Props to a KZfaqr who took the time to follow a plant an entire growing cycle...that’s very rare and shows dedication to his craft. Most videos are less informative because they follow growth during the exciting early growing period only.

I put a potato in the ground just to see if anything would happen and now I'm here because I got a freaking potato bush in my backyard.

I opened KZfaq to learn how to replace the oil pressure sensor on my 2003 5.3L Chevy Silverado. It’s about a hour later and I’m not any closer to fixing my truck and I seem to have lost almost all my motivation to do so somewhere in the KZfaq land vortex. I couldn’t tell you how or why I pressed the play button on your video but I’m glad I did. I’ve never had a garden before but thanks to your awesome video I’m going to have one by the end of tomorrow!

Thanks for showing the entire cycle of growing, it takes lots of time, I did learn few things from you Thank you

I am a VA native. We always planted the Red Pontiac and the Kinnebec potato. They both have great flavor. Beautiful garden!

My mom used to let the older kids plant the potatoes . We all did the harvesting. During the cold winter months my mom and I would go thru the seed catalogue and plan the Spring and Summer garden. I can remember at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners my sisters and I boasting to our guests about our gardens and the crops we grew a in d 90 percent of the meals we grew and harvested ourselves. Thanks for sharing. God bless

I love taking the small red potatoes, skin and all, halving them, then coating with olive oil, salt, pepper and seasonings (Italian seasoning, garlic powder, etc) and then roasting in the oven until done. OH MY GOODNESS THEY'RE GOOD!

Thank you so much ! I learned more about potatoes in 23 minutes than I ever thought I would. Your week by week approach is so valuable and instructive. Please continue to roll out more awesome videos like this. The are so edifying!

Growing up we would immediately clean them and let them dry. We gunny sacked our potatoes and kept them in a cellar during the winter. I'd say we sacked close to 1,400 lbs of taters every season and we gave away quite a bit also. It was just the 4 of us but what we saved would feed us almost to the end of April most years. Your big red was about average size to what we were yielding. The soil was sandy but it used to be a hog pen where we were planting and we kept the water to them almost every day. So yes, watering makes a difference with the size and yield. If you plant in heavy soil that compacts you'll usually get a hard, almost stunted tuber compared to something grown in loose loamy soil. And it doesn't hurt to put some liquid Natures fertilizer to the whole garden. Trust me, it makes a difference. Just subbed your channel. Very informative. I will try the deep planting method you're using next time.

I love this. When I dig out my potatoes, I always am glad that I am not one of those poor Irish women who were digging out their patches during the potato famine. They experienced a horrible time.

I live in Idaho. Potatoes grow here spontaneously! I am not joking. Last year we bought a load of topsoil for our garden and a few potatoes popped up in it lol. Gotta love Idaho.

I get it, that you don't want to put a lot of extra effort into growing potatoes (I'm also, all for the "medium effort growing"). But a good tip: When the tops starts dying back due to mold, remove the tops. Otherwise the mold can leach into the soil, and infect the tubers, this can be the reason why some of them rot. (And in any case, it can make storing less problematic. As a sidenote to cutting the tops of: You want to remove the tops and potentially burn them or maybe compost them, to avoid moldspores to spread. The potatoes can, in most cases, (depending of variety) stay in the ground just fine, for later harvest (or harvest as you eat them, until winter set in), good way to store them, and that will also harden the skin, so they store better. Just the same as if you dry them above ground.

I bought a 20kg bag a few weeks ago to be apocalypse ready. Had a look at them today and they have all started sprouting, so tomorrow I’m planting them to make more potatoes. The way coronavirus is going we’re going to need them.

Thanks for the hard work and long-term planning you put into this video. Very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! I just moved here to MN and I wanted to start a potato garden an this has been a huge help!

Thank you! I love everything gardening and plants. This was fun to watch!

Love that you took us through the whole cycle. Ive never seen that done well. Great video. Thank you!

Your whole garden is just awesome. Reminds me of when I used to help my great aunt plant her garden every year. Thanks.

Thank you so much for simplifying this so much, we just moved to a home with enough land to have a garden and I’m so excited to get it going

Hey I grew potatoes in Vermont one year I bought a 50 lb bag. Of seed potatoes kataden I got back 900 lbs the fall before the farmer spread manure ... your reds were great I really enjoy potatoes and onions Thanks for your video nice garden I just purchased a 10 acre farm so let’s see what happens this year

Sir, you are an absolute gift to humanity for making these videos. I often spoke to my granny about growing my own vegetables when i get older. She told me potatoes involve a lot of digging and hard work, so I can really appreciate what you do. I subscribed and look forward to seeing more vegetable growing. I'm gonna check out the rest of your videos now too. Keep up the good work Joe! Thanks, from Ireland.

Digging spuds is like opening a Christmas present. You never know what you will get but it is exciting.

Thank you for a gardening video that is start to finish! This is a rare find for sure. Thanks for the upload.

Excellent video! Thanks! I’m so glad you explained what to do with them after the harvest! I was clueless!!!

A minute into your video you say-“up here in Minnesota.” Perfect! I grew up on Mille Lacs lake and now live an hour south of MSP. My great grandfather grew Kanebecs. This is my first year growing potatoes. I’ve got Burbank Russets in the ground. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

This was like watching a full documentary! Thank you for the effort you put into this video, and I feel ready to try planting my first bed of potatoes this spring.

This was a fantastic video. I learned so much. Thank you for going through the entire cycle from planting to storage.

I grew potatoes last year for the first time. I live in northern Michigan that has a similar climate to Minnesota. A farmer told me to plant potatoes in saw dust. I did and they did great! It was just a couple of plants, yet, it was nice to discover those potatoes at harvest time. I used heavy nylon twine and iron shepherd hooks to string a one line fence three feet high to keep the deer away. Deer don't like to feel the twine against their legs when they investigate my garden. It worked to keep them from eating my plants.

Thank you! I'm about to plant my potatoes here in southern Georgia where we plant right around valentines day! I enjoyed your potato journey very much!

I appreciate a good start to finish video. Good job.

Thank you very much! I appreciate your step by step instructions and intermittent progress report as well as your potato count at the end to compare potatoes planted vs potatoes harvested. Your video is very well done!

What a cool guy! You’ve got a knack for video making, and gardening man. Thank you for taking the time to make a complete video like this. I ended up with a couple dozen seed potatoes of the supermarket variety and I’ve decided to plant in buckets and rope containers. Just my tiny step towards self sufficiency, but it all adds up. Cheers!

My daughter decided to plant a potato with eyes today. I decided to see if she did it right and according to you, she did! She's experimenting. We already planted onions and are growing carrot roots in water. If all this works out, we'll make a bigger garden for root veggies and one for above ground. Her tomatoes are in cups and have 2 leaves with 2 more growing. She started them from tomatos (seeds) we bought at the store. So glad I found you! We live in north Georgia where the weather turns from freezing (last night) to 90+ in the summer.

A great job on teaching the “how too’s” of planting two varieties of potatoes. I’m going to try even if it’s only 4or5 plants. Thank you!

My dad always planted the potatoes on Good Friday too. Years later I found out he planted on Good Friday because all the kids were off from school!

GREATEST!!!!!! Just the video I was looking for ... so informative and showed in detail what to do and when. Thank you so much for taking your time to do this for us city folks who moved to the country to get away from it all and try to grow our own food. THANKS!!!

God Bless your GrandPa! Good memories. Good info. He taught you, and now me and my kids, something important!

I got a tiller and I'm going to start my 1st garden first today. Glad I came across this, thank you for making the video. Friend of mine said it's mandatory to plant potatoes on St Patrick's day if you're Irish. Lol

Thank you so much for this video! I am guilty of overthinking it too and now, I know not to! Heres to a wonderful veggie growing season for us all!

Thanks for making this video. I have to say, you know what you are doing. I learned a lot! John

Vaughan Hammer, you've put up some sticks in your day. Excellent Video, thank you

thanks Joe, my daughter's watched it with me and they want to try growing potatoes this year! This is a great teaching video.

Thank you so much! This is the most helpful vegetable growing video that I've seen on youtube. It's so lovely that you go through the whole season.

Thank you for this video, I've learned a lot of useful tips from you, and from the start of planting to the end of the growth period. 🌹

wow, great video. lots of good info. Also it's great to hear that classic Minnesota accent I grew up with.

We have heavy clay here, yet they grew everything because of the climate. Enjoyed the video, and you are NOT lazy. Take care.

Thank you so much for taking all that time to explain the whole cycle to us ! Very interesting !

Nice garden broski. Just watched your video before I go out and plant my potatoes today. Cheers. I'll plant them a little deeper like you said.

Thank you. A gift that really gives back 7x. Potatoes and carrots can be stored outdooors in a pile of damp sand covered by a tarp to keep it from getting excessively wet. Whenever you jrrd supplies just dig in and pull out what you need.

Love the video Great showing start to finish most people won’t take the time

Thank you!!! I learned so much!!! After this winter, in Easter of 2019' I'll start my own potatoe garden, I hale from Wisconsin..

Thank you for this informative video. Growing potatoes is simple . I still needed the basic know how, Thanks again.

Can you please make a video like this for all of the vegetables you grow? It’s very good.

Thank you v much for sharing your video. Have not grown any tatoes in my garden yet coz I can get em at Sam's anytime I want to but bro your garden is very inspirational to all of us. I called that a Self-sufficient retirement lifestyle. :)

I have been watching your channel for almost 2 years. I just wanted to say your camera work and editing has improved greatly. It is alot of fun to watch these kind of videos. Thanks for all the hard work.

I'm so glad I watched your video. I live in Louisiana and I will be planting in the next few weeks.

Wow you put a lot of work and time into this video I learned so much Thank you

Incredible video! The patience it would take to make this is more than I could ever have lol.

I sat down to look for Cayenne pepper drying and clicked into one of your posts and Sir, THANK YOU! I appreciate every video I've watched of yours so far. YOU are the 1st channel I have ever subscribed to. I'm a decent gardener myself, but I've tried some new things this year and your video(s) are absolutely helpful to guide me. Thank you!

I love your videos love how they include whole process not just the planting

joe. I came across your videos by accident, I have not been able to stop watching them. you sir are a very talented man and hard working also. the tent, what can I say its just unbelievable along with the things that you do. what a inspiration you are. I can relate on the divorce thing mine left after 30 years wow is all can say i did not see that coming, but that a another story . wish you and Melissa the very best. rick

i grew potatoes for the first time this year and I planted reds because I read they canned the best. Got them in way late but still had a pretty good crop. They were so tasty we ended up just eating them.

By far one of the best videos I have watched about gardening, thanks for the full onset from start to finish...

Really enjoyed watching your video from start to finish! Thanking you for taking the time to do so!

You did get A Great Mess of Tater's out of your planting of them. Good Job. We used to keep our's in the Well House year round and they did Fantastic in there.

Beautiful garden. One of the best tutorials I have seen on You Tube.

What a transformation in twenty minutes, bare patch of dirt to market garden! Great video.

Thank you for your dedication on making this video! I find myself watching it year after year! I just set aside my potholes that have eyes.....and now I’m getting ready to plant! I’m crossing my fingers!

Very interesting...You taught me that I dug my potatoes up way too soon. Good lesson for next year--plant sooner, and let the plants flower and turn yellow before I start digging them up...plus wait longer than 3 months!

“He got kind of perturbed and he said Joel, just put it in the ground” LOL

Thanks for your detailed section on the pontiac red potatoes, it showed exactly what I was looking for!

I'm thoroughly impressed! I'm a new potato grower so this will surely help e this next spring. Thank you for taking the time to show the whole cycle!

(1) Grandfather did his own style, and made newspaper-reported 2-3# huge spuds. Rototill totally deep to the rotor. Dig out entire trench with side walls of dirt. Throw in deep layer of hay/straw. Layer over with dirt. Put in potatoes along the trench. Dirt ayer, straw layer, then final top layer of dirt mounding, and then strawing the mound. Straw sucks up excess water, keeping the soil moist and humid, but not wet and sloggy, and loose and airy. At spuds grow out, continue to put on higher and higher atraw onto mound, not dirt. (3) "Uncle Marvin" above ground potatoes. Just lawn cuttings, no fertilizer, dirt, straw, etc. Mound up lawn cuttings, and put in potatoes. Grass cuttings give off methane (global warming) gasses (fres cut grass smell). Worms come running from entire neighborhood. Mounds have proper humidity and moistness, not soggy. Continue putting on spring, summer, and fall lawn grass cuttings. When you want potatoes, DO NOT DIG UP! REACH INTO, dig around in loose cuttings for potatoes and break off. Pull out, wipe off excess dry grass clippings. Wash outside. Sweet, tender potatoes. Leave plants in mound all year round. Continue piling up huge lawn grass mound, or put into wooden bin. Bottom eventually decomposes into black gold soil, and continues to make further decomposition and nutrients for the potatoes. (3) My style is to rototill down to rotors, and continue to rototill until soil is aery and fluffy. Then dig out entire tilled area, leaving open over winter, with dirt side walls. Lawn cuttings (and worms) kept in separate wood bin in warm weather. Pour in cow/horse manure, and lawn cuttings intermixed, and allow fall/winter/spring snow and rains to percolate down manure compost tea and lawn grass nutrients into deep soil, while the fiber manure and grass keeps a soft soil texture. In spring, put soil back onto pit mound, and plant. Coninue this for many years, and deep fertilization, manure and grass fiber soil (yearly ground and mixed up), and soil becomes intensely productive black gold soil. All processes work at West and East coastal lands up to (at least) Latitude 45 degrees North

Fascinating to see the potatoes in by Good Friday thing survived in the US as well as the UK. My grandfather told me exactly the same thing. The fact that Easter can move by over a month mattered not a jot to him too. He also insisted on putting in the whole potato, but he did tell me when times were hard you can grow a small crop from a peeling with an eye. Good informative video.

I can't tell you how much I appreciated this video. Thank you!

Very cool. My 7 year old daughter and I really enjoyed this. Thank you for posting.

Nice video and great yields on your Pontiac Reds. I agree with you on Pontiac Reds, though Yukon Golds are equal in my book. As I have gotten older (now 65) I have modified how I grow potatoes. I use a modified Ruth Stout method (no straw or hay). I till the ground and place the potatoes on the freshly tilled ground and use a garden rake to cover the potatoes with 8 inches of soil. I have a hilling attachment for my Troybilt tiller and when the potatoes break ground, I use the tiller to hill them more. I do this twice in the season. What is nice is when it comes time to harvest I can grab the plant and pull it out of the ground and don't have to use a fork to dig them. The soil is still loose and can be easily dug with my hands. It is so much easier on my back. A soil treatment I use is MycoGrow from Fungi Perfecti. It is a symbiotic fungal soil treatment and it definitely produces more and larger potatoes. I just found your channel and have been binging. I have cousins in Ely so your road shots sure reminds me of them and the BWCA. Thx for your videos.

Have you ever tried growing potatoes in containers? It’s not necessary of course but I tried it once and I’ve never planted potatoes in the ground ever since. I planted them in large pots filled with a mix of old and new compost with chicken manure pellets and buried the bottom 4 inches of the pot in the ground. I got double the amount than I would normally if I planted it in the ground. You have a lot more space than I do so maximization of space isn’t an issue for you. Great video! I always love seeing these large, homestead style gardens. I hope to one day move to a country estate, when my kids are grown and done with school. Right now I can’t since I want my children to spend time with their grandparents and they attend a private school their mother graduated from. One day I’ll sell my home in Hawaii, where I currently live, and move to a state that has all 4 seasons. All my life in Hawaii, it’s always summer or spring, winter or fall has no noticeable difference here.

That was a great tutorial. This is the 1st year that I have planted potatoes and I was not sure when to harvest them . Thank you for showing the beginning and end of the growing cycle of potatoes.

This might be the first video of yours that I've seen but by far is the most educational. Thank you!

Such a great video! Always wanted to try to grow potatoes, but never knew how to do it haha! This helped me so much! Thank you! :) Best wishes from Sweden!

Quite a laborious video, great work, thank you.

I'm so glad you did this video. I am going to try them this coming spring. Took a lot of work to video this, thanks for that.

Thanks Joe for another great video! I appreciate the timeline, and what you look for in planting, and harvesting. Happy New Year to you and the family!

Wowee, reminds me as a kid being raised in Chickasaw County, IA, and having "garden duty." Potatoes were one crop we KNEW we could count on; stored them in the basement of the house. Thanks for the memories. Y'all Be Safe!

Your method worked for me!! I have potatoes :) I didn't plant them super early, but I'm already able to harvest them. Thank you! I took a couple videos of my progress if you're interested. I live in northern Massachusetts.

MN weather sounds like MD weather. we're in the middle of March and had 70 degree weather last week. Tomorrow night there calling for foot of snow! Love your channel thanks for the great videos.

Thanks for this life-cycle of three varieties of potatoes. Now I know which one I will be planting in a week or two. Now I know just where to plant them, and how to watch them grow to harvest time, how to watch for watering if needed when first out of the ground and how to harvest and what to do before storing them for the winter. Very well done.

My uncle and grandfather in Oklahoma said "tatoes" planting day was March 17th. Wish they were here to help my garden.

I starting today because of corona virus everything locked down and I want to be sure we will have those in some time, thank you for great tutorial!

Thank you for showing how to grow potatoes without straws.

I have to tell you thank you so much for posting this video. I started digging my potatoes up today n I've only dug 1/4 of what I planted. My potatoes are huge n there are a lot of them. I didn't want to keep mounding dirt on my potato plants so I did what you do n what a awesome way to plant potatoes. I have 75#'s of potatoes in just the 1/4 of what I dug up. Thank you very much. I continued to water my potatoes n the green on the potato bush was still green but I wanted to dig them now. If I had waited until plant was completely dead I think my potatoes would have been huge. So far the largest potato I have is 6 inches long by 4 inches wide. Beautiful potatoes. I can't thank u enough because it was so easy with your help.

My dad used to plant them shallow and then pile grass clippings around the plants after they were up. Any that broke the surface were still out of the sun and it kept the weeds down and made them easier to dig at the end of the season.

Great video! I appreciate the update through the season and all of the helpful tips. Also, pretty epic stache man.. Keep up the good work! Best Wishes to you and yours

AWESOME! Thank you, Koi keeper, gardener here, was nice to see bud! GREAT garden!

Thanks for the video, I'm a zone 7 gardener and have had hit and miss luck with potatoes. I'll try this next year and see how it goes. Thanks for the video, it was awesome to see the whole process from start to finish.

Excellent video, I’ve watched a few different videos of yours that led me to this one and I have subscribed.

I’m also in northern MN, and I remember seeing this video last year! Look at us know, eh?

Another amazing video! Thank you for sharing your time and wisdom! I can't wait to get started. Blessings!

Thanks. This was so helpful. You give so much more imformation. The letting them sit to toughen up the skins etc. Others skim over it all and then you wonder why it not working.. so thanks again.