337 lbs of Potatoes! NO digging, NO watering, and VERY LITTLE work!

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5 жыл бұрын

UPDATE:
Here's how we ended up storing them all:
Mini "Root Cellar" from broken freezer (for storing potatoes)
• Experiment: Mini "Root...
Where We Get FREE Garden Mulch
• Where We Get FREE Gard...
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After our first attempt at growing potatoes last year, it was pretty obvious that we'd need to increase the size of our crop if we'd ever hoped to become fully food-self-sufficient. So we built a much larger Ruth Stout garden, and now check out this year's harvest!
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The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture
• The Ruth Stout Method
Planting Potatoes in a Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden (QUICK and EASY)
• Planting Potatoes in a...
Did You Know That Potato Plants Have Fruit?!
• Did You Know That Pota...
Results from our NO DIG and NO WATER potato experiment (Ruth Stout Method)
• Results from our NO DI...
Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions in a Ruth Stout (HAY-ONLY) Garden
• Companion Planting Car...
Results and Lessons Learned from our Carrot, Onion, and Radish Experiment
• Results and Lessons Le...
Plant Hardiness Zone, Rainfall, and Other Important Information
• Plant Hardiness Zones,...
Winter Ruth Stout Permaculture Update and HAY vs STRAW
• GGC - 76 - Winter Ruth...

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@BackToReality 5 жыл бұрын

Hey guys! We've posted a follow-up video with a bunch of background information regarding our location, hardiness zone, rainfall, etc. It might be helpful to any of you who are interested in trying this method in your own garden, but are curious if it will work for you:

@thirdeye9106 4 жыл бұрын

We've planted raw potatoe peelings under piles of old hay every year for 50 years. Enough success to feed family plus our growing grandchildren!

@margaretd3710 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't want to bother ordering potatoes from seed companies so I just bought a couple bags of organic potatoes at the store, let them chit, and planted them in my raised veggie bed filled with mushroom compost. All I did was water a few times and waited to harvest them. I didnt' know how they'd grow so I was thrilled with the amount of harvest - I also got around 10 potatoes for each potato I planted. And, from planting in the mushroom compost, they came out almost totally clean! Delicious, fun to raise, and absolutely no work involved. A total winner for this 72 year old grandma!

@sirdeakia 2 жыл бұрын

Having spent a considerable part of my life in a tropical farm, I'm constantly impressed by the courage of some people in sticking bare hands into a pile of mulch.

@sc-rc3zk 5 жыл бұрын

Wish you could grow burritos that way

@sergeantseven4240 2 жыл бұрын

"337 lbs of Potatoes! NO digging, NO watering, and VERY LITTLE work!" Yeah it's called buying them at Costco... lmao

@GetTheNet1963 5 жыл бұрын

The key thing you failed to talk about. Unless it wasn't that key to you. :-) The great time you get to spend with your wife while preparing, planting, harvesting these food items. My wife and i talk and laugh during these times. Most couples never get to spend this awesome time together. Thanks for the video

@bantam5507 5 жыл бұрын

I somehow made it to a video about 337lbs of potatoes, and I'm not ashamed this is awesome.

@MuskratOutdoors 5 жыл бұрын

Neat idea! My Dad used to plant them in stacked car tires, three tall or so. Just push them over when they are ready, no digging, and pretty much rabbit proof.

@lovewarrior2329 5 жыл бұрын

There's a lovely lady here who sent me a gardening journal and it's packed with gardening gems including a great way to store potatoes and other rooty vegetables: you dig a hole big enough for a plastic trash barrel and fill it up with your harvest, conceal barrel in dirt, leaving the lid exposed below about 2 inches so rain and snow don't submerge the top. Badda bing! Veggies till spring!

@N1ghtR1der666 2 жыл бұрын

my grandpa told me about how he has grown potatoes like this for decades and I was hoping to find a video on it, nice work!

@Martin.Wilson 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was an old Irish potato farmer who swore by a technique that always worked. When the above ground, green part of the plant began to flower, he "stepped down" each plant. He simply stepped on each plant, bending and crimping off the main stalk, but not severing it. This caused the nutrients to slowly migrate from the upper part of the plant to the potatoes themselves. The number of potatoes produced by each plant stayed the same, but the potatoes themselves would increase in size between 20-50%. He said this technique had been shown to him by his grandfather in Omagh, Ireland around 1890. I've seen it with my own eyes and it never misses.

@BradKwfc 4 жыл бұрын

2019: If I was rich I'd buy a big house and a Ferrari

@user-cg7tl 2 жыл бұрын

It's astounding that you can get lush, beautiful soil simply from itself laid over top and composting. It's amazing how it's free to grow food and yet they make it look like it's so hard and no one can do it when anyone can do it. I love this idea and I am likely going to do this when I build my own homestead.

@jamesart9 5 жыл бұрын

This is such a beautifully wholesome channel.

@TomTomTom87 4 жыл бұрын

4:58

@TheSilver9r 4 жыл бұрын

I can tell you from years of experience that deer will mow down potato plants like there is no tomorrow. It did take a few years before they acquired a taste for the plants, but once they did our production dropped by about 75% simply because the plants could never develop any tops for very long with out a nightly mowing by the local herd. They started with carrot and onion tops being their favorite. We had about 2.5 acres of potatoes at one point, which eventually dwindled down to one row of about 75 ft. We tried everything short of a fence only because it was cost prohibitive to fence that big of an area with 9' fence.

@jdjewellpa 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, first video I watched in such a long time that 1) Kept me interested 2) Was not click baity 3) Wasn't filled with drama and the usual BS 4) No annoying background music 5) Extremely fun and informative! Great pacing too. Nice job guys you earned a new sub! I hope you guys hit the 100K

@snowboard424 4 жыл бұрын

I live on the 3rd floor of a cramped Boston apartment building. I haven’t seen grass in weeks. Why am I watching this? Who cares! It’s very interesting!

@ladyofthemasque 4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to say thank you for including hand-written closed captioning subtitles. Having to rely upon auto-generated can really suck (sometimes like a septic pump, that level of suckage). So it's wonderful to see actual comprehensible text that matches the actual audio, and/or provides additional information for readers to enjoy. Thank you!