I've been planting potatoes for decades. I learned from my grandfather and father. My grandfather cut up his potatoes after they have sprouted and leaves very little of the core of the potato sometimes not much more than an eight inch thick. One added process was to generously powder the cuttings with ashes from the fireplace for wood stove. The ashes are like adding "potash" with protects the cuttings and helps them from rotting AND is also good as a fertilizer very useful for root crops.
Wow so many tips! I really like this one because we always have fireplace ash and I already throw a lot of it in the garden over the winter. I will totally try it on the spuds! Thank you!
Question, 1st time growing potatoes. I’m in the North, can I take some of my harvest & plant them now? Late August? And put the others in a bag/ box in the cellar which is dry and dark; for the spring?
I plant buckwheat inbetween my potatoes, which will connect to the mycorhizal fungi quickly, and then I cut it at ground level early summer before the potatoes take over the bed. I use the same technique using broad beans. No fertilizer needed; the rotting roots of the cut off plants are the fertilizer.
Brilliant, will remember that, thank you for sharing! I'm companion planting for the first time this year, and... I don't know, it all feels so much more natural and wholesome somehow :)
@@lukejones1244 It does feel a bit risky alright. I know I can safely plant dwarf beans with my tomatoes. It may sound bizarre, but both the bean and tomato plants seem so much stronger and healthier for growing together. I must say, I am struggling to believe they are benefiting each other that much... could it really be that simple? But I swear the same beans that are growing by themselves, and the tomato plants from previous years were nowhere near as juicy and strong. It may be the companion planting or something else causing it, but I'll definitely keep doing what I'm doing! ;)
Great video. Thank you! Paul Gautschi recommends always leaving your potatoes WHOLE to get the best possible harvests. He always replants his biggest and best potatoes. 👍🏼
Hilling potatoes is determined by whether they're determinate or indeterminate potatoes. Determinate are short season growers and only grow in one layer so don't need to be hilled. Some of the varieties are Red Pontiac, Chieftan and Yukon Gold.
Aww, whaaat? Two days ago I found out that potatoes and tomatoes were related but it never crossed my mind they (potatoes) would also have determinate and indeterminate varieties! So much more research to be done, thanks a mill for that comment :)
I discovered you guys last year because of your Potato harvest video and now seeing you plant the next batch just makes me happy. keep doing this great videos. I look forward to each and eveyone of it.
Goodness, a lot of bird sounds in this video. A chicken telling us that she laid an egg, a woodpecker and a loon flying overhead , (at least I think that's a loon.) Along with the various chickens and rooster and birdsong. It was so nice!
I just bought a 10-acre lot between Talkeetna and Willow. My plan is to build an off-grid dry cabin over the course of the next year or two. Then I'll be relocating from New Hampshire and settling there in Alaska. My Alaska dream! Thank you for your informative and instructive videos. I've viewed them all and continue to look forward to the next one...and the next. Thank you for all that you do and share...
We love the small potatoes for having boiled dinners ham,cabbage and potatoes for any meal. 2 yrs ago my mother in law planted some potatoes on a backyard garage site and she came out smelling like a rose. She got 20lbs off one plant. They were yukon gold and the soil had lots of oil in the soil and some gas when they missed the hole.
This is how life should be. You are living it guys! You just flame up when it comes to gardening planting and harvesting. I cant wait to see progress and finally the harvest. You are a natural!
Harvesting your own potatoes is so rewarding. We have a good stand of potatoes in our South-Eastern area of the US. We always look forward to sharing with family and neighbors when gathering vegetables. Thank you for sharing your experience. 🙂
Love the way you plant seeds👍🏻I do it that way too... drives my daughter nuts when I don’t string and measure..lol... I always say really?! Come harvest time who sees rows🤣
I'd never sow seeds that way. Like your daughter, I like nice even rows :D But I loved seeing how Arielle was doing it too, something very natural and satisfying about this method! :)
My family has used wood ash with the potatoes. They always turn out amazing. I have also always cut the big ones. As long as their is an eye it will grow! Love gardening ❤️
I am not sure if you are reading comments. But if you read: i live in Lithuania. And usualy we cut potatoes befofe putting in the soil. You can cut into lots of peaces, every "eye" of potatoe can grow seperately. When i grow potatoes i use like 10 potatoes and use them for a lot (A LOT) of seedings. :)
Bravo draga mea,va urmaresc video-urile de c.c. un an.Sunteti niste a oameni minunati,harnici,iscusiti,inventivi.Asta e viata adevarata.Te salut cu mult drag.
Great video! Here are my recommendations: 1) Dig the potato holes not opposite but following a zig zag pattern. Each hole not too close to the bed border. The goal is to provide more soil volume per plant. You will get higher yield per plant. 2) Apply lactic acid metabolism bacteria to increase overall crop performance. Yields may double in some crops. God bless you both.
I'm so looking forward to this season to watch from the beginning. Iv learned so much, love the way of life you both live. I maybe to late for me at 57 and widower, but I can still learn and be one of your biggest fans. . Stay safe up there. Coming from Michigan. Love you both.
Great to see you getting these done. My seed potatoes are stuck in the snail mail. I hope they will get here soon the rest of my veggies are seeded. Just tomatoes and mini peppers in the green house left to grow a bit bigger. You plant like I do that is awesome no gloves and getting a good feel of the earth! Good job! It's so exciting to see things planted up!
Last year was my first time growing potatoes I just piled up some wood chips put the potato spuds in and and they grew like crazy. Planted several varieties as well and the all did very well I planted the sweet potato too late but they will do good this year.
I love listening to you! You are a smart woman and a lot of younger people now a days needs guidance on how to be self independent. Hats off to you girl keep up the good work.
As a person who practically lives off of potatoes, thank you :). I never had luck with potatoes but we had a lot of clay in our soil so drainage was an issue. Raised beds with imported soil was the only time I had and success. Looking forward to new lands soon!
My dad loves growing potatoes like, Desiree, French Fingerling, Yukon Gold, Kennebec, etc. He gardens in a zone 3a (I think similar to you) and always has great yields. A few evangelizing Jehovah's Witnesses from Idaho came to the door once and they were visibly shocked by how big and healthy Dad's potato plants were. Biggest compliment anyone could have paid my dad.
We really enjoy watching your videos and want to compliment how well you two explain things. You're really having success there - thank you for sharing your experiences.
I love using sea compost in my gardens I swear that just makes everything grow so well. I did not know you could get fish bone meal. I am happy to see that! I will be getting that too. Those seed potatoes are amazing.
Great work! This is my first year gardening and already I have things I know I will do differently. Plus, I learn so much when I see your garden and how y'all do things. Doesn't matter that we are in two very completely zones either. Your process is stupendious.
Wow that is some beautiful soil y'all have built. Great start on the garden. Can't wait to see it do what it did last year and just flourish. I love to see y'all work outdoors, I live vicariously through y'alls gardening now. Thank you so much for all the time, and effort, and love, that you put into your videos. Jimmy
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Awesome, informative, and very relaxing video. You guys are the best!
I have cut mine this year, first time ever, simply due to lockdown, I couldn't get anymore seed potatoes, everywhere was sold out online! I planted 40 ish at Easter weekend and so far they are all up and have been earthed up twice. I am intrigued to see how they do and what the yield will be, I am in the UK, all the best Jo 😀
Love watching y'all. Got to give it to y'all I love the way you all are leaving life. I just couldn't do it with it being that cold over winter months. Although I live in Louisiana so we always only have 2 seasons hot and hotter lol
Our potato plants just got destroyed by a huge wind storm we had :( So, gonna have to start all over again. Thanks for sharing your gardening videos. They are helpful!
I appreciate that the background music on your videos isn't too loud. Some videos it's hard to make out what is being said. Your garden looks great and here's hoping for ultimate growing conditions.
I am sorry... but who the hell are the morons that would give this a thumbs down???? There has to be something seriously askew in your mind to even consider that. This is a nice couple sharing their lives with us. Simple Living Alaska... Thank You!!!!
@@sam65gto While I realize you're probably joking, I'm a potato grower 40 miles north of these guys and I do everything I can to encourage gardeners to grow their own potatoes. Once you get used to the delicious potato varieties you can grow in the garden you'll buy mine from the market when you run out.
Oh my!!! I’ve been waiting for your next video while planting up my garden! (Fellow Alaskan stuck in anchorage but finally in a home with a lot of space to garden) I love seeing your videos your both great! And your potato harvest has inspired my crazy potato planting obsession this year! Love it
We are trying our best to sport the farmers through our local farmers market after whole year shot down due to the pandemic, keep work hard and we are here for your guys!
Here's a fun idea... try putting those trail cameras pointing at the garden & inside the high tunnel & set them to take 3 pics per day; them stitch them together after harvest time... It will be neat to watch them grow bit by bit...
Yukon Gold👍 radishes and parsnips😍 and I do find that using slips which is what we call them in the South and some potato cut into quarters you get more bang for your buck
I planted Gipfel potato's last season here in the Antipodes. They are the longer small type. They did very well in nearly pure and well finished compost with a bit of river sand and silt. This was several inches deep and lightly dug into the surface of some reasonable clay soil. They produced a good crop but the scrub turkeys ate them instead of me. We have several varieties of feathered terrorists. I will be following your method and adding some crop protection next season. You are very inspiring, thank you. (I once made to the Yukon, but not quite to Alaska, and it looks wonderful.)
Growing Potatoes here in Scotland - I put two in a open heavy duty black plastic bag, quarter full of compost, once the they start spouting I add more soil, do this every so often till the bag is full, this way the soil is loose through out it's growing, thus producing more yield - Enjoy the whole new tubers!
Hello from North Carolina. Thank you for a wonderful video-your straightforward style is very clear and easy to follow. I feel like I learned a lot. Melody B in NC
My mouth is watering over that gorgeous soil - surprised the potatoes are literally jumping into their holes! Greetings from Homer, AK - love your channel.
Great video about planting potatoes. I too have tried growing potatoes in grow bags since lock down and had good result. But your video gave me lot more information. Thank you sister From India
I keep all my little tiny potatoes to plant the next year. My basement was a little warmer than usual last year and when i opened my basement this spring, the taters has grown eyes that were 4 feet long. Obviously all their energy was spent just growing eyes so I chucked them in the compost pile and just bought a bag from the grocery to plant.
We have always reduced larger tubers by cutting them and have had no problems. One thing we do though is to dust the cut faces of the tubers with powdered garden sulfur as we cut up the potatoes to help ward off disease.
We always cut our potatoes up and just make sure you have a eye in the section. Also, you don't have to wait to plant after you cut them up. We love your channel and are subscribers.
I did a small potato experiment this year. Half of them I cut into pieces and half of them I left whole. The whole ones were bursting out from the soil within a week, however the cut potatoes took up to 4 weeks to get to that stage. I have also noticed that the plants from the uncut potatoes are significantly larger than the cut ones when comparing the amount of time since growth started. Obviously the proof will come when harvest time happens, but so far I don't think I would cut potatoes again because of the huge delay in growth especially since we have a short growing season.
I live in wasilla ak and am just starting potatoes this year. I hope it's not too early. This was super helpful. Thanks for being 1 of the alaska growers who you tube! Hahah cause lower 48 gardening info is almost non usable
I have been growing potatoes for close to 50 years and have always cut them. Typical I cut them and plant them right away without issue and only 4” deep here in Maryland. I do not hill mine, but instead use straw, which saves a lot of work. Hilling mainly helps with sun scalding, which I find a good layer of straw does just as well.
I had less than fantastic results when I sowed my own saved potato seed. Hopefully you’ll get better results, but I’ll be purchasing mine this year. Nice video. I never cut mine either.
As a seed potato grower I'm very glad to hear that. Joking aside it can be challenging to store potatoes all year and have them healthy in the spring. Many gardeners are disappointed when they plant grocery store (eating) potatoes and get poor performance. Many tubers meant for the produce aisle of the grocery stores have been treated with a sprout inhibiter to keep them from sprouting.
I can listen to this woman for hours. Smart, well-spoken. A true teacher.
Really? did you notice this video was supposed to be about growing Potatoes but wasn't?
I've been planting potatoes for decades. I learned from my grandfather and father. My grandfather cut up his potatoes after they have sprouted and leaves very little of the core of the potato sometimes not much more than an eight inch thick. One added process was to generously powder the cuttings with ashes from the fireplace for wood stove. The ashes are like adding "potash" with protects the cuttings and helps them from rotting AND is also good as a fertilizer very useful for root crops.
Good advice, any information on soil acidity? I've read potatoes like slight acidic soil.
Wow so many tips! I really like this one because we always have fireplace ash and I already throw a lot of it in the garden over the winter. I will totally try it on the spuds! Thank you!
Thanks I will do do that with mine this season ❤
Wood ashes a must in soil ,good 4 everything
Question, 1st time growing potatoes. I’m in the North, can I take some of my harvest & plant them now? Late August? And put the others in a bag/ box in the cellar which is dry and dark; for the spring?
I plant buckwheat inbetween my potatoes, which will connect to the mycorhizal fungi quickly, and then I cut it at ground level early summer before the potatoes take over the bed. I use the same technique using broad beans. No fertilizer needed; the rotting roots of the cut off plants are the fertilizer.
That's very informative and practical experience. Thanks a lot
Brilliant, will remember that, thank you for sharing! I'm companion planting for the first time this year, and... I don't know, it all feels so much more natural and wholesome somehow :)
It feels overwhelmingly complex when you are first starting out, but it gets easier as you keep doing it, and you start seeing the benefits.
@@lukejones1244 It does feel a bit risky alright. I know I can safely plant dwarf beans with my tomatoes. It may sound bizarre, but both the bean and tomato plants seem so much stronger and healthier for growing together. I must say, I am struggling to believe they are benefiting each other that much... could it really be that simple? But I swear the same beans that are growing by themselves, and the tomato plants from previous years were nowhere near as juicy and strong. It may be the companion planting or something else causing it, but I'll definitely keep doing what I'm doing! ;)
Thanks for sharing, I might have some buckwheat seed.
Great video. Thank you!
Paul Gautschi recommends always leaving your potatoes WHOLE to get the best possible harvests. He always replants his biggest and best potatoes. 👍🏼
I like using my hands, feeling the soil makes you feel your a part of the love that going’s into your garden, it’s a personal thing for me.
It's truly miraculous that potatoes stay dormant and then come back to life and regenerate. Amazing. Great video. Thanks
galf99 - Some frogs can do this as well, freeze dormant and then come back to life when thawed. Now that's amazing.
Hilling potatoes is determined by whether they're determinate or indeterminate potatoes. Determinate are short season growers and only grow in one layer so don't need to be hilled. Some of the varieties are Red Pontiac, Chieftan and Yukon Gold.
Wow, we appreciate that info. Thank you 😃
@@SimpleLivingAlaska Here's a great link with more info..
www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/potato/determinate-indeterminate-potatoes.htm
I just planted Pontiac and was thinking they were in a bad spot to hill. You're awesome:)
Wait I did so much research on indeterminate potatoes 🥔 I thought red Pontiac Was indeterminate ahh well I’ll see what I get
Aww, whaaat? Two days ago I found out that potatoes and tomatoes were related but it never crossed my mind they (potatoes) would also have determinate and indeterminate varieties! So much more research to be done, thanks a mill for that comment :)
Really enjoy your channel, educational and straight to the point.Most importantly no click bait. A refreshing change.
More families like her. Love it....
I discovered you guys last year because of your Potato harvest video and now seeing you plant the next batch just makes me happy. keep doing this great videos. I look forward to each and eveyone of it.
Goodness, a lot of bird sounds in this video. A chicken telling us that she laid an egg, a woodpecker and a loon flying overhead , (at least I think that's a loon.) Along with the various chickens and rooster and birdsong. It was so nice!
Yup, that a loon.
hearsthewater , yes! Woke up my cat. A sleepy head turning back and forth. Woke from a good dream.
Like nature singing it own song, it makes me of our Father God and
all the wonderful things he created .
@@patriciabolduc4613 moron
Whay no bull?
I just love that you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty!
I know, right?! Also, I cannot squat in my garden without coming out with a ton of dirt on my knees! How does she stay so clean?
@@diannevaldez8670
Absolutely, I'd never make the squat! 😂👵
I just bought a 10-acre lot between Talkeetna and Willow. My plan is to build an off-grid dry cabin over the course of the next year or two. Then I'll be relocating from New Hampshire and settling there in Alaska. My Alaska dream! Thank you for your informative and instructive videos. I've viewed them all and continue to look forward to the next one...and the next. Thank you for all that you do and share...
You should vlog your experience 🙂
We love the small potatoes for having boiled dinners ham,cabbage and potatoes for any meal. 2 yrs ago my mother in law planted some potatoes on a backyard garage site and she came out smelling like a rose. She got 20lbs off one plant. They were yukon gold and the soil had lots of oil in the soil and some gas when they missed the hole.
Allen, Is that a Property Taxed area...?
@@patriotpioneer Yes, there is a yearly tax.
@@robhakeman5873 Not as much Gas as this reply
This is how life should be. You are living it guys! You just flame up when it comes to gardening planting and harvesting. I cant wait to see progress and finally the harvest. You are a natural!
Harvesting your own potatoes is so rewarding. We have a good stand of potatoes in our South-Eastern area of the US. We always look forward to sharing with family and neighbors when gathering vegetables. Thank you for sharing your experience. 🙂
Your gardening videos are my absolute favorites. Even this old bird has learned a few gardening tricks from you youngins. Thank you y'all.
Me too, I love how she gets in there and gets her hands dirty, digging in the dirt. Thank you and well done 👍
I can listen to this woman for hours. She is a true teacher 😍😍
Love the way you plant seeds👍🏻I do it that way too... drives my daughter nuts when I don’t string and measure..lol... I always say really?! Come harvest time who sees rows🤣
I'd never sow seeds that way. Like your daughter, I like nice even rows :D But I loved seeing how Arielle was doing it too, something very natural and satisfying about this method! :)
Ariel is so smart!!! She is the master gardener. Her gardens are always beautiful.
The first video I watched from your channel is when y'all harvested your potatoes last year. I have potatoes already in the ground here in Texas.
Which was amazing right!!
My family has used wood ash with the potatoes. They always turn out amazing. I have also always cut the big ones. As long as their is an eye it will grow! Love gardening ❤️
I am not sure if you are reading comments. But if you read: i live in Lithuania. And usualy we cut potatoes befofe putting in the soil. You can cut into lots of peaces, every "eye" of potatoe can grow seperately. When i grow potatoes i use like 10 potatoes and use them for a lot (A LOT) of seedings. :)
You still get the same weight of harvest. One big seed potato will give lots of small potatoes, chopped up will give a small number of big potatoes.
Bravo draga mea,va urmaresc video-urile de c.c. un an.Sunteti niste a oameni minunati,harnici,iscusiti,inventivi.Asta e viata adevarata.Te salut cu mult drag.
Watching you brings back good memories. How I wish I could garden again, but I do enjoy watching you enjoy your work. You're a good teacher.
I just loved you enthusiasm about planting potatoes, it is so contagious and now I feel like my hands need to feel the dirt. Thanks for that push.
Great video! Here are my recommendations: 1) Dig the potato holes not opposite but following a zig zag pattern. Each hole not too close to the bed border. The goal is to provide more soil volume per plant. You will get higher yield per plant. 2) Apply lactic acid metabolism bacteria to increase overall crop performance. Yields may double in some crops. God bless you both.
I'm just happy that my potato plants did well enough to flower this year. 1st time ever. I can hardly wait to see my harvest.
How'd your crop do?
@@sherryllynnjones7077 They came out smaller than I had hoped. But there were maybe 3 lbs of decent sized ones and a lot of seed potato sized ones.
I'm so looking forward to this season to watch from the beginning. Iv learned so much, love the way of life you both live. I maybe to late for me at 57 and widower, but I can still learn and be one of your biggest fans. . Stay safe up there. Coming from Michigan. Love you both.
Good luck with your garden. Last years garden was good and fun to watch your success.
Great to see you getting these done. My seed potatoes are stuck in the snail mail. I hope they will get here soon the rest of my veggies are seeded. Just tomatoes and mini peppers in the green house left to grow a bit bigger. You plant like I do that is awesome no gloves and getting a good feel of the earth! Good job! It's so exciting to see things planted up!
This season will be another fantastic yeild, love watching you play in the garden.
I’ve learned from your channel that planting potatoes is so exciting😂 I hope they will grow well and you’ll have great harvesting!
Last year was my first time growing potatoes I just piled up some wood chips put the potato spuds in and and they grew like crazy. Planted several varieties as well and the all did very well I planted the sweet potato too late but they will do good this year.
I love listening to you! You are a smart woman and a lot of younger people now a days needs guidance on how to be self independent. Hats off to you girl keep up the good work.
As a person who practically lives off of potatoes, thank you :). I never had luck with potatoes but we had a lot of clay in our soil so drainage was an issue. Raised beds with imported soil was the only time I had and success. Looking forward to new lands soon!
My dad loves growing potatoes like, Desiree, French Fingerling, Yukon Gold, Kennebec, etc. He gardens in a zone 3a (I think similar to you) and always has great yields. A few evangelizing Jehovah's Witnesses from Idaho came to the door once and they were visibly shocked by how big and healthy Dad's potato plants were. Biggest compliment anyone could have paid my dad.
Not easy to impress Idaho's faithful. When they go home with giant potato stories people will think they were away too long.
I'm gonna say it's the mineral content in the soil from all the fallen leaves and the snow which also replenishes nitrogen in the soil
Let's face it, everything is big in America, even the people
We really enjoy watching your videos and want to compliment how well you two explain things. You're really having success there - thank you for sharing your experiences.
I love using sea compost in my gardens I swear that just makes everything grow so well. I did not know you could get fish bone meal. I am happy to see that! I will be getting that too. Those seed potatoes are amazing.
Great work! This is my first year gardening and already I have things I know I will do differently. Plus, I learn so much when I see your garden and how y'all do things. Doesn't matter that we are in two very completely zones either. Your process is stupendious.
Wow that is some beautiful soil y'all have built. Great start on the garden. Can't wait to see it do what it did last year and just flourish. I love to see y'all work outdoors, I live vicariously through y'alls gardening now. Thank you so much for all the time, and effort, and love, that you put into your videos.
Jimmy
Awesome, informative, and very relaxing video. You guys are the best!
I have cut mine this year, first time ever, simply due to lockdown, I couldn't get anymore seed potatoes, everywhere was sold out online! I planted 40 ish at Easter weekend and so far they are all up and have been earthed up twice. I am intrigued to see how they do and what the yield will be, I am in the UK, all the best Jo 😀
You’re so insightful and your cadence is so warming. Thank you for all the videos you’ve made. I’m still gardening, yet a bit jealous of your soil.
Love what you kids are doing have at it beautiful country you live in!
Excellent video for beginner potato planters like myself. Thanks for the info and fun facts!
Those purple potatoes are my fav- especially in a red white and blue potato salad!!
Great job: I planted 50 lbs of potatoes but dry weather has not helped them to break the ground. Corn came up good. Great video's. Many thanks.
Love watching y'all. Got to give it to y'all I love the way you all are leaving life. I just couldn't do it with it being that cold over winter months. Although I live in Louisiana so we always only have 2 seasons hot and hotter lol
I do remember it snowing there in the late 70's ... what a circus that was lolzzzzzz! Take care from PA.
Same here in Texas gf lol
I remember mosquito season and mosquito breeding season. I think they're a week apart? Don't worry Alaska has blackfly season.
LOL!!! Blessings from Alabama 🥰
That's what I going to say like the other lady in Texas, we have hot and
hotter here in East Texas
Y'all have a blessed summer 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. I can watch you plant your garden, in the ground, all day. I can only do container, so I love your outdoor garden, AND you are in Alaska.
Our potato plants just got destroyed by a huge wind storm we had :( So, gonna have to start all over again. Thanks for sharing your gardening videos. They are helpful!
Wow what a brilliant gardener that lady is!
I appreciate that the background music on your videos isn't too loud. Some videos it's hard to make out what is being said. Your garden looks great and here's hoping for ultimate growing conditions.
I am sorry... but who the hell are the morons that would give this a thumbs down???? There has to be something seriously askew in your mind to even consider that. This is a nice couple sharing their lives with us. Simple Living Alaska... Thank You!!!!
I would say if there are mistakes in the info, people might give it thumbs down to indicate it.
Gordon Pitt potato farmers I'm guessing
Thumbs downs count for engagement just as much as thumbs ups, so no matter the reason why it doesn't hurt for the search or recommendation metrics.
I always think that! Every gardening video has thumbs down. How??
@@sam65gto While I realize you're probably joking, I'm a potato grower 40 miles north of these guys and I do everything I can to encourage gardeners to grow their own potatoes. Once you get used to the delicious potato varieties you can grow in the garden you'll buy mine from the market when you run out.
Oh my!!! I’ve been waiting for your next video while planting up my garden! (Fellow Alaskan stuck in anchorage but finally in a home with a lot of space to garden) I love seeing your videos your both great! And your potato harvest has inspired my crazy potato planting obsession this year! Love it
We are trying our best to sport the farmers through our local farmers market after whole year shot down due to the pandemic, keep work hard and we are here for your guys!
Your operation is really amazing. It's no small potatoes.
Here's a fun idea... try putting those trail cameras pointing at the garden & inside the high tunnel & set them to take 3 pics per day; them stitch them together after harvest time...
It will be neat to watch them grow bit by bit...
You inspired me to try growing potatoes after seeing your harvest last year! Thanks for sharing your experience!
Great video,i have been gardening for many years and every time i watch your videos i learn something,thanks for sharing!
I plant potatoes that are cut immediately after dusting with fir bark dust.Always had great success.
Never heard of that, very interesting. Where do you live? I live in the south eastern part of the USA.
Yukon Gold👍 radishes and parsnips😍 and I do find that using slips which is what we call them in the South and some potato cut into quarters you get more bang for your buck
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My grandmother used to use kelp (seaweed) for fertilizer and it worked very good
We put a shallow crate outside and lightly covered them with damp saw dust and they took off
I planted Gipfel potato's last season here in the Antipodes. They are the longer small type. They did very well in nearly pure and well finished compost with a bit of river sand and silt. This was several inches deep and lightly dug into the surface of some reasonable clay soil. They produced a good crop but the scrub turkeys ate them instead of me. We have several varieties of feathered terrorists.
I will be following your method and adding some crop protection next season. You are very inspiring, thank you. (I once made to the Yukon, but not quite to Alaska, and it looks wonderful.)
Gotta love how easy potatoes are to plant. Best thing ever in our garden, kids love homemade French fries!
Wow, you guys make gardening inspirational, fun and easy!
Growing Potatoes here in Scotland - I put two in a open heavy duty black plastic bag, quarter full of compost, once the they start spouting I add more soil, do this every so often till the bag is full, this way the soil is loose through out it's growing, thus producing more yield - Enjoy the whole new tubers!
Love to watch these before planting season.
We always grew large amounts of potato’s and cut them up the day we planted and always had a big harvest. But like you said, the drainage was good
Hello from North Carolina. Thank you for a wonderful video-your straightforward style is very clear and easy to follow. I feel like I learned a lot. Melody B in NC
Once again your garden will kick butt this year
So satisfying watching the gardening videos
My mouth is watering over that gorgeous soil - surprised the potatoes are literally jumping into their holes! Greetings from Homer, AK - love your channel.
Great video about planting potatoes. I too have tried growing potatoes in grow bags since lock down and had good result. But your video gave me lot more information. Thank you sister
From India
I like the soundtrack near the end on this video . The acoustic guitar is beautiful
Thank you for sharing ❤️💗❤️💖🤗
Really enjoyed the music & you be able to get in the soil....can't wait to watch it grow....
I think you guys have one of the more informative channels. Thanks for taking the time to record your videos.
I learned about smashed fried potatoes from you in an earlier video. My favorite way to fry potatoes now. Thanks
Love all the garden updates. You are living my dream.
I keep all my little tiny potatoes to plant the next year. My basement was a little warmer than usual last year and when i opened my basement this spring, the taters has grown eyes that were 4 feet long.
Obviously all their energy was spent just growing eyes so I chucked them in the compost pile and just bought a bag from the grocery to plant.
Still couldn't see where to go
I’m in zone 8a, but your videos have me excited for early spring... next year 😆. Good luck y’all!
Summer gardening videos are great to watch and listen to. May we have more please?
Alaska, Land of the Midnight Sun...longest growing day and shortest growing season makes for some giant veggies for sure!
Have you guys talked about what you put in your hills? If not, I would love to hear more about what you put in them!
We have always reduced larger tubers by cutting them and have had no problems. One thing we do though is to dust the cut faces of the tubers with powdered garden sulfur as we cut up the potatoes to help ward off disease.
We always cut our potatoes up and just make sure you have a eye in the section. Also, you don't have to wait to plant after you cut them up. We love your channel and are subscribers.
Best potato video ever. I really appreciate your teaching... Jesus bless u
Loved your video. Really like the variety of the potatoes and carrots.
You are going to have an amazing amount of food to harvest come fall, I can't wait for the squash and potatoes
i love that u r so informative ariel,so thank u.
You make planting look so easy…..💕
Your mound technique looks really cool
I did a small potato experiment this year. Half of them I cut into pieces and half of them I left whole. The whole ones were bursting out from the soil within a week, however the cut potatoes took up to 4 weeks to get to that stage. I have also noticed that the plants from the uncut potatoes are significantly larger than the cut ones when comparing the amount of time since growth started. Obviously the proof will come when harvest time happens, but so far I don't think I would cut potatoes again because of the huge delay in growth especially since we have a short growing season.
10 months later...what was the outcome
I live in wasilla ak and am just starting potatoes this year. I hope it's not too early. This was super helpful. Thanks for being 1 of the alaska growers who you tube! Hahah cause lower 48 gardening info is almost non usable
Loved the loon! Loved my time in AK (Healy), but this New Mexico boy just needed the sun too much. Thanks for your channel.
We are trying straw potato towers since we have such a small area to grow.
But channels like yours help be motivated to see how to make more fit!!!
I have been growing potatoes for close to 50 years and have always cut them. Typical I cut them and plant them right away without issue and only 4” deep here in Maryland. I do not hill mine, but instead use straw, which saves a lot of work. Hilling mainly helps with sun scalding, which I find a good layer of straw does just as well.
Thanks for sharing, greetings from Belize.
Loved the music ..... can’t wait to watch your garden grow
I had less than fantastic results when I sowed my own saved potato seed. Hopefully you’ll get better results, but I’ll be purchasing mine this year. Nice video. I never cut mine either.
As a seed potato grower I'm very glad to hear that. Joking aside it can be challenging to store potatoes all year and have them healthy in the spring. Many gardeners are disappointed when they plant grocery store (eating) potatoes and get poor performance. Many tubers meant for the produce aisle of the grocery stores have been treated with a sprout inhibiter to keep them from sprouting.