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Please always show ‘the boring’ part!!! I learned so much
As a new gardener I REALLY appreciate that you showed all the steps. Most say “prepare your beds” and I have no idea what that means. This was the best video. Please make more with other beds.
You'll love gardening so much, been at it over 30 years and every year gets more exciting. Keep it simple too and intuitive to what nature does. Cover everything with shredded leaves and grass clippings before winter and let nature amend your soil. Shredded broken down aged leaves and a decent compost is pretty much all you need believe me. Buy a bag of dried beans at the grocery store and plant a ton of them in areas you're done with. They add a lot of nitrogen to the soil and turned under and left to decompose they really make your soil much better. It's all about the soil health and not NPK and chemicals. Feed your soil and your soil will feed your plants.
@@cowboyblacksmith thank you for the suggestions! I live in the mountains so I don’t have access to grass clippings and leaves. Maybe straw? The beans is an idea I’ve never heard of. Very interesting.
The great thing about gardening is that you can get as technical or as trial and error as you want. Sometimes I do a little research on what I’m planting and sometimes I just stick things in the ground and see what happens. I don’t really like doing a lot of research, so I get mixed but usually really good results
You might like this.. My potatoes are growing in the house right now. This year my potatoes will be grown in Amazon boxes, I have them in right now. My sweet potatoes are growing in very large pots already. 😳 They take up a lot of space, so I cant wait to be able to get them outside. Still way to cold here. My garden will be going on the road with me this year. I do road construction, and go on thecroad in May. Im going to grow around my camp trailer at the camp site. Yeppers, a traveling garden this year. But for now, my house has a trail in it that we walk through, between the boxes, pots, grow bags, buckets, and containers. Everything is growing very nicely though. 😁🤣😂
Thanks! It’s helpful to know if your potato varieties are determinate or indeterminate. Determinate (kennebec is one) produce tubers at only one level, so hilling isn’t helpful. Indeterminates are the ones that can produce at more levels so hilling may be beneficial. Slowly there’s more info coming out on this and you can find lists to see which varieties are which.
The rabbit food works best if you run it through the rabbits first ...
rabbit farm tech tip 😎
Yep! 😁
Rabbit manure is excellent! It does not even have to age. I believe it’s a cool fertilizer rather than hot like cow manure (If I remember right lol) I just learned about that a few months ago. I am thinking about getting a few rabbits just for fertilizer lol plus my grandkids would love rabbits!
Grew potatoes last year for the 1st time & saved about a dozen to plant this year. Love growing potatoes ❤
I've honed my garden selection to a lot of potatoes now and love it, planted so many today. April 15th and I still have one left in the basement from last summer perfectly good for eating, they're amazing!
Like everyone is saying, I like the full length of showing all the steps.
Here in central Alabama, the heat comes fast. Temperatures are already in the 80s. From my experience, planting time is critical to get in the best harvest. February is too Early, and April too late. The best time to plant in my area is the first week of March. I lost one plant to frost damage, but over planted with five extra plants, so no loss. My potatoes do very well with a soil PH close to neutral, 6.7. I expect to start harvesting in June.
Thank you, Luke. 😊
If you have a farmer's market nearby you can trust those potatoes to make great inexpensive seed potatoes. ❤
Thank you Luke
This video is perfect timing as I got my seed potatoes this weekend
I love ALL MIgardener videos!
Thank you for finally discussing ph levels in your soil
I bought some local, organic potatoes from the store just in time for planting this year. The week after I bought them the reds and russets were replaced with ones grown in California.
Right on time!
Truly appreciate your how to videos!
Potatoes DON'T need acidic soil! I'm from Idaho the capital of potatoes! My father was an editor of an agricultural magazine. Almost all soil in Idaho is alkaline.
Exactly!!! They may prefer it under ideal lab conditions but they certainly don't require it to grow well. I grow excellent potatoes in nothing but seaweed and partially broken down leaves. Seaweed and leaves! No Trifecta or sulfur, seaweed and leaves and done. I hate knowing people will get bothered that they didn't acidify the soil and believe they screwed up. Good soil equals good potatoes, they don't need a calculator to do well.
as always, you are encouraging me to 'get out there' and do it. thanks for all your efforts.
Serendipity! I just bought a set of purple seed potatoes yesterday. I'm going to try to grow them in 20 gal garden bags. Great video, thanks!
Very helpful! Thank you!
I use the Ruth Stout method for potatoes and i absolutely love it. It is so simple, so simple, i dont have to worry about the back breaking planting or harvesting.
Just in time for planting our potato seeds for the first time. Thanks for the tip!!
This was immensely helpful. I now recognize some of the mistakes I made with my potatoes last year. And my potatoes should be arriving soon. I'd better order some Trifecta! Thanks for the video. 😍
never heard of making the soil acidic for the potaotes. I just put multipurpose compost down and bung them in, they grow really well in even the worst of soils.
Potatoes are so self sufficient, they seem to do well no matter what. Ideally they prefer an acidic soil but truth be told I just try to give them good soil as I'm able and they thrive. I just planted a LOT of potatoes today and some in containers with just leaf compost and seaweed and I bet they go crazy! It'd be awesome to have free seaweed and free leaves to grow excellent potatoes instead of all the fancy amending.
@@cowboyblacksmith first year they get really good soil just so I can get the amount of compost needed. After that I will just amend the soil for he year after. at the end of the day I use as little amendments as possible. Potatoes are cheap to buy so you kinda want to keep the costs down. Adding acidity seems like a waste of money to me
Mine are already pushed out in my grow bags. Central Indiana, probably a few weeks ahead of you folks in Michigan.
Planting potatoes! That is what I'm doing today now that I finally received my grow bags that I ordered from MI Gardener. I'm planning to amend my soil with peat moss and compost. Teach me how to do it right Luke. I have some old wood chips that have been rotten down after sitting out for the past year.
Good Morning Luke😊
Great tips! I think that’s why my potato haul wasnt as good last year. I didn’t lower the pH enough.
Thanks for this video on potatoes 🥔. This answered a few questions of mine.
Great video. Thanks!
Thank you for the tips! I just started my own vegetable garden channel.
I was just going to plant mine, so I'm so happy you posted this now
Where u b?
@@jimmylarge1148 Texas
Washington... N.E.
150# to plant .dont need a thousand 🥔.. wish I knew someone who needed some
@@angusmcnaughton4570I'm in NE Washington! What kind do you have? I'm just north of Spokane
@@sueweathers3978 Yukon golds and Pontiac reds , they have long growth on them but they plant fine . I'm by kettle falls, my side hustle this year is rototilling gardens and s3lling he1rloom s33ds !
thank you having grown potatoes for years, I find your instructive video so helpful...A volunteer potato last year produced an unusual number of potatoes, WARBA was the variety, the flavour of this potato was really good, as was texture..so soil was undisturbed, but clearly very healthy and nutritious, supporting a variety of flowers and vegetables in the preceding years...Pacific west coast salt spring island
I have 4' X '8 foot raised beds and I use a bed preparation rake (from Johnny's seeds - Elliot Coleman design - bought a long time ago) to make trenches parallel to the long sides. I space my seed potatoes 1 foot apart with 2 rows 2' apart. Then tuck in a few seed potatoes in the middle. I find that this gives me more medium size potatoes rather than huge ones. I "hill" with Norfleet superfine soil conditioner which is a little acidic. It breaks down and adds depth to my beds after a year or so.
I’m so glad you posted this video because I’m getting ready to start planting my garden and I’m growing potatoes and I never knew you didn’t have to hill them up and I’m going to use one of my raised beds for them. I normally plant them in the ground or in 5 gallon buckets.
Nice job. We always hill our potatoes. Our yields are always really good. We have not put them in a raised bed. Maybe try that this year. Blessings
Good stuff Luke! I had no idea they needed a PH that low. Thanks again for the daily tips 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
me neither....
Aleays coming in at the perfect time. Getting ready to plant potatoes this week!
Questions for you Luke. When will you plant your tomatoes and peppers? My area in Clare michigan last projected frost date is May 19th. I don't usually plant until 1st week of June for tomatoes and 2nd week for peppers. I will be growing them in raised beds for the first time.
You're wise to wait for warmer weather for tomatoes and peppers. They make up for lost time and grow better than if they get stunted in cooler weather.
@cowboyblacksmit I agree! I plant my tomatoes and peppers once nighttime temperatures are consistently 50 or higher, especially the peppers which love heat even more than the tomatoes.
im in illinois. I plant may 15 or so. Been growing two pound heirloom tomatoes for years
My concern is the alfalfa pellets. A lot of crops are grown commercially with spraying glyphosate which is a weed inhibitor. It doesn’t break down easily and can carryover into other plants. ???
I’ve been using alfalfa pellets from Tractor Supply for three years and have seen just the opposite, ‘Jurassic Park’ growth. 😊. But I apply it in late fall so the snow and rain break it down by spring planting.
Just get it from a trusted source…also doesn’t need to be pellets. I get a bag of ground alfalfa meal and it works great.
I wouldn’t worry too much about soil acidity. My potatoes did great with just compost
Mine crank in compost! I have incredible potatoes with just leaf compost and seaweed believe it or not. Seaweed has so much great micro nutrients from the ocean and it is such an excellent green for making compost any time of the year. I'm lucky to only be 20 minutes from the ocean so always have a lot of seaweed to make fermented seaweed fertilizer, compost, and mulch. Seaweed and leaves, free and fantastic stuff for the dirt.
Got my 'taders in a couple of weeks ago, just waiting for them all to sprout now! I did Yukon Gold, Pontiac Red, and Adirondack Blue! I did rotate my garden, it's just something I've always been taught. I also like having no two gardens being quite the same year to year!
I planted my potatoes yesterday. Go figure now I get to see all of the things I did wrong 😂😅
Where u located in mi?
@@jimmylarge1148 I am in the Atlanta area.
I was going to plant yesterday fortunately it rained😂
Potatoes are so forgiving, they just grow. Ideal soil, ph, amendments and all that are nice and all but I swear they just grow no matter what.
Please keep going through the season,what state you are in,so we know for our area when it’s time,please,you’re so helpful
The MI in MIgardener stands for Michigan.
I prefer to plant when there's not going to be any rain for a few days so they'll take root before starting to rot with too much rain... and never plant in soil that's too wet to till
Trench cultivation is optimal in raised bed. In my in-ground beds where I am blessed with TOO MUCH room to grow, I find Herrick Kimball's mound cultivation method works best for me with our heavy native clay.
Thank you for the comments about crop rotation. I have a small garden so crop rotating isn’t really an option
My problem is that we love nightshades. Well over 50% of my garden each season is in nightshades. I couldn’t even do a two year rotation of nightshades with the rest of the crops much less the four or more years that people recommend.
use grow bags or containers... then rotation is no issue
Nature never crop rotates, ever see a forest move? lol. Good healthy soil is the key to everything, tons of microbes and bacteria and fungi, yummy!
@@roelven1282but rotation isn’t a issue to begin with as he mentions in the video 😅
Almost all of my veggies are prone to the same types of blight because they are all from the nightshade family (peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant). I have very limited full sun exposure so the greens are always grown in the partial shade, and the nightshade always stay in the in full sun beds. I haven't experienced much blight, and I'm glad.
Whether you hill or not, a healthy amount of straw mulch will keep your spuds,
growing near the surface, from turning green from sun exposure. Also, that mulch
will help with keeping your soil damp between watering.
From what I've read, potatoes require an inch of water per week. Including rain.
I’m in central Michigan. Just put some raised beds in. Getting my soil and compost this weekend.
Ordered seed potatoes awhile ago but still waiting to receive them. Holand bulb farm ships based on zone and I am 5B so I would bet them the ground soon.
I was just about to go out and till my potato bed here in NE Ohio, can't plant most of my garden yet because I don't live on top of a magma chamber like you Michiganites. The middle of May is our earliest which I've learned the hard way.
I plant mine a little deeper, about 6" maybe it's just the video illusion but yours look a little shallow, watch out for greening. I also use the trifecta along with sulpher, works well. Thanks for the update
We live on a magma chamber? Never heard such a claim b4.
Gander's
You should try to track what you put in vs what you get out.
It's so interesting to see all the different methods utilized throughout CZcams. I think potatoes are a bit divisive in that way.
Thank you for the great information! :) What other crops would we want to add alfalfa to the Trifecta? (Just nightshade family?)
What about Indian Trail Compost, would you still suggest getting compost from them?
This is my first year planting just the potato eyes. I came across a few videos saying this was possible (who would have thunk? 😂) and so far my 14 eyes are growing really well! I still need to move them into their summer homes but I’m liking this experiment and the potatoes I snagged them from are already producing me a second set of eyes!
Yes I really don’t crop rotation either.. so I’m on my third batch of potatoes and I will be getting another one started soon fingerlings but I don’t want to say I crop rotate, but I cause I do my potatoes in those big massive buckets and they’re very big there for trees so I will do actually a good double layer of them and they work out good potatoes
Something told me to throw that rabbit food into my garden. 😂 Absolutely LOVE this content. Can’t wait to get my last set of seeds for the year today.
Actually I've learned a lot from you. & Not just potatoes which I love growing. But there seems to be a food shortage in my favorite dumpster. That's where I got my potatoes. So I bought some organics. Desperate times=Desperate measures.
mistake I have made is I don't think I had enough soil under the potatoes...someone on you tube said you only need 6 inches or so but this year I made sure there was a foot of soil under them....
Hello from Hersey, MI
What about Japanese beetles and potatoes? We cover our 25' bed with netting. Is that all we can do? Love the channel.
Ever tried one of those Japanese beetle bag catchers. It attracts and traps them. The bag fills up fast!
Question: I used the method you showed of cutting the potato eyes and using honey and putting in egg cartons for 2 weeks. I also used store bought potatoes.🤷♀️ I may have messed up. Also, its a new raised bed and I used peat moss and sulfer. Is that ok? Thanks. Learning process!
Ok, so you water them in well after planting. After that, approx how often would you water them?
How far apart were you planting them Luke? Looked to be somewhere between 8 and 10 inches, but hard to tell from the video.
I am seeing videos on cutting the flowers off of the tops of potato plants. Is this good what is your take on this
OMG...thank you about crop rotation!!! I've grown tomatoes and peppers along my garage for 13 years and have never had a problem. Every year, add some new soil to the bed, mix it in and you're done. Of course I don't get down to the science you have but I've never had an issue.
How much water do potatoes? When to apply sulfur?
Luke! You’re a day late! I just planted my potatoes this morning 😂😂. Awesome info as always!
Do you have a suggestion for a substitution for peat moss? I have used coconut husk before, does that help contribute to soil acidity like peat moss?
Coconut isn't acidic like peat moss is. Honestly, don't fret over the acidity of your soil for potatoes. As long as you add good stuff like compost they'll do great. Way too much emphasis on CZcams for the exact ideal conditions for plants and not enough emphasis on building microbial rich living soil.
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Good information! I hope you will be selling seed potatoes this year! I can't find them here.
Also....how often do you water And fertilize? Just one fertilization at planting??
What happened with the potatoes you planted in the grow bag?
He posted it like last week. I think.
Some gardeners believe with every ounce of their being that you have to hill your potatoes or your harvest will be lackluster. In my soil and climate in NE Oklahoma i cant tell any difference between hilling or not hilling. For every pound of seed potatoes i plant i get 10-12 pounds of potatoes depending on the variety but hilling has zero effect
Should I plant small shriveled seed potatoes? They are feeling kind of hard. Or could I soak them to help rehydrate them a bit. Then dry them off and plant them? Wondering what everyone thinks?!
Thank you for including that potatoes like acidic soil. Mine is always closer to neutral. I use a lot of compost. With the thought being towards nutrition. I'll give more thought to that in my next planting of potatoes.
I added some of the acidifier fertilizer from Epsoma last year but truth be told, didn’t notice any change. Sulfur is an easy addition but just takes a while to break down. Lots of good compost and you can’t go wrong.
@@cowboyblacksmith I'm with you on that. I've never been really disappointed with my harvest either. I just thought maybe next planting in one of my beds I'd try it his way and another my way and see if it differs in any way. Kind of like what you did. I've never done it so at least once can't hurt. I will be growing others. Thanks for your comment.
Just checking in to see if you will be open on Friday the 24th of May?
Random question, I have a small outdoor pond with goldfish that I’m going to empty, clean and put new water in, but I know that kind of green water has a lot of nutrients. Which plants do you think would benefit from them. I don’t even know exactly what nutrients would be in a pond that has goldfish and some algae
Just like tomatoes, potatoes are determinant or indeterminant. some potatoes will produce more when hilled if they are indeterminant. most varieties are determinant and do not need extra hilling.
Luke which is best to use the pellets or the grass?
Pellets are great and you can cover them with water and they turn to powder for even mixing in the soil. I buy mine in a big bag at Tractor supply as horse feed.
Is aluminum sulphate equivalent to sulphur to bring down pH?
Where did you purchase the seed potatoes from?
Can you tell me when is the best time to plant in Zone 6a? I'd love to try potatoes soon.
After your last frost and when your soil is above 55 degrees. At least that is what we go by
Any advice for container potatoes? I'm growing Kennebecs in 15 gallon growbags.
I just planted a bunch of grow bag Kennebec’s today and a 33 foot row as well. I mix 50/50 soil and peat moss and throw in some good compost if it's ready and a handful of alfalfa horse feed pellets I always have on hand. I put about four inches of "soil" in the bag, then two or three potatoes and add a small handful of Epsoma granular "Tomato-tone" organic fertilizer and bone meal and tickle that in. Then fill the bag almost all the way up and put some shredded leaves or some kind of mulch and water them in. Grow bags are great but one thing you have to be aware of is watering them enough, they tend to dry out but I just love them. I grew potatoes in mine last year and peppers this year.
@@cowboyblacksmith do you then add more soil as they leaf out?
Hey Luke, how do you like that Vulcan wheel barrow? I picked up similar from Ace hardware and the tub broke second season. They do t sell replacement tub, so I have to replace.thx Tim
Can you grow potatoes in a raised hugelculture bed?
p.s. the example I gave below was to illustrate that given the right natural conditions potatoes can grow very well, in DIRECT CONTRAST TO ONES I PLANTED NONE OF which produced as well...of course that volunteer potato began growing at the right time..,.I was too late planting the rest...hope to plant in the next days
I planted my potatoes 8" deep on good friday and they have not started coming up yet at least that I can see How long will it take for them to come How long will it take for them to come up above ground thank you
QUESTION.... where do you garden? so important to note each time for your audience?
It’s MI gardener…. Michigan.
Question: My seed potatoes are green, can I use them? Thanks
I haven't watched the video yet but will in a second. I planted my potatoes yesterday so I am dreading watching to find out what I screwed up! Oh well! There's next year!
You didn't screw up if you just put potatoes in the ground, they take care of themselves. They're probably the hardiest crop you can grow, For all the emphasis on adding this and that you might get a few more pounds? I've grown potatoes in nothing buy seaweed and broken down leaves and they did amazing. No chemical trifecta and this and that. Leaves, seaweed, potatoes and done.
I’m trying to figure out where you’ve found that potatoes like “acidic” soil?
Luke, I forgot do you get bigger potatoes from whole ones or cut ones?
It's more about how many eyes they have. Each eye will generate one stalk so two to three eyes is best per potato or potato piece. Some people will even remove sprouts if there's more than three. Bigger yield potatoes have more to do with ample room. Fewer potatoes in a grow bag will give you bigger ones but not as many. More potatoes in a grow bag will give you more potatoes but smaller new potato sized ones. Same thing in the ground, more space equals bigger potatoes but not as many and more closely spaced potatoes will give you more but smaller potatoes. Cutting won't make potatoes smaller for yields but they just need to have a few chits and a decent amount of raw potato for the energy to get going.
Question: I have potatoes that are sprouting from last years hatvest that were in storage.Like really sprouting. Some over 12 inches, I'm just now able to plant potatoes in my zone. Can I plant these and if so how? Do I bury that long sprout? Do I leave it sticking out? Help?
Yikes. The soil I already planted my wee potatoes in is 7.0. How can I make it more acidic now??? Thanks love this video. 😊
Just add some powdered sulfur on top.
@@MIgardener will do, thanks!
Nice tutorial on getting the beds prepped, thanks! Oh, LOVE Monsters, Inc.!! :D
Luke im in traverse city Should I plant my potatoes yet too!!????
I'm in Traverse City too and wondering the same thing.
@@ladyapprentice7095I talked to mcgoughs and they said to wait till end of month but I don’t wanna!! 😂😂
@@jimmylarge1148 Funny, I got my potato seeds from them. I love McGoughs!
I'm in Alpena and wondering the same
@@acoastalrv4582 looks like Luke’s not gonna talk to us 😂
Is it the same alfalfa pellets you feed rabbits? If not what are you using?
I get mine at Tractor supply in a big bag and it's horse feed- pellets not cubes though. Cover them with water and they quickly turn to powder and are so much better to add to soil that way. They're great to scatter in late fall and early spring to break down and just be ready.
You are correct on the ‘hilling your potatoes will give you more’ is NOT true. Ive been growing potatoes for years in northern MN and we always hill ours half way through the season, but for only one reason. If any potatoe starts to pop out of the ground it turns green. Hilling them just covers them back up. Great video and I really enjoy your channel! Happy gardening
Interesting thanks
depends on youre potato type ;)
Russets and Reds
the potatoes that don't benefit from hilling are the determinate potatoe varieties (potatoes grow in a single layer). If you want some benefits from hilling you need the inderterminate varieties (potatoes grow along stem)
@@kooltube100 good info, apparently all mine are the long stem kind, and I’ve been hilling them
Long time viewer here. Great, informative video. A suggestion is for the person behind the camera to move slower. Today's video seemed especially "wobbly" and it can be hard on the eyes.