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God bless that sweet mule of yours, Tipper! And thank you both for sharing your life with us. I only wish you were watched like folks watch the pab of TV. You are the very examples of how to live a happy, healthy life today. I am grateful 🙏 for your presence. Praying for Granny and all your family.

Grandpa always said "cut a good chunk and be sure it can see." He would then add, "you 'see' with two eyes." We always cut the setting a day in advance to let the cut area scab over. The reason was simple--the setting is less likely to rot if you get an extended wet spell. I've tried various ways of growing them, but the easiest is to plow your furrow(s), put the sets cut area down, and cover with a bit of dirt. Then, as growth begins to appear, use hay to cover around them, adding as needed. This makes getting new potatoes a cinch and avoids, for the most part, any getting exposed and showing a bit of green. Jim Casada

Thanks 🥔🥔 for encouraging Potato Growing! This year, for the first time, I'm going to do container Potatoes!💛

When I was young, and new to gardening, my father-in-law, who was a great gardener, helped me learn about growing everything, and canning also. One of my first experiences with him was planting potatoes. He told me to wrap the cut pieces of potato in toilet paper to keep the dirt out of their eyes. This was around 50 years ago, I was 18 years old, and very green, and gullible. 🤓

Planting peelings was the way mom did her potatoes. Going forward I did it for many years and it worked great.

It was so much fun watching you plant potatoes. I think my parents did cut the potato and we always had a long row in the garden. I'm ashamed to say I did not appreciate the work that my grandparents and parents put into a garden. As always it's so good when you bring the memories back to me. It really was the best time of my life.

I love planting potatoes. We grow Kennebec and Irish cobbler. When i was little my great grandfather paid us kids a penny for every potato bug we killed. We thought we'd get rich... lol. Have a great night. Prayers for Katie for a quick easy delivery and a healthy baby too!

Great time for planting. Still very cold here in Canada 🫶

My favorite way to plant mine is to use a long handled flower bulb planter. You just stand and pull out the plug of dirt with the bulb planter and drop the potato piece in the hole. Drop the dirt back on them and move along.

Hello from Sitka, Kentucky! 💙 It was windy here today as well with beautiful sunshine. My Granny had a store for over 50 years. She sold seeds and things related to gardening. Some of my best memories are of working there and talking to all the customers. I enjoy your channel so much. It’s like watching someone that just lives down the road from me 😊

I enjoyed seeing how you planted the potatoes. It's exciting to think about green beans and new potatoes. And cornbread! Yum.

I remember my dad cutting out the 'eyes' and planting planting them. He always had a great harvest!! Of course, I believe my dad could plant a rock and it would grow! lol

Absolutely adore your family! Love seeing what y’all plant. It was a beautiful 70 degree day in my part of NC. God bless y’all! 😀❤️

Worst part about growing potatoes was those bugs! OMG there were so many. I loved digging them and getting excited to find big ones. March 17 was when we planted potatoes.

The kenebec will store longer than the Yukon golds. I like both but the heat and humidity takes both out before we get bumper crops, but I'm thankful for the harvest we get and it's usually pretty decent.

Great video tutorial Tipper. Thank you for the bag planting demonstration.

We always hilled potatoes but I agree plant how it works for you! I like hearing how others do their gardens!

Great restraint there Matt pertaining to scraps decomposing over the winter. Your face was priceless.

We always grew Kennebecs. We used the hilling method and had to hill them at least three times. Ended up with ditches between the rows of potatoes. Matt's right... that's a lot of work.

I always look forward to new potatoes being dug......scraping them and cooking them down......with salt, pepper and bacon grease. Just like my mother and grandmother did. Also I know from personal experience that potato peelings will work......we have potato plants in our compost all the time. 😃

🤗Good job! I got 5 grow bags of potatoes planted two weeks ago, I live in zone 8b, and they are growing like crazy! 👍🙏❤️

I loved watching my mamaw dig taters because Tipper it was like finding treasure. We grew up hard and she taught us the older ways that I still appreciate & hold fast today. Like granny she planted her peelings (usually on St Patrick's Day) & always made sure they had enough eyes for good producing and I can remember how funny I thought that was. She was older (born 1907) but much like granny never having idle hands.. she married at 16 the same year she was baptized, raised 8 musical children, gardened, cooked, canned, made their clothes, quilted, crocheted - you name it. She left a beautiful legacy especially to us grandchildren. We think of her as the virtuous woman in Proverbs 31 & know this is the way you think of sweet Granny. TY both for holding fast & sharing part of that good life with us. Love Celebrating Appalachia & Love Y'all.

Enjoyed the planting. I hope you get a bumper crop of potatoes! Thanks Tipper!

Daddy and mommy would cut the potatoes and have a eye on each one. I’m looking forward to the Cherokee purple tomatoes. I probably want be able to grow tomatoes this year but Tellico farmers market always keeps me in a good supply of vegetables. Happy spring y’all 😊😊😊😊😊

We cut it and just put it in the ground without letting it scab over, too. They grew anyway. We'd always heard to put the sprout part toward the sun, too. I'd never heard of potatoes growing from peelings. Interesting. It makes sense, I guess. I'm so excited; our seeds planted in the greenhouse are starting to sprout up! Yay!

I saw a lady repurpose her larger Amazon and other shipping cardboard boxes as garden beds for potatoes. She broke them down to an open rectangle, set on the ground, fill with soil, then plant taters. Look like a great way to repurpose cardboard. Ha! I do that all the time with the gravel. I end up dumping my flower pots on my garden and forget there is gravel in them. ❤❤

Love following your families progress, faith and love.

New baby potatoes sound awfully good with a touch of butter.

Love to hear that wind blowing! And then when the spring,summer, and fall music starts with the frogs, bugs, and birds make I love to hear that music!! And the nighttime sounds!

Enjoyed your video. Planting taters was a big deal when I was a kid here in WV. My grandad wanted to plant on St. Patrick’s day no matter what the weather, but my Dad could talk him in to waiting if it was snowing. We planted Kennebec and Pontiacs. I can still see Daddy sittin on a bucket turned upside down cutting potatoes and always made sure there was an eye. When grandad still had his Mule, named Mike, he always plowed the taters out with Mike. It was so fun to follow behind and see those potatoes rolling out behind the plow. We had about a 1 1/2 acre plot of potatoes. Good eating for all the family. Thanks again for a great video. God Bless!

I love learning about planting the garden! Thank you for all of the tips!

My grandma and great grandma always wanted taters planted on good Friday and I have a neighbor that still plants on good Friday

Thank you for great tips from two dedicated gardeners.

Chilly today...love watching you and Matt doing the planting ❤❤❤

I love the sound of your creek running.

I can't wait to see your garden prosper 🫶🙏

My Pop-pop planted 7 or 8 rows of potatoes about 40 feet long. That was done in the spring when I was still in school in Westminster. If I remember rightly, he said you hilled the rows so there was plenty of soil above the growing potatoes because if they were too near to the surface, the sun would turn too many of them green. It is my understanding that you have to peel off all the green from them because it tastes bitter. In the summer, when he brought the potatoes in, I was often staying with my father's sister next door and could help pick-up the potatoes. In good years, he would get 10 to 15 bushels that lasted the winter and helped feed my family as well.

Your on way to getting that big garden tilled that’s the one I’m waiting for! Thank you Matt and Tipper!❤️🙏🇨🇦

Coming out we moved so much we did not plant potatoes much but I remember a few time we did and my Momma digging small ones to go with the pinto beans they were good some years planted sweet potatoes regular potatoes were so cheap then you could buy as cheap as grow them do remember Momma cutting the eyes off with a piece of potato and cooking the rest when we did plant them

Love that you are planting. Garden season is on. Hope it's the best producing for you.

One more thing planted off y’all’s garden list done. My husband actually built me two raised beds. Nothing fancy, but I’m proud he got them built. I went out and helped him but basically handed him what he needed. As soon as we finished putting down the landscape fabric and cardboard in each bed it started to rain. Hopefully, on Monday we can get them filled with soil. I can’t wait to start planting!

I remember hearing my grandpa tell grandma to peel the potatoes thick cause he needed to plant more potatoes.

You two were so cute sitting in the sun. "We should go plant.....but the sun is so nice. Yup, we should go plant..." I get it. Parts of my yard are very shady and this time of year it's chilly over in the shade.

Hey! Tipper and Matt! Today I mowed and worked out outside most of the day! Although this morning was chilly , afternoon was nice very sunny about 70 degrees! I needed to clean house, but I needed to be outside! I am guessing the messy house can wait, it will be there when I can get to it! Just that my son is coming tomorrow,it has been about 8 months since I seen him, but he has seen the house messy before! Have nice evening!

Great video. We are still little ways off from planting ours. The past few years we have planted whole taters. I can remember grandpa cutting them up and just like you said he would let them scab over. Praying everyone has a bountiful garden this year.

I've been watching yall since 2020 or so while living in missouri. Never minding where yall are exactly from and I just live yalls family and insights. I went to looking to buy a cabin in the Appalachias and I did in '22. Not knowing or discovering that lo and behold I built a cabin right there in your community. I was awakened a while back when yall went to get ice cream in town. I thought. 'I know that place!' Love yall God Bless.

My daughter surprised me with both strawberry and mango Outshine popcycles from the store yesterday. Thought of y'all when bapped a couple of them together before taking a bite. Both are so good. This year we got to see you buy and plant the potatoes so will be even more fun seeing your harvest.

You better get all the naps you can right now… 😂❤

I love the sound of the creek!!!!

What a great feeling to get them taters planted! I know y’all are happy! ❤

As always, homegrown fruits and vegetables are the best! Stay safe!

Here in the Driftless region of Wisconsin we are under a winter weather advisory for 6-10 inches of snow so I’m jealous of your potato planting. Yearning for spring here, my day lilies are up about three inches 😎

We always planted the peeling and had a huge crop and also kept the dirt pulled up on a mound, we would dig them up when the vine died complete out, i sure Miss those days, my health is too bad now.. GOD BLESS YOU BOTH 🙏🙏🙏

Love watching the progress. I cracked up at the "almost never"...LOL. You are a good team!

Love planting with y'all. Love y'all. God bless. Love and prayers🙏❤🙏

I’ve never thought about putting them in grow bags. I do 2 gardens but don’t grow potatoes because I grow my normal garden and then have crazy ideas of new plants I want to try in the other garden, so I never seem to have room for them. You have some great ideas. God bless you.

Its.hard to get started when the sun tells so good in the fact lol know the feeling. Have great day😀

We planted potatoes today and we are in Appalachia, too!

Planting potatoes here in SW Florida before it gets too hot.

That was very interesting to watch how you plant your Potatoes. My Grandma planted potatoes but, I wasn't back there in the hills of Pennsylvania when she did. My Mom and Dad moved about 150 miles more west in Pa. for the jobs that were so plentiful in this area I live. I used to stay back there in the hills with my cousins as soon as school was done for summer vacation.....all 3 months and I was always thrilled! I like Grannys way to plant them. Just put the peelings in the ground.

Thanks for the great visit! ❤❤❤

I like your videos the planting of vegetables is great; I would like a garden but the animals over take no matter what kale my favorite Ty’s for sharing your knowledge like my granny and parents had your hair looks fine ❣️

Nothing beats having taters. You can use em for everything and they are easy to grow and tend to give you a decent amount. As a girl, my favorite part was digging for them. It was like Easter! I learned sweet potatoes grow well in Hawaii so looks like me and my husband will be doing that this weekened. I'm so excited!!

We have to hill em twice. Once when we plant and once just as they start to blossom. It's terrible hard work and we put by all our taters for us and our families. Couple years ago pops got us a hiller. Oh happy days!!! We don't get to plant til the 1st of June here in 6b.

Can’t wait till you all are granny and pap with your grand babies..❤️

we all was did that , we get seed potatoes and cut in pieces and many potatoes later , they were great

We used to buy seed taters in 50 lb toe sacks, and Daddy would buy two. Momma and granny would cut the eyes off, and we planted the eyes. We'd drop them in the fur and daddy would cover them with our A Farmall. We never ran out of taters.

Hi Tipper Looks cold out there. Matt plants them taters so easy . Im going towait til saturday, so.the two boys next door can help me . They love to plant especially the 5 year old he really gets into it ...have a good night and thank you again ❤😊patsy

Yay, you got the taters planted…y’all are on your way to having lots of awesome veggies ❤

I wonder what my Dad would say about the grow bags. They didn’t have grow bags back in the 50’s.

Happy to see you guys finally spending some of that 20 million.

I planted potatoes yesterday, same method you used. I really like timing gold too. I did some Kenneth and red norlands. I decided to plant some blue potatoes too. I’ve never tried planting peelings but maybe I should give it a try. I hope your crop is bountiful.

I appreciate your videos.I enjoy your company and it's a blessing.I'm praying for Granny and your entire family.Please pray for me and my family.Thank you so much.God bless you both in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.❤❤

Happy your taters are in the ground. Enjoy these next sunny days. God bless & keep you. ❤😊❤😊❤️🙏🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏🇺🇸🙏

I might get some grow bags and just try a few here ! I also favor those Yukon Gold potatoes, so versatile and tasty. THANK YOU !!!🙌🏼 💞 ETA: Our local extension via university just did a video how to do potatoes and he did use your Pap's method. I've never intentionally grown taters, only some volunteers in the compost heap (like with y'all).

we have always done this in Virginia and South Caralina , the mountain to the orean , we did both

When I helped mom plant her big tater patch, we always cut the potatoes. No matter how small the piece, just so there was an eye in it. We planted in long rows and plowed them out. She planted her sweet potatoes in raised ridges. I miss those days!

I didn’t realize you could just plant the peelings 🙂 We planted some in grow bags & some in the ground last year. We have local seed potatoes coming soon, but here in Maine it’s too soon yet. Snow coming tonight.

I always thought that you hill up taters as a way to protect them from frost. You lay off a row and plant them in the bottom of it. As the weeds start to grow you keep covering them with a little more dirt. When the danger of frost is passed you have a hill. It really helps a family that depends on what they grow themselves out of necessity. Gravel ain't going to hurt. My garden is a mixture of gravel and red clay.

Tipper and Matt hope you have a Glorious Thursday hoping you two get to sneak back off to the creek and have a nice picnic again. You two deserve some time just relaxing and having a good time in the woods before the grandbabies get there. Sending you lots of love and blessings 💛🙏💖

Tripper, I made grow bags from my chicken feed sacks. I sewed box pleats on the bottom and put holes in the bottom for drainage 😉

Great day ya 🌱🌱 I freeze pepper 🫑 always..they work out great.. I use my own peppers for rice or even freezing for Thanksgiving dinner. When I make a stuffing put bell peppers in them I also do other peppers in my homemade beans. 🌱🌱🥘

Love you Matt and Tipper

You two are so cute , what a team you make ... Crazy hair , no hair... Hey from NY , roots in Appalachia ...

Great video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

In gardening, I used to get my arms all scratched up. What I do to keep that from happening I take my husband's old knee high sports socks & cut the foot out of them. Then use the leg part of them to cover my arms. They're knee high so I can pull them up almost to right under my arm. It works. So I'm covered from my wrist to almost the pit of my arm. It keeps me from getting scratched & also keeps me from getting sunburned. I thought you might like to try that sometime.

Love to see you planting enjoyed

Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🌱

Best way to do things is the way Matt does it 😂 love yall thanks for the shoutout

Accomplished 😊, I love your crazy hair❤

I so love watching y’all. Thanks for making my day!!

We tried growing potatoes here in AZ. 2 years in a row. We just couldn’t get them to grow. It just got too hot. We grew them over the winter here but no luck. We grew them in garbage cans one year and the bags the next. Couldn’t grow potatoes but we grew lots of onions. One year we had 700 onions. Sadly we don’t have a garden anymore. Hubby had contracted Valley Fever and can no longer dig in the dirt. I do miss it.

I can't wait for the big garden. I wish y'all have a good growing season 🙂. Just to let you know, Aubree was so excited to know that you said hello to her. I let her read it herself. She's 7 by the way. Lisa from Oklahoma ❤❤😊😊

Do you ever plant potatoes from the grocery store instead of seed potatoes? Cheaper and less hassel.

Love the idea of growing potatoes in a garden bucket, it's easier that way.

Good afternoon, well we are geting a lot of snow berween today and tonight. 4 to 9 inches today then prediction of 10 to 16 tonigjt. We canmot touch our garden until early June and try to harvest before late September.

I am inspired so much by your channel 💯🙏👍

I’ve been growing Yukon’s too. I’ve been trying to do sweet potatoes but I haven’t figured it out yet.

You should go to Wayne’s feed in Murphy, he always has seed potato’s. He sells them by the pound so much cheaper than the box store’s do. We get the yokon gold there.