Easiest way to grow potatoes #homestead #garden #potatoes #selfsufficiency

Just so others know, you do not need to plant entire potatoes. Leave them to begin sprouting in your kitchen, then cut them into pieces, where each part has at least one eye growing. Then plant each part separately.

How do you avoid and or deal with roley poleys?

This is your same method for the sun, chokes right?

but isn't using growbags making the grow rate lower (if the grow bag are filled with hay(straw) then maybe but i saw a video of a man who made comparison and turned out that if you plant them in soil you will get more than grow bags

Those chickens are itching to get out and help garden. Now that I'm planting, my poor girls can't free range anymore. They did a great job of working things up and eating bugs.

Based on this setup it's pretty clear he does not have a lot of pests

What about Florida sandy Soil ?

Try to use wood chip .almost all straw and hay has herbicide and caused a lot of probs for me

Im trying grass clippings but they havent popped up yet

Bullshit, you ain't getting a years worth of potatoes in that small area. Lol

I love my cuttlefish tool too. It's the best for me.

It does not look like a lot of potatoes. We plant about 200 for 2 adults, but yes it is fun and easy :-)

How deep. Balls deep

How do you keep the squirrels from digging it all up?

Oh no

Wouldn't happen to have any tips on Dragon fruit plants, would ya?

Thank you for teaching my dude 😊

I plant potatoes a lot deeper than that. Do you really get good yields with shallow planting or do you add soil as they grow?

"Atleast 6 inches thick is ideal"

Thats what she said 😂

The hat and sandals!! Nice farming…

6 inches of mulch? That's HUGE.😮

Ha 10 min = 1 year love it thanks bud

Using those purple taters huh? Too sweet.

The Ruth Stout method FYI.

We are going to try to grow potato around the around the outside of our bioreactor inspired compost piles.

That way, we wouldn't have to dig much. Just open them up and get the potatoes. The center of the compst should then be ready to us for the fall

You hear that ladies. 6” thick Is ideal!

What if the mulch has a great personality though

Bros living the country life in the suburbs

So informative mate love your videos man keep the real world advice coming, kids need to be learning this not because its so cool but because they will learn how to really live life, not just buying a microwave meal! Well done man

Did you plant on the north side of the fence. In the shade. Just curious.

Serious question here. You don't cut the potatoes into multiple pieces and plant each chunk? So the potatoes you are planting are just growing another single potato? Is it because you only eat so many and you just plamt the ones that weren't used before they rotted away? So you basically always have a pretty much set amount each harvest?

I have the time to grow potatoes, I’m just physically disabled and live in an apartment

Ive have used this method. I cut my potatoes though. I let them dry a few days then set them on top of ofnrhe dirt and covered with a thick layer of hay. It worked.

Year's supply? Well if you eat potatoes a couple of times per year then maybe 😁

So the mulch needs to be 6 inches thick... But how long?

Funny that I run into this video literally after digging a potato growing out of my compost and replanting it somewhere else.
Lil guy was growing from a 2inch long 1/16 inch thick peeling up through darn near 8 inches😂

6 inches is the trick

I never grew potatoes in wood chips before do you think natural cedar mulch that I made would be acceptable?

Yep! I've thrown a couple of rotting potatoes in the garden before for fertilizer. They survived and made months worth of food. Will never do it again, I've never digged or eatin that mich potatoes. And the crappy oart about it, my household doesn't eat or cook it either. 😂😂

Plant'd 50# Russets in leaf mould, pine needles, composted grass & wood shaving = today...!

Thats what I do with garlic 😅

I find potatoes awesome to plant it hard soil that looks poor but once the spuds work they’re magic they break up the dirt awesome ready for you to plant other crops next year with only a lil manure or fertiliser

Does mulch have poison chemicals soaked into it?

Also the low density of the mulch allows the potatoes space to grow more than a soil with a high bulk density

This guys is literally just playing Minecraft

But won't the worms and bugs eat at the potatoes?

It’s hard to be bad at growing potatoes because they will grow regardless if you want them to

What climates does this work in, and can I do this without outdoor space?

You can cut the potato in subsections if it has enough sprouting points.

For a young man you are very knowledgeable and resourceful. I truly appreciate your channel. I would think about your classes but I am to damn old to participate. But still like watching and learning. Have fun learning everyone !!! ❤😊✌️