I leave my potatoes in my beds over winter and harvest as I need them, when I finish off harvesting a bed I plant the last smaller ones for next year in each bed. So mid November last year i finished off a bed and planted it with the smaller ones in November. Did the next bed mid January, just finished the 3rd bed. In my climate they store through the winter undisturbed in the ground best... even planting 3 to 4 months early they keep just fine until they want to sprout.
Just curious about if I might be able to leave some potatoes in the ground for the next crop like you do. What is your planting zone? I'm in eastern TN, so 7a here.
@@ritadaniels1268 I am on the edge of 8a & 8b. Our first frost is usually end of Oct and last frost is mid May. We get night time lows down to 17 degrees at times but usually stays in the 25 to 30 range. 4 to 8 inches of snow a few times in the winter. Mark out part of a bed and try it with a few potatoes this winter, it may work for you. I am in a small isolated mountain community in the middle of SoCal at just above 4,500 ft elevation, as a kid here they farmed 100"s of acres of potatoes. The farmer that managed the fields had no problem with town folks getting the small potatoes that were left after harvest. We could find them into easter the next year and they would then start sprouting.... Remembering that is what led me to try leaving some in the ground.
I grow potatoes in a 42 gallon black trash bag half filled with compost and place 4 whole potatoes into the bag... poke holes in the bottom and roll the top down... I get crazy yields... 20lbs per bag... you can do it too... its very easy and effective
I must be lucky with my potatoes because all I’ve done when planting is put the blade of my shovel in the ground about 9” down, lifted the soil, dropped in a cut piece of seed potato that has at least one eye and let the dirt fall back. I have also used some of my potatoes that I’ve wintered in the basement. When my potatoes start to send out stems, I break off the stem and put the potatoes in a frig, and plant those potatoes as above. I’ve never used store potatoes. I tried a potato in a 5 gallon bucket once and the potato rotted. I’ve never sprayed my potatoes with the aspirin but since following your show, I do my tomatoes and peppers with great result so will spray my potatoes this summer. When I plant my potatoes deep, they do take about 3 weeks before I see them crown. I have left 18” between potatoes but like smaller potatoes too. I have dill growing wild all over the garden so yea!! Love your show. Thank you.
You may not even see this comment but I just want to say. You are the most informative gardening channel I have seen. Calm, steady and even talking. I really appreciate all the info. 70 yr old man and I am finally able to have a garden again. Thank you so much. Your the first i look to for advice.
I just wrote a comment and it disappeared. So if I comment twice, sorry. I’ve never put much thought into potatoes other than rotate, don’t plant where I’ve had tomatoes or peppers the previous year. I cut my potatoes so that they have at least one eye and drop the piece about 9” down in the ground, that’s it. My over wintered potatoes will sometimes have sprouted long sprouts. I just snap off the sprout and put the whole potato in the ground. So far so good. I have raised beds but have never done my potatoes in the raised beds. I usually plant rows of beans near the potatoes. I’ve never put my beans in raised beds either. I am going to try beans in my raised beds this summer. Love your show. Thank you for all your concise personable presentation. I look forward to your shows.
I love your videos…. The more gardening videos I watch the more I wonder why I seem to be the only person that uses organic grocery store potatoes and I cut them into pieces making sure there is at least 1 eye per piece. I don’t ever plant just a whole potato. And I plant them in a mixture of partially decomposed leaves and pine needles from my yard filled half full in a large yard trash bin with the top 1/3 cut off. And as they get taller, I fill in with compost (also from my yard). This is how I saw old timers do it when I was kid (or sometimes they did it with old tires and stacked more tires and dirt on as they grew), but I’ve never seen anyone else these days doing it like this. Anyone else do it a not normal way?
I just found your channel, but I have watched like six of your videos, they are so well put together. I love your organic gardening, how thorough you are, informative. And your fun. Thank you so much.!!!
I love how The Lord works with timing. My wife was prepping our potato bed and potatoes yesterday, and she wondered about the shriveled ones. And here's your video today with the answer. So cool. Great video, and we love the aspirin immune booster. One small detail not shown is which way to plant the potatoes: chit up or down. We know the answer, but others may not. Thanks for all your hard work Brian!
Zone 5B here. I grew potatoes for the first time last year with zero knowledge of what I was doing. Even so I ended up with a lot of potatoes though many were fingerling size (due to me not even knowing the type of potato I was growing and how long they needed to remain in the ground). This year I read up on how to start potatoes. I kept them in a paper bag for a week then chitted them in a back room for another 10 days. Cut them up and had them sit another 3 days to callus up. Just planted them today and put a reminder in my phone so I'll know roughly when to start digging them.
Thanks so much Brian this is the second year im growing potatoes with all that i have learnt from you. But i use store bought and had no problems so far .thsi year im am planting 3 times as much to see how much i can get. Love your videos ! learnt so so much thank You
I planted potatoes three weeks ago, in a thirty gallon grow bag, eight inches deep. I got my first sprout after two weeks. Week three, I hope they are all up. It seems they were fruitful and multiplied. I cut the potatoes to divide the sprouts and hardened them off for a few days prio to planting. I planted seven sprouts, and have ten plants. All look healthy. They are covered with folded towels tonight and tomorrow night for frost protection. If the foredcast stays favorable, I start transplanting tomatoes and peppers into my raised beds next week.
Awesome video! My potatoes will hopefully be ready soon. They've been growing for about 2 months. My family and I have a small backyard garden! Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard into a beautiful garden space. We're learning how to home can and preserve what we grow. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to start growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. 💚🌱
You sound like my husband and me. New home, digging up the yard❤. No potatoes yet but peas, radishes, onions, cayenne peppers and zuchinni. Like a huge crazy experiment. Good Luck👍
I’ve planted more potatoes this year than ever before, in all sorts of containers. Some were seed potatoes I bought for the purpose and others are potatoes that were in my pantry that were sprouting. I didn’t chit the seed potatoes first, but so far they have all sprouted. Last year I planted potatoes and sweet potatoes in-ground with little luck. I also had grow bags of potatoes which produced well, so this year they are all in containers.
I have been growing potatoes in 20lb grow bags for a couple of years ago and they are by far one of the best and easiest for me. I have had great success. Just make sure you have good, loose soil and make sure you know what type you're growing. I don't always let them chit but they do come up faster if you do chit them first. I also use seed potatoes just because I've had better harvests with them.
As a novice gardner, against advice 🙂, I planted a few grocery bought potatoes that I chitted and planted in a grow bag late in the season. I was excited to get potatoes that were delicious.
I have seed and store potatoes growing in 10 gallon grow bags. My first time ever growing potatoes. I had some wood chips from last years garden that I put in the bottom of the bags and buried the bags about a third of the way up to help retain moisture. Fingers crossed.
Iv made a raise bed. Filled it half way with dried wood leaves added cow compost and Potting mix. Now ready to plant potatoes. Iv got your book. Still like the videos helps me comprehend all the information.Thank you and Keep up the great job you do for all of us gardener’s
I’m growing potatoes this year for the very first time ever, in 15 gallon grow bags from Home Depot (5 blue and 5 green … my garden has to have some colorful creativity too). I followed the St. Patrick’s Day planting old tradition (Independence, MO.) I have long wanted to grow my own potatoes after having the best ever new potatoes 40 years ago from a friend’s garden, but have been intimidated by the process and space required. Grow bags were just the solution, “hilling”-adding potting soil as they grow. Will see how it goes. At least I’ll be learning as I grow. I’m reading your new book and planning on adding companion flowers and beans nearby!
I grew potatoes about 3 or 4 years ago and as fun as it was to do, I have not done it since. I did not know about chitting the potatoes but I'm getting cloth bags this year to plant Russian Red Fingerlings. Fingers crossed. I did recently read that , much like tomatoes, potatoes can be determinate or indeterminate. So *early* potatoes will be determinate and *late* potatoes will be indeterminate. Good to about that beetle.
If you watch the Simplify Gardening channel of Tony O’Neill, it is very interesting what he has to say about growing potatoes in containers. So much so that he doesn’t grow potatoes in the ground but in about 25-30 containers. He seems to have lots of good advice on potato growing. Worth a look I think
I will be growing potatoes for the first time this year. Lots of grow bags and lots of varieties of seed potatoes. (I'm prone to over-planning and starting things) Hopefully, we'll see which ones we have success with and which potatoes we like to use. Then we'll have to figure out how to save & store lots of potatoes (I hope).
Last year, I grew potatoes for the first time. I grew 3 different varieties in half of my 4ftx8ftx18in raised bed. (I grew sweet potatoes in the other half.) Because of the depth of my beds, I didn't worry about "hilling" them up. I just planted them and let them go. We got a really wonderful harvest, but it was a bit difficult to get all of the potatoes out of the bed. Actually, we did end up missing a few. We discovered this when they suddenly started sprouting! We let them go just to see what would happen. We ended up with about 3-4 plants the grew and ended up with an additional 3-5 pounds of "extra" potatoes! :D So, this year, I'm going to see if I can get 2 harvests out of my potatoes this year (on purpose this time). I'm growing Nicola and Purple Majesty potatoes in cattle mineral tubs. i watched how Tony from Simplify Gardening planted his. He actually doesn't hill up his container potatoes (which he explains WAY better than I ever could!) and I'm anxious to see how they do. :) Based on my results last year, I don't think I'll have to hill mine either. I've also got my buckets connected to my new drip irrigation system, so hopefully watering won't be an issue this year. :D Also, I got your book.....both the print and the EBook versions. The way you have things organized is AMAZING! This will ABSOLUTELY become a reference book for me in the future! Now, I can take my tablet outside with me and still look things up if needed while I'm direct sowing things. ;) Well done!
This was the most useful video!! Im stoked!! Trying potatoes.....and peppers for the first time this year! So I found this extra helpful. Im also trying dragon tongue beans as well, so how awesome that they will be happy with potatoes. Thank you so much for this. Also, im finding your book very helpful! I bought allysum the other day and already have cosmos germinating. Im so excited!!!
I plant my potatoes in potato grow bags. They have an opening near the bottom so you can start eating them when they are small. This year I chitted the potatoes and will see if there is a difference. I have your book and love it!
Last year my potatoes did not do very well. This coming growing season I think I am going to take a 55 gallon drum and cut it in half and test two different growing methods. If the thought I have ends up working well I will be sure to share the info with you.
My first time planting potatoes i did just that waters everything lol until it almost die. This was before i got into TH-cam... I wonder why i didn't get any harvests not even 1 baby potato 😂🤦♀️ now i know. Thank you
I'm trying seed potatoes this year. One raised bed and one long row. Both are up and have huge bouquets of leaves, I followed the phase of the moon. So excited to have these tips to keep them healthy.
There is nothing like home grown fresh potatoes. Pretty similar to the first time you tasted home grown tomatoes. I had better luck last year. Not sure what I’ve done wrong. Probably need to try some commercial seed potatoes.
So funny I get asked about taters a bit and they really are the easiest thing to grow. I personally cover the area with rabbit poo once the plants are established. And that's it. It's nice to have a resource for the poo, but easy enough to find. Works great! All great information as always. Thank you!
I've been growing my potatoes in large green growing bags for the last two years. this year I'm gonna try to plant in my raised beds as well. Thanks for the tip about mounding up soil around potatoes as they grow, I was wondering about that.
I did potatoes last year for the first time. I chitted them myself. I planted on bare soil, just scratched up, mounded compost and soil on with straw on top. I got a nice harvest.
Potatoes need to be hilled in order for you to get the most out of your plants. Cover every stem and all leaves except for the top 3". We grow Potatoes from the store every year and have had large yields. Barrasics are great companion plants to put with Potatoes. Horseradish roots in the 4 corners of your potato bed keeps pets away. Garlic is good to plant next to Potatoes as well. That helps deter pets.
This was so helpful. I'm excited to get out month and plant my potatoes! I plan to do two different varieties which I'm currently "chitting". I also plan to plant a few sweet potatoes slips. It'll be my first time gardening, so I'm looking forward how seeing I do. I've subscribed to your channel. 🙂
mine are almost ready to go in the ground. I'm in SD. Mother Nature is not cooperating. I'm just not planting as many plants this year. Had more than I knew what to do with last fall! lol
I love growing FM* Taters! They are totally non-fussy and thrive on neglect in my yard! *FM = Farmers Market. I only buy Local + Organic. Once I forget about 'em and they get squishy (chitted or not), I toss them into an unused raised bed. Literally. I toss them on the top of the bed (talk about No-Dig)! No spacing, no feeding, sporadic watering... I have yet to run out of spuds (but I think the Tater-bed is spent!)
I am growing potatoes for the first time this year! I am going to use now bags but also wondered about putting them in my land scraping, I have a bed with just hydrangeas and boxwood and if the leaf low would be a great ground cover ... I need to do more reading..... just trying to utilize garden space.
Hope this helps. I put 8 year old sheep manure on garden tilled under. first I tilled 2 rows 75ft long 10inches deep raked dirt back in hole left a hill bout 10in. High.planted potatoes 12-14in.apart. watered the hills. After 3 weeksI sprayed Miracle-Gro on each plant. Do it again every 4 weeks. Come fall my potatoes were huge most anyway & solid. So big I could put 6 in a 5 gallon bucket that's all bucket would hold. I had that garden 3 years every year my harvest was awesome.
I’m growing seed potatoes in containers with horseradish as a companion plant. My first time growing this combo. Feeling experimental. But I might cover them with a mosquito net anyway.
Cool! Thanks Brian! I bought seed potatoes 2 years in a row and I had a crappie harvest so this time around, is just store bought potatoes....will see!
I dont have alot of space to grow a big potato patch so I grow them in 5 gallon buckets and on average I get 20-25 potatoes per bucket yes they are not large but majority is about the size of a tennis ball.
Will be growing potatoes for the first time this year! I'm an old hand at gardening but a newbie at tators. My seed potatoes are en route, coming from Alberta 🇨🇦 to New Brunswick 🇨🇦. I've decided to put them in my 7-gallon growbags, 2 spuds per bag. I ordered 4 each of 5 different varieties: Alta Blush, Chieftain, All Blue, Bridget, and Bintje. Some are 'early'; some are 'late' varieties. Wish I could do the ASA treatment, but I'm very allergic. Gotta find a willow!
I was literally thinking of you and potatoes and chitting this morning! The local garden shop opened this week and I headed over for a look see. No potatoes yet….in fact only shrubs and fruit trees in the greenhouse. I still have a yard covered in snow. Zone 4 Northern Michigan. I did two containers of potatoes last year for the first time. I am going to chit them this year.
i have done both leftover store-bought and seed potatoes. For me in the clay for the Denver metro area of colorado. i get about the same result. 1 ish lbs per. i would like to try the seed from potatoes to expand and not grow the same potato over and over and over again. That thats what you get from a seed potato vs a potato seed. but you know that from getting seeds from your own plants you get a new plant. one thing additional i do is use a tulip planter vs a trowel. the reason why is i pull the soil out. put in my potato and nutrition. hit the button and it drops right in. level it out and on to the next. at most i feel it is a time saver when planting 100 plus tomatoes. i mean seed potatoes.
I ordered some seed potatoes this year, im growing them in garden bags, so we will see how they do. Im not to sure about them though. Some already had nice roots starting, but others looked kinda sad. We will see! 😁🙏🤷🏼♀️
Mine are chitting on top of the fridge. Maybe tomorrow if it’s warmer. I couldn’t figure out why my copy of Companion Gardening was not arriving. So I got on Amazon to track it. It had been delivered on April 1. But not to me. It is sitting in York PA at my daughters house. Why? I have no idea. She will bring it to TN next week when she and the kids come to help me plant. 🤨
LOL you are having a really rough April, sorry your not alone. We know you mean Potato. Just had to give you a little hard time. Love your videos, and you can call them anything you want, I know what you are referring to.
Btw last year for the first time we tried second early Charlotte in potato bags. Got over 5 lbs in each of our 6 bags. This year we are doing first early as well. So 12 bags.
I always enjoy your videos. So much information, so simply explained! I have added potatoes from the grocery store to my garden in the past, and we had success! I only did a few though. Maybe I was just lucky. However, with prices right now, I’ll do all the gardening I have squeeze into my yard.
Mine were already sprouting so I’m trying out grow bags and buckets. We’ll see how they do. Already peaking though the soil! Thanks for sharing your expertise 😊
Me too. I have planted 5 grow bags with potatoes. I planted them in pots, in the ground and in a tower of straw and dirt, last year. I did pretty good with them, planted 5 pounds and got 30 pounds of potatoes. I probably would have gotten more but I got impatient and dug them too early ,so many were small.
So glad to catch you just a day after you posted this video so you’ll get my comment. I can’t seem to find you when you’re live. How do I catch you? Where do I go? Now potatoes……I’ve grown them before both in San Diego County as well as here in South Carolina, zone 7b. I always chit them even the ones I used to use from the grocery store. In San Diego County I never was able to get potato starts so had to rely on grocery store ones. Didn’t have any problems with growing them so long as I chitted them. Thanks for a great channel, I’m totally enjoying it. Keep at it!
I'm a lazy and time poor gardener so just throw any sprouted store potatoes (Coles spuds for anyone in Australia) into a grow bag and pile on the compost. It works fine - although I suspect I may get a few more if I had chitted them, and that it would depend whether store potatoes have some anti-sprouting treatment. Australian stores don't seem to treat them in any way so they are fine to use
Last year, I planted potatoes in two large tubs. Neither did well probably due to bad raised bed soil that stunted their growth. Recently, I bought a bag of Russet and a bag of Yukon Gold organic potatoes because supply has been low at the store. I put them in a back entry room that stays 55°F, thinking they would last longer than in my warm house. Every single potato chitted before I could eat the first one, and I didn't have them long. So, I am going to plant in a newer bed where I had planted my corn last year. Hoping these do much better!
Last years I got around 4 pounds of potatoes from 6 grocery bought potatoes seed from 3 plastic 3 feet tall containers. I found it may be little too crowded so I will only plant one medium size potato seed in each container and see if there result may be different. Since I got extra space from backyard this year, I am going to plant some Romaine lettuce and mini carrots. If there is still some space left, may be some bean or eggplant :D
So I’ve planted potatoes in 10 gallon brown bags…should I plant a bag with beans and place next to them or any other suggestion, please? By the way, they are 4 weeks old and already at the top of the bags! Have added soil gradually as they’ve grown along with fertilizer. First time growing and I’m thrilled! Thanks for all your videos!
@@NextLevelGardening I am confused, if the beans will share the nitrogen with neighbouring plants how will it share the nitrogen if the potatoes are in a separate container and not in the ground? Love all your videos!
I have been told in the past that if your potatoes get long sprouts to remove them than plant. I thought that would stop them from growing roots . I don’t do that and have replanted baby potatoes back in the ground right after I harvest them in the fall. They come up fine in the spring and they don’t have potato bugs because they have a natural immunity against them. Hat are your thoughts on that?
As an experiment I planted 1 grocery store potato( Idaho baker) and got 6 smaller ones. This year I have (3) 4lb bags of seed potatoes that I'm planting.
I grew red potatoes a few years ago and in pots, using seed potatoes, and they were delicious. A few months ago I planted chitted red potatoes from the store. I had a reasonable sprout rate. However, a few weeks ago something, probably the dreaded potato beetle had a feast. Within a week, several of the plants, overnight turned yellow - leaves and stem, and died. The stem looked like it had been killed by a freeze, but no freeze or even remotely cool weather occured. I was able to dig up 2# of small potatoes from 2 of the dead plants. I then went out and bought seed potatoes, even though it is a bit late for our area. I wasn't able to find red potatoes, but will be planting Norkotah and Yukon Gold this weekend. Keeping my fingers crossed! I do not know if it was a disease from the plants or stress from being attacked that killed them. I am going to replant some in the same container and see what happens. I don't want to have to quarantine my dirt!
Your advice to minimize disease on the potato plant was just amazing. I've never heard such wonderful solutions. Could you please tell me how often I need to water my potatoes that I'm growing in the ground. Thank you so much for your help
@@NextLevelGardening thank you so much for answering my question. So many channels give great advice but when we have a question or concern they never respond. I really appreciate you taking the time to read your comments.
I keep losing my tomato seedlings to aphids this year 😔 You convinced me to cheat and order some transplants 😏 I will definitely try aspirin since I had potato issues last year.
This is my second year trying potatoes. Last year the heat stunted them as we live here in California, but we’re using the small potatoes from last year as seed potatoes. We’re growing indeterminates and doing a potato box tower. I’ve seen people love or hate them and I’m curious how it’ll turn out now that we have a better set-up. We’re getting ready to add our second layer of soil soon. Hopefully they’ll turn out well.
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I leave my potatoes in my beds over winter and harvest as I need them, when I finish off harvesting a bed I plant the last smaller ones for next year in each bed. So mid November last year i finished off a bed and planted it with the smaller ones in November. Did the next bed mid January, just finished the 3rd bed. In my climate they store through the winter undisturbed in the ground best... even planting 3 to 4 months early they keep just fine until they want to sprout.
Just curious about if I might be able to leave some potatoes in the ground for the next crop like you do. What is your planting zone? I'm in eastern TN, so 7a here.
@@ritadaniels1268 I am on the edge of 8a & 8b. Our first frost is usually end of Oct and last frost is mid May. We get night time lows down to 17 degrees at times but usually stays in the 25 to 30 range. 4 to 8 inches of snow a few times in the winter. Mark out part of a bed and try it with a few potatoes this winter, it may work for you. I am in a small isolated mountain community in the middle of SoCal at just above 4,500 ft elevation, as a kid here they farmed 100"s of acres of potatoes. The farmer that managed the fields had no problem with town folks getting the small potatoes that were left after harvest. We could find them into easter the next year and they would then start sprouting.... Remembering that is what led me to try leaving some in the ground.
@@chknlyps2373 wow, that's really awesome. I'm going to give it a try. So glad you shared this info!
I grow potatoes in a 42 gallon black trash bag half filled with compost and place 4 whole potatoes into the bag... poke holes in the bottom and roll the top down... I get crazy yields... 20lbs per bag... you can do it too... its very easy and effective
Wow.interesting!
I must be lucky with my potatoes because all I’ve done when planting is put the blade of my shovel in the ground about 9” down, lifted the soil, dropped in a cut piece of seed potato that has at least one eye and let the dirt fall back. I have also used some of my potatoes that I’ve wintered in the basement. When my potatoes start to send out stems, I break off the stem and put the potatoes in a frig, and plant those potatoes as above. I’ve never used store potatoes. I tried a potato in a 5 gallon bucket once and the potato rotted. I’ve never sprayed my potatoes with the aspirin but since following your show, I do my tomatoes and peppers with great result so will spray my potatoes this summer. When I plant my potatoes deep, they do take about 3 weeks before I see them crown. I have left 18” between potatoes but like smaller potatoes too. I have dill growing wild all over the garden so yea!! Love your show. Thank you.
Can't wait to see my grandchildren digging for gold... Thank you for this video
You may not even see this comment but I just want to say. You are the most informative gardening channel I have seen. Calm, steady and even talking. I really appreciate all the info. 70 yr old man and I am finally able to have a garden again. Thank you so much. Your the first i look to for advice.
Wow, thank you!
I just wrote a comment and it disappeared. So if I comment twice, sorry. I’ve never put much thought into potatoes other than rotate, don’t plant where I’ve had tomatoes or peppers the previous year. I cut my potatoes so that they have at least one eye and drop the piece about 9” down in the ground, that’s it. My over wintered potatoes will sometimes have sprouted long sprouts. I just snap off the sprout and put the whole potato in the ground. So far so good. I have raised beds but have never done my potatoes in the raised beds. I usually plant rows of beans near the potatoes. I’ve never put my beans in raised beds either. I am going to try beans in my raised beds this summer. Love your show. Thank you for all your concise personable presentation. I look forward to your shows.
I love your videos….
The more gardening videos I watch the more I wonder why I seem to be the only person that uses organic grocery store potatoes and I cut them into pieces making sure there is at least 1 eye per piece. I don’t ever plant just a whole potato. And I plant them in a mixture of partially decomposed leaves and pine needles from my yard filled half full in a large yard trash bin with the top 1/3 cut off. And as they get taller, I fill in with compost (also from my yard).
This is how I saw old timers do it when I was kid (or sometimes they did it with old tires and stacked more tires and dirt on as they grew), but I’ve never seen anyone else these days doing it like this. Anyone else do it a not normal way?
I just found your channel, but I have watched like six of your videos, they are so well put together. I love your organic gardening, how thorough you are, informative. And your fun. Thank you so much.!!!
I’ve grown potatoes in grow bags for the last two years and my grocery store Yukon golds did just fine!
I love how The Lord works with timing. My wife was prepping our potato bed and potatoes yesterday, and she wondered about the shriveled ones. And here's your video today with the answer. So cool. Great video, and we love the aspirin immune booster. One small detail not shown is which way to plant the potatoes: chit up or down. We know the answer, but others may not. Thanks for all your hard work Brian!
Yes this is exactly my question!!
@@mbrown2096 the sprout should point up.
@@ritadaniels1268 thanks!
I'm doing potatoes for the first time. I'm doing the container method so this is perfect. Thank you
You're welcome!
I also am a first timer with potatoes. I find your videos very informative and inspirational.
Thank you! Good luck!
Zone 5B here. I grew potatoes for the first time last year with zero knowledge of what I was doing. Even so I ended up with a lot of potatoes though many were fingerling size (due to me not even knowing the type of potato I was growing and how long they needed to remain in the ground). This year I read up on how to start potatoes. I kept them in a paper bag for a week then chitted them in a back room for another 10 days. Cut them up and had them sit another 3 days to callus up. Just planted them today and put a reminder in my phone so I'll know roughly when to start digging them.
Good review. Have been using cloth bags for potatoes for 5 years.
I am trying the grow bags with a flap in the bottom. So far so good
Thanks so much Brian this is the second year im growing potatoes with all that i have learnt from you. But i use store bought and had no problems so far .thsi year im am planting 3 times as much to see how much i can get. Love your videos ! learnt so so much thank You
The willow water really does work, its a natural form of aspirin.
I planted potatoes three weeks ago, in a thirty gallon grow bag, eight inches deep. I got my first sprout after two weeks. Week three, I hope they are all up. It seems they were fruitful and multiplied. I cut the potatoes to divide the sprouts and hardened them off for a few days prio to planting. I planted seven sprouts, and have ten plants. All look healthy. They are covered with folded towels tonight and tomorrow night for frost protection. If the foredcast stays favorable, I start transplanting tomatoes and peppers into my raised beds next week.
Great!
Planting potatoes tomorrow zone 6a. Thx!
Great!
Awesome video! My potatoes will hopefully be ready soon. They've been growing for about 2 months. My family and I have a small backyard garden! Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard into a beautiful garden space. We're learning how to home can and preserve what we grow. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to start growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. 💚🌱
You sound like my husband and me. New home, digging up the yard❤. No potatoes yet but peas, radishes, onions, cayenne peppers and zuchinni. Like a huge crazy experiment. Good Luck👍
@@meemahmcdoogle That's awesome! Same to you, thank you! 💚🌱
The best method I found for planting potatoes is the Ruth Stout method, true no dig.
I’ve planted more potatoes this year than ever before, in all sorts of containers. Some were seed potatoes I bought for the purpose and others are potatoes that were in my pantry that were sprouting. I didn’t chit the seed potatoes first, but so far they have all sprouted.
Last year I planted potatoes and sweet potatoes in-ground with little luck. I also had grow bags of potatoes which produced well, so this year they are all in containers.
I have been growing potatoes in 20lb grow bags for a couple of years ago and they are by far one of the best and easiest for me. I have had great success. Just make sure you have good, loose soil and make sure you know what type you're growing. I don't always let them chit but they do come up faster if you do chit them first. I also use seed potatoes just because I've had better harvests with them.
As a novice gardner, against advice 🙂, I planted a few grocery bought potatoes that I chitted and planted in a grow bag late in the season. I was excited to get potatoes that were delicious.
I have seed and store potatoes growing in 10 gallon grow bags. My first time ever growing potatoes. I had some wood chips from last years garden that I put in the bottom of the bags and buried the bags about a third of the way up to help retain moisture. Fingers crossed.
I spread peels, eggs shells and other stuff before I put my compost and wood chips down, got a ton of volunteer potatoes.
I always listen/watch your videos, you are very knowledgeable so keep up the good work
I bought organic potatoes from a store last year and I got potatoes. I bought 2 sacks of seed potatoes this year.
Learned a lot about potatoes!
Thank you so much for being so patient with all your new gardeners! Great news! Just got your book !!!
Iv made a raise bed. Filled it half way with dried wood leaves added cow compost and Potting mix. Now ready to plant potatoes. Iv got your book. Still like the videos helps me comprehend all the information.Thank you and Keep up the great job you do for all of us gardener’s
Perfect timing--I soaked up every useful bit of this video!! Thank you!
I love gardening. I found your video to be quite educational. Thank you. God bless!
I’m growing potatoes this year for the very first time ever, in 15 gallon grow bags from Home Depot (5 blue and 5 green … my garden has to have some colorful creativity too). I followed the St. Patrick’s Day planting old tradition (Independence, MO.) I have long wanted to grow my own potatoes after having the best ever new potatoes 40 years ago from a friend’s garden, but have been intimidated by the process and space required. Grow bags were just the solution, “hilling”-adding potting soil as they grow. Will see how it goes. At least I’ll be learning as I grow. I’m reading your new book and planning on adding companion flowers and beans nearby!
I grew potatoes about 3 or 4 years ago and as fun as it was to do, I have not done it since. I did not know about chitting the potatoes but I'm getting cloth bags this year to plant Russian Red Fingerlings. Fingers crossed.
I did recently read that , much like tomatoes, potatoes can be determinate or indeterminate. So *early* potatoes will be determinate and *late* potatoes will be indeterminate. Good to about that beetle.
I'm planting potatoes for the first time and I've got them sprouting just waiting for the frost to leave. This video was so helpful. Thank you so much
You're welcome
Can't wait to get my potatoes in pots.
If you watch the Simplify Gardening channel of Tony O’Neill, it is very interesting what he has to say about growing potatoes in containers. So much so that he doesn’t grow potatoes in the ground but in about 25-30 containers. He seems to have lots of good advice on potato growing. Worth a look I think
I will be growing potatoes for the first time this year. Lots of grow bags and lots of varieties of seed potatoes. (I'm prone to over-planning and starting things) Hopefully, we'll see which ones we have success with and which potatoes we like to use. Then we'll have to figure out how to save & store lots of potatoes (I hope).
Last year, I grew potatoes for the first time. I grew 3 different varieties in half of my 4ftx8ftx18in raised bed. (I grew sweet potatoes in the other half.) Because of the depth of my beds, I didn't worry about "hilling" them up. I just planted them and let them go. We got a really wonderful harvest, but it was a bit difficult to get all of the potatoes out of the bed. Actually, we did end up missing a few. We discovered this when they suddenly started sprouting! We let them go just to see what would happen. We ended up with about 3-4 plants the grew and ended up with an additional 3-5 pounds of "extra" potatoes! :D So, this year, I'm going to see if I can get 2 harvests out of my potatoes this year (on purpose this time). I'm growing Nicola and Purple Majesty potatoes in cattle mineral tubs. i watched how Tony from Simplify Gardening planted his. He actually doesn't hill up his container potatoes (which he explains WAY better than I ever could!) and I'm anxious to see how they do. :) Based on my results last year, I don't think I'll have to hill mine either. I've also got my buckets connected to my new drip irrigation system, so hopefully watering won't be an issue this year. :D
Also, I got your book.....both the print and the EBook versions. The way you have things organized is AMAZING! This will ABSOLUTELY become a reference book for me in the future! Now, I can take my tablet outside with me and still look things up if needed while I'm direct sowing things. ;) Well done!
Yes I always miss potatoes and find them coming up later. Thank you so good to hear!
My cosmos usually blossom late summer so they probably won't be of much help as a deterrent. But I love my cosmos so I'll plant them anyway
This was the most useful video!! Im stoked!! Trying potatoes.....and peppers for the first time this year! So I found this extra helpful. Im also trying dragon tongue beans as well, so how awesome that they will be happy with potatoes. Thank you so much for this. Also, im finding your book very helpful! I bought allysum the other day and already have cosmos germinating. Im so excited!!!
I plant my potatoes in potato grow bags. They have an opening near the bottom so you can start eating them when they are small. This year I chitted the potatoes and will see if there is a difference. I have your book and love it!
Last year my potatoes did not do very well. This coming growing season I think I am going to take a 55 gallon drum and cut it in half and test two different growing methods. If the thought I have ends up working well I will be sure to share the info with you.
My first time planting potatoes i did just that waters everything lol until it almost die. This was before i got into TH-cam... I wonder why i didn't get any harvests not even 1 baby potato 😂🤦♀️ now i know. Thank you
I'm trying seed potatoes this year. One raised bed and one long row. Both are up and have huge bouquets of leaves, I followed the phase of the moon.
So excited to have these tips to keep them healthy.
I was wondering how the harvest went with the bucket method? Ive got three buckets going and several in the ground.
There is nothing like home grown fresh potatoes. Pretty similar to the first time you tasted home grown tomatoes. I had better luck last year. Not sure what I’ve done wrong. Probably need to try some commercial seed potatoes.
I started my chits inside in grow bags . Finally got them outside.
From Haltom city Texas.
Great!
So funny I get asked about taters a bit and they really are the easiest thing to grow. I personally cover the area with rabbit poo once the plants are established. And that's it. It's nice to have a resource for the poo, but easy enough to find. Works great!
All great information as always. Thank you!
I have rabbits now! 🐇
I've been growing my potatoes in large green growing bags for the last two years. this year I'm gonna try to plant in my raised beds as well. Thanks for the tip about mounding up soil around potatoes as they grow, I was wondering about that.
I did potatoes last year for the first time. I chitted them myself. I planted on bare soil, just scratched up, mounded compost and soil on with straw on top. I got a nice harvest.
Great!
Potatoes need to be hilled in order for you to get the most out of your plants. Cover every stem and all leaves except for the top 3". We grow Potatoes from the store every year and have had large yields. Barrasics are great companion plants to put with Potatoes. Horseradish roots in the 4 corners of your potato bed keeps pets away. Garlic is good to plant next to Potatoes as well. That helps deter pets.
This was so helpful. I'm excited to get out month and plant my potatoes! I plan to do two different varieties which I'm currently "chitting". I also plan to plant a few sweet potatoes slips. It'll be my first time gardening, so I'm looking forward how seeing I do. I've subscribed to your channel. 🙂
mine are almost ready to go in the ground. I'm in SD. Mother Nature is not cooperating. I'm just not planting as many plants this year. Had more than I knew what to do with last fall! lol
I love growing FM* Taters! They are totally non-fussy and thrive on neglect in my yard!
*FM = Farmers Market. I only buy Local + Organic. Once I forget about 'em and they get squishy (chitted or not), I toss them into an unused raised bed. Literally. I toss them on the top of the bed (talk about No-Dig)!
No spacing, no feeding, sporadic watering... I have yet to run out of spuds (but I think the Tater-bed is spent!)
Good tip
I am growing potatoes for the first time this year! I am going to use now bags but also wondered about putting them in my land scraping, I have a bed with just hydrangeas and boxwood and if the leaf low would be a great ground cover ... I need to do more reading.....
just trying to utilize garden space.
Hope this helps. I put 8 year old sheep manure on garden tilled under. first I tilled 2 rows 75ft long 10inches deep raked dirt back in hole left a hill bout 10in. High.planted potatoes 12-14in.apart. watered the hills. After 3 weeksI sprayed Miracle-Gro on each plant. Do it again every 4 weeks. Come fall my potatoes were huge most anyway & solid. So big I could put 6 in a 5 gallon bucket that's all bucket would hold. I had that garden 3 years every year my harvest was awesome.
I’m growing seed potatoes in containers with horseradish as a companion plant. My first time growing this combo. Feeling experimental. But I might cover them with a mosquito net anyway.
Love home grown potatoes so tasty 😋 mine are all from organic store potatoes
Good to know!
Cool! Thanks Brian! I bought seed potatoes 2 years in a row and I had a crappie harvest so this time around, is just store bought potatoes....will see!
Good luck!
@@NextLevelGardening thanks
I dont have alot of space to grow a big potato patch so I grow them in 5 gallon buckets and on average I get 20-25 potatoes per bucket yes they are not large but majority is about the size of a tennis ball.
Will be growing potatoes for the first time this year! I'm an old hand at gardening but a newbie at tators. My seed potatoes are en route, coming from Alberta 🇨🇦 to New Brunswick 🇨🇦. I've decided to put them in my 7-gallon growbags, 2 spuds per bag. I ordered 4 each of 5 different varieties: Alta Blush, Chieftain, All Blue, Bridget, and Bintje. Some are 'early'; some are 'late' varieties. Wish I could do the ASA treatment, but I'm very allergic. Gotta find a willow!
I was literally thinking of you and potatoes and chitting this morning! The local garden shop opened this week and I headed over for a look see. No potatoes yet….in fact only shrubs and fruit trees in the greenhouse. I still have a yard covered in snow. Zone 4 Northern Michigan. I did two containers of potatoes last year for the first time. I am going to chit them this year.
Awww. Warm weather wishes coming your way! 🌞
i have done both leftover store-bought and seed potatoes. For me in the clay for the Denver metro area of colorado. i get about the same result. 1 ish lbs per. i would like to try the seed from potatoes to expand and not grow the same potato over and over and over again. That thats what you get from a seed potato vs a potato seed. but you know that from getting seeds from your own plants you get a new plant.
one thing additional i do is use a tulip planter vs a trowel. the reason why is i pull the soil out. put in my potato and nutrition. hit the button and it drops right in. level it out and on to the next. at most i feel it is a time saver when planting 100 plus tomatoes. i mean seed potatoes.
I ordered some seed potatoes this year, im growing them in garden bags, so we will see how they do. Im not to sure about them though. Some already had nice roots starting, but others looked kinda sad. We will see! 😁🙏🤷🏼♀️
Mine are chitting on top of the fridge. Maybe tomorrow if it’s warmer.
I couldn’t figure out why my copy of Companion Gardening was not arriving. So I got on Amazon to track it. It had been delivered on April 1. But not to me. It is sitting in York PA at my daughters house. Why? I have no idea. She will bring it to TN next week when she and the kids come to help me plant. 🤨
I’m really enjoying your book! Companion planting really works 👍🏻
Thank you. It does!
Thanks for your video. I really enjoy watching ✌🏽️
I would also caution you against using Black walnut leaves or trimmings in your compost. Enjoying your book very much!!!
Yes! Thank you ❤️
Well, chit the bed! On behalf of the overdue potatoes chitting on my table, thank you!
LOL you are having a really rough April, sorry your not alone. We know you mean Potato. Just had to give you a little hard time. Love your videos, and you can call them anything you want, I know what you are referring to.
Lol. Thank you. I slip up at least once in every potato video I've done.
Congratulations on your new book!
Thank you
Btw last year for the first time we tried second early Charlotte in potato bags. Got over 5 lbs in each of our 6 bags. This year we are doing first early as well. So 12 bags.
I always enjoy your videos. So much information, so simply explained! I have added potatoes from the grocery store to my garden in the past, and we had success! I only did a few though. Maybe I was just lucky. However, with prices right now, I’ll do all the gardening I have squeeze into my yard.
Mine were already sprouting so I’m trying out grow bags and buckets. We’ll see how they do. Already peaking though the soil! Thanks for sharing your expertise 😊
You're welcome
Me too. I have planted 5 grow bags with potatoes. I planted them in pots, in the ground and in a tower of straw and dirt, last year. I did pretty good with them, planted 5 pounds and got 30 pounds of potatoes. I probably would have gotten more but I got impatient and dug them too early ,so many were small.
So glad to catch you just a day after you posted this video so you’ll get my comment. I can’t seem to find you when you’re live. How do I catch you? Where do I go? Now potatoes……I’ve grown them before both in San Diego County as well as here in South Carolina, zone 7b. I always chit them even the ones I used to use from the grocery store. In San Diego County I never was able to get potato starts so had to rely on grocery store ones. Didn’t have any problems with growing them so long as I chitted them. Thanks for a great channel, I’m totally enjoying it. Keep at it!
Hi! I'm in North San Diego County 😊👍🏼
@@NextLevelGardening how do I catch your postings.
I'm a lazy and time poor gardener so just throw any sprouted store potatoes (Coles spuds for anyone in Australia) into a grow bag and pile on the compost. It works fine - although I suspect I may get a few more if I had chitted them, and that it would depend whether store potatoes have some anti-sprouting treatment. Australian stores don't seem to treat them in any way so they are fine to use
Good!
Last year, I planted potatoes in two large tubs. Neither did well probably due to bad raised bed soil that stunted their growth. Recently, I bought a bag of Russet and a bag of Yukon Gold organic potatoes because supply has been low at the store. I put them in a back entry room that stays 55°F, thinking they would last longer than in my warm house. Every single potato chitted before I could eat the first one, and I didn't have them long. So, I am going to plant in a newer bed where I had planted my corn last year. Hoping these do much better!
Good luck Joanie!
Definitely learn something...thank you so very much 👍😁💞
I wish you would make a video on okra. Love all your great information.
yeah thank you
I love your new book by the way! I purchased all the herb and flower seeds and have started them for the crops I am growing.
Thank you!
Last years I got around 4 pounds of potatoes from 6 grocery bought potatoes seed from 3 plastic 3 feet tall containers. I found it may be little too crowded so I will only plant one medium size potato seed in each container and see if there result may be different.
Since I got extra space from backyard this year, I am going to plant some Romaine lettuce and mini carrots. If there is still some space left, may be some bean or eggplant :D
So I’ve planted potatoes in 10 gallon brown bags…should I plant a bag with beans and place next to them or any other suggestion, please? By the way, they are 4 weeks old and already at the top of the bags! Have added soil gradually as they’ve grown along with fertilizer. First time growing and I’m thrilled! Thanks for all your videos!
Yes you can do that with the beans! You're very welcome
@@NextLevelGardening I am confused, if the beans will share the nitrogen with neighbouring plants how will it share the nitrogen if the potatoes are in a separate container and not in the ground? Love all your videos!
can't wait to start my potatoes this year❤
Am I hearing thunder during your video? Great information on potatoes. Now I know why my potatoes near my tomatoes got pesty!
I have been told in the past that if your potatoes get long sprouts to remove them than plant. I thought that would stop them from growing roots . I don’t do that and have replanted baby potatoes back in the ground right after I harvest them in the fall. They come up fine in the spring and they don’t have potato bugs because they have a natural immunity against them. Hat are your thoughts on that?
Thank you for another great video! I've been wanting to grow potatoes and you answered my questions! Love your videos!
As an experiment I planted 1 grocery store potato( Idaho baker) and got 6 smaller ones. This year I have (3) 4lb bags of seed potatoes that I'm planting.
Great!
I grew red potatoes a few years ago and in pots, using seed potatoes, and they were delicious. A few months ago I planted chitted red potatoes from the store. I had a reasonable sprout rate. However, a few weeks ago something, probably the dreaded potato beetle had a feast. Within a week, several of the plants, overnight turned yellow - leaves and stem, and died. The stem looked like it had been killed by a freeze, but no freeze or even remotely cool weather occured. I was able to dig up 2# of small potatoes from 2 of the dead plants. I then went out and bought seed potatoes, even though it is a bit late for our area. I wasn't able to find red potatoes, but will be planting Norkotah and Yukon Gold this weekend. Keeping my fingers crossed!
I do not know if it was a disease from the plants or stress from being attacked that killed them. I am going to replant some in the same container and see what happens. I don't want to have to quarantine my dirt!
Oh no 😢 good luck!
I really enjoy all your tips and tricks! Thank you.
Brian, if I put my row covers on, how are pollinators going to get to the plants?
WooHoo…this is tomorrow’s task!
Great!
Enjoyed this video! I am trying a bunch of new plants this year my first big garden and I am trying potatoes so excited to grow along with you 😊
Awesome 👌
I'm confused, tomatoes or potatoes, lol. Love your videos!
I do it at least once on every potato vid. 🤣
Hi Brian, can I wood chip the potato bed to control weeds? Ty, Gail
Your advice to minimize disease on the potato plant was just amazing. I've never heard such wonderful solutions. Could you please tell me how often I need to water my potatoes that I'm growing in the ground. Thank you so much for your help
Thank you! Stick your finger I to the soil a couple inches. If moist leave it. If not...water.
@@NextLevelGardening thank you so much for answering my question. So many channels give great advice but when we have a question or concern they never respond. I really appreciate you taking the time to read your comments.
Thanks for this very helpful video. I tried growing potatoes a couple of years ago and failed! However I'm going to try again!
You can do it!
I keep losing my tomato seedlings to aphids this year 😔 You convinced me to cheat and order some transplants 😏 I will definitely try aspirin since I had potato issues last year.
This is my second year trying potatoes. Last year the heat stunted them as we live here in California, but we’re using the small potatoes from last year as seed potatoes. We’re growing indeterminates and doing a potato box tower. I’ve seen people love or hate them and I’m curious how it’ll turn out now that we have a better set-up. We’re getting ready to add our second layer of soil soon. Hopefully they’ll turn out well.