Thanks for your experience, how many kilos of potatoes did you harvest

Make sure you use the right potato for that method. Potatoes are determinate and indeterminate like their cousin the Tomato. Indeterminate you "hill" determinate you don't.

That is only true if you are growing an indeterminate variety of potatoes. If you are growing a determinate variety then you would be wasting your time as determinate varieties only grow one layer of taters. You really need to know whether your potato is determinate or indeterminate variety. Very much like tomatoes. Indeterminates will grow all season long while determinates are ready to harvest all around the same time.

For those not in NZ - we have pretty much no determinate varieties here in New Zealand (Ref.TuiGarden). We do, however, have a huge kiwi culture of growing mountains of potatoes in our back yards as if our lives depend on it. :D If a Mainlander (Sth Islander) says they're growing a "lot" of potatoes, don't bother asking them to weigh their yeild .... it's a lot.

Yeah, called “hilling”.

Great hint

Genius 😮😅

@@user-yw5jd7by9g I imagine self-preserving microorganisms in that little bit of dirt💧🌱🗝

Yes! I learned that the hard way. Great tip.

I used to follow this tip but I always end up with flies coming from the bag & spoiling the potatoes, within 5 days. 🤢 NOW I rinse them off & put in the fridge, it lasts longer than a month... London life lol

Where you learn all this? Do you have a channel? Thanks😊

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Good man,I want to see your own channel helping them grow potato.

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@@frankytrevor7reading books, asking older generations and search for how-to's for gardening or farming online

I can attest to this, grew my first ones this year and the flavor is actually noticeably better!

Thank for watching, please share this video with your friends

No you cannot. That is all psychological.

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thank you, can you help me share this video with your friends?

@@Johngarden Yes, of course I can :-) Could I ask a question please? Is it best to buy seed potatoes for this garden? Some people say they use the kind from the supermarkets but I have also heard this is incorrect.

Yeah, anything to save on the back in garden! Only issue I have is the yield seems very low. 6/7 potato’s from 3/4 planted. I wonder if bigger pots would help with greater numbers.

@@matthewkendall1861 Absolutely. I think the bucket idea is good for people with limited space but if you have a bit of backyard why not go bigger? Just keep it raised.

@@leedrury3435 I leave the fruits and veggies I pick on the regular for my raised beds. The potatoes unfortunately still get the ground space as I usually just harvest them all at once.

Try growing potatoes with this method at home, and let me know the results

So this a whole new Craft of growing?

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Thanks for your 'tubering'...........

Don't use cardboard, you should plant potatoes in plastic containers

What about planting them on bags?

You can put chicken wire around your boxes to hold them together

@@justice4dalton Good ideas @jimbox114

@@Johngarden why not use cardboard boxes?

ikr, this drives me nuts!

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I don't know much but can answer a few Adding coal, don't know but it might be for nutrition purposes Phosphate as a fertilizer There should be 6-8 inches distance between each potato you sow. So it would be 1-2 max potatoes in one bucket Cutting sprouts, so max nutrition is given to the potatoes, it will save energy of plant and will give more nutrition to the potatoes, and eventually result in bigger potatoes So about watering the potatoes. Potatoes love water to check do this trick, check the soil 2 inches deep, if it feel moist so don't need to give water and if it's dry give it water and then double check it to make sure that soil is fully moist Rice and banana, don't know maybe for nutritional purposes🤔😂

Oh 1 more thing, While flowering, sometimes when you don't prune early it grows potatoes berries type of thingy on flowering part, don't eat them most of them must be poisonous Make sure to prune flowering part it will help growing potatoes more Try growing in soil bed instead of growing bags or bucket, it will give more bigger sized potatoes

i will try, thanks for your opinion

Depends what type of potato. This species grows on one level, by the looks of it, so planting by the same method you and I use will still result in just one layer of potatoes. Like you, I put in two inches of soil, put the potatoes in and cover them with two inches of soil. I let the shoots grow four inches tall and cover them in four inches of soil and a carry on doing that, each time the shoots grow a further four inches, until the soil is an inch below the rim of the container. These potatoes look like early variety new potatoes, which I normally harvest late May, early June.

​@@billyandrew yes only indeterminate varieties will grow more as soil is heaped up, these appear to be determinate

Thanks for sharing

​@@5801160052086 how can you tell the difference between determinate and indeterminate?

Thanks for watching, can you help me share it?

so right

Great tip...year round..it says...but how do potatoes survive in these buckets in the cold an snow here in Michigan? 😊ty

​@@conniefuller7370ohio here... I wonder the same

Only if they are an indeterminate variety - determinate varieties yield all at the same time - whereas indeterminate continue to produce (as with tomatoes) - hence the need for 'hilling' up and beyond Also, in cold zones you will need a heated greenhouse/solarium to 'grow all year around' I wish people would include what zones/regions they are growing plants in so others don't waste their time thinking they can do exactly the same thing at the same time of year or all year round to find out it didn't work and they wasted so much time effort & money.

Correct! That's the first thing I saw.......wasted a lot of room for the new potatoes below the seed potato. People don't realize they grow from the seed potato up, not down below.

How many potatoes have you harvested?

@@Johngarden I only use 5 containers and get maybe 10 or so out of each one. They aren't large, the size of a chicken egg or a bit larger.

When the potatoes are small, you should add organic fertilizer to make the tubers more nutritious@@geod3589

Did you use the white stuff that's recommended in Garden's video to grow the potatoes?

yes@@jjk1894

banana has potassium which is important for tuber development

Never seen coal like that. Is it burned already so that actually it is coal ash?

so right@@metsrus

Charcoal to drain the soil, to prevent the potatoes from rotting@@thriverprivate3383

@@Johngarden Thanks for the clarity on the coal question. Just noticed that it is not dark? What coal is this?

Great question…it would be nice to have a list of products used…Great video!

Can you grow potatoes in a greenhouse this winter?

​@@Johngarden you can plant potatoes in winter in greenhouse (or deep enough so that the potatoes do not freeze) to have an earlier harvest in early summer. but for harvest in winter or spring you would need a greenhouse warm enough so that the soil is not frozen (well above 0°C) and enough sun or grow light. this all depends on where you live on earth or if energy is very cheap. most countries import or use stored vegetables during winter. - Everyone who is growing his own food has my respect. Much joy and a good harvest!

yeah the title is misleading

In Ireland here,,,never grew anything or have knowledge of it,,,can I plant potatoes now in January or is it too cold?

​@@rasher6290too cold if you have no greenhouse and if your soil is frozen, wait for mid April and also look out for gardening channels/books or ask the older people. It really is joyful to see your own plants grow. Good luck.

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My thoughts exactly.

The plant usually comes from the ‘starter’ potatoes which either break down as the other s grow or becomes hard small and dark so wouldn’t look like the others. When I pulled my plants up this year, I only had one tiny undergrown one attached rest had nothing and I only had half of one starter left at the bottom 😂

Because it's fake

@@miguelduarte75 Yeah, because you don't know how to do it, so... must not be real. This is real.

We grow a lot of potatoes in a raised bed we did the same pulling the stems leaving the root crops in the bottom.Potatoes has tiny roots it separates from the vines when it is pulled.This planting potato video is real.Kudos to the creator!

It's not just the starches. It's also the potassium in the bananas helps develop more solid roots (i.e., potatoes).

yes, use what you have at home to grow clean potatoes and save money, any questions?

@@jcb3393 That's right!

How many kilograms is your potato harvest?

excellent comment pal!

We've just planted our potatoes-- very short season-- and I leave 2-3 eyes for bigger spuds, yum!

Hi John. I get between, say eight and twelve kg per 30 litre tub. I went peat-free a few years ago and the yield dropped dramatically, but recovered, after I began using fermented nettles as my main feed, once they've been given their usual fish and bonemeal start.

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Potatoes wow is good ❤

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Not sure, but I think it was ashes from a fire. Aka the burnt coals.

I'm wondering the same thing. Here in America, "coal" means the same as in NZ.

I'm not quite sure either, but the things looked like they were molded. Maybe this person took some damp ashes and pressed them into a smaller pot. But if this is an important step, why do they not clarify that?

may be ashes from his grand mother lol :)

Allow the soil to drain quickly so that the potatoes do not become waterlogged (potatoes are easy to rot if they become waterlogged).

Can you grow potatoes with this method at home?

I think the bucket is the only measurement tool you need, I think for height its up to you--but I think a standard counter is like 40 something inches. They used 5 gallon buckets, press a bucket to the edge of a board and start building rectangles around it, your 2nd 90 degree angle will be the hardest to determine (correctly--its just the width of the bucket from the two linear boards), but you can do it. It is all just built around a bucket, and I don't think you need any measurements. They used old wood for this, wood you just find around, people tear down chicken sheds or old porches all the time. I would use deck screws personally to tie it all together, but deck screws are kind of spendy, and probably overkill for this project. Even nails would be fine and I am not a fan of nails. I wouldn't do much to make this pretty, but the rollers are a good idea so your table will need more rigidity (cross supports) near the legs.. especially if you need bigger rollers to roll over grass or anything other than a patio or deck.

@@IsaacSchultz Greeting's, thanks for the tips. 👍🏻

Me,I love farming

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avoid diseases from soil i think

pruning shoots, leaving only 2 to 3 buds, the new potatoes will be big and fast for tubers.

The less shoots, the faster they grow. The plant has limited resources. In the initial stage, it's better to let a few main shoots grow tall and strong and then top the container with soil. Also, shoots that are close to the soil are more prone to fungal infection

If you buy potatoes at the store make sure they're organically grown. The commercial growers spray their potatoes with sprout inhibitors so they won't sprout before someone buys them, and buying potatoes that won't sprout kind of renders them useless for people who want them to sprout!

The ones that you buy at the store will eventually sprout and you can still plant them. Rinsing them off really well as soon as you get them. If you know you want to use them to grow more potatoes does help. I’ve grown quite a few potatoes from those that I didn’t eat and sprouted. I don’t think they mentioned it here but sweet potatoes are a little different so don’t try that with them you would need to watch another video lol.

@@someonewhoknows1891 Thank you.

I will choose the best potatoes for seeding for the next crop.

I grew tomatoes from the seeds of store bought tomatoes. From 2 beefsteak tomatoes, we ended up with hundreds of smaller tomatoes that I used in salads & made sauces.

Aka you dead by now

No, unless you have a heated greenhouse/solarium

Do you want to know how to treat potato pests?

I distrust it, when the person who post these videos, doesn't give answers.

I’ve grown potatoes in tubs 2 years in a row now and you do find new potatoes in the soil not attached to roots, how that happens I don’t know but it does.

@@PennyLane66 but every time i see a harvest, yes many arent connected but ive never seen in real life a situation where none are attatched

Hi Thesentimentalsoul where are you from?

@@austinhowland7221 Massachusetts

Can you grow potatoes with this method at home?

Can you grow potatoes this way at home?

@@Johngarden I probably could. I just planted a lot of sprouted potatoes in a pot that got too old to eat. Will have to wait and see what happens.

Don't try this, it's fake. Only one potato per bucket, on top of 2 in. of soil near the bottom, 4 in. of soil on top to start. When plants are 4-6 in. tall, add another 4-6 in. of soil. Fertilize with something that's high in phosphorus, like bone meal. When the tops turn yellow and start to die, they are ready to pull.

No washing. Wash when using. Put in cool place to store and it will last longer without washing after harvesting. Then only before using it wash potatoes.

what?

How many potatoes did you harvest?

Obrigado por seu encorajamento. Você pode cultivar batatas em casa?

obrigado, você pode me ajudar a compartilhar este vídeo com seus amigos?

@@Johngarden sim. Farei isso.

@@Johngarden vou tentar.

thank for watching!

thanks so much

Hello Patricia where are you from?

Yes, I wanted to know that too! It’s not ‘coal’ and infuriating that he’s not answering the question!

@@myobs well, maybe 2 of us inquiring will create momentum in the form of an Answer.

Bee-hive type charcoal briquette's ash...

@@elangoj1335 thank you, Sir. I expected you’d reply when you found the time. Informative video, for sure, and I appreciate this extra piece of info!

What is the brick block for

@@Zambia974 to drain water

What about central florida zone? Tyvm 💕

@@AncientSecretz you can grow potatoes in pots

@@AncientSecretz planting potatoes in May