In this video I show you the easiest way ever to plant and grow potatoes. No digging at all! Anyone can plant potatoes in the fall. I;’ll show you how to grow potatoes in your organic garden.
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Wow ! Great idea. I wonder if my dog would eat them tho😂
Ruth Stoutt's method is awesome isn't it? I've been growing potatoes like that since pretty well when I started gardening, just the odd year or decade ago :o) I live in zone 5b and I have had rogue potatoes every year since I started this current garden – don't even need to do anything anymore, except piling on that mulch every year. Glad you're passing it along.
Can this be done in grow bags or containers indoors this way?
Excellent information. Just what we need. Thank you Brian 😊❤
I live in zone 6a and I most always have potatoes starts in the spring. Somehow I miss a potato or two and surprise surprise here they come in the spring. I would have thought that because they are not really planted that deep in a raised bed that they would freeze and turn to mush. Maybe it didn’t get cold enough, not sure but this winter is supposed to be colder than normal so we will see what happens ? I may intentionally leave a small potato or two to see what happens ? It won’t hurt anything to try. 🎃🍁💚🙃
Thanks Brian. 🎃🍁💚🙃
Are you telling me that I can grow potatoes during the winter in zone 7 A and I will be able to harvest them before I start my spring garden??
i see you have drip water ,will overhead/ hand watering work just as well
Zone 9b-10 here. I've tried potatoes a few times with minimal success. How deep do the roots go, and how much UV? My raised bed is now in dappled/partial sun and is 12" deep.
Or, you can just forget them in the back of the pantry has always works for me 😂
When you speak of zones….. how do we know what you're talking about. How about a 8×11 piece of paper in your hands that you show as you say the zones
Great video!
I tried the Ruth Stoutt method on one raised bed, but we get so much rain in TN that all the straw did was bring slugs, which ate the veggies on the surface…😂. Now I plant them deep and put NO straw. I may experiment with leaf much to see if it has the same results, but I don't mind digging for yummy treasures.
Dude! Your co-Star never moved. 😵💫🤪😵💫🤪 Man I hate lizards. If that had been me sitting there, he would’ve jumped right on me. NEVER FAILS! They know how I fear them. I am such a wimp…🤦♀️ Harvested my very first potatoes a few weeks ago, but having a hard time storing them. No cellar, no basement, no 50 degree temps in So Cal unless you are in the mountains. And I do not like frozen or canned potatoes. Trying to use them up before they all go bad…which kind of defeats the purpose for me. Not sure what I am going to do.
I liked the framing of this video to include the little lizard in the lower right corner on the stone 😂
Thank you ! I'm in 10b and am going to try your new method. ❤
I’m definitely going to try this method of planting on top and covering them with straw. Thank you for another great video! 🕶👍🏻🤠
I planted potatoes from grocery store potatoes. My biggest question is…why are my potatoes so SMAll once harvested???
In one of your prior potato planting videos you mentioned when using straw make sure it’s not chemically treated. I’ve listened to several of your videos and can’t find what chemical you said it was treated with. Do you know if Tractor Supply straw has this chemical on their packaged straw? I believe you said you use some straw that was treated and it affected your bed for several years.
My problem right now is I have wire worms/ click beetles. They ruined my roots crops 😢
Hey Brian,
Question: can you do a video on the different mulches you have used?
You used some wood shavings in a container that almost looked like what you would use for a hamster cage. I am trying to source that. Haha.
I've never heard of this particular no did method.
I'll try it! 👍
Shop bought has disease
We're actually clearing a bit more of our grass to put in a bed just for potatoes. Love this method and we can't wait to give it a try!
I had good results from the trench method covering most of plants with dirt as they grew. Very wet winter too. Just planted mine saved potatoes.
Thank you Brian! I don't think I will buy seed potatoes anymore they are expensive and I get such small ones, and sometimes they don't even look that good.
Thank you for the idea! I never even thought about trying potatoes over winter. I'll have to add that to my list of things I want to try, too. Keep growing! ♥
Missed a couple potatoes from the previous yr and had about 15-20 lbs of potatoes the following yr. Without any work. Should have hilled them up a little better though. Had some green ones
I planted them a few days ago, hope they come up and are ok.
Zone 6B
There’s another place to get potatoes… the local farmers market. You will know the variety and that they will grow in your area well enough to take to market.
Love your little lizard !
What prevents your potatoes from being eaten by squirrels?
If you do this in Spring, and having a large lawn of grass clippings, either use a bin box of the grass clippings and put the spuds into the bin box, FLOATING the spuds in the grass clippings, … or on the ground, mound up the grass clippings and FLOAT the potatoes in the mound. "Uncle Marvin's potatoes" work great in a south-facing bin box of decomposing grass clippings, or a full sun on the grass clipping mound. Check for humidity inside the box or the mound, just like a composting bin of high heat and humidity. Water in humidity to the box or mound for continued humidity. When harvesting the spuds, just reach into the box or mound clippings, and detach the tuber with your hand inside the clippings, and pull out the tuber. This keeps the clippings and the potato plant intact. The humidity and decomposing methane gas (fresh lawn clippings smell !) grows great potatoes without having to dig them out from the soil.
I’ll give this a try next spring. I might even try some grocery store potatoes. Do you find you get weeds from the straw?
This sounds similar to the Ruth Stout Method, which I trialed last year. For me, the in-ground method worked better. I got a harvest from both methods, but the in-ground batch produced many more potatoes.