How To Grow Potatoes In Containers (Complete Step by Step Growing Guide) Part 1 of 3
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2016
- We will show how we grow potatoes in containers for BIG Harvest. Growing potatoes in container is fun and easy. Complete step by step growing guide from plant to harvest.👇 Click (BELOW) to see other POTATO Videos and the BIG HARVEST videos! 👇
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I figured out how to find YOUR videos on any subject! Instead of searching say "growing potatoes in a bucket" and getting any and all videos from various channels, I search "Hollis and Nancy growing potatoes in a bucket" and it lists yours first! So whatever the subject is, as long as I put "Hollis and Nancy" first, it gives YOUR video on the subject first.
Thanks! I did not know that. I will share that with our subscribers ❤️
Good to know
Leslie Kendall you can also just click on their profile and find their whole list of videos that they’ve uploaded!
@@DannyKapatrik I KNOW but then you have to scroll through hundreds of videos just to see if they have one on a certain subject.
On a laptop you can go to their channel and there is a search bar below on the right of their channel photo. Here you can search any topic of theirs on this channel only. I believe it's not so simple on a phone. So your method would likely be great for the phone 🙂
I just want to say i look up to you and follow all your videos. I am a veteran who served in Iraq twice 03 04 05 06. Since the Army my life hasnt been the same and i found myself losing interest in things for a long time. Then one day i seen your videos and immediately became interested in everything you do in the garden. Which ultimately has gotten me out of the house and pretty much has helped me start healing from what i went through and made me a better gardener at the same time... thank u for all your information and honesty.. i am truely thankful.
I am the one that is truly grateful to you. Thank you so much for your service to our country. God bless you and your family. Enjoy your garden as often as you can. The garden has been a big stress relief for me as well. Peace to you.
@@HollisNancysHomestead
Thanks for replying to my message and so appreciate your kind words. I will and do enjoy it daily, have a bunch of seedlings started in my grow room. Just waiting for this northeast upstate n.y. / Pennsylvania weather to warm up enough to start transplanting after hardening off.
Frank,
Thank you for your service.
Thank you, Sir, for your service. God bless you.
Thank you Sir, for your service to our country. God bless you. Sending you prayers of peace and great harvests!
You are so informative and clear! It just warms my soul that you are Christians and pray at the end of the video!! I wish you were my neighbors. God bless you and your garden! May you have a bumper crop this year! Nadine from Ellensburg, Wa.
Holy chit! Every single bag of organic potatoes I buy has potatoes that chit all on their own. I am planting those little "chits", too!
That's how I've done it!
The only reason I only use seed potatoes is they are certified disease free. The organic grocery store potatoes will chit because they haven’t been sprayed but they may very well have a disease that you will introduce to your garden soil. If you save your spent container soil for amending and reuse do not use it for tomatoes or potatoes 👍
I watched almost all your videos. They are fantastically short and to the point with real experience without missing small details. Well prepared with clear voice and easy language.
Well done! I'm so glad to follow your channel.
Very informative and inspiring video. Thanks.
+Aye Mar
Thanks for watching👍
Hollis & Nancy's Homestead
I like that prayer at the end. Keep up the good work friends.
All these years later, from 2020, I still watch your videos as a reminder to make sure I'm doing it correctly. Thank you much.
I'm59 years old and this is my first year to actually trying to grow potatoes. Thank you so much for your wonderful video.
Just found you all ! So happy to hear the prayer at the end. I live in st. Louis, in your typical neighborhood and starting a urban homestead until I can get my dream homestead . I am a Christian and mother of 4 .
+Samantha Miles
Welcome to the family Samantha❤️❤️🐶
Got my daughter to watch this with potatoes this morning and she is planting potatoes. I am 78 so I learned all this from my home as a kid. love the way you all bless God for all you have. That is so so important. God bless you all Merle
You're a good teacher😁like your diagrams and No one else explained why I should get seed potatoes Thanks!☺
Happy to help
Great education and clear instructions. Just love listening as you have such a kind, warm voice. Everytime you say tater it makes me smile. Thank you😊
❤️❤️❤️Tater❤️❤️❤️
Loved the Bible verse in the end! Also growing potatoes in a bucket - just a smaller one than those.
Here the time to plant is in the end of May / beginning of June.
Great material, and very very very well-edited. You pack a lot of information into a short video. Joy to you and your work🌱🌱🌱
I’ve watched quite a few potato growing videos and you’ve given much more detail. This is very helpful. Thanks for explaining the top from the bottom and chits up!
This was one of the best videos I've seen on planting potatoes. Thank you so much for taking the time to share how you do it- The potato detail at the beginning was great. Loved it❤ thanks
Thank you for sharing the anatomy of the potato. It really helps to understand the whys and hows of planting. Please keep videos coming!💚
Also what is best way to store potatoes long term? I don't have a basement or root celler.
Now I Know why I didn't have any potatoes last year. I did it all wrong!! Thanks Hollis & Nancy. Love you.
+Nancy Houston
As your plants emerge in the containers, when they get 12 inches tall fill in more soil leaving 2 to 3 inches of the plants exposed. Continue this process until the soil is 2 inches below the rim of the container. Then let the plants grow as big as they will until the end of the summer. When you see the plant leaves turning yellow your potatoes are ready for harvest. Good luck Nancy, be sure to post some pictures of your harvest on our Facebook Page (Hollis and Nancy's Homestead) we would love to see them. Have a blessed day 😇
I'm going to give it a try! I've never grown potatoes. Wish me luck!
We love you Hollis and Nancy!!
We love our homestead family!
This is by far the best video out there on the subject. It checks all the boxes. Thank you for all the helpful insights and for actually showing us how to do each step. Very educational! Now I know the difference between "determinate" and "indeterminate" potatoes. THANK YOU! God bless you!
Found your site last week, what a blessing your videos are, just like being there and learning "on the farm" I will be trying several new crops this year because of your instructions and wisdom. Thank you SOOO much. May God richly bless you both 💗
Thank you so much for your kind words! Gardening is so fun especially when trying something new. Enjoy your garden this year❤️
I can listen to Hollis say TATERS ... all day long. Thank you Hollis and Nancy for doing these. This is really helping me.
Looked like a glorious day, sunshine, planting, just fun.
Your little homestead inspires me, exactly about what I can handle in my retirement.
Your videos are great. When I put holes for drainage I cover the holes with coffee filters so the soil stays in the pot, not running out the bottom. Just a tip I have found works well.
Or newspaper might work. Just a thin layer.
I truly love you guys!!! You are helping me on my planting potato journey! I am 72 yrs old and now live in WV but spent the 1st 26 yrs in Brooklyn, NY.
I am so excited. You talk to the "new" beginner and I NEED THAT! Thank you and God bless!
I like the way you say tators. GREAT
WOW! What an awesome video! Such a sweet industrious DETAILED man and so cute and so funny! "French Fries" I love his little accent! I absolutely love the little prayer with you both at the end and the Bible verse you added. Sending love your way.
+Arlene Haas
Thank you so much!! Hope you subscribed to our little channel😇
+Hollis & Nancy's Homestead Yes love, I absolutely did subscribe to your Channel! You guys are so awesome and so inspirational! Enclosing a big hug.
+Arlene Haas
Welcome to the family Arlene😍😍
Arlene Haas
I have a question. Why didn't you cut the other taters, like the first bunch? I have seed potato's and am ready to pant them.
Mr. Hollis, I just wanted to let you know that I was able to get my six year old son interested in working with me in my vegetable gardens because of your videos. We watch them together and his favorite part is the different Bible quotes that you post at the end of each video. He always asks me, "Can we watch the christian man's grow videos on RUclips?" I always say yes and we either watch a new video or re-watch one that we've already seen. Our favorite videos are these potato videos! I am growing kennebec and sweet potatoes for the first time ever and we followed your instructions to the very detail. Our kennebecs' spouted through the dirt (green point) and are growing fantastically. Thank you for all of the videos that you and Ms. Nancy post!!!!!
Nothing makes me smile more than to see young children in the garden with their parents. My heart is full ❤️❤️😇. God bless y’all
I am very inspired by your garden. And now I'm growing potatoes in containers too!
Thank you
+Kimberly Crusher
Awesome Kimberly!!!🥔🥔🥔🥔. Please post some pix on our Facebook page ❤️❤️🐶
Love your channel, you might try digging your potatoes after the vines completely die off. We’re from central NC and harvest around July 4th so they won’t rot. I’m gonna plant taters in containers this week. Thanks for the good idea and thank you for your Christian attitude.Mark Farlow in Trinity NC
Thank you so much sir for this information. I am from Russia. My family & I we move to America when I was 13 years old. I remember that in Russia even during our modern time people keep a garden, or two where they grow their own food. It’s very common in Russia for people to grow most of their own produce. Even for those Russians who live in a busy city they own plots of land outside of the city that they travel to on the weekends to work that land. My family we owned a couple of plots of land, and we grew all kinds of food. I remember one of our gardens was surrounded by very lush raspberry bushes. We had a cherry tree apricot tree. We harvested so much strawberry. After my mother jarred the fruit, veg, and berries for the winter, we ended up giving a lot away to our friends and neighbors for free. Here in Florida you don’t see people growing their own food. In Jackson Florida it seems like people care more about the appearance of their land then utilizing every inch of their land for growing food. That’s why in America we have a multi million dollar lawn care industry . Somethings don’t really grow in Florida though. Like for example my favorite fruit apples I don’t think they grow in Florida. Citrus grows easily here. I really want to tear off all of my grass in my back yard, and start my own garden here. I just can’t do it without machinery. I also want to use as little as possible of fertilizers, or any other unnatural ways to force the growth of the plants. I have been experimenting in my house with certain vegetables. Like for example I was cooking in my kitchen last year, and while I was chopping a Bellpepper I decided to save the seeds. Well I planted those seeds in the bucket of dirt, and it turned into plant. Next thing I know it’s producing small peppers. And now that my pepper plant is heading towards its second summer, suddenly it started to produce a whole bunch of peppers and big to. I did the same experiment with black beans. I had a bag of dried black beans. I wasn’t using them so I wanted to throw them away, but I saved a few beans. I planted them and it also turned into a plant. The plant ended up giving me a few strands of newly grown black beans. Unfortunately the plant didn’t survive because of all of the rain we’ve received last summer. Too much rain made it go sour, and it died, but I did save those beans that the plant produced, and I’ll use them to grow more black been plants. I think it’s important for people to experiment themselves at home, because they have because they have to become familiar with their local climate, local soil, how much rain they get, etc.. When you grow something yourself, the excitement and joy you received from that is unexplainable. It just feels so good to grow something on your own. Self-sufficiency is how the common folks around the world will free themselves from tyranny.
I have always admired that about Russia. It should be that way in the USA but money will never let that happen. More and more people are beginning to realize how bad the GMO foods are for your health and growing their own vegetables. We hope our videos inspire people to try growing their own food and live healthier. Thanks for watching and sharing your story with me. Have a peaceful weekend ❤️
Come to Oregon you can grow anything here
Sir you are a leader in the urban homesteading community. I have never planted anything in my life. Im 33, but thanks to you and your example I feel I have the confidence to grow some taters! I believe in these times we face, your wisdom and knowledge will help lead us younger folks in getting back to growing more independent and self sufficient. Salute! God bless from Houston Texas
Thanks for watching! Have a blessed day! Pray you will always be safe and sound.
I love the way your garden is so organized
+Cindy Beard
My wife says I am OCD. LOL, I say I'm just organized😀. Thanks for watching, have an organized and blessed day😇
You can get store bought just fine. Rinse in a peroxide solution before chitting and you'll get better havests than seed potatoes.
I live in western Washington state where our soil is very heavy clay. We've tried amending the soil in the past to lighten it up, with limited success and too much money. At our age (in our 70s) I'm ready to stop in-ground gardening and using buckets for potatoes is a good start, plus it will take far less soil! I like the idea of harvesting just one bucket at a time, too. Thank you for your excellent video. I love your friendly, down-home manner and the way you make everything so do-able.
Best of luck to you Karen. I think you will like the harvesting much better than digging them up out of the ground
@@HollisNancysHomestead I'm sure of that!! lol
I just watched your videos. I'm a farm raised boy stuck on about 1/2 an acre in Florida thinking I needed a few acres to have a garden. You inspire me Hollis and Nancy, I'm gonna plant some potatoes in buckets. My garden out back is only about 64 sq feet in raised beds and boxes, but with your ideas I can enlarge. Thanks and God bless.
I love how you splice together multiple weeks worth of videos. That's a lot of work. Thank you.
+chifylube
Thank you so much!! Yes, it is a file maintenance nightmare. We just got some new software that makes the progression videos a little easier. Some of the videos take up to a year like the asparagus!! So glad they have helped you, that makes it all worth while❤️
Y'all are precious. ♡ Subscribed!
This video was good chit, man. Thanks!
Love You Hollis and Nancy Your Channel is The Best Easy to Understand .Your Great American Folks My Kind I was raised on a Farm in the 60 an 70 ies Tough Hard Life Late Dad was a WW2 Vet he taught us how to Survive off the land God Bless America an You Sir Love Your Channel from Sturgeon Falls Northern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love growing potatoes!!!! Thank you for your videos and for giving me the confidence to grow them myself. I just harvested my first 5 gallon bucket and got a 3.5 pound yield!!!! Thanks again!
Very awesome!!🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 🥔
Such a great video! You are an awesome teacher!
Thank you so much for your kind words ❤️
I had to subscribe Because you put God in your video yes Amen but also this year I am determined to start a garden to start growing my own food isn't that why you buy a house to do what you want to do? So I will be following your garden tips because I need information on gardening in my life thank you so much and I will be watching and hopefully learning the right way
Thank you for watching and subscribing!! Welcome to the family ❤️❤️🐶. Enjoy your garden this year. You can do this
Spending a cold winter's day watching you all over again.. Blessing
The best gardening tips and videos on RUclips really helpful
Thank you for explaining the steps along the way. I love your videos. Very informative! God bless you and your lovely wife.
Thank you for this! Great how HE gives us all the food we need FREE!! We are blessed :))
+d d
You are a wise person. Once recognize this and thank Him for our blessings our lives become so peaceful. May Hod bless your garden 😇😇😇😇
+PeteTravels
I save my spent container soil from potatoes in my reclamation box for amending and reuse for vegetables other than potatoes. Always use new soil for potatoes due to viruses that will ruin your potatoes.
d d
I love you guys!! I love that you blessed your potatoe pasture lol and are giving God the Glory for your abundance. Great tips and advice. I'm looking forward to more videos from you both!
Thank you so much for watching and loving us❤️. Have a peaceful day
God bless you both for this video! Very clear instructions. I can't wait to begin gardening.
+Erica J (Ericaflicksdust)
Thanks for watching Erica!! Gardening is good for the soul, have a blessed day! 😇
I hope that one day when I own a home I have neighbors as awesome as y'all.
I'm well over 50 and I have to confess. I laughed so hard at the many ways you used the word CHIT. I dont even know how y'all did this with a straight face because I'm crying laughing.🤣🤣🤣
It was definitely a challenge 😂😂😂
YES!! "Chits up" made me laugh out loud!!
This is the summer I'm growing potatoes! Excited. Thank you for showing me how.
Best info video I’ve come across on container gardening potatoes! Glad I found your channel!👍
Maybe it's where I live, maybe it's the potatoes I buy, but mine start growing in the cabinet. Two weeks after buying, they have leaves. I can just toss those near some dirt and end up with a new potato plant 😂
where did you buy those blue 20 gal buckets? Please provide more info. Thanks
Great instructional video! I have grown potatoes all different ways and this year they are being split into two different ways. One into containers like yours(I like the way you label everything) And the second is an old family way which is on the ground, that's been tilled and amended. After amending the soil, I'll sink the bottom of the seed potato in the ground , then cover with straw. As they grow I keep adding more straw until there is a thick layer.Come harvest time, you just remove the tops of the plants that have died back and just pull the straw back. And you won't believe how many potatoes are sitting on and in the ground.It's fun for kids to do too and after harvest, you just till that straw into the ground for next year. My Container potatoes will line the outside of my deck.And I'm going to put rails under them like yours to insure good drainage. Sorry I rambled on.Thank you for a new way to try growing my potatoes.
~Dolly
+CrossGrain Wood Products,LTD
Thanks for watching!! Sounds like an easy way to harvest them taters!! Have a blessed day
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! God bless! 🙏🏾
the big fish catch in the intro is frightening
Sir, your videos by you and your wife are simply outstanding. I'm a new gardener...and I know very little. I have no space where i live and I must use containers. So thank you so much for your teachings....and God Bless you both.❤️🙏
I absolutely love your videos. Thank you for my gardening success. Especially the potatoes and sweet potato slips
Thanks Hollis & Nancy!
We are subscribing because you have given the glory to the King of the Harvest Jesus
Chits Up! :D
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You two, are adorable! Thanks for sharing!
Hollis , I have learned so much from your videos in planing in containers. You are a great teacher. God bless.
God Bless You Abundantly In All Areas Of Your Life, In Jesus Precious Name, Amen 🙏💖🌹
Well after watching your growing potatoes in a 10 gallon bucket video I just used the organic potatoes I had in my fridge and some already had chits growing on them so I just potted them in a good soil mixture I made up. Didn’t know about the seed potatoes thing. Hope mine take. 🙏
Let me know if they do...i just did the same thing
@@tinamarie0701 I would like to let you know but I’ll probably forget so end of summer reply here and ask again. I’ll get email notification that way and update you then 🥔🌞
@@tinamarie0701 message me end of August-I’ll forget . Will let you know then.
@@bluepearl6114 awesome! I can't wait for the big reveal Good luck and good weather!😁
@bluepearl6114 so how was your harvest? :)
Thanks for being so thorough!
Love your gardening ideas! I'm gonna try the potato in the container this spring!
I tried to chit my potatoes on a table with a small fan for circulation, didn’t pay attention and they grew so rapidly that the chit hit the fan. True story.
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That’s funny😂
Is it too late to buy seed potatoes now? You said in the video that it takes about 4 weeks until they sprout. We live in Yorktown VA. TIA
Check the last frost date for your location here www.almanac.com/gardening/frostdates. I heard you want to plant 2 weeks before your last frost date. I'm no expert, but seasons vary year to year anyway. I bet your local garden center could advise you.
I just purchased some buckets today, exactly like yours. My potatoes have sprouted and I cut them yesterday so I plan to plant them this weekend. Thanks for sharing. I'll keep you posted on my progress. I'm coping your method exactly. This is the first time I've ever grown potatoes. Wish me luck.
We just bought land in Northern Florida and we plan on growing our own produce. I’m so glad to have found your channel because you have a great way of teaching and making gardening interesting.
I love your accent - "taters" or "potaters". lol!
Accent?…..What accent??? 😂
We all have an accent!!!
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It's so good to see someone giving God the glory for His creation. I appreciate your taking the time to make this instructional video. Thanks for your help. The Lord bless you.
+Grace West
You are so welcome. Thank you for your kind words. God is so good to us😇
Grace West
ameen.
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This is a fantastic video with so much great info for a beginning gardener! Thank you!
I just picked up six 17-gal tubs from Walmart to try potatoes this year! I have 2 bags of russetts that are chitted sitting in my basement and ready to plant tomorrow morning. Excited to see how this experiment turns out!
So how is it going?
I DIDNT YET SEE THAT IF YA ANSWERED Rob yet, ...>>so how is it going, and how much did those tubs cost you? if ya dont me asking.
@@robjohnson8522 I asked again, Rob....did he answer you yet? i also asked how much those tubs go for at wallies world??? if they be $10 or less, it would be worth it for me, I have concrete slabs to place them on, etc.
Man I about chit myself
nice chits
Love your instructional videos . Very easy to understand! God has blessed you both!
I'm learning a lot! Thanks for sharing your wisdom and God's blessings!!
Nice presentation, but you can shorten the process by going to nursery and buying seed potatoes, but I'm guessing you are going to go stick with your method. lol I was born in Scotland where the potato is the National vegetable, fruit, and bird. In the 50s taters were the food we depended on for about 60% of our diet. If you want to read a book to show you just how much, read about 2 million Irish and Scots dying during the "Potato Blight." During this time England was exporting food to the rest of the world. We dont care to much for the English and that feeling still persists. Brussel Sprouts and cabbage were also very important to our diet and mutton when we had the money. Traced our family back to 1802 and everyone up to my dad was a coal miner or sod digger. Have a lot of unknown relatives in Kentucky and West Virginia, because of potato blight but we came into the country legal like. May God Bless you and All that you Love.
JustBill
Thanks for sharing Bill.
Well I can see I did it all wrong.
I just noticed that in one planting barrel the potatoes that I planted are coming up. Yay.
love your shows. we are starting our little homestead garden in Lancashire England. you are our inspiration.
I have subscribed and sharing with my friends xx
I absolutely love this couple.They are loving and wonderful.They are very knowledgeable and have great ideas on garden organization and plant growth. love you God is great.
+Darlene Yeager
Thank you so much Darlene❤️❤️❤️❤️
If u want big potatoes u need to plant the potatoe whole and leave 2 eyes on it
Not to be a critic but you really need to shorten your intro
No worries. When we first started our channel the intro was long to help introduce us. We shortened it on our newer videos. 👍
I concur.
Just found your channel, excited to be here!. My wife and I live in VA Beach (I'm retired military). Our back yard is MUCH smaller, but, I recently started a small garden, see how it goes. Take care and God bless you both.
Great Video Sir... God Bless You!
Cutting them up is a waste of time. One eye equals one stem, cut or not. Chitting is unnecessary too, just plant them and they'll grow.
I think it's to get more "seeds" to start planting with.
You can plant a seed potato with no Chitts at all. The only set back is it takes longer but no big deal. You can cut the potatoes to capture at least two eyes and have more plantings.
they don't coat the store potatoes with anything. The problem is when you buy fresh potatoes they have'nt had a chance to break their dormancy.
Robert Gross
I don't eat store bought , they have some GMO varieties now so I try not to.
Jean Skilling store potatoes treated with a sprout inhibitor also there is no gmo potatoes out on the market.
I have to agree. This seems to be either a defunct practice or it's just an old wives tale, but the rumor persists. Every video about potatoes, you'll hear it. Yet, I have seen store bought potatoes chit IN THE REFRIGERATOR. Having worked in grocery myself, I can't see why a company would bother with it in the first place anyway. Farming already has tough margins, and having to buy some chemical to spray into a product, which by the time it's on the shelf farms have made their scratch, just eats into that even more. It's all done on credit. The farms sell to distro, distro fronts product for the retailers, the retailers repay distro. Once distro has bought the product, the farmer need not really care how long the product lasts, that's distro's problem. A distro isn't going to unpack, spray, then repackage.
I just don't believe it. Go buy a bag of 'taters and just let them sit, and I guarantee you, they'll chit.
If they are using that ,it just another reason to grow your own. But if you saw the side effects from eating the chemical you know they don't.
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Wow~ I love your teaching video! I'm going to show this to my husband; we've been talking about starting a garden, but our yard isn't big & we didn't want to take space away from our two big dogs play area... but your bucket method will work just fine! Thank you so much, and God bless.🙏🏽🇺🇸
+Cheryl Adame
Thank you so much for watching Cheryl!! ❤️❤️❤️. Please tell your husband I said you're welcome 😍😍
Thank you, love the way he calls them, "tadders " and how refreshing it is to hear your prayer at the end!
+tijoe227
Tank Yee ❤️❤️❤️
I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm sooooooooooo excited to do this! My mom used to grow potatoes in our garden when I was a little girl and she showed me how to start them like you do. But in all my years of gardening I've never done it. I absolutely LIVE this container method and cannot wait to get started! Thx sooooooooo much for such detailed and thorough instructions. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😊😊😊😊🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Enjoy your taters Karen ❤️🥔❤️🥔❤️🥔
Found your videos and I'm learning alot. Thank you
Your videos are awesome. So much detail that is needed to grow vegetables correctly and many others don’t capture that. I’ve made many mistakes and wondered why my plants didn’t turn out. Thank you for this information!
Man, Hollis, you just taught me more than I've learned about growing potatoes in your segments on RUclips, than I've learned in my whole life! ... And I"me 60! Thank you for this.
All the best,
-Kenn Alan, I Eat My Yard.
Thank you so much for watching and your kind words of encouragement! Enjoy your taters this year 🥔🥔🥔