I Grew 71 LBS Of Potatoes By ACCIDENT!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2022
- You Won't Believe How I Accidentally Grew a Potato Goldmine! 🥔💥
Ever thought that your kitchen scraps could turn into something incredible? Well, I've got a story that will blow your mind! I accidentally transformed my humble compost heap into a flourishing potato farm, all from a few discarded potato peelings. Who knew that such a simple act could yield a staggering 71lbs of potatoes? 🤯
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Join me in this eye-opening adventure as I unravel the mystery of my unexpected potato bonanza. Discover how these unassuming scraps grew into a thriving potato paradise right in my backyard. From the shocking realization to the triumphant harvest, you won't want to miss a single moment of this potato-filled journey! 🌱
In this video, you'll learn:
* The surprising potential of your everyday kitchen waste 🥔🌟
* The crucial role of compost in giving life to an accidental garden 🌱
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* The heartwarming story of how my accidental potatoes brought joy and nourishment to my family and community 🏡
So come along and watch this incredible story unfold. Not only will you be amazed at what's possible with a little bit of luck and a lot of nature's magic, but you might be inspired to create your own backyard miracle. Let's turn those scraps into something remarkable! 🌟
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Something similar happened to me. When my son was a toddler, he apparently took a potato from a bag of potatoes I purchased and threw it in my front yard. I didn't know he did it at the time. A month or so later, I went to get some dirt for a flower pot, and when I started to dig, I found the yard was full of potatoes. I was completely baffled and my son was excited. I said, "I don't know how this happened!" And he said, "I threw a potato out there, mom! My potato grew!" 😂
Brilliant story and thats memories to cherish right there
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂 potatoes take longer than a month to produce😂u found the potatoe he threw out
@@uptownscenery9175 I said a month OR SO. I don't know exactly how many days had passed, and no, I did not find his one potato. I found many potatoes that grew from his one potato, but thanks.
@@TamaraKane you didn't get a golden goose but you got a great story for the grandkids...you could even make it a new tradition to see if they have the same growing magic 😉
You reap what you throw, too! I had no idea that this could happen. Maybe I’ll throw my pocket change into the compost.
Now that would be awesome if we could grow a fortune
I see what you did there ☺️.
$ 😁🤣😂
Lol. Thanks for the laugh.
Omg right?
This is awesome! You harvested more by accident than I did on purpose! That is some great compost you have there. I need to pay more attention to your channel. 😍
Hey that’s for that. I have many videos on composting so check them out
Same lol
Some here, this spring I ended up with like a gallon of potatoes. Was nice to get some potatoes, but would have been even better to get 71 pounds. I tried for a fall harvest. I got 2 tiny... Tiny pots.
Haha, same here.
This is a great channel. My question is how does he manage to do that while following 15 other channels. (My guess he doesn't sleep. lol)
You might be the Bob Ross of gardening. "No mistakes, just happy little accidents" 😊
I just need some furry little friends now ;)
I've heard that said of several gardeners. I think it is just hard to be angry and gardening at the same time. Though I would absolutely watch a gordan Ramsey of gardening.
@@suzumes6738 "These FUCKING TOMATOES wont grow in the SHADE!!! Oh my word!" "WHERES THE WORM SAUCE!?!?"
Forest Gump of gardening😅✌️
😂love this comment
One year we accidentally grew some of the best and most prolific spaghetti squash in our compost pile when we threw rind and seed into it months before. There were more than 30 squash! There was so much that I couldn't preserve and store it all, so all our neighbors and friends enjoyed some of our bounty too. What fun surprises from nature!
That is awesome! Who needs a garden we just need compost heaps :)
I love spaghetti squash. I just cut them in halves, scoop out the seeds and that mushy stuff and then season the "belly" and edges with: Pimento seasoning, Himalayan pink salt, dried onion flakes, garlic granules, cayenne pepper powder and turmeric powder mixed in avocada oil and then bake till done. Most delicious! When I heard about this type of squash, I did not believe the ladies and could not wait for the finished product. The next day I told them that it was after I saw that the flesh looked like spaghetti that I believed them. I told them thaf I believed that they had been pulling my legs. I suppose, when you don't know, you don't know! My darkness had been dispelled! Hope you continue to be surprised and blessed by nature.PVEL.
This is what we all supposed to do : grow in abundance and share with one another.
I’m not sure what is more amazing, the abundance of potatoes or the incredible quality of compost. Well done!
Thank you Az :)
Those to things go hand in hand, no doubt.
I love happy accidents. About two years ago, I had a lemon plant seedling to come out of my compost. Today, it has grown 8 feet and still wants to grow. I don't know if it will ever put on any fruit, but I can still use the leaves in my cooking and for medicinal purposes. So, cheers to happy accidents!!
Yes I agree Josie sometimes they are the best growing methods too
It will put out fruit after about 5-8 years from seed. They have to transition to the “mature” stage in order to reproduce.
How do you use the leaves in coking
Many years ago in Alaska of all places, i also accidentally grew a lemon tree in my compost. Because of the cold and low winter sun levels I potted it and moved it to the front display window of a big Salvation Army store I was managing. It grew into a full size tree and made the store smell lovely.
@@gillianmuspic2337 - Must be great for lemon tea… 🍋
My best tomato plants last year grew out of the compost pile. The ones I deliberately planted ended up succumbing to disease after a very wet summer. The ones in the compost had no disease and survived a couple of light frosts due to the warmth of the pile. We got a bunch of tiny decorative pumpkins as well.
Amazing compost piles are
i had the same experience
Turn your tomato bed into a compost pile and the tomato's will grow like crazy. I think they like fungus rich environments.
Had the same experienced. My mother threw tomato seed on the soil i'm not using for month. Now that i used it as additional soil for my plants in the pots, now I habe so many tomato seedlings. Hahah
Wow and wow again! PVEL.
My mother peeled potatoes extremely thick, l saved the peelings in the cellar during the last part of the winter and planted a row along the back of the garden with them in the spring. They produced the same amount of spuds as the seed potatoes my parents planted.
I've had different squashes, cantaloupe, tomatoes and peppers come up in the garden from compost. Some cherry tomatoes did so well, I have saved seed and grown them in the garden more than 10 years.
Thats awesome seed is so versatile
That's a wonderful accident to discover. NIce!
Yeah I am happy to have the free crop Scott
After what you said at the beginning I was expecting a poor crop with lots of rotten or green ones but those spuds looked quite "apeeling". 😃
Yes I didnt expect it at all they all came out perfect but 2
I remember doing the same dig thru grammas kitchen compost. Potatos we also had cucumbers and melons grow out once. That was grammas blessing garden. Anything that grew from it was an unplanned blessing.
The best veg is when its not planned
I found you last year and decided to take up growing my own vegetables. I got the containers from Oakland and gave it a bash, and absolutely fell in love with the hobby! Potatoes in particular was like looking for treasure and I had one container that was bulging from all the potatoes! I can't wait to get started again this year. Thank you for helping me find a hobby I genuinely enjoy and thank you for recommending a great supplier of the containers for growing potatoes ❤️
That is awesome! Im glad to have helped
That is absolutely amazing. I wouldn't care how it happened, you just got 72 lbs of potatoes basically for free. I have been working on an experiment myself. It does not get very cold in winter here. I want to plant potatoes in my unheated greenhouse. In a large tote just to see what happens. You inspire all of us to get a good potato harvest. Thank you that was a great video.
How awesome Rose keep me informed how that works out please
I've been watching and learning from you but never dared to comment about how I grew potatoes back when my kids were growing up back in the 70s. Now I feel I can say what I did every year without anyone doubting me. We were not well off so I was very frugal, 1 eye per planting. Never had a failed plant and they all produced 10-20 taters per piece of potato with 1 eye planted. Never washed them for storage either. They kept longer that way.
Sheila, don't ever feel you cannot comment for fear of people not believing you. Gardening is always trial and error. Also, I have videos showing growing potatoes from single chits check this out th-cam.com/video/zZpYRu67mEY/w-d-xo.html remember if you're not trying new things you will never know
My father taught me to plant taters like this growing up. Worked every time🙂
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@@simplifygardening - I've watched the beginning of your recommended video. That first potato you cut out one sprouted eye. I would have cut that potato into 4-5 pieces, even if there were no sprouts at all and planted them. I'm telling you they all grew and produced 10-20 knuckle sized spuds, some even bigger. Our growing season is from the long weekend of May till the end of September. Never started any of them before putting the potato pieces in the ground. Never used compost. Never used fertilzer. Never watered. I used reds bought in the store and in later years I was given about 10 blues from Newfoundland. Did the same with them with the same results. Maybe God (or whoever) made it all possible. I don't know how it worked but it did.
Hi Tony, I use a peeler which give very thin skins. My wife uses a knife and peels them thicker, I think the thicker peelings have the eyes with enough flesh to make them viable and in the past, I've harvested some spuds from the bin and they've been really tasty like new potatoes! Great vid, thanx for posting.
I use a peeler too as long as the eyes are intact they grow
When peeling, cut about half an inch into the potato below the chits, and the rest of the potato is yours to eat. This gives them a good chance to fully develop roots and a good stem before the flesh runs out of energy. The other thing is, like you see in this video, buy and use potatoes that you really like to do this with. My favourite is Desiree red potatoes, when I can find them.
Love the little surprises our gardens give us! Great video buddy
Yes they do pal. and its always nice to see that the compost keeps giving
@@simplifygardening Leave it to an Irishman to do that eh? Awesome video Tanks
See, I told you Tony doesn’t make mistakes
Even his ‘Accidents’ are productive ✅
Lol Jewel I make my fair share of mistakes but always nice when it goes right
" the accident is productive "
That's what my father said when I started working in his factory. I still don't know what he meant. 😆 🤣
Love it! I actually need to check my compost bags, I have had red potatoes grown from the peels! I'm not sure exactly what all might be growing from last year. I have accidentally grown cantaloupe when I tossed the seeds out in the yard over and over 😋 Super delicious and makes me smile. Over grow just more to share with the neighbors! Thank you for sharing! Greetings from Augusta Georgia ❤️🇺🇸
Sounds great! Hope you have an awesome harvest too
Had 2-3 plants come up in our compost pile, but also had 8-9 volunteers come
up in our garden. We left about 5 of the volunteers that weren't in the way to grow.
2 of the largest spuds of the year came from the volunteers. 😊
TYFS Tony, nice unintended harvest.
That is awesome Mark. always nice getting volunteers in the garden
You had me laughing Tony, as I do throw peelings in the compost and lo and behold after I transferred the bin I made in the last year into an above ground garden bed, thinking I’ll let it finish rotting down to use next year and I have potatoes growing there and some in non tillable ground outside the old bin. I can’t wait to see what I get like you by accident. I’m sure nothing like yours and if I can get the ones out of the ground I’ll be amazed.
Any bonus crop is great if it’s unexpected Tassie
You may just be very surprised! PVEL.
That is insane, amazing harvest! Those were some huge potatoes! And all for free, both in time and labour as well as money. I had no idea potatoes could grow just from peelings.
Amazing! I never knew that, a) actual potatoes could grow at all from the peelings, and, b) you could harvest (and obviously eat) the ones that grew from rotten, or just the ones you'd thrown out, from the compost bin! I thought they'd be contaminated, rotten themselves, just inedible for some reason. I learned something new from you again today!
Abundance! Nature is marvellous.
Love seeing what starts sprouting in the compost. Just had some fennel start sprouting again. Potted up and got a head start on any seeds.
Perfect they grew as when I added them the compost had got rid of most of the heat
My family and I started watching your videos last fall because we wanted to start our first garden ever. We have enjoyed them and you are an excellent teacher. Thank you for all the good information and encouragement you give to gardeners of all knowledge levels. We are looking forward to planting the seed we have gotten and thank you for the tips on how to order seeds and keep them in good health. Keep doing what you are doing and I am looking forward to getting your compost book when it comes out. Will it be released in the USA in April as well? Thank you again and a big shout out from Montana, USA.
Cathy thank you for your comment. I am glad your enjoying the videos. Yes It will be released everywhere hopefully at the same time
Tony, we can almost smell the soils in your videos. Lovely just can’t put it off .watch to the end every time. Keep them coming. Great down to Earth feel?
Thanks William, that means a lot
My mom used to grow accidental tomatoes and zucchini, from her compost pile. We composted all matter of vegitive materials, but I don't remember ever seeing potatoes growing in the mix. Well done!
Getting them to grow is a challenge like I said this was an accident and if I tried to do it I bet it wouldnt happen
I loved watching your delight as you realized you had quite a few more spuds than you exactly expected there. A happy chappie indeed! 😄
Yeah I was very chuffed to see that :)
My mother only ever used the eyes of our potatoes as our "seed potatoes" so I'm not surprised you have so many in your beautiful COMPOST BIN!!!
Wow, thank you
This year, being a little short on compost, I began saving my kitchen scraps (including the potato peelings). I'd then dig a trench where I know I was going to grow my veg, fill with kitchen scraps and then cover.. I'm now pulling out numerous potato plants where I don't want them to grow. I want to grow anything but potatoes there. My potatoes are grown in the same 30L pots you use Tony.
Bless your 💝💖 heart for showing & sharing you knowledge , thank you 👏✌🫠🫠🫡👏🙏
😂😂 wow potatoes are so resilient bonus. I put old spuds in compost but never get the nice haul you do. I only grow mine in pots now thanks to your advice. Thank you for sharing as always 🐝 safe Tony and family
Thanks Ali. Amazing veg i love growing them
Years ago I had a large compost bin beside an old crab apple tree. One year vines started to grow from the compost up into the tree. In the fall we harvested 14 VERY large Hubbard squash from the branches of tree. Some were hanging from the tree like ornaments. I had the entire neighborhood bringing friends to see the "pumpkin tree". I even found one growing in the centre of the bin, it was almost pure white in colour. The weight of squash was unbelievable. The smallest was 15 pounds, the largest 72 pounds. I never had that happen again. But from then on I planted squash seeds at the base of the tree in the summer. I no longer live in that house, but I really wish we had never moved. The garden was an old parking spot and after 20 years of compost was wonderful.
Thats such an amazing story, its awesome what plants will do
By far the best potato harvest out of all that I’ve seen and I watch them all here on TH-cam. ❤❤😮😊
Thanks appreciate it
Watching this again after nine months. You have harvested more from your compost bin than I got from 8 containers! And most of mine were quite small, none very large. I think the heat and drought caused them to stunt, despite watering them as you had suggested in another video. Definitely need to make the potato trellises like you suggested.
I also had free range chickens that would get up in the containers and trample the foliage. Got rid of them as well. Praying that the lessons learned will make for a much better crop next year.
Absolutely fantastic Tony. I don’t know what else to say you wouldn’t believe it unless you’ve seen it and we did thanks to your video. It’s brilliant just from peelings 😃
Glad you enjoyed it
It was also the reason I didnt break the video and just sped it up otherwise you will get the neighsayers
@@simplifygardening good morning, exactly right Tony I’m glad you showed the full video as you say the naysayers can’t doubt anything. Well I’m off to my allotment this morning and washing down my greenhouse, have a good day 👍🏽
Thanks for all your great videos this is amazing! looking forward to spring where i will try out your method of growing potatoes in containers! Also really appreciate your video about how to compost properly very helpful! (I'm a newby to gardening as of last summer!)
Oh great to have you on board and I’m sure it will be a great year for you
My container potatoes did better than my soil potatoes
I put anything biodegradable in a compost heap, even newspaper. . . .
I leave anything to grow and just keep covering because like this you can get a bonus crop but when something grows, the roots help to break down and makes an even better compost.
You have got some top shelf compost/potting soil there. Not to mention the beautiful potatoes. Totally organic and a real reliable seed potato. You just know that those potatoes want to grow and they will grow.
I once had this happen with a red sweet potato and i got sweet potatoes from the same bed for years after that and they were also top shelf quality also the best place to keep a potato is in the ground.
Well done. You have a gorgeous yard.
Keep it up and thank you for putting in the effort to share with us.
TGC
Blessings:)
That is incredible!
I have learned so much about growing potatoes from your channel, thank you so much!!!
I’m glad it’s helped you Sharon
Thanks Tony. The most I've gotten from my compost was almost 10 pounds but you have much larger compost bins than I do. Much Love
Good stuff Jan 10lbs nothing to be sniffed at either
OMG!! Tyvm for the hope this video gives me! I'm sure we're all going to need to return to personal gardening if we want to eat! Great video! Blessings from Alabama, USA
You are so welcome!
I'd be planting every year early in my warm compost with those results...way to go. You also tilled by hand, your compost...so nice... ready to use now....win...win.
Yes! That's amazing. And that's what I love about potatoes. You can get so much out of one harvest. Sometimes, in my potato basket, I have potatoes that I don't get around to use, and they shrivel up a little and grow roots. I split them up where the root is.
And they're very easy to grow. I stick the potato with the root side into the dirt. Cover and water. And then a green sprig sprouts and here in my state? I can harvest them right before fall. And I get so many little potatoes. Just wash them and with skin on, I boil them or bake them. They're delicious.
Yes they are great value
That's both hilarious and amazing Tony! 😁 I compost potato peelings but I've never had that happen. Did your potato peelings already have chits/sprouts on them?
Probably. But undamaged potato eyes have the same potential. All the same. Just takes more time.
It will depend when they are added. Wait until after the thermolific stages when the compost is on the cool down and they will take. Adding before and the heat will destroy the peelings and cause them to decay
Yes Heidi
@@simplifygardening Thank you for sharing that, I didn't know, and just learned something new I never heard before. I am subscribing. 🌻❤
@@heidimisfeldt5685 I am glad you found some value in my video Heidi and welcome to the channel :)
I know absolutely nothing about gardening, so I thought I'd take a peek here & be out. I've managed to stick around to the end & I'm *HOOKED !*
Thx a lot, mate. 👋
I am so glad this sparked your interest :)
That is an amazing (accidental) gift!!! Well done you!!
Yes it is, thanks
I did the same with sweet potatoes. Through the vines in the compost and they grew.
Excellent karl
Hi Tony, wow! We have a compost bin that needs emptying soon and we do have leaves growing out of it & we do compost potato peelings. That's fantastic getting all those potatoes by accident 🙂 how long has all that compost been rotting in that bay? Love your videos & take care 🙂
Since the end of July Christine
@@simplifygardening thats brilliant, breaking down so quickly, thanks for the reply 🙂
Awesome I love watching you digging that 🥔❤❤
Thank you 😋 Glad it was entertaining
OMG, what an incredible harvest.😂❤
Thanks Maddie
I've have said this before but you are the potato guru. You grow potatoes without even trying. :) BTW: The compost is looking good from the camera view.
Yeah its lovely stuff. Ive emptied 2 bins the full bins there all have finished compost under the rough stuff so i need to dig that out too
The sizes are superb as well
Really well done 👏
Thanks but I can’t take anything for that they did it all by themselves
Amazing! I was cheering you on every time you discovered another spud!
Thanks Anita me too
That’s absolutely amazing! If I grew 71.6 lbs of potatoes in compost I’d have a fit 😂 love it
That is awesome. This year I joined London Worms in the potato chit challenge and got 2.6 pounds from just a chit off of a potato in a bucket. They are hearty givers and simple to grow.
Yes I’ve done similar videos with single chits
Tony thats unreal, it just really does show what you can grow from peelings. I always knew you know your spuds,but this tops the bill, even if it was a accident. Thanks for sharing Tony
Thank you Lorraine I appreciate it
Great surprise crop of potatoes, and that compost looks lovely and rich. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Shelia
Yet again another fantastic video. thank you
Cheers Mark :)
After seeing this video it’s something I’ll be doing this year. Imagine how much space in raised beds or containers it would take to grow all them spuds 👍
Mental isnt it
@@simplifygardening it’s a no brainier if you’ve got a few composting areas
The impressive thing is that how deep in the soil those potatoes grew. The plant had to find it's way thru all of that soil to get sunlight and still managed to produce great potatoes.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if these are determinate or indeterminate potatoes. I'm only half way through the video so maybe he'll answer that question.
Amazing isn’t it
Hahaha this is amazing! Wish we had that space for such amazing compost heaps. Will keep it in the back pocket for when we do. Enjoy your spuds!
Always good to have ideas for later dates
Congrats. I too have got a surprise bucket of potatoes from my pathetic compost pile. Nothing like you got though. You are the champion!
That is awesome! free spuds are free spuds great to hear
I’m the same all my potato peelings and green ones go into one of my compost bays and then I harvest them. I also roughly sieve the compost to try and get any last ones out and then spread on my beds. It’s a win win situation I can’t be.I’ve those who don’t do this more. Cheers 🍻
Agreed mate especially with food prices climbing free potatoes always a bonus
When I was young my family decided to plant tomatoes in our backyard. It was a small yard in a rowhouse with thin, hardscrabble soil over clay and even sunflowers struggled, so we didn't think the tomatoes would grow. Not only did they grow, they started clambering _everywhere._ They groped their way up and over the fence into neighbouring yards, escaped the bed to strangle the grass and spread tendrils across the whole yard. It turned into a vast, dense tomato jungle which produced so copiously that even after jarring them and filling every container we owned with batches of tomato sauce, and after gifting everyone we knew with all the tomatoes they wanted, we were forced to let the tomatoes rot simply because we had nowhere to put them.
The rental company sent us a letter complaining about the tomato invasion exploding into other people's yards and into public space, so my father had to go in and rip every plant out by the roots to stop them. I'm convinced they'd have taken over the whole city if we'd let them. And the very next year the tomato jungle sprang up again without us touching the yard. In fact, no amount of pruning and digging and cutting would _stop_ them. We were eventually forced to lay down crushed rock and paving stones over the whole yard to try to stop them -- and they _still_ heaved the pavers up to spring out between them whenever we stopped pouring herbicide down the cracks.
Scary.
Wow thats amazing. brilliant what they will do
Invasion of 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
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My grandfather one year decided to move the potato patch closer to house and planted in a section of the garden that hadn't been used for several years. He had a bumper crop! He was giving potatoes to everybody. We came home from vacation with a big burlap bag of potatoes and about 4 months later my cousins came to visit and brought us another.
I’ve just found your channel today, I know nothing about gardening but would love to grow veggies, looking forward to learning how to grow.
Welcome tot he channel Caroline. I am sure you will be growing like a pro just follow along I have 10 years of videos you can also look back through
I just planted some sprouted potato peelings in my compost, 1 week ago, as an experiment to see what would happen. They are already putting off green shoots. I didn't think I'd get large potatoes out of it, but after watching this video, I'm hopeful.
I once bought some Japanese purple yams at organic farmers market. I put the peels in my compost and they grew. I got some nice potatoes from those peels. Not nearly what you got. But delicious
That is awesome! Its great when it happens when your not expecting it Joy
Nice, I never knew they grew from peelings because we always use covered heavy duty composters here.
Also, after watching one of your videos I didn't throw out my green taters and let them chit. They are growing in the garden as we speak, cheers man.
Yeah they make perfect seed potatoes when green
Don't know if anyone has told you this, but I liked how you treated the camera once it is recording.
You realise that it isn't just an object, you are sort of providing someone the eyes and ears to be there with you, even if they are a mute they can still watch and hear and not have many silly antics going around, such as slapping the lens.
And you also provide nice commentary and shows it all to us... Thanks!
I am glad it is enjoyable for you
This is why I love my compost bin. Every year, something grows from it that leaves my scratching my head. The most amazing one was about 3 years ago, I didn't go to my bin during the entire summer. I go in the fall and see tons of this squash that I've never seen before nor planted. Turns out, my wife bought delicata from the community farm and threw the left over seeds in our kitchen compost bucket. I then threw them in the compost bin! I've since saved the seeds and grow them every year!
Amazing, I know what I'll be doing with my potato peelings from now on!
Brilliant compost good harvest can’t complain huh
You are definitely the potato man! I can’t believe those grew from peelings, that’s amazing!!! Thanks for sharing the video
Thanks Carly 😀
I look at all your vids Tony but this is my fav, I remenber you trying to grow record size spuds and the trouble you went to and here you are harvesting a great crop that you didnt expect, it must also be said your blessed with a great back [ not me] keep your videos coming Tony , nice to see you have friends in the U.S. as well . Frank
gotta love volunteers!!I just paused your video, through inspiration & went & dugup my volunteer potatoes..got about3kilos!😁😋I was all out of potatoes too!!
That is awesome! and yes your right you just cant beat them. Congrats you now have potatoes :)
Wow 🤩 that’s fantastic not seen that before 😊. Great video
Glad you liked it
so many potatoes! love it, thanks for the share.
Wow fantastic harvest there well done you thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
Thanks Monara. appreciate you taking the time to comment
This is so amazing. Harvestinf potatoes by accident is a blessing! 😊
I know Marse I was so happy to see them keep coming
A great bonus crop, well done Tony
Thanks David
This without doubt proves what a great gardener you are X
Ha Ha thanks Janet :)
I keep shouting at you stop using the fork .. but I can’t stop watching.. love your vlog. Thank you for sharing
Tony, My goodness! You have more potatoes in your compost than compost--Ray Delbury Sussex Coun ty NJ USA
Yeah was a good crop for nothing Ray
You can't simplify gardening more than that, Tony! Amazing and a very fun video.
Tell me about it Bud lol
Holy chit. Lol keep your eyes pealed. I almost lost it. 😂😭🥲😅🤣
really nice tony,and thanks for the help on the asparagus got my first full harvest last year and i think in this fourth year it will be even better.
Thats brilliant. I am so glad its worked for you
What an impressive surprise Tony 🤩. Love the black gold… your compost 👍👍. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️🇺🇸
Thanks Dee yeah thats the real harvest here
My sister grew about 30 pumpkins the same way. During one Halloween she threw all of the pumpkin seeds and stringy flesh into her compost pile. The next spring pumpkin plants sprouted and she let them grow. They took up nearly half of her backyard. She had a huge display of pumpkins the following Halloween and she gave tons away too.
That is awesome! No wonder they did well in that marvellous compost. You have plenty of spuds to eat!
Yes quality compost always wins
Blimey, what a nice surprise for you! I sometimes wish I wasn't living in a city, some things I just don't have the space to grow!! Will be trying a few various small plants this year. Weather should be perfect here by the end of the month, fingers crossed (getting a bit of sun and flowers just about started blooming in my area very recently).
I grow these in a 30 litre pot normally
What a bonus. I can't make compost where I currently live. You got two great harvests. The compost is fantastic.
Thanks Pam. You should read my book you can make it in your kitchen check out Bokashi composting, Ill have a short video coming soon but its very well explained in the book
That was a fantastic result. I get some growing too, but never thought to harvest them...Will now 😆. Thanks and best of luck with the new book
So nice of you Thanks Andrew
Looking forward to the composting book. Lucky you getting a bonus crop.
Thank you Julia appreciate it
Look at that compost! I throw away potato peelings and roots etc. how nice to be harvesting so many potatoes in January and February. Awesome.
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised
Lol, I transplanted some butternut squash to my garden from the compost bin. Of course, until they fruited I was't quite sure what they were.
Absolutely amazing. I've also harvested some of my own potatoes from the compost heap and where I've just buried them in the soil.
There's a kind of poetry of nature manifested in the humblest of throwaway 'potato peelings' growing in abundance out of a compost heap an unexpected bumber crop of 70lbs of magically harvested potatoes. Thanks Tony 🙂
Tell me about it Anon
Love your Bed Ends,🤗.
Great haul. Amazing. Well done 👍
Glad you like them! They are perfect for nets
Sir, Thank you for this video. I watched to the end and I have learnt potatoes can grow from peels! If I were your over-the-fence neighbour, I would ask to buy some. Keep up the good work and I pray your book will be profitable. Keep composting, PVEL.
Glad it was helpful!