These 5 SIMPLE Tips Will GUARANTEE You More Potatoes!

In this video, I share my top gardening tips for growing more potatoes than ever before! Every gardener should grow potatoes, because they're easy to grow and store for many months! However, there are a few things you need to know first. These 5 simple tips will guarantee you more potatoes in your garden!

This is a true complete guide on growing potatoes. We discuss when to plant potatoes, what types of potatoes to plant, how deep to plant them, how to fertilize them and when and how to harvest potatoes!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Growing Potato Plants
1:20 Tip #1: When To Plant Potatoes
2:40 Tip #2: Growing Potatoes In Containers
6:35 Tip #3: Seed Potatoes & Planting Potato Pieces
9:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing & Planting Potatoes
12:35 Tip #5: Mulching And Watering
14:35 Fertilizing Potatoes Schedule
17:16 Adventures With Dale

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0:00 Intro To Growing Potato Plants
1:20 Tip #1: When To Plant Potatoes
2:40 Tip #2: Growing Potatoes In Containers
6:35 Tip #3: Seed Potatoes & Planting Potato Pieces
9:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing & Planting Potatoes
12:35 Tip #5: Mulching And Watering
14:35 Fertilizing Potatoes Schedule
17:16 Adventures With Dale

[miltonwelch]

You can't be much older than my first grandkids, but you sound like my grandfather when you talk gardening. Thanks again!

[LisaMonique]

I had excellent results with my grocery store potatoes and they were good! They were sprouting on my counter so I just stuck them in pots and voila, they produced well!

[kidslater]

You give some of the best tutorials. So clear. So detailed. You give the “why” as well as the “how”. You don’t waste my time with chit chat but get right to the point. Keep up the good work!

[CityWideGardens]

Potatoes was one of the first things that started my garden!!! Grow what you eat. Eat what you grow!!! Soooo many ways to grow - in ground, raised beds, grow bags, plastic pots, hay bales, in your cabinet…. Yes those ones you forgot you had!!! Happy growing everyone.

[nininoona]

Ive been growing potatoes in grow bags for a few years now, and I love it. I built (with scrap lumber and hardware cloth) a screen that would fit over my wheelbarrow. So when it was time to harvest, i could just dump and sort. Then easily put my soil back in my bags.

[cowboyblacksmith]

I grow potatoes in fabric bags, raised beds, in ground, and in tubs. Anywhere and anyhow I can grow them I do. 3/4 Irish here, lol. Canned they make incredible home fries and are perfect in soups and stews. It's like a treasure hunt digging them up. For survival food and storage they can't be beat. Everyone should plant potatoes. Picked fresh and eaten right away they're so awesome.

[kodiak]

I often use fabric containers for potatoes, not quiet 20 gallons. But as i found out, the amount of seed potato you plant in each container also effects yields and sizes. From the first time growing potatoes, i planted 5 seed potatoes in each container. I got plenty but i found them to be on the smaller side than i was expecting and hoping for. I now use 3 seed in each container and its gotten me much better results. In the container you planted in 7 I think you may be better off with 5

I'm in the UK, down in the south and we had an exceptionally hot and dry summer last year, probably mimicing some areas of US. As much as potatoes dont like heat, its also vital to water potatoes a little more often in those conditions to give them a chance

[lauraweiss]

I planted 12 russets that were sprouting in my pantry. I just stuck them in the ground in mid April and six weeks later they are HUGE and starting to flower. Fortunately I had a very fertile raised bed that was fallow last year and previously grew peas. I’m expecting massive yield.

[chiefredbird]

One tip for potatoes in 5 gallon buckets...bury the bucket about 4 gallons deep in zone 9 ...it helps keep the moisture from drying out too quick and keeps the soil cooler.

[laurab]

I’m hoping you will show us harvesting your potatoes in the fall? Thanks for all the great tips. I have a notebook that I’ve been keeping my planting and growing information in so I can refer back to when I need to. I will definitely be rewatching this one to write down all your tips!

[powaqqatsi]

I have watched many gardening YouTube videos and I find yours to be the best. Why? Because you are able to communicate your vegetable growing knowledge and tips well, efficiently, and focused.
Thank you!

[denisemorrison]

❤ Dale 🥺
Btw, I learned a lot about potatoes today! I had found some growing in my pantry and decided to try my luck at it. I was fortunate and came across some 33 gallon pots. They’re already growing really well, but you gave me a lot of tips to keep them going, and when to harvest. Thanks!

[sarahreinhardt]

Michogan gardener here and lots of us plant out potatoes sooner than 2 weeks before last frost. As long as soil isn't sitting with large amounts of water and constantly freezing with all of that water, they do pretty well.

[doileychair]

I'm a first time gardener at 57 and have learned so much from you. Thank you! You need to sell a notebook with all your various plants and all the how to's: how to plant them; how to fertilize them when planting; how to fertilizing them as they grow; how to harvest them, etc., etc. I'm watching your videos over and over again, stopping, pausing, rewinding, watching again trying to take all these notes. 🤣 But one thing you didn't say here is how much Jack's 20-20-20 to use in how much water. I bought a bag (yes, because you recommended it) and it states how much to put in a gallon of water for %N. I have no idea how much %N I want / need. So I've just used the Miracle grow recommendation of 1.5 Tbl for 1.5 gallon of water. Plus the 2-3 second glug of fish fertilizer (yes, I bought that too because you recommended it). So help a brother out please. How much Jack's 20-20-20 should I put in how much water for potatoes? (Or just sell me your notebook. 🤣 )

[mountainmama]

I just finished planting my potatoes today. We planted alot of potatoes this year. I always grow them in ground, as That is what works best for me. Last year we got more potatoes than we ever have! I am confident we will get much more this year!

[dwightdaniels]

I think you should discuss the differences between early, mid, and late season (or long season) potatoes.

[Ashurus]

Your channel is the best for comprehensive gardening guides!

[briangustin]

Don't need seed potato if you have a means to store your taters in cool and dark (below 40 degrees, but above freezing) - We do about a bushel plus a year - enough for a year's supply, and still have some leftovers that will start sprouting early spring. I do have a cellar (rarely ever gets above 60 degrees in summer, typically low 40's in winter) and store harvested potatoes in bushel basket covered with heavy tarp. so when next spring rolls around, we always have sprouting potatoes to re-plant. Never have to buy seed potatoes that way. :) I believe there are ways to build your own DIY root cellar in backyard as well, so may not need a cellar like we have (Northern P.A.)

[scottbaruth]

Even though I'm not a raised bed or container grower, I appreciate any video that will get people growing food! There are so many different ways to grow that makes gardening such an amazing hobby. Very nice video!