very much. I continued to water my potatoes n the green on the potato bush was still green but I wanted to dig them now. If I had waited until plant was completely dead I think my potatoes would have been huge. So far the largest potato I have is 6 inches long by 4 inches wide. Beautiful potatoes. I can't thank u enough because it was so easy with your help.
Can you please make a video like this for all of the vegetables you grow? It’s very good.
Seve Sheldon I second this. Even if we grow a lot of vegetables ourselves I still love seeing how other people do it. I have an issue growing onions so I watched his video and I’m crossing my fingers now for a better crop this yr.
Thank you for showing how to grow potatoes without straws.
This was like watching a full documentary! Thank you for the effort you put into this video, and I feel ready to try planting my first bed of potatoes this spring.
Some interesting details. Thank you. Possibly some of your plant die off and rotting potatoes are blight. I've learned to not grow potatoes (and tomatoes) in the same soil again until the third year. Still I did replant in the same soil some this year.
Sir, you are an absolute gift to humanity for making these videos.
I often spoke to my granny about growing my own vegetables when i get older. She told me potatoes involve a lot of digging and hard work, so I can really appreciate what you do.
I subscribed and look forward to seeing more vegetable growing.
I'm gonna check out the rest of your videos now too.
Keep up the good work Joe! Thanks, from Ireland.
This is the best youtube video on potatoes, I think.
I love taking the small red potatoes, skin and all, halving them, then coating with olive oil, salt, pepper and seasonings (Italian seasoning, garlic powder, etc) and then roasting in the oven until done. OH MY GOODNESS THEY'RE GOOD!
Hey I grew potatoes in Vermont one year I bought a 50 lb bag. Of seed potatoes kataden I got back 900 lbs the fall before the farmer spread manure ... your reds were great I really enjoy potatoes and onions Thanks for your video nice garden I just purchased a 10 acre farm so let’s see what happens this year
I got a tiller and I'm going to start my 1st garden first today.
Glad I came across this, thank you for making the video.
Friend of mine said it's mandatory to plant potatoes on St Patrick's day if you're Irish. Lol
Best damn potato video I have seen yet.
My daughter decided to plant a potato with eyes today. I decided to see if she did it right and according to you, she did! She's experimenting. We already planted onions and are growing carrot roots in water. If all this works out, we'll make a bigger garden for root veggies and one for above ground. Her tomatoes are in cups and have 2 leaves with 2 more growing. She started them from tomatos (seeds) we bought at the store. So glad I found you! We live in north Georgia where the weather turns from freezing (last night) to 90+ in the summer.
Nice garden broski. Just watched your video before I go out and plant my potatoes today. Cheers. I'll plant them a little deeper like you said.
Fascinating to see the potatoes in by Good Friday thing survived in the US as well as the UK. My grandfather told me exactly the same thing. The fact that Easter can move by over a month mattered not a jot to him too. He also insisted on putting in the whole potato, but he did tell me when times were hard you can grow a small crop from a peeling with an eye.
Good informative video.
i agree yes
I've been watching potato growing videos all morning and yours was the best. Thanks!
Thank you Jan.
I put a potato in the ground just to see if anything would happen and now I'm here because I got a freaking potato bush in my backyard.
So how did it go? Potatoes??
And? What happened?
@@mrbaeman39lolman60 u can dig the potatoes out once they get big enough
Me and others need answers. How did it go?
First time potato planter myself alsom
In short, yeah it worked. But I got impatient and dug them up too early so I was left with only a few small potatoes. I'm sure that this works if done correctly lol.
There is a deep sense of joy seeing the harvest... Farming is a great way of life
Thank you. A gift that really gives back 7x.
Potatoes and carrots can be stored outdooors in a pile of damp sand covered by a tarp to keep it from getting excessively wet. Whenever you jrrd supplies just dig in and pull out what you need.
Thanks, especially because every YouToob video about growing potatoes talks about everything BUT growing potatoes. Thanks God that someone doesn't beat around the bush!
God Bless your GrandPa! Good memories. Good info. He taught you, and now me and my kids, something important!
Best video for growing potatoes 🥔 Thank you!!!!
Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? It’s not necessary of course but I tried it once and I’ve never planted potatoes in the ground ever since. I planted them in large pots filled with a mix of old and new compost with chicken manure pellets and buried the bottom 4 inches of the pot in the ground. I got double the amount than I would normally if I planted it in the ground. You have a lot more space than I do so maximization of space isn’t an issue for you. Great video! I always love seeing these large, homestead style gardens. I hope to one day move to a country estate, when my kids are grown and done with school. Right now I can’t since I want my children to spend time with their grandparents and they attend a private school their mother graduated from. One day I’ll sell my home in Hawaii, where I currently live, and move to a state that has all 4 seasons. All my life in Hawaii, it’s always summer or spring, winter or fall has no noticeable difference here.
Why did you bury the container? Was the bottom cut out?
This is one of the best garden videos I’ve ever watched! Learned so much with one video, awesommmmme!!
Wowee, reminds me as a kid being raised in Chickasaw County, IA, and having "garden duty." Potatoes were one crop we KNEW we could count on; stored them in the basement of the house. Thanks for the memories.
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I was going through the sack of Russets and found one that was aggressively sprouting so i took it out and set it in a large planter pot in the front yard that i had been making compost in three weeks later they are filling the pot and almost a foot tall! it gets good morning to noon day sun, i have had good success with peppers and tomatoes in that spot last year so here's hopping we get some nice spuds. next year I will have access to at least 400SqFt of garden space to play with. Thanks for posting these great videos, they are very inspiring.
I will say that gardening in the Pacific Northwest has it's challenges, but i do love it.
--Rick
Thank you Rick. Good luck on your harvest.
I am so excited ! This will be my first year growing the red potatoes. I grew up on a farm years ago and I couldn't to leave because my dad grew anything that God had created. Now that my dad is no longer around, oh how I missed the fresh vegetables. My husband and I are starting our first full garden this spring in our backyard. I just love potatoes especially sweet potatoes. Your video helped me tremendously. It brought back all the things that my dad had taught me. Do you have a video on growing sweet potatoes ?
I’ve been seeing videos that you can eat the green leaves but the flowers are poisonous. I’ve tasted some of mine. Not bad. I think sweet potatoes grow the same way but the vine looks like a morning glory a whole lot. Can eat those cooked like greens When they start to turn yellow they get bitter though I wonder if you ate some of the greens would they make more potatoes as a survival instinct so to speak. I would see that as a win win
THANK YOU!! I've watched this at least 5 times a year for the last 3 years. This is great info...
Very interesting...You taught me that I dug my potatoes up way too soon. Good lesson for next year--plant sooner, and let the plants flower and turn yellow before I start digging them up...plus wait longer than 3 months!
My culinary arts class enjoyed your video. Thanks for your time and passion growing potatoes.
I get it, that you don't want to put a lot of extra effort into growing potatoes (I'm also, all for the "medium effort growing").
But a good tip: When the tops starts dying back due to mold, remove the tops. Otherwise the mold can leach into the soil, and infect the tubers, this can be the reason why some of them rot. (And in any case, it can make storing less problematic.
As a sidenote to cutting the tops of: You want to remove the tops and potentially burn them or maybe compost them, to avoid moldspores to spread.
The potatoes can, in most cases, (depending of variety) stay in the ground just fine, for later harvest (or harvest as you eat them, until winter set in), good way to store them, and that will also harden the skin, so they store better. Just the same as if you dry them above ground.
Kenney Madsen I tried growing them in 8 buckets and pretty much failed. I planted 2 per bucket and for Yukon gold I got nothing and for the Red Norland I yielded approximately 8 potatos. I did drill many holes in the bottoms of the buckets but I'm thinking they were not big enough to allow proper drainage. Based off what I have said are you able to recommend anything? Thank you!
@@chrisrobinson2112, here's an idea for you... you should check this out!!... (it's essentially a "big bucket with pre-drilled holes"!!) :)
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My dad used to dig a big hole and cover the bottom with about 6 imches deep of hay then place all your potatoes on it then cover with dirt about 3 to 4 feet deep and he could dig up potatoes all winter. Oh yeah you gotta cover them with hay before the dirt foes over them.
I can't tell you how much I appreciated this video. Thank you!
joe. I came across your videos by accident, I have not been able to stop watching them. you sir are a very talented man and hard working also. the tent, what can I say its just unbelievable along with the things that you do. what a inspiration you are. I can relate on the divorce thing mine left after 30 years wow is all can say i did not see that coming, but that a another story . wish you and Melissa the very best. rick
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I grew potatoes last year for the first time. I live in northern Michigan that has a similar climate to Minnesota. A farmer told me to plant potatoes in saw dust. I did and they did great! It was just a couple of plants, yet, it was nice to discover those potatoes at harvest time. I used heavy nylon twine and iron shepherd hooks to string a one line fence three feet high to keep the deer away. Deer don't like to feel the twine against their legs when they investigate my garden. It worked to keep them from eating my plants.
Love that you took us through the whole cycle. Ive never seen that done well. Great video. Thank you!
Nice vid. Thanks for sharing!
Digging spuds is like opening a Christmas present. You never know what you will get but it is exciting.
I agree 100%
More like a box of chocolates!
My mamma said planting potatoes is like a box of chocolates.
If I plant potatoes, I'd expect potatoes..
@@brent3611 good point
This "life cycle" video was really helpful. If I hadn't seen your potato plants die back, I would have panicked and thought mine had a disease. This is my first year of growing and we'll see how the harvest turns out.
Incredible video! The patience it would take to make this is more than I could ever have lol.
Thank you for taking the time to make such a great presentation of growing potatoes. I have watched other videos of people giving advice, but you gave evidence of how your methods actually work. Thank you! The rest of your garden looks very well kept. Good job on all of your hard work
Great video! I appreciate the update through the season and all of the helpful tips.
Also, pretty epic stache man.. Keep up the good work!
Best Wishes to you and yours
Super fine and thorough video on ground growing potatoes. One of the best videos I have seen from beginning to end. Congrats on the great harvest. I loved growing potatoes and had pretty good luck here in Central Florida. I used alot of my own homemade mulch and lots of compost leaves. My compost was like "GOLD" to my garden....just have always had great luck with it and good returns on all of my plantings. My tomatoes always went absolutely to the moon, big around and tall...even planted suckers, grew as big as mother plant. We canned to death...even had to feed some to the animals...GOD Blessed us dearly with tomatoes. We sure shared a plenty.
I had a couple of pigs and bunch of chickens and Rabbits. I played hop-scotch with my pens or Leap-frog with my chicken yards and pig yards....so didn't take long for my entire acre of planting area to get rich....I let my animals do the work and then mixed my leaves...tons of leaves...and compost all in with tiller....DELICIOUS!!! Very few weeds....kept using the droppings caught in trays from both chickens and rabbits. Made my own bug kill....with hot peppers / marigolds / garlics few other things..blended and strained...hardly any bugs / pests...for FLORIDA that is essential feat to achieve. My yellow corn was 12" tall....photo proof, here in Florida....most unheard of LOL.....those were the days. I had HAPPY Chickens and Pigs....big yields.
Now I am past my gardening years due to physical abilities..but still I love watching videos such as yours and think back with the similarities we both had and the enthusiasm you share in your wonderful experiences as a gardener. Yours looks SUPERB!!! So now I am a "VISUAL" gardener....but I can still do some bucket gardening on small scale. Goes to show....you can't take the "garden" out of the boy....not really aye?
God Bless and Happy Growing and Harvesting...
Ken from Orlando, Florida, USA
A minute into your video you say-“up here in Minnesota.” Perfect! I grew up on Mille Lacs lake and now live an hour south of MSP. My great grandfather grew Kanebecs. This is my first year growing potatoes. I’ve got Burbank Russets in the ground. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Excellent video! Took months and lots of hard work to make! Thank you. Started my first garden!
thanks Joe, my daughter's watched it with me and they want to try growing potatoes this year! This is a great teaching video.
Looks like you have some nice sandy loam. Soil tilth is important for potatoes since they must be able to spread and expand underground. Heavy clay makes for tough potato farming. Well done and nice looking garden.
Your method worked for me!! I have potatoes :) I didn't plant them super early, but I'm already able to harvest them. Thank you! I took a couple videos of my progress if you're interested. I live in northern Massachusetts.
God bless you 🙏 so much for helping mankind. I watched your video from here Kisoro... Uganda... And am making good use of our volcanic soils in the foot hills of mufumbiro ranges.
The home of gorillas
Thank you! I'm about to plant my potatoes here in southern Georgia where we plant right around valentines day! I enjoyed your potato journey very much!
It is Cinco de Mayo here in Southern Indiana and just about 1 month ago I put my potatoes in the ground, just as you had instructed and yesterday the first green Sprouts from my potatoes came through the ground! I am extremely excited and thankful and grateful for your instruction. Thank you!
Your whole garden is just awesome. Reminds me of when I used to help my great aunt plant her garden every year. Thanks.
Thanks for not confining it to yourself. You have said it all about potatoes production. I have already been looking forward to seeing how to venture into it ; now with the little time I spent on viewing this clip I believe I can start something.
Thank you for making this video available
Nice video and great yields on your Pontiac Reds. I agree with you on Pontiac Reds, though Yukon Golds are equal in my book. As I have gotten older (now 65) I have modified how I grow potatoes. I use a modified Ruth Stout method (no straw or hay). I till the ground and place the potatoes on the freshly tilled ground and use a garden rake to cover the potatoes with 8 inches of soil. I have a hilling attachment for my Troybilt tiller and when the potatoes break ground, I use the tiller to hill them more. I do this twice in the season. What is nice is when it comes time to harvest I can grab the plant and pull it out of the ground and don't have to use a fork to dig them. The soil is still loose and can be easily dug with my hands. It is so much easier on my back. A soil treatment I use is MycoGrow from Fungi Perfecti. It is a symbiotic fungal soil treatment and it definitely produces more and larger potatoes.
I just found your channel and have been binging. I have cousins in Ely so your road shots sure reminds me of them and the BWCA. Thx for your videos.
Yukon Gold are my favorite. When I keep using my own potatoes for seed they keep getting better. Live near Black duck Minnesota
Thank you for sharing.
My uncle and grandfather in Oklahoma said "tatoes" planting day was March 17th. Wish they were here to help my garden.
march in general and harvest in july
How often do you water them,and how much water do you use, when planting potatoes? Thank you I loved watching you garden.❣️
I’m an okie as well, best practice (passed from my grandpa as well) Is plant on St Patty’s day. That was always the standard, we also would cut them into chunks with eyes sticking outward. But like skinning a cat there’s more than one way. Watering when needed is a good practice as well.
My grandfather was the same way, March 17th here on the Mason Dixon Line
Later in the upper Midwest. Good Friday is a good date.
Really enjoyed watching your video from start to finish! Thanking you for taking the time to do so!
Wow you put a lot of work and time into this video I learned so much Thank you
This is the BEST video Ive seen for growing potatoes ourselves. LOVED that you kept coming back and great video of what to expect and how to's ect.. thank you!!
Thank you Cherie, I hope it helps you during your growing season. Joe
I love this. When I dig out my potatoes, I always am glad that I am not one of those poor Irish women who were digging out their patches during the potato famine. They experienced a horrible time.
Minnesota and Iowa you guys have that magic soil lol😊 .I have a buddy that lives in iowa lol he can throw a rock in the ground and it would grow a tree lol im jealous 😊.
We have heavy clay here, yet they grew everything because of the climate. Enjoyed the video, and you are NOT lazy. Take care.
I appreciate that you went to the trouble to put the potatoes where each plant was. It really gives me a good idea of what to expect. You did a wonderful job from start to finish. Thank you. ☺
Thank you for the nice comment.
I appreciate a good start to finish video. Good job.
Greetings from Finland 😊 thanks for the tips!
i grew potatoes for the first time this year and I planted reds because I read they canned the best. Got them in way late but still had a pretty good crop. They were so tasty we ended up just eating them.
Wow, so that's where food comes from! Just kidding. Brand new gardner here. Been putting up food stores for a couple years now. (Beans, 8uLL3ts and bandaids, y'know, for SHTF) But the wife and I have come too late to the realization that we need to garden. We are trying and you gotta start sometime, right?Videos like yours are a great help. Thank you and God bless you and yours!
I bought a 20kg bag a few weeks ago to be apocalypse ready. Had a look at them today and they have all started sprouting, so tomorrow I’m planting them to make more potatoes. The way coronavirus is going we’re going to need them.
I haven't had much luck with my potatoes, now I'm going to try out your method of planting. Thanks.
A great job on teaching the “how too’s” of planting two varieties of potatoes. I’m going to try even if it’s only 4or5 plants. Thank you!
Absolutely loved your video. I grew up raising a garden and now have moved to a place to have one again. Thank you so so much for putting together this video with all it's helpful information. Your garden is wonderful and again, thanks for taking the time to share it with us.
Thank you for the nice comment Monica.
Thanks man, my potatoes never work! Now I know why!
The Wooded Beardsman I guess I got lucky
The Wooded Beardsman catch & cook potatoes!
hey, dude how are you, funny seeing you here.
I think your soil up there is great for potatoes. Here in Ohio I am adding sand to my soil, plus manure and fertilizers to help my garden. Very helpful video, Thank You !!
Great , great video!! Very informative, big thumbs up😊
I live in a giant bucket
Awesome potato video Joe! 👍🌱
Couldn't help but notice your soil - good stuffl! It just falls apart in your hands and is easy to work.
it is!!!
I know! Did he mention putting compost or other amendments? I didn't hear it.
Nice and informative video. Keeping it simple. Thanks so much. Keep making videos
Mate that was one of the best informative videos I have ever seen. Your content is simple yet amazing good on you. You now have 1 more subscriber and I look forward to your past, present and future videos good sir well done mate.
Thank you Nick.
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Such a great video! Always wanted to try to grow potatoes, but never knew how to do it haha! This helped me so much! Thank you! :) Best wishes from Sweden!
Thank you so much! I planted red potato in plastic containers and now that I have seen your video. lol I realized I am in trouble and need to put those plants in my ground. lol Last year I planted potato turned the pot over no potatoes. I really did not know when the potato would be ready. But I now know. Thank you!
You did get A Great Mess of Tater's out of your planting of them. Good Job. We used to keep our's in the Well House year round and they did Fantastic in there.
Thank you for your video! Pleasure to watch and very educational.
(1) Grandfather did his own style, and made newspaper-reported 2-3# huge spuds. Rototill totally deep to the rotor. Dig out entire trench with side walls of dirt. Throw in deep layer of hay/straw. Layer over with dirt. Put in potatoes along the trench. Dirt ayer, straw layer, then final top layer of dirt mounding, and then strawing the mound.
Straw sucks up excess water, keeping the soil moist and humid, but not wet and sloggy, and loose and airy. At spuds grow out, continue to put on higher and higher atraw onto mound, not dirt.
(3) "Uncle Marvin" above ground potatoes. Just lawn cuttings, no fertilizer, dirt, straw, etc. Mound up lawn cuttings, and put in potatoes. Grass cuttings give off methane (global warming) gasses (fres cut grass smell). Worms come running from entire neighborhood. Mounds have proper humidity and moistness, not soggy. Continue putting on spring, summer, and fall lawn grass cuttings. When you want potatoes, DO NOT DIG UP! REACH INTO, dig around in loose cuttings for potatoes and break off. Pull out, wipe off excess dry grass clippings. Wash outside. Sweet, tender potatoes. Leave plants in mound all year round. Continue piling up huge lawn grass mound, or put into wooden bin. Bottom eventually decomposes into black gold soil, and continues to make further decomposition and nutrients for the potatoes.
(3) My style is to rototill down to rotors, and continue to rototill until soil is aery and fluffy. Then dig out entire tilled area, leaving open over winter, with dirt side walls. Lawn cuttings (and worms) kept in separate wood bin in warm weather. Pour in cow/horse manure, and lawn cuttings intermixed, and allow fall/winter/spring snow and rains to percolate down manure compost tea and lawn grass nutrients into deep soil, while the fiber manure and grass keeps a soft soil texture. In spring, put soil back onto pit mound, and plant. Coninue this for many years, and deep fertilization, manure and grass fiber soil (yearly ground and mixed up), and soil becomes intensely productive black gold soil.
All processes work at West and East coastal lands up to (at least) Latitude 45 degrees North
Why the straw? Is it to keep the soil loose or as it rots it gives nutrient?
Wow your garden is amazing! Thank you so much for this video
Thank you .. very informative. I've been growing mine from chits/peels in buckets lined with a plastic shopping bag which saves this old woman's back. How often do you water your spuds?
By far one of the best videos I have watched about gardening, thanks for the full onset from start to finish...
Love the video
Great showing start to finish most people won’t take the time
This is such a great video. Perfect for us newbies that have no clue yet what we are doing and what it's supposed to look like. I subscribed
Thank you Misty.
I starting today because of corona virus everything locked down and I want to be sure we will have those in some time, thank you for great tutorial!
Yep. We garden every year but this year ,attention to detail will be the norm. Idk why,, a sense of urgency i guess.
Amazing and extremely informative video about growing potatoes 🥔 !!! Thanks for posting it on TH-cam !! I'm a dude from Inglewood California and I'm growing potatoes 🥔 and you just gave me a great advice !!! Your grandfather was a cool man !!! Keep on posting videos there are lots of people watching your videos !!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🍉🍉🍉🍉✌️