Well done growing the potatoes and a big thumbs up for teaching people how to grow in a simple manner.

That long root was insane! I’ve NEVER seen that before!

It has been fun binge watching your box potatoes..Your energy is contagious.. I'll give it a try. No a DO.

At age 70, it seems I still learn something each day...great harvest!!!.....potatoes are heavy feeders yet I did not see you added anything but the leaves and compost type soil....it will not be long until time to plant here in East Tennessee. My dad always planted potatoes on Good Friday and we had enough crop to make a potato (tater Hill) for Winter storage. I am always looking for easier ways.....you got my Sub...thanks!!

I use milk crates with the cardboard tray that cases of cat and dog food cans come in, at the bottom of crate, line the sides of crate with any cardboard. Gets lots of potatoes and easy to move without box falling apart. Potatoes really seem to like growing in cardboard. I mix organic straw or hay in with the soil.

Thank you for this option of growing , is really cheap and awesome aide. I will grow in cardbox also tomatos, paprica,and salad and on and on , this is so great option i just love it 🤗 Jesus broth me to your chanell to see how i can grow, because i didnt knew what to do and how to grow because is everything so expensive now. God bless U and your all family and all others who here 🙏🏻💛

Mark, I got 50 lbs of grade B red potatoes last fall. Ate some, canned some, dehydrated some. Took the last 8 lbs or so and put them in cold storage. Around March 1st I remembered them. Well! Was I shocked. Some of them had eight inch sprouts! We planted them in gallon containers with good soil/compost. Kept them inside until May. Put them out a little too early so lost seven to frost. When we planted them they already had potatoes the size of golfballs on them. None the less we got a lot of very large potatoes. Vines had withered so we harvested them early. They are so delicious! They are easy to canso I'm going to can a lot of them. Yours look exactly like ours. I am thinking perhaps the grade Bs are not sprayed with sprout inhibitor as they are not sold in stores as the Grade A. Congrats to you!

Ive never seen a man so excited at his potato harvest, i love this box idea, im going to use it this year as id planned more potatoes than i had pots for and this is totally free, giving you a sub just from this vid

U inspire me to plant tater in cardboard boxes .. the plants look heathly I also planted in pots .. they r alll gourmet taters .. I can hardly wait... I have at least a month to go

That's an impressive harvest, especially considering the hot, dry weather we have been having.

How happy sound you are. If I knew your farm I can sneak and add more big potatoes just for the hear genuine happy man! Cheers from overseas!

Now I want to do this! I love potatoes. Need to look up for Raleigh, NC when to get started and I'm in! Thank you for your videos. 😊

I love your enthusiasm! So fun to watch. I'm definitely going to try this next spring! .... that stolen growing past the box was a great surprise!

Most of the spuds we grow are in a partnership with some cool folks, and then there are some in the garden. There are a few volunteers, some in compost, and some in some quad tires as an experiment. I'm switching to boxes next year. Gotta love it man. I'm that way about the zuccs, butternuts, and pumpkins that were off to a brutal start, but the toughest are exploding right now. Fair bit of rain and warm temps starting with the best spring in several years.

Wow!Mark what a harvest. Can't wait to try this, thanks for the video.

Hearing your excitement, I'm literally crying of excitement for you too! To be able to grow on your own to be able to feed yourself & your family! I'm so excited to start also!

You are great sir. I feel like I harvest from my garden . Thank you for sharing this with us step by step.

Epic harvest, thank you for sharing.

Loved seeing the final outcome! 🎉🎉🎉

Super job!!

I’m trying this next year! Thank you 👍

Fantastic, Mark. Thank you SO much!

Nice harvest! Love the excitement too.

I'm enjoying learning from you!

Great collection of videos!

Great harvest, well done....thank you for sharing😍👍

Everything's lovely Mark! 😊

Great experiment. Those little ones are really good in a pot of green beans and ham

Thankyou for this , looks awesome , will def try this !

I have learned a lot about this. I want to do this eventually. Good job.

Thanks for sharing 👍🏾 great experiment I needed to try this.❤️😊

I used a feed bag a few years back because i thought going through it would be easier and it wasnt too bad I love the no plastic box idea better thanks :) Reuse what you got and not polluting while we do it ;) Much love xoxox

Thanks Mark, great video as always. Your methods are the best. I’ve been gardening for over 40 years, so glad I found your techniques.

Hi Mark, great reveal on your spuds! Fun idea to try as well. We all have a free box it seems..may try this next spring, and compare the results with my grow bag technique. Blessings.

Love it!

Awesome! I love to see such joy and excitement from people! Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm going to go set up a box in a few minutes. Can hardly wait to see if it's as successful as yours!

I use big planter pots and got quite a few purple potatoes, the purple ones usually don’t get that big. However, I’m going to use your cardboard box method because the worms love it and make lots of castings underneath. I had laid down cardboard on the walkway in my key hole raised garden and I lifted it up to search for slugs 🐌 and it was filled with worms and castings….and about 20 slugs 🐌 lol 😂. Your potatoes were huge!! Thanks Mark!!

I love your excitement 😁 I'm going to try your method. I'm in Melbourne, Australia

Wow dandy result !

That's so exciting! My dad grew potatoes and they were so delicious so I'm hoping to grow some.

These look amazing. I'll be planting some as soon as our weather permits. I'm at 4,250' elevation. We're still having snow & cold weather.

Kongratulations. This method worked great with my sunchokes. I bented a potato fork trying to harvest my sunchokes out of the ground in the past. This box method worked great came harvest time. Nice thing about sunchokes is I just planted them and watered. Then never took care or them every since. They grow like weeds.

Impressive! Definitely going to give the boxes a test-run this potato season in Arkansas!

I plan to try this method this year

I’m patiently waiting to harvest our potatoes. It’s hard! The potato plants are still green and huge 😳. First time potato farmer 😉

I am excited to see your potato harvest > I planted 3 lbs. of Red Potatoes using this method > it's been tough keeping Any thing alive this summer, but they've yet to bloom OR die back > hoping I'll be blessed with healthy spuds, too! CONGRATS!

My potato just started to appear. I planted after the frost in June.

I’ve never planted potatoes before. I live in the Arizona desert. My soil is ridiculously hard and compacted clay with little to no nutrients. After watching your videos on growing these potatoes, I’m going to give this a try! I just don’t know if the boxes will hold up with our monsoon rains. I’m gonna give it a try though. Thank you for doing these videos!

Amazing 🤩 🥔

I can't wait to try this here in the Philippines, thank you Mark.👍why don't you remove the beatles?

Hey, Mark. I just found you and have watched your series on planting potatoes in cardboard boxes. I buy organic, and usually am disappointed in the potatoes. I'm probably too late, but might as well try. I'm quite old, and the boxes seem like a good idea. Thanks for showing us how you do it.

It's exciting just watching you harvest😂 not even mine. Going to try this summer coming up.

I cannot wait to try growing potatoes in cardboard boxes this year. Your excitement in finding so many potatoes got me excited to do this. Not sure when to start the potatoes, I'm in Massachusetts zone 5.

Congrats ! Forget the question I asked you last week about viruses on store bought potatoes... Proof by results ! Greetings from France with harsh conditiins this year (like you I suppose)

I was going to plant potatoes in 5 gallon buckets, but I will be planting them in boxes instead and save the buckets for other plants. Thanks!

Amazing how that happened.

Wow !!! ❤

Ok, I'm sold. I'm not so happy with the flooding here in the California valley. I'm waiting for news to bug-out while longing to get my potatoes in the ground. I notice the store potatoes you planted were in pristine condition, so I'm going to reject the organic ones that they sell at my local box store which look wrinkled and dark in color. This will be my first year planting a large amount of potatoes, so I hope to harvest enough for bartering. The California valley farmer's corps were flooded this year, so everyone seems to forget how to grow food in their own backyard. Sign of the times will only get worse.

Mark, That’s fantastic! I will try this next year. Off topic but I had asked you about how to grow after winter rye cover crop over winter. You said cut the rye grass at soil level before planting. What if I want to direct sow instead of transplant?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge starting to view gardening videos to start my garden. So much to learn. Quick questions, I'm sorry if you mentioned it & must of missed it, 1. Potatoes grown in full sun or partial sun? 2. Water, once a week? Hilling, how many weeks after you plant them? Only do these 1 time? 3. How long do you let them grow until you harvest them? Again I'm sorry if you mentioned it in the videos I must of missed it. Im viewing all your potatoes videos now. So excited to start this year

I think the long root was searching for moisture......under the leaves ?

I have read that even some organic potatoes are treated with inhibitors to prevent sprouts won't produce potatoes I have read? Appartently not all. I want to try it

That last one really had lots of potatoes on it. It seems the red ones got less per plant; about 5 or 6, although I do love the red ones when I'm making potato salad or steaming them and cutting them in chunks to eat with butter. I think I'll try this with red ones and some sort of baking variety. I don't know about using my native soil because my dog got very sick from some microbes in it after rooting around in some mulch in my back yard. I'll definitely get some of those worm castings and some other soil that is bagged. It may be cleaner. Can other vegetables be grown in cardboard boxes like this?

I will be choking out the grocers during the winter for stronger boxes ...I think 4 us with hot days and cool nites the cardboard holds the dew

Those baby potatoes would be yummy, sprinkled with coarse salt & some garlic powder and then roasted til tender! Can you "winter-over" potatoes in those boxes? Of course it's already mid February....even in St.Louis I don't expect a Whole lot of heavy freezes.

I have never seen a potatoe run like the last one, and I have grown a lot of potatoes. Are you going to save some seed for next year?

Hi mark, how do I plant winter rye in a field that I covered with wood chips? do I have to remove the chips from the field? I covered the field to protect the dirt from the blistering sun and now I don't know what to do. You are so awesome, I value your expertise. Thank you so much

Do you have a video of making the hoops?

Hi Mark, I just opened my potatoes and though I had a lot, they were all very small, but it was fun anyway. Maybe it was the variety or the fact that I had 50 jumping worms in just one box. The foliage had been dead for a couple of weeks, but maybe I should have waited the full 100 days. Question, how much did you water them during July? Wondering if I did not do enough.

how do you know when they're ready to dig up?? I'm growing mine in the garden

HI MARK, THANKS TEACHING US, HOW TO PLANT POTATOE IN A SIMPLE WAY, I ADMIRE YOU SO MUCH.IN FACT, IT CAN BE PLANTED IN A CARTON. CARTON IN PINAS, WE JUST BURNED IT. TO MAKE AWAY BAD ELEMENTS. . THEY MOMENT IT WILL SMOKED , THE BAD ELEMENTS WILL WILL GONE,AWAY. OR SELL IT AGAIN TO THE GROCERY. HAHAHA🤣😅😆 GOD BLESS, YOU MORE, 😇😇😇❤❤❤

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Hi! a newbie here.. how long does it take to harvest once you put the potatoes on the ground?

Hey y'all, has anybody tried this great way of growing potatoes in Southwest Florida (10A) ? I'm ready to try, but if it's not going to work at all, then I'd love to know and I'll move on to another veggie :-) thanks for any input

Maybe you should have put that stalon back in the ground so it could finish growing. What did you put in the box besides the potatoes? It looks like leaves covering them but what's in the soil?

Will you replant any of those that you harvested?

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Just use a hand vacuum to pick up your bugs.

The Ruth stout method Mark’s way…