Props to a RUclipsr who took the time to follow a plant an entire growing cycle...that’s very rare and shows dedication to his craft. Most videos are less informative because they follow growth during the exciting early growing period only.
I agree, this guy's good. So many RUclipsrs these days make a video every week. I love how this guy isn't like the others. Also makes me want to go out to the countryside away from the city.
I opened RUclips to learn how to replace the oil pressure sensor on my 2003 5.3L Chevy Silverado. It’s about a hour later and I’m not any closer to fixing my truck and I seem to have lost almost all my motivation to do so somewhere in the RUclips land vortex. I couldn’t tell you how or why I pressed the play button on your video but I’m glad I did. I’ve never had a garden before but thanks to your awesome video I’m going to have one by the end of tomorrow!
I did that, fixed it. It wasn't taking the oil pan off video. Silverado sensor. Low oil pressure on dash doesn't always mean low oil pressure for real because it's the sensor is bad. Grow some Kahlrabi or cabbage too, it's wonderful!
Thank you so much ! I learned more about potatoes in 23 minutes than I ever thought I would. Your week by week approach is so valuable and instructive. Please continue to roll out more awesome videos like this. The are so edifying!
In short, yeah it worked. But I got impatient and dug them up too early so I was left with only a few small potatoes. I'm sure that this works if done correctly lol.
My mom used to let the older kids plant the potatoes . We all did the harvesting. During the cold winter months my mom and I would go thru the seed catalogue and plan the Spring and Summer garden. I can remember at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners my sisters and I boasting to our guests about our gardens and the crops we grew a in d 90 percent of the meals we grew and harvested ourselves. Thanks for sharing. God bless
This was like watching a full documentary! Thank you for the effort you put into this video, and I feel ready to try planting my first bed of potatoes this spring.
My daughter decided to plant a potato with eyes today. I decided to see if she did it right and according to you, she did! She's experimenting. We already planted onions and are growing carrot roots in water. If all this works out, we'll make a bigger garden for root veggies and one for above ground. Her tomatoes are in cups and have 2 leaves with 2 more growing. She started them from tomatos (seeds) we bought at the store. So glad I found you! We live in north Georgia where the weather turns from freezing (last night) to 90+ in the summer.
Sir, you are an absolute gift to humanity for making these videos. I often spoke to my granny about growing my own vegetables when i get older. She told me potatoes involve a lot of digging and hard work, so I can really appreciate what you do. I subscribed and look forward to seeing more vegetable growing. I'm gonna check out the rest of your videos now too. Keep up the good work Joe! Thanks, from Ireland.
I get it, that you don't want to put a lot of extra effort into growing potatoes (I'm also, all for the "medium effort growing"). But a good tip: When the tops starts dying back due to mold, remove the tops. Otherwise the mold can leach into the soil, and infect the tubers, this can be the reason why some of them rot. (And in any case, it can make storing less problematic. As a sidenote to cutting the tops of: You want to remove the tops and potentially burn them or maybe compost them, to avoid moldspores to spread. The potatoes can, in most cases, (depending of variety) stay in the ground just fine, for later harvest (or harvest as you eat them, until winter set in), good way to store them, and that will also harden the skin, so they store better. Just the same as if you dry them above ground.
Kenney Madsen I tried growing them in 8 buckets and pretty much failed. I planted 2 per bucket and for Yukon gold I got nothing and for the Red Norland I yielded approximately 8 potatos. I did drill many holes in the bottoms of the buckets but I'm thinking they were not big enough to allow proper drainage. Based off what I have said are you able to recommend anything? Thank you!
@@chrisrobinson2112, here's an idea for you... you should check this out!!... (it's essentially a "big bucket with pre-drilled holes"!!) :) ruclips.net/video/mc8nsAX-FQI/видео.html
My dad used to dig a big hole and cover the bottom with about 6 imches deep of hay then place all your potatoes on it then cover with dirt about 3 to 4 feet deep and he could dig up potatoes all winter. Oh yeah you gotta cover them with hay before the dirt foes over them.
I live in Idaho. Potatoes grow here spontaneously! I am not joking. Last year we bought a load of topsoil for our garden and a few potatoes popped up in it lol. Gotta love Idaho.
Growing up we would immediately clean them and let them dry. We gunny sacked our potatoes and kept them in a cellar during the winter. I'd say we sacked close to 1,400 lbs of taters every season and we gave away quite a bit also. It was just the 4 of us but what we saved would feed us almost to the end of April most years. Your big red was about average size to what we were yielding. The soil was sandy but it used to be a hog pen where we were planting and we kept the water to them almost every day. So yes, watering makes a difference with the size and yield. If you plant in heavy soil that compacts you'll usually get a hard, almost stunted tuber compared to something grown in loose loamy soil. And it doesn't hurt to put some liquid Natures fertilizer to the whole garden. Trust me, it makes a difference. Just subbed your channel. Very informative. I will try the deep planting method you're using next time.
I have to tell you thank you so much for posting this video. I started digging my potatoes up today n I've only dug 1/4 of what I planted. My potatoes are huge n there are a lot of them. I didn't want to keep mounding dirt on my potato plants so I did what you do n what a awesome way to plant potatoes. I have 75#'s of potatoes in just the 1/4 of what I dug up. Thank you very much. I continued to water my potatoes n the green on the potato bush was still green but I wanted to dig them now. If I had waited until plant was completely dead I think my potatoes would have been huge. So far the largest potato I have is 6 inches long by 4 inches wide. Beautiful potatoes. I can't thank u enough because it was so easy with your help.
I love taking the small red potatoes, skin and all, halving them, then coating with olive oil, salt, pepper and seasonings (Italian seasoning, garlic powder, etc) and then roasting in the oven until done. OH MY GOODNESS THEY'RE GOOD!
A minute into your video you say-“up here in Minnesota.” Perfect! I grew up on Mille Lacs lake and now live an hour south of MSP. My great grandfather grew Kanebecs. This is my first year growing potatoes. I’ve got Burbank Russets in the ground. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
It is Cinco de Mayo here in Southern Indiana and just about 1 month ago I put my potatoes in the ground, just as you had instructed and yesterday the first green Sprouts from my potatoes came through the ground! I am extremely excited and thankful and grateful for your instruction. Thank you!
Seve Sheldon I second this. Even if we grow a lot of vegetables ourselves I still love seeing how other people do it. I have an issue growing onions so I watched his video and I’m crossing my fingers now for a better crop this yr.
Fascinating to see the potatoes in by Good Friday thing survived in the US as well as the UK. My grandfather told me exactly the same thing. The fact that Easter can move by over a month mattered not a jot to him too. He also insisted on putting in the whole potato, but he did tell me when times were hard you can grow a small crop from a peeling with an eye. Good informative video.
Thank you. A gift that really gives back 7x. Potatoes and carrots can be stored outdooors in a pile of damp sand covered by a tarp to keep it from getting excessively wet. Whenever you jrrd supplies just dig in and pull out what you need.
Thanks for this life-cycle of three varieties of potatoes. Now I know which one I will be planting in a week or two. Now I know just where to plant them, and how to watch them grow to harvest time, how to watch for watering if needed when first out of the ground and how to harvest and what to do before storing them for the winter. Very well done.
i grew potatoes for the first time this year and I planted reds because I read they canned the best. Got them in way late but still had a pretty good crop. They were so tasty we ended up just eating them.
I grew potatoes last year for the first time. I live in northern Michigan that has a similar climate to Minnesota. A farmer told me to plant potatoes in saw dust. I did and they did great! It was just a couple of plants, yet, it was nice to discover those potatoes at harvest time. I used heavy nylon twine and iron shepherd hooks to string a one line fence three feet high to keep the deer away. Deer don't like to feel the twine against their legs when they investigate my garden. It worked to keep them from eating my plants.
Thank you! I'm about to plant my potatoes here in southern Georgia where we plant right around valentines day! I enjoyed your potato journey very much!
I've just had my first go at planting potatoes, just saved some potatoes from a bag I bought from the supermarket. Put them in a growing bag -my entire garden is the size of your veg patch- and they're doing great. Only a few inches tall so far, but I'm so excited to have grown my own. Your video has been amazing, I'll have to bookmark and watch the others. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you. I’m 18 and just planted a sprouting potato about a week and a half ago. This video really helped me planting my second sprouting potato today. I have a little green stalk with a tiny little leaf on it right now. When that stalk gets bigger I’m going to dig it up and fix it like my second one. I know it’s a little late in the year but I knew sprouting potatoes are semi poisonous and didn’t feel like wasting them.
joe. I came across your videos by accident, I have not been able to stop watching them. you sir are a very talented man and hard working also. the tent, what can I say its just unbelievable along with the things that you do. what a inspiration you are. I can relate on the divorce thing mine left after 30 years wow is all can say i did not see that coming, but that a another story . wish you and Melissa the very best. rick
That was a great tutorial. This is the 1st year that I have planted potatoes and I was not sure when to harvest them . Thank you for showing the beginning and end of the growing cycle of potatoes.
@@JoeandZachSurvival hello there! I would like to ask, after you plant them potato into the ground, do you need to watering them everyday twice a day? or don't watering them at all?
@@White_Tiger93 Root cops do not do well sitting in water..... water in when planting and when really dry. The plant's appearance will let you know when they are really thirsty. Also plant deep enough.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 so basically, you plant them like in this video then just leave it till it pop up leaf and stuff right? after that you start water them up or else?
This "life cycle" video was really helpful. If I hadn't seen your potato plants die back, I would have panicked and thought mine had a disease. This is my first year of growing and we'll see how the harvest turns out.
Nice video and great yields on your Pontiac Reds. I agree with you on Pontiac Reds, though Yukon Golds are equal in my book. As I have gotten older (now 65) I have modified how I grow potatoes. I use a modified Ruth Stout method (no straw or hay). I till the ground and place the potatoes on the freshly tilled ground and use a garden rake to cover the potatoes with 8 inches of soil. I have a hilling attachment for my Troybilt tiller and when the potatoes break ground, I use the tiller to hill them more. I do this twice in the season. What is nice is when it comes time to harvest I can grab the plant and pull it out of the ground and don't have to use a fork to dig them. The soil is still loose and can be easily dug with my hands. It is so much easier on my back. A soil treatment I use is MycoGrow from Fungi Perfecti. It is a symbiotic fungal soil treatment and it definitely produces more and larger potatoes. I just found your channel and have been binging. I have cousins in Ely so your road shots sure reminds me of them and the BWCA. Thx for your videos.
Some interesting details. Thank you. Possibly some of your plant die off and rotting potatoes are blight. I've learned to not grow potatoes (and tomatoes) in the same soil again until the third year. Still I did replant in the same soil some this year.
(1) Grandfather did his own style, and made newspaper-reported 2-3# huge spuds. Rototill totally deep to the rotor. Dig out entire trench with side walls of dirt. Throw in deep layer of hay/straw. Layer over with dirt. Put in potatoes along the trench. Dirt ayer, straw layer, then final top layer of dirt mounding, and then strawing the mound. Straw sucks up excess water, keeping the soil moist and humid, but not wet and sloggy, and loose and airy. At spuds grow out, continue to put on higher and higher atraw onto mound, not dirt. (3) "Uncle Marvin" above ground potatoes. Just lawn cuttings, no fertilizer, dirt, straw, etc. Mound up lawn cuttings, and put in potatoes. Grass cuttings give off methane (global warming) gasses (fres cut grass smell). Worms come running from entire neighborhood. Mounds have proper humidity and moistness, not soggy. Continue putting on spring, summer, and fall lawn grass cuttings. When you want potatoes, DO NOT DIG UP! REACH INTO, dig around in loose cuttings for potatoes and break off. Pull out, wipe off excess dry grass clippings. Wash outside. Sweet, tender potatoes. Leave plants in mound all year round. Continue piling up huge lawn grass mound, or put into wooden bin. Bottom eventually decomposes into black gold soil, and continues to make further decomposition and nutrients for the potatoes. (3) My style is to rototill down to rotors, and continue to rototill until soil is aery and fluffy. Then dig out entire tilled area, leaving open over winter, with dirt side walls. Lawn cuttings (and worms) kept in separate wood bin in warm weather. Pour in cow/horse manure, and lawn cuttings intermixed, and allow fall/winter/spring snow and rains to percolate down manure compost tea and lawn grass nutrients into deep soil, while the fiber manure and grass keeps a soft soil texture. In spring, put soil back onto pit mound, and plant. Coninue this for many years, and deep fertilization, manure and grass fiber soil (yearly ground and mixed up), and soil becomes intensely productive black gold soil. All processes work at West and East coastal lands up to (at least) Latitude 45 degrees North
Thanks for not confining it to yourself. You have said it all about potatoes production. I have already been looking forward to seeing how to venture into it ; now with the little time I spent on viewing this clip I believe I can start something. Thank you for making this video available
Wowee, reminds me as a kid being raised in Chickasaw County, IA, and having "garden duty." Potatoes were one crop we KNEW we could count on; stored them in the basement of the house. Thanks for the memories. Y'all Be Safe!
I’m an okie as well, best practice (passed from my grandpa as well) Is plant on St Patty’s day. That was always the standard, we also would cut them into chunks with eyes sticking outward. But like skinning a cat there’s more than one way. Watering when needed is a good practice as well.
I was going through the sack of Russets and found one that was aggressively sprouting so i took it out and set it in a large planter pot in the front yard that i had been making compost in three weeks later they are filling the pot and almost a foot tall! it gets good morning to noon day sun, i have had good success with peppers and tomatoes in that spot last year so here's hopping we get some nice spuds. next year I will have access to at least 400SqFt of garden space to play with. Thanks for posting these great videos, they are very inspiring. I will say that gardening in the Pacific Northwest has it's challenges, but i do love it. --Rick
Very interesting...You taught me that I dug my potatoes up way too soon. Good lesson for next year--plant sooner, and let the plants flower and turn yellow before I start digging them up...plus wait longer than 3 months!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for showing the entire process of what happens to the actual plants. I'd never have known when to harvest because most videos only show the 'planting' stage. I loved this!
I got a tiller and I'm going to start my 1st garden first today. Glad I came across this, thank you for making the video. Friend of mine said it's mandatory to plant potatoes on St Patrick's day if you're Irish. Lol
Thanks. This was so helpful. You give so much more imformation. The letting them sit to toughen up the skins etc. Others skim over it all and then you wonder why it not working.. so thanks again.
I bought a 20kg bag a few weeks ago to be apocalypse ready. Had a look at them today and they have all started sprouting, so tomorrow I’m planting them to make more potatoes. The way coronavirus is going we’re going to need them.
Super fine and thorough video on ground growing potatoes. One of the best videos I have seen from beginning to end. Congrats on the great harvest. I loved growing potatoes and had pretty good luck here in Central Florida. I used alot of my own homemade mulch and lots of compost leaves. My compost was like "GOLD" to my garden....just have always had great luck with it and good returns on all of my plantings. My tomatoes always went absolutely to the moon, big around and tall...even planted suckers, grew as big as mother plant. We canned to death...even had to feed some to the animals...GOD Blessed us dearly with tomatoes. We sure shared a plenty. I had a couple of pigs and bunch of chickens and Rabbits. I played hop-scotch with my pens or Leap-frog with my chicken yards and pig yards....so didn't take long for my entire acre of planting area to get rich....I let my animals do the work and then mixed my leaves...tons of leaves...and compost all in with tiller....DELICIOUS!!! Very few weeds....kept using the droppings caught in trays from both chickens and rabbits. Made my own bug kill....with hot peppers / marigolds / garlics few other things..blended and strained...hardly any bugs / pests...for FLORIDA that is essential feat to achieve. My yellow corn was 12" tall....photo proof, here in Florida....most unheard of LOL.....those were the days. I had HAPPY Chickens and Pigs....big yields. Now I am past my gardening years due to physical abilities..but still I love watching videos such as yours and think back with the similarities we both had and the enthusiasm you share in your wonderful experiences as a gardener. Yours looks SUPERB!!! So now I am a "VISUAL" gardener....but I can still do some bucket gardening on small scale. Goes to show....you can't take the "garden" out of the boy....not really aye? God Bless and Happy Growing and Harvesting... Ken from Orlando, Florida, USA
Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? It’s not necessary of course but I tried it once and I’ve never planted potatoes in the ground ever since. I planted them in large pots filled with a mix of old and new compost with chicken manure pellets and buried the bottom 4 inches of the pot in the ground. I got double the amount than I would normally if I planted it in the ground. You have a lot more space than I do so maximization of space isn’t an issue for you. Great video! I always love seeing these large, homestead style gardens. I hope to one day move to a country estate, when my kids are grown and done with school. Right now I can’t since I want my children to spend time with their grandparents and they attend a private school their mother graduated from. One day I’ll sell my home in Hawaii, where I currently live, and move to a state that has all 4 seasons. All my life in Hawaii, it’s always summer or spring, winter or fall has no noticeable difference here.
Hey I grew potatoes in Vermont one year I bought a 50 lb bag. Of seed potatoes kataden I got back 900 lbs the fall before the farmer spread manure ... your reds were great I really enjoy potatoes and onions Thanks for your video nice garden I just purchased a 10 acre farm so let’s see what happens this year
I was planning on starting a potato garden next year in my yard because I just moved and did lots of projects in the property this year and I thought there was a ton of info I needed to know but this video makes it seem very simple. Thank you! EDIT: You earned a subscriber, Im new to gardening but I think I will get into planting other stuff as time goes on.
Your method worked for me!! I have potatoes :) I didn't plant them super early, but I'm already able to harvest them. Thank you! I took a couple videos of my progress if you're interested. I live in northern Massachusetts.
Thanks, especially because every YouToob video about growing potatoes talks about everything BUT growing potatoes. Thanks God that someone doesn't beat around the bush!
I love this. When I dig out my potatoes, I always am glad that I am not one of those poor Irish women who were digging out their patches during the potato famine. They experienced a horrible time.
I appreciate that you went to the trouble to put the potatoes where each plant was. It really gives me a good idea of what to expect. You did a wonderful job from start to finish. Thank you. ☺
I am so excited ! This will be my first year growing the red potatoes. I grew up on a farm years ago and I couldn't to leave because my dad grew anything that God had created. Now that my dad is no longer around, oh how I missed the fresh vegetables. My husband and I are starting our first full garden this spring in our backyard. I just love potatoes especially sweet potatoes. Your video helped me tremendously. It brought back all the things that my dad had taught me. Do you have a video on growing sweet potatoes ?
I’ve been seeing videos that you can eat the green leaves but the flowers are poisonous. I’ve tasted some of mine. Not bad. I think sweet potatoes grow the same way but the vine looks like a morning glory a whole lot. Can eat those cooked like greens When they start to turn yellow they get bitter though I wonder if you ate some of the greens would they make more potatoes as a survival instinct so to speak. I would see that as a win win
Thank you so much! I planted red potato in plastic containers and now that I have seen your video. lol I realized I am in trouble and need to put those plants in my ground. lol Last year I planted potato turned the pot over no potatoes. I really did not know when the potato would be ready. But I now know. Thank you!
Thank you for your dedication on making this video! I find myself watching it year after year! I just set aside my potholes that have eyes.....and now I’m getting ready to plant! I’m crossing my fingers!
You did get A Great Mess of Tater's out of your planting of them. Good Job. We used to keep our's in the Well House year round and they did Fantastic in there.
My dad used to plant them shallow and then pile grass clippings around the plants after they were up. Any that broke the surface were still out of the sun and it kept the weeds down and made them easier to dig at the end of the season.
Thank you very much! I appreciate your step by step instructions and intermittent progress report as well as your potato count at the end to compare potatoes planted vs potatoes harvested. Your video is very well done!
I have to say... I'm super impressed that you showed the full season! Awesome!! Super informative. I've been doing it all wrong, and now I know why. Thank you for documenting all this hard work!!
I thoroughly appreciated your efforts, taking the time through an entire season to video everything, edit it & put it out to the people. Your attention to the details of how to do each step & your personal comments, shows how much your garden grounds you to your earthly reality. Your garden looked fantastic this year, congratulations and thank you.
13:35 BEE CAREFUL THERE'S A BEE ON THE CAMERA 🐝 I plant potatoes that have sprouted and are not edible just because I don't want them to go to waste and now I can do it seriously thanks to your simple encouragement you're grandpa would be proud ! 🥔
Great video. I used to plant the reds all the time. Great for boiling and fried potatoes! Then I started planting them in those food grade plastic barrels. I cut down the height a bit and filled them with dirt and mulch 2/3 rd the way full. As the plant grew I added more dirty and mulch. When the plant died I just knocked over the barrel and picked up the potatoes. I have beautiful crops and I have had friends switch to the barrel method. I've found less rotting and zero bug problem.
i grew up with a 3 acre garden... most of witch was potato and corn. reds were our favs, having a full acre in just that. we cycled between 3 fields on a pig farm. between the garden and the hunting, there wasn't much we needed to shop for. as a child i hated it but now i wish i hadn't and payed more attention to the skill. oh the memories of neighborhood kids coming to help shell peas and shuck corn lol. carrots were easy, we just used pillow sacks and tossed em in the washing machine. 2 large freezers and a cold room kept us going for the winter and lots of canning. huh... my dad and his pickled beats... was carrots and radish for me :) i think we got much more yield from each plant then u did. we did mound em and was 2 ft apart. the reds would cross over to the next plants yield. probably 3 - 5 times ur best plant. if i would venture a guess as to why , id think that pigs had a say along with deep tilling. now hear i am trying to duplicate my childhood in my later years lmao
Thank you v much for sharing your video. Have not grown any tatoes in my garden yet coz I can get em at Sam's anytime I want to but bro your garden is very inspirational to all of us. I called that a Self-sufficient retirement lifestyle. :)
This video was so well done. I think you should do more like this. How about doing one on pork steaks? You could document it from piglet all the way to plate!
MN weather sounds like MD weather. we're in the middle of March and had 70 degree weather last week. Tomorrow night there calling for foot of snow! Love your channel thanks for the great videos.
This is the BEST video Ive seen for growing potatoes ourselves. LOVED that you kept coming back and great video of what to expect and how to's ect.. thank you!!
Such a great video! Always wanted to try to grow potatoes, but never knew how to do it haha! This helped me so much! Thank you! :) Best wishes from Sweden!
If you want to keep potatoes as fresh as the day u picked them I have found storing them in dry sand or soil the best. Fill up a tub with soil or sand and make sure all the spuds are covered. This will keep the spuds super fresh for months.
GREATEST!!!!!! Just the video I was looking for ... so informative and showed in detail what to do and when. Thank you so much for taking your time to do this for us city folks who moved to the country to get away from it all and try to grow our own food. THANKS!!!
In the U.K. we have first earlies,second earlies ,main crops and late cropping so dig up at different times also the earlies don’t have much of a skin which is great for salads and the texture is different from main croppers which have thicker skin I guess in essence we look at potatoes differently from your side of the pond which is quite interesting as new potatoes are not so good for chipping whereas main crops are better for this and roasting/baking . As you can tell I like potatoes 🥔😁
The best fish-and-chips I ever had was when I visited the U.K. (mainly Scotland) for a week! They really know how to cook potatoes over there. Somewhat ironic, since the potato actually originated in the New World (actually, South America, then to Europe, then was brought to North America).
@@dickiedollop We call it the dry matter content but of course less water means the same thing. I grew the Atlantic variety, there are many others and Frito Lay has their own propitiatory varieties.
Props to a RUclipsr who took the time to follow a plant an entire growing cycle...that’s very rare and shows dedication to his craft. Most videos are less informative because they follow growth during the exciting early growing period only.
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I agree, this guy's good. So many RUclipsrs these days make a video every week. I love how this guy isn't like the others. Also makes me want to go out to the countryside away from the city.
Exactly! Seeing the whole process was extremely helpful. Hope you do more of these videos!
Yes, my favorites are the complete ones, certainly easier to manage in my mind.....Thank You..
@@fliegels87 I am agree with you. Hope my videos will be helpful too - ruclips.net/video/kmnjEOthrlE/видео.html , see links below video.
I opened RUclips to learn how to replace the oil pressure sensor on my 2003 5.3L Chevy Silverado. It’s about a hour later and I’m not any closer to fixing my truck and I seem to have lost almost all my motivation to do so somewhere in the RUclips land vortex. I couldn’t tell you how or why I pressed the play button on your video but I’m glad I did. I’ve never had a garden before but thanks to your awesome video I’m going to have one by the end of tomorrow!
I did that, fixed it. It wasn't taking the oil pan off video. Silverado sensor. Low oil pressure on dash doesn't always mean low oil pressure for real because it's the sensor is bad. Grow some Kahlrabi or cabbage too, it's wonderful!
Good for you Todd.
We're all trying to become a new and better me.
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How bout that oil pressure sensor?? 😆🤣
I am a VA native. We always planted the Red Pontiac and the Kinnebec potato. They both have great flavor.
Beautiful garden!
Thank you so much ! I learned more about potatoes in 23 minutes than I ever thought I would. Your week by week approach is so valuable and instructive. Please continue to roll out more awesome videos like this. The are so edifying!
I put a potato in the ground just to see if anything would happen and now I'm here because I got a freaking potato bush in my backyard.
So how did it go? Potatoes??
And? What happened?
@@mrbaeman39lolman60 u can dig the potatoes out once they get big enough
Me and others need answers. How did it go?
First time potato planter myself alsom
In short, yeah it worked. But I got impatient and dug them up too early so I was left with only a few small potatoes. I'm sure that this works if done correctly lol.
Thanks for showing the entire cycle of growing, it takes lots of time, I did learn few things from you Thank you
My mom used to let the older kids plant the potatoes . We all did the harvesting. During the cold winter months my mom and I would go thru the seed catalogue and plan the Spring and Summer garden.
I can remember at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners my sisters and I boasting to our guests about our gardens and the crops we grew a in d 90 percent of the meals we grew and harvested ourselves.
Thanks for sharing. God bless
Very awesome comment James. I still today look through the spring seed catalogs and get excited for the upcoming season. Thank You.
This was like watching a full documentary! Thank you for the effort you put into this video, and I feel ready to try planting my first bed of potatoes this spring.
My daughter decided to plant a potato with eyes today. I decided to see if she did it right and according to you, she did! She's experimenting. We already planted onions and are growing carrot roots in water. If all this works out, we'll make a bigger garden for root veggies and one for above ground. Her tomatoes are in cups and have 2 leaves with 2 more growing. She started them from tomatos (seeds) we bought at the store. So glad I found you! We live in north Georgia where the weather turns from freezing (last night) to 90+ in the summer.
Sir, you are an absolute gift to humanity for making these videos.
I often spoke to my granny about growing my own vegetables when i get older. She told me potatoes involve a lot of digging and hard work, so I can really appreciate what you do.
I subscribed and look forward to seeing more vegetable growing.
I'm gonna check out the rest of your videos now too.
Keep up the good work Joe! Thanks, from Ireland.
I get it, that you don't want to put a lot of extra effort into growing potatoes (I'm also, all for the "medium effort growing").
But a good tip: When the tops starts dying back due to mold, remove the tops. Otherwise the mold can leach into the soil, and infect the tubers, this can be the reason why some of them rot. (And in any case, it can make storing less problematic.
As a sidenote to cutting the tops of: You want to remove the tops and potentially burn them or maybe compost them, to avoid moldspores to spread.
The potatoes can, in most cases, (depending of variety) stay in the ground just fine, for later harvest (or harvest as you eat them, until winter set in), good way to store them, and that will also harden the skin, so they store better. Just the same as if you dry them above ground.
Kenney Madsen I tried growing them in 8 buckets and pretty much failed. I planted 2 per bucket and for Yukon gold I got nothing and for the Red Norland I yielded approximately 8 potatos. I did drill many holes in the bottoms of the buckets but I'm thinking they were not big enough to allow proper drainage. Based off what I have said are you able to recommend anything? Thank you!
@@chrisrobinson2112, here's an idea for you... you should check this out!!... (it's essentially a "big bucket with pre-drilled holes"!!) :)
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My dad used to dig a big hole and cover the bottom with about 6 imches deep of hay then place all your potatoes on it then cover with dirt about 3 to 4 feet deep and he could dig up potatoes all winter. Oh yeah you gotta cover them with hay before the dirt foes over them.
I live in Idaho. Potatoes grow here spontaneously! I am not joking. Last year we bought a load of topsoil for our garden and a few potatoes popped up in it lol. Gotta love Idaho.
Growing up we would immediately clean them and let them dry. We gunny sacked our potatoes and kept them in a cellar during the winter. I'd say we sacked close to 1,400 lbs of taters every season and we gave away quite a bit also. It was just the 4 of us but what we saved would feed us almost to the end of April most years. Your big red was about average size to what we were yielding. The soil was sandy but it used to be a hog pen where we were planting and we kept the water to them almost every day. So yes, watering makes a difference with the size and yield. If you plant in heavy soil that compacts you'll usually get a hard, almost stunted tuber compared to something grown in loose loamy soil. And it doesn't hurt to put some liquid Natures fertilizer to the whole garden. Trust me, it makes a difference.
Just subbed your channel.
Very informative. I will try the deep planting method you're using next time.
I have to tell you thank you so much for posting this video. I started digging my potatoes up today n I've only dug 1/4 of what I planted. My potatoes are huge n there are a lot of them. I didn't want to keep mounding dirt on my potato plants so I did what you do n what a awesome way to plant potatoes. I have 75#'s of potatoes in just the 1/4 of what I dug up. Thank you very much. I continued to water my potatoes n the green on the potato bush was still green but I wanted to dig them now. If I had waited until plant was completely dead I think my potatoes would have been huge. So far the largest potato I have is 6 inches long by 4 inches wide. Beautiful potatoes. I can't thank u enough because it was so easy with your help.
I love taking the small red potatoes, skin and all, halving them, then coating with olive oil, salt, pepper and seasonings (Italian seasoning, garlic powder, etc) and then roasting in the oven until done. OH MY GOODNESS THEY'RE GOOD!
God Bless your GrandPa! Good memories. Good info. He taught you, and now me and my kids, something important!
A minute into your video you say-“up here in Minnesota.” Perfect! I grew up on Mille Lacs lake and now live an hour south of MSP. My great grandfather grew Kanebecs. This is my first year growing potatoes. I’ve got Burbank Russets in the ground. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
It is Cinco de Mayo here in Southern Indiana and just about 1 month ago I put my potatoes in the ground, just as you had instructed and yesterday the first green Sprouts from my potatoes came through the ground! I am extremely excited and thankful and grateful for your instruction. Thank you!
Can you please make a video like this for all of the vegetables you grow? It’s very good.
Seve Sheldon I second this. Even if we grow a lot of vegetables ourselves I still love seeing how other people do it. I have an issue growing onions so I watched his video and I’m crossing my fingers now for a better crop this yr.
Fascinating to see the potatoes in by Good Friday thing survived in the US as well as the UK. My grandfather told me exactly the same thing. The fact that Easter can move by over a month mattered not a jot to him too. He also insisted on putting in the whole potato, but he did tell me when times were hard you can grow a small crop from a peeling with an eye.
Good informative video.
i agree yes
Thank you. A gift that really gives back 7x.
Potatoes and carrots can be stored outdooors in a pile of damp sand covered by a tarp to keep it from getting excessively wet. Whenever you jrrd supplies just dig in and pull out what you need.
Thanks for this life-cycle of three varieties of potatoes. Now I know which one I will be planting in a week or two. Now I know just where to plant them, and how to watch them grow to harvest time, how to watch for watering if needed when first out of the ground and how to harvest and what to do before storing them for the winter. Very well done.
i grew potatoes for the first time this year and I planted reds because I read they canned the best. Got them in way late but still had a pretty good crop. They were so tasty we ended up just eating them.
I grew potatoes last year for the first time. I live in northern Michigan that has a similar climate to Minnesota. A farmer told me to plant potatoes in saw dust. I did and they did great! It was just a couple of plants, yet, it was nice to discover those potatoes at harvest time. I used heavy nylon twine and iron shepherd hooks to string a one line fence three feet high to keep the deer away. Deer don't like to feel the twine against their legs when they investigate my garden. It worked to keep them from eating my plants.
Thank you! I'm about to plant my potatoes here in southern Georgia where we plant right around valentines day! I enjoyed your potato journey very much!
I've just had my first go at planting potatoes, just saved some potatoes from a bag I bought from the supermarket. Put them in a growing bag -my entire garden is the size of your veg patch- and they're doing great. Only a few inches tall so far, but I'm so excited to have grown my own. Your video has been amazing, I'll have to bookmark and watch the others. Thank you for sharing!
Your whole garden is just awesome. Reminds me of when I used to help my great aunt plant her garden every year. Thanks.
Thank you. I’m 18 and just planted a sprouting potato about a week and a half ago. This video really helped me planting my second sprouting potato today. I have a little green stalk with a tiny little leaf on it right now. When that stalk gets bigger I’m going to dig it up and fix it like my second one. I know it’s a little late in the year but I knew sprouting potatoes are semi poisonous and didn’t feel like wasting them.
thanks Joe, my daughter's watched it with me and they want to try growing potatoes this year! This is a great teaching video.
Love that you took us through the whole cycle. Ive never seen that done well. Great video. Thank you!
joe. I came across your videos by accident, I have not been able to stop watching them. you sir are a very talented man and hard working also. the tent, what can I say its just unbelievable along with the things that you do. what a inspiration you are. I can relate on the divorce thing mine left after 30 years wow is all can say i did not see that coming, but that a another story . wish you and Melissa the very best. rick
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That was a great tutorial. This is the 1st year that I have planted potatoes and I was not sure when to harvest them . Thank you for showing the beginning and end of the growing cycle of potatoes.
“He got kind of perturbed and he said Joel, just put it in the ground” LOL
Kinda went like that Lol. I can remember it clearly even though that was at least 30 years ago.
@@JoeandZachSurvival sounds EXACTLY like my grandfather hahaha
@@JoeandZachSurvival hello there! I would like to ask, after you plant them potato into the ground, do you need to watering them everyday twice a day? or don't watering them at all?
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Root cops do not do well sitting in water..... water in when planting and when really dry. The plant's appearance will let you know when they are really thirsty. Also plant deep enough.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 so basically, you plant them like in this video then just leave it till it pop up leaf and stuff right? after that you start water them up or else?
This "life cycle" video was really helpful. If I hadn't seen your potato plants die back, I would have panicked and thought mine had a disease. This is my first year of growing and we'll see how the harvest turns out.
Nice video and great yields on your Pontiac Reds. I agree with you on Pontiac Reds, though Yukon Golds are equal in my book. As I have gotten older (now 65) I have modified how I grow potatoes. I use a modified Ruth Stout method (no straw or hay). I till the ground and place the potatoes on the freshly tilled ground and use a garden rake to cover the potatoes with 8 inches of soil. I have a hilling attachment for my Troybilt tiller and when the potatoes break ground, I use the tiller to hill them more. I do this twice in the season. What is nice is when it comes time to harvest I can grab the plant and pull it out of the ground and don't have to use a fork to dig them. The soil is still loose and can be easily dug with my hands. It is so much easier on my back. A soil treatment I use is MycoGrow from Fungi Perfecti. It is a symbiotic fungal soil treatment and it definitely produces more and larger potatoes.
I just found your channel and have been binging. I have cousins in Ely so your road shots sure reminds me of them and the BWCA. Thx for your videos.
Yukon Gold are my favorite. When I keep using my own potatoes for seed they keep getting better. Live near Black duck Minnesota
Some interesting details. Thank you. Possibly some of your plant die off and rotting potatoes are blight. I've learned to not grow potatoes (and tomatoes) in the same soil again until the third year. Still I did replant in the same soil some this year.
(1) Grandfather did his own style, and made newspaper-reported 2-3# huge spuds. Rototill totally deep to the rotor. Dig out entire trench with side walls of dirt. Throw in deep layer of hay/straw. Layer over with dirt. Put in potatoes along the trench. Dirt ayer, straw layer, then final top layer of dirt mounding, and then strawing the mound.
Straw sucks up excess water, keeping the soil moist and humid, but not wet and sloggy, and loose and airy. At spuds grow out, continue to put on higher and higher atraw onto mound, not dirt.
(3) "Uncle Marvin" above ground potatoes. Just lawn cuttings, no fertilizer, dirt, straw, etc. Mound up lawn cuttings, and put in potatoes. Grass cuttings give off methane (global warming) gasses (fres cut grass smell). Worms come running from entire neighborhood. Mounds have proper humidity and moistness, not soggy. Continue putting on spring, summer, and fall lawn grass cuttings. When you want potatoes, DO NOT DIG UP! REACH INTO, dig around in loose cuttings for potatoes and break off. Pull out, wipe off excess dry grass clippings. Wash outside. Sweet, tender potatoes. Leave plants in mound all year round. Continue piling up huge lawn grass mound, or put into wooden bin. Bottom eventually decomposes into black gold soil, and continues to make further decomposition and nutrients for the potatoes.
(3) My style is to rototill down to rotors, and continue to rototill until soil is aery and fluffy. Then dig out entire tilled area, leaving open over winter, with dirt side walls. Lawn cuttings (and worms) kept in separate wood bin in warm weather. Pour in cow/horse manure, and lawn cuttings intermixed, and allow fall/winter/spring snow and rains to percolate down manure compost tea and lawn grass nutrients into deep soil, while the fiber manure and grass keeps a soft soil texture. In spring, put soil back onto pit mound, and plant. Coninue this for many years, and deep fertilization, manure and grass fiber soil (yearly ground and mixed up), and soil becomes intensely productive black gold soil.
All processes work at West and East coastal lands up to (at least) Latitude 45 degrees North
Why the straw? Is it to keep the soil loose or as it rots it gives nutrient?
Thanks for not confining it to yourself. You have said it all about potatoes production. I have already been looking forward to seeing how to venture into it ; now with the little time I spent on viewing this clip I believe I can start something.
Thank you for making this video available
Wowee, reminds me as a kid being raised in Chickasaw County, IA, and having "garden duty." Potatoes were one crop we KNEW we could count on; stored them in the basement of the house. Thanks for the memories.
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Digging spuds is like opening a Christmas present. You never know what you will get but it is exciting.
I agree 100%
More like a box of chocolates!
My mamma said planting potatoes is like a box of chocolates.
If I plant potatoes, I'd expect potatoes..
@@brent3611 good point
My uncle and grandfather in Oklahoma said "tatoes" planting day was March 17th. Wish they were here to help my garden.
march in general and harvest in july
How often do you water them,and how much water do you use, when planting potatoes? Thank you I loved watching you garden.❣️
I’m an okie as well, best practice (passed from my grandpa as well) Is plant on St Patty’s day. That was always the standard, we also would cut them into chunks with eyes sticking outward. But like skinning a cat there’s more than one way. Watering when needed is a good practice as well.
My grandfather was the same way, March 17th here on the Mason Dixon Line
Later in the upper Midwest. Good Friday is a good date.
I was going through the sack of Russets and found one that was aggressively sprouting so i took it out and set it in a large planter pot in the front yard that i had been making compost in three weeks later they are filling the pot and almost a foot tall! it gets good morning to noon day sun, i have had good success with peppers and tomatoes in that spot last year so here's hopping we get some nice spuds. next year I will have access to at least 400SqFt of garden space to play with. Thanks for posting these great videos, they are very inspiring.
I will say that gardening in the Pacific Northwest has it's challenges, but i do love it.
--Rick
Thank you Rick. Good luck on your harvest.
Very interesting...You taught me that I dug my potatoes up way too soon. Good lesson for next year--plant sooner, and let the plants flower and turn yellow before I start digging them up...plus wait longer than 3 months!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for showing the entire process of what happens to the actual plants. I'd never have known when to harvest because most videos only show the 'planting' stage. I loved this!
Thank you April.
I got a tiller and I'm going to start my 1st garden first today.
Glad I came across this, thank you for making the video.
Friend of mine said it's mandatory to plant potatoes on St Patrick's day if you're Irish. Lol
Thanks. This was so helpful. You give so much more imformation. The letting them sit to toughen up the skins etc. Others skim over it all and then you wonder why it not working.. so thanks again.
I bought a 20kg bag a few weeks ago to be apocalypse ready. Had a look at them today and they have all started sprouting, so tomorrow I’m planting them to make more potatoes. The way coronavirus is going we’re going to need them.
Super fine and thorough video on ground growing potatoes. One of the best videos I have seen from beginning to end. Congrats on the great harvest. I loved growing potatoes and had pretty good luck here in Central Florida. I used alot of my own homemade mulch and lots of compost leaves. My compost was like "GOLD" to my garden....just have always had great luck with it and good returns on all of my plantings. My tomatoes always went absolutely to the moon, big around and tall...even planted suckers, grew as big as mother plant. We canned to death...even had to feed some to the animals...GOD Blessed us dearly with tomatoes. We sure shared a plenty.
I had a couple of pigs and bunch of chickens and Rabbits. I played hop-scotch with my pens or Leap-frog with my chicken yards and pig yards....so didn't take long for my entire acre of planting area to get rich....I let my animals do the work and then mixed my leaves...tons of leaves...and compost all in with tiller....DELICIOUS!!! Very few weeds....kept using the droppings caught in trays from both chickens and rabbits. Made my own bug kill....with hot peppers / marigolds / garlics few other things..blended and strained...hardly any bugs / pests...for FLORIDA that is essential feat to achieve. My yellow corn was 12" tall....photo proof, here in Florida....most unheard of LOL.....those were the days. I had HAPPY Chickens and Pigs....big yields.
Now I am past my gardening years due to physical abilities..but still I love watching videos such as yours and think back with the similarities we both had and the enthusiasm you share in your wonderful experiences as a gardener. Yours looks SUPERB!!! So now I am a "VISUAL" gardener....but I can still do some bucket gardening on small scale. Goes to show....you can't take the "garden" out of the boy....not really aye?
God Bless and Happy Growing and Harvesting...
Ken from Orlando, Florida, USA
Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? It’s not necessary of course but I tried it once and I’ve never planted potatoes in the ground ever since. I planted them in large pots filled with a mix of old and new compost with chicken manure pellets and buried the bottom 4 inches of the pot in the ground. I got double the amount than I would normally if I planted it in the ground. You have a lot more space than I do so maximization of space isn’t an issue for you. Great video! I always love seeing these large, homestead style gardens. I hope to one day move to a country estate, when my kids are grown and done with school. Right now I can’t since I want my children to spend time with their grandparents and they attend a private school their mother graduated from. One day I’ll sell my home in Hawaii, where I currently live, and move to a state that has all 4 seasons. All my life in Hawaii, it’s always summer or spring, winter or fall has no noticeable difference here.
Why did you bury the container? Was the bottom cut out?
Hey I grew potatoes in Vermont one year I bought a 50 lb bag. Of seed potatoes kataden I got back 900 lbs the fall before the farmer spread manure ... your reds were great I really enjoy potatoes and onions Thanks for your video nice garden I just purchased a 10 acre farm so let’s see what happens this year
A great job on teaching the “how too’s” of planting two varieties of potatoes. I’m going to try even if it’s only 4or5 plants. Thank you!
THANK YOU!! I've watched this at least 5 times a year for the last 3 years. This is great info...
We have heavy clay here, yet they grew everything because of the climate. Enjoyed the video, and you are NOT lazy. Take care.
I was planning on starting a potato garden next year in my yard because I just moved and did lots of projects in the property this year and I thought there was a ton of info I needed to know but this video makes it seem very simple. Thank you!
EDIT: You earned a subscriber, Im new to gardening but I think I will get into planting other stuff as time goes on.
Your method worked for me!! I have potatoes :) I didn't plant them super early, but I'm already able to harvest them. Thank you! I took a couple videos of my progress if you're interested. I live in northern Massachusetts.
Thanks, especially because every YouToob video about growing potatoes talks about everything BUT growing potatoes. Thanks God that someone doesn't beat around the bush!
I love this. When I dig out my potatoes, I always am glad that I am not one of those poor Irish women who were digging out their patches during the potato famine. They experienced a horrible time.
I appreciate that you went to the trouble to put the potatoes where each plant was. It really gives me a good idea of what to expect. You did a wonderful job from start to finish. Thank you. ☺
Thank you for the nice comment.
I am so excited ! This will be my first year growing the red potatoes. I grew up on a farm years ago and I couldn't to leave because my dad grew anything that God had created. Now that my dad is no longer around, oh how I missed the fresh vegetables. My husband and I are starting our first full garden this spring in our backyard. I just love potatoes especially sweet potatoes. Your video helped me tremendously. It brought back all the things that my dad had taught me. Do you have a video on growing sweet potatoes ?
I’ve been seeing videos that you can eat the green leaves but the flowers are poisonous. I’ve tasted some of mine. Not bad. I think sweet potatoes grow the same way but the vine looks like a morning glory a whole lot. Can eat those cooked like greens When they start to turn yellow they get bitter though I wonder if you ate some of the greens would they make more potatoes as a survival instinct so to speak. I would see that as a win win
I'm thoroughly impressed! I'm a new potato grower so this will surely help e this next spring. Thank you for taking the time to show the whole cycle!
Thanks for the hard work and long-term planning you put into this video. Very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I planted red potato in plastic containers and now that I have seen your video. lol I realized I am in trouble and need to put those plants in my ground. lol Last year I planted potato turned the pot over no potatoes. I really did not know when the potato would be ready. But I now know. Thank you!
Incredible video! The patience it would take to make this is more than I could ever have lol.
Thank you for your dedication on making this video! I find myself watching it year after year! I just set aside my potholes that have eyes.....and now I’m getting ready to plant! I’m crossing my fingers!
You did get A Great Mess of Tater's out of your planting of them. Good Job. We used to keep our's in the Well House year round and they did Fantastic in there.
There is a deep sense of joy seeing the harvest... Farming is a great way of life
My dad used to plant them shallow and then pile grass clippings around the plants after they were up. Any that broke the surface were still out of the sun and it kept the weeds down and made them easier to dig at the end of the season.
Thank you very much! I appreciate your step by step instructions and intermittent progress report as well as your potato count at the end to compare potatoes planted vs potatoes harvested. Your video is very well done!
Couldn't help but notice your soil - good stuffl! It just falls apart in your hands and is easy to work.
it is!!!
I know! Did he mention putting compost or other amendments? I didn't hear it.
What a transformation in twenty minutes, bare patch of dirt to market garden! Great video.
Love the video
Great showing start to finish most people won’t take the time
I can't tell you how much I appreciated this video. Thank you!
Wow you put a lot of work and time into this video I learned so much Thank you
I have to say... I'm super impressed that you showed the full season! Awesome!! Super informative. I've been doing it all wrong, and now I know why. Thank you for documenting all this hard work!!
Thank you for the nice comment. Good luck.
Beautiful garden. One of the best tutorials I have seen on You Tube.
Thank you Shane.
Thank you for showing how to grow potatoes without straws.
Thanks man, my potatoes never work! Now I know why!
The Wooded Beardsman I guess I got lucky
The Wooded Beardsman catch & cook potatoes!
hey, dude how are you, funny seeing you here.
I thoroughly appreciated your efforts, taking the time through an entire season to video everything, edit it & put it out to the people.
Your attention to the details of how to do each step & your personal comments, shows how much your garden grounds you to your earthly reality.
Your garden looked fantastic this year,
congratulations and
thank you.
Thank you Gareth.
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I plant potatoes that have sprouted and are not edible just because I don't want them to go to waste and now I can do it seriously thanks to your simple encouragement you're grandpa would be proud ! 🥔
Great video. I used to plant the reds all the time. Great for boiling and fried potatoes! Then I started planting them in those food grade plastic barrels. I cut down the height a bit and filled them with dirt and mulch 2/3 rd the way full. As the plant grew I added more dirty and mulch. When the plant died I just knocked over the barrel and picked up the potatoes. I have beautiful crops and I have had friends switch to the barrel method. I've found less rotting and zero bug problem.
Vaughan Hammer, you've put up some sticks in your day. Excellent Video, thank you
i grew up with a 3 acre garden... most of witch was potato and corn. reds were our favs, having a full acre in just that. we cycled between 3 fields on a pig farm. between the garden and the hunting, there wasn't much we needed to shop for. as a child i hated it but now i wish i hadn't and payed more attention to the skill. oh the memories of neighborhood kids coming to help shell peas and shuck corn lol. carrots were easy, we just used pillow sacks and tossed em in the washing machine. 2 large freezers and a cold room kept us going for the winter and lots of canning.
huh... my dad and his pickled beats... was carrots and radish for me :)
i think we got much more yield from each plant then u did. we did mound em and was 2 ft apart. the reds would cross over to the next plants yield. probably 3 - 5 times ur best plant. if i would venture a guess as to why , id think that pigs had a say along with deep tilling.
now hear i am trying to duplicate my childhood in my later years lmao
I appreciate a good start to finish video. Good job.
I haven't had much luck with my potatoes, now I'm going to try out your method of planting. Thanks.
wow, great video. lots of good info. Also it's great to hear that classic Minnesota accent I grew up with.
Wished I had found this earlier. Great video!!
Thank you v much for sharing your video. Have not grown any tatoes in my garden yet coz I can get em at Sam's anytime I want to but bro your garden is very inspirational to all of us. I called that a Self-sufficient retirement lifestyle. :)
By far one of the best videos I have watched about gardening, thanks for the full onset from start to finish...
This video was so well done. I think you should do more like this. How about doing one on pork steaks? You could document it from piglet all the way to plate!
Uh, no--I don't want to see pigs or anything killed.
Something is wrong with you
MN weather sounds like MD weather. we're in the middle of March and had 70 degree weather last week. Tomorrow night there calling for foot of snow! Love your channel thanks for the great videos.
I starting today because of corona virus everything locked down and I want to be sure we will have those in some time, thank you for great tutorial!
Yep. We garden every year but this year ,attention to detail will be the norm. Idk why,, a sense of urgency i guess.
Thank you for this informative video. Growing potatoes is simple . I still needed the basic
know how, Thanks again.
I’m also in northern MN, and I remember seeing this video last year! Look at us know, eh?
This is the BEST video Ive seen for growing potatoes ourselves. LOVED that you kept coming back and great video of what to expect and how to's ect.. thank you!!
Thank you Cherie, I hope it helps you during your growing season. Joe
Such a great video! Always wanted to try to grow potatoes, but never knew how to do it haha! This helped me so much! Thank you! :) Best wishes from Sweden!
This was a fantastic video. I learned so much. Thank you for going through the entire cycle from planting to storage.
If you want to keep potatoes as fresh as the day u picked them I have found storing them in dry sand or soil the best. Fill up a tub with soil or sand and make sure all the spuds are covered. This will keep the spuds super fresh for months.
any particular type of sand?
I used dry sand from a disused kids sand pit.
I guess any is fine as long as it’s dry and no chemicals have been used to kills weeds or something.
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GREATEST!!!!!! Just the video I was looking for ... so informative and showed in detail what to do and when. Thank you so much for taking your time to do this for us city folks who moved to the country to get away from it all and try to grow our own food. THANKS!!!
In the U.K. we have first earlies,second earlies ,main crops and late cropping so dig up at different times also the earlies don’t have much of a skin which is great for salads and the texture is different from main croppers which have thicker skin I guess in essence we look at potatoes differently from your side of the pond which is quite interesting as new potatoes are not so good for chipping whereas main crops are better for this and roasting/baking . As you can tell I like potatoes 🥔😁
The best fish-and-chips I ever had was when I visited the U.K. (mainly Scotland) for a week! They really know how to cook potatoes over there. Somewhat ironic, since the potato actually originated in the New World (actually, South America, then to Europe, then was brought to North America).
Actually there are special chipping varieties that will make good chips anytime you dig them. I grew them for 25 years.
James Methvin yes your right there are some varieties that are great for chips, roasting etc it comes down to the water content I believe.
@@dickiedollop We call it the dry matter content but of course less water means the same thing. I grew the Atlantic variety, there are many others and Frito Lay has their own propitiatory varieties.
This is the best youtube video on potatoes, I think.