337 lbs of Potatoes! NO digging, NO watering, and VERY LITTLE work!
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2018
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Here's how we ended up storing them all:
Mini "Root Cellar" from broken freezer (for storing potatoes)
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After our first attempt at growing potatoes last year, it was pretty obvious that we'd need to increase the size of our crop if we'd ever hoped to become fully food-self-sufficient. So we built a much larger Ruth Stout garden, and now check out this year's harvest!
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The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture
• The Ruth Stout Method
Planting Potatoes in a Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden (QUICK and EASY)
• Planting Potatoes in a...
Did You Know That Potato Plants Have Fruit?!
• Did You Know That Pota...
Results from our NO DIG and NO WATER potato experiment (Ruth Stout Method)
• Results from our NO DI...
Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions in a Ruth Stout (HAY-ONLY) Garden
• Companion Planting Car...
Results and Lessons Learned from our Carrot, Onion, and Radish Experiment
• Results and Lessons Le...
Plant Hardiness Zone, Rainfall, and Other Important Information
• Plant Hardiness Zones,...
Winter Ruth Stout Permaculture Update and HAY vs STRAW
• GGC - 76 - Winter Ruth... 
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Hey guys! We've posted a follow-up video with a bunch of background information regarding our location, hardiness zone, rainfall, etc. It might be helpful to any of you who are interested in trying this method in your own garden, but are curious if it will work for you: ruclips.net/video/BrAJbE0ZTA8/видео.html
One should be smart enough to realize that condition vary across the globe. If you can't figure that out it's not the author's fault. You don't have to be a troll.
Consider adding pulverized limestone and a lot of it. Activates the nutrients in the soil to be pulled into the plant for more nutrition for you. Check out www.howtosavethefarm.com and www.growersmineral.com
Store potatoes in a box or airy bag (not plastic, etc,) in a cool, dark, reasonably dry place,such as a basement, cellar, or under the porch. Just don't eat any sprouts that might
grow.
You could try rock crusher dust, if memory serves that, mixed with flour and soil buried at the roots of a tree will revive it and massively increase production.
I tried in on the stump of a plum tree 10 years ago and it produced 3 buckets of plums just last year.
Got the idea out of an old book called "Bread from Stones"
@@Oryxification Don't use fast acting or hydrated lime. It will kill your plants.
My grandfather was an old Irish potato farmer who swore by a technique that always worked. When the above ground, green part of the plant began to flower, he "stepped down" each plant. He simply stepped on each plant, bending and crimping off the main stalk, but not severing it. This caused the nutrients to slowly migrate from the upper part of the plant to the potatoes themselves. The number of potatoes produced by each plant stayed the same, but the potatoes themselves would increase in size between 20-50%. He said this technique had been shown to him by his grandfather in Omagh, Ireland around 1890. I've seen it with my own eyes and it never misses.
I'm going to give this a shot on a row this season. Thanks for the tip
I’m going to try as well. Thank you. My grandfather and mother both grew up farming potatoes in Ireland (Roscommon) and they never taught me any of this. 😂Thank you
Good luck guys! Please respond to me if it made a difference:)
I imagine the ideal behind that is much like trimming tomato plants. They say pinching off the small limbs that grow near the base of larger limbs, as well as pinching off early blooms, allows the nutrients to focus on going to the main part of the plant instead of going to parts that are unnecessary. Thus it supposedly helps your tomato plant grow bigger and produce more crop.
@@Gutslinger right. The reason for that should be that the plant gets stressed and starts focussing on growing more fruit so it can reproduce before it potentially dies or gets to weak to make fruit
We've planted raw potatoe peelings under piles of old hay every year for 50 years. Enough success to feed family plus our growing grandchildren!
Leigh Burville awesome!!!
What kind of potatoes? :)
Peelings?! Just that?!
@@aleksitjvladica. ...Yes! Don't throw them out! They all have ability to sprout and grow. Thick peelings are best, some already sprouted old potato chunks all have the capacity to grow into great potato crops Good eating !
Wow, thank you, I always though peelings don't have enough resources to grow, I will keep that in mind, maybe I will plant by myself, I like to raise plants and fungus, also this method from the video is new to Me, it looks revolutionary.
Having spent a considerable part of my life in a tropical farm, I'm constantly impressed by the courage of some people in sticking bare hands into a pile of mulch.
haha, guess it depends on your area, I do almost everything with bare hands but I live in southern europe where there are very few dangerous insects or snakes etc.
I live in 6a with black widow spiders in the woods behind me.
yeah, lucky buggers, I won't do it here in NSW, it's funnel web spiders, redback spiders, eastern brown snakes, red belly black snakes and massive centipedes here for me unfortunately...
Where I live, rattlesnakes be chilling in leaves and mulch.
There's things that don't kill, but hurt.
There's things that don't kill, but will cause sickness.
There's things that kill in days.
There's things that kill in hours.
There's things that just kill.
You have snakes, big and small. Arachnids, with and without venom.
Insects, urticating, venomous, or just simply strong biters.
Fuck me i look INTO gloves and boots before putting them on, let alone shoving my evolutionary acquisition straight into that pile of lurking dangers
2019: If I was rich I'd buy a big house and a Ferrari
2020: If I was rich I'd buy a farm
BradK If I was rich I’d buy a private island!
Can get an acre for 30-50k in the east coast in semi rural areas
Don't worry 4 years from now you will flip back.
Why not both ;)
Yes!!!
I didn't want to bother ordering potatoes from seed companies so I just bought a couple bags of organic potatoes at the store, let them chit, and planted them in my raised veggie bed filled with mushroom compost. All I did was water a few times and waited to harvest them. I didnt' know how they'd grow so I was thrilled with the amount of harvest - I also got around 10 potatoes for each potato I planted. And, from planting in the mushroom compost, they came out almost totally clean! Delicious, fun to raise, and absolutely no work involved. A total winner for this 72 year old grandma!
huehue the potato company is going to sue u for using their breed of potatoes without buying
a license huehauehuaheuhauehuaheu
This year my potatoes began to grow, so cut off those pieces, set aside and forgot them (while doing a 3 day painting project). Cooked the rest. Turned out they worked in the raised bed. Waiting to see if they are determinate or indeterminate.
Note: Sweet potatoes are different as I found out the vines are edible. The bunnies ate them down to the nubs. Sigh! They are not the only ones who keep putting off installing a garden fence.
Gooooo Grannie!!! Good job. I miss my granny dearly. It was nice to read your post ,I thought if my granny when I came across it.
That is amazing!
Nice !! I’ve never heard of anyone using mushrooms as compost. I’m gonna give this a try. Thanks for sharing 😊
I somehow made it to a video about 337lbs of potatoes, and I'm not ashamed this is awesome.
I thought it was a fat girl porn video, but I was impressed by the real potatoes
@@TheWormzerjr Best snarky comment ever. Bravo
Follow your default
And somehow you got 337 likes! I can't upvote or I'll ruin it!
my grandpa told me about how he has grown potatoes like this for decades and I was hoping to find a video on it, nice work!
I live on the 3rd floor of a cramped Boston apartment building. I haven’t seen grass in weeks. Why am I watching this? Who cares! It’s very interesting!
You could hang a garden box out the window.
I've always grown my potatos in pots, they are so easy... good luck to you
Grow 2 plants!
Check out the Tower Garden 2, gardentowerproject.com/ I have one and love it.
You can grow in bin bags. Plant them in layers as the green comes up add another layer.
Wish you could grow burritos that way
Silly, burritos come from burrito trees, not tubers.
+s c - Why " grow " burritos? Just eat enough Potatoes.... Pretty soon you will look like a burrito! Best of all, it will be all " natural + organic " too! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
OR BACON. DEAR SWEET BACON
Have you tried?
Burrito Farts and Potato Farts smell the same... Does that count? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow, first video I watched in such a long time that 1) Kept me interested 2) Was not click baity 3) Wasn't filled with drama and the usual BS 4) No annoying background music 5) Extremely fun and informative! Great pacing too. Nice job guys you earned a new sub! I hope you guys hit the 100K
Agreed, youtubers need to take lessons from this great channel!
And without their way of speaking making it seem like they have a personality disorder. It was refreshing.
Way better than the usual mindless RUclips bullshit!
I wasn't even in the mood for another ruth stout potatoes video, and I didn't have one annoyance or complaint. Rare for me.
It's astounding that you can get lush, beautiful soil simply from itself laid over top and composting. It's amazing how it's free to grow food and yet they make it look like it's so hard and no one can do it when anyone can do it. I love this idea and I am likely going to do this when I build my own homestead.
Back to nature as in the old days well done
I can tell you from years of experience that deer will mow down potato plants like there is no tomorrow. It did take a few years before they acquired a taste for the plants, but once they did our production dropped by about 75% simply because the plants could never develop any tops for very long with out a nightly mowing by the local herd. They started with carrot and onion tops being their favorite. We had about 2.5 acres of potatoes at one point, which eventually dwindled down to one row of about 75 ft. We tried everything short of a fence only because it was cost prohibitive to fence that big of an area with 9' fence.
There's a lovely lady here who sent me a gardening journal and it's packed with gardening gems including a great way to store potatoes and other rooty vegetables: you dig a hole big enough for a plastic trash barrel and fill it up with your harvest, conceal barrel in dirt, leaving the lid exposed below about 2 inches so rain and snow don't submerge the top. Badda bing! Veggies till spring!
Storing potatoes (and carrots) the old fashioned way in Scotland was to dig a pit put the potatoes in chuck some soil on top then straw. As kids it was our job to go and tunnel into them to bring some into the house for cooking. Turnip or swedes were also stored this way. Kept for months.
I wanted to say thank you for including hand-written closed captioning subtitles. Having to rely upon auto-generated can really suck (sometimes like a septic pump, that level of suckage). So it's wonderful to see actual comprehensible text that matches the actual audio, and/or provides additional information for readers to enjoy. Thank you!
Also wanted to say you have a wonderful voice with excellent diction, and I love the graphics you use when explaining things. (I may have said that on another video, but it bears repeating, lol.)
I watched this video in 2019 and tired it. AMAZING potato crop that year. Last year I did it again and had even a better crop of potatoes. This year I've expanded my potato patch and I'm going to grow less corn because we eat more potatoes than corn. My wife due to health issues can no longer eat corn.
We've grown a large garden each year since 1981. When we owned a farm we had a 1/2 acre garden. We've canned and froze all types of food since 1981 but this way of growing potatoes is the easiest thing I've ever done in the garden. Thank you so much for sharing this video about the Ruth Stout method of growing potatoes.
This is such a beautifully wholesome channel.
No Clickbait titles. No Drama to get views.
Just sharing what you are doing and what you are learning, and always with a smile.
Thank you, I really love it.
Neat idea! My Dad used to plant them in stacked car tires, three tall or so. Just push them over when they are ready, no digging, and pretty much rabbit proof.
Sounds clever, I might try that :)
That is pretty much how my husband and I plan on growing our potatoes.
You may want to look into the carcinogenic effects of tire rubber before doing that, the plastics can leach into the soil pretty easily, and you seriously don't want to eat that.
It's simple enough to build a wooden frame instead, and you can actually get a larger planting area like that.
People worry too much.
@BornToRunBarefoot Dad worked for the EPA.......if you don't know what those letters stand for, look it up.
Great topic. Just like to add a couple of friendly FYI's on your potato topic. I live in southern Idaho (aka Potato Capital of the World) and was raised by a University of Idaho Ag Crop Advisor an am one myself. 1st, not everywhere is able to get by without watering so irrigation is important to spuds. 2nd, Norlands. This spud was developed to be a French fry potato and they suck as a baker. Lastly, to increase your production, you need to continue to add soil, or in your case used straw, on top throughout the season. Do that & it should help. As far as storage, put them in a potato/burlap sack. Each one should hold around 100 lbs. When my dad built our house, he built a vegetable/fruit bin our garage. It's about 4 ft long, 4 ft tall, 2 1/2 ft wide made out of plywood with a matching lid. It sits on top of a concrete floor and is insulated with board Styrofoam. Hope this helps.
Guy H
Do you let them dry before storing? If so, how long? Do you rinse the dirt off, brush it off, or just leave them dirty?
4:58 - the toad is like "shittttt they found me - I'm getting evicted"
Why would they do that they eat bugs?
Wish I lived next door to you, such enthusiastic gardeners. I put my first Ruth Stout garden in ..in about 1965. As I fade into the sunset I wish I had someone to share all I have learned over the years..you are doing a really good job of informing the uninitiated....love your informative straight to the point delivery....thank you.
I wish I had someone like you next door. We are trying to get an old farm up and running. So hard with all the rain.
Marjorie please make a youtube, i and im sure others would love to hear more about your gardening knowledge!
Marjorie, Denver CO salutes you and from me and my family "WE LOVE YOU" . Sharing your knowledge is invaluable. We care about learning and listening to our elders. They have walked the hard road so we can read the map. Thank you again.
Do not go gently into that good night.
Teach us ! You know how to take videos of kids or grandkids? Do that! Type up methods or get them to help. I'd love to learn anything you'd teach, it shouldn't be forgotten !
Woah.. this is actually a method??
I did this with my mom’s garden back in high school. I knew I wasn’t lazy 😂
Your videos are really good and useful. I SMILED WHEN i watched the graphic of your expanding garden outside the fence. My garden started 10 + years ago in a few 5 gallon buckets with tomatoes. I now have half my 1/4 acre back year planted with something or another. I call it hobby grown out of control. 😀
Thanks for doing this video!! I haven't done potatos because I was afraid of the digging them up! I will have to try this next year. Thanks so much!
This is the oldest type of farming that is not being practice in this modern days yet it still the best method.
highly depends on where you live, digging up the ground might be more work but the plant is better protected from wind and weather in less habitable regions
You're confusing farming and gardening.
“lazy beds’
They were used a lot were there was very little soil.
@@BenjaminGoose both usually go hand in hand
@@fainitesbarley2245 lol, I like that! "Lazy Beds"!
Greetings from India. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience. May your pantry /kitchen be loaded with veggies all year long. Regards...
What a nice comment :) wish you well
Greetings from California...😊
Blessings your way Cyrus.
I read that imagining the hindu accent 😂
@@heros670 hindu accent? Hindu is a religion and hindi is a language n not all indians are Hindus or hindi speaking people.....we are so diverse, we dont all have the same language or the sam colored skin or food
Recently bought 5 acres of wooden property. Building a tiny house..and this video is exactly what we plan to do with most of the surrounding ground.. Amazing harvest; and invaluable info!
I'm about to eat like a king in the second great depression thank you!!!
Bruhhhh HAHAHA
You are not lying... plant up!
Now you really need to plant lmao
My thoughts exactly!
The key thing you failed to talk about. Unless it wasn't that key to you. :-) The great time you get to spend with your wife while preparing, planting, harvesting these food items. My wife and i talk and laugh during these times. Most couples never get to spend this awesome time together. Thanks for the video
Michael, you hit on something important. Any couple that gets physical and not just in the bed have more GLUE binding them together. Fact. My hubby and I laugh and laugh and laugh. Not just in the garden, either!
@@Leveraction-xr4uz that's amazing! I grow in London, UK on a 8 x 4 feet raised bed! It's exciting to grow food.
How about expanding that time with neighbors and friends. Sharing, working together, getting to know other human beings other than our spouses more closely. Networking. Learning facts together. Power to the people, yes?
babies can even be made in the potato patch
MAN in FIELD, WOMAN in HOUSE. MAN bring FOOD. WOMAN make MEAL
This is one of the most wholesome videos i have seen in recent months! The best harvests to you both!
Commenting from Japan...if only our people had that much space to ourselves, we'd all be doing it! Many of us don't even have our own yards here...😢
Container gardens for other vegs can be surprisingly productive.
In fact, there are quite a few RUclips vids about growing potatoes in 5 gallon buckets!
A patio or balcony can be a great place to start.
I especially like how at the end you gave your learning experiences. Y’all do such a great job.
Thank you so much!
For storage: Pressure canning and freeze drying are both awesome ways of preserving a harvest. If you're unable to get a home freeze dryer, then you can simply store some of your potatoes in a root cellar and pressure can some of them. The pressure canned potatoes are best used for things like fried and mashed potatoes or potato soup (adding your milk and thickeners AFTER opening the jars, of course!). They do get very soft but they fry up beautifully and mash nicely when they're well drained, just add some milk and butter and you have a lovely mash. :)
In my 36 years of growing a garden I've never heard of canning taters and we keep 400 - 800 lbs of taters each year in a our tater shed and they keep up till June each year. I'll have to look in to that.
In Newfoundland just about everything was in the cellar, packed with sawdust in barrels. Turnip, cabbage, and I think potatoes too.
Fantastic! We used to grow potatoes the hard way, but yum arent the worth the pain. At 70 you know i am going to watch your next video on this permaculture method! God bless you for sharing. Blessings, linda
Great info! I'm getting ready to start my first garden. This method looks like a good way to achieve success even for a beginner.
I just found you channel and I can't stop watching it. Congrats on the clear and pleasant presentation, nice pictures and interesting content. Just started a no-dig garden this year and I love it. Will be experimenting some more with permaculture next year. Can't wait for the next season!
I'm patiently waiting for next year's BASKETBALL SIZED onions :) :)
My blueberry's are that size.
Woah there! Start with softball sized! Basketball will come the year after that!!
This is FANTASTIC! I am SO glad I found this video! We're definitely trying this next year for our potatoes and we can compare it to this years single row painfully planted in the ground and the rest in grow bags
Wow! What a haul! Thank you for sharing your successful experience with Ruth Stout method.
Brilliant. Just happened to stumble upon your channel while researching potatoes. Never heard of the Ruth Stout method, but after seeing your results, it makes a lot of sense to me. Anyway, thanks for the share and happy gardening. 🙂
... what an impressive and an envious imagination... the result is amazing ... especially the efficiency and neatness built into the model... you rock, man!
Wow! That was a wonderful video. I had never heard of the Ruth Stout method until this video and I have been farming most of my life. I will definitely give this a try. Thank you so much.
Check into no till farming also
New friend here! Excellent video for teaching someone like me who has no experience growing anything. With the costs of everything going up, this looks like a great way to grow potatoes. Thanks for sharing!
Ruth Stout was a great gardener. Her book is a game-changer. Everyone should get her book if they plan to plant a garden.
After watching this video, I’ve been binging a lot of your content and I have to say it’s fantastic! This is a great channel with awesome narration, animation, and overall quality content. It’s really making me desire to get my own land and do what you do!
Sharp Works I agree
I wish you have a wonderful land .
Thank you guy's for sharing the video, I enjoyed it very much. Good luck next year.
Happy New Year.
This is awesome! My grandfather was a New York State potato picking champion - bet he would love this!! Thanks for the info and idea!!
How wonderful to see your video. I have gardened like that for 30 years or more. I am a life long follower of Ruth Stout and Scott and Helen Nearing. I have been ridiculed for years for throwing potatoes on new ground and covering them with 8 to 12 inches of mulch. A great way to break new ground, with potatoes and worms. :)
Best way I have found to store potatoes is to can them! They will last literally years and taste great! But if I store them over winter with out canning I never wash them and store them in a well ventilated container in a cool dry dark area. they will last for several months. The key is don't wash them before storing.
Just another Tip if you replant as you harvest and pile on the mulch to keep them from freezing you wont have to go back an plant later.
However.....
you can also leave the potatoes in the ground till needed by simply piling on more mulch in the fall. using a pitch fork lift the mulch to harvest as needed through out the winter and leaving one potato in the ground for each plant you harvested and mark with a stick where you leave off. this method was used in Central Texas by an old farmer. he left his root veggies in the ground and harvested as needed so he didn't have to try and store them in the winter above ground. so we had fresh carrots potatoes beets turnips when ever we needed them. Straw was used to keep the root veggies warm in the ground dormant until spring then they came up on their own and I'm now living in the Pacific Northwest and I'm doing the same thing here and it's working just as well.
Dreamylyn Moore man...those old timer farmers sure did have creative thinking...common sense,whatever,but very wise in their skills...god bless the farmers...
This is what Paul Gautschi of Back to Eden does, too. He harvests and plants on the same day, replanting the biggest and best potato WHOLE.
That didn't work for me in my climate, 60 inches of rain or snow in the winter, the potatoes rotted where I mulched them in.
Yeah that could be an issue on the west side of the cascades but here on the east side in south eastern Washington we are much dryer. The only way it may work for the wet areas would be in grow boxes sheltered from some of the rain during the rainy season. one would just have to experiment to find what works best in their area. Not all of Washington is as wet nor as green as y'all are over there.
Check with local nursery's some will give away or sale at very reasonable prices there big black tree pots I've got 4 of them an i compost in them and just plant right into them. you could drill lots of holes in the bottoms and sides and start 2 to 3 potatoes in the bottom and cover in straw, grass clippings, leaf mulch and then cover when it rains with clear plastic. could even over winter in a garage or shed that way and pull them out in the spring when it begins to warm up. just some idea's if you want to try growing them. I've got a couple of old sliding glass doors i got from a friend no frame just the doors. and some raised beds made from pallet wood thinking of making a couple more grow boxes and using them for lids in the winter to protect some of my winter greens like a cold frame. that might be an option for you over on the west side with all the rains. my pallet wood grow boxes are single pallets cut in half. 2 halves screwed together side by side and then one on each end. then we used weed cloths on the insides to keep the compost and soil inside. using old ceder privacy fence board screwed along the top to make nice place to set and work and to hold it all together giving it a finished look. everything was free. even the dirt inside was all composted from leaves sticks twigs we raked up in the fall, bunny manure, weeds and food scraps. Let set over winter, then even though it wasn't all composted I just put pockets with small shovel of dirt and planted tomatoes and cayenne peppers right in and let them grow. they are still covered in tomatoes so we added 2x4 posts at each end and across the top. I should have tomatoes till late November or even into December if we don't get to cold. and all I'm doing is covering them in clear plastic. we have also topped it off with more leaves now it's fall. you can use composted animal bedding from farms in your area too. i have to tell you they were the best tomatoes I've grown in years. another cool thing about it i didn't have to water as much could go days without water it stayed so moist even on 110+ degree days. my neighbors tomatoes and the ones we had in the ground wilted and looked pitiful. hope this gives you some ideas. Happy gardening :)
Same here, near Olympia
Your basically doing BTE gardening, I've been doing this for four years now I harvest and plant next seasons crop at the same time, planting in the wood chips is awesome there is no hilling at all the mushroom mycelium holds the wood chips together, yet are light enough to expand as the potatoes grow or even let's them push each other around, even over populated carrots push each other aside without any problems, awesome video thanks for sharing.
Glad I found this video. I've been contemplating try something different for growing potatoes this year. Old hay is not an issue.
That's is so cool. Great harvest. So many varieties. Love how you work together to make it happen. Proud of your efforts. As a kid, we had a cold bin in the cellar where potatoes were stored, and rows of mason jars full of things mom put up. It was great fun to harvest the vegetables. I have a small garden just for the heck of it now, and it puts out enough for the summer. I sure look forward to your videos. Thanks for sharing them with us. 😊👍👍
To take care of mice is to go to a local sawmill and get sawdust. The sawdust will collapse when the mice try to burrow. Also you can rob the hills anytime after the plant blooms. I was doing this around 1970
neat trick
so do you do layers of sawdust in with the soil or mix it in?
Having a cat might also help here ;)
@@xenafaegolden3019 Possibly too, but I feel like my cat wouldn't like the straw too much and use another piece of the garden with just clean compost or soil :). Should only really be a real concern if you're pregnant and fear toxoplasmosis I think?
I usually till the soil and just put the seed potatoes on top of the tilled soil and cover them with a layer of sawdust and then 10 to 12 inches of straw. when the mice try to tunnel the sawdust collapses
Easy and enjoyable to watch such charisma and a great speaking voice!
Glad I accidentally stumbled upon your videosinspiring me to try again in my backyard as soon as I'm done burying my poor pecan tree that died
No need for walking paths, double your yield by planting rows every 18". You're not going in to weed or anything, so there's no need for walking paths. You can harvest early from the edge.
This! Glad I read a few comments. This is exactly what I want to say as well.
He said that in video.
We started a Ruth Stout garden this past spring. I never had such an easy garden. I watered once this entire season; during our two weeks of 90 plus degrees and no rain. Never had to weed and our harvest was abundant.
We will definitely continue growing this way.
Awesome! Any tips for a beginner?
James Pinto: Mow your grass low (your going to dull your blade), put down some clean compost (I used rabbit manure), and make the hay or straw at least 8” deep. If you start now you will have to add more hay in spring; it breaks down pretty quickly.
Ok, so I can use sawdust or wood chip mulch to keep critters out, grow expensive purple and Japanese white sweet taters, make lots of money, and avoid arthritis from nightshade potatoes. Plus avoid cancer and diabetes with super healthy sweet potatoes.
'No Dig' is definitely the way to go. My Mom used this method for all of her 'root' crops. I'm now 61 and this method sure saves my back!
My grandparents had a small garden behind their house on sawhorses. I dont know why people dont do that more often. Waist level growing is the way to go.
Yes. The old boys up at the allottments are very cynical when I say I’m doing ‘no-dig’. They call it ‘television gardening’. We will see how it goes at the allottment show later this year.
I'm 18 and have pretty bad back pain from an atv wreck when I was 15. I may do no dig potatoes this year.
so impressive. i love how you explain very approachable and clear.
I did this with store bought potatoes that I let go to seed. OMG the taters are very clean when you harvest them, and I've gotten so many, and I've only just begun to harvest them. I did reds, purples and white potatoes. We will definently have mo plenty of taters to eat this year.
That's totally cool you 2! God bless this family!
I store potatoes and green tomatoes in pizza boxes. The cardboard keeps them dry, dark and they are one layer so keep much better. I have fresh ripe tomatoes all the way into mid February. Just keep them cool and check on them about every 10 days to get the ripe ones out.
Great tip, thanks!
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So the green tomatoes will ripen to red?
@@bystandersarah yes.
@@bystandersarah Yes they do. Even grocery store tomatoes were green then just before they put them out they gas them to turn red.
Just found you. Nice video, though I wanted to point 1 thing out...my family grew a LOT of spuds growing up and we always cut each seed potato into several chunks before planting. Makes your seed potatoes go further. Just make sure each chunk has an eye on it.
Yes, near the end he commented on the fact that they did not cut their seed potatoes, due to time constraints.
That's it, I'm planting a garden this year! Never have time normally. This quarantine does have some perks. I'm getting the family in the yard this year. I have tons of extra cocoa from the marijuana I grow indoors, this will work perfectly for onions & potatoes I think. A mix of experiments & farming. Hope it works
High potatoes: perfect for Irish cuisine. Thanks
That was a great harvest! I really want to try this method of growing!
Yeah stay in touch, I'm one of the same.. never considered the fact of straw as mulch
Mind blown!! Love love love it!!!!!! Thank you for sharing! We have fought our potatoes every single year! Looks like we will be trying a new method! ♥️
Yes cut you seeds. All you need is a couple or 3 good eyes on each chunk this will save you on the amount of seed needed or give you more to plant.
My wife's grand father would sit in front of TV at night cut meaty sections out with a couple or so eyes on each and end up with a nice chunk of potato to cook out of each to cook his potatoe soup for lunch after we would plant. We alway planted a good half acre lol.
To help with your potatoes and get bigger onions I'd go with a deeper bed or pull bed back like in a harvest a few days before planting run a tiller through real quick and pull back. I say that because your onions were hitting hard ground and will grow bigger with softer dirt. My onions grow large on top a nice soft tilled hill so this should give same effect.
Remember white potatoes grow up and sweet grow down
White you can add to you bed hight a couple times sweet need to start high. If you try sweet don't plant seed. Early before planting you plant a draw bed kinda shallow seed close together let it sprout when those growths(draws) are around a foot high you you pull off from potato seed you lay it down on and push in with all four fingers from root end make sure that section is covered and give it a shot of water to start. That gives you a good root base to start. I still dirt farm but I grow a half to full acre and I grow good sweet potatoes using draws instead of seed plus that helps your sweets not to be stringy in the flesh. When you get a real stringy sweet is because it was from seed not draws. When you start your draw harvest select pick to thin them to pull your best ones and give space for smaller to catch up. I plant a row a day and takes me a week or more to plant all depending on the amount of seed and draw bed size I started with.
Thank you so much Jimmie!
Your comment is a great example of why I love coming down to the comment sections of these types of videos. Everyone's really nice and pours their brains out for what helped them and how it can help you.
Thanks, but what are Draws?
You seem to know quite a bit about Sweet Tators... I’m new trying to grow slips from the Organic purple store bought Sweet tator from a 🍠Half sweet suspended from a cup of water 💦 still no sprouts 🌱or growths after a few weeks. How would this be grown different from a regular potato 🥔 please? 🙏
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What I call draws is what you call slips. Just a regional thing I guess.
I cant say about the seed in a cup of water because iv never done it. But if your trying to grow slips/draws in the house I would get a flower pot the more you want to grow the bigger the pot or more of them. Just plant in pot and cover with a inch or so of soil and keep watered like a plant.
Look up Living traditions homestead on you tube. I'm almost certain they did a video on the seed in a jar of water..
Lol I'm use to growing a lot so I do my draws in a tilled bed outside so the pots in house should work.
Anyway check them out.
You said that you were planting garlic. My parents always planted them under plants that got eaten by bugs. We have beautiful roses because they were never eaten because of the garlic around them.
Instead of garlic use lavender! Even better!
@@flaviusnita6008 Even cilantro will ward some pests, I believe. Perhaps a mix? :)
That is just an 'old maid's myth'...insects do not care about the smell of garlic.
I think its more that they cant eat it so they will just go to an actual food source...
We’ve always planted chrysanthemums for insect protection. They’re nasty smelling but they discourage eating insects and encourage bee activity.
Very useful video thanks for sharing! Just wanted to add...I learnt from a Hutterite Man named John that if you don't have any small potatoes for growing! You can cut up a large potatoe makinG sure every piece has a potatoe "eye" on it and then dip the pieces into ash to avoid any potatoe seedlings from goinG rotten! This method worked nicely for me many years ago and I grew awesome spuds!😄🥔
Awesome tip! Thanks Sandra!
I've Got The Cut Up Spuds, Though I Was Unaware About Dipping Them In Ash. Thank You For The Tips. I'm Learning More In The Comments Than In The Video. Though I Am Greatful For The Video. We Do Have A Family Of Hawks, And Two Rescued Kittens. With The Tips On Planting In Sections vs An Entire Bed, Therefore Leaving Exposure To Predators To Prevent Voles n SuchI Shall Give This A Try For My First Potatoe, Infact Gardening Experience
@@audrianaferreira Best wishes on growinG your potatoes! Ashes definately help with potatoes not goinG rotten...but there must be other thinGs that are just as effective!😄🥔
Years ago I read about and tried container gardening with potatoes. My only cost was purchasing some additives for my soil which was terribly poor for food growing. I got some free 10 gallon buckets that had been used for food storage, and my seed "stock" was peelings from potatoes purchased that year for food, so a free by product of what was going to end up mulch anyway. It was an experiment as I was not going to keep my home for more than one more year... Anyway I figure Just the peelings from about 20 pounds of assorted potatoes yielded over 40 pounds of harvest. This year I am sharing a house that stands on almost 2 acres of land. I am going to try my hand at a little gardening, mostly containers due to disability; and growing potatoes and other items that can be regrown from fruits and veggies purchased from the market (like carrots, onions, celery, etc) to stretch my very limited budget as far as I can. Ill keep records this time and see how my harvest compares to any investment I have to make to get it up and running.
I think I’ve watched this 5 times over the last year. Great video!
The best I've seen so far. This I can do. From Trinidad
Great Video! This is definitely going into the Memory Vault.
Love the add👍Farmers are the backbone of this nation
Thank-you thank-you thank-you. Greatings from Italy.
I copied this method...this year and was really surprised the potatoes grew! I only planted a few, but the best fun was pulling back the straw , feeling like a kid at Easter time and keeping my fingernails clean! Epic!!!
One of the most enlightening videos I have ever watched. No bs, just a straight forward, informative video. Kudos. I look forward to retiring in the next two years and I want to start growing my own veggies when I buy my new property. This video is now in my favorites list.
I'm expanding my garden next year. You guys have really been giving me some good ideas. My fence is 30 x 90 and I was planning on expanding the size to 60 x 120 and buying a lot of expensive mesh and posts, but you're right, why bother if you grow things outside the fence that rabbits and deer don't like. That will save me a lot of money and back pain. So tender fruits and veggies inside the fence and spuds, onions and garlic outside. Thanks for the video!
You might try planting the fragrant herb shrubs around your gardens, too, like lavender, rosemary, and sage. Deer, bunnies and mosquitos HATE lavender and other woody herb shrubs. For deer, it confuses them from detecting smells in their environment. There's even a lavender variety that has camphor in it, which the mosquitoes hate. I'm going to plant that in my garden near where I sit with guests. There are any number of other flowers they dislike also.
1. I might try this next year, in addition to planting lavender and other deer/bunny repellent plants. www.bobvila.com/articles/homemade-deer-repellent/
2. Also found this nice site, check out the video about the fishing line deer fence: insteading.com/blog/deer-repellent/
3. Flowers recommended as deer repellent: gracefulgardens.com/oh-deer_perennials
My experience is that deer eat the potato vines and keep them mowed down to about 4". That destroys a chance of real production. In fact, the deer kept the entire garden mowed down to about that height. I don't trust any critter not to eat my plants. We put up a fence the next year and had much better success. I live in a different state now, have a fence, and battle pocket gophers, chipmunks and mice.They all like the strawberries. Then there are the pack rats. They cut branches off of the potato vines and mow down the parsley. None of the rodents are stopped by the beds being raised, they just climb up and over. There is hardware cloth under all the raised beds in one garden. Have to do that to the 2nd garden, along with steel sides they can't climb. Thanks for your video. I enjoyed watching it. Love gardening!
Amazing and so simple, yet so productive and rewarding. Thanks for sharing.
Watching people that have beautiful gardens.God Bless guys. More planting🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇😇😇😍😍😍
Man, I’m impressed with your video! Will watch more.
great!!!
This is some awesome info, tips! Thank you!
Unfortunately I don't have the time or the space to create something as big. I'm going to attempt this with hay this fall in a much smaller 4x4 space. I have a family of 6 to feed, I think that will be plenty as long as we're patient enough to let it develop instead of continually harvesting the first year. But I think, if I can get it to work, the following year we can harvest as we want to eat something that includes tatters.
I love this method of potato growing, it's easy and appears productive..
Love the way you ‘planted’ that potato! Going to try that myself.
I had flashbacks to my youth when you dragged that box of previous years potatoes out to plant. Sweet memories of youth. I’m definitely going to give this a shot if we’re all around after covid-19.
Covid 19 isn't an automatic death sentence. We will be all good
Rich okay doc. Thanks for the reassurance. Not trying to be a sa but never underestimate a virus. Otherwise you’ll be scratching your head thinking I sure didn’t see that coming.
@@randygreen007 with a .5% mortality rate, i take more risks everyday driving to and from work
This is a great video, new subscriber here!!! It’s great how older videos made can help so many years later!! Greatly appreciate it!!! ❤️
Concise and to the point! Thank you for sharing your experience. I plan to do this with woodchips soon.
this is very inspiring and makes me wanna live on some land somewhere off grid!
We used to store carrots and potatoes in sand in a wooden box in the dark basement which was a bit damp but the sand allowed the carrots and potatoes to stay dry and mold free....shake as much dirt off as possible!
Great tip! I didn't know that! Will have to try that. Thanks :)
Can confirm. I'm not sure where in Ontario these guys are, but I grew up in the Huntsville region. We used boxes about the size of a dresser drawer, stacked up on one another in an alternating pattern like bricks, to keep them stable. In each box, we placed a layer of dry sand about a finger deep, a layer of spuds, enough sand to cover them, and repeat the pattern until the "drawer" is full, with sand on top. They kept in the basement all winter, with no ill effect. We also sifted the sand, to get out any humus - but my dad was in construction, so this was as easy as simply turning on a machine and shovelling the sand in; I'm not sure if it was necessary, or a "just in case" measure.
@@adreabrooks11 that's great info, thank you! I'm in Ireland and things can get a bit damp here, but I'd say in our dry shed this would be an option too.
learning bit by bit , because this , along with corn, kale, lettuce, tomato is going to maintain and feed me on my Alaskan off grid property i'm buying
Amazing! I need to try this method this year. Thanks for the inspiration.
that harvest would mean nothing without each other to share it with
I have EXTREME alkaline soil here. I was considering this method.. On the higher ground. I have already bought a bunch of straw. Not much rotted hay here, though I look every year. Excited to try this. We have 0 (zero) grass growing on this soil.. it is to salty and to alkali. So my plan is to lay a bunch of soil down on top of some old plywood (to make a barrier to the alkali waters) and then layers potting mix/manure/peat moss.. then the straw/potato layer. I will continue the straw, watering regularly (it is sooooo dry here). Thank you. PS. all my garden is in raised beds, including my fruit trees. the Alkali kills all the plants otherwise. The raised boxes are 3'x8' and 3 1/2' tall.. they work perfectly. All the neighbors are amazed that I can grow anything here. And all are searching for boxes now. It is a raised bed community now. lol. This long time Oregon gardener is blooming in the desert of Utah now. Thanks again.
You are living the life I would like to live. Good for you.
I love your work. I work with inner city perm for sweet potato here.
Sorry for being the party pooper but one thing everybody fails to mention is that this ruth stout method only works if you dont have any mice nearby. Thanks for nobody mentioning it, i have just lost my entire year's harvest. Last year i had the potatoes "properly" dug into the ground so mice couldnt get it, had an amazing harvest. Then jumped on the band wagon of lazy planting only to realise that hay is an excellent habitat for mice. And because hay covers everything, i didnt even notice it on the go, only when it came to harvest, i pulled away the hay and tadaaam... all i had was crumbles. LITERALLY. I had 5 beds of potatoes, each of them 16' x 4' and ZERO potato harvest for this year. Yes i have a cat and he is an excellent hunter but even he cant be on watch 24/7. Next year i will definitely dug them deep into the ground, yes extra work, but at least i can have a harvest then. Ruth stout sucks. :-(
I had a 10x3 ft fire ant bed. They love to hide and build mounds in hay, grass and leaves especially after a heavy rain. Really hurts to be bitten by a lot of fireants.
Sandra, same thing happened to me:(
It was probably voles that ate your potatoes. Voles live in thick grass and make tunnels under the grass thatch. If you have voles these tunnels are easy to find if you dig down under the thatch. If you are growing potatoes in a grassy field your garden is surrounded by prime vole habit. You supply them food in the form of potatoes and they flourish. They have food and cover so they can live in relative safety and multiply. I've had some of the same problems. Try to reduce vole habit around your garden by keeping the grass mowed short. Create a 10 - 20 foot mowed area around your garden where the voles are completely exposed when they try to cross it to get to your garden. Also try not to make your garden into a continuous vole habit. The more continuous the cover they have, the easier it is for them to move about safely and eat your potatoes. Having thin rows of cover (hay over your potato row) surrounded by open ground makes their lives much more dangerous to predation from cats, ,owls, hawks, weasels, foxes, etc. They know crossing open space is dangerous and it tends to discourage them considerably. The harder you make their lives by forcing them to move about without the cover of their grass tunnels the fewer your will have that can multiply and eat your potatoes. I hope this may be of help for you.
Get a cat.
marty kesler any potato bed that is covered with a ruth stout bed is basically ideal meadow vole habitat with perfect deep cover and food. It is vole heaven, they don't need to leave or cross your mowed area. This method will work very poorly with potatoes anywhere with high populations of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
Wow i did not know this is possible. Thank you so much for sharing!
Planted potatoes few years back and one evening just as it was getting dark I watched the deer making supper of the potatoes leaves, they don’t eat the stems but everyone of my potato leaves were gone, I sure hope they enjoyed them! Oh to live in the National Forest
I did the hay mulch thing, first year was successful, 2nd year, mice galore!!!