How to Grow the BEST Potatoes - Back to Eden Garden Tour - L2Survive with Thatnub
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- This is Part 7 of Paul Gautschi's Back to Eden garden tour. Paul tells us the easiest and fastest way to plant, grow and harvest the best potatoes you have ever had. .
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U can never out give our Father. Thanks for another great sermon Paul and thanks for the video. L2survive
These short segments are killing me. I want to hear more. *smile*
So much wisdom. You can listen to this year after year and still learn from Paul.
Yep. I find myself watching these videos over and over again.
This guy's philosophy is amazing!
This is great information. Paul is very intuitive. I always tell people to watch back to Eden garden videos. They don't believe me when I say you don't have to water! Thanks for posting. I plan to visit Paul one day.
Learn to survive because that is what I am doing.
Love your method. Just planted my potatoes in bare dirt. About to cover my ground and potatoes with the recommended amount of wood chips. By the way Monsanto leads your video off with a Round Up commercial. I know you have no control over it.
Praise GOD for the amazing creation He has given us!!!
WOO-HOOO!!!!
Thank you Thatnub for sharing
I understand how you feel but, I have found that over half of the viewers only watch for about five minutes then stop. This is why I try to make them five minutes long. There is good news though. I have maybe 100 videos of Paul and Back to Eden gardens on my page. There is over 7 or 8 hours of Back to Eden footage on my page and my website also has info. Even if you have seen every one of my videos, I'm sure you would agree that more can be learned by a second look.
First time seeing this video and noticed that is 10 years old yet he was so awake and aware of what is going on with the food and the evil intentions.
Thank you for posting your visits with Paul Gautschi. His method is amazing, and I am eager to give it a try. And please tell him we very much appreciate his willingness to educate us.
You got it friend. In every way. Thank you.
Hallelujah, Amen
I love listening to Paul , God bless him he is so right and he loves his Maker. GOD I wonder what religion is Paul ! live on the west coast of Ireland and do with seaweed and compost and love gardening I would love to go to his classes in America
Totally agree. Don't give up your seeds. No one should be a slave to the system.
L2Survive, in response to one of your statements below, we have chickens but I was afraid to add their manure directly to the beds without it being composted because it can burn the plants. However, I have rabbits and manure from them is safe. In one of those really big tree pots, I was growing beans on poles. I added a couple of shovels full of rabbit manure and had to do it again a couple of months later. The manure causes the mulch to break down really fast. So, if you can, you'll have to add mulch again too. In the early part of the year we weren't getting any rain which is usual down here. So I was watering. Still adjusting to growing times in FL too, LOL! But for a 36" diameter pot, try a couple of shovels full and keep doing that until the end of the season. Clean up all of your dead vines at the end and because my stuff is not in the ground and we don't have winter kill off of insects, I still have a lot of insect problems, I'm still rotating my crops to keep that down.
Cool huh? When you harvest, you take your biggest whole potatoes and place them back on the ground then cover them with woodchip mulch and leave it alone until next year.
thank you, you are very kind to reply so quickly!
I love this, and I did it accidentally several times - just by throwing out some potatoes,
covering them with mulch, and stepping back. :)
you are so right... GOD bless
We go to school and read books TO forget. :)
Another great video! Thanks!
Wisdom of experience.
There should be no "nitrogen tie up" because you added mulch to the top of your ground. The woodchips stay on top of the ground and the roots do not come to the surface. The only way this could have happen is if you tilled the mulch into the ground or tried to plant directly into the woodchips. Even then, a "nitrogen tie up" means that the nitrogen is helping to decompose the woodchips but, when that is done, it is released back to the soil. This would affect you for maybe a month.
This is great! I want to grow potato’s next year for the first time, so this is excellent information. Yes and God is good in all what He asks of us.
Thank you for this video again Paul and L2Survive!
What does L2Survive mean? Love to survive?
Paul has spoken to all of this many times in these videos but, here you go.
The woodchips in Paul's orchard have been composting and more being added for over 30 years so, I would say less than that. It should be okay to plant in the ground under your fresh tree mulch in the spring if you laid it down in the fall.
I have never used blood meal and Paul has chickens. I'm sure that there are instructions on the package explaining how to use it. I would do that. As far as how deep of woodchips to use, Paul's answer is how much do you want to pull back to be able to plant in the ground. When you plant, you have to pull back the woodchips, plant in the ground then wait for the plants to grow. Once they have, you can push back the woodchips to below the bottom leaf of your plant.
Paul adds enough compost from the chicken pen to lower the grade of the pen so the chickens stop hopping out. There is no magical formula. He has mentioned that you can use 1" to 4" in different videos. He will just lay it over the top of whatever is already on the ground. He doesn't use compost anywhere else besides the main garden just to prove that it is not needed to grow your vegetables. He only does it to remove it from the pen. It helping his plants grow is a side effect.
O.k. And learning with love is learning very quick and intense.
For those of you who have been asking to see Paul plant/harvest potatoes, I always miss the day he does it. You can watch the video I did to see how it is done. czcams.com/video/Cacw627OEDY/video.html
1 st fruits.Exodus 23:19, Lev 23:10, Numbers 18:12-16, Deut 12:6 and 18:4, Rev. 14:4
I hae been doing this method of planting my veggies and trees without knowing that it was put in my heart by YHVH Yehovah. Our land is dolomite, so I started asking all the garden services driving past to drop their cuttings off on our plot. I literally dump it on the dolomite wait a year and plant. Thank you for teaching me about the wood chip. I used that as pathways. We look but we do not see, we listen but do not hear. Deut 6:4. Hear O Yisra'el, Yehovah our God, Yehovah is One. Shema Yisra'el, Yehovah Eloheino, Yehovah ECHAD! Amen
Ok... I am finally taking the plunge and going to try this method. I have a strong feeling it's what I need to do. I already have several raised beds I'm just going to add this method to them! Just got two loads of wood chips finally. I'm a little confused with potatoes though since I've never grown them. I live in Arkansas and I was told to plant potatoes early like February March. I assume you harvest around August? So with this...in August you plant the same day as you harvest.
So do the potatoes start growing then or over winter and start up in early spring. How deep are they planted!
So excited to start this method.
Amazing. The title of clip is "HOW TO GROW BEST POTATOES" but he kept talking the whole time: Where the heck are the potatoes, man?
About 2 minutes in.
P.S. Sometimes I give sneak peaks to those subscribed on my Facebook and Twitter feeds. Hint, Hint.
Thank you for the videos, always look forward to new updates. Could u plz ask Paul regarding 3 points. 1. "no" fertilizer used. He has many chickens and uses their droppings in the veg garden, does this mean that the wood chip principle still requires some fertilizer? 2. I noticed Paul has a flat vegetable garden, is there an advantage to that (mycorrhizae/water) or it makes no difference if beds are raised. 3. although there is a good distance between rows, does he space or thin within rows?
Paul has not put any of the compost from the chicken pen on the orchard. He will touch on this a bit later but, it will work with only woodchips. Adding compost will make it work quicker. My garden in the back yard has never had anything but woodchips added just to test this. Raised beds and pots do not hold the water as well as planting directly into the ground. He tries to space his rows three feet apart and does thin but, usually will take the thinned plants to a new location.
I will.
Paul refers to the Bible and Genesis. While I am not a member of any religious organization ( I'm spiritual, however ). It's only logical to save your best potato or other seeds to propogate. I never understood hunters who use the excuse of controlling and culling the deer population to preserve the quality of the deer when they go out to kill the biggest and most beautiful buck in the heard! Nature culls the weak and the least desirable. Bears and wolves feed on the weakest deer. We humans kill the best ! How is that preserving the quality? You're removing the best genes from the heard. So...getting back to vegetables, who would want to plant the least desirable quality of seed or potato? Why kill the best bucks?
I've been thinking about this a lot since last fall because a friend of mine killed 15 deer in a culling program. I got the front quarters and backs of 13 of them so I'm not complaining. But I asked him to pass on the best bucks to breed for the new seasons. He said he had never thought of it that way.
I always thought that since we are only allowed to hunt bulls with four points or more that we are alway taking the strongest as well. I thought we should change it to hunting four points or more for three years in a row. Then all bucks with more than six points can not be shot for three years. Then we would have strong old bucks with migratory instincts and good genes to pass on.
I get yr point but the the majority of a bucks antler size comes from his mothers genetics
Randy Watts excellent point
Hey Randy, antler size and number of points have a lot more to do with the buck's age then it does his genetics. By the time a healthy buck is at the "trophy" stage, he's successfully mated with several does, thus preserving his quality.
I don't know but, I'm willing to bet that Paul does.
thank you
What does Paul do to solve wire worms eating the potatoes in the ground? Thanks
Can you plant the same day even if you have a harsh winter that gets six months freezing sub zero temps?
What he is saying about commercially grown root vegetables is crazy town. All food is going to have some heavy metals drawn from the soil in it, but pesticides (other than fungicides) and chemical fertilizers aren't major sources of them. And farmers aren't using root crops to clean up their fields.
How would Paul plant sweet potatoes? They send out sprouts on one end. You are then to tear them off and root in water and then plant them. No hilling. They grow in the dirt. I am wondering if they might would grow on top of the ground like white potatoes. I am going to give it a try this year.
T Morrow I'm sure it would be the same. Paul would say that there is no one cutting and burying sweet potatoes in nature. Still I will ask him on my next visit.
love it
He takes his potatoes in boxes, what do you do to keep them from sprouting/rotting?
iI bought some organic potatoes and they have sprouted. Can I plant them in the garden?
Yes. Either they take and grow potatoes or they don't and turn into compost. We add potato pieces we cut off for some reason and put them into our compost coffee can in the kitchen. When it gets full, Babygirl takes it out to the back yard somewhere and buries it. Everytime I mow the grass back there, I see random potato leaves.
I have 12 chickens. My question is-I put down wood shavings for them in the coop on top of builders sand. When I clean out the coop, can I take all the shavings and poop and put that into my raised beds? Should I mix it into the soil or just lay it on top? Thanks for the info and by the way, I love your videos.
6996katmom Paul put everything from his chicken coop into the chicken pen, lets the birds mix it up with everything else in there then will take that compost to his garden.
Just lay it on top.
It sounds like your apple tree has been there for a while. Are you saying that by adding the woodchips, your apple tree did worse than previous years? I would have to see your space to be able to help you out better with this. Tree roots don't stay in the 5' circle you put the woodchips down in. Paul's trees shoot roots out 40' which is why his whole orchard is covered in mulch. If it was a new planting and this was your first year or adding the tree mulch, give it time.
Can you please ask Paul about seed saving. He says he saves his seeds but how? I've read so many places tell you that you have to plant certain things in certain places and have to have certain distances to save seeds etc. It just seems so complicated
Where do you buy your potatoes form Paul?
Whoa! I appreciate the tips AND the sermon!
But one question, if I shouldn't buy my starter potato from a store, where should I buy?
Just make sure they are heirloom and you will be okay.
So where do we buy seed potatoes?
What does he mean when he says he plants and harvests the same day ...as far as timing goes? Does he just do this.once a year, or multiple times throughout the year? Thank you.
I still want to know WHEN he only uses woodchips, which plants, how well composted and whether he's done anything else.
I also want to know how much chicken manure he adds to the wood chips, how composted it is, when he adds it, if it's on top of fresh wood chips, how thick a layer.
I don't have chickens, what can I do instead? If blood meal, how much, with how much wood chips?
I put a thick layer of wood chips around my apple tree, it did poor. Most veggies didn't have enough nitrogen.
I can't even imagine what might happen if I planted back, one of my biggest potatoes. I plant ordinary Yukon Gold potatoes that come out half the size of a football now. I don't know why they grow so big, it's not anything I am doing.
Do you know what kind of potato Paul uses. Does he remember after 26 years(not sure I would)
Did I understand that he always got potatoes in the ground? Also in the winter?
where should we buy potatoes so that we can plant our own in the garden?
Paul, my question is , can you use fresh wood chips to put on top of your potatoes or should it be aged awhile ?
GmGarlo either will work
So you can buy organic root veggies from store?
Hey there. Do you know what variety Potatoes Paul prefers as well as garlic? Thanks
Sorry, I don't. Paul has mentioned it a couple of times but I do not remember which video it was.
How do I do this in the UP of MI?
potato qustion: I live in northern Missouri. It gets down to zero F or a little below in winter. I can't quite wrap my head around the idea of leaving a seed potato in the ground under chips all winter in freezing temps and it still growing next spring. Does Paul live in an area that doesn't get that cold and that's why he can do this, or do they really withstand sub-zero winters?
It freezes here (zone 8A) but, I've never seen it get to zero degrees in my life. In nature, if you leave a potato plant in the ground, it will keep growing every year. I would be interested to see results in your area. Take a couple of potatoes then do what Paul says in this video and see what happens.
Potatoes are from the Andean mountains, and in their area of origin, they get snowed under in the winter. They should be fine, if they have good drainage and are insulated with leaves/mulch/snow.
thank you:-)
Surprised he doesn't get potatoe blight by playing in the same place?
when he plants his garlic, does he plant the whole clove or break it up and plant the little pieces separately? If you plant the whole head back, will you only get one garlic the next year?
Also, will cutting off the flowers on the garlic make the bulbs grow bigger?
What do you use to firtilize your wood chip area for your potatoes, and when do you? I have chickens and wondered if I can use their droppings for this.
Daniel Smith I never have put anything except woodchips over my potatoes. Paul usually plants his in areas that do not get any compost. Composted chicken manure would be great to put on top of the woodchips, especially in the fall when the rain and snow can wash it into the ground.
WIth potatoes growing in wood chips what diseases attack the plants. is there any issue with potatoe blight disease. In Ireland this our main concern.
Back to Eden gardening is not the fix for everything the first day. Here is what it will do. Help retain water, stop weed seeds from hitting the soil and wash composted material into the ground when you water/rain. If you have diseases, pests or bad soil, you may see a difference when you cover the ground or it may take a couple of years. I live in the desert of Eastern Washing USA. My entire property is sand. I am covering with two feet of woodchips to help build the soil and I am not expecting anything to grow for a couple of years. That being said, there is a spot, past the grass in the front of the house that the sprinklers hit for an hour each night. We had a truck load of woodchips dropped there and spread them two feet deep. We planted some potatoes just for the heck of it. We have five or six plants coming through the woodchips.
My question ... how would the Alberta winters north centeal affect the potatoes replanted in September after a winters like we have here.
It got pretty cold here this year but, nothing like the rest of the country or where you live. Still, my potatoes are doing great. I would try it and see what happens.
Thanks L2 that's sort of what I thought to .. thanks for replying
How do u store them
Question?
When you say “which produces seed of its own kind”
I know apples are good but they don’t produce seed of its own kind. Why do some things like apples not give you exactly what they came from? Surely there is a reason for that?
Apple cross pollinate. The apple will be the same but, the seeds will be a cross between the two.
It's still an apple.
what kind of wood chips are you using for your potatoes? and can I assume you are using the same kind on your entire garden? including at the base of your fruit trees?
Chick A. Biddy They are what was cut from the neighborhood. Pine, spruce and the like. I used the same wood mulch on everything. Paul has many trucks from different properties drop stuff at his house so, he might get some weird type of tree in the mix. It really doesn't matter, use what you can get locally.
ok, thanks for getting back to me, I will see what I can find locally, some one is bound to have live sugar cane growing somewhere here.
L2Survive thank you
Do you plant your sweet potatoes the same way?
Kim Bass Paul says that you can but, not where he lives.
What is the average amount of potatoes per plant do you get, planting this way? (I just moved to a new home this last year and there were two volunteers from the previous owners. they were red potatoes, and got 5 and 8 per plant. Is that average, or can I expect MORE from growing them properly the BTE way?)
I have never thought to count or weigh them before. In a recent or upcoming video, Paul digs up a few plants. If it is not up already, you will have to wait a few months. My computer died and I have to save up to buy a new one that is powerful enough for what I put them through.
Praying for the finances for a new computer for you!
I can tell you have a good heart but I had a little bit of a hard time understanding how you plant and grow potatoes.
Maybe this will help. I used his method when I was harvesting my potatoes last year. Here is that video. czcams.com/video/Cacw627OEDY/video.html
upgrade your nick to Lrn2survive :)
the heavy metals story is a load of bullshit, evidence please
what a crock.