Sorry about the blur at the end. I realized once editing that the macro setting was on. I was squinting for at least a minute thinking it was my eyes...

Thank you for another informative video. I moved into my first homestead yesterday (September 13th), and I am planning a potato patch. Your video showed me that I can plan a much smaller area than I originally thought. Thanks for saving me some space and a lot of unnecessary work. I hope your shop is doing well. You're awesome.

Hi Luke, I have been so enjoying your videos over the last couple of months. I normally watch on the Smart TV KZfaq app, so I don't get the opportunity to like or comment. However, I watched this video and just had to say something. I live in Australia, and planted my first crop of potatoes yesterday. I found your video this morning and heard you mention the core gardening method. I have since checked it out, and wanted to thank you for alerting me to what looks like a great method. We are anticipating a VERY hot VERY dry summer (probably like yours), so I need to prepare. I wanted to thank you for being so inspiring. Please keep it up.

During your harvest of the red potatoes all I could think of is: Don't step in the bed! lol My son was helping me put an irrigation system in my garden beds. He took two steps in the bed and he must have seen the shock on my face! He's like, 'Uh, should I not be stepping on the soil?' LOL

Potato harvest videos are my favorite to watch. I might try growing some next year and I'll probably try succession planting them. I live in Texas and we don't have central air. I worry they'll go bad if I plant them all at once for one big harvest.

That is very cool. I just dug by hand 30 raised beds and now I need to put the wood in for the raised beds. You are an inspiration to me. I love your channel thank you

Just love your videos Luke! You’re so positive & your vids always cheer me up if I’m having an off day. Loving this epic 🥔 harvest 🙌🏻

Fantastic harvest! I've learned so much from you, Luke! Thanks :)

Great harvest! I'm going to learn more about the core system. I usually plant in the ground with no difficulty but this year we have moved and I built a potato tower. Massive fail! Thanks for sharing these videos!

I absolutely Love the excitement in your voice when digging.. I plan on growing some so my grandchildren can have fun digging for the treasure of potatoes ... Thank you

At 5:40 "Just one plant!" 😂 well, less the two purple ones... Pretty amazing, though!

Can some of those small potatoes. Really nice supply of potatoes. From Idaho. 🙌🙌👍😀

WOW! Great Harvest!!! Always enjoy your videos,thanks for sharing

AWESOME ! You are saying Core ~ were you speaking of Coconut Core ? We had a huge sweet potato harvest this year, but only because we planted most of them in huge tractor tires. the ones we planted in the garden soil were mostly eaten by Voles.

I was dying 😂 when he said 81 is hot.

Wow. AZ is still in the triple digits. It's supposed to be 105 today. I think we've had 4 inches of rain since January and don't get any this winter if this pattern continues. Gardening has been much harder than normal here in the Sonoran desert. I like watching your videos to see what my plants could do in a different climate. We're lucky to grow sweet potatoes and they struggle in our drought

Great presentation of the potatoes in the wheelbarrow. Those potatoes will taste extra good this winter when it's below zero with a foot of snow on the ground.

Awesome haul! That’s so great, congratulations!!

Great harvest! I can't wait to plant potatoes next year!

I like your new introduction and Music😄

Hey, that is great production for the space used. We are excited to start building our raised beds soon.

Great harvest. 👏👏👏. When did you plant the potatoes? It would be cool to see a video where you compile into one video your preparation of the core bed for potatoes to planting to growing thru the season and how you took care of them monthly. Ie, any fertilizing any insect or pest control and whether or not you had to hill these potatoes??? In the mean time I am going to try and find the video where you prepared the bed using the core method. I’ve never heard of that and would like to see what that is all about.

Great harvest🙋🏿

I'm definitely going full organic next year! I tried this ecoscraps brand organic fertilizer and it's brought my tomato's to life! I want to get your trifecta and use it when I start in the spring and maybe my indoor stuff over the winter. Congrats on the yeild!!!

Great harvest!!! Love the tye dye too!

Love that you shared ❤️

Your haul made me giddy!! Love it

Get someone who appreciates you as much as MIGardener appreciates potatoes

Massive harvest there! Wow! So Awesome!

Makes me want to garden again!

CONGRATS ON THE GREAT POTATO HARVEST THANKS FOR SHARING ALL THE GREAT INFO AND TIPS ON GROWING AND FERTILIZING YOUR BEDS AND POTATOES, THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT AND BLESSED DAY :-)

excited about growing potatoes

Awesome harvest ♥️👍

Nice harvest! This was my first year with potatoes, and I did the Ruth Stout method with weedwacking a hillside, plopping the potatoes down, and covering with hay. No watering. It was stupid easy, but I don't think it yielded as high as I would have liked, but they went to seed as well (weird tomato looking things, should be interesting next year if they make new types of plants), and I had a mole or vole and slugs to help me harvest some, Haha.

Insane harvest. Congratulations.

Wow thats a killer potato harvest!! Great freaking job!!!!

Holly Cow! That is a lot of potatoes. :-) Great job, Luke

Very nice harvest great job

wow Luke your potato harvest was great I love It well I hope you enjoy your harvest

Awesome harvest!!!

Good video. Congratulations. I am planning to grow some potatoes of my own this year for the first time. I’m going to try some in my raised bed and others in containers. Going to try a few of your tips! Thank you! However, I’m giggling a bit that you found an average in the 80’s to be hot. You’d die here. It can be 80° inside on a August day because it’s 115° or higher outside. With an average humidity of about 60-75%, I garden in the morning or evening. I hibernate indoors during the day. But I have autoimmune issues that make high heat intolerable to me. My husband however works outdoors most days. I had tomatoes and peppers still growing until mid January when we had a freeze come in. I actually was still harvesting them too. I got about 15 tomatoes off of 5 vines right before the freeze. They had slowed in production as the horn worms found them in December when the rest of my gardens were done. But I don’t think many get any in December or January. So?…

Great harvest 👍👍

"Average temp of 81F, it's unreal how hot that is..." I'm never again going to believe someone in Michigan trying to commiserate about their "hot" summers. ;) I'd like to experience a summer where the average temp was around 81. I thought I was experiencing the lovely mythical frozen north when I lived for a while up in KY, and the summers were only about 86-89F on average. There was also at least a few full days of snow in winter! As in still on the ground, and or covering the grass before bedtime. The bunches of tiny potatoes is why I still shy away from planting potatoes in a raised bed. Grow bags or pots are the only way to be sure you got every single one! Frustrated trying to find a video of him installing a core. I want to SEE exactly what he's doing there, and what the core looks like at the time of planting too, not keep hearing about it the end of it. Ha It's likely similar to what I already do, but it might not be...

Epic haul,so amazing.

Wow my friend as usual you are awesome...and I am left jelous of your growing abilities...

Potato and onion harvests....ya hoooo!!

Fantastic harvest

What a great idea. thanks.

Awesome Luke!

Our summer here in Ga is around 90 something with a heat index of a hundred or so. 81 isn't hot here. We would love that. Also the humidity is awful

Amazing harvest! How did you pull this off? What is your trick? What do you mean by a core?Thanks again for sharing your amazing success!

Harvesting today so I thought it would be a good idea to make sure I do it right by checking out your video.

81 is hot ? Lol, I wish it was 81 down here in FL. That's perfect weather!

Awesome, harvest!!

I have volunteer potatoes from where I planted potatoes two years ago.

Lovely harvest, I definitely need to up my soil quality :D Say, your tomatoes in the background look blighted - how are yours progressing currently? I keep cutting away the blighted leaves on mine but it's slowly overtaking now.

So very wonderful! Food for thought: since you said you planted less this year, could the increases ( size and numbers) be due to more grow room and less competition for nutrients?

Hi there, I’m a subscriber and I like your videos a lot. How about getting a basket of some sort to put the produce in as you pick it. It just makes me nervous watching those potatoes slip down as you dig for more🤗🙀👏🏼🙈😁congratulations on your record year, I might try some Yukon Golfs and Sweet Potatoes next season I might try a hoop house this winter and see what I can get to grow

great harvest...I love potatoes..

That’s a great harvest! :-D

A summer with an average of 81° would be so nice... it's much hotter where I'm at

Great looking potato!

Near record heat here in Maine with record breaking Humidity and not yet 6 inches of rain..., we usually have a bout 46 inches....

Wow ! Magical

How deep is that bed? I know you’ve developed you soil so much. I’m not there yet but I wondered how much depth you needed for potatoes.

good job my friends..!!

The "heat" and "dry" helped you out. I put those in quotes because your "heat" is miniscule and I bet your "dry" was still 20+ inches of rain.

GOOD HAUL!!! You need to figure out how to store them.Canned Potatoes are GOOD TOO!!!

Awesome stuff.Cool

I’ve just started watching this channel recently. What zone are you in? I’m in 4b in Minnesota so I’m wondering if your planting season lined up with ours or is a bit earlier.

Impressive harvest. How do you store them for winter? Do you have a root cellar?

Feed the world with potatoes and strawberries!!!! :)

Awesome shirt

This is like that movie Faith Like Potatoes. Wow.

I buy small potatoes for my seafood boils. I like how they are bite size, and they're delicious too.

I’m in need of some seeds and I see the ones I want aren’t available until November on your website. Any recommendations on where else to buy seeds?

Awesome potato harvest i want to try sweet potatoes next year.any potatoes you recommend for zone 7

Hi. I just wondered if you could explain why, when I planted NW sweet cherry seeds, several of the seedlings are green as expected but 3 are pure white. I know about the possibility of getting something different etc but do you know what kind they might be? I couldn't find anything out when I searched it. Hope someone can tell me! Thanks, Cheryl

I'm curious. Have you ever grown potatoes by true potato seed? I was thinking that it might be fun to try as an experiment to compare yield. It's most certainly going to be lower yield from seed, but I think that might be an interesting mini series. As my summer garden is winding down I'm planning for next year and I might plant some potatoes, although they would be from seed potatoes, not from true seed.

Mr. gardener i have a question on how to store potatoes so they will last till next planting season

So how do you store them?

So how do you cure and store your potatoes?

I’m amazed by your raised bed, curious what is the depth of your bed?

I just planted potatoes as an experiment. For fun, what do you think the chances of success are? I put 3 yukon potato seeds into 15 gallon pot using 1 cf organic potting soil, and 6 seed in 25 gallon pot and 2cf potting mix. I'll add more soil in a few weeks. The seed potato were 2017 crop and looked shriveled but well sprouted and looking pretty desperately in need of planting. I'm in Riverside County, Calif. Its starting to cool, but can still get into high 90s or more. Typically, temp drop rather quickly at the end of Oct, but to nice Fall weather . Im sheltering them a little until it cools more. Ill put in full sun once the days are in 70s. We may get a light frost about Nov 15th. Last year, no hard frosts.... but no rain either. Fyi... potato seed from Minnesota! It's fun to experiment and see what happens.

My name is wes but im not the wes that stopped by however if i could i would. i have been a subscribed from 2012 watched you grow as a channel. And you still remain the same honest true person with great info saddly i have not used myself since chickens are my thing. growing up at home we grew aprox one acer garden weeding more then growing we did can but the weeding just killed my desire to grow any thing. However this coming spring game on raised beds building and prepping for spring and more importantly planning. one reguest can you do a preparing for spring and what to grow as a beginner for people like myself. If it helps i live in MN want to grow more canning types of vegs sorry for the poor grammer.

Lol 81 degrees in in Cali during May through August it stays between 90 and 110 it makes it hard to garden 😢

That is awesome! I do eat plant based and potatoes I go through like crazy. 20 - 30lbs a month. (I don't add margarine or butter stuff so it is really low fat low calorie.) I eat more potatoes in a month than I do of any other starch in a year. I do have a question on your pizza sauce. Now that some time has passed have they stayed sealed? I know canning books go on the side of safety so I am interested if it worked for you. :)

That is an impressive yield of potatoes. I tried growing potatoes once. I got nice foliage; but, no potatoes. What do you think went wrong?

here in California, the average temperature for the summer is around 100 degrees. with 2 inches of rainfall.

wow that's Bada$$! good job:)

81° is hot! I'm dying! That's funny. 81° is balmy, spring weather in Texas.

6:35 Green potatoes on the right and why folks mound and or mulch

Potatoes like hot and dry(provided they get steady water), it is what the summers are like here in Idaho.

What is core gardening please

How is it that the partially broken down compost you used as the core didn't sequester nitrogen as it was further breaking down?

What state are you guys planting in?

How do you store all those? What is "core"?

So I'm hearing that normally you pull the potatoes early and this was an epic harvest because they were allowed to finish on their own. Maybe you need tunnels to let them finish on their own next year?

What fertilizer do you use?

What's this "core" you keep mentioning? I want to try it this year for my potatoes.