This was really cool. I hope you get the chance to do this with more commercial farmers ❤. It really helps put things in perspective as a homesteader who works in small commercial/ large garden numbers.
I absolutely enjoyed this video! I’m a home gardener, so basically an amateur farmer winging itand buildings some anecdotal beliefs on what “works”. Coin flip grandma wisdom. So it’s nice to hears what works from a pro. Please invite more farmer to share their knowledge on their specific crop!
I enjoyed the perspective of...what to do when planting in wetter climates vs drier climates. I would think that this type of knowledge would help out a ton of your viewers. I never thought about NOT hilling potatoes...but I see its based on how much water the ground holds and how much rain your area receives each year. This type of info would be invaluable in other crops as well.
So glad you two were able to spend time together ... to collaborate And have some Fun 🎃 I enjoy hearing Ty's Canadian pronunciation - brings back great memories of my 4 years spent at Queen's University in Ontario, CA 😊
I loved this - my great-grandpa used to farm our local university farm and my dad has stories about planting potatoes from that more industrial perspective when he was a kid. So cool to hear more of that and understand the why, even if it's not necessarily applicable to a backyard garden. If we get the "why," we can better decide if it's something we need to apply or not. Great video!
Last October I hoofed the compost from its bin onto a new , plot . I also used some of the compost to add to existing garden beds. and planters , Imagine my surprise And delight, when superb new, potato plants sprang up from this rather sad ‘compost” These new potatoes are delicious😊, all the more so when lifted in the dreary month of November. Nature truly is heavenly!!
Love the information! Nice to hear from a pro, not that Kevin isn't a semi pro! Just planted my potatoes yesterday, I also use the trench method and don't hill them up. The only thing I add is some wire over the top until they start to grow since I have critters that love to dig them up!
Ive grown potatoes from store bought small potatoes that grew little eye sprouts. It's fun. Use 5 gal food safe white bucket with drainage holes on bottom. Raise bucket on bricks to drain well.
Did you continually add soil as the stems grew upwards, or did you just add the potatoes lower in the bottom of the bucket, fill it up with soil and just let the potatoes grow? In other-words, there’s no ‘hilling’ when planting in the bucket?
@@deboz8793 I did not much after planting. Then, I lived in Florida and I took about 90 days. I just made sure the drainage was working. I had five buckets, started each a week or so apart of other bucket for a spread out harvest. Yield was small bowl size. Remarkably clean and tasty. I got misplaced from Ian. First, find a deli with pickle buckets looking for a home.
This year I did a halfa$$ Ruth Stout method and was amazed to actually get some reasonable sized and quantity potatoes. I have some volunteers I missed when pulling them out and some volunteer onions. Going to do it again
this was really cool, I hope you have a chance to do more with other crop-specific commercial farmers. it can be hard to figure out what advice to take seriously, and knowing that some advice makes more sense for big operations and some for backyards is super helpful.
For me the myth of hilling has had more to do with: will the potato plant (stalks/stems) set more potatoes due to hilling? Based on my "tater" growing experience - not really. That said - I love the baby spuds, so mine are never in the ground long enough.
In the UK we tend to grow first early & second early varieties for harvesting from around June for new (or baby) potatoes and then main crop varieties for storage and we let them die back and sit in the ground a week or two to cure and harvest in September or so to eat through the winter. You get a good range of potatoes this way & I typically do a third early varieties and the rest main crop on my allotment. I have noticed that the US channels I watch don’t seem to do this as much if at all.
Enjoyed the video! I love the ease of growing potatoes. Regarding cutting the potato prior to planting, I did not hear you address the necessity to allow the cut edge to callous prior to planting. This can be done by leaving them out in the air (in darkness) for a period of time, is that correct? Is this step necessary to prevent rotting? Perhaps not in a drier climate such as San Diego!
I always let cut potatoes dry for a few days to callus over. Seems like no matter the rain forecast I will get rain soon after planting. Too much rain invites rot so I try to avoid that. I have no idea if farmers do this but it works better for me.
Potatoes are the Easter eggs of my garden. I often forget where I planted all of them. When the plants die back I can't tell if anything is there so I just find them when I dig the dirt to plant something else. I also keep a Ruth Stout patch for lazy planting when potatoes at home start sprouting and need to go to the garden. I used to add a small raw potato to my smoothies for the resistant starch which is supposed to be good for your healthy metabolism. People would always freak out.
I’ve harvested potatoes and I guess I missed a couple and they have come back. Should I just deal with them as if I planted them and then just harvest then when the tops die back, the way I originally did? In San Diego is there a wrong time to plant potatoes… I’m zone 10 and I don’t remember a ground frost where I live. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
A bit of hot topic, isn't it? I work in the food industry(food handler certified), and the regulation we have put in are in place because for those few people who can't have sprouted potatoes, it's lethal. I think it's necessary.
I eat green potatoes, but generally if the spuds are big enough to peel. I DONT generally eat potatoes that have sprouted. I don't deliberately chit them all over, if they've sprouted that's just a bonus. To hill, or not to hill also depends on whether it's a determinate or indeterminate variety. I only grow (backyard) determinate Kipflers so hilling is less useful
It's my understanding that the original folks to eat proto-potatoes (up in the Andes) used to dip them in a slurry of clay mud. This bound to the Solenine and kept it from being digested...
So green potatoes - tuber exposed near the surface - gives another surface for chlorophyll and therefore food production - increased toxicity is the plant's attempt to deter grazers. From my understanding the distribution of the toxins within the green tuber is evenly distributed so shaving off the greener side doesn't make much difference. Original pre-commercial potatoes had much higher levels and the family in general - Solanaceae - have some pretty toxic members as well as a few more edibles! I've eaten loads of green potatoes, as you say, the toxicity level is pretty low and you'd have to eat a great deal!
I end up with green potatoes from the grocery store all the time if they are bagged. Especially the yellows. There are always 3 or 4. Maybe it is only illegal to sell them in Canada. I always peel off the green part and then a little further, just to be safe. If you eat too much raw potato you will end up with a stomach ache. I wouldn't even eat a whole one. Some things are meant to be cooked.
I use green potatoes as my seed potatoes. I don't like the bitterness to eat, but they grow beautifully. And I do nibble raw potatoes as I cook or occasionally as a snack - sometimes as much as a whole small potato - but they have to be FRESH. Older (or green) raw potatoes are bitter & astringent and do NOT make good eating. I advise always nibbling a small bite of raw potato first to asses the specific spud and only eat if you get a nice one (store potatoes are a crapshoot for eating raw). One more note: the astringency does build, so even fresh potatoes, you can't eat very many raw. Stick with a single one. You'll regret going for a second one.
I don't know where we got our potatoes when I was a kid, but it was a treat to eat them raw. We'd peel one, salt it, eat it until the salt was gone, then salt some more, and continue that way. It was filling enough that I never thought to eat more than one. I never heard that you couldn't eat raw potatoes until within the last year or two when a commenter under a YT video said they were poisonous. Absolutely, they are not! I was taught that green ones would make you sick, though, and should be avoided. I never thought about using green potatoes as seed potatoes. I'll have to remember that.
Shiiiit, I would too! Too many people in america sell out to these corporate assholes and foreign companies and just ruin everything! Never feel like growing food aint enough its very important. @potatoTyy
When I was young we were allowed to have one raw potato and we used a bit of salt on it. Was like a treat for us as we grew them and harvested them for the over winter cellar.
Potatoes can grow even on the surface of the soil. By digging you make it harder to get the surface. You can put on the line and make a dome for it. It makes a watering way and keeps the potato warm to sprout faster. And the seedling should be enough big to supply the plant until producing the harvest.
I made potato-leek soup last night using green potatoes. I just peeled off the skins and the flesh underneath wasn't green. I already knew it would take eating a lot of green potatoes to make me feel ill, so I've treating green potatoes this way for years. :)
A fun trick is to blindfold someone, bring up a canteen of apple juice and serve them a raw potato and ask them to eat it blindfolded and let them guess what they took a bite out of. 9/10 will say an apple. The texture is eerily similar, and the aroma of the apple juice will overpower your taste/smell and all you will taste is apple.
“If I was on an island I’d be eating these things all day” Being from PEI I got a good chuckle… good ole bud the spud has gotten us through this long 😂
As a kid, when my mom would be cutting potatoes, she would give us a few raw slices with salt on them to snack on. Not the best, but it wasn't the worst! The salt helped, lol.
EXCELLENT INFORMATION BROTHERS. Me and my brother ate raw potatoes 🥔 for years due to parents divorced and mom gone working. We were too young to cook or use a knife to peel. So we peeled with our teeth and ate. Obviously FATHER GOD Blessed it. We didn't even know about rinsing them off first. 🙏❤️😊
When I was a kid, eating raw potatoes was a treat. We did peel them though (but there was a mom and, for me, also older siblings, to do the peeling). They're especially good with salt. We never had a problem with it. (I am guessing that the idea came from my father's side of the family. His parents were potato farmers in Idaho.)
@tb6303 OH I wish we could get good at growing them. We Love potatoes 🥔 and they are getting so expensive. We're on a fixed income that hasn't been fixed. lol 😂
I have tried to grow potatoes for 2 years the first year they didn't get very big this summer the grasshoppers ate all the green off my potato plants is that the best way to do potatoes and buckets
In sand soil I plant potatoes before winter. No chance to rot, but I increase the chance of bigger potatoes and harvest. Hilling up before the winter works for non sand soil. I experienced it this year where my best potato plant was on a hill while the rest of the ground was soaked with water. Water compacts the soil so much that no roots can develop fast. What potatoes for sure need, like any plant, is lose soil. Mixing the soil wit lots of bad weed generated lose soil. If you don't have compost, at end of the season drop all your bad weed where yo are planting your potatoes, top that of with some soil. Yes, you will have a lot of weed beginning of the year. Just pull it out until the potato plant takes over. Pulling weed in loose soil is easy. Add it to your compost heap. No need to think about ratios if your compost is in open air. No smell either. I never bought potatoes for planting more than once. I use the smallest one from the year before. Maybe not the greatest yield but it all works fine. Plant a few more for bigger yield, if needed. I have seen potatoes survive harsh conditions. I don't have any particular care. Just plant them.
I absolutely loved this collaboration w/ Ty. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada where I grow everything in containers…..I am in Zone 9a. I love watching this channel and really enjoyed hearing what Potato Ty had to say. I already went and subscribed to his channel. This was so incredibly helpful and I would love to see Ty join the EG crew!! Can we please see some more wonderful farmers perspectives and knowledge? 🫶🏻 🥔🧡 Have a wonderful day!
I’ve given up on growing potatoes. I’ve watch countless videos and read as many articles, and have tried numerous methods and cannot grow potatoes to save my life. If i plant 5 pounds of potatoes I get either five pounds or less back.
I'm curious if way back in the ye'olde days when someone probably ended up eating poisonous nightshade berries first & then (*redacted*) after eating a green potato.
If the potatoes I crop are green, I cook the ones that only have a bit of green on them, cutting the green bits off, and i use the ones with more green on them as next years seed potatoes.
as kid i loved raw potatoes. i still think its good tasting compared to most raw vegetables. but again its not good for you especially because of the solanine . but same counts for you boiling or frying and eating it with the peel. if its not the tiny baby ones its just as eating green ones...
I've always eaten potatoes even if they had green on them. Just peel that spot a couple of times and cook as usual. Mind you, I didn't realize for years that it was considered poisonous. I never had any problems 😊😊😊
My grandfather always told us eating a potato with green peelings would not kill you may make you sick Eat a potato that is green inside and out will kill ya I'm sure you would have to eat quite a few.
It's funny watching you eat them raw. Whenever my father would be cutting them up he would just snack on them raw, at least one or two whole potatoes worth
You need to put some salt on the raw 'taters to make them taste better. As kids I (and my wife said she also) did and still remember the wonderful taste.
Eating green or sprouted potatoes while pregnant can cause birth defects in the developing fetus. So while I agree that the average person probably wouldn't eat enough green potatoes to really have a problem, I would be much more conservative during pregnancy or feeding green potatoes to young children simply because they are much smaller than an adult and perhaps more likely to be affected if they eat potatoes regularly.
Should Potato Ty join the EG crew? 👀
Yes
Yesssssss
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Is this even a question?! Obviously yes!
Yes Sir 😊❤
This was really cool. I hope you get the chance to do this with more commercial farmers ❤. It really helps put things in perspective as a homesteader who works in small commercial/ large garden numbers.
This is perfect in terms of tone. It's not forced feeling sketch comedy nor is it totally dry. It's light banter and i think it's appropriate
I absolutely enjoyed this video! I’m a home gardener, so basically an amateur farmer winging itand buildings some anecdotal beliefs on what “works”. Coin flip grandma wisdom. So it’s nice to hears what works from a pro. Please invite more farmer to share their knowledge on their specific crop!
I enjoyed the perspective of...what to do when planting in wetter climates vs drier climates. I would think that this type of knowledge would help out a ton of your viewers. I never thought about NOT hilling potatoes...but I see its based on how much water the ground holds and how much rain your area receives each year. This type of info would be invaluable in other crops as well.
So glad you two were able to spend time together ... to collaborate And have some Fun 🎃 I enjoy hearing Ty's Canadian pronunciation - brings back great memories of my 4 years spent at Queen's University in Ontario, CA 😊
I loved this - my great-grandpa used to farm our local university farm and my dad has stories about planting potatoes from that more industrial perspective when he was a kid. So cool to hear more of that and understand the why, even if it's not necessarily applicable to a backyard garden. If we get the "why," we can better decide if it's something we need to apply or not. Great video!
Last October I hoofed the compost from its bin onto a new , plot .
I also used some of the compost to add to existing garden beds. and planters ,
Imagine my surprise And delight, when superb new, potato plants sprang up from this rather sad ‘compost”
These new potatoes are delicious😊, all the more so when lifted in the dreary month of November.
Nature truly is heavenly!!
Love the information! Nice to hear from a pro, not that Kevin isn't a semi pro! Just planted my potatoes yesterday, I also use the trench method and don't hill them up. The only thing I add is some wire over the top until they start to grow since I have critters that love to dig them up!
Ive grown potatoes from store bought small potatoes that grew little eye sprouts. It's fun. Use 5 gal food safe white bucket with drainage holes on bottom. Raise bucket on bricks to drain well.
Easy way to do it!
Did you continually add soil as the stems grew upwards, or did you just add the potatoes lower in the bottom of the bucket, fill it up with soil and just let the potatoes grow? In other-words, there’s no ‘hilling’ when planting in the bucket?
@@deboz8793 I did not much after planting. Then, I lived in Florida and I took about 90 days. I just made sure the drainage was working. I had five buckets, started each a week or so apart of other bucket for a spread out harvest. Yield was small bowl size. Remarkably clean and tasty. I got misplaced from Ian. First, find a deli with pickle buckets looking for a home.
@@deboz8793 I planted the sprouting potato about an inch or so under soil. 4-5 potatoes in each bucket. 😊Easy and fun.
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Thank You!
This year I did a halfa$$ Ruth Stout method and was amazed to actually get some reasonable sized and quantity potatoes. I have some volunteers I missed when pulling them out and some volunteer onions. Going to do it again
Ty can't leave his family business reminds me of that Flying Dutchman thing "part of the crew, part of the ship".
this was really cool, I hope you have a chance to do more with other crop-specific commercial farmers. it can be hard to figure out what advice to take seriously, and knowing that some advice makes more sense for big operations and some for backyards is super helpful.
Love Potato Ty! Want to see more of him. 🇨🇦. Canadians love the Epic Gardening Channel❤
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For me the myth of hilling has had more to do with: will the potato plant (stalks/stems) set more potatoes due to hilling? Based on my "tater" growing experience - not really. That said - I love the baby spuds, so mine are never in the ground long enough.
Depends on type!
In the UK we tend to grow first early & second early varieties for harvesting from around June for new (or baby) potatoes and then main crop varieties for storage and we let them die back and sit in the ground a week or two to cure and harvest in September or so to eat through the winter. You get a good range of potatoes this way & I typically do a third early varieties and the rest main crop on my allotment. I have noticed that the US channels I watch don’t seem to do this as much if at all.
I still can’t say Chit with a straight face 😐
It's the accent lol 🇨🇦. Congrats on another successful ugly potato day :)
I ate raw potoatos as a kid and learned to douse them with salt, pepper, and garlic powder (optional). My grandmother was in the kitchen of course.
Enjoyed the video! I love the ease of growing potatoes. Regarding cutting the potato prior to planting, I did not hear you address the necessity to allow the cut edge to callous prior to planting. This can be done by leaving them out in the air (in darkness) for a period of time, is that correct? Is this step necessary to prevent rotting? Perhaps not in a drier climate such as San Diego!
I always let cut potatoes dry for a few days to callus over. Seems like no matter the rain forecast I will get rain soon after planting. Too much rain invites rot so I try to avoid that. I have no idea if farmers do this but it works better for me.
Love this industrial perspective! Keep doing with different plants and vegetables 🌽 🍅
Don't eat that!without me !😂😂😂
Customer: Can i get 4 potatoes from you, please?
Seller: Absolutely, do you mind if there's a little chit on it? 😂
This was such a great video. The information dynamic was awesome!
I truly enjoyed this video and how simple, yet informative it was!
Potatoes are the Easter eggs of my garden. I often forget where I planted all of them. When the plants die back I can't tell if anything is there so I just find them when I dig the dirt to plant something else. I also keep a Ruth Stout patch for lazy planting when potatoes at home start sprouting and need to go to the garden. I used to add a small raw potato to my smoothies for the resistant starch which is supposed to be good for your healthy metabolism. People would always freak out.
I’ve harvested potatoes and I guess I missed a couple and they have come back. Should I just deal with them as if I planted them and then just harvest then when the tops die back, the way I originally did? In San Diego is there a wrong time to plant potatoes… I’m zone 10 and I don’t remember a ground frost where I live. Thanks for sharing and have a great day!
A bit of hot topic, isn't it? I work in the food industry(food handler certified), and the regulation we have put in are in place because for those few people who can't have sprouted potatoes, it's lethal. I think it's necessary.
My grandpa was a potato farmer in Central Oregon. We love a fresh raw potato 😊
I really enjoyed this discussion home garden vs commercial. Really interesting
I eat green potatoes, but generally if the spuds are big enough to peel. I DONT generally eat potatoes that have sprouted. I don't deliberately chit them all over, if they've sprouted that's just a bonus. To hill, or not to hill also depends on whether it's a determinate or indeterminate variety. I only grow (backyard) determinate Kipflers so hilling is less useful
It's my understanding that the original folks to eat proto-potatoes (up in the Andes) used to dip them in a slurry of clay mud. This bound to the Solenine and kept it from being digested...
Depends on the person as to how you react to green potato. I wouldn’t advise people it’s ok to eat them.
Thank you, this was awesome!
What about storing potatoes? If you don't prep them, do they get yuckie quicker?
ah-HA I JUST ate a bunch of green potatoes and I simply peeled off the green and went with it. Still alive, and happy to know it's a myth!
Great video and great information! Thanks so much 🎉 Any thoughts/tips on potato scab? Cheers 😊
Westcoast Boys!!! Weird seeing these two streams cross, love it!
thank you for all the information.
So green potatoes - tuber exposed near the surface - gives another surface for chlorophyll and therefore food production - increased toxicity is the plant's attempt to deter grazers. From my understanding the distribution of the toxins within the green tuber is evenly distributed so shaving off the greener side doesn't make much difference. Original pre-commercial potatoes had much higher levels and the family in general - Solanaceae - have some pretty toxic members as well as a few more edibles! I've eaten loads of green potatoes, as you say, the toxicity level is pretty low and you'd have to eat a great deal!
I end up with green potatoes from the grocery store all the time if they are bagged. Especially the yellows. There are always 3 or 4. Maybe it is only illegal to sell them in Canada. I always peel off the green part and then a little further, just to be safe. If you eat too much raw potato you will end up with a stomach ache. I wouldn't even eat a whole one. Some things are meant to be cooked.
I use green potatoes as my seed potatoes. I don't like the bitterness to eat, but they grow beautifully. And I do nibble raw potatoes as I cook or occasionally as a snack - sometimes as much as a whole small potato - but they have to be FRESH. Older (or green) raw potatoes are bitter & astringent and do NOT make good eating. I advise always nibbling a small bite of raw potato first to asses the specific spud and only eat if you get a nice one (store potatoes are a crapshoot for eating raw). One more note: the astringency does build, so even fresh potatoes, you can't eat very many raw. Stick with a single one. You'll regret going for a second one.
Smart move!
I don't know where we got our potatoes when I was a kid, but it was a treat to eat them raw. We'd peel one, salt it, eat it until the salt was gone, then salt some more, and continue that way. It was filling enough that I never thought to eat more than one.
I never heard that you couldn't eat raw potatoes until within the last year or two when a commenter under a YT video said they were poisonous. Absolutely, they are not!
I was taught that green ones would make you sick, though, and should be avoided. I never thought about using green potatoes as seed potatoes. I'll have to remember that.
I wondered about replanting the green ones. Thanks for the info.
Can you grow potatoes from the small seeds that they produce on the top of the plant?
NEVER LEAVE OR SELL THE FARM!!!
Imma die on it
Shiiiit, I would too! Too many people in america sell out to these corporate assholes and foreign companies and just ruin everything! Never feel like growing food aint enough its very important. @potatoTyy
When I was young we were allowed to have one raw potato and we used a bit of salt on it. Was like a treat for us as we grew them and harvested them for the over winter cellar.
I don’t know why but I’ve always enjoyed grabbing a fresh slice of raw potato and enjoying the crunch of it
@@jamesbrandon8520 Me too.
Potatoes can grow even on the surface of the soil. By digging you make it harder to get the surface. You can put on the line and make a dome for it. It makes a watering way and keeps the potato warm to sprout faster. And the seedling should be enough big to supply the plant until producing the harvest.
I made potato-leek soup last night using green potatoes. I just peeled off the skins and the flesh underneath wasn't green. I already knew it would take eating a lot of green potatoes to make me feel ill, so I've treating green potatoes this way for years. :)
A fun trick is to blindfold someone, bring up a canteen of apple juice and serve them a raw potato and ask them to eat it blindfolded and let them guess what they took a bite out of. 9/10 will say an apple. The texture is eerily similar, and the aroma of the apple juice will overpower your taste/smell and all you will taste is apple.
😂
Wait, he chits his potatoes in a dark room? I thought you were supposed to do it somewhere sunny
“If I was on an island I’d be eating these things all day” Being from PEI I got a good chuckle… good ole bud the spud has gotten us through this long 😂
I will snack on raw potatoe as I'm preparing them for cooking.
As a kid, when my mom would be cutting potatoes, she would give us a few raw slices with salt on them to snack on. Not the best, but it wasn't the worst! The salt helped, lol.
EXCELLENT INFORMATION BROTHERS. Me and my brother ate raw potatoes 🥔 for years due to parents divorced and mom gone working. We were too young to cook or use a knife to peel. So we peeled with our teeth and ate. Obviously FATHER GOD Blessed it. We didn't even know about rinsing them off first. 🙏❤️😊
Wow - tough times!
When I was a kid, eating raw potatoes was a treat. We did peel them though (but there was a mom and, for me, also older siblings, to do the peeling). They're especially good with salt. We never had a problem with it. (I am guessing that the idea came from my father's side of the family. His parents were potato farmers in Idaho.)
@tb6303 OH I wish we could get good at growing them. We Love potatoes 🥔 and they are getting so expensive. We're on a fixed income that hasn't been fixed. lol 😂
@@epicgardening YES sir.
I have tried to grow potatoes for 2 years the first year they didn't get very big this summer the grasshoppers ate all the green off my potato plants is that the best way to do potatoes and buckets
This is a really good video! I learned a lot, thanks!!
When I was a kid and my mom sliced potatoes for her scalloped potatoes, we'd have the salt shaker handy so we could salt and snack on them raw.
In sand soil I plant potatoes before winter. No chance to rot, but I increase the chance of bigger potatoes and harvest. Hilling up before the winter works for non sand soil. I experienced it this year where my best potato plant was on a hill while the rest of the ground was soaked with water. Water compacts the soil so much that no roots can develop fast. What potatoes for sure need, like any plant, is lose soil. Mixing the soil wit lots of bad weed generated lose soil. If you don't have compost, at end of the season drop all your bad weed where yo are planting your potatoes, top that of with some soil. Yes, you will have a lot of weed beginning of the year. Just pull it out until the potato plant takes over. Pulling weed in loose soil is easy. Add it to your compost heap. No need to think about ratios if your compost is in open air. No smell either. I never bought potatoes for planting more than once. I use the smallest one from the year before. Maybe not the greatest yield but it all works fine. Plant a few more for bigger yield, if needed. I have seen potatoes survive harsh conditions. I don't have any particular care. Just plant them.
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Can you list some of the background music in the video? Really appreciate your videos!
We use a stock music site called Epidemic Sounds
Raw potatoes with lemon pepper sprinkled on them are yummy!
I absolutely loved this collaboration w/ Ty. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada where I grow everything in containers…..I am in Zone 9a. I love watching this channel and really enjoyed hearing what Potato Ty had to say. I already went and subscribed to his channel.
This was so incredibly helpful and I would love to see Ty join the EG crew!! Can we please see some more wonderful farmers perspectives and knowledge? 🫶🏻 🥔🧡
Have a wonderful day!
I’ve given up on growing potatoes. I’ve watch countless videos and read as many articles, and have tried numerous methods and cannot grow potatoes to save my life. If i plant 5 pounds of potatoes I get either five pounds or less back.
Put a little salt on your raw potato
I'm curious if way back in the ye'olde days when someone probably ended up eating poisonous nightshade berries first & then (*redacted*) after eating a green potato.
Ty trying not to grimace as he holds that last bit of potato in his mouth 😂
If the potatoes I crop are green, I cook the ones that only have a bit of green on them, cutting the green bits off, and i use the ones with more green on them as next years seed potatoes.
as kid i loved raw potatoes. i still think its good tasting compared to most raw vegetables. but again its not good for you especially because of the solanine . but same counts for you boiling or frying and eating it with the peel. if its not the tiny baby ones its just as eating green ones...
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Can potato greens be composted or should they be discarded?
Composted
What a handsome couple of fellas! And great potato information as a bonus 😅😂
My mom use to let me eat a raw French fry when I was a kid. We had one of those French fry potato pressers and I would take a raw one and eat it.
Can you use green potatoes as seed potatoes?
You can eat raw potatoes. Because in that state they are a lot less digestible compared to cooked potatoes. Great video guys.
I just saw "Self Sufficient Me" on TH-cam discarding potatoes that had turned green.
I have always ate potatos raw, with buds on them and green. I never knew to recently people thought that was not good.
Potatoes taste great raw !!!
You guys are nuts
Epic collab
I've always eaten potatoes even if they had green on them. Just peel that spot a couple of times and cook as usual. Mind you, I didn't realize for years that it was considered poisonous. I never had any problems 😊😊😊
Thanks for the video! :)
My grandfather always told us eating a potato with green peelings would not kill you may make you sick Eat a potato that is green inside and out will kill ya I'm sure you would have to eat quite a few.
As l understand it, potatoes are either determinate or indeterminate. Is there any point holing up on the determinate varieties?
Now we need cole the cornstar on 😊
The occasional green potato chip is a coveted delicacy
Agree
I’ve never thrown out a green potato chip
In Oklahoma, you can bury your potatoes in raised beds without hilling and get no green potatoes.
Good laugh. I vote mash on green with butter
Great info
Try adding salt to the raw potato. It will make it more palatable.
Can u use potatoes from the store that has eyes on them?
It's funny watching you eat them raw. Whenever my father would be cutting them up he would just snack on them raw, at least one or two whole potatoes worth
You need to put some salt on the raw 'taters to make them taste better. As kids I (and my wife said she also) did and still remember the wonderful taste.
Eating green or sprouted potatoes while pregnant can cause birth defects in the developing fetus. So while I agree that the average person probably wouldn't eat enough green potatoes to really have a problem, I would be much more conservative during pregnancy or feeding green potatoes to young children simply because they are much smaller than an adult and perhaps more likely to be affected if they eat potatoes regularly.
Knew a guy from PEI thought he carried a potatoe in his back pocket for ID; turned out it was a chit..🐂
Thank You Gents!🌵
Do I have to thin to one sprout? I want huge potatoes btw
When do we get a tour of the chit room?
Raw potatoes are earth apples. Sliced, a little salt. 😊
sooooooo 60%rx give or take??
Best potatoes I ever grew were from thick skin with an eye on it and used the rest of the potatoes for food.
Oh yeah, definitely!
Very useful insights, plus raw doggin a potato bonus.
The tips at 6:20 are so helpful - I’m definitely trying them out. Thanks a lot! My channel is also about farm life - hope we can grow together!