I appreciate the straight forward way you convey the information in the video. No "top 10" clickbait, just a simple, straight forward guide. Very helpful video! We are starting our first potato bed this year, and for a new gardener, i find this video format most helpful.

@TheHowDoGardener

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you found it helpful. Home grown potatoes are the best. Thanks for subscribing, and Happy Gardening.

@eliasmwansasu4080

Жыл бұрын

Good morning the information has really helped

@TheHowDoGardener

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Hope you have a good harvest. Happy Gardening!

Im watching from Botswana, Africa thanks for sharing this information

@TheHowDoGardener

2 ай бұрын

Glad you found it helpful.

Great video! Thanks so much.

@TheHowDoGardener

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Glad it was helpful. Happy gardening!

Been chain watching potato growing utube today by different people. So glad I found this one. So good throughout. So so wish someone before this explained how new potatoes grow from stem upwards, so now I know it’s not only to prevent green potatoes. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you found it helpful. Best of luck with your potato harvest this year. Happy Gardening!

@Eco700

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener Thank you.

Awesome tips, thank you!

@TheHowDoGardener

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful.

Wow! Excellent and very concise video!!! Thank you!! We have lots of land and I hope to grow all kinds of potatoes!! Thank you so much!!!!!

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Happy Gardening!

I enjoyed the presentation, I'm now transformed

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video. Happy Gardening!

Great video! My wife and I store potatoes in our root cellar for almost ten months. It drops to plus 1C (34F) in the dead of winter, rising to about plus 10C (50F) in the late spring. As it warms up the potatoes start to sprout but we just rub those off and get several more months of storage. I know everyone warns that root vegetables should never be washed before storage, and we followed this advice for years, but this is a myth. We started experimenting some years ago, first by lightly washing, then by vigorously washing, and these days we use our power washer (held some distance away so as to not damage the skins). Our root vegetables are thoroughly washed and (most importantly) carefully dried in the sun before being loaded into Rubbermaid laundry baskets and stored in the root cellar. I know, pressure washing sounds crazy, but it works. My wife likes her prewashed vegetables, and storage life has not been compromised in any way.

@TheHowDoGardener

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video. I'm envious of your root cellar. No such thing here in Central Texas. Nothing but solid limestone. I think by fully drying your potatoes in the sun, you've solved the problem of washing potatoes. Well done. Happy Gardening!

Very informative Planning on starting commercial potato planting Hopefully I will be getting a good yield, looking forward to more of this kind of videos

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Be sure to check with your local Cooperative Extension Service as they will often take the type of information I provide and expand on the commercial production aspects. Let me know how your first harvest goes. www.howdogardener.com/439-2/state-cooperative-extension-offices

you are an excellent instructor. you could be on radio with your voice...

@TheHowDoGardener

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken. I appreciate your feedback. Happy gardening!

Awesome video

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad you found it helpful. Happy Gardening!

I like your video, very informative, thanks for sharing 👍

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Happy Gardening!

Awesome

@TheHowDoGardener

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Excellent video!!! Thanks for posting… I just subscribed.. 😊

@TheHowDoGardener

11 ай бұрын

So glad you liked it, and thanks for subscribing. I should have a new video out in the next week or so, Grow your own Citrus, in which I have to battle The Squirrel Cartel once again. Happy squirrel-free gardening!

@cindyjean3208

11 ай бұрын

How can you differentiate between blight and too much heat/ not enough water??? This is my first potato garden really big…( in my opinion) maybe I bit off more than I can chew? It’s 10’x 25’… planted mid April… I live in Nebraska panhandle

@TheHowDoGardener

11 ай бұрын

If you planted them in mid-April, they may be getting close to harvest time. Usually around 90-120 days. They're ready to harvest when the tops die back. I'd stick my hand in near one of the plants and see if you can feel a potato. With that size bed, you could harvest a few for dinner. Hope this helps.

I've been a hobby gardener for MANY years and I learned why my potatoes were never successful. Your illustration of how a potato grows is invaluable! I didn't know that the potato grows between the seed potato and the top of the soil! That is so important to know. I just thought we added soil to give the potatoes more room. Not to give it a place to grow. Thank you so so much! Okay yeah I'm excited about potatoes, just proves I'm getting old huh?

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Hope your potatoes thrive this season. Happy Gardening!

@johnsheetz6639

11 ай бұрын

I'm here too miss Sherry!😁 I got a bird feeder now! I'm third-stage old now I'm kind of enjoying it! What cross me over is not liking any new music on the radio, the fact I said radio tells you! 🤣

Thank you. I needed this basic but insightful information. I had so many questions as a beginner planter - still do but this definitely helps.

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you found it helpful. Enjoy your potatoes and Happy Gardening!

@Sagatta32

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener Thanks. #1 Benefits with having 'beds'? #2 Thoughts on planting on top of the ground simply by covering with compost and then dried grass/straw? I have seen some quite recent

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

The most important factor, whether in a raised bed or any other method is to have loose friable soil. Even if you're planting in poor soil in the ground, dig a furrow with the soil piled up between furrows, and just cover the potato plants as they grow.

@Sagatta32

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am doing the hard work of digging a portion of our yard. It is tough but I am excited and determined. I realize I am a bit late with sowing (and the favorites are sold out) but that won't have me stopped. I am also going to try to grow squash, probably not too close to the potatoes as they are said to eventually steal space. I live in Sweden and now is the beginning of our warm season. Either way it will be a learning experience! Next season I will be more prepared and I always picture about how it can be in my mind!

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good plan. You will always have both successes and failures in your garden. Learn from them both for next season and enjoy. Happy Gardening!

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A recent water use efficiency study revealed how different treatments affected water use efficiency during the growing season of a potato crop. The research results showed the superiority of SWRT subsurface membranes that reached 3.46kg m-3 compared to plant fertilizer, animal manure and comparison treatments that gave efficiency of 2.96, 2.66 and 2.34 kg m-3 respectively. The reason for the superiority of the SWRT treatment is attributed to the membranes that maintain optimum moisture content close to field capacity in the root zone and the consumption of water is minimal and yet produces a high yield.

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info.

I live in the tropics can i get some tips to ensure my potatoes do great

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Potato plants themselves will grow well. But, Tuber growth is limited in temperatures above 30°C (86°F). Optimum yields are obtained when daily temperatures are in the 18 to 20°C (64 to 68°F) range.

Do you have video of zero tillage potato cultivation 🙏

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

Don't have video specific to that. But, as long as they are deep enough, well drained and the soil is fairly loose, containers can be used to grow potatoes in.

Hi im.getting ready to start some.seed potatoes on pots. What should I add to the soil to help feed them? Thank.you

@TheHowDoGardener

4 жыл бұрын

If you have some compost available you can mix that into the soil. A good ORGANIC fertilizer can also be mixed in to the soil. I really like Jobe's Organics. I go into detail about how plants, soil, & fertilizer interact in one of my videos. Otherwise, as long as the soil in the pots is of decent quality and has good drainage, they'll probably do just fine without amending the soil. Take care and Happy Gardening!

@thesnoozebutton2568

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener thank you so very much!!

That's funny! I thought that I commented on another video! Sorry about that!

@TheHowDoGardener

5 жыл бұрын

No worries

Does it matter when the stem is covered? Can these potatoes be planted 12-15 inches deep to begin with?

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

I usually try to cover the stem as it grows up out of the soil leaving a couple inches uncovered. You could get away with planting them that deep if you were growing in VERY loose soil, such as Mel's Mix used in Square Foot Gardening. Otherwise probably not. Happy Gardening!

@theurzamachine

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener Unfortunately my backyard soil is hard clay but I will fully till the garden down to maybe 14 inches to loosen things up. I've done it once already and added a whole lot of leaves into the soil so hopefully it will temporarily work while the leaves slowly decay. I'm testing to see if I can grow at least 1 pound / sq ft using clay soil. I don't mind the manual labor.

Need notes for this lesson

You can dig a big hole about 5 to 6 feet deep about 4 feet wide. Line it with about 12 inches of straw and pile in your potatoes then cover with a bout 12 to 18 inches of straw then cover back with dirt to top hole off. You can dig potatoes out until next growing season. They'll last all winter long. Just be careful not to handle too roughly as bruising can cause rotting.

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

That is a great way to make a small scale root cellar. Good idea. Just have to be warry of standing water and digging pests. Unfortunately, here in Central Texas, I hit solid limestone about 3 inches down so it would be a no go for me. Happy Gardening!

@skinnyWHITEgoyim

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener I'm in East Central Kentucky so I have a lot of clay. It makes good underground storage as clay doesn't wick water very much.

Hi what npk do potatoes like ?

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

As a rule of thumb, potato plants have greater needs in Nitrogen (N-P-K 34-0-0) during the first two months (when the foliar part of the plant develops rapidly). From the second month until two weeks before harvest, the plants need more potassium (12-12-17 or 14-7-21) in order to create well shaped potatoes.

How LATE can I plant potatoes? Thank.

@larryspiller6633

2 жыл бұрын

I planted some July 1st, Chicago area. Planted in cut down old plastic garbage cans and 5 gallon buckets. So far so good it seems. I broke all the conventional rules just because. Planted red and russet, store bought. Hilled them excessively. 10 inches. Figured I'd see what happened. Just an experiment to learn, the hard way. Dirt, potatoes and containers were all on hand. I'll see what happens. Peace.

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

It really depends on where you live as to how late you can plant potatoes. You can search with your State Cooperative Extension to find the most accurate dates. Happy Gardening!

Hmm.. MIgardener said potato don't grow on stem, they only grow on root zone.. this is what i also found is right, so hill soil onto stem like crazy won't produce more potato.. around 15cm high in mount or plant potato 15cm below the soil level is sufficient.

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

Here is a link to the Texas A&M Agricultural Department discussing growing potatoes. You will see an illustration similar to mine and showing potatoes growing on the stem under the soil. That's where mine grow. agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/library/gardening/irish-potatoes/

Been gardening for 20 plus years....first time growing taters.... they're going nuts

@TheHowDoGardener

3 жыл бұрын

That's great! Home grown potatoes are the best. Happy Gardening!

@tttarms1970

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener thank you sir. Looking forward to a great summer yield.

Where is the ebook?

@TheHowDoGardener

2 жыл бұрын

Here's a link to it on Amazon. Happy Gardening! The How Do Gardener Potato Planting Guide: A complete guide to planting and growing potatoes for each state (How Do Gardener Planting Guides Book 1) www.amazon.com/dp/B07MYM5C3C/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_gl_2WEGQQT3C8VPXC9AVH9N

Hi Rick. Thanks for your tutorials. As usual, you get straight into the meat unlike the majority of KZreadrs, that waffle for days on end. I have always seen and heard, that you add soil constantly as the potatoes grow. The link I am sharing, well, before I make a call, I trust that your followers will trust your judgment better than mine. Thank you, good man, for sharing your knowledge with the world. Kind regards. Graham from South Africa. Here is the link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYyfx9JtfK2qoJc.html

@TheHowDoGardener

Жыл бұрын

Glad you find my tutorials helpful, and thank you for the kind words. Look forward to checking out your link. Best wishes for a bountiful potato harvest.

@mahargleopenaws

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Rick. Please don't forget to reply. Have a lovely weekend. Graham

@TheHowDoGardener

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Graham. Hope you have a good weekend too.

@mahargleopenaws

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHowDoGardener thanks. And now the entire group of individuals await your opinion.....

@mahargleopenaws

Жыл бұрын

And we wait.....

How to get your guide to grow patotoes

@TheHowDoGardener

6 ай бұрын

Here's the ebook on Amazon: The How Do Gardener Potato Planting Guide: A complete guide to planting and growing potatoes for each state (How Do Gardener Planting Guides Book 1) a.co/d/j4UuVhu

What happens if you wash them?

@TheHowDoGardener

Жыл бұрын

Good question. They may mold or rot. Better to just wash them right before cooking. Happy Gardening!