We did this in our garden this year; I didn't pull the plant, as they still had small potato buds at the roots; so I just pulled the large ones (red potatoes as big as my hand!!) and left the plants to put more energy into the small ones.

I may give this a try. I was going to try the stack-of-tires method but that requires adding straw and tires as they grow. Throwing them on the ground, covering with straw, and ignoring them is more my style.

@rickytorres9089

Жыл бұрын

Mine as well!!

I grew my own potatos this year.....when I harvested them it was like an Easter egg hunt.....I actually got some large ones too.

We did this in our garden and it worked! Thank you for the very awesome tip. Have a great day.

I did that years ago and 100% agree this is the way tp grow potatoes. My son grew up thinking you”pick” potatoes, not “dig” potatoes. Saves back breaking work. However, I laid down newspapers and then scattered potatoes and compost, adding mor straw as the green plants grew taller adding more straw as plants grew taller. The potatoes keep “adding onto the plants. So my picking potatoes than what his were. Sweet video. Well done

I did exactly this with a sweet potato. I had an organic sweet potato that begin sprouting, so I simply took it to the garden, put the whole potato on the ground and covered it with straw. The vines have gone nuts...we teepeed the vines, and they are over 9' tall and have filled the teepee completely. We won't harvest for a few more weeks, but I'm excited to see whatever potatoes are at the base.

@justaddwater674

6 жыл бұрын

Joyce Judd What growing zone are you in, and how was the harvest?

This is a great idea for sure. I will have to try this next year myself. I am about to harvest this year's potatoes in our gardens here in northeast Florida. I am envious of your method.

Grew my potatoes in large pots this year mainly for seeds for next year. I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.

I have been doing this for years and have never had a failed crop. You are doing a great job

I grow potatoes in deep mulch too! Just hay right on top of the existing lawn, weeds and all. I don't till, weed, hoe, fertilize or water. The hay smothers the weeds and grass and my potato plants grow into lush green beauties and give me bumper crops each year. I'm in a growing zone that enables me to grow 2 crops per year.

Thanks Simeon! Such a great idea. I'll be doing this with our crop next season to combat the excessive rain and poor drainage we have in our area. Although it has to be said that seeing a our field horse ploughed is nice sight to behold.

I didn't doubt it would work, but I'll admit I didn't think it would work that well. Thanks, Simeon!!

Good video by the way, after the harvest you should show people that don't know how you store them; what are the steps to keeping them longer, what temperature is good for storing them, thank you. Larry

How wonderful! I am ready to grow my own this way. .. can't wait for next year!

Took your technique and tried it. Very successful, ive been eating them for 3 weeks now. Only wish i had of planted 3 times as much. Thanks Sim!!

Very neat, someone else said this is effective for sweet "potatoes" vines as well if you do the work to let them entenches into the mulching.

Great idea! We're gonna give this a try next season!👍

Nifty! Next thing you know, you'll be harvesting potatoes already baked and fried!

@angrymarshmallow5819

5 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha so funny!

Really attracted to this idea, thanks for sharing. It will save lots of effort digging out, and will hopefully avoid disease like scab.

I watched you prepare that patch , turned out very nice.

Looks like you're really getting a great potato harvest :) I wish my potatoes grew that well.

I love low maintenance garden tips. I might just have to try this.

Thank You. will keep watching

I'm soooo gonna plant my potatoes this way this year I was just getting ready to plant pototes this weekend too 😀

Thanks for the tutorial video! Very interesting.

BEAUTIFULLY DONE, great info....

You've convinced me to grow potatoes this way!

I need to try this. Great.

Wow! Wish I lived near you! Fantastic!

Thanks so much for this. I will try this method

I think, originally, it was called the Ruth Stout method. What a gal that one was! I did this last season and will do it again this year. Super easy.

Nice potatoes 🥔 and ready to cook! Thank you for sharing your video I always look forward to seeing your videos 👍☝️👏🏡😍

Way to go, Simeon. Another successful venture in farming.

Awesome plan! Thanks!

Have done this before. Really worked.

That is amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Amazing, I will try it myself this year! Nena

Thank y'all. Very good video.

Amazing, I have to say I've never seen that method before.

Love this idea thanks for the tip

Great video!

My daughter wanted to do potatoes one year. I double dug the bed, trenched it out, planted them, and hilled them. We probably harvested 30% more than we planted. So, it wasn't particularly worthwhile. This looks way easier!

I agree mulch is way better than soil. Shouldn’t really even be mounding it there’s no point when you have thick mulch.

Very nice ! TY

I suppose when the potatoes stems are so fresh green even tearing them off is not a need. Just put the hand under the mulch, grab some big ones and small with mother stem let there. They have big chance to grow more.

Pretty cool idea, I only wish I had as much room as you do.

I will be doing it this way this year....

Great way to plant!!

Realy easy to extract them and realy clean too,

I'll try this.

I tried something similar but dug the potatoes in maybe 2 inches, only half grew that way next year I will just throw them right on the ground and cover like you did, I think either the ground was a bit to hard for them or to hot still "it was the area I had my pigs in last fall"

I was wondering if you have a video of how you store them , root cellar ? Bag or basket? Hmmm maybe the misses needs to start a channel following yours on what to do with after harvest, and how to store your meat freeze or canning. And maybe some recipes also,.js.lol

Hi Simeon , thank you for sharing great your videos. I am going to make the cold frame as you showed us! One thing came to my my mind how do you water this much potato plants. Thank again

That is awsome

Hello from LasVegas, NV. USA

What I uae to do was take a single bottom plow and plow out a row put the potatoes in the row cover with old wet hay/straw left over from winter. This way the potatoes were all in a straight line.

Love it!!!

I tried this this year. Unfortunately it was v dry so got lots of tiny potatoes. Now got leeks growing in the same patch so I can have leek and potato soup!

Great, love it.....

This is definitely not clickbait--this is reality! I've been growing potatoes like this for 8 years and it doesn't matter what variety of potato that you grow. You'll get far better production this way than doing the old-fashioned way of hilling

@ecocentrichomestead6783

7 жыл бұрын

I poke mine into the soil still, and use mower clippings to mulch. Enables them to be grown in bordered/raised beds much easier. Gonna try both just barely pressed in, covered in clippings and fall planting after seeing this video.

@jerrysnelling8665

7 жыл бұрын

Jotham--I discovered that if I don't harvest all the potatoes and leave some behind, they'll resprout and start growing again in the Spring. The last time I planted potatoes was 4 years ago and I get a good harvest every year. I just recover the bed with fresh straw every year

@ecocentrichomestead6783

7 жыл бұрын

Same here, I always have volunteer potato plants from tiny potatoes that were missed the year before. So I should be able to make sure there is a potato left in the spot I want on to grow and it grow for me in the spring. Thus eliminating the work of planting potatoes. (cause you can't count leaving a potato as "work")

i will try this with sweet potato

I tried this once, but didn't seem to work. The straw ended up mildewing, and slugs were a problem too. I'm at a new location, so I may give it another try.

Good appetit or bonne appetit! Sounds delicious.

very cool! weiter so!

cool

Question - next year will you put the seed potatoes under the straw that is there, or on top and add another layer of compost and straw - or will you put them in a totally different spot?

Did this technique this year. Will never do potatoes the old way.

Awesome

Nice !!!!

I did that this year. I got a good harvest for a 4x10 foot area. I ended up having to put mulch over the straw bc when I checked on a sickly baby potato it was green. I didn't want to risk the others being green. How much straw do you use? Also I had a weed problem

How do you store your potatoes for winter and spring use ?

And can I use the plant that`s pulled out as mulch in stead of grass?

I have a potato field like that but mine i filled with weeds of all kinds.

Getting ready to plant, how deep did you mulch? You mentioned deep, maybe 6-8 inches?

Does anyone see a problem with using slightly aged grass clippings as the material to mulch with? Would they be too hot?

can i please ask how close together you 'planted' the seed potatoes to begin with?

from the huge length of the potato's tendrils I'd guess that you've planted them to frequently. The potatoes' tendrils like to "feel" the air, otherwise it could get diseases

That's a serious "bonnebränna" :D

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!

Woww

I'm growing a huge pot with only one seed potato planted. It's mostly died back, but it's actually still putting on new growth along the bottom of the plant. I have never grown potatoes before, but I read that I should leave them there for about 2 weeks after the plant is fully dead. I'm kind of getting impatient and I was wondering if someone might have some advice. Also, great video. I'll surely have to try it this way some day.

@1975Jdonov

7 жыл бұрын

john papple When the potato plant dies back it is ready to harvest. If you got new growth then it could be your new potatoes are sprouting.

What time of year did you plant? Does the variety alter the time of year?

How do you combat potato beetles?

We grew potatoes this year at our farm on top of Lookout Mountain, Georgia with some, but not nearly as much mulch as you and were pleasantly surprised with the results. Definitely saving money to buy a wood chipper this fall. We have many local tree service companies who produce huge amounts of free wood chips, but they often contain unwanted material like poison ivy vines. Do you or your other viewers know a way to make these chips safe during and after composting? God bless, Mark Fowler

@julier1080

6 жыл бұрын

Poison ivy oil is pretty durable, if you are allergic it would be best to avoid, not sure if the heat of composting would destroy it. I remember going to Lookout mountain as a little kid! I loved the cool caves there with the fairytale scenes, it was so magical!

Oh yeah !! So much easier

How did you water a patch like that, sprinkler?

What kind of potato did you plant? Very informative video.

@TheRedneckprepper

7 жыл бұрын

looks like white maybe russet ?

Can you grow sweet potatoes in the same way?

Seems that when you do these harvest videos I have just eaten and it makes me hungry again! Those thin skinned potatoes just need to be washed and cooked some way with the skin on. No click bait here just another good lesson.

nice, now its cooking video time ?

I did a similar thing with my potatoes, but some of them got eaten by rats. Does anyone have a solution for that?

How do you harvest the potatoes, because you have planted them like trees in the woods...?!

Have real problems getting the potatoes to get enough heat and sun to grow enough during summer, live way further north. Need to talk to the old folks around here what kind of potatos and how they used to grow it before.

@simeonandalex

7 жыл бұрын

+Affra are you in Sweden? In northern Sweden they grow mandel potatoes. Amazing variety!

@Afraithe

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, in the far north. I just need to make some more research, only tried in a few buckets last year and they never really got anywhere during the short summer here, but I know old timers around here had their own potato fields, not big but enough to sustain themselves.

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Do you have any kind of rodents, mice, rats, gophers, it seems like planting under straw would be a perfect haven for them.

Well at 10 dollars a bale, at least in this area, for hay or straw that method is not practical.

@ecocentrichomestead6783

7 жыл бұрын

grass clippings. Collect from your neighbors.

@empanada401

6 жыл бұрын

Usually farms sell off old hay for cheap in the early spring.

Why do you need to eat the chicken there is loads of potatoes you can eat that chicken does not have to die you can still survive without taking a life and live to the next day it isn't survival.