How many Pounds of Potatoes can you grow in 40 sq feet with NO HILLING and NO FERTILIZING?
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:47 Burying Potatoes
01:56 The Varieties of Potatoes I Planted
03:49 20 Days After Planting
04:45 28 Days After Planting
05:06 39 Days After Planting
06:03 42 Days After Planting
06:47 56 Days After Planting
07:16 70 Days After Planting
07:38 96 Days After Planting
08:35 125 Days After Planting
09:38 Harvesting Potatoes
13:58 Adding Final Harvest to Crates
15:20 Weighing Final Harvest
16:29 Slicing Open Blue Potatoes
17:12 Final Harvest Info Per Square Foot
17:40 Was the Experiment a Success?
18:55 Was the Experiment Worth Doing?
19:37 Final Thoughts and Announcements
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:47 Burying Potatoes
01:56 The Varieties of Potatoes I Planted
03:49 20 Days After Planting
04:45 28 Days After Planting
05:06 39 Days After Planting
06:03 42 Days After Planting
06:47 56 Days After Planting
07:16 70 Days After Planting
07:38 96 Days After Planting
08:35 125 Days After Planting
09:38 Harvesting Potatoes
13:58 Adding Final Harvest to Crates
15:20 Weighing Final Harvest
16:29 Slicing Open Blue Potatoes
17:12 Final Harvest Info Per Square Foot
17:40 Was the Experiment a Success?
18:55 Was the Experiment Worth Doing?
19:37 Final Thoughts and Announcements
Thanks for the kind words and support 😁🐕❤
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Thank you for a great video showing your lazy way that you grew taters this year .💓
This was a nice harvest experiment, thank you James. I'll add to this a bit, as determinate potatoes have a shorter harvest wiindow, and grow a single layered group of potatoes, then they're done. Indeterminate ones will continue forming new bunches in new layers the higher it grows.
A nice tip for low cost large potato yield, is getting a large vertical container like a standard plastic wheeled trash bin.
~Cut a few small holes around the sides close to the bottom to allow water drainage. Potatoes can rot quite easily if they sit in heavily moist soil for too long.
~Lay a couple inches of soil on the bottom of the bin before placing 2 Indeterminate potatoes on oposite sides on top of the soil.
~Layer on a few more inches of soil over those potatoes before adding 2 more Indeterminate potoes on oposite sides of eachother, this time in a different direction making a sort of cross shape out of the 4 potatoes between the 2 layers.
~Layer on a couple more inches of soil then water it in.
Check on them every so often to make sure the newly formed potatoes are never exposed directly to sunlight when they get near the surface. When they do, add a couple more inches of soil on top. Those 4 potatoes will make tons of high yeild layers throughout the bin, until either the foiliage/flowering portion of the plant begins dying off, or when the soil reaches the top of the bin.
If you use a wheeled bin, you can simply tip over the bin to easily pull all of your harvest safely out without harming them. Just make sure not to overwater them, and occasionally add your preferred source of fertilizer or compost to keep them well fed regularly. If you have trouble providing an area with enough daylight to reach into the bin during the early growth stages, you could cut the bin in half horizontally to grow only within the bottom part, then add the top part back on when the foliage grows tall enough.
A balanced 5-5-5 fertilizer or compost should offer more than enough Nitrogen for the little foliage growth that's needed, but potatoes do benefit from a bit more potassium and phosphorous for tuber and root development, from mixes like 2-3-3 or 5-10-10. If you use too much nitrogen, you can actually starve out the other nutrients they rely on more, or even overstimulate foliage growth priority over tuber growth.
If you have extra time on your hands to tend to your crops, your plants can also benefit from Microdosing. Essentially if you follow fertilizer instructions like "Add x amount every week", you could cut that number in half, yet fertilize twice a week, or divide it even further to provide a constant stream of readily available new nutrients for your plants. Just try to avoid exceeding the total recommended amount for their recommended time frame, like if it says "1 cup every 2 weeks" you shouldn't end up using 2 cups within 2 weeks if you are microdosing unless you are familiar with the limitations of the plants you are working with and know they could handle more than recommended. Start small, and work your way up.
I have heavy clay soil and certainly can't dig out potatoes with my hands as you do. I'm getting older so this past season I used grow bags for potatoes and they were significantly easier to harvest, just dump the bag over onto a big square of plastic.
Usually, the way I look at Return Harvest on Seed Potato, I like to harvest 7 times the weight of the seed potato. That's a decent harvest. 10 times the return is Awesome!
Thank you!! I love your videos…I joined but I never get a newsletter 😢 ❤❤❤❤❤for Tuck…❤❤❤❤
I love all the digging. There is nothing like it. 👍🏼😀💚
looks good james! do you ever try planting short season potatoes in mid to late summer to try and squeeze out another harvest just before winter? i put some in the ground at the start of last september and am hoping to see what i can get out of them by the end of november.
Everything looks good James
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Would this work for sweet potatoes?
If you did 'hill' them, how many pounds would you have? (I don't know anything about this)
Those are store potato ,,lol
if you did not bury them then they will have roots on them lol
I think I have about half your results and half more ideal this go. I did hill up, but some of the potato plants still grew very tall and flopped over. There's only so much hilling I can do. Fun to see a video from you again! 😊 ❤❤Tuck-ee❤❤
Thanks for this video James. My potatoes didn't do very well this year and it was the first time I grew them. So I'm going to use these tips to prepare for next spring. I'm really excited to give it another shot. I was wondering if you could do a video about how to plant an overwinter garlic? I live in zone 6B but I know in Jersey it also gets to be cold in the winter and I'm really stressing about not doing it correctly LOL
I’m going to go back and look but I would really like to know your soil composition. You dug your potatoes by hand. I have to dig mine.
You have such great videos!
That dirt in the potato bed is amazing. The one that went bad was most likely the seed potato. Congrats James thanks for sharing. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. I sure do miss Tuck, boy I was blessed to of watched him with you and the garden.
I plant potatoes very lazily. I use those giant Costco plastic bins. I bury them as far down as I can and they grow up through about 18 inches of soil. Harvesting potatoes is my favorite thing to do in the garden
James, I planted a lot of sprouted potatoes and after about 100 days of flowers on all the beautiful
green plants (about 3 feet tall, all flowers) I waited till the flowers died, and they looked wilty (the vines)
and when I dug up my potatoes they were small like 1 inch. all of them. what did I do wrong????
Love when you experiment different techniques ♥♥♥♥♥♥
As an older person who doesn't have a lot of energy or flexibility anymore but still wants to grow some food, I really appreciate studies like this that show the kind of results you can expect to get with minimal effort.
That is also how we grow Potatoes, except that our soil is quite sandy and not nearly as light and fluffy as yours. 😁😍😍
Also we weigh them in a 5 gallon bucket on a hanging scale. 🙂
Love your videos! Question… why don’t you talk about the difference between determinate and indeterminate potatoes? Because hilling is only effective on determinate varieties, right? As far as I know, Yukon gold are determinate so only grow on one level, not up the stem.
…Also our understanding is that determinant varieties, like Yukon Gold, do not increase yield with Hillingdon anyway. 😉
Awesome haul! When did you stop watering before harvesting?
Hi James could tell me how dose the soil you make last I’m looking forward to trying it
TFS! Do you prune potatoe plants? That soil though!! Omg!
Another beautifully put together video. I appreciate that you didn't use so much fertiliser like some other channels. This natural approach is so wholesome. Well done.
owhh lots of potatoes, I never tried the purple potatoes, something new to try, that's wonderful collab with Hollis and Nancy.
If you poured your powdered fertilizer in an old fashioned flour sifter, you would have an easy way to spread your fertilizer evenly without using your hands…it's fun too 🙂
My grandkids love digging them up.
How do you plan on storing them? It is something I struggle with. I don't have a root cellar or any cool area to put them in early fall when it is still warm outside.