This video shows how to grow a great crop of potatoes from old store-bought potatoes that have already started to sprout and are way past use by date! This was an awesome potato growing experiment!
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Hi Mark, I'm going to try your method you used in this video next spring. I always have about 40 lbs. of potatoes left over that shriveled and sprouted in storage. I raise about 500 lbs of potatoes every year and store them in my pantry. It really got cold this past winter and I got a shock when I was breaking sprouts off my stored potatoes "They froze!" in the corner of the pantry, and we had a propane heater going around the clock. It is kind of upsetting to see that happen. Live to learn; if it gets that cold again they are coming up to the living room where it stays around 72% in winter. By the way that was a very good video.. Jessie from Arkansas USA
Video is great brother! I love seeing the results. Most videos they just show you how to plant it without the harvest. Loving it
top of the class m8, save some for the next crop. i grow mine in sacks and my own compost…. cost nothing
Definitely going to do this, we loved baked potatoes with cheese, bacon, sour cream and seasoning. We also eat a lot of seafood with potatoes
yes but do I need to hill them?
just starting my first attempt at potato farming in the backyard. Great video here, love the enthusiasm-"potato makeover" LOL ! after seeing what you put in and what you got out I'd say that's quite the makeover indeed. I live in Georgia in the USA and more and more Americans are realizing they can grow store bought vegetables just as well as the commercial farms….
Came on here to see if this worked. Happy to know it does. How do you know when they are ready?
The potato plant itself is toxic. Wash hands throughly after harvesting. Notice that no one talks about insects on potato plants…
Oh wow!!! I need to Try This.
Thanks mark, i felt like shit today, but seeing what can come out of stuff that looks crap makes feel more positive about tomorrow
Bloody ripper ! Does anyone know how to store potatoes?
Here ! Take a like, a comment and a subscription ! Great content brutha ! I'm gonna go plant a couple taters now ! Magnificent ! My store bought taters were going bad and I thought, "no way are these bad boys going to waste." Wasting food is a global crime !
I planted 3 potatoes I got from the store about 4 weeks ago. They are still in the ground. I'm hoping they produce a little bit before winter.
Gday Mark can I grow potatoes in the same bed each year cheers kit
Remarkable!
How much potatoes do you get after planting one potato in a pot ?
I did this for the first time this year and I harvested them yesterday, they look amazing can't wait to eat them. Will definitely be doing this again with shop bought potatoes that have sprouted.
Thanks. I was hoping you would show exactly how to plant the bizarre knobbly growths as it is not clear if these are roots or shoots, so do one expose the tips of these knobbleness or Bury them? Thank you
There is a name for the White and Purple Potato, they sold them at Woolworths in 2kg Bags, the name is on the tip of my younger, could be Koloban?
The Purple part of the Potatoes have a health benefit.
Q. Can you grow store brought potatoes even if the (purple) roots growing are literally over a meter long?
Hi mark.
I have some feral shop potatoes.
I’m going to use a potato bag to grow them in
How you you make the soil to plant them in
I was thinking garden centre veggie soil with compost so it doesn’t go hard.
Which is better chook or horse poo ?
And how often would you water please.
Fantastic channel.. thank you!
When should I plant potato's in qld?
This is helpful! I always thought they needed to grow up and that you needed to keep mounding the soil up. Good to see can just plonk them in the ground and thats it.
What time of year in Australia can you plant potatoes??
I still eat the sprouted potatoes as long as they're hard but I'm gonna try this with my slightly wrinkly ones!
I love Desiree potatoes. I have some store brought potatoes happily growing at the moment, they have bloomed just waiting till I can dig them up.
Accidentally left 10kg potatoes in the cupboard. They started growing. They're now in the communal vege patch, and seem to be growing okay