Hello Art n Bri and all your precious kiddos. I've been binge watching you guys from my hospital bed and truley loving your family and your beautiful homestead. As I'm always in my bed t night watching on my smart TV, there is no way I can subscribe on there so today when I was finished up with my work in the kitchen, I was determined to come on line and subscribe and let you know how you make me smile when I'm alone. I'll try keeping in touch now, I already saw the video when your second pup was found and that one made me SOOOOO happy. Give the kids my love n you two stay as honest and simple as you are now, that makes you very special. XOXO Gloria a 70 yr old granny.
Watching your precious family, especially your beautiful children so full of life and love, is like sitting in front of a warm fireplace on a cold night. Your videos fill us with hope for the future. Thanks for sharing your riches with us. BTW, I love red or white potatoes almost anyway you can fix them. Red potatoes pan fried with butter and herbs are great. And I always sneak a few pieces of raw potato out of the batch like I used to do when I was helping my mother in the kitchen as a kid, been doing that for almost 70 years. Love it. Thanks for the memories.
That's a wonderful first year of spuds and yes, fresh potatoes are wonderful. I particularly like freshly dug baby potatoes. Loved all the humorous little bits in this video and watching you all work as a family on your harvest. Reading a story out loud whilst the others do the dishes is a lovely idea Bri :)
Great family, great practice and this is what my wife and I call real fun. I like how everyone in the family is engaged. This keeps the children active, teaches them to work and make use of their backyards, gardens and any available space rather than run to the grocery stores which are full of costly GM foods. This saves you a lot. Keep it up and all the best.
I was born on a farm in Bristol, Tennessee and we truly ate what we grew. Fresh potatoes were one of my favorites. I'm old now but my memories are priceless.
Oh yes, i love fresh potatoes. My family grew an acre sized garden and potatoes were at least a third of the crop. We stored them in the potato room in the cellar a 10 X 10 by 8 foot high. The potatoes filled the room stacked to the ceiling. That would last our family of 9 until spring planting. We also stored carrots in the cellar. You top, clean and air dry the carrots. In a large wood box layer clean sand, a layer of carrots that aren't touching one another then cover with another layer of sand until the box is full. The carrots will last months just as good as they came out of the ground.
Art I'm sure you do it way more than we ever see on camera but just wanted to give you props for letting Brit boy "help" you carry the bucket and wheel barrow. I have a 19 month old that wants to be just like me and do everything daddy does and I try and let him "help" as much as I can cause the joy on his face is what life is all about. And I know it's hard for us Dad's to have the patience sometimes so 👍🏻 to you sir!
I love that y’all let the kids “help” even if it’s not really help and it makes things take longer. My kids have always loved being part of what grown ups are doing chore wise. It makes them feel important and part of what’s going on. So many people don’t.
we have planted potatoes for the last several years. and God has blessed us with (usually), enough potatoes to last until springtime--often over 500 lbs in about 6, 40 foot rows. they are such a blessing and SO practical!!
I just love watching you and your family . I live in town but have a huge yard and have started gardening it with my family. I remember as a child in the 70’s we used to go and dig our own potatoes. I hadn’t thought of that in forever. Thanks for sharing, teaching and inspiring me and my small family.
i love this beautiful family..they were so humble inspite of their abundant life...i love seeing these kids playing around and helping their parents do the work..i love this kind of life!
One of my favorite things to eat freshly harvested. Brings back memories of my childhood helping my dad look thru that dark soil to find them. Nothing better.
Tiny new potatoes fried up crispy on the outside and tender on the inside! Delish! One year we harvested our potatoes and left them in the sun to harden. Our young teen son and daughter were supposed to rinse them off, put them in baskets after they got home from school. However, when I came home, from work there were potatoes all over the yard and I had a broken window. :( They had gotten into an argument, started throwing potatoes at each other and threw one through the kitchen window. We refer to this as The Great Potato War. LOL
Lovely video. Yes, I have tasted real FRESH potatoes. I spend months of the year in Portugal, central, and all my neighbors have their yard with a similar garden. Their extra crop are the grapes and we make wine. Everything else is from mother Earth: garluc,onions,celery,potatoes,beans of many colors,tomatoes of different shapes and colors, lettuce,oranges,lemons,apples,pears,bay leaves (a giant bush),rosemary,figs,peaches,and much more. Year round work but worth every inch. I live in Florida as well so I enjoy fresh food,then must search on farmers market for similar food. Thanks for sharing. You have a precious family.
My grandparents lived in the Ozarks until I was in my 20s and my grandpa's pride and joy was the half acre potato garden right behind the house. Literally, nothing but potatoes. Come harvest time they'd have racks and racks in the basement floor to ceiling of spuds. Oh. My. God. Those potatoes were the best I've ever had. I think they were just regular reds but they tasted amazing. Your video about your harvest brought back really good memories (however my grandpa used a tractor to harvest his taters!)
Great work! My grandparents store potatoes from their garden in their basement. My nana hasn't purchased potatoes in all the years my Grampa has been tending crops. They have enough to store for the entire year, even with family coming for big dinners and thanksgiving and xmas dinner at their house! I can't wait to have my own land and crop garden. Keep up the good work and keep learning!
camp fire to burn my potato plants and while im digging them up I wrap my first few in aluminium foil and enjoy the fruits of my labor LOL while im laboring ! little salt n pepper and a dab of butter is my favorite way to cook and eat my fresh from the earth potatoes .
Growing up over here in blighty my father had 2 allotments almost all put to growing potatoes. We would have a huge harvest all stored in paper sacks at a friends farm. They would be bartered for meat, logs, other veggies, and services like chimney cleaning amongst the local community. Back at home we also had a garden with salad / new potatoes which would be dug up and only cooked fresh. Can't beat fresh spuds from the garden! Thanks for showing us your lovely garden.
Oh. My. Word! Potatoes so fresh the skins roll right off under your fingers when you are washing them! My all time favorite dish from the garden is fresh green beans, with a few of the tiny, new potatoes you scrabble from near the surface. YUM!
We love fresh potatoes! Out of everything we grow my youngest (3yrs) was the most excited to dig for potatoes. And eating blueberries right off the bushes.
We had a farm some years ago and we planted potatoes for the first time. My kids LOVED doing that and harvesting them. We had a much smaller patch than you two though. And yes, your own fresh potatoes are the absolute best! Planning to do that again soon. I love you and your family and so look forward to the videos.
I grow them every year, not enough to store, but we eat them during late summer. One thing I noticed was you dug your potatoes to early. Those plants were still green and growing. You could have gotten a bigger crop had you let them sit until the tops die off. When the plant turns brown, that's when you harvest them. I don't grow enough to store so I purchase them in Oct. If you store them to early, they will rot before you eat them all. They like to be cold and dark and dry, to store well. There's always next year.
I agree with you. You want to wait until the vines are yellowed and laying all over the ground before digging. The peeling needed to be thicker on those potatoes, they won't Winter over.
Headly Lemar good input. I was about to ask if the greens were tasty for eating like you can the green leaves from beets but guess not if you're suppose to let the leaves yellow
That's so great to get so many potatoes your first time growing them! We love fresh potatoes. Thanks for sharing such a fun family garden time. The shirt design is creative, meaningful, and delightful. Blessings to you all. - Carrie
Yes I have ;) totally lovely . Used to have an allotment of land, with potatoes , runner beans and herbs. As was hinted at in this video, the trick to a higher yield is to thoroughly dig over the growing area first. Then place the rows. In hot weather they need plenty of water, and for bigger ones I used seaweed extract. In Ireland, it was traditional to gather seaweed from the beach for their potato crop. If you have the time, the extra watering and feeding pays off and you can achieve large jacket potato sizes plus a bigger yield :) Quicker to foliar feed them with a sprayer if you have one. Lovely video , lovely people ;)
That's awesome!! Some of my favorite memories as a child are the times we would take up our potatoes. I haven't planted any in a long time, but I'm trying to expand my garden area and would love to plant my own potatoes again!
We call them "New Potatoes" in my neck of the woods. And yes I've had them many times. Our two favorite ways to fix them are Parsley potatoes which is boiled and drained new potatoes covered with butter in which there is several tablespoons of minced parsley and a dash of garlic. The other way is New Potatoes and Peas...Which is potatoes and peas cooked separately combined with a white gravy or sauce. The gravy needs to be seasoned with garlic and onion. Toss the whole kit and kaboodle together and serve with some zucchini and green beans as well as sliced tomatoes and you have a summer feast! Sending love!
Congratulations on your garden. What a beautiful crop of potatoes, My tomatoes in New York are still green and I planted in the end of May. The straw you put between the rows made a big difference,
Hey ya bart an Bri, this was a fun video because I saw you guys having fun, it’s awesome to have the kids help out and try out the food, it might take a little more time though it’s awesome to see you let the little one help, I love how The two of you include the whole family, that is what you call, well I really don’t know what you call it because I never had it, but I would say a tight family and this is good to see. Thank you guys you fill my heart.
We are enjoying our first scuessful crop of potatoes right now too! So delicious! And eveyone enjoys digging up the "teasure"! ....Many more plants will be going in the garden next year!
Congratulations! Yes!!! There is nothing like harvesting your own potatoes! The feeling is just like opening a Christmas present!!!but even better...planting, nurturing each potato plant... running your fingers through the loose dirt and finding your surprise..there is just nothing like it!!! They taste amazing , too! Please make sure none of them are touching each other as they r drying or they will rot! Enjoy your amazing bounty!❤️
As a kid my mom and grandparents always had gardens, well everyone had a garden. If you wanted to eat, you had a garden, so we had new potatoes all the time!
Joy, beautiful bounty!!! I live in the city, i have a small backyard, I grow some vegetables, And potatoes in a raised box, its a 4 ft by 8 ft . When its harvest time I am so excited, its like searching for treasure, love it. The potatoes that I have grown are red , golden , purple or white. The most I have harvested is 20 lbs. Awesome Sauce. It is so nice to see a young family working together. Many Blessings, Laura M
It's been many long years but yet we used to have new potatoes and beans and okra and all of that about this time of year it's wonderful and next year will be doing it again finally thanks for all your inspiration
I am so happy for you and your potato harvest. It is amazing that you have come so far this season. My favorite way to eat fresh potatoes is creamed. I have fond memories of my grandma making creamed potatoes and cornbread for supper.
That is a fantastic first harvest ! We too, just planted potatoes for the first time this year and we are looking forward to our harvest. I dug some up and we had them the other day and they were so buttery smooth, yum!
I continue to be amazed at the abundance of your harvest.I grew potatoes for the first time too,but only in a pot.I got enough for one meal,lol.I do remember my grandfather raising them.He stored them on a screen door suspended from the ceiling in the basement.My grandmother canned alot.
Hey! Great harvest! I'm so jealous of your out buildings! So much room with great circulations and dark conditions, perfect for curing! My taters were spread out all over our cabin curing! Your soil, like mine and most folks in the south, could really benefit from a thorough broadforking! I've had much better harvests from all of the root crops since I've been broadforking! It's a lot of work but every time I fork it gets easier. Work in the amendments and compost as you go. You can even use the fork when you are harvesting, although I know you are probably partial to your stick Art! :) Always enjoy your vlogs!
Love fresh potatoes, nothing better. I raised potatoes this year first time in a long time. I got over 70 lbs not bad. We love to boil them then take them and quarter them, with skin on put in frying pan with some butter garlic and chives.....oh my now that's eating. Happy farming to you guys !!
Yummm!!! You guys did awesome in your first potato harvest. I remember when I was a young kid 😉 my mom grew baby potatoes and served them with white gravy, very delicious.
Think about building a bin for drying and storing vegetables make sure it has mouse proof wire covering it on the bottom and top to allow air flow but keep mice out
Growing potatoes is such a joy. I remember the first time. It is like digging for treasure. Happy for you. You planted yours after ours and we have not looked at ours yet. Now I want to go peek.
New potatoes are the best. Every year around the 4th of July Our family has a annual meal of New potatoes, corn on the cob, tomatoes, fried squash and fried okra. My children and grandchildren are asking every year when the corn and tomatoes will e ready, cause they know will get to have Our special once a year get together.
+Emma 3010 Do you have a good German Potato Salad recipe you would share? My grandfather used to make it but the recipe was lost long ago... I am SO craving that delicious potato salad ! Thanks !
FRESH FOOD! OMG!!!! I grow up in the farm, we do all these stuff before. I hate commercial veggies but what can I do, I live in a big city now. Taste of fresh veggies/meat are the bessst, small time gardeners/farmers are the only few people who knew the difference (?). I grow up eating organic... REALLY ORGANIC! I miss it so much. It's been 2 hours, I will watch all your vids lol.
Watch some permaculture videos that tell you how to grow many food plants even in a small apartment! I would garden if I had some help. I'm limited in what I can do and how much I can due do to Fibromyalgia and age.
Yes I have eaten fresh potatoes as a child. They were so good that as an adult, in some summers, I put a few potatoes in big pots so I can have a few meals of fresh potatoes. I liked the shot on the ground of you and Bri harvesting very much.
Great harvest! If you wait until the leaves are completely dead and dried, you will get even bigger taters. All the nutrients from the leaves travels back to the tubers as they die back. We even found potatoes we missed from last year when we planted this year! Still good! Blew us away, as we are in Wisconsin!
Here in Sweden all the stores sell new potatoes as soon as they're available. It's big business and people eat a lot of them during the summer. Very tasty.
My grandmother planted just about everything in her garden every year,even peanuts!! Fresh potatoes are straight from the garden and cooked and I had many over the years.I loved them boiled with butter. I love your channel !!! I watch every video,and I must say y'all have did a great job raising your children! You both are very blessed with a wonderful family ☺
I remember when I was about 6 or 7 years old, my friend and I would sneek into the neighbors garden and pull out small potatoes and eat them raw. We thought we were the bad boys of the area. Come to find out the neighbor new it was us all along. Good haul on the potatoes !!! I usually get 75 to 100 lbs from my containers and raised bed where I grow them. Just pulled up the pea vines as they are done for the year here and what did I find? potatoes growing. Volunteers from last year. I really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!!
Yes, new potatoes this year for the first time. So yummy. If you need a use for the tiny ones, just scrub and bake w skins on the flatten w a fork like peanut butter cookies. Brush w olive oil, salt ,pepper, granulated garlic and top w grated Parmesan. Bake till brown. Mmmmm.
We grew our first crop of potatoes last year and it was eye opening! we had never eaten a fresh potato before. You're right Arthur, they taste FANITASTIC!! So much better! Also, I have to say that harvesting potatoes is probably even more gratifying than tasting the great fresh homegrown taste. And that's saying a lot!! It's like digging for treasure!! -Lorajean
Nice potato harvest!! I have not harvested mine yet, but yes fresh potato's from the garden are the best, don't even need to peel them. I will can mine as french fries and cubed. Thanks for sharing your bountiful harvest with us.
*Yes as a child many many years ago we had the most amazing vegetables garden❗️....... Sadly those days are long gone but my loving memories remain fresh and alive forever❗️*
Wow. Good for you guys! I grew potatoes for the first time this year too! I got about 50-60lbs out of a 12×6 ft raised bed. No root cellar though, so freezing and dehydrating up a storm. Fresh potatoes are better!
Great harvest. I love new potatoes. A diabetic bit of tidbit is that new potatoes haven't had time to convert all of the starch which makes them easier on the blood sugar...so I enjoy them all I can this time of year. Also, make sure your potatoes are cured in the dark... a little light can turn them green....Ask me how I know this. Lost a whole harvest one year. Just cover them with a dark cloth. I break all the rules for storage.... I wash them, cure them then store them in an old refrigerator with the temp set as high as it will go... not lower. I can keep them for a whole year. Same with carrots.
We planted our first ones last year and got about 80lbs, we know how excited you are! Congrats! They do taste much better! When I'm off GAPS we will plant agian!! Maybe in the spring :)
Yes! I've grown potatoes and my parents grew them when I was growing up. There's a WORLD of difference in the ones you grow and the ones you get at the grocery store. In fact, Art, if you were to eat one of mine and then taste yours, even though they might be the same variety, they would be different cause they get their taste from the soil they are grown in along with the minerals and nutrients their vines pull from the soil and store in the potatoes. After all, those are their 'babies' -- expected to carry on their genes into the future!
I don’t know why people are pressing the unlike button. Folks they all deserve thumbs up including my toes!! Awesome family awesome life awesome garden!
I know your a busy family but I love your videos and don't care how short they are. You feel like friends that you want to know about and what your up too.
The only potatoes that we ever grew were grown not far from where you live. On our blueberry farm there we planted our first potato garden plot. We had more beautiful potatoes than anyone could ever wish for. We ate them, gave them away and stored all that we had room for. You are right, they were the most delicious potatoes that we had ever tasted, because they were fresh and we had grown them on our own farm. You're making me hungry for fresh picked fried okra! Yum! Journey On!
by using the soil in the green house for a winter planting I can get 4 harvests per year. So I only store them for a month or 2. As I harvest I replant the small ones or vines that have started new growth. So yes I eat most of my potatoes fresh.
Hello Art n Bri and all your precious kiddos. I've been binge watching you guys from my hospital bed and truley loving your family and your beautiful homestead. As I'm always in my bed t night watching on my smart TV, there is no way I can subscribe on there so today when I was finished up with my work in the kitchen, I was determined to come on line and subscribe and let you know how you make me smile when I'm alone. I'll try keeping in touch now, I already saw the video when your second pup was found and that one made me SOOOOO happy. Give the kids my love n you two stay as honest and simple as you are now, that makes you very special. XOXO Gloria a 70 yr old granny.
Watching your precious family, especially your beautiful children so full of life and love, is like sitting in front of a warm fireplace on a cold night. Your videos fill us with hope for the future. Thanks for sharing your riches with us.
BTW, I love red or white potatoes almost anyway you can fix them. Red potatoes pan fried with butter and herbs are great. And I always sneak a few pieces of raw potato out of the batch like I used to do when I was helping my mother in the kitchen as a kid, been doing that for almost 70 years. Love it. Thanks for the memories.
That's a wonderful first year of spuds and yes, fresh potatoes are wonderful. I particularly like freshly dug baby potatoes. Loved all the humorous little bits in this video and watching you all work as a family on your harvest. Reading a story out loud whilst the others do the dishes is a lovely idea Bri :)
Great family, great practice and this is what my wife and I call real fun. I like how everyone in the family is engaged. This keeps the children active, teaches them to work and make use of their backyards, gardens and any available space rather than run to the grocery stores which are full of costly GM foods. This saves you a lot. Keep it up and all the best.
"All my wishes are coming true..." Sweeter words never spoken by a little girl! Made me so happy. You KNOW you are on the right path!
I was born on a farm in Bristol, Tennessee and we truly ate what we grew. Fresh potatoes were one of my favorites. I'm old now but my memories are priceless.
Oh yes, i love fresh potatoes. My family grew an acre sized garden and potatoes were at least a third of the crop. We stored them in the potato room in the cellar a 10 X 10 by 8 foot high. The potatoes filled the room stacked to the ceiling. That would last our family of 9 until spring planting. We also stored carrots in the cellar. You top, clean and air dry the carrots. In a large wood box layer clean sand, a layer of carrots that aren't touching one another then cover with another layer of sand until the box is full. The carrots will last months just as good as they came out of the ground.
Art I'm sure you do it way more than we ever see on camera but just wanted to give you props for letting Brit boy "help" you carry the bucket and wheel barrow. I have a 19 month old that wants to be just like me and do everything daddy does and I try and let him "help" as much as I can cause the joy on his face is what life is all about. And I know it's hard for us Dad's to have the patience sometimes so 👍🏻 to you sir!
Loved Daddy letting Brighton "help". Lovely family, wonderful farm life, great editing, too!
I love that y’all let the kids “help” even if it’s not really help and it makes things take longer. My kids have always loved being part of what grown ups are doing chore wise. It makes them feel important and part of what’s going on. So many people don’t.
we have planted potatoes for the last several years. and God has blessed us with (usually), enough potatoes to last until springtime--often over 500 lbs in about 6, 40 foot rows. they are such a blessing and SO practical!!
I just love watching you and your family . I live in town but have a huge yard and have started gardening it with my family. I remember as a child in the 70’s we used to go and dig our own potatoes. I hadn’t thought of that in forever. Thanks for sharing, teaching and inspiring me and my small family.
i love this beautiful family..they were so humble inspite of their abundant life...i love seeing these kids playing around and helping their parents do the work..i love this kind of life!
One of my favorite things to eat freshly harvested. Brings back memories of my childhood helping my dad look thru that dark soil to find them. Nothing better.
Loved the Green acres moment when y'all stood side by side and had a short conversation while looking at the camera. Very funny and cute.
Fresh dug potatoes always remind me of my dad. He was an avid gardener right up to the end. Thank you for bringing back that beautiful memory
Digging potatoes is such fun! It's like digging for buried treasure! What a wonderful harvest!! SO exciting!
We grew potatoes for the first time this summer and enjoyed them fresh for the first time!
Nothing in the stores compares.
Tiny new potatoes fried up crispy on the outside and tender on the inside! Delish! One year we harvested our potatoes and left them in the sun to harden. Our young teen son and daughter were supposed to rinse them off, put them in baskets after they got home from school. However, when I came home, from work there were potatoes all over the yard and I had a broken window. :( They had gotten into an argument, started throwing potatoes at each other and threw one through the kitchen window. We refer to this as The Great Potato War. LOL
Lovely video. Yes, I have tasted real FRESH potatoes. I spend months of the year in Portugal, central, and all my neighbors have their yard with a similar garden. Their extra crop are the grapes and we make wine. Everything else is from mother Earth: garluc,onions,celery,potatoes,beans of many colors,tomatoes of different shapes and colors, lettuce,oranges,lemons,apples,pears,bay leaves (a giant bush),rosemary,figs,peaches,and much more. Year round work but worth every inch. I live in Florida as well so I enjoy fresh food,then must search on farmers market for similar food. Thanks for sharing. You have a precious family.
My grandparents lived in the Ozarks until I was in my 20s and my grandpa's pride and joy was the half acre potato garden right behind the house. Literally, nothing but potatoes. Come harvest time they'd have racks and racks in the basement floor to ceiling of spuds. Oh. My. God. Those potatoes were the best I've ever had. I think they were just regular reds but they tasted amazing. Your video about your harvest brought back really good memories (however my grandpa used a tractor to harvest his taters!)
Great work! My grandparents store potatoes from their garden in their basement. My nana hasn't purchased potatoes in all the years my Grampa has been tending crops. They have enough to store for the entire year, even with family coming for big dinners and thanksgiving and xmas dinner at their house! I can't wait to have my own land and crop garden. Keep up the good work and keep learning!
camp fire to burn my potato plants and while im digging them up I wrap my first few in aluminium foil and enjoy the fruits of my labor LOL while im laboring ! little salt n pepper and a dab of butter is my favorite way to cook and eat my fresh from the earth potatoes .
Growing up over here in blighty my father had 2 allotments almost all put to growing potatoes. We would have a huge harvest all stored in paper sacks at a friends farm. They would be bartered for meat, logs, other veggies, and services like chimney cleaning amongst the local community. Back at home we also had a garden with salad / new potatoes which would be dug up and only cooked fresh. Can't beat fresh spuds from the garden! Thanks for showing us your lovely garden.
Oh. My. Word! Potatoes so fresh the skins roll right off under your fingers when you are washing them! My all time favorite dish from the garden is fresh green beans, with a few of the tiny, new potatoes you scrabble from near the surface. YUM!
We love fresh potatoes! Out of everything we grow my youngest (3yrs) was the most excited to dig for potatoes. And eating blueberries right off the bushes.
We had a farm some years ago and we planted potatoes for the first time. My kids LOVED doing that and harvesting them. We had a much smaller patch than you two though. And yes, your own fresh potatoes are the absolute best! Planning to do that again soon.
I love you and your family and so look forward to the videos.
Yes on the fresh potatoes. It was so cute to see Brighten helping out. Have a great day.
I just love this family ♡♡♡♡ God bless.
I grow them every year, not enough to store, but we eat them during late summer. One thing I noticed was you dug your potatoes to early. Those plants were still green and growing. You could have gotten a bigger crop had you let them sit until the tops die off. When the plant turns brown, that's when you harvest them. I don't grow enough to store so I purchase them in Oct. If you store them to early, they will rot before you eat them all. They like to be cold and dark and dry, to store well. There's always next year.
besides, 137 lbs will not go far for 6 ppl. I store 150 lbs for just the two of us. It will last us until March.
I agree with you. You want to wait until the vines are yellowed and laying all over the ground before digging. The peeling needed to be thicker on those potatoes, they won't Winter over.
Well theyndid say they are amatures....
Headly Lemar good input. I was about to ask if the greens were tasty for eating like you can the green leaves from beets but guess not if you're suppose to let the leaves yellow
NO, NO, NO, you cannot eat the leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, rhubarb, they are poison. They are all members of the nightshade family.
I love they interaction with the kids! Love the whole family!
That's so great to get so many potatoes your first time growing them! We love fresh potatoes. Thanks for sharing such a fun family garden time. The shirt design is creative, meaningful, and delightful. Blessings to you all. - Carrie
Yes I have ;) totally lovely . Used to have an allotment of land, with potatoes , runner beans and herbs.
As was hinted at in this video, the trick to a higher yield is to thoroughly dig over the growing area first. Then place the rows.
In hot weather they need plenty of water, and for bigger ones I used seaweed extract. In Ireland, it was traditional to gather seaweed from the beach for their potato crop.
If you have the time, the extra watering and feeding pays off and you can achieve large jacket potato sizes plus a bigger yield :)
Quicker to foliar feed them with a sprayer if you have one.
Lovely video , lovely people ;)
Aaaahhhhh.. your videos make me so happy!! ☺
That's awesome!! Some of my favorite memories as a child are the times we would take up our potatoes. I haven't planted any in a long time, but I'm trying to expand my garden area and would love to plant my own potatoes again!
Potato harvesting looks like so much fun!
We call them "New Potatoes" in my neck of the woods. And yes I've had them many times. Our two favorite ways to fix them are Parsley potatoes which is boiled and drained new potatoes covered with butter in which there is several tablespoons of minced parsley and a dash of garlic. The other way is New Potatoes and Peas...Which is potatoes and peas cooked separately combined with a white gravy or sauce. The gravy needs to be seasoned with garlic and onion. Toss the whole kit and kaboodle together and serve with some zucchini and green beans as well as sliced tomatoes and you have a summer feast! Sending love!
I love how the whole family comes together .
We had lots of fresh potatoes. We called them "new potatoes" and ate them boiled with the skins on and covered in butter and parsley. Yum. -Art's Dad
Congratulations on your garden. What a beautiful crop of potatoes,
My tomatoes in New York are still green and I planted in the end of May.
The straw you put between the rows made a big difference,
Hey ya bart an Bri, this was a fun video because I saw you guys having fun, it’s awesome to have the kids help out and try out the food, it might take a little more time though it’s awesome to see you let the little one help, I love how The two of you include the whole family, that is what you call, well I really don’t know what you call it because I never had it, but I would say a tight family and this is good to see. Thank you guys you fill my heart.
We are enjoying our first scuessful crop of potatoes right now too! So delicious! And eveyone enjoys digging up the "teasure"! ....Many more plants will be going in the garden next year!
Fresh potatoes are awesome. Makes you realize what all food USED to taste like before mass production and shipping. Nice harvest!
Congratulations! Yes!!! There is nothing like harvesting your own potatoes! The feeling is just like opening a Christmas present!!!but even better...planting, nurturing each potato plant... running your fingers through the loose dirt and finding your surprise..there is just nothing like it!!! They taste amazing , too!
Please make sure none of them are touching each other as they r drying or they will rot!
Enjoy your amazing bounty!❤️
As a kid my mom and grandparents always had gardens, well everyone had a garden. If you wanted to eat, you had a garden, so we had new potatoes all the time!
So good to see the whole family harvesting potatoes. Good job. Just love your videos and your kids.
Joy, beautiful bounty!!! I live in the city, i have a small backyard, I grow some vegetables, And potatoes in a raised box, its a 4 ft by 8 ft . When its harvest time I am so excited, its like searching for treasure, love it. The potatoes that I have grown are red , golden , purple or white. The most I have harvested is 20 lbs. Awesome Sauce. It is so nice to see a young family working together. Many Blessings, Laura M
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Growing potatoes for the first time in 2018. Hope I have as much success as you guys. Love your videos. Keep them coming!
It's been many long years but yet we used to have new potatoes and beans and okra and all of that about this time of year it's wonderful and next year will be doing it again finally thanks for all your inspiration
I am so happy for you and your potato harvest. It is amazing that you have come so far this season. My favorite way to eat fresh potatoes is creamed. I have fond memories of my grandma making creamed potatoes and cornbread for supper.
That is a fantastic first harvest !
We too, just planted potatoes for the first time this year and we are looking forward to our harvest. I dug some up and we had them the other day and they were so buttery smooth, yum!
I continue to be amazed at the abundance of your harvest.I grew potatoes for the first time too,but only in a pot.I got enough for one meal,lol.I do remember my grandfather raising them.He stored them on a screen door suspended from the ceiling in the basement.My grandmother canned alot.
Congrats on a great potato harvest! My favorite way to eat new potatoes is stir fried with fresh green beans.
I have to say, you guys are truly impressive. I can feel your joy when I watch you videos.
Hey! Great harvest! I'm so jealous of your out buildings! So much room with great circulations and dark conditions, perfect for curing! My taters were spread out all over our cabin curing! Your soil, like mine and most folks in the south, could really benefit from a thorough broadforking! I've had much better harvests from all of the root crops since I've been broadforking! It's a lot of work but every time I fork it gets easier. Work in the amendments and compost as you go. You can even use the fork when you are harvesting, although I know you are probably partial to your stick Art! :) Always enjoy your vlogs!
Love fresh potatoes, nothing better. I raised potatoes this year first time in a long time. I got over 70 lbs not bad. We love to boil them then take them and quarter them, with skin on put in frying pan with some butter garlic and chives.....oh my now that's eating. Happy farming to you guys !!
Loved watching y'all harvest your potatoes!!!
Yummm!!! You guys did awesome in your first potato harvest. I remember when I was a young kid 😉 my mom grew baby potatoes and served them with white gravy, very delicious.
Nice batch of potatoes....so good when they are fresh. Everyone looked so happy helping with the harvest. Have a Blessed day.
Think about building a bin for drying and storing vegetables make sure it has mouse proof wire covering it on the bottom and top to allow air flow but keep mice out
Growing potatoes is such a joy. I remember the first time. It is like digging for treasure. Happy for you. You planted yours after ours and we have not looked at ours yet. Now I want to go peek.
New potatoes are great! Digging under a plant to get one before the harvest is awesome and such a treat!
Beautiful soil! "All my wishes are coming true." Love it!
Absolutely gorgeous editing on this one!! I'm almost finished with a t-shirt design for you guys. The little ones gathering potatoes was too precious.
New potatoes are the best. Every year around the 4th of July Our family has a annual meal of New potatoes, corn on the cob, tomatoes, fried squash and fried okra. My children and grandchildren are asking every year when the corn and tomatoes will e ready, cause they know will get to have Our special once a year get together.
Boiled with sprigs of mint.
dcsoxford you boil your potatoes with a sprig of mint? That sounds so interesting!
Stephanie, google for Lebanese potato salad - they make it with oil and mint! It's okay, but I much prefer the German style myself.
I want to come to your homestead and my job will be to empty and clean all the jars under the house lol
+Emma 3010 Do you have a good German Potato Salad recipe you would share? My grandfather used to make it but the recipe was lost long ago... I am SO craving that delicious potato salad ! Thanks !
I agree with you, your own veg are the best it tastes so different no chemicals yippee!!
FRESH FOOD! OMG!!!! I grow up in the farm, we do all these stuff before. I hate commercial veggies but what can I do, I live in a big city now.
Taste of fresh veggies/meat are the bessst, small time gardeners/farmers are the only few people who knew the difference (?). I grow up eating organic... REALLY ORGANIC! I miss it so much. It's been 2 hours, I will watch all your vids lol.
Watch some permaculture videos that tell you how to grow many food plants even in a small apartment! I would garden if I had some help. I'm limited in what I can do and how much I can due do to Fibromyalgia and age.
Awesome field hands !!!
The best learning experience for children EVER
Yes I have eaten fresh potatoes as a child. They were so good that as an adult, in some summers, I put a few potatoes in big pots so I can have a few meals of fresh potatoes. I liked the shot on the ground of you and Bri harvesting very much.
FRESH TATERS ARE THE BEST I HAVE EATEN A LOT OF THEM LOVE ANY THING THAT COMES OUT OF THE GARDEN FRESH YOU HAVE TRULY BEEN BLESSED.
Great harvest! If you wait until the leaves are completely dead and dried, you will get even bigger taters. All the nutrients from the leaves travels back to the tubers as they die back. We even found potatoes we missed from last year when we planted this year! Still good! Blew us away, as we are in Wisconsin!
Here in Sweden all the stores sell new potatoes as soon as they're available. It's big business and people eat a lot of them during the summer. Very tasty.
My grandmother planted just about everything in her garden every year,even peanuts!! Fresh potatoes are straight from the garden and cooked and I had many over the years.I loved them boiled with butter. I love your channel !!! I watch every video,and I must say y'all have did a great job raising your children! You both are very blessed with a wonderful family ☺
Oh, yes I have...grew my own, oh so good! Looking forward to doing it again!Thank you for sharing!
Loved this video! Fresh potatoes are sooo good! Hope you got your quadrupuled harvest this past season. Love the tee, too.
I remember when I was about 6 or 7 years old, my friend and I would sneek into the neighbors garden and pull out small potatoes and eat them raw. We thought we were the bad boys of the area. Come to find out the neighbor new it was us all along.
Good haul on the potatoes !!! I usually get 75 to 100 lbs from my containers and raised bed where I grow them. Just pulled up the pea vines as they are done for the year here and what did I find? potatoes growing. Volunteers from last year.
I really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!!
Yes, new potatoes this year for the first time. So yummy. If you need a use for the tiny ones, just scrub and bake w skins on the flatten w a fork like peanut butter cookies. Brush w olive oil, salt ,pepper, granulated garlic and top w grated Parmesan. Bake till brown. Mmmmm.
We grew our first crop of potatoes last year and it was eye opening! we had never eaten a fresh potato before. You're right Arthur, they taste FANITASTIC!! So much better! Also, I have to say that harvesting potatoes is probably even more gratifying than tasting the great fresh homegrown taste. And that's saying a lot!! It's like digging for treasure!! -Lorajean
I lived on fresh vegetables as a kid and working on going back to it planting potatoes this year in a container thank you for sharing
Nice potato harvest!! I have not harvested mine yet, but yes fresh potato's from the garden are the best, don't even need to peel them. I will can mine as french fries and cubed. Thanks for sharing your bountiful harvest with us.
Awesome harvest!! Ours will have to stay in the ground for quite a bit longer... the joy of living further north! Thanks for sharing!!! :)
*Yes as a child many many years ago we had the most amazing vegetables garden❗️....... Sadly those days are long gone but my loving memories remain fresh and alive forever❗️*
Wow. Good for you guys! I grew potatoes for the first time this year too! I got about 50-60lbs out of a 12×6 ft raised bed. No root cellar though, so freezing and dehydrating up a storm. Fresh potatoes are better!
Great harvest. I love new potatoes. A diabetic bit of tidbit is that new potatoes haven't had time to convert all of the starch which makes them easier on the blood sugar...so I enjoy them all I can this time of year. Also, make sure your potatoes are cured in the dark... a little light can turn them green....Ask me how I know this. Lost a whole harvest one year. Just cover them with a dark cloth. I break all the rules for storage.... I wash them, cure them then store them in an old refrigerator with the temp set as high as it will go... not lower. I can keep them for a whole year. Same with carrots.
Love the tshirts!! Another great video!! 💜God Bless!!!
What an awesome potato 🥔 haul.
Can't wait for yours to be ready for harvesting!
Yes, can't wait to see what the Modern Homestead 'potato pen' yields.
We planted our first ones last year and got about 80lbs, we know how excited you are! Congrats! They do taste much better! When I'm off GAPS we will plant agian!! Maybe in the spring :)
Fresh potatoes are the BEST! Mine aren't yet ready to harvest but I'm eager to see what I got from my garden.
Great potato harvest. This was my first year too. Just ordered the shirt. Love that color blue. Keep up the great work.
Yes! I've grown potatoes and my parents grew them when I was growing up. There's a WORLD of difference in the ones you grow and the ones you get at the grocery store.
In fact, Art, if you were to eat one of mine and then taste yours, even though they might be the same variety, they would be different cause they get their taste from the soil they are grown in along with the minerals and nutrients their vines pull from the soil and store in the potatoes.
After all, those are their 'babies' -- expected to carry on their genes into the future!
I don’t know why people are pressing the unlike button. Folks they all deserve thumbs up including my toes!! Awesome family awesome life awesome garden!
I feel envious with your family... very lucky children...
I know your a busy family but I love your videos and don't care how short they are. You feel like friends that you want to know about and what your up too.
Loving your content, from the UK. Bri's smile is infectious.
Love your vlog i injoying watching your family doing in the garden
love growing potatoes! this year my first attempt at sweet potatoes too! love watching the family grow and work together :-) blessings!
love the t-shirt design. Nothing like fresh new potatoes, I remember when we harvested ours, they were delicious.God bless you and your family.
Absolutely loving that shirt design. And fresh potatoes are the best! Getting ready to harvest mine this weekend. :D
The only potatoes that we ever grew were grown not far from where you live. On our blueberry farm there we planted our first potato garden plot. We had more beautiful potatoes than anyone could ever wish for. We ate them, gave them away and stored all that we had room for. You are right, they were the most delicious potatoes that we had ever tasted, because they were fresh and we had grown them on our own farm. You're making me hungry for fresh picked fried okra! Yum! Journey On!
by using the soil in the green house for a winter planting I can get 4 harvests per year. So I only store them for a month or 2. As I harvest I replant the small ones or vines that have started new growth. So yes I eat most of my potatoes fresh.