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VIDEO: Square Foot Gardening Method for Potatoes | Zone 8b
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Add ample bone meal to your potato bed. And soil should be petty acidic (pH 6 or even less). I have to add a fair amount of sulfur to get the pH low enough.
Those are baby potatoes. Break them off and plant them like another seed potato
Those potatoes are just screaming
“Plant me”
Lasagna beds have always been my most productive beds.
Love potatoes its the best veggie that can be cooked a million ways.
Becky have you ever heard of the hoss tool guys?
Beautiful healthy dirt. Just found your channel. Love the spacing of your beds. We all need all the tips , always learning praise God of heaven for beautiful folks like you.
You shared with us, they were YUMMY!
They look like blue berries!
Maybe that’s why I didn’t get so many potatoes. I didn’t plant them as deep as you did!
Those are small potatoes. You will love growing sweet potatoes.
They are baby batatos that turn purple with the light!
Yes they àrea potatoes
Thanks for these videos. I am in zone 8a, N. GA. Got seed potatoes & seed yellow onions. March 12 today, kinda late.
Got a 7" high raised bed 4' x 8' – Ready to plant turmeric in there. Miracle Gro Raised Bed soil, peat moss, black cow. I suspect this soil too alkaline for potatoes. Bought seed potatoes couple weeks ago. I'm thinking too late to plant now.
So little time, so many questions.
I'll keep viewing your excellent videos, other ones, bunch of books from library. Jus subscribed. Thanks!
Good job.
Looks like already producing potatoes..when uou do the sweet potatoes, they sprawl everywhere ,I just pile them on top of each other ,as mine are in 3.5 tall,4×8 beds, so this year 1 bed just sweet taters,I will be doing ,that should do us for the year.. and I may be able to freeze dry and can some as well
They look like potato seed pods
Suggestion…stay away from animal manures in your potato bed unless you have pretty acidic soil. It tends to promote potato scab (acidic soil keeps it at bay). Also, for the leaf mulch/mould, that's what I have been doing and it usually works well. You do however need to let it compost over the winter in a pile, lay it on several inches thick, and side dress/hill with more in spots as the tubers start to plump up. As states in another comment…bone meal under the seed potato doesn't hurt either. Just my humble $0.02…happy gardening.
You should do some flowers or something for the pollinators are plant anything for the pollinators for your bees or any insects that you might want to pollinate your plants in your garden remember you have to think about them too it's not just pleasing free stomach it's also you have to please your eye to girl just like their eyes God bless you
You can still plant them even if you cut them in half
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Great video, thanks for sharing
I just planted some potatoes I grew last year that had spindly growth like yours but no baby spuds. I know they got that spindly because they were seeking light. I think they chited because they are old and not stored in a cold enough spot.
If you need stretch your seed potatoes to plant a larger area, you can cut them up so that each piece has at least one to three eyes on it. If you want bigger potatoes then limit each seed potato/piece to no more than two eyes, preferably just one good eye. If at any time you see a potato start to stick out of the ground you need to cover it with either soil or mulch to keep it from going bad in the sun. You can save potatoes that did get sun exposure to use as seed potatoes if you need/want to.
Are you married ? Potatoes love tropical climate, rocky sandy land and moisture air , cover with shade , these would give very good results
You have a nice relaxing style, which is especially helpful to those of us who are new to gardening. Thanks.
curious were your home stead is located as I am also zone 8b
Baby potatoes.
I hope you gifted your horse manure friend and your wood friend with some canned goodies
They are little potatoes.