Harvesting 200 LBS of Potatoes | Gardening in Alaska
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- We look forward to our potato harvest every year and we were not disappointed with this season's yield. With some love and care from Mother Nature and of course our favorite amendment compost, we dig up 200 pounds of beautiful spuds grown from the 15 pounds of seed potato we planted in May.
Without the root cellar this winter we will have to store our potatoes indoors. The dry and warm conditions of the cabin are far from ideal to keep potatoes fresh which means even more canning in our near future.
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Out in the middle of nowhere eating meals like that.
I'm in the city eating cheese puffs with no elastic in
my underwear. I've clearly made some bad choices
in my life.
You gave me a good laugh! I needed that today.
yep, should have bought the underwear at Sears. well know you know and can start working on replacing those cheese puffs with celery sticks....
@@torceridaho you still have jc pennys
It's never to late to start....start by reading about permaculture, Joel Salitin. Watch Justin Rhoades....People are leaving the city's in droves
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The tomato-looking fruit that grows on the potatoes are actually potato seeds. We'd heard that years ago so we saved some seeds and planted them this spring and we got potatoes! Not only where they potatoes, they were a mixed variety of potatoes, all different shapes and colours! So amazing.
Who would think that digging up potatoes would be so much fun? It's like digging up treasure. Thanks for sharing. :-)
Edible treasure 😉
You’re right - it’s so fun harvesting potatoes!! We got a couple 5 gallon buckets full this year
I'm obsessed with potato harvests! BLESSINGS, -Kate
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Digging my potatoes is my favorite gardening chore
You never know how good acrop till you dig unlike other crops that are visible
Eric: Wow, look at the big worm, feed it to the chickens. Next shot is Ariel putting it back in the ground, and lovingly patting it,lol
That was so cute!
in the script
@No Malice yes tky..
I heard that too! So funny. Very boy and very girl!!
I laughed to. The banter between you two is so cute lol
I have found myself watching your channel twice. Once with my granddaughter Zoe (5) and the second time alone. She asks way too many questions for me to understand what your doing. She shouts words of encouragement and lets you both know when you're doing something wrong, in the eyes of a 5 year old ...... lol When you were removing the mulch and Eric was piling mulch on another row of crops, she yelled at him to stop because you were taking it off. lol Poor Eric she was pissed! lol I'm sure he felt that abger!! lol Have a wonderful week.
I grew potatoes for the first time this year. Grew them in a 2ft x 2ft container and got 3 meals for the family out of it. Now that I know what I'm doing I plan on growing much more next year. A tip for people who like me couldn't find proper seed potatoes I learned online that you can buy organic potatoes from the store. Let them eye and then plant as you would a seed potato. Had great success with Yukon Golds. As always thanks for sharing your video's with all of us.
Welcome to the potato growing family! Glad you took the first step into growing them. Doesn't it feel good to grow food for your family?? I know we sure love it and grew quite the harvest of potatoes this year. We've been planting spuds for at least 25 years now!! It's awesome that you want to make it bigger and better next season.
cut the potato into chunks each with an eye, and then allow to dry for one day, then plant with the eye facing up. You now have several plants from each potato. you can get away with "thick peels" with eyes too (this is why people now days peel the skin off a lot thicker than they need, its a hold over from the old days where you would use it to grow new ones)
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We don’t get a potatoe yield like that in Ireland and we are made of the stuff ! Congrats. Love your videos. Greetings from Ireland.
lol x
You may want to check out Alaska the last Frontier. Eivan and Eve Kilcher use the crawl space under their house as a root cellar. They use big rubber totes and everything is above ground. Maybe you can contact them for suggestions. The house protects from the severe low temperatures without going below ground. Good luck.
You two are the real thing! Most homesteaders talk big, but they don't have much to show for it, and they always seem to be eating Doritos, lol. Thanks for sharing!
Your vid reminds me of potato harvests in Germany when I was a kid.
When the potato field was harvested - we made a bonfire and threw potatoes into the embers.
Such a pleasure to pull the hot potatoes out of the ashes and to enjoy them. Forever the smell of potato fire is in my nose. Thank you so much for ur Video.! Greetings from bali, Indonesia😚❤
I can relate to that, I also had some of those fun as a kid growing up. Looking at this video is refreshing.
I remember going to a farm when I was only about 10 years old. There the farmer kept his potatoes over winter by keeping them covered with hay or straw. He would have an area covered with an old type canvas tarp surrounded by a double wall of straw bales, the potatoes were then covered with more bales and loose straw over that. This was in the sixties in the UK🇬🇧 when our winters were always in the minus. Out of about 24000 lbs/10 tons he lost very few during the winters. A thought for you to think about.
My Grandparents used to layer them dry between beds of straw or sawdust, or a mixture of both, and keep them in the barn in a mound of straw, like you said, they lasted all winter. Thinking your storage container would do the trick. There's no reason to go without potatoes just because you lost your root cellar, there are other ways. Great harvest, love your varieties, and really hoping you don't can them all.
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The problem is that Alaska gets a lot colder than the UK. Frost can easily go through 3 feet.
If Willow is anything like where I live in the Copper River region low temps can go (and stay for extended periods) down to -50 F / -45 C. Temps can stay below -30 F/-35 C at night for weeks on end. No amount of straw bales will withstand that.
Seeing those taters come out of the ground was awesome... but that cream of mushroom concoction took the prize. MMMmmmm 😋
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That is probably the coolest potato harvest EVER! I (Brian) can remember when I had a sweet potato in Texas on the counter and then went on vacation for a couple weeks. When I came back, the little guy grew about five 12" runners. So I put that guy in the ground and after a short while, had 30 lbs of sweet potatoes from the one! So both Erin and I can see how you got such a haul off of those few seed poatoes!
How do you know when to stop digging'em up? It seems like they just kept going and going! LOL!
Thanks for sharing your journey!
- Brian + Erin
Currently converting an old school bus into our tiny home on wheels!
I had some potatoes from the grocery store that sprouted, and because of your videos (and a couple other people who garden on TH-cam), I tried planting them in a bucket to see what would happen. I didn't get 10 pounds, but I got enough to cook and eat, and they were the most potato-tasting potatoes I've ever had.
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I'm thinking about doing the same, just to learn before I dive deep into gardening. How long did it take for you to harvest them? And it was hard to take care of them?
Check out Home Grown Veg
A gentleman in the UK, that has numerous video's on growing potatoes, (and many other vegetables in 10 liter (about 3 gallon) buckets, Mostly from
store bought potatoes.
I watch you from Ukraine. I really like your life, the way you treat everything positively. Thank you for the video and all the best to you
The rooster would not miss the opportunity to make noise while you guys film. Lol
Without a doubt, the most colorful batch of spuds I've ever seen! Way to go on the harvest. Have you by chance given any thought to a root cellar alternative as of yet? As always thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see what happens next!
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Who else thought for a second that they were signing out without giving us a glimpse of the finished meal? Lol! Awesome video, guys!
You know they wouldn't do us dirty like that, wheres ye faith brethren...lol
Really enjoyed watching Arielle and Eric's Christmas Potato Day 2020!
I'm making those scalloped potatoes !! Looks awesome. Love your channel from here in New Hampshire.
Every year as a child, my family was meeting up at my grandma's place and we were digging up for a day (a pretty big field of potatoes but with the help of a tractor) and having a picnic. Then, we would share the potatoes for the year. I didn't enjoy it so much when I got older but it's great memories and I'd love to do it again ! :)
I love your videos by the way ! :)
Awesome Harvest.... Some thing you should research.. I have read that it could be dangerous to store potatoes in such a large quantity in the house because, as they age, they put off cyanide gas.. you might look into that before you store long term in the cabin.... I would suggest store them in the long tunnel under a good cover of mounded straw/hay then dirt on top.. thats how my grandparents used to do it up in northern idaho in the corner of the barn, lots of good ventilation in the barn..{you could leave the ventilation open on your long tunnel just abit to help}.. fed 9 kids all winter long on a huge mound of potatoes and squash stored the same way..{edit/add...grandpa would put down a three to four inch layer of hay, then pile on the potatoes, then cover the mound with the same thickness of hay then about a two inch layer of dirt.. he would also leave a two foot space of no dirt at the very top of the mound to let the pile vent.. hope this helps.. }
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Ok you cant leave without a taste of the finished product lol.
lmao but i think thats true dear
hope you doing good
Wow! You can tell all that material you add to the beds is paying off, your soil looks so nice!
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I soooooo enjoyed watching you’ll dig up potatoes. I’m 69 years old and have never had that privilege. I’m enjoying the finer things thru you’ll!
We dug our potatoes on Saturday, Yukon gold and german butterball did well this year but the reds didn't do real great. All the rain this summer meant I didn't have to water a lot, less work in the garden but it also meant the goats were in the barn more eating expensive hay. It's suppose to snow on Monday already, we still have to pull carrots and buy more hay then I'll feel ready. Thanks for posting I love to see what your up to just up the road. :)
Looks like 63 people (so far) who have watched this harvested less than 200 lbs of taters this year, lmao.
Yall need some merch, I wanna rep SLA
Personally I would not wash the potatoes. Leaving the dirt on will help them last longer and cure better.
I was just going to say this.
@@MrJustliketht Your pejorative is not only spelled wrong, it is rude and unhelpful. There's no correlation between washing freshly harvested potatoes and washing laundry. They are homesteaders. If you don't understand this way of life and/or can't communicate without using ethnic slurs perhaps you should go elsewhere.
Gosh I wanna live off the gird now too, but I'm only 17...
It’s a great time for you to start planning and researching!
Do it before you fall into the trap of buying things you don't need, this makes you a slave. Going the route of these two provides a higher level of freedom. They are surviving in a minimalistic way and are happy.
Another potato harvest video! Here comes another million views haha!
Yay the potato harvest!!!!it was when i started watchin you last yr!!!! Yay lots of taters!!!! I lov purple taters!!!!! Potato casserole looks yummy!!!!!!!💞💞💞💞😸😸😸😸 none the size of arielles head lolol inspector cat inspecting!!!!
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It looks like Christmas in October!! You two are amazing! I would love to know more about your background. How did a such a young couple get to knowing so much? You have such a vast knowledge!! I'm 51 yrs old and just getting into gardening in my backyard (and side yards and front yard). Congrats on the harvest!! :)
I'm convinced all the downvotes are accidental clicks
Or people that love potato flakes. Their content is so awesome. I have to watch where ever I see the notification.
@@Chev2k3 potato flakes 😂
FINALLY!! I've waited for this day! Thank you!!
Same!
@@josh_watson What he said!! lol
SAME!!
@@MrJustliketht Or she really likes this couple and looks forward to what they are doing next at their homestead. But it sounds like you are projecting.
Time to go digging for those treasures! Is this the harvesting moment that Arielle lives for? 😉
Thanks for sharing your wonderful video. It’s fun digging up & seeing your harvest. I grew sweet potatoes this year for the first time & I squealed every time I found a big one. 😂 The scalloped potatoes/creamy mushroom meal looks delicious. I grew some Golden Jubilee variety of tomatoes like that, sooo good. 😋😋
I was today years old when I found out potatoes produce fruit.......
Not edible though!
I read about how the guy who first cultivated the Burbank variety planted the seeds until he got a variety he liked to propagate.
You sure eat well, chanterelle potatoes au gratin! My grandma had a “cellar that was above ground made of packed cinder blocks. I remember the super thick door. It froze every winter in Eastern Oregon, but her harvest and canned goods were safe. Do you have plans for a new cellar?
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Totally enjoyed yall's harvest de papas!🙂 Beautiful potatoes and such vibrant colors. Sweet recipe too.🙂
You always have such interesting, colorful, flavor packed meals - good on you for not stopping with just having food to eat but making it magnificent food to relish.
Did y'all use the _"One potato, two potato, three potato, four..."_ counting system? ;)
That’s a nice potato harvest. The casserole looks very yummy. My grandmother made a white sauce then added potatoes and string beans, very tasty. Blessings to both of you, I always enjoy your videos.
Why can't you put them In the hoop house in shavings
I came for the fishing and hunting. But honestly I stayed for the farming/canning and just simple living! Keep on keeping on guys 💕 *edit AND THE COOKING!! 😍
whats the trucking noises we're hearing?
Yes what is that ?
Can you freeze dry the potatoes, or freeze them ?
It’s probably a generator
The chicken 🐔 poo is the most acid. Put some horse manure/ top soil!
@@lindsaydooley5621 It sound like a government required back up beeper on a piece of heavy equipment, but not sure what it was. Hopefully they’ll see our comments and reply
Eric, you cut those veggies awful fast. You’ve had some experience in a kitchen somewhere. Great job on the potatoes this year y’all!
Dont think he did as pro chefs bend the end of their fingers and rest the knife on them to avoid cutting themselves accidentally.
Why don’t you have the root cellar anymore?
Loving your video's. I am at this moment waiting to hear if we have been lucky enough to buy a large piece of land that's come up for sale. No where near as remote as yours but still far enough away from most things.
I don't see yield like this in FL. My taters are half that size. I'll live vicariously through your videos. So fun!
Beautiful harvest 👍😃 !! Have you seen GRIDLESSNESS with their root cellar. It’s above ground , kinda looks like a hobbit house, very nice. Take Care Be Safe. 👍👍😊
Y'all should get a luggage scale. They're very small, handheld, and go over 50 lbs.
Your cooking videos always make me hungry! Also, just curious if you guys had considered making a trash can root cellar for your potatoes and carrots? I’m not sure it would work in Alaska because of the extreme frost, but it might be worth looking into. They’re relatively cheap and easy and it could help you store some of your root vegetables longer.
Is it possible to partially bury buckets of potatoes and cover with feet of straw? Might keep them moist and cool without freezing.
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Awesome harvest :) And so colorful! It really was a bummer with that root cellar. I love getting to follow along and watch you guys. You impress and inspire me. Can't wait to see what you do next. :) Hoping for another root cellar. We're finishing ours in a hurry these days. Now I'm off to harvest potatoes. It's a much blogger plot, but it's the first year growing in that soil, and we weren't able to amend with anything but a little chicken manure. We have eaten from them all summer, and the potatoes are very nice, but the yield is nothing to write home about. Cheers :)
Those “tomato” looking fruit ,off the potatoes, may contain potato seeds! I know, sounds weird, but possible!
im falling behind on my chores watching yall do yours, but i still get some satisfaction doing it this way!
Could you build a lean-to on your cabin for storage that’s kept cooler than the house (adjustable vent between cabin and storage room)?
I was thinking the same thing!!! I think its a great idea :)
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Why did u wash them? Potatoes store better/longer when they’re left unwashed.
They exaplained it in the video
Every time I watch these I think "damn that looks like the dream" then I remember it gets to like -3000 and I immediately change my mind. Do love potatoes though.
You both look so excited and ate having so much fun digging them up. Your videos brighten my day.
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Man, what gorgeous potatoes!! ❣️♥️❣️
Good night that looks YUMMY!!!! I am going to try making that.... probably will not look and taste as good as yours....
I am amazed how u remember all the different types u planted...I haven't heard of some of them. So where did u get ur seed potatoes? Great harvest, loved this video!
This video was a total delight! From harvest to table. You guys are living the life!! Would loved to have known how that food tasted!! Also kinda wish I had smellavision.
OH ALSO !!!! hold that dinner as my flight is delayed but will be there shortly- looks amazing guys. Cheers Denise
Do u plant always a whole patato and not a junk with 2 or 3 sprouts. Is a Whole better in ur oppinion?
I can't be the only person who is worried about both of you because there was an earthquake yesterday in Alaska, Let us know your both ok. Thanks
I love that you show the ebbs and flows of gardening. Not every crop will have a perfect year and that's part of the mystery and joy of the process. I lived in the Mat-Su for years and the one thing that you always learn is the weather will dictate your life regardless of your prep. Love your channel. Hope you get an HGTV series.
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I enjoy watching people dig potatoes, I can’t wait to plant and harvest my own.
I was extra excited to see a second video this week.
I don't know how many varieties of purple potatoes there are. I've only had 1 variety. It tastes yuck. Like dirt. Potatoes are 1 of my favorite foods. I bet I eat 200lbs a year +.
Are you guys going to build another type of root cellar? Check out Shawn James.
Great vid guys, but that shirt of Eric’s looks like he was attacked by a squid! Lol.
That was a jolt when the camera cut to him, no?
I felt attacked too. Definitely a bit jarring visually.
I’ve been shocked to see him without a hat on! Still hella fine though
I remember before we had our cold room or cellar we would put them under the house in storage boxs that was lined with Styrofoam maybe you can do that
Also - you can dehydrate your potatoes in a variety of ways to make them shelf stable...
Lots of love to both of you.you guys did amazing work.Thanks for sharing .
They are talking about having freezes and it was 100 where I live today 😭 beautiful potatoes.
Lmao, right? 106 over here. 🙄😂
I just love your cooking videos so much!!! I have learned to garden and cook by myself. Your simple yet flavorful recipes are so inspiring. Sadly, I really need some more variety when cooking from our garden bounty and these are just the ticket! Thank you!
Above ground root cellar? Just pile dirt and rocks on top.
Did you forget that they live in Alaska?? That ain't gonna work
I am definitely going to make the mushroom soup potato bake recipe ☺️
So happy for your harvest! Ours was a bust this year, very disappointed, always glad to see when someone does great with spuds!!
Also you guys should do a cooking channel! You have amazing looking recipes!!!
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Not to downplay ANYONE'S struggles with addiction, but I look forward to your videos with more than a normal enthusiasm. Enthusiasm seems not quite adequate.
Whoah that meal at the end looks delicious
WOW! Nice potato haul! The two of you are awesome farmers, hunters and TH-camrs! ❤
I watched the videos of building the root cellar but I must have missed something because now you say you aren't using it?
It started to cave in and bent the metal shelves. They got a lot of rain in this spring and started to flood the area too. I they had to uncover it all and fill in with cut logs and fill it in.
Great potato harvest you two!!!! Where do you get your seed potato from? Enjoyed the harvest, thanks for sharing with us.
Thirteen minutes in until the first rooster crow. I'd thought maybe you'd done some culling in your flock. Glad to hear him in the background!
Mary P. Hall we have 3 at the moment. We love them 😃
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Ok update...lol
Yall need to build a walk in cooler/ lean-to. on the north side of your house.
One that you can store all your vegetables and refrigerator stuff.
I started watching at last year's potato harvest 🤟 so happy for you guys
Just came to comment this 😂
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I started gardening 2yrs. ago and I love it I grow everything I can. If more people had any sense they would start so they won't find themselves waiting in food lines miles long for a box of fruit and vegetables.
i have always seem "Never wash potatoes to store them"
You can but you have to dry them! usual method is laying them out flat 1 layer on newspaper for a day or 2 in the dark. im pretty sure these will start to rot very fast!
Off Grid Homestead with the Boss of the Swamp is in NH. He sunk a "box" into the crawl space under his cabin to store items in. Seems to work well! :D
The potato harvest is always approved by this Idaho girl. Those scalloped potatoes look beautiful!
Wonderful. You guys are CRUSHING 🌱❤️
The very best potatoes for taste and flavour was Yukon Gold! They have white skins and a very yellow flesh.
Your scalloped potatoes looked phenomenal!!! I think you two are doing your videos in a way now that is warm, personal and endearing. Its really nice, well done. I have a partial row of potatoes to dig still and i'm gonna weigh them, but i'm also going back to watch how you did your planting, you method seems way better!
Can I ask where you guys buy your seed potatoes? I’d love to plant some variety next spring!
I’m new to the. Idea of a root cellar since i live in Miami Florida and there is no way we could have one here, but couldn’t you just keep the potatoes in the Conex, pack them in straw to keep them from freezing, at least that could solve the space in the cabin problem. And maybe think of getting.a smaller one and sink it partially in the ground and insulate it for a cellar part below ground and part above if the water table is a problem....but like i said i dont know anything about cellars and i could be just talking out of my ear on this one.
You can shred and par-cook them, then freeze them in vaccum sealed bags for hash browns all year round
Lovely harvest! I love seeing all the varieties that you try - there are so many more options out there! That scalloped potato dish looked amazing! I've never thought to try the tomatoes on it - I'm definitely going to have to give that one a try! :)
Fantastic harvest, you guys sure know lots of varieties. That meal at the end looked unbelievably delicious!!
Do you keep physical records on planting dates, harvest dates, types of seed planted and yields?