How to plant potatoes and get a lot of big tubers

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In this video I will show you how to plant potatoes so that there is a large potato harvest. Growing an early potato crop is very simple because the earth warms up faster and moisture is perfectly retained. The potato harvest will be great if you follow the rules that I tell you about in the video.
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@mr.t7332 Жыл бұрын

Don't use this method. Plant them deep and once the plant appears keep covering them with more dirt. You'll get more full size potatoes than you can use.

@fantastic7556 Жыл бұрын

That is a lot more work. Plus getting rid of weeds and harvest, digging them up.

@racheltonner2509 3 ай бұрын

I agree. And no... It's really not that hard. I did this last year and had a large harvest :)

@jodigirl1111 2 ай бұрын

@@racheltonner2509I drop my potatoes on the soil, don’t dig at all, cover with grass and keep adding more grass as they grow, I get massive harvests and the grass essentially composts in place adding nutrients back to the soil.

@indianavintagechainsawguy 2 ай бұрын

First time doing potatoes. I will try no straw

@marvinbrock960 Ай бұрын

That only applies if your growing a potato variety that grows up the stem… a lot of varieties grow from the root bundle.

@lilliananderson1986 Жыл бұрын

Cut into sections, let them dry for a day then plant. More pieces, more potatoes 🥔

@salimsubas8128 Жыл бұрын

Hello Türkiye 😘

@Universalhealing-bo3ir Жыл бұрын

If you plant the whole potato all eyes still sprout taking up less area🤔

@edwardmilf7586 Жыл бұрын

I feel you get smaller potatoes anyone know if that true?

@SureshSuresh-ff7ll Жыл бұрын

😢

@ralsharp6013 11 ай бұрын

I've tried that experiment before 😊You still end up with the same amount

@patricianixon7674 10 ай бұрын

I never did it like that I just got a tiller and cut them and flashes eyes up and just when I thought they had died I started digging and they were everywhere what a blessing.

@mylamberfeeties875 Жыл бұрын

I grow big potatoes 🥔 Yukons every year. I have never used straw because 1. Don't want to encourage rodents 2. It's very windy where I live very windy 3. More work more money My potatoes are pretty clean but the dirt keeps them longer. I do not wash tell I eat.

@elw6150 Жыл бұрын

I wondered about that rodents thing, always a battle with them and don't want to make it worse. Potatoes grow with hardly anything we can do.

@destinycoach5 Жыл бұрын

MyLamb.. can you explain what you do them pls

@mylamberfeeties875 Жыл бұрын

@@destinycoach5 I grow them in half barrels or directly in the ground. Barrels work great though

@destinycoach5 Жыл бұрын

@@mylamberfeeties875 ok that wasn't helpful at all but thanks .

@mylamberfeeties875 Жыл бұрын

@@destinycoach5 there's literally nothing to growing potatoes. You put a potato in a pot of soil water it. That's literally all you do

@lancecorporalveteran0621 Жыл бұрын

I've tried this the straw has a tendency to hold lots of water so water less often or water lightly or you'll end up with rotten potatoes

@alagahinorondez8525 Жыл бұрын

Yes spuds 2 plant 🥥🍆🌶🍅🍊

@kraziecatclady 4 ай бұрын

This makes me wonder about my environment. Its humid and rains a lot in the summer down here, but it also gets pretty hot. I wonder if I'd have "rotten potatoes if I tried this even if I don't water them?

@D4u2s0t 3 ай бұрын

Also for anybody that doesn't know it's important to use actual straw and not hay

@bernardhacking7462 2 жыл бұрын

For your information, potatoes only produce from the tuber upwards. You have to keep on adding soil as the plant grows until the plant flowers. Only then should it he harvested. You will more than double your yield using this method, guaranteed.🙂

@bettybalentine6924 Жыл бұрын

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@LordShamo Жыл бұрын

There are two varieties of potatoes, like tomatoes, called indeterminate and determinate. Indeterminate do as you states; grow up and spread out with added soil. Determinate potatoes grow only at rhizome level and do not grow up and out with added soil.

@ghostridergale Жыл бұрын

@@LordShamo I was going to say the potatoes I’m growing are not growing up. But there’s plenty growing under the soil and I haven’t ever added any dirt to the garden

@joannsudderth664 Жыл бұрын

You don't have to add more soil if you plant them 4 to 6 inches deep

@cprove5751 4 ай бұрын

Those way too close

@marcopolo5365 Жыл бұрын

Cut the seeds up one eye per piece& you'll have an acre of plants

@Universalhealing-bo3ir Жыл бұрын

If you plant the whole Potato you will have as many using less space. Cut or not eyes still sprout🤔

@generic_Ryan Жыл бұрын

I cut an eye each and planted. So many this year. From like a one inch piece lol

@keyang8220 2 ай бұрын

I have tried both methods. Cutting the potato makes it vulnerable to disease and getting eaten by pests because the thick, protective skin is gone. They will often rot in the ground, too. I've heard of people dipping the cur potatoes in lime to seal it

@u.s.militia7682 Жыл бұрын

You can harvest them all winter too.

@bethpark6266 Жыл бұрын

I was appalled at the price of seed potatoes at the nursery. $8.99 a pound? I bought ten pounds of organic potatoes at the grocery store for less than that. Now I've got enough potatoes growing for two families.

@saxtman7055 Ай бұрын

Well of course they are going to be more expensive. It's a seed potato specifically for planting. Buying from the store witch in turn, makes you wait for the eyes to grow. So in the end it doesn't really matter witch way you do it. But the potatos at the store are for eating mainly.

@davidpatrick1813 Жыл бұрын

I've been trying to grow cooked potatoes with butter but the butter doesn't grow well. Great video I will try and I did subscribe. Thanks.

@texsis2112 Жыл бұрын

Try growing the potato in a glass, or something bigger, of water with a layer of butter on top of the water see if it sucks the butter up through the roots. just came to my mind you can have the idea do what you will with it God bless, t e x s i s

@robertdrews5532 Жыл бұрын

No David, you need to plant butter separately.

@kayesdigginit1519 Жыл бұрын

🤦🙄

@davidpatrick1813 Жыл бұрын

@@robertdrews5532 I love all the humor ... thanks folks.

@greenboyatgafarms2250 Жыл бұрын

You don't have to plant the whole tater. You only need to plant the eyes on the tater. You can get plenty of eyes off of one tater just think of all the taters you can grow if you cut all the eyes off and plant them. I grow new potatoes every year

@michellepope2829 Жыл бұрын

I live in the Florida Panhandle. When should I plant potatoes? I've never tried those b4?

@greenboyatgafarms2250 Жыл бұрын

@@michellepope2829 if you pulled a big heel up and plant your eyes probably around middle to the end of March.

@alagahinorondez8525 Жыл бұрын

Yup fr efforts home grown d best

@tobymacish Жыл бұрын

Cut your potatoes in half double your yield cut three times triple your yield. As long as you have an eye or sprout on each part of the potato it will grow.

@surendranathpr5504 Жыл бұрын

Whole bulb acts as energy to the plant

@tobymacish Жыл бұрын

@@surendranathpr5504 you only need the potato whole to make it through winter once the potato half is in the ground the roots supply the plants with energy. So there is no need of the whole potato in the ground.

@surendranathpr5504 Жыл бұрын

@@tobymacish 👍

@josephinemuringo2453 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip 😜

@ak_boutabag Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!!

@pedroclaro7822 Жыл бұрын

Cut a potato for each eye it has, and let it dry/scar. Plant one foot apart, in rows one foot apart. The no dig method doesn’t work well in many areas, but it’s good for clay soil where it gets compacted when dry, otherwise it’s just more work and more expensive. Use hot compost (high in nitrogen) or use soil correctors. You can literally use all your pee on your potatoes if You’re ao inclined. A small layer of whatever weeds you have around will be free to gather and hold a bit of moisture. Dig up grass flip upside down and place over potatoes a few days later. Stop watering them for the last month. Cut up the foliage to feed livestock if you have any, but leave the main stalk in place so you know where there’s a potato plant when digging them up. One fell swoop of your hoe half a foot away from your plant you won’t cut any potatoes, pull and gather potatoes. Continue.

@Spence-po6xp 4 ай бұрын

How often do you water potatoes from starting to finish

@pedroclaro7822 4 ай бұрын

@@Spence-po6xp depends on weather conditions, air humidity and soil drainage/water retention

@Spence-po6xp 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback bro.

@hooliganskinnyh4553 2 жыл бұрын

Stop!! Cut each with 1 eye each piece then plant

@dragonrider59 Жыл бұрын

Underrated tip!

@lilliananderson1986 Жыл бұрын

More detailed description please

@J1WE Жыл бұрын

@@lilliananderson1986 basically every eye, make them a seperate planting spot. Not the whole potato full of eyes all at once in same spot.

@cozyrosemary Жыл бұрын

Wonderful potato plant!!😊

@xuyahfish Жыл бұрын

The potatoes seem pretty close together IMO. The leafy sprouts spread so widely for me that this would be way too close and both inhibit growth as well as encourage disease.

@drinmer1 4 ай бұрын

Same for me, I space out to every thierd of his and they're still close.

@ralsharp6013 3 ай бұрын

Planting whole potatoes is one of the secrets.. Cut potatoes tend to rot😢.. The straw is a fantastic idea thank you😊

@joan-lisa-smith 2 ай бұрын

You aren't supposed to plant them fresh cut, you wait for the cut surface to dry out over days.

@ralsharp6013 2 ай бұрын

@joan-lisa-smith I've never had much success with cutting them.. Even if they dry out for a week they still tend to go rotten underground.. Plus I tend to get more potatoes when I plant the whole spud🙏

@pajcka Жыл бұрын

Perfect. Easiest crop.

@booboobella4553 Жыл бұрын

Ufff I'm gonna try next year 👍✌ I wish to see the growth and fruit's

@islandgardener158 Жыл бұрын

They will grow to a nice size you you add blood meal to the soil

@rufinaseme6173 7 ай бұрын

Blood meal or bone meal?

@rufinaseme6173 7 ай бұрын

New to planting potatoes answer please

@teresalipscomb9211 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for you guys being honest and truthful and helping home farmers along the way love your videos keep reporting

@brunopais8117 Жыл бұрын

Why you dont cut the potatos in to pieces before you put in the ground?

@XroorX Жыл бұрын

Get one used tire. Fill the inside with 70%compost 30% playground sand. Let potatoes develop more eyes before planting. One whole potato is a waste versus 5x. As stem grows taller, add another tire, add compost/sand mix. Three tires high will get you way more than this one dimensional grid. My footprint is 15” diameter hahaha

@fantastic7556 Жыл бұрын

That works only with indeterminate varieties.

@jaymaganatv90210 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@fozman845 Жыл бұрын

Grow them in a barrel so much easier to harvest and large yields.

@aprox23 Жыл бұрын

How many plants do you grow in each barrel? 4?

@jimmason1072 Жыл бұрын

Sure and don't add any fertilizer ....

@mr.t7332 Жыл бұрын

Two to three feet deep. Then as the plant emerges cover around it with dirt. As it continues to grow keep covering around it with dirt. A friend did it with tires. He put a tire around the plant and covered around it with dirt. As it grew he kept adding tires and soil. Eventually he had a stand of 10 tires and harvested over two hundred large baking potatoes.

@fantastic7556 Жыл бұрын

You need indeterminate potatos for that.

@elw6150 Жыл бұрын

Yuk, rubber flavored taters!!!!

@mr.t7332 Жыл бұрын

@@elw6150 Nope. Only the best potatoes in the world. Perfect, tasty, and store well.

@JGunit 3 ай бұрын

Ten tires??? That's not going to work with my kids. They'll be trying to climb that in no time. Splat

@kitfranzman4860 Жыл бұрын

Why would you plant an entire potatoes when you can cut them up let them sit for 3 days then plant pieces. You can get many many more.

@hounaidafarhat9396 2 жыл бұрын

IV used this method years ago

@khaledzaitoun7321 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 👍

@ryleemarcoalaba7768 Жыл бұрын

Nice now I know how to plan potatoes 👍🥔

@BootsOrion 2 ай бұрын

Use to have an antique potato slicer machine on a farm i worked at that would cut the larger potatoes into smaller chunks.. Sometimes 4 chunks per potato! We'd let them scar over a couple days and then plant them with a potato hopper that'd trench em into the ground ahhhh the memories miss that place

@donnadigsjersey2936 Жыл бұрын

The Ruth Stout method of potato farming.

@gonegolding Жыл бұрын

We did Ruths' method at our community garden the last 2 years & it worked great.

@robertjohnsonmetals3727 Жыл бұрын

You dont have to use a whole potato

@D4u2s0t 4 ай бұрын

My assumption is this is a rookie Gardner if you crowd the plants this closely they will not have sufficient space to grow and if the plants do grow they're going to have very few potatoes compared to properly spaced

@kapaiti5387 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome planting 👍

@bernardhacking7462 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for enlightening me 🙂

@lylelacey4367 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information 😊

@wideawakeandaware-22 2 жыл бұрын

And I would suggest sprinkling cinnamon since its an anti fungal.

@robertdrews5532 Жыл бұрын

Does that work on toenails?

@SW-ii5gg Жыл бұрын

@@robertdrews5532 from my understanding, that usually takes both internal and external to get rid of because it becomes deeper than topical treatment alone can work, you may want to do more research than advice from the comments section on YT shorts. It may help or perhaps some baking soda and peroxide, you may also want to look into dietary changes as well.

@michellepope2829 Жыл бұрын

On the potatoes or on the soil?

@SW-ii5gg Жыл бұрын

@@michellepope2829 I think the potatoes, where they are cut. I have seen videos of people suggesting several options for starting cuttings with honey water, spit, aspirin water being a few that comes to mind as antifungal or rooting hormone replacement.

@wideawakeandaware-22 Жыл бұрын

@@michellepope2829 either one.

@lanettelawrence6308 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@amazinggarden Жыл бұрын

You are welcome

@harrymarsee2782 Жыл бұрын

That is 6 inches apart.

@amazinggarden Жыл бұрын

Yes

@pmreynolds4547 Жыл бұрын

Chipmunks love this method

@thebackwoodsbastard2890 Жыл бұрын

Dont do this if you have snails in your garden. I did this last year and 90 percent of my patatoe crops got eaten by snails before they grew through the layer of mulch.

@diyangeluk 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this information x

@user-rx3qo7so2n 10 ай бұрын

What is the inches to your centimeters? o_O

@rbs2303 Жыл бұрын

Will try that

@davidhardison3050 Жыл бұрын

Who taught you that. Each eye on a potato is a potato plant. Cut your potatoes so the eyes got a chunk of Spud on. One potato you could get for plants if not more. Why don't you people know this. Supplanting the eyes up one potato you probably get 20 lb of potatoes out of one potato..

@jimmylarge1148 2 ай бұрын

You’re planting them way to close together broseph.

@SomebodysNephew Ай бұрын

Tub potatoes with mychorrizae in the soil and some fox farms grow big or use a low nitrogen feed. I usually sprinkle 3 month bone meal pellets when I plant and refresh once during the summer and then only worry about potassium and just a lil nitrogen.

@lilyachieng6488 Жыл бұрын

I will give it a trial

@duniatani007 Жыл бұрын

Wow...amazing

@boinknook 6 ай бұрын

It's amazing how something that comes out from the dirt taste so good.🤭

@dacha_one_love 19 күн бұрын

I use leaves to mulch them cause they are free. Straw is too expensive where i live.

@philindeblanc Жыл бұрын

Wait! you are going to burry perfectly good potatoes under dirt and wait, to make potatoes?

@donburke4886 Жыл бұрын

Where else do you think potatoes come from ?

@spencergreenhill7728 Жыл бұрын

Thats like milk comes in squares boxes.

@brendahoffman4009 Жыл бұрын

You will get many from one.

@nocapproductions5471 4 ай бұрын

Yes because 1 will give you 5

@philindeblanc 4 ай бұрын

@@nocapproductions5471 yes, there was joke in there, lol

@christinafisher6169 Жыл бұрын

Doesn't the straw get moldy underneath?

@enricopallazzo3244 5 ай бұрын

Can someone translate this into actual units of measurement? Thanks in advance!

@simeontjatji3391 Жыл бұрын

Is it okay if I use leaves instead of grass

@joannsudderth664 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@simeontjatji3391 Жыл бұрын

@@joannsudderth664 I used leaves already and my potatoes have grown

@GodMaxDrinkerofTea Жыл бұрын

@@simeontjatji3391 Time travel

@charsiu_808 Жыл бұрын

When do you plant your subs?

@MegaShyguy2 Жыл бұрын

"Dig not deep holes"....sooo shallow? Hahaha

@hrteata Жыл бұрын

"dig not deep holes"

@georgebowman1060 Жыл бұрын

Yeah lol ...hmmm, much to learn, you still have lol 😂

@shadyman6346 11 ай бұрын

Tupac is Jamie Fox. Ever seen them together?

@laurynmchikho7755 10 ай бұрын

wat abt fertilisation

@Remy-dl6nc Жыл бұрын

I am looking for the red rose potatoes specifically

@doyinsonuga1948 Ай бұрын

How do we get potatoes to get the eyes before planting please

@OutThere5 Ай бұрын

I put mine down in the crawl space (4’ basement) over the winter. It has to be dark and cool. It’s around 10 deg Celsius there.

@sandravalani359 Жыл бұрын

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@baiamonlangnongtdu570 4 ай бұрын

Victory

@ljschcru2013 Жыл бұрын

FOR IRELAND!

@Ash_G Жыл бұрын

Now put the oyster mushroom spores on the straw...

@bobbydookhie7297 Жыл бұрын

Tell the people the truth. Please

@lindabell125 Ай бұрын

Wrong way each eye will make one plant. Eat what's left, no waste. Harvest more potatoes.

@senadasency2937 2 жыл бұрын

Lako Vama s takvom zemljom. Moju zemlju krampo treba kopati i opet nista nemam☹

@amazinggarden 2 жыл бұрын

Potrebno je povećati plodnost tla, dodati humus i malčirati tlo. Ona će biti plodna.

@senadasency2937 Жыл бұрын

Hvala vam

@makaylasmith4081 3 ай бұрын

That was not 15 centimeters apart

@OutThere5 Ай бұрын

Potatoes in this video are planted too close together. Plants are not going to receive enough sun, resulting in a bad crop

@user-tc1mg6gs4p Жыл бұрын

한줄더심고집으로덮어도되겠어요

@Carmenmartinez-nf9pt Жыл бұрын

What them channel stop lying please there's no link

@carolgreen1822 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Can hay be used instead of straw?

@cheriweber4 Жыл бұрын

Not unless you want weed seed.

@kamicj3522 3 ай бұрын

Nope have weeds

@kayesdigginit1519 Жыл бұрын

Dig not deep holes, these voiceover programs are so off-putting.

@jackman6256 Жыл бұрын

You don't have to plant the whole potato Just cut out plugs where the eye is This will grown

@raycity1234 Жыл бұрын

The hay cost more than the potatoes are worth

@GodMaxDrinkerofTea Жыл бұрын

Tf? U buyin hay meant for rabbits? That's expensive. You can buy a whole Hay bale for like 30 bucks

@bjohnston3659 2 жыл бұрын

How do the shoots get up through the mulch?

@robertdrews5532 Жыл бұрын

There's gophers under neath that push the shoots up thru the straw

@ONE_22 Жыл бұрын

If you want to get a large crop of potatoes......(Video starts off showing garlic plants)....

@D.N.F Жыл бұрын

What a waste of taters. Cut off the eyes with a little bit of potato left on each eye will grow into a plant and you still have the original potatoes

@user-yh2dl5wf8l Ай бұрын

u dont have to put hull potato

@jimmylarge1148 2 ай бұрын

Straw, if not sprouted first will grow u a damn hay field in your garden. Ask me how I know.

@karlthomas7885 Жыл бұрын

We don’t use metrics’s

@suredude5291 7 ай бұрын

F potatoes 🥔 😢

@sherimoccabee8970 Жыл бұрын

I did this. A chipmunk decimated my potatoes.

@tsmd1961 Жыл бұрын

Try planting in a trench and laying chichen wire along one side then backfill the trench. Fold the remaining wire over the potatoes and weigh it down to holdnit in place. It may not save all but it should help.

@lloydstevens1603 4 ай бұрын

Hay is 10dollors a bale you going to have more in them than you can buy them

@n1pster3 Жыл бұрын

I've seen people cut a single potato into many parts(as long as there's a stem showing) why did you plant them whole

@neitamaoate7810 Жыл бұрын

We don't have straw in the islands. what can I use. I definitely want to grow potatoes here. pls help.🤔

@infinity.1.0 Жыл бұрын

Coconut coir?

@ladyann5778 Жыл бұрын

It's called cultivating

@nancyarchibald9095 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, not how we do it in Idaho... (?)

@robertdrews5532 2 жыл бұрын

How do we do it in Idaho?

@craftcastings723 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertdrews5532 with disgusting amounts of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Commercially grown that is-

@nancyarchibald9095 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertdrews5532 - We plant the seed potatoes much deeper and use 1 spud cut into halves or thirds approximately. The plant tops fill in tightly together which eliminates the need for mulch. My favorite spuds for the home garden are Purple Vikings. The commercial growers usually plant Russets.

@nancyarchibald9095 2 жыл бұрын

@@craftcastings723 - No, not so much. I use none of that in our home garden.

@scottulbrich5376 Жыл бұрын

@@craftcastings723 dont assume, you dont know, im from idaho, you are FOS

@teresa4773 Жыл бұрын

These instructions are way off the normal information, I don't think this works

@amazinggarden Жыл бұрын

it works

@shaw_xo Жыл бұрын

Dig not deep holes

@playerx3546 Жыл бұрын

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@terryrodriguez6209 Жыл бұрын

They are going to come out clean when they are in the dirt? 😂

@GodMaxDrinkerofTea Жыл бұрын

I think with clean they mean well shapen

@reesereese9786 Жыл бұрын

Y’all their not going to grow because u have to cut them and WAIT For them to dry out duh city ppl just don’t get😂😂😂

@noribahbintesujai7443 2 жыл бұрын

Doa se begini slalunya diJawab Allah

@user-uc4ty9bj3h Жыл бұрын

That's not the right way

@ginachioco6210 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for sharing amazing techniques in farming

@ronmesser9091 Жыл бұрын

How about inches , this is not Europe.

@pino_de_vogel Жыл бұрын

straw costs more then potatoes so ehmm nope not happening.