I had a friend years ago that was allergic to many things, her worst allergies were to any and all petroleum products, including fertilizer, and to all members of the grass family. She grew most of her own vegetables, of course all organic. She prepared her potato bed by sprinkling bone meal and blood meal on the ground, then covered it with about 2 inches of dry leaves, then put the potatoes where she wanted them and covered them with 12 inches of loose straw. When the potatoes had 3-5 leaves above the straw, she covered them with another 12 inches of straw. She did this ‘layering’ until the bed was about 5 feet high(every time she put straw on, of course the rain, and watering them, packed it down) when ready to harvest, she literally peeled back a layer of straw and picked up the cleanest, most perfect potatoes I have ever seen. Beautiful red skinned potatoes that tasted wonderful! Every layer of straw removed revealed another layer of potatoes! From a 4’X 10’ patch, she got enough potatoes for a family of 6 for a year! She gave me some, and several other neighbors too. She was a good friend, RIP Leonie.
I wish more TH-camrs would do this longer term video format where you show the stages over time. It's a lot more engaging and entertaining. Now I'm hungry for potatoes!
A lot of people don't recognize the effort that goes into these videos, notice how his audio stays really good even when his neighbor is using a leaf blower.
Thank you for the start to finish on the crop. I know it takes a lot of planning, follow through, and persistence to make a segment which covers 75+ days. Seeing a whole season in one video is extremely useful for us to see. Also amazing to look back at the days when Jacques was not yet the superstar he is today. Many thanks for your great work. Keep it up.
I have your videos autoplaying and when you mentioned "Harvest Moon and StardewValley" I instantly looked up and smiled. Harvest Moon series inspired me to love gardening and take responsibility for animals that we choose to domesticate. Thanks for all the into you share, you're great :)
Been tossing my "Oops, getting a little squishy" Farmer's Market spuds into an unused bed for several years. No rhyme or reason to my planting scheme - but super-fun to go out and dig up 'taters when I need 'em! Definitely an easy crop to grow!
I appreciate that you’re a gardener first but also a memer second. Appreciate the “lil bois” and “over 9000” moment. Bless ur soul mah man. I love that there’s finally a gardening channel that has just a lil bit of *f l a v o r*
I’m a big fan of eating potatoes, and assumed I’d eaten potatoes in about every preparation, but that smashed potato just blew my mind- so simple but the CRUNCH is next level. Nothing like potato crunch, EPIC crunch 😂🙌🏻 yesssss.
You are the reason why I started my urban garden. No front/backyard. I have HOA land that’s connected to my townhome which is an end unit. I am using all grow bags and containers to grow corn, asparagus, tomatoes, tons of potatoes, strawberries, blueberries, onions, zucchinis, cucumbers, and edamame! Thank you for making me a gardening addict.... it’s so fun to grow something and I hope they survive and continue to grow. I also planted a bunch of mammoth sunflowers in our bioswells just to make others smile.
I think that counting your losses at the first sign of blight is definitely the right idea. Blight spreads ridiculously fast, especially here in the wet UK and when growing in the allotment, where I could only visit weekly, the whole crop could be affected.
Kevin it's so true about potatoes being easy to grow. I tried last season with some 'overrripe' potatoes leftover from my Aldi shop. Threw them in a round 60cm plastic pot filled with bagged compost and bagged, rotted manure. Mulched with sugar cane mulch. Irrigated for a spell, then turned irrigation off for ages as we had an unseasonably rainy summer. Went to empty out the pot a few weeks ago cos I wanted to move it and though it would just be filled with failed potatoes and spent growing soil. Nope! Got like 30 potatoes out of that bad boy. Can't wait to scale up next season! From Zone 9b in Australia.
This video was perfect. So well structered, explained, filmed, from start to finish. I love it. The humor was there, the quality. Thank you, seriously. Now I feel like I could actually do gardening.
You inspired me to grow my own plants. I just planted St. John’s wort mugwort potatoes and lemon balm. I’m a young gardener 15 years old the plants I plant I use for medicine. Keep on inspiring the new generation to grow plants
Any tips on the lemon balm? I just started using lemon balm for anxiety and insomnia. I got 4 plants and I'm sure what to do. You're way ahead of the game. 15! I'm 58.
Ayy, same here. I got into herbs initially, but hated how fast they died. Got into pepper plants, if taken care of enough my bhut jolokia will last for 5-10 years. Got a few jalapenos, bell peppers, and even banana peppers.
Only halfway through the video and I want to run out into the yard and plant potatoes. Love the video and love how you didn't edit tripping over the potato fork!
Stardew Valley is my favorite game of all time, I just love it. It certainly has made me more interested in growing my own food, I'm doing a little garden on my balcony this summer.
@@rachelk4805 I can totally relate to that. I'm gonna have a little allotment garden plot this summer and I've also started to dream about my own homestead. Good luck on your journey!
Try listening to Stardew music while you tend to your lil garden if you haven't! It brings me so much joy to listen to the soundtrack as I water my plants and do garden tasks.
I love your channel, seriously it's a great one. You dont blather on, you have a personality and you even talk about your flaws in growing... I love it, thank you. Perfect for a somewhat beginner on a budget like me. Now., I got some potatoes from a friend and they're ready to be planted for sure. She told me to plant it, cover with dirt. Let it grow to 6 inches high and cover again, let it grow again and cover again. Then harvest at 6 inch tall. Have you ever heard of this?
Alright. I don't grow potatoes. They are cheap and abundant here in Atlantic Canada. I grow dozens of other things from apples to zucchini.........but NOW I want to find a 4' × 4' sunny patch and grow 16 potato plants. THANKS A LOT, KEVIN!!!!
I'm in Atlantic Canada too! Potatoes are cheap everywhere, it's all about the security. Potatoes have a lot of calories, so growing them is a great way to get a chunk of your necessary food intake.
Here in Texas , along with all food has gone up alot , I started planting everything this spring ,especially potatoes as here in Montgomery County, Texas a 5 pound bag is costing now $5.98 even Sam's & Costco has a limit on their 10 pound of russett baking potatoes of 2 bags per customer and they are costing $8.99 when last year they were $1.99 for a 10 pound bag, plus the fingerlings that me an my husband love are costing for a 1 1/2 pound of melody of yellow,red & purple bag just cost me $3.98 . Our meat has doubled ,we r planning on going in on a 1/2 cow & pig and splitting the cost with our older Sons, everything has went up .it's getting very scarry and also in the surrounding states & Florida. Thank you for such a great video ,I planted some on our land & some in pots ...actually tomorrow I'm planting more since we can garden year around here . God bless you & amazing video ... Josette Tharp Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
I so appreciate this video!!! My folks did a great job feeding a family of five with the help of a giant garden that they always planted three long rows of potatoes in. I remember how much work it was, and they stopped doing it after a rainy, rainy fall one year turned everything into soup and made harvesting impossible. Never wanted to dedicate some of my grow pots to taters because they take so danged long, and new potatoes are pretty cheap at the store. HowEVER, this method has me considering starting my own small potato patch now! Thanks so much!
@@epicgardening lmao I thought it was just me we all got it I guess also love ur vids man I just came back cause I’m bored I already watched this vid but got nothing better to do school almost done lol point is shop vac is normal in my neighborhood oh and that dude who has no grass yet insists on using a weed watcher and a lawn mower 8 times a day every day
LOVE your Plant Daddy shirt! My kids and husband gave me a Plant Mama pair of socks for my bday. And LOVE your videos- all of 'em. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, struggles, and triumphs with all of us!
Here in Idaho, we had a fantastic harvest last year. We planted Purple Viking potatoes in mid-April, 6 weeks before last frost. They were so beautiful. A marbled purple to lavender skin with White, Very crisp centers. So good. 👍. We ate them all the way into February. Wish I could show you some pictures. We waited until med Oct to harvest.
I've seen some of the farmers in my parent's village in china when we'd visit when we were little cut the potatoes to 1 eye per nub and coat the cut ends with wood ash and then directly planting with no waiting at all
I planted mine in grow bag about a month ago. they are blowing up! I'm in Houston TX so we have a really long growing season. I think I have about 2 months left. I planted and hilled them up in organic raised bed mix. They reach 2 feet tall above the soil after hilling and the potato are about a foot deep now. I'm hoping for a good harvest. I absolutely love potatoes!
Omg 😍 For some reason, I love when I see people harvesting potatoes. It’s extremely satisfying 🥔 I’m growing some in buckets, and I can’t wait to try this method.
Your content is refreshing. I love gardening and growing my own vegetables! My favorite part of this video is 22:28 - 22:29 when you closed your eyes to appreciate the taste. I am a recipe developer and this is me every time I create something that hits the spot. Thanks for sharing your smashed potato recipe. I will try them out and link back to you. Cheers!
honestly, you still could. but it's never really necessary unless you're trying to maximise your yield. The way I do it is I just plant a bunch and whenever I need potatoes, I'll dig up whatever I need, while letting the plant just sit there and do it's thing and whenever a plant starts yellowing, I'll just pull up that plant and harvest it... xD But that is mid season, if I'm going to use the potatoes very soon. If I'm going to store them long term (for use during the winter and into spring). I'll cut back the plant, let the spuds sit for a couple days and only then harvest them. then let them sit out in the open for a day before bringing them in. It's what I've been taught the potatoes need to toughen up their skin so they store better. not sure if it's true, but I do it anyways :P
Oh my god. I've always just loosely thought "yeah, i'm just a Sim up skilling here" but jees louise I adored Harvest Moon as a kid & homesteading has been the dream ever since! Mind blown haha great take away. Appreciate the content - Cheers :D
You gotta sprinkle some shredded cheese and bacon bits on the smashed potatoes about 15 minutes before they're done. Then a little dollop of sour cream to top them right before eating.
I planted my potatoes about a month ago and noticed the first sprouts out of the ground yesterday! it’s the first of the season in my new garden. Good to know that the eyes don’t need to be super developed bc I did plant some potato’s that the eyes weren’t fully sprouted as an experiment. Excited to try my home grown potato’s
My grandparents never pulled the vines until they were almost dead. That gave those tiny potatoes you saw time to grow large enough to eat. If the plant is still green it's still feeding the tubers.
Love the Harvest Moon reference! My 30 y.o. daughter just purchased her dream home and started a garden. She said "Mom - I am playing harvest moon live and living the dream!" :-)
It’s great to hear you say it’s like a treasure hunt, that’s how I feel about harvesting potatoes. Some say it’s a waste of real estate. It’s exciting, great video!
You are a gardener, and you don't ever grow a big harvest. A farmer such as I will not be talking about how they love digging potatoes. Gathering eggs is easy, digging potatoes is hard work, but you are are harvesting a patch about the size of my dining table.
Those taters look so good! Just planted nearly half of my gifted box of seed taters! Soooo many lol I did pretty much exactly what you did here. It was like a mash up of everything I remembered from research and TH-cam aha!
I'm growing purple viking potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. So far they're doing great. They'll be the first crop that I successfully grow and harvest. I also planted eight muscadine grape vines as well as some fruit trees (Meiwa Kumquat, Meyer Lemon, Satsuma Mandarin Orange, Key Lime, Washington Navel Orange, Blue Java Banana and a Black Mission Fig, will add a Brown Turkey and Celeste fig into the mix soon) I also want to learn how to graft citrus trees. A long term goal of mine is to try and go an entire year on stuff I grow myself. I have the room for it and I live in zone 9A in a humid subtropical climate. Obviously that's going to be several years from now but I'll start small, like going one month at first then bumping it up as I go along. Another thing I want to do is experiment on making my garden as self-sufficient as possible. Along with my main garden, I want to make a (much) smaller garden where I can test out apocalyptic scenario methods of gardening. I imagine in the apocalypse I won't have access to all of the awesome fertilizers and products that I can find at the store, so I've been doing research on what plants make good fertilizer, what scraps I can recycle for the needs of different plants and what crops I can grow in my zone that I can easily preserve over the winter for the next planting season. Unfortunately it might be too hot here to successfully keep potatoes past spring unless I have an air conditioned room(if i have air conditioning, I'm probably not in the apocalypse). It rains too much here to have a root cellar. Sweet potatoes on the other hand grow like weeds here. Cassava and yams are also great calorie options. I'm rambling...
I tried growing potatoes for my first time ever, several years ago. I used organic potatoes bought at a store, roughly quartered so each had a couple eyes, then planted in a loose mix with vermiculite and compost, in a food barrel cut in half, drilled drainage holes, and lined with black 20 yr landscape fabric. I started late, didn't do any mounding, and still got a decent harvest. They were so delicious! I love low effort food production. I'll be growing more this year. 😁
I love to grow potatoes! So easy and it's like finding buried treasure when you dig them up. Love your new place, Kevin. So happy for you! Bless you ❤️
I was so excited to see this video!!! I decided to throw some potatoes in the ground and left them just to see what would happen.. A few months later and now there are about 10 plants growing! We've been getting a lot of rain so I haven't even had to water them! Idk why I never thought to grow potatoes, they're so easy to grow! Can't wait to harvest and see how many I get!
I’m trying potatoes 🥔 for the first time this year, except I’m growing them in buckets 🪣 as Home Grown Veg shows on his channel. Thanks for taking us from planting to harvest! Very encouraging!
Thanks so much for showing the process from beginning to end. That helps A LOT! My 6-year old granddaughter is obsessed with digging up potatoes…this year she will be in on the planting, too. Full circle!
Can't get over the epicness of this video! Loved how the background changed seeing the tomato trellises go up and different things going in over the course of time… I'm growing potatoes for the first time this year, But I will be doing the container And grow bag method. Started watching you last year, and I grew my first two tomato plants. Now I've got six types of tomatoes, potatoes, two strawberries and all kinds of crazy herbs going on in my garden!
Love the enthusiasm for potatoes in this video! ^.^ Last year I planted potatoes based on your previous video right before/the exact week that the pandemic lockdown hit. They were an interesting time marker for how long it had been since the start of the pandemic. I've been using potatoes as a pioneer crop to turn areas of urban lawn into a garden bed. Very glad I've followed your deeper digging methods 'cause the lawn areas I dug ended up having many fist-sized rocks in the soil that I needed to remove! It's been so annoying to find them used as fill within a foot of the surface. No wonder the lawn was patchy since we moved in, such a poor choice by the builders! If I'd gone with another starter crop, I probably wouldn't have known about the big rocks under the surface until plant growth would've stunted and it was too late!
I just planted 5 buckets of potatoes and waiting to see what happens, I've already planted and harvested, yellow squash, baby cucumbers, now tomatoes and butternut squash are starting to grow, many herbs as well, so inspiring to grow and eat your own food.
@@idkyou3760Well, I learned what not to do.. like dont over water. And that in order to grow squash you must attract bees so they can pollinate the flowers of the plant otherwise you have to do it. So out of 5 buckets two were edible. We did eat them. I recommend small potatoes red or white for bucket growing. I have also had pretty good luck with Japanese eggplants and peppers red and yellow and green. Other then that I tried spinach but bugs keep eating the leaves and lettuce and tomatoes. Tomatoes depends on what time of year they grow pretty good too. Thanks for asking! 😊
I'm starting my gardens this week. Already had some fruit trees planted. I have some potatoes ready to go in the ground so this is perfect! Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏽 ~Jamie
Great video as always! You know, I never thought of comparing harvesting potatoes to an Easter egg hunt but when you think about it, it's a perfect analogy! I will definitely be trying the smashed potatoes. I have a bunch of harvested garden potatoes that I haven't used yet. Waiting on my Burbank russets that are still in containers. I did an experiment where I took a poor harvest from last year (due to late planting and heat), and planted them as seed potatoes this year. Well, even the tiny marble sized ones sprouted. So we'll see what kind of harvest I get this year.
@@mistyniles333 They went pretty well. Interestingly, I started experimenting with growing potatoes from organic store bought that had started to sprout. I have had overwhelming success with those and just harvest a bunch last week. It's a bit warm in Southern California now, I may start a new bunch soon and just heavily mulch the container.
@@sockhal4595 oh I've played it. Its such an amazing game with content still coming out. A wonderful life has that soft spot in my heart as a game i played throughout all 4 years of high-school
Oh my goodness. I planted some purple potatoes in double buckets stacked vertical inmy growroom under lights in Maine 5b like last winter, very early spring and I'm still waiting for the harvest lol. I was brought the potatoes from a farmers market and didn't realize they take a really long time to grow. No regrets though. They're lovely.
Really wish you would do a segment on establishing a native garden. It’s so important now from an ecological point of view. CNPS is starting a program to put identifiable safe native plants into nurseries! I have a designated part of my yard planted in natives and will continue to expand it. Every little bit helps!
I planted my first ever patch of Red Norland potatoes a few weeks ago, I followed the video for growing potatoes in a 5 gal bucket. Ive got some GREAT tops that came up about a week or so ago, Im excited as hell to see how they turn out
Ahhhh this is so exciting! I just planted my first bed of potatoes last week!! I cannot wait to see what pops up!! 😍 Potatoes are a favorite but organic potatoes are so expensive! Can't wait to see what happens!
I love your videos and learn so much but I especially enjoyed this video because you covered all the stages of growth !! The harvesting was so exciting, I can't wait to plant my own potatoes.
With food shortages on the rise, I am more passionate about vegetable gardening than ever. Thanks for giving easy to understand, pleasant to watch, informative videos. ❤️
Dive into all of my potato vids: bit.ly/3ujeOg6 and a big shout out to Jacques, who's been helping out a TON here at the Epic Homestead 😎
Salut Jacques! Comment ca va?
...same for sweet potatoes?
Do you need any fertilizer for the potatoes?
Lol this scene reminds me of the Martian.
my biggest thing is can i just take a grocery store potate and grow more?
I'm growing a couple potatoes myself. I can rarely get them off the couch.
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🙏for your victory😉
I had a friend years ago that was allergic to many things, her worst allergies were to any and all petroleum products, including fertilizer, and to all members of the grass family.
She grew most of her own vegetables, of course all organic. She prepared her potato bed by sprinkling bone meal and blood meal on the ground, then covered it with about 2 inches of dry leaves, then put the potatoes where she wanted them and covered them with 12 inches of loose straw. When the potatoes had 3-5 leaves above the straw, she covered them with another 12 inches of straw. She did this ‘layering’ until the bed was about 5 feet high(every time she put straw on, of course the rain, and watering them, packed it down) when ready to harvest, she literally peeled back a layer of straw and picked up the cleanest, most perfect potatoes I have ever seen. Beautiful red skinned potatoes that tasted wonderful! Every layer of straw removed revealed another layer of potatoes! From a 4’X 10’ patch, she got enough potatoes for a family of 6 for a year! She gave me some, and several other neighbors too. She was a good friend, RIP Leonie.
What a cool idea!
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That’s awesome
I grow them in leaves. No dig, beautiful potatoes! Peace to you, and your friend.
Earline, thank you for sharing.
I wish more TH-camrs would do this longer term video format where you show the stages over time. It's a lot more engaging and entertaining.
Now I'm hungry for potatoes!
Lol same
Yeah I couldn't leave this video
A lot of people don't recognize the effort that goes into these videos, notice how his audio stays really good even when his neighbor is using a leaf blower.
Thank you for the start to finish on the crop. I know it takes a lot of planning, follow through, and persistence to make a segment which covers 75+ days. Seeing a whole season in one video is extremely useful for us to see. Also amazing to look back at the days when Jacques was not yet the superstar he is today. Many thanks for your great work. Keep it up.
I liked and subscribed based on that alone.
P.S. It's CRAZY to see how the backyard changed over the course of this video LOL
So much progress!!! It’s very inspiring, and super impressive how much you have done. Also those smashed potatoes look and sound so freakin delicious!
You spelled AWESOME wrong. I remember how excited I was to see what you did with your yard when you first moved in. Not disappointed!
looking great! and your kitchen too!
I was gonna say, looks good!
Eat meat with your veges. Meat heals. Fatty meat rebuilds collagen and meat being low carb will reverse all disease. God bless alwys!
I have your videos autoplaying and when you mentioned "Harvest Moon and StardewValley" I instantly looked up and smiled. Harvest Moon series inspired me to love gardening and take responsibility for animals that we choose to domesticate. Thanks for all the into you share, you're great :)
Been tossing my "Oops, getting a little squishy" Farmer's Market spuds into an unused bed for several years. No rhyme or reason to my planting scheme - but super-fun to go out and dig up 'taters when I need 'em! Definitely an easy crop to grow!
same, the planning for when i plant potatoes is "whenever i forget a couple potatoes from the store".
Don't mind me, just mindlessly watching all your videos to prep me for living my stardew valley dreams 😂
I appreciate that you’re a gardener first but also a memer second. Appreciate the “lil bois” and “over 9000” moment. Bless ur soul mah man. I love that there’s finally a gardening channel that has just a lil bit of *f l a v o r*
Hahaha
"I mean yeah, just look at his potato dishes, this man."
Jaq spawned onscreen.
I am a baby gardener, and THANK YOU for these videos. I am obsessed. I love Kev's Kitchen.
It's obviously a huge amount of work to film over an extended period. But that really does show what growing and eating your own food is all about!
I’m a big fan of eating potatoes, and assumed I’d eaten potatoes in about every preparation, but that smashed potato just blew my mind- so simple but the CRUNCH is next level. Nothing like potato crunch, EPIC crunch 😂🙌🏻 yesssss.
Also every time you say *taties* 🤣
You are the reason why I started my urban garden. No front/backyard. I have HOA land that’s connected to my townhome which is an end unit. I am using all grow bags and containers to grow corn, asparagus, tomatoes, tons of potatoes, strawberries, blueberries, onions, zucchinis, cucumbers, and edamame!
Thank you for making me a gardening addict.... it’s so fun to grow something and I hope they survive and continue to grow. I also planted a bunch of mammoth sunflowers in our bioswells just to make others smile.
I think that counting your losses at the first sign of blight is definitely the right idea.
Blight spreads ridiculously fast, especially here in the wet UK and when growing in the allotment, where I could only visit weekly, the whole crop could be affected.
Kevin it's so true about potatoes being easy to grow. I tried last season with some 'overrripe' potatoes leftover from my Aldi shop. Threw them in a round 60cm plastic pot filled with bagged compost and bagged, rotted manure. Mulched with sugar cane mulch. Irrigated for a spell, then turned irrigation off for ages as we had an unseasonably rainy summer. Went to empty out the pot a few weeks ago cos I wanted to move it and though it would just be filled with failed potatoes and spent growing soil. Nope! Got like 30 potatoes out of that bad boy.
Can't wait to scale up next season!
From Zone 9b in Australia.
NICE!
Too COOL!
This video was perfect. So well structered, explained, filmed, from start to finish. I love it. The humor was there, the quality. Thank you, seriously. Now I feel like I could actually do gardening.
You inspired me to grow my own plants. I just planted St. John’s wort mugwort potatoes and lemon balm. I’m a young gardener 15 years old the plants I plant I use for medicine. Keep on inspiring the new generation to grow plants
Amen 🇨🇱 🙏🏻 🇨🇱 🙏🏻
Nice Job 👍
Good, glad to hear!
Any tips on the lemon balm? I just started using lemon balm for anxiety and insomnia. I got 4 plants and I'm sure what to do. You're way ahead of the game. 15! I'm 58.
Ayy, same here. I got into herbs initially, but hated how fast they died.
Got into pepper plants, if taken care of enough my bhut jolokia will last for 5-10 years. Got a few jalapenos, bell peppers, and even banana peppers.
Only halfway through the video and I want to run out into the yard and plant potatoes. Love the video and love how you didn't edit tripping over the potato fork!
Stardew Valley is my favorite game of all time, I just love it. It certainly has made me more interested in growing my own food, I'm doing a little garden on my balcony this summer.
I play Stardew Valley when I get restless in my journey to having my own little homestead.
@@rachelk4805 I can totally relate to that. I'm gonna have a little allotment garden plot this summer and I've also started to dream about my own homestead. Good luck on your journey!
Try listening to Stardew music while you tend to your lil garden if you haven't! It brings me so much joy to listen to the soundtrack as I water my plants and do garden tasks.
I love your channel, seriously it's a great one. You dont blather on, you have a personality and you even talk about your flaws in growing... I love it, thank you. Perfect for a somewhat beginner on a budget like me.
Now., I got some potatoes from a friend and they're ready to be planted for sure. She told me to plant it, cover with dirt. Let it grow to 6 inches high and cover again, let it grow again and cover again. Then harvest at 6 inch tall.
Have you ever heard of this?
Alright. I don't grow potatoes. They are cheap and abundant here in Atlantic Canada. I grow dozens of other things from apples to zucchini.........but NOW I want to find a 4' × 4' sunny patch and grow 16 potato plants. THANKS A LOT, KEVIN!!!!
😂 sorry not sorry
I'm in Atlantic Canada too! Potatoes are cheap everywhere, it's all about the security. Potatoes have a lot of calories, so growing them is a great way to get a chunk of your necessary food intake.
I'm in PEI and accidentally grew potatoes this year after I placed old potatoes in my compost. It was a happy accident! 😁
Here in Texas , along with all food has gone up alot , I started planting everything this spring ,especially potatoes as here in Montgomery County, Texas a 5 pound bag is costing now $5.98 even Sam's & Costco has a limit on their 10 pound of russett baking potatoes of 2 bags per customer and they are costing $8.99 when last year they were $1.99 for a 10 pound bag, plus the fingerlings that me an my husband love are costing for a 1 1/2 pound of melody of yellow,red & purple bag just cost me $3.98 .
Our meat has doubled ,we r planning on going in on a 1/2 cow & pig and splitting the cost with our older Sons, everything has went up .it's getting very scarry and also in the surrounding states & Florida.
Thank you for such a great video ,I planted some on our land & some in pots ...actually tomorrow I'm planting more since we can garden year around here .
God bless you & amazing video ...
Josette Tharp
Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
I so appreciate this video!!! My folks did a great job feeding a family of five with the help of a giant garden that they always planted three long rows of potatoes in. I remember how much work it was, and they stopped doing it after a rainy, rainy fall one year turned everything into soup and made harvesting impossible. Never wanted to dedicate some of my grow pots to taters because they take so danged long, and new potatoes are pretty cheap at the store. HowEVER, this method has me considering starting my own small potato patch now! Thanks so much!
It’s nice to see that everyone has a random person using a shopvac in their neighborhood at all times.
Tell me about it
@@epicgardening lmao I thought it was just me we all got it I guess also love ur vids man I just came back cause I’m bored I already watched this vid but got nothing better to do school almost done lol point is shop vac is normal in my neighborhood oh and that dude who has no grass yet insists on using a weed watcher and a lawn mower 8 times a day every day
LOVE your Plant Daddy shirt! My kids and husband gave me a Plant Mama pair of socks for my bday.
And LOVE your videos- all of 'em. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, struggles, and triumphs with all of us!
Here in Idaho, we had a fantastic harvest last year. We planted Purple Viking potatoes in mid-April, 6 weeks before last frost. They were so beautiful. A marbled purple to lavender skin with White, Very crisp centers. So good. 👍. We ate them all the way into February. Wish I could show you some pictures. We waited until med Oct to harvest.
Isn't Idaho where potatoes are farmed? The potatoes in my local store are Idaho Russet.
Thanks, Kevin! It’s clear a lot of effort went into this video.
I've seen some of the farmers in my parent's village in china when we'd visit when we were little cut the potatoes to 1 eye per nub and coat the cut ends with wood ash and then directly planting with no waiting at all
Thanks! I'm going to try that next time!
You can also use cinnamon - anti fungal properties 🥰
@@gifgloria Awesome!
I planted mine in grow bag about a month ago. they are blowing up! I'm in Houston TX so we have a really long growing season. I think I have about 2 months left. I planted and hilled them up in organic raised bed mix. They reach 2 feet tall above the soil after hilling and the potato are about a foot deep now. I'm hoping for a good harvest. I absolutely love potatoes!
Omg 😍 For some reason, I love when I see people harvesting potatoes. It’s extremely satisfying 🥔 I’m growing some in buckets, and I can’t wait to try this method.
Your content is refreshing. I love gardening and growing my own vegetables! My favorite part of this video is 22:28 - 22:29 when you closed your eyes to appreciate the taste. I am a recipe developer and this is me every time I create something that hits the spot. Thanks for sharing your smashed potato recipe. I will try them out and link back to you. Cheers!
Lazy potatoes! I like how with this method you don't have to worry if the potatoes are determinate or indeterminate. Thanks, Kevin!
Agree with you with this method is easy, happy gardening
honestly, you still could. but it's never really necessary unless you're trying to maximise your yield. The way I do it is I just plant a bunch and whenever I need potatoes, I'll dig up whatever I need, while letting the plant just sit there and do it's thing and whenever a plant starts yellowing, I'll just pull up that plant and harvest it... xD
But that is mid season, if I'm going to use the potatoes very soon. If I'm going to store them long term (for use during the winter and into spring). I'll cut back the plant, let the spuds sit for a couple days and only then harvest them. then let them sit out in the open for a day before bringing them in. It's what I've been taught the potatoes need to toughen up their skin so they store better. not sure if it's true, but I do it anyways :P
Love these longer start to finish ones! Thank you for putting in the effort and information 💗 we appreciate your experience and time
Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷 and my newborn Peruvian potatoes 🥔💜
Amazing!
Oh my god. I've always just loosely thought "yeah, i'm just a Sim up skilling here" but jees louise I adored Harvest Moon as a kid & homesteading has been the dream ever since! Mind blown haha great take away. Appreciate the content - Cheers :D
I am growing them for the first time. I decided to do a challenge between seed potatoes and ones I bought at the store and sprouted.
How'd it go?
As a quad ( bedridden) I would like to extend my most sincere thank you, I love playing in the dirt with you guys, God bless....
You gotta sprinkle some shredded cheese and bacon bits on the smashed potatoes about 15 minutes before they're done. Then a little dollop of sour cream to top them right before eating.
n some chive or scallion on top too
The smell of the smashed potato and rosemary is filling my house!!! Love it
I love harvest moon and stardew valley as well! definitely a positive influence during my childhood that brought me here to real-life gardening!
Hearing your reaction to the success of your harvest made me smile.
Digging for potatoes looks so satisfying! Like digging for gold!
I planted my potatoes about a month ago and noticed the first sprouts out of the ground yesterday! it’s the first of the season in my new garden. Good to know that the eyes don’t need to be super developed bc I did plant some potato’s that the eyes weren’t fully sprouted as an experiment. Excited to try my home grown potato’s
Oh Chit, time to get some seed potatoes!
Spelled chetting, never knew it was pronounced 'chit'
The enjoyment you express while doing this stuff just makes me smile.
G'day mate.
I love the fact that you can plant one or a piece of one with a chit and it gives you many in return.
Take care,
Daz.
Me too!
We planted potatoes for the first time this year-so much joy in the treasure hunt!
God Bless you for your free knowledge of gardening. Ive been watching your videos for a year now. Thank you so much for your teaching technics.
Completely agree
My grandparents never pulled the vines until they were almost dead. That gave those tiny potatoes you saw time to grow large enough to eat. If the plant is still green it's still feeding the tubers.
Kevin: "Look at these potatoes. They are so good. You can tell by the way they are!"
*trips with excitement*
Haha, I love it man!! Well done.
Love the Harvest Moon reference! My 30 y.o. daughter just purchased her dream home and started a garden. She said "Mom - I am playing harvest moon live and living the dream!" :-)
The 20% flavor boost from home grown things is SO real!! 🙌🥔👏
These are my favorite kind of garden vidoes. Start to finish. Amazing! Can't wait to try smashed taties.... 😆
Love the ASMR + Kevin’s satisfied look after biting into that crunchy potato 🤤 Do I foresee an Epic Recipes channel coming soon?!
It’s great to hear you say it’s like a treasure hunt, that’s how I feel about harvesting potatoes. Some say it’s a waste of real estate. It’s exciting, great video!
Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley! I love!
Nothing beats the excitement of digging up potatoes and seeing how many you get haha. Fantastic video as always.
Truly appreciate the time and effort you put into videos like this. Unmatched anywhere else!
I'm a newby urban gardener. Living on the coast of Texas I imagine our weather is comparable.
Your channel is the best!!!
Thank you!!
Potatoes are such an easy crop to grow, and digging them up is way too much fun. It's definitely like hunting eggs on Easter. 😊
You are a gardener, and you don't ever grow a big harvest. A farmer such as I will not be talking about how they love digging potatoes. Gathering eggs is easy, digging potatoes is hard work, but you are are harvesting a patch about the size of my dining table.
@@daviddawson1718okay?
Loving how excited you get about the harvest!!
I am planting potatoes for the first time this year. You have me so psyched.
I love the potato joy in this video! Watching it while peeling some of this year's potato harvest to make wedges.
Those taters look so good! Just planted nearly half of my gifted box of seed taters! Soooo many lol I did pretty much exactly what you did here. It was like a mash up of everything I remembered from research and TH-cam aha!
Ohhh man that crunchhhh
I'm growing purple viking potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. So far they're doing great. They'll be the first crop that I successfully grow and harvest. I also planted eight muscadine grape vines as well as some fruit trees (Meiwa Kumquat, Meyer Lemon, Satsuma Mandarin Orange, Key Lime, Washington Navel Orange, Blue Java Banana and a Black Mission Fig, will add a Brown Turkey and Celeste fig into the mix soon) I also want to learn how to graft citrus trees. A long term goal of mine is to try and go an entire year on stuff I grow myself. I have the room for it and I live in zone 9A in a humid subtropical climate. Obviously that's going to be several years from now but I'll start small, like going one month at first then bumping it up as I go along.
Another thing I want to do is experiment on making my garden as self-sufficient as possible. Along with my main garden, I want to make a (much) smaller garden where I can test out apocalyptic scenario methods of gardening. I imagine in the apocalypse I won't have access to all of the awesome fertilizers and products that I can find at the store, so I've been doing research on what plants make good fertilizer, what scraps I can recycle for the needs of different plants and what crops I can grow in my zone that I can easily preserve over the winter for the next planting season. Unfortunately it might be too hot here to successfully keep potatoes past spring unless I have an air conditioned room(if i have air conditioning, I'm probably not in the apocalypse). It rains too much here to have a root cellar. Sweet potatoes on the other hand grow like weeds here. Cassava and yams are also great calorie options. I'm rambling...
I love that you included a little home cooking at the end! I am always looking for new ways to eat my homegrown veggies!!
I tried growing potatoes for my first time ever, several years ago. I used organic potatoes bought at a store, roughly quartered so each had a couple eyes, then planted in a loose mix with vermiculite and compost, in a food barrel cut in half, drilled drainage holes, and lined with black 20 yr landscape fabric. I started late, didn't do any mounding, and still got a decent harvest. They were so delicious! I love low effort food production. I'll be growing more this year. 😁
I love to grow potatoes! So easy and it's like finding buried treasure when you dig them up. Love your new place, Kevin. So happy for you! Bless you ❤️
Kevin I believe. But I'm Eric
I can taste them myself! I love eating food I grow! LOVE THIS! ♥️
I was so excited to see this video!!! I decided to throw some potatoes in the ground and left them just to see what would happen.. A few months later and now there are about 10 plants growing! We've been getting a lot of rain so I haven't even had to water them! Idk why I never thought to grow potatoes, they're so easy to grow! Can't wait to harvest and see how many I get!
Discovered your channel today and I've been binging all day. Can't wait for Spring so I can start planting!
I’m trying potatoes 🥔 for the first time this year, except I’m growing them in buckets 🪣 as Home Grown Veg shows on his channel.
Thanks for taking us from planting to harvest!
Very encouraging!
He's got a great channel!
LOVE the way you show growing vegetables from start to Harvest .... LOVE IT.
I just planted some potatoes in my garden since I accidentally forgot to eat them before they started growing 😂
im doing that today ! 😂
Hello friend how are you?
@@BonnieChristine1 hi Bonnie
Thats where literally all my seed potatoes come from 😬
@@Megan-nt7dm hello 👋
Thanks so much for showing the process from beginning to end. That helps A LOT!
My 6-year old granddaughter is obsessed with digging up potatoes…this year she will be in on the planting, too. Full circle!
Keep friends around that get hyped about the things you do the same way Kevin gets hyped about potatoes 💞 Wonderful video!
HEY! FYI: I'VE USED A "POTATO FORK, MUCH LIKE THAT ONE, TO TEND MY COMPOST PILE!!! IT'S ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE GARDENING TOOLS!!! GOOD WORK!!!
1- Tadies has now been added to my vocabulary.
2- I love that Kevin got so hyped at the first harvest we almost had a looney tunes moment lol
I've also just planted potatoes. Very excited I planted red potatoes and baby potatoes can't wait for harvest!!!
Anyone else started growing potatoes because they watched “The Martian”? It’s my 5th year growing! 🥔🥔🥔
Just don't use your own feces for fertilizer! PLEASE!!!
@@BossMan-yu1og 😆
Best botanist on the planet.
Thank you for giving this info to people today. I was raised with this and love that people are still harvesting there own 💕💕
Can't get over the epicness of this video! Loved how the background changed seeing the tomato trellises go up and different things going in over the course of time… I'm growing potatoes for the first time this year, But I will be doing the container And grow bag method. Started watching you last year, and I grew my first two tomato plants. Now I've got six types of tomatoes, potatoes, two strawberries and all kinds of crazy herbs going on in my garden!
My goodness!!!! You have given me soooooo many new ideas. Your vids inspire me big time!!!!! Thank you VERY much!!!!
Love the enthusiasm for potatoes in this video! ^.^
Last year I planted potatoes based on your previous video right before/the exact week that the pandemic lockdown hit. They were an interesting time marker for how long it had been since the start of the pandemic.
I've been using potatoes as a pioneer crop to turn areas of urban lawn into a garden bed. Very glad I've followed your deeper digging methods 'cause the lawn areas I dug ended up having many fist-sized rocks in the soil that I needed to remove! It's been so annoying to find them used as fill within a foot of the surface. No wonder the lawn was patchy since we moved in, such a poor choice by the builders!
If I'd gone with another starter crop, I probably wouldn't have known about the big rocks under the surface until plant growth would've stunted and it was too late!
Smart and glad you found em!
I just planted 5 buckets of potatoes and waiting to see what happens, I've already planted and harvested, yellow squash, baby cucumbers, now tomatoes and butternut squash are starting to grow, many herbs as well, so inspiring to grow and eat your own food.
How did it go?? Ik its been a year but im curious to hear, and what type of potatoes do you recommend
@@idkyou3760Well, I learned what not to do.. like dont over water. And that in order to grow squash you must attract bees so they can pollinate the flowers of the plant otherwise you have to do it. So out of 5 buckets two were edible. We did eat them. I recommend small potatoes red or white for bucket growing. I have also had pretty good luck with Japanese eggplants and peppers red and yellow and green. Other then that I tried spinach but bugs keep eating the leaves and lettuce and tomatoes. Tomatoes depends on what time of year they grow pretty good too. Thanks for asking! 😊
I'm starting my gardens this week. Already had some fruit trees planted. I have some potatoes ready to go in the ground so this is perfect! Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏽
~Jamie
How did your garden turn out ?
The potatoe harvests are my favorite at the community garden I volunteer at!
Great video as always! You know, I never thought of comparing harvesting potatoes to an Easter egg hunt but when you think about it, it's a perfect analogy! I will definitely be trying the smashed potatoes. I have a bunch of harvested garden potatoes that I haven't used yet. Waiting on my Burbank russets that are still in containers. I did an experiment where I took a poor harvest from last year (due to late planting and heat), and planted them as seed potatoes this year. Well, even the tiny marble sized ones sprouted. So we'll see what kind of harvest I get this year.
I'm really interested in knowing how your harvest went with the new potatoes the babies
@@mistyniles333 They went pretty well. Interestingly, I started experimenting with growing potatoes from organic store bought that had started to sprout. I have had overwhelming success with those and just harvest a bunch last week. It's a bit warm in Southern California now, I may start a new bunch soon and just heavily mulch the container.
I never fail to learn from your videos. This one is one of my favorites! Thanks!
You read my mind, I literally bought my first ever seed potatoes today - so excited to try growing them! Thanks for the super helpful video!
I made The Smashed Potatoes yesterday. My children loved them! Please more real life recipes like smashed potatoes and microwaved corn! ❤
Harvest moon a wonderful life still is the highest hour count I've played of any game lol
If you liked harvest moon you should really try stardew valley, this game will blow your mind.
@@sockhal4595 oh I've played it. Its such an amazing game with content still coming out. A wonderful life has that soft spot in my heart as a game i played throughout all 4 years of high-school
Harvest Moon, Back to Nature is where I started my farming journey!
Oh that smashed potato looks really good...
Oh my goodness. I planted some purple potatoes in double buckets stacked vertical inmy growroom under lights in Maine 5b like last winter, very early spring and I'm still waiting for the harvest lol. I was brought the potatoes from a farmers market and didn't realize they take a really long time to grow. No regrets though. They're lovely.
Really wish you would do a segment on establishing a native garden. It’s so important now from an ecological point of view. CNPS is starting a program to put identifiable safe native plants into nurseries! I have a designated part of my yard planted in natives and will continue to expand it. Every little bit helps!
Do you recommend any resources to learn more about this topic? I am interested.
I planted my first ever patch of Red Norland potatoes a few weeks ago, I followed the video for growing potatoes in a 5 gal bucket. Ive got some GREAT tops that came up about a week or so ago, Im excited as hell to see how they turn out
Ahhhh this is so exciting! I just planted my first bed of potatoes last week!! I cannot wait to see what pops up!! 😍 Potatoes are a favorite but organic potatoes are so expensive! Can't wait to see what happens!
I love your videos and learn so much but I especially enjoyed this video because you covered all the stages of growth !! The harvesting was so exciting, I can't wait to plant my own potatoes.
With food shortages on the rise, I am more passionate about vegetable gardening than ever. Thanks for giving easy to understand, pleasant to watch, informative videos. ❤️