How To Plant Potatoes For MAXIMUM POTATO PRODUCTION!

In this video, I share how to plant potatoes for maximum potato production! I have been growing potatoes for years, and in that time, I've learned the secrets for growing potatoes with excellent production. Whether you are growing potato plants in ground or growing potatoes in containers, I will share these potato tips that will help you maximize potato production for your best potato harvest ever!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 My Potato Planting Secrets
1:11 Potato Growing Tip #1
3:54 Potato Growing Tip #2
6:20 Potato Growing Tip #3
8:34 Potato Growing Tip #4
12:41 Potato Growing Tip #5
15:39 How To Plant Potatoes
16:45 Potato Growing Tip #6
19:48 Potato Growing Tip #7
22:08 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to grow potatoes and need more potato growing tips, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

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0:00 My Potato Planting Secrets
1:11 Potato Growing Tip #1
3:54 Potato Growing Tip #2
6:20 Potato Growing Tip #3
8:34 Potato Growing Tip #4
12:41 Potato Growing Tip #5
15:39 How To Plant Potatoes
16:45 Potato Growing Tip #6
19:48 Potato Growing Tip #7
22:08 Adventures With Dale

[chefsharvestfarm]

I just planted 100 lbs of Yukon Golds. And I've had good experience with them in a No Till system without hilling in the past. But I did a little more research this year before I planted and I learned that like tomatoes there are determinant and indeterminant potatoes. And indeterminant benefit from hilling. But determinant do not. They just spread out. Yukon Golds are determinant which is probably why I've had good success with no hilling. Just thought I'd share what I recently learned! Thanks for great content!

[virginian]

At the beginning of January I planted 4 potato eyes in a 20 gallon grown bag in my house and placed it near a South facing window. During the planting I mixed in 10-10-10 granular fertilizer and bonemeal. Today it is over 4' tall and I have it trellising up a tripod. I didn't know they could get that tall.

[rainneday]

Thank you for this!! I’m just so glad you live in NC too. 😆 I can’t live with out your channel or should I say my garden can’t 🤣😂. Love your channel it’s super helpful and very detailed and informative. 😊

[brousd]

Do you have holes in your containers so they dont hold water?

[ShirleyFieber]

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?!

[EducatedSkeptic]

LOVE your guidance ... though I'll confess, here in Maine, I planted MY red potatoes last fall - the ones that were smaller than golf balls when I harvested, just went back into the ground. Learned this indirectly by apparently not paying attention to those that were the size of grapes when I harvested, which the next year produced the BIGGEST and MOST PRODUCTIVE plants in my garden! The biggest of them, this year, was 8 inches long and weighed over a pound and a half! Of course, I'm planting them in virtually 100% compost. So, we're coordinated there already. We also only plant an area about comparable to your combined "bag beds" - an area 4X4 feet - and I get 25-50 lbs. of great, creamy red potatoes, enough to last us for four to six months! (So, even though we live in Maine, we're not big potato eaters! 😂 )

GREAT that you acknowledge that some grocery-store potatoes have been sprayed to prevent sprouting. I made that mistake, too, once ... and in the fall, they hadn't changed from when I buried them in April! So now, when I do need "seed potatoes, " I get them at the local farm supply.

We do grow OUR potatoes in essentially pure compost, and in raised beds (which drain well) - because when we planted them ONE year in an open area in the "pumpkin patch" (i.e., all our vining winter squash), we were finding them growing in all sorts of unexpected places for years to come - from the progeny we missed harvesting, some of which were likely no bigger than your thumbnail. But in a compost from horse manure and pine shavings, they grew like weeds! And for mulch, as you suggested, we use lawn clippings .... bedding them down 2-4" thick (after packing). This has proven VERY effective in suppressing weeds and retaining moisture.

Consider that naturally in the wild, potatoes DO grow in the Andes, often above 10, 000 feet elevation, where "winter" frosts are not uncommon. (The seasons there are more "wet" vs. "dry.") Some of the best potatoes I've ever eaten I bought from street vendors when I lived in Ecuador for four months in 2003. BUT consider, too, that North Carolina winters are like some of OUR summers here in Maine! LOL! So down where you are, you MIGHT try to experiment some time - plant them in October or November and see what happens.

Thanks again for all your wonderful videos!

[mattpeacock]

Here in Gulf Coastal texas I plant potatoes on Valentine's day, harvest mid-may, works everytime.

[retheisen]

I love that you do pre-production work in pre-production. There is a script. The cinematography takes natural lighting into account. There is an introduction and a conclusion. The editor gardener doesn't have to retcon the stuff he forgot to film. Production value doesn't need to be loud music and bright colors. Thank you!

[steveboyer]

My understanding is that hilling vs. not hilling depends on whether the potato variety is determinate or non-determinate. Don't hill determinate, do hill non-determinate as they will produce potatoes at multiple levels.

[vishveshmankad]

I'm all the way in Melbourne Australia .Your videoes are more informative than any other tv channels and garden Gurus .Wonderful work .Your presentation is so clear so lucid .Thank you

[Nik.No.K]

Conventional potatoes never chit for me but organic work great. It’s crazy that they sell a little bag of seed potatoes for $4 and there’s just 4 lousy little potatoes in it but I’ve seen it at the store as well. You can get a 3lb bag of organic potatoes for like 5 bucks at the very same store

[katrinagarland]

I learn sooo much every time I watch your channel. Thank you!

[BeeHappy]

Such perfect timing! I was about to go outside and plant potatoes and this video popped up😁So informative! You answered every question I had, even though I’ve been growing potatoes for a couple years now, I still learned something new. Thank you for taking your time to share your wisdom.

Another thing, I sometimes have to use subtitles, but not on your videos because you speak so clearly👌

[landreaandrews]

Wish I would've seen this video 3 weeks ago. I have to revise my 9 bags of potatoes I planted. I planted mine near the bottom of the bag but after seeing this video, it makes so much sense to add more dirt at the bottom and plant the potatoes closer to the top of the bag. I'm in zone 6a and I don't think there is any growth going on yet (it was just snowing last week). Thanks for this video.

[caroldragon]

i really wanted to plant yukon golds this year and couldn't find a any in the grocery store so I gave in and went to a garden supply. Surprise! Their yukon gold seed potatoes were beautiful and the same price per pound as supermarket potato prices. They were mature size and had multiple sprouted eyes. They are now flourishing in their tubs. By the way, one of the best ways I've found for protection from bugs is tulle. Since potatoes don't require pollination, tulle can be left on them the whole growing season. Result - zero bugs

[thatonegirl]

Awww I love Dale so much!
Thanks for the video on potatoes too!

[vivianh]

I love growing potatoes in food grade plastic buckets with handles. I just drill holes in bottom for drainage & sit the buckets on edge of metal or wood boards, so drain out away from the buckets. I have a big concrete patio I don’t use, so perfect for my container growing. I totally agree with planting potatoes closer to top of bucket too & add 6” on top like you do & add mulch later. Love the info you provide!! Thanks for all you do!!

[derwynmdockenjr]

This is the hidden gem of gardening youtube channels. Sooo much bang on specific info that I have never seen on other gardening channels and believe me I watch a LOT of gardening youtubers! I have NO idea why all these vids dont have over a million views.

[Sunnydaypicnic]

‘A potato is a potato’…
I am surprised you’re not passionate about growing lots of varieties of potatoes like you are about figs and tomatoes. It’s really not that expensive and you can support some cool organic seed potato growers too. (Like Wood Prairie Farms) plus try amazing varieties you could never find in a store!