Watch This BEFORE You Plant Potatoes 🥔

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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TIMESTAMPS
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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[epichomesteading]

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

[Skullpirate]

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.

[fizzypop]

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!!

[EmpressKadesh]

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.

[MysteriaSdrassa]

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

[corinne]

I've grown potatoes for 50 years in upstate New York and never chit. And I have a beautiful harvest every year.

[dabzprincess]

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

[livingunderarock]

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!!

[borealphoto]

First time I hear a youtuber saying "unsubscribe". You ain't the boss of me so I'll subscribe.

[digitalranger]

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!

[momijitherabbit]

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 😂

[tinab]

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!

[TxxRose]

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.

[LS-lpui]

Love you referencing Ruth Stouts method of potato planting !

[baneverything]

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.

[DanlowMusic]

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.

[JosieTube]

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!

[RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Been going potatoes for years, and I see you are now growing them the way we do😊 works that way best ❤

[shellia]

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. :)

[p-san]

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.