Cultivating a NEW Garden Space (Potato Conspiracy??) | Farm Live VLOG

Sourdough Sandwich Loaf: https://youtu.be/YMZPxtAGGSo

Heather I don’t think I’ve ever told you, but you always are so cherry. I mean, I don’t know, but it makes it’s like contagious every time I see your videos you bring a good smile to my face. I’m sure that homesteading can be stressful, but I know it has a lot of benefits to it as well and I think you’re doing a great job. I follow you whenever I get a chance I take care of my husband and my father-in-law. They’re both hill and I do garden as much as I can, but I feel like I learned a whole lot from you . 🌱🌱🌱

I just found out that there are different types of potatoes like tomatoes, determinate and indeterminate!

Have grown potatoes both ways and both grew well/ produced well... also grew in tubs, buckets, cardboard boxes, etc with good results as well... I think potatoes just want to grow... Blessings on your day Kiddo!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿

Grew up the middle of nine kids . My dad had a huge garden and potatoes were about a quarter of an acre to feed us. If we did not keep mounding the potatoes they would get green. I do not know if we got more but we definitely got a lot of potatoes with consistent mounding.

I bought organic potatoes a couple months ago on purpose to let a few grow. Getting them in the ground now!

I have done both,never could tell the difference so I just chuck em in and cover them up

the acidic soil in potatoes really helps prevent scab, but yes potatoes just like tomatoes prefer 5.5-6.5ph to gro. for reference all compost as it becomes compost (even pine needles) are 7ph or neutral so it is a good thing to have a little sulfur as most garden plants prefer the acidic side of the scale near 6.5ph

We've done both methods. The "piling on" method is essentially the same as growing in a bucket. It works. You get more taters, but the higher up ones usually are smaller. So you could have the best of both worlds in your troughs if you want. Plant a few inches deep, and pile on as it grows. Harvest as normal.

All I know is when I put potatoes in the compost or add potato peels to the garden beds I have potatoes growing everywhere it becomes a nuisance! I actually just throw them away now. When I plant potatoes I always use store bought and have never had an issue of getting them to sprout 🙂. I’m so excited about all the garden videos!😂

Your videos just make me happy 😊

Omg you have so many members now! I laughed out loud at your record scratch edit, great job!

I had one successful potato year and in that year I surface sowed and piled a straw bale on top without hilling at all. The other times I have grown them I tried in leaf litter instead of straw and the voles found them, I tried them in ground too but our soil was just too heavy and they all rotted. This year I filled a raised bed hugel-style with a decent amount of soil then about 1/3rd is only straw, we will see how this years potatoes grow!

Thanks for the Sourdough Sandwich Loaf recipe. I enjoy sitting and watching you and learning all the different information/ideas you offer. I have learned so much from you. Sometimes I think people make things more complicated than it needs to be. Simple is good! If growing something does not succeed, try and try again. Learning what's best for you/me and our gardens may not be what's best for others. However, I do appreciate you and other YT channels for sharing information and ideas on how to successfully garden!! Happy gardening!! 🥔🍅🥕🌶

I've planted 10 lbs of grocery store potatoes so far. Fixing to plant some more tomorrow. The ones I've planted are already sprouting up. Didn't take long either. I'm excited. I didn't even plant any last year at all.

Myself and my dad has the same style of tiller my dads one is looking the 1950’s 😂 but if it matters what we do is just as Levi was trying to test we always walk out tiller over the area once or twice to break roots and we go back and metal rake all the big chunks of grass out then till it all up as we most time till in our horse manure and and compost in with it then plant. Also EVERY store bought potatoes I buy that my family don’t eat they SPROUT, ours has arms and legs and everything they have so many sprouts they can hitch a ride to the garden bed so I too agree with you on that situation they still grow for us. We also grow potatoes the way you do being in the hay. Your garden is getting more beautiful and bigger every year I garden tours are getting more exciting to see. I am late on planting too so its ok I think this weather tripped many people up this year after the weird season we been having lately. I am still buying plants and setting up my planting area too!!😁 So excited for yours!!😊God Bless

We always need a goatie break ❤️ excited to see how garden experiments do

Nice video, kind of like the calm before the storm!

I think these new garden spaces are awesome! And your helpers are welcome to "distract" us, especially when they're helping with goats! LOL As far as I have been able to gather, one type of potatoes will have a set point below the ground to produce their spuds, often the point from the seed potato until they first break the surface of the soil or mulch, regardless of how much soil or mulch is piled on top of that first emergence. These potatoes will not produce more by being "hilled up" every time their foilage reaches a certain height above the ground, though one "hilling up" will help keep spuds from turning green from sunlight. The other type of potatoes will keep growing and producing as long as their stems have soil or mulch. So I think a lot of the folks who have said, "hilling up doesn't make more potatoes" are simply using the wrong type of potato. The folks who have had the greatest success from those viral potato towers (out of wire or tall laundry hampers) have the right kind of potato for that application. I still get conflicting information as to which are "determinate" and which are "indeterminate", but logically (and if they're named appropriately) the name should be self-explanatory.

I use potatoes with sprouts on. Plant under soil. Harvest after flowering has finished and the leafs lay down. Always huge harvest here in middle Georgia.