Watch This BEFORE You Plant Potatoes 🥔
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Everyone loves potatoes. And you'll love them even more when you learn to plant them CORRECTLY, with Kevin and Tony from @simplifygardening.
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00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Determinate VS Indeterminate Potatoes
01:57 - Types Of Potatoes
03:00 - Chitting Potatoes
04:29 - Bucket & Grow Bag Method
07:41 - Classic & Ruth Stout Method
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Oh Kevin, you think you ended me? Killed me? LOL, I'M MORE RESILIENT THAN THAT. I'll see you on the Homestead... - Eric Espiritu
Don't listen to him...I took him OUT for good. - Kevin
Omg
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Don't worry Eric I have your back 🔪
we all do, @@jacquesinthegarden
that Kevin kid is nothin' but trouble.
My ten year old son plants potatoes in his garden every year and he always has me grab the blue potatoes as soon as they come in stores so he can choose a red and "regular" to grow along with them. He cares for them all season then has me make him a red, white and blue potato meal every year lol. This year he plans on making a roast with his patriotic potatoes in his star wars crock pot! Just a heads up if you try to cook the blue in different ways, sometimes they turn grey but still taste fine.
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Patriotic potatoes I love it lol
That's so awesome he totally owns his potato harvest from start - finish, including the cooking!
It's my first go finally remembering to grow potatoes at the right time of year. I'm getting some purple and pink ones - hoping to enthuse my 7 and 4 yo
You're son is very lucky to have a mom that stimulates him to garden.
Lovely to read he enjoys it that much.
Your shirt, and the resulting comments, had me laughing so hard that my husband asked me if I was crying and if I was okay. 🤣 I love the great gardening info in your videos, Kevin; however, the humor that always comes through, in so many ways, keeps me coming back for every video. Love you and your team!!
Love that!
@@epicgardeningI’m sorry for the fact everyone confused you for your evil twin to the point you had to wear that shirt.
The "rip eric" on the back of the shirt 😂😂😂
Yeah. What's with that? I'm new on the channel. So I totally don't get it.
@@pdxmusl1510 It’s kind of an ongoing inside joke. If you scroll back a few months on the is channel’s community page, you can see all the Eric Drama going down. But to save you time, basically some comments called Kevin “Eric” and Kevin made a joke post about how it was impacting him so severely. People doubled down and after a bit of back and forth, Kevin revealed that “eric” had had a little accident in the garden (much like people who cross the mob have accidents)
@@pdxmusl1510 his name isn't Eric and a lot of people called him Eric because epic and Eric look alike
@@pdxmusl1510 his real name is Kevin but everyone keeps calling him Eric for some odd reason 🤣🤣🤣
@@catwithoutthehat 😂😂😂 now got it, thanks!
Perfect timing on this video! I wasn't planning to plant potatoes this year, but I found a random potato in perfect condition in my compost bin yesterday, so apparently I am now growing potatoes this year 😂
Amazing!
I've grown potatoes for 50 years in upstate New York and never chit. And I have a beautiful harvest every year.
Similar - I tend not to myself - Kevin
Watching Kevin wield a sharp spade in open toed sandels to plant potatoes is enough to make anyone chit themselves.
No chit?
Chit= sprout.
How big of potatoes do you plant? Do you plant 1 potato with multiple eyes? I’m new @ growing potayoes( can you tell)???? Lol
Corn starch is great for dusting cut edges of potatoes, it speeds up the drying time immensly and you get less chance of rot when you do plant
Great tip! But what about Rooting Hormone powder??
First time I hear a youtuber saying "unsubscribe". You ain't the boss of me so I'll subscribe.
I planted a bag of small red potatoes February 2 and two bunches of green onions my sister picked up for me. I have a disability and can`t drive so I have to grow my own fresh produce or do without. I`m gonna use this planting to make seed potatoes and I may replant some in the fall. Transplanting green onions is a great way to have fresh green onion tops for a long time and eventually a lot of fresh seeds. I also planted a dozen more fruit trees a week ago and I`m growing Parisian Carrots to mass produce seeds since they were so expensive for so few. I have Danvers Half Long Carrots growing but I`m not sure how well they`ll do but I still have over 3000 more seeds to get it right. The Parisian Carrots are little round ones and very easy to grow. I want to try peanuts because we used to grow them.
Wish you an amazing harvest this year!
@@SarahJustVlogs Thank you. I`m trying very hard. It was a big disappointment to discover that all the topsoil had been removed here. Everything has been a struggle. I had to do a lot of thinking to decide what I could do to fix this. Bringing in forest soil with a wagon is my only option besides using leaves, cover crops and grass clippings to create soil. So that`s the plan and it will continue for years.
I think you can grow peanuts in a bucket just put holes in bottom of the bucket.there was some showing this on you tube
@@helenedwards9508 I planted some peanuts in a bag of bird seed and they`re growing. I`ll save those for seeds. It`s less expensive to pick them out of bird seed than buy them online and you simply get scammed or ripped off.
I do the 5 gallon bucket way a little different. 4" of soil, put the potato down. Cover with enough soil to leave only about 4" from the top of the bucket. Then when the plant grows up out of the bucket put about 2-3" of soil. Then put mulch on top to protect the potatoes from the sun to prevent the green potato. Love your videos Kevin! I recommend you and a couple others to all new gardeners because you guys are easy to follow and are great teachers.
Makes sense!!!
Early on in gardening I saw a video saying to just bury compost directly into raised garden beds... so then potatoes invaded everywhere in my garden just from the peels in my compost. ;D It was quite a chore digging them all out.
What a great synopsis about growing potatoes! Showed 4 different potato-growing methods in less than 15 mins. that provides all the info a newbie will need to produce a delicious basket of potatoes!! YUM, and well done!!
My second year at vegetable gardening. My first year at growing potatoes. I’m using my favorite potatoes, russet. The huge ones. I let a few grocery store potatoes grow eyes in my pantry, cut the eyes off, and planted them right off. I’ve got nice green potato plants coming up. I hope I get some to harvest.
The first crop I planted in my brand new garden this year is potatoes! Red Norland, Blue Adirondack, and Yukon Gold. Flanked on either side of the bed by garlic to help protect against aphids. So excited for the crop!
I never has aphids on potatoes, just potato bugs.
Hi Kevin - yes you are Kevin not Eric. Thank you so much for this video it helped me so much!! I plan on planting potatoes this weekend🙂
The t-shirt 😂 I've been procrastinating starting my potatoes...I'll take this as my sign to get them planted tomorrow!
I've been growing different potatoes each year and so far my favorite is purple Viking. Beautiful mottled skin - dark purple with kind of a rose color, and white flesh. Great for everything and tastes so good!
Been going potatoes for years, and I see you are now growing them the way we do😊 works that way best ❤
Your videos are so inspiring. I live on a half acre with a small house and am trying to recover from a garage fire. Lost most of my gardening tools, but watching you, I'm realizing I don't need them. Thanks for the tips and inspiration!
That’s awesome!
Your videos inspired me not giving up on gardening, even tough this season was a nightmare haha, It was either days with crazy storms or days with a raging nuclear level sun. The watermelons vines only produced about 7 fruits, and the pumpkins/squash only 5, and small ones at that. But anyway, love the content and the cannel hosts ❤
Keep going!!!
Those Watermelons did better than any I have grown! Good job!
Put shade cloth over your veggies during the hottest months
@@honeybluse thanks for the tips ❤
@@DanlowMusic Thanks, be hoping the next season will be better for us all 🙏❤
Adirondack Blues are my favorites. You can't easily find them in grocery stores, so you have to grow them. The leaves of the plant are a beautiful purple bluish green, so they work well as decorative plants as well. The main drawback is the potatoes are such a dark blue color, they can be hard to spot in the soil when you're digging them up.
I’m growing for the first time. Excited thanks for advice.
Gorgeous spud
11:26 Thank you what no one has come forward to say is this method is great for us that are disabled and can't dig. Best regards
oh I was loving this video, and now all I can think about in the middle of it, is customizing t-shirts to say what I've always wanted to say to people! good for you Kevin!
I'm really glad to see Kevin teaming up with Tony about potatoes. If anyone knows potatoes, it's these guys 😘
I remember Kevin doing that 30-day potato challenge 😆
A big thank you to both of you for helping me learn SO much about gardening. I do hope I get to meet you both soon, if I can manage to get into American government. God bless 🙏💕
I finally planted my potatoes yesterday after work. I wanted to get them in the ground 3-4 weeks ago but it has been raining so much in California I had to till my garden 3 times just to get the soil to dry out enough to plant. One thing to mention with potatoes, don’t water them till they sprout unless your soil is powder dry.
If you stop tilling your ground, yes, convert to no till using regenerative ag principles, in couple of years your soil will not even recognize buckets of rain as a problem... It will just pass right on through into storage... tilling is one of the ways to create a compaction layer about 6" down and that prevents the water from entering the soil, hence keeping the soil waterlogged. There's a whole book's worth of reasons to not till, but I don't want to write a book... research a bit, give it a try, you'll be impressed with yourself.
Later on could we get an update on the grown bag and bucket potatoes, it would be pretty cool!
You actually saw the b eginning of ANOTHER video ;)
Potatoes also are great for giving the soil a break after an intense growing season. I like to rotate them in after I've grown tomato or brassica, things that are really taxing on the soil, and then grow legumes after that to help replenish nitrogen.
The Ruth Stout method works great up here in Vermont. I I throw them on the top of the ground covered with 8 to 12 inches of hay.
I may water them once a month maybe
It has the hay decomposes I’ll add another 6 to 8 inches by Midsummer
Harvesting is ridiculously easy. Move the hay to the side and grab the potatoes!
Do you remove the hay at the end of the year? Or just leave it there to decompose and add new stuff the next season?
@@adamjchafe I actually took my leftover hay that I had not used in the garden and threw that in the garden bed for the whole winter, to allow it to decompose.
This is very helpful for me, as I'm planting potatoes in growing pots this year. Thank you!
Also, I'm gonna try the Ruth Stout method as well. ❤
I love videos like this - all the info in a concise and entertaining format. I can't stand when presenters blather on. Thanks. I am going to try all the methods!
Definitely recommend growing potatoes for anyone who hasn't or is considering it. Aside for getting the chitting part, growing potatoes is so easy and rewarding. They grow really quick, woth little intervention needed.
Love you referencing Ruth Stouts method of potato planting !
I used to my tators in hay..did good for a few years till slugs got out of control.... NW fla...
Ruth Stout was the sister of Rex Stout, author of the Nero Wolfe mystery books, for anyone who's interested.
Also, I read that she used salt marsh hay to mulch her garden. I haven't verified this, but apparently salt marsh hay does not have seeds (unlike regular hay), so she didn't have problems with seeds sprouting from her mulch.
Kevin, I really enjoy watching your videos. Very informative and hilarious!
We recently purchased a nice chunk of land on São Miguel Azores Portugal. Where I grew up....and growing a food farm is one of our plans.
So I have been watching a lot of videos on growing all kinds of crops.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your amazing work!
I use Tony's method of 1/3 soil, drop potato, 1/3 soil, 1/3 hay or straw.
Best thing I ever did growing potatoes was to plant whole potatoes about 6"down in barely ammended clay soil, cover and forget it until plants died down. I didnt even water them. Lol. 4x4 bed got me a 5 gallon bucket of potatoes. Ill never mess around with potato growing again. Set it & forget it for me. :)
The T-shirt was the best part of the video, especially seeing the back first then the front.
Perfect timing! I'm sprouting my first potatoes, and crossing my fingers that I'll be able to grow them. As a new gardener, I've been looking for a video that goes through a full growing season so I know what to plant, when, and in what order, plus when to harvest what you planted. That would be an epic video!! 🤞
Good information. I have been growing potatoes 55 years and lived in 3 different states. What works in 1 geographical location does not work in another location. A 3 eye seed potato will grow 3 stems and each stem will grow 1 lb of new potatoes that = 3 lbs of new potatoes. A 5 eye potatoes will grow 5 stems and 5 lbs of new potatoes. An 8 eye seed potato might grow 8 lbs of new potatoes but its best to cut an 8 eye potatoes in 1/2 to make 2 cuttings with 4 eyes each. The best seed potatoes are golf ball size with 1 or 2 eyes per seed potato spaced about 4" apart. Space seed potatoes according to the number of eyes on each seed potato. I plant 5 eye seed potatoes 8" spacing a 30 ft row will have 45 seed potatoes and should produce about 225 lbs of new potatoes. Weather, rain, soil all determine crop size. I live in TN if I plant potatoes April 1st harvest is about July 1st we are having 100° weather with no rain my garden is dry as desert I must water to have a good harvest. If I plant potatoes Aug 1st I get larger harvest Nov 1. If I plant March 1st that is good too unless we have too much rain. Last spring we had 37" of rain March to May. Potatoes are very tricky to grow but not hard to grow, everything needs to be perfect to get the best maximum size harvest. Keep seed potatoes at 75°f or warmer in bright shade to break the doormat cycle. I start sprouting my seed potatoes Jan 1 to plant March 1 or April 1. I wash seed potatoes to remove natural enzymes that prevent sprouting.
I have potatoes that started growing into plants by themselves; now I feel guilty throwing them out...we have clay soil. To be honest I probably won't ever dig them up to see if they grew any potatoes... We obviously don't eat many potatoes or they wouldn't have grown into plants while sitting in the container waiting for somebody to finally eat them....
❓So why bother growing even MORE potatoes, when we never ate the first ones ?❓☹️❓🤔❓
🅰️Answer: Guilt . ✅ Don't like killing something that's trying to LIVE.
My first time growing didn't havest too much, but I will try again
Love the t-shirt! I'm really glad you missed your flip-flopped toes when slamming that shovel in the dirt to loosen the soil!
1. Died laughing at the shirt 😂 2. Just bought seed potatoes from Wood Prairie! Aptly posted video!
Enjoy em!
I planted some of my potatoes in a mix of pine straw & weeds with some forest soil dumped on top. They`re about 4 or 5 inches under the straw and are growing. I`m making new soil with the straw and forest dirt and decided to make use of it as it decomposes.
So something I learned that no one ever talks about is growing potatoes based on your climate. I have to grow early potatoes in my region (SE US) because it gets WAY too hot (like 95F-feels-like-105F-bc-of-humidity hot) in the middle of summer and the potatoes don’t do well because of it.
I always wondered why my potato harvests sucked. A) I would plant too late and B) it was too hot. So once I figured that out I bought all early potatoes so I should be good this season.
Makes sense why russets are grown in Idaho now.
You could probably get away with growing them in some shade. We get hot and humid so it’s just hot no matter what and the potatoes hate it.
Same here in Central Tx.
I never seem to get the timing right...
It's very humid here, and the past 2 years we've had August temperatures in May, (113°f)
which stayed that way for many weeks.
No potatoes for me.
I'm off potatoes this year.
Had I known it was going to be a mild winter this time, I would've started growing them back in November...
Maybe the trick is to just plant potatoes every frkn month & then harvest whatever the weather produces that year!!
Yep that is a great addition here...heat DOES matter! It's better to put in part shade if you're hitting that level of heat in summer
What varieties do you do in your zone? I’m nearby and looking to do something similar
@@epicgardeningoh man! I totally just put in potatoes this last week and… it gets really hot and humid here 😢
@@Growing916 He named them in the video.
Excellent video. Clear and to the point. Thank you Kevin.
I am trying grow bags for the first time this season. Thanks for the tips on rolling them down to get more sun on the soil!
Great shirt Kevin. The norland red is a great potato. I've grown them for the last 3 years as well as the blue potato.
Thank you, for making this video.
Thanks for such a great video, Eric. Growing potatoes again for the second time this year. My first year I got a lot of very small boi’s. Hopefully we get better results this year!
The potato planting explosion was a nice touch 😂
Im in a condo growing potatoes in buckets, I drilled a bunch of holes in the bottom and stacked it into another to make a cheap auto water planter.
The potato plants are almost as tall as I am now.
You'll kill fewer worms if you loosen the ground w/a fork, rather than a shovel. I use a 4-tined fork to loosen the soil (even in my containers) because my homemade compost is loaded with worms, and I hate cutting them in half as I loosen my soil. Wider broadforks are excellent as well.
Thanks for showing the various methods, I'm growing russets this year, think i will use your trench method.
I am really loving your new semi casual communication technique
It's actually old! Early videos I was more freeform
Thanks Kalvin, loads of great tips here. I’m going to try the tall bucket this year 😊
I’m a starter gardener so this video helped a lot that’s why tomorrow I’m going to grow some more potatoes
Nice tee-shirt!😅 live in UK. When I plant potatoes in buckets/pots I fill the bucket to the top with compost. It makes no difference to the seed potato and how many potatoes you get, but it makes life easier as you don’t have to hill up.
I wanted to start growing potatoes this year! Thanks for the video 😃
You should!
Thank you brother for this awesome informative video.
I have planterd the ADK blues for years. My latest favorate is a variety named " blackberry". I believe they were introduced from Michigan State U. about three years ago. They are a deep purple so contain more antioxidants than the blues.
I will be planting my potatoes this weekend! So I needed this video as a refresher since I'm switching growing methods this season.
Love potato Ty! We always go and pick up some veggies on the days he gives them to the community for free. Absolute gem
I planted potatoes 2 months ago using the Ruths method and it was as easy as you made out seen. My potatoes are about 3-4 weeks away from harvest
Omg I can't believe I've been watching potato daddy videos and forgot about potatoes!!!! I don't have seeds for them for obvious reasons lol so it completely slipped my mind when planting stuff this month here in Texas
That’s a good tip for rolling a grew bag. Especially since I like to use big ones.
Great video! Growing my first potatoes this year 😄
Can you make a series of videos zone by zone and what to plant when
Yes!! I'm in zone 7/8 and it's super confusing trying to apply a lot of Kevin's advice here lol
@ForestFire369 I'm in zone 7B and I kinda like that Kevin is a few weeks ahead. It gives me time after watching a vid to plan out how I'm gonna plant that crop instead of if he was on time or behind me, where it's usually too late for me to get the seeds started or what have you. Only becomes a problem towards the fall as I can't overwinter nearly as many things as he can.
Grow zones can be deceiving when using them for when to plant. They are mostly important to know the coldest
days of the year in regards to whether certain plants, mostly perennials, can survive while dormant in Winter
months. You're better off knowing your 1st and last "avg" frost dates when it comes to garden veg, mostly annuals.
And knowing what plants are cold hardy. Good Luck
I use wood ash to coat cut potatoes, it has worked well for me in regards to spoilage factor.
I’m trying the pre-sprout method this time, thanks for this video it was just in time I just got my potato order!!!!
I started potatoes for the first time and in a container. I placed them on soil and threw no float cypress mulch on top. I have 6 plants, so it is working for sure. I think I saw this in o e of your previous videos.😅
Love your content, your guides are so interesting. I'm getting peach trees very soon (Red haven and Indian free), and want to get other fruit later on, and would love to see more in depth guides from you on fruit such as peaches, cherries, apples, figs, etc. Keep up the good work 👍
Will do that soon!
Lol.. classic Kevin. Love the shirt. How is that people after all these years still think he is "Eric"... RIP ERIC. LOL
does anyone else force their man to sit down and watch this guys gardening techniqies. Last year our corn struggled and this year he better plant like he was told here..😂❤
In Chula Vista I planted potatoes in December and harvested today. Got a great harvest.
The t-shirt 😂. Perfect timing I'm planting my 1st early potatoes this weekend. I grow mine in buckets, its so much easier to harvest
Thank you! I tried planting potatoes last year and I failed big time! I will try again this year using different methods to experiment which one works best for me. We have clay soil and I will try that too. ❤
YES! Been waiting for this collab 🎉❤
I think I’m going to try potatoes this year now, thank you!
2:14 I grew those Adirondack blue potatoes last year. 1st potatoes I've grown. 3lb bag of seed potatoes produced 40 lbs. Was super happy. I also planted 3 lbs of russets evenly split between a raised row and just breaking up some ground. I got a lot better yield from the raised row.
I was hoping for more information about watering but thank you for the video!
This was just for planting!
New subscriber, watching from the mitten state of Michigan bits cold and snowing right now. But I thought boy I'm ready to get my potatoes and onions starts out in the grow bags. Then this video came across my feed. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
Thank you brother for your ongoing tirelessly vital priceless insight into all things gardening. I admire your positivity and virtually salute you. I’ve learned so much from you and true knowledge is power. ✌🏾❤️💡🌍
I LOVE TONY ❤I’m trying his planting method this year in a grow bag and it’s been so easy. His channel is amazing!
I almost forgot about the one I have in fridge from last year to plant again :D thanks!
I picked up Adirondack blue potatoes too. Im hoping to pick up some red norland and gold yukon also. Gold yukon makes awesome mashed potatoes. Im thinking of putting all my feed bags to use to grow my potatoes because I need to keep critters from eating them. Plus, i have lots of bags.
Any watering tips for bucket growing?
This was actually great because i hadn't planned on growing taters but I just planted a bunch from a bag that was starting to sprout/go bad so I buried them throughout the garden 👌
Thank you for this video, and all your hard work. I really appreciate the advice, and all the great tips. Perfect timing on planting potatoes.🥔
Grass clippings and leaves also work fine for the Ruth Stout method, and I even used twigs with leaves that I cut from my hedge and shredded with the lawnmower :D
I only grow super hot peppers but lately been wanting to dive into other type of fruits and vegetables. Maybe ill try some potatoes next
Welcome to the jungle
I absolutely love the shirt LOL😅 also perfect timing for your potato video I planted some random potatoes from my pantry that we're starting to grow roots at the bottom of my freshly cleaned out garden bed. Funny story we had a couple good friends here in Arizona so about a couple weeks later are weeds were growing like wildfire all around are raised garden bed, so one morning we went out there and I told my husband oh my gosh look at all these weeds growing out of our garden bed the weeds must have dropped their seeds so we started pulling them out after the third one out I remembered I had planted the potatoes at the bottom and those were the tops LOL LOL LOL😅😅😅😅😅 it's okay they're still all doing great and I just talked them off with more soil my first year growing potatoes LOL
Lots of info! Thank you!
RIP Eric… I’m dying!!!! Laughed for 5 minutes at least!!! Loved the big KEVIN name banner also. Well played Kevin, well played!! 😅😅
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻
OMG!! I am only 20 seconds into the video, but I am in hysterics over the shirt!! 😂 That is SOOO good!!!
You and the production team are always right on time Kevin. Another great video, I hope to have as great quality videos as you some day
Thanks for simple tips :)
Kevin,
Last growing season I tried just tossing my seed potatoes into my bucket and filling to the top instead of hilling. (Red Pontiac and Russets). There was no difference in harvest between years I slowly hilled or just filled the bucket. Just saved time by dumping the soil in right away.
Awesome, thank you
My Granny would dust the cut ends with sulfer and let them set for a day before planting them. Gardening in NE Florida here.
Smart Granny!
your shirt may not have killed eric, but it certainly slayed me LMAO
Potatoes are the best! I plant mine in my Epic grow bags!
Amazing!!