How To Grow Potatoes - Wranglerstar

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1. am anxious to try this. I haven't been very successful with potatoes yet.
2. Why not just put the potatoes straight into the ground? Much easier, and same result.
3. How to grow potatoes: Plant them.
4. quick the potatoes are going to die ho noooooo get the resuscitation team out
5. Thats one kid getting a real education... Thumbs up!
6. Love seeing a little kid learning how to hammer a nail.
7. I agree sometimes you just gotta go for it. Other option was cut up a good trash bin. Ain't nothing to it but to do it.
8. If u keep adding soil to the potato box u not going to harvest more potato u just gonna have longer Stem it a comment mistake
9. I just have to wonder where the Jalapeño beds are? What's life without a little spice? PS: I love you guys. Also, thanks for rekindling some fond memories of my son catching a skunk in a rabbit trap.
10. This years potatoes are up and growing. I've seen this trick done with old tires , but wooden boxes look better.. Last year's new Garden trick involved filling a pallet with garden soil securing barrier fiber to secure that soil then flipping the pallet and planting salad greens in the pallet. This year we will be using two pallets .
11. How to Grow Potatoes: Step 1: Strand a hapless astronaut on Mars...
12. No mortise and tenon? No dovetail? I'm in shock! ;o)
    
    Actually, it's a great relief to see you build the potato boxes like this. You do everything so well, and proper, that I feel a little ashamed when I have to do something that is "good enough". You have encouraged me to do everything better, though.
13. you need an air compressor :-)>
14. Is that treated lumber? I'm trying to find out for sure if modern arsenic free treated lumber is safe for raised garden beds. I think it's fine but I want to be sure.
    
    I'm also wondering how long today's treated lumber can be expected to last with soil contact. I've got some rotten land scape timbers I laid on the ground to stack firewood on. They are still usable after 5 years but rot is atleast 1/3rd .
15. Mama,
    would it b possible if i could barrow ur husband to help with the manufacturing of my garden 😝 _joking. I wish my husband would get involved in our food growth as urs has. u guys have something special. great job!
16. It's Tatties. lol
    Mince and tatties. Tatties and herring.
    I had an old friend in Scotland who was known as "Tattie" McDonald. One night coming home from the bar on his moped, he got stopped by the Police. They asked for his name, to which he replied "Tattie McDonald. " "Oh come on" says the cop, "what's your proper name"? .............." Potatoe McDonald" he replied.....lol!! True!
17. 7:18   Dog.... "I think you are in trouble."
18. Hi Mrs W In one of the videos about garden a few videos back you were saying that you ran out of tomatoes, salsa and then you said you wanted more flowers and generally just grow more veggies, my question is why are you growing so many flowers when you need more vegetables? I understand you need pollinators but you have enough flowers now for pollinators. And another question I have is where are your chickens? Chickens can break down that compost better than you can (sorry) but they are experts at it that is all they do pick n scratch, they will break it down and it will almost all go through your screen easily, they will also add some goodies to the compost for you and eat all the weed seeds. Also those foods that you are throwing in the compost like scraps and leftovers and the apple squeezens are excellent food for chickens and you can get some of those nutrients back in the eggs. One thing my Uncle (Family Garden Guru) always said was to put your compost pile on your garden spot or where you would rotate garden to next year because the rain leaches the goodies into the soil. I think you should get Jack a 22 calibre and let him deal with the ground hogs I used to have ground hogs but just kept feeding them lead pills and stuffing them back down the hole, now no more holes and no more ground hogs, and then you would be able to plant in the ground, those boxes above ground are drier and do not warm like the ground does and you will get better spring starts in the ground, and with the chips you can use for cover the ground would not freeze down very far, as a test try getting a ground thermometer and a ground humidistat and try it in the box and in the ground you will see the difference. When you are my age you will not want to spend all the energy you have shuffling compost you will want to have the least labour intensive methods to grow the best crops. Chickens are your friends, and while I am already on a rant, different slugs do not like coffee grinds or egg shells so you can dry them and mix them in the house and put them directly around your tomato plants, I also put clam shells, lobster shells, mussel shells, wood ashes directly on the garden mostly along the rows as you walk on them they will break up and disappear, every once in a while you may find a piece of mussel shell but not for long. If you want to be able to feed yourself with potatoes you will likely need 200 lb's of potatoes to have enough to eat and seed for next year, you may need more or less pounds of potatoes depending on how much you eat but if you ever had to grow enough to feed yourself you need to know how much you need to plant, I don't think you have enough boxes, for me this year I thought I had it figured out but we had a really dry summer and all the potatoes were small, so gardening is a life time of learning, just when you think you are getting good Mother Nature gives you a gentle wack, so save your energy for the unexpected. I like all of what you are doing and you are doing great keep it up! and thanks for sharing your life's work. As a suggestion maybe you could do a video on "10 years as a Homesteader" or however many years, but discuss things like are you glad you did it, do you wish you did it earlier, things that were harder than you thought, things that are really easy, things you would do different those type of things. I watched Cody helping you transplant the potatoes, now I know why he does all the Forestry videos. I am jealous of your lifestyle, Thanks!
19. Mighty fine taters mm hmm
20. You guys are a lovely family, it's so nice to still see parents put their kids to work and teaching them important life skills!! Thanks for sharing this idea about potatoes (my first harvest this year was rather pathetic) - is the hilling necessary for ALL types of potatoes or are there some that don't need to be hilled up? Thank you and Happy New Year!