So sorry to hear about the Bayou Gardener. I enjoyed watching him and learned a lot from him. Thanks so much RIP.

Your videos have been pretty much a manual for me in planting my own crops. Keep up with the new videos sir, they are appreciated!

Please don't stop passing on your knowledge. I am so grateful for your videos!

Fresh potatoes from the garden is so good. Best of luck ........... Donald

Going to try potatoes for the first time this season. Bought them yesterday from our local farmer's market. Just five pounds since my garden is only 25' x 12' and I have other veggies to plant. I'm going to try intensive gardening. Thank you Donald for all your help and inspiration. You are a GEM!!!

@webcajun Thanks a bunch Donald ! I am having a blast watching ALL your videos today.

Got my pen and paper taking notes... Thank You! Planted a row of these yesterday! And more tomorrow!

They are real easy to grow and you'll love the taste of fresh potatoes........... Donald

Good news! Good news! 2 days ago there were 2 little sprouts breaking out of the ground. Looked today an there were many more fixing to break through! I could see where the soil was being pushed up! THANK YOU MR. DONALD FOR HELPING WITH YOUR WISE ADVICE.

Thanks Donald. your videos and answers are very helpful to me .

Glad you enjoyed the video ........ Donald

Planted 10 lbs. Red seed potatoes today 02-13-16 on 100' row. I did exactly as you done in the video. And covered with the hippers too! The potatoes were $0.79 per pound and the 50 pound sack of 13-13-13 fertilizer was $14.99 here in Livingston Parish, LA at my local feed & seed hardware. Wish me a good yield this year and happy 2016 gardening for everybody!

New potatoes are always good. We like the small ones in snap beans........ Donald

I just love his videos. So sorry he is gone. If he were still here, I would ask him if it's really a good idea to put that much nitrogen on potatoes!!!!! LOL!

Great vid Donald ...thanks. Mixed success this year. Next planting more dirt and less straw as they grow. Only got about 3 times what I started with and most were mediums.

Hope you have a great season this year and thanks.....Donald

Hope you have a great year........ Donald

Well, before watching another video and yours I had put 5 large seed potatoes whole into a small patio potato bag! I'm not going to remove 4 of them, well and the other one and cut that other one up and only replace that when prepared. The other 4 I will put in my allotment. Good job I looked and yes you make it fun. Thanks

I planted blue potatoes and plain ol brown potatoes about a month ago. I had to plant them in containers in my garage. Not quite ready to plant outside here in Albuquerque. It's still snowing, but soon enough.

...bought some seeds today. just waiting for the rain to stop here in "sunny" california; then it's garden time. thanks for the vids.

Great info! I'm gonna try potatoes for the first time this year! Thanks for the tips!

A little too early for me to plant potatoes over here in the Uk. I should be planting my first earlies around the end of March, the rest I usually plant on Good Friday. Thnxs for your videos very interesting to see how you do things, Have a good harvest, PS I love new potatoes with some Broad Beans (Fava Beans) with a slice of ham

@silbernagelm ... thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoy the vids........Donald

Great job Donald! I'm coming over to eat some of those potatoes! lol

They are coming along nicely. They reached to top of the container about a week ago and appear to be doing well.

Love your video man! that was fun to watch. now I am gonna grow some potatos

I got real lucky and had a couple of days of simi dry weather. Hope you have a good year and thanks........... Donald

I'm new to vegetable gardening, got some red potatoes growing, been looking at videos on KZfaq. I like yours best so far, good production values and great presentation.

Great video!!! I just got my Garden started with a row of beets, peas, and broccoli. I'm just west of Houston and as soon as I get my potatos in they are also going to get in the ground.

Makes perfect sense. Thanks!

nicely done, Donald

Thanks for the tips, we are getting ready to break ground on our new garden patch soon and potatoes are on the list! :)

With a short growing season I bet you're a better gardener than I am. No time to play around, go to get it right the first time......... Donald

I done exactly as u said and there was moisture under there. Not much but there was some! I got to a potato and there was 2 very small sprouts coming out of the 2 eyes I left on it! I was almost excited as when my son was born!! lol

Hadn't been doing too much lately. Catching up in the shop right now......... Donald

RIP my friend

I had to cut and plant the same day just like last year. You could tell it was still wet by the chunks the middle buster was pulling up. That's how it is at this time of the year, get in there when you can....... Donald

I can make make one this spring when planting time comes.

Thanks. Top class vid.

great video! tons of thanks!

Still enjoy

Yes I think everyone is ready for spring........... Donald

Sounds great looking forward to it.......... Donald

Donald, Ah, AAAAHhhhh, already. I will be in late April and early May. I plant the potatoes whole. So I'll cut the potatoes. I hope your idea will work on my property. Nice job.

@peterdoubleyouz ... there are so many different ways of doing things in the garden you can get a little side tracked. Sticking to the basics is my best advice.......Donald

Looking forward to your video....... Donald

I know the feeling. The top few inches of soil was somewhat dry but right under that it was wet. In fact you can see the chunks coming up when I was making the furrow............ Donald

Thanks for the tip I'll sure give it a try. Was too wet to plant some this winter so no crop this spring.....Donald

@bellaray1 ... We plant our potatoes in mid January. I try to let em dry out but usually the weather is so bad I end up planting the same day I cut. We get a good bit of rain in the winter and the garden is pretty wet so you plant when you can not so much when you want. I'm going to try to plant a few this fall and let em grow through the winter..........Donald

Aha,fella,so glade to see this video,im a amateur cultivator,theres a small garden at background of my home,and lot of vegetables here! i want to breed some potatos but be afraid of them couldnt to be growing well,Aha,i got bean`cucumber`eggplant and so on,I want you could to upload planting video more in the future,im going to concern to you!fella,so good feeling to meet you here!

Man you hit the nail on the head! Bought them before u could reply back. Got them from Naylor's Hardware in Baton Rouge. Only place that had any left. The print out paper for their customers reads 10-12 lbs. per 100 ft. row for Red Irish potatoes (LaSoda?) THANKS

Thanks ........ Donald

You're welcome anytime....... Donald

@mphymel ... You should let the cut potatoes dry before planting. I had to plant these the same day because we had rain in the forecast. No row was drawn, just a furrow........ Donald

@benhunts ... it's a 6 foot utility rake made for tractors. You might see it in a video this year. I have one more segment to shoot, racking my limestone driveway, then I'll post it. Nice piece of equipment...... Donald

awesome.

Thanks

With all the bad luck I've had in the past with too much rain, if I get 1-2 lbs. to the row foot I'm happy. I do space mine a little farther than most at 14-18 inches apart so that may make a difference. Last year I planted 50 lbs. of seed potato and harvested around 300 lbs. I don't think that's too bad being they went under water so many times.......... Donald

I love the southern accent

I have a couple wet spots but all is well but tonight it's suppose to get to 32 degees, I think they will survive!! Kenneth

Hey Jim ... last year I planted both in the spring and fall. Think I'm going to do the same this year. It was so wet when I dug that short piece I had to break up clogs to find potatoes. Probably missed quite a few. This rain has got to stop soon......... Donald

Try planting half whole and the other half cut and see what happens. Remember to leave a couple of eyes on each piece. Best of luck this gardening season.......... Donald

You're very welcome......Donald

Thankyou Donald..... Ken

You're welcome......Donald

Hey Ray ... Some go into the swamp, some never come out. LOL Wati till you see the shinny new equipment I'll have to work with this year. To bad it's not mine........... Donald

@davidhaythornthwaite ... I’ve got lots of aches and pains so I too try to do things as easily as possible. Whatever works stick with it…….Donald

Redic. Nice work

@geniebailey82 ... On different methods I would go as far to say from one neighbor to the next. That's the good thing about gardening, so many ways of doing things you can hardly go wrong........ Donald

This time I kept an eye on that "knot head" Lucy. These are yard dogs and stay outside year round. Glad you enjoy the videos and thanks.......... Donald

Hey Donald good to see your on the right side of winter ! . my seed potato are in a coo; place waiting for mid march earliest. its freezin here and some snow to come :P the soil looks wonderful as usual,can i borrow ya traccy&rotavator? for a day? all the best to you guys rob

I'm gonna have to move ... it'll be another month maybe two before I can plant potatoes! A short growing season is really depressing ... Cheers

@231MasseyFerguson ...Being such a wet winter I was beginning to worry but it finally dried up and I got about 100 ft. planted the other day.......Donald

@MrMunchiemo ... I use a balanced fertilizer like triple 8 or 13 or 17. A soil sample would probably help a lot in determining just how much to use for potatoes……Donald

We plant taters a little different in West Virginia ;) we put 3 cut taters to a hill about 1 foot apart. Then put 5-10-10 or if the ground is poor as mine is 10-10-10 in between each hill. It's strange how everyone plants in different ways from state to state.

I thought it was something like that. The potato bettles got in the ones last spring. Had to use a little liquid Sevin the take care of em. Thanks....... Donald

@NaomiChambers ... depends a lot on the weather and how fertile the soil is but I'd say on average 6-12......... Donald

@mickyboy200768 ... one difference is store bought potatoes are treated so it takes longer for them to sprout..... Donald

Plant them deep, as they grow pull dirt up to em leaving only the top few inches sticking out and you'll do just fine........... Donald

@MBJB07 ... These days I applying fertilizer only where I'll be drawing the rows. I'll use 8-8-8 or 13-13-13 or 17-17-17 whatever is available.......Donald

@Tadaevion … Someone suggested I try coating the cut potatoes with sulfur to help prevent disease. I really didn’t see any difference in production…….Donald

@castuckey ... It takes about 4 months for em to mature. When the leaves start turning yellow it's just about time to dig......Donald

Each time it dries up a little we get a down pour. They're even calling for snow at the end of the week. Maybe a snow man video?........ Donald

Well, I ended up having to hook up the landscape rake and smoothing out the top of the row. They were planted about 7-8 inches deep!! Now they in the ground 3-4 inches.

@TheColonelSteve ...I dust my potatoes with sulfur which I understand helps prevent rotting and some diseases.....Donald

Well, I need to rephrase that. They don't like too much nitrogen. From my experience, I got all vines and very few potatoes. But yes, some fertilizer is good, just no high nitrogen. Natural is good though. Some folks plant clover or peas and then when it's tilled under it helps the ground. Peas and corn together is how I do it sometimes.

All good suggestions. I think I know the plow you're talking about, looks like they would work well but for the little bit I plant it's just not worth it.......Donald

@mogges1 ... They do spray to keep em from sprouting in the store. Some have suggested washing the potatoes to get the stuff off. Seed potatoes are your best bet…….Donald

Hey Rob... if you're getting snow then you probably live just a little too far away for a trip on the tractor. Then again, we have snow in the forecast for Friday.......... Donald

There are several on the forum that plant the blue potatoes. They say they are good......... Donald

Boiled with salt & pepper then butter on top. Not bad........... Donald

@Efetida ... about the only variety I can find around here is Red LaSoda. They have done pretty well but I would like to try a few Yukon Gold as well.......Donald

@gleciab04 ...I find my spring crop to be the best. I usually end up with a few pounds that sprout just about planting time (August) and use those. Store them like you would any other in a cool, dark, dry place.....Donald

I planted some in large flower pots. Guess they're about 3 inches tall right now......... Donald

This year I only planted half a sack (25 lbs.) Still have a bunch in the ground from the fall I need to dig but it's just too wet........... Donald

@rozeraseel1 ...Well that's great, happy for you.....Donald

You always make it look SSSOOOOOOO easy!! BTW, did you have anything, other than the cut potatoes, in the green bucket? Reason I ask is that I've read where some people, after they cut theirs, puts them in a bag with sulphur powder beforeplanting them.

Great video... About how many potatos does each seed produce? and when should they be harvested after you plant them? Thanks

@wsmcewen ... I've heard that you need to break the sprouts off before planting. I just planted some more potatoes that had sprouted and didn't break them off so I should be able to answer that question in a few weeks. It's getting real late to plant potatoes here in Zone 8 but I had them so I planted............ Donald

I really don't add anything other than the fertilizer. I did however, for the first time, sprinkle a little sulfur on them this year. Someone told me it was good for em, don't remember what it was good for though? I didn't have time to let them heal either cause of the wet conditions and having to plant when I could.......... Donald