In this video, I share my top gardening tips for growing more potatoes than ever before! Every gardener should grow potatoes, because they’re easy to grow and store for many months! However, there are a few things you need to know first. These 5 simple tips will guarantee you more potatoes in your garden!
This is a true complete guide on growing potatoes. We discuss when to plant potatoes, what types of potatoes to plant, how deep to plant them, how to fertilize them and when and how to harvest potatoes!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Growing Potato Plants
1:20 Tip #1: When To Plant Potatoes
2:40 Tip #2: Growing Potatoes In Containers
6:35 Tip #3: Seed Potatoes & Planting Potato Pieces
9:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing & Planting Potatoes
12:35 Tip #5: Mulching And Watering
14:35 Fertilizing Potatoes Schedule
17:16 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Intro To Growing Potato Plants
1:20 Tip #1: When To Plant Potatoes
2:40 Tip #2: Growing Potatoes In Containers
6:35 Tip #3: Seed Potatoes & Planting Potato Pieces
9:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing & Planting Potatoes
12:35 Tip #5: Mulching And Watering
14:35 Fertilizing Potatoes Schedule
17:16 Adventures With Dale
I like that phrase "I'll never do it again" and it isn't negative either, some stuff you grow doesn't work out or maybe you did grow something successfully but you ended up having too much, it's you and the garden, nobody else. So far 2 things I'll won't do again is Okra and planting to many tomato plants.
Thanks for the potato information ✨
I have a very small backyard and only do container gardening. This year, I made my own potting mix with added amendments and filled 35 grow bags. I have a very large outdoor pergola patio that I put the grow bags on. I use heavy duty plant saucers underneath the grow bags to water them, since the bags like to wick water from the bottom. It also catches fertilized water, which the bag reuses. This is my first time growing potatoes. I had a bag of red potatoes from the grocery store I forgot about, and they had sprouted really well in the bag without rotting. I used 2, 10 gallon growbags, filled the grow bag with about 4 inches of potting mix, put 3 small sprouted potatoes in each bag sprout side up and covered them with about 6 inches of potting mix. I will hill the sprouts when they grow taller. Yesterday, 8 days later, 1 sprout came up. Today, 9 days later, 5 more sprouts breached the surface. I am so excited! The best liquid fertilizer I've found that conditions the soil and has very beneficial NPK is Medina HastaGro Plant Food. I'm growing dwarf tomato plants this year, 6 varieties, they are 9 weeks old, are tall, strong and loaded with flowers and little tomatoes from using the HastaGro. My other veggies are doing extremely well also. My sister is also using HastaGro, and her flowers and veggies love it. I buy HastaGro locally, but it can be purchased on Amazon.
Ive had bad luck planting potatoes. Several years of trying they just dont want to give me but 2 or 3 mini potatoes.
Great information brother 👍. I love it
I always hit the like button at the start of your video because i know I'm going to like it!
I lost a bunch of kennebecs because of rot. Everything else is just fine tho. It’s really weird
Dale is like hurry up dad I'm bored.😂 thanks again for another great video ❤
been having a hard time with potatoes scab for the past 10 years tried several methods to control it that failed this looks like a good alternative to try
Thank you so much for your wonderful, informative potato video! I will definitely try growing them in a fabric bag this time instead in a raised bed. Good idea to grow potatoes by themselves in a container. It is easy to move the fabric bags or containers around to sunny locations. Can’t wait to have a good harvest!
I'm all in 💯% …. I've shied away from potatoes solely because I hate digging them up and have been considering grow bags, but now I'm convinced. I notice the bags come in black, tan, & white. Did you choose black for a particular reason? Thanks for another clear and concise instructional video!
Iv read that hilling is a myth. Does not grow more.
The potatoes that I get a the store always sprout. 🤔
Awe Dale is so cute!
YES… You can grow store bought potatoes from the grocery store. The way to GROW them is, to let the store potatoes start chitting BEFORE planting THEM. I have grow store potatoes before. It is true that they do stay most if NOT all of them with them so they take longer to sprout. Alot of mine sprout, especially the one's I get from Aldi.
Potatoes was one of the first things that started my garden!!! Grow what you eat. Eat what you grow!!! Soooo many ways to grow – in ground, raised beds, grow bags, plastic pots, hay bales, in your cabinet…. Yes those ones you forgot you had!!! Happy growing everyone.
Another thing is there r determinate and indeterminate varieties of potatoes too. Only the indeterminate varieties should be hilled. Example, is Yukon gold, they r determinate and only yield on one layer. Hilling these can cause pink stem rot. I found out this the hard way. Lost most of my Yukons one year cause I hilled them up. Stems got slimy, pinkish and stinky and fell off. Yuck.
Commercial growers prefer planting small whole potatoes to prevent rot issues. Thats y u rarely see small ones available at feed or hardware stores cause they're using the whole ones..
What if the sprouts are really long?..still plant below soil? I have some surprisingly long sprouts…5-6-7 inches from last year's lot.
You don't just pick up n dump them.. but it is easier
Great videos man! You may want to look into AgroThrive liquid organic fertilizer. Fish hydrolysate based instead of emulsion, so more nutrients, and its fermented so all the nutrients are much more available than other organic fertilizers since the fermentation breaks the nutrients down ahead of time. I started using it this year and my plants are exploding. Keep up the great work!
Hello Millenial Gardener! I just found your channel today. I have been trying to find someone with gardening videos that is close to my area. I am on the northeast coast of NC. I see so many videos that I want to watch already. Thank you!❤
Even though I'm not a raised bed or container grower, I appreciate any video that will get people growing food! There are so many different ways to grow that makes gardening such an amazing hobby. Very nice video!
Natural fertilizer is better 👎🏼
I love your dog. Is he a Plott Hound?
Potatoes are always grown in my garden since they are so easy to grow and a staple on my table for my family. Love ur videos 💜🤟🏽
Buy organic potatoes at store . Not sprayed
I’m glad I’m not the only one with a furry lawn potato 😂
Never had a problem growing my potatoes in the ground. I have been blessed for the past 20 yesrs.
I harvested my first ever home grown potatoes. The amount and size was pathetic but I think I know what the problems were and what to do better next time. I'm going to save them for planting when October hits. I don't get snow in SoCal but it does get cold and wet so watering is won't be an issue.
Love your puppy!!!!
too late 😭. it went from lovely low 70's to the 90's and my potatoes are hating it. so much for a cool season crop😔
Thanks for a great summary! Containers are definitely the way to go here in California. If we get an occasional hot day, I can drag the containers into the shade for mid-day respite!. One point you missed (I learned this just last year), similar to tomatoes- there are indeterminate and determinate potatoes! The determinate types will make potatoes at a single level in the soil. The indeterminates will make a layer of potatoes, and if you hill them up again, they will make another layer! I'm not sure how many layers they will make, that probably depends on the variety. We gardeners learn something every day, don't we! Have a great springtime.
Some of mine are trucking along great. Some not so much, may have to check to see if they got too wet. Planted a little later maybe okay. Great video as normal. Still going to try the Japanese ones from whole foods.