I brake down the process of hilling the potatoes in this video and show what we grew in each of our raised garden beds in the front yard. There are many ways I’ve learned to “hill” the potatoes and harvest the best crop, but we tried this method this year. We’ll see how it goes! I hope it’s educational and fun!
May God Bless you real good!🙏🏼👍🏼
Healing the potatoes I’m going to talk about and show you kind of what’s going on here with our potato uh root vegetable raised garden bed we have uh ended up getting Yukon Gold I believe is the majority of the potatoes in this this garden bed Yukon Gold but we do
Have uh some of the little round potatoes I can’t remember what those are what those are even called I need to look back at it but the little round potatoes bacon potatoes and also um I finally found which is really weird I got to do some more research on this but
Uh sweet potatoes they were really hard to find there is no seed and and everything that I could find uh they’re a little different but I finally found some that were already growing and um what was really neat about the potatoes I didn’t understand this or
Know this either but the eyes we call them uh that come out of the little white stalks when they we think of potatoes getting old and those eyes you definitely don’t want to eat but uh or once it starts growing eyes it’s not really good to to eat it um far past that
But they can be poisonous but uh once they start growing eyes uh you can slice them as long as each Little slice of potato has one eye stick it up into the ground and bury it and cover it completely up but with the eye sticking up off of the sliced piece of
Potato and you get something like this it starts sprouting up so we have all these are yukon gold and little round butter potatoes I think whatever they’re called um um and you see some of them are taken better than others I had some more planted in here but they
Didn’t make it um but uh also it is best to get what they call seed potato which is almost in a bag they’re already started with the eyes from what I’ve read too I’ve got to do more research on this but if you just do your
Own uh there’s a certain timing in the process of of the eyes I believe from what my understanding is if you do it your own sometimes you can do it and it can be damaging and the potatoes can be diseased if you try to grow your own
Seed potatoes but obviously you can do it and I have to learn how to figure that out but I bought these seed potatoes called seed potatoes and cut them up sliced them up planted them and this is what we have and then this row here is what I was just saying about the
Sweet potatoes um I bought those already grown looking like that so uh we have those and then over here is onions and garlic and I’m not sure which one’s which um maybe the smaller ones I don’t know if they look exactly the same or maybe either all my onions took and none
Of my garlic or all my garlic and none of my onions but I guess I’ll figure that out once I once I dig them up cuz I can’t remember how I plated them in order session here but uh what I’m doing now and I wanted to show you is called
Uh healing h i l l i n g healing the potatoes so one the potatoes leaves get 3 to 5 in kind of off of the main ones off of the ground uh and out of the ground um it’s best to start healing the potatoes and basically that is piling
Dirt around the bottom of them and you can continue to heal and that’s why this bed is a lot lower cuz I was planning on doing my potatoes in this bed as far as the dirt line The Fill line uh compared to the other raised beds and you can see
I got some stuff going on over there too I’m really pumped about here everything’s starting to grow um but we started this one lower so that we could add dirt and you can pile these things and pile these things and pile these things and get them higher and higher
And higher but obviously I’m not going to be able to do that cuz I’m in a raised bed here but um we uh I’m going to continue to do this for these obviously these are not quite ready so I’m going to just slope it down
Um until they are and you see some in here I’m going to have to come back as those grow a little taller but uh they will keep using potatoes underneath as we continue to add dirt so um I’m not sure how long and how far I’m going to
Have to research how long I should do this but I’ve talked to some some older fellas and they said they used to get one little um trick was like old tires and they’ start it with one tire fill it up with dirt um and then once the leaves
Got big enough they’d put another tire start filling dirt and they get tires up to your waist higher more um and then once you’re ready you just start taking those tires off pulling those there potatoes all the way down through there so I’m excited about the potatoes we love potatoes around here
And sweet potatoes are so good for you I’m really praying and hoping that these uh sweet potatoes produce and um I’m excited about this and I’ll just quickly do a quick scan over here at the other Gardens this is my pepper bed these are mine that I started from uh seeds
They’re jalapenos they are making it these eight here are my seed jalapeno peppers um but obviously they are way behind so I went and got uh four yeah four more jalapenos and then I moved on and I got a Anaheim hot pepper these are my hot peppers this side of it
And then this is like a Cayenne type pepper so all these are hot I’ve gave given a little space it might bleed over and it it can do that with your hot peppers and your sweet peppers these might have a little bit of a sting to
Them but these are this is a sweet banana pepper and then these are green yellow and red bell peppers so these are my sweet peppers down here on this end on this garden bed I’ve got my tomatoes I’ve still got several I’m going to plant back in that other Garden
In the back but these I’ve got six tomatoes um I’ve got one separated over here cuz it’s a little different it’s called a car Cherokee purple it’s a purple tomato um different but this is a random hodgepodge Tru came home from school and he had an egg crate with
Seeds in it and believe it or not that egg crate with seeds produced all that and they have survived the transplant and everything probably better than half of my plants that I actually better than 90% of my plants that I did in all those different things I burnt mine up and
Killed them and I was just like oh whatever trtz will die and sure enough every just about every one of his made we’ve got a sunflower one of these is a sunflower squash who knows I don’t even know what it is um but uh and then this one is all these
Things are cantaloupe and squash zucchini squash cantaloupe I think for the most part yellow crook neck squash straight neck squash most of this is squash except for that uh tomato down there and then there’s my Miracles hanging that’s supposed to help keep pests away but there’s my little garden
Uh ra garden beds and I said the potatoes is the main point of this video and I wanted to show you the way I’m healing them and we’ll see how that works at the at the end of the season here how many potatoes and did I go too
High did I go too low um we’ll see and then I’ll find out about the garlic and the um onions at some point too but country realtor signing off