UPDATE:
Here’s how we ended up storing them all:
Mini “Root Cellar” from broken freezer (for storing potatoes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evM7taps76s
Where We Get FREE Garden Mulch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww34XwhdeZ4
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After our first attempt at growing potatoes last year, it was pretty obvious that we’d need to increase the size of our crop if we’d ever hoped to become fully food-self-sufficient. So we built a much larger Ruth Stout garden, and now check out this year’s harvest!
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The Ruth Stout Method of Permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfi-n0Oq38E
Planting Potatoes in a Ruth Stout Permaculture Garden (QUICK and EASY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dexx9kKVWeo
Did You Know That Potato Plants Have Fruit?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k00q6bhIwfg
Results from our NO DIG and NO WATER potato experiment (Ruth Stout Method)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0Q2YlQOUU
Companion Planting Carrots, Radishes and Onions in a Ruth Stout (HAY-ONLY) Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkn5b0jHhE
Results and Lessons Learned from our Carrot, Onion, and Radish Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2tNfgW8Ug
Plant Hardiness Zone, Rainfall, and Other Important Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8
Winter Ruth Stout Permaculture Update and HAY vs STRAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-A1gNNjen0
Hey guys! We've posted a follow-up video with a bunch of background information regarding our location, hardiness zone, rainfall, etc. It might be helpful to any of you who are interested in trying this method in your own garden, but are curious if it will work for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrAJbE0ZTA8
Where do live? Would this idea work in RockSprings wyoming where its very windy
The question is, what do you do with all these potatoes? Unless you have to feed an army, they'll spoil and its a waste of time
300 lbs not enought to feed you for winter. laugh
How DID you store these? Root cellar?
Does this method work for all areas around the world (climates) and what types of potatoes? I've had instant au gratin potatoes before. I love what you're doing but please ask more questions to yourself about everyone else (1:8+B) in the world so everyone else doesn't ask you the same questions [8+B:1(s)].
Pretty crappy of me to say that right? Born in Detroit; raised in Spokane, traveled almost every state; had too many opportunities to visit other areas. At least declare your method works for your specific area, or, specific… climate, terrain, soil condition, mineral deposit, weather or planet! OH! Wait a second; did I mention I've spent a lot of time in Idaho? Potatoes? If Matt Damon did it, then SpaceX better start listen'n to you. NASA will say they've had martian-potapple patents since Newton (lol). Me posting this comment is my time stamp on giving your youtube ID any rights here in and no other entity. Benefit; it's public (key point public), until it's not. Post Script: no one is going to get the joke; that's how lame I am… "how duh yuh like them apples"
Great potato work! I've seen rows of taters, hydro taters in coco-coir and perlite, i've seen them covered and not covered in high low tunnels…In the end potatoes taste great and easy is the best. This is the easiest potato work i've seen. I'm going to plant a few rows next year. Thanks. I love easy it gives me more time to do more.
No water?!
Do deer eat that?
Where are the leaves and the roots of the potatoes? Your picking them up but I don't see any roots where the potato grew?
I did this with store bought potatoes that I let go to seed. OMG the taters are very clean when you harvest them, and I've gotten so many, and I've only just begun to harvest them. I did reds, purples and white potatoes. We will definently have mo plenty of taters to eat this year.
Really awesome! Going to try it in a cardboard box. How do you store the potatoes so they don’t go bad?
Yes cut them in thirds or 4th's they will produce more that way
Thanks for sharing!❤️
Heavy rains then high heat – DEAD potato plants 🙁
2 years now and I haven't been able to grow any.
i always wondered why it is that societies that lived off diets of potatoes never got diabetes. now i know it was the potassium.
It's not a lot of work growing potatoes the regular way. I just do one or two bits of weeding at the start, and then after earthing up that just removes all the remaining weeds from between the plants and buries all the ones around them. Then no more weeds grow where all the soil has been scraped away and neither do they grow in the shade of the plants.
You are lucky. The squirrels dug up my potatos, onions and garlic and gladioli. All the garlic are gone and about half of the other bulbs. The beavers got my raspberry bushes last year but they are fenced in now and re-growing. We do not have deer here. Did you know beaver like raspberry bushes?
Too bad the hay is laced with herbicides.
You must have different kind of deer than I have. Mine LOVE potato leaves. I came across your video because I have very little soil where I live (LOTS of rock!) I also have lots of pine trees so I'm going to try planting under piles of pine needles instead of hay.
But what about the deseases…they humid hay its a perfect breeding ground for desease..or snails
So, how many bales of hay are needed to grow 337 lbs?
A guy once told me you could take a large trash can, cut the bottom out of it and set it on the ground. Put a layer of dirt in the bottom and put your potato eyes on the layer, cover with another layer of dirt. Water it, and when you just see the sprouts, cover with another layer of dirt. Do this until near the top of the can, then let them sprout and grow. For harvest, grab both sides of the can and pull up. Potatoes and dirt will spill out. Never tried it, but would be interesting.
Hope the key hole dont get u abducted
I have access to both grass clippings and to straw. Can I try the Ruth Stout method with straw?
Where in north America are you
What kind of native soil do you guys deal with up there in canada? Im from Kansas and we have really hard clay soil and cant seem to grow any kind of tubers, i would appreciate any advice on heavy clay soil thanks and keep up the good work you guys!
a little tip, if you cut the seed potatoes then dip the cut surface in portland cement powder, this seals and protects the spud from attack cheers Bob