Grow GIANT Potatoes Step-By-Step! 🥔

If you’re thinking about growing potatoes this summer, you need to check out this video on exactly how to do it. This video looks at how to grow giant potatoes in your garden with next to no inputs. 
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[@Gardenfrog]

Yes! This is how I’ve planted potatoes for years. I haven’t heard of anyone else who plants like this. I often have huge potatoes. Finally another gardener who plants and grows the the same way. Did your Grandma teach you to plant your potatoes?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Most definitely! I have done it her way for years and it works with zero fail.

[@kspence5300]

Perfect timing! I guess I should be buying my seed potatoes now? I don’t store my own because I don’t have my shit together in the fall. Ever.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Definitely could if you are wanting to go the route of chitting

[@MK-ti2oo]

I threw my taters on top of the ground last year and covered them up with leaves. As the greens got taller I just threw more leaves on them to hill up. This worked amazingly and I just brushed leaves aside to harvest as I needed them.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That would totally work good. We had trouble with moisture when I just use plant debris, but if you can keep it moist absolutely that’s the easiest

[@Mrs.LadeyBug]

Ashley, you chitting us?! But what do we do if we don’t have amazing potatoes to start with? I had great big awesome potatoes a few years ago, didn’t half them, then got sick and was in the hospital for almost two months during harvest season. I don’t even remember what happened to any of those spud harvests… I haven’t had any potatoes since then. Just a few store bought little potato starts. They just don’t do what my big happy chitty taters did!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Loll 🤣 that first sentence is gold

[@bonniesf6719]

Thank you. This Playlist was great.

[@Miggeamakes]

I always have many liiiittle potatoes, going to try and get the soil looser for them this year!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea! You will be shocked

[@lyndalovesraccoons]

I luv your timing... Ive Been waiting ( impatiently) for garden to get a little less "soupy" - I can pretty much squeeze water out of it right now thx to all the rain this last week... LoL

[@GardeningInCanada]

You can do it!

[@mrsanzaru369]

yesss 😂 i been waiting for a video like this i only got lil nuggets last year i thought you had be like mc ds and have to use some crazy fertilizer 😅😂 your a lady and scholar!!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Haha awe baby taters are delicious too!

[@ChristelleFarmer]

Your vidéo makes me want to grow some potatoes despite being severely allergique to them 🤧

[@GardeningInCanada]

I had no idea you could even be allergic to potatoes. I just learned something new today.

[@brendaarancivia323]

Thank you for your video and advising to keep the soil light and fluffy. Last year I tried growing potatoes inground, in a container, and in a cardboard box, to see what worked best. My largest potato was from the cardboard box 800 gm or 1 lb 12 oz. I only planted Manitoba Red. This year I'm trying Bellanita Fingerlings, a yellow-flesh potato.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thanks for sharing

[@Batchat2352]

The variety also matters. You wont get massive harvests with short season or mid season potatoes . Nurseries 95% of the seed potatoes they sell are short season and mid. Last year i grew potetoes on my own potting mix mixed with compost from my city. They grew so big until they stalled. When it came to harvest time i got pretty much nothing. 2kg of seed potatoes for 2.5kg back. My father keeps telling me growing them in containers is a massive waste of time and space. This time i got long season potatoes a 2kg bag. And i plan to use the same soil with more perlite and as a feetilizer going to use 4-6-8 from actisol

[@GardeningInCanada]

I go for mega basic and staple type variety. And don’t do any of the crazy purples or fingerlings nothing like that.

[@MeganFraser-n9f]

I will try this again this year, and hope for the much need rain for crops of all kinds.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I need rain as well. Absolutely agree with that one.

[@sunshineguurl]

Oh!! So you cover the green leaves?? 5:40

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yup!

[@carlandrews5810]

I have grown no dig on top of cardboard covered in kinda composted horse manure and mulched with seaweed and gotten tons of huuuuge potatoes

[@Lance.pigman]

You should see my potato patch right now, massive! At least 3-4 foot tall right now. Swear I just threw a whole sack of potatoes in a hole, threw dirt on and called it day 😂 potatoes, so simple anyone can grow them

[@GardeningInCanada]

Holy moly! Lol I still have snow in the shade…

[@Lance.pigman]

@@GardeningInCanada haha we’re almost to summer temps down here 😅 88 today

[@ZeFeratu]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! 🧡

[@GardeningInCanada]

You are so welcome!

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Hoping to grow some biggies this year!

[@GardeningInCanada]

I’m sending you big potato vibes

[@northerngirlhobbies]

@@GardeningInCanada thank you kindly Ashley. 🌱💚🌸

[@sharonpreston2826]

Darn, I wish I'd have seen this 3 weeks ago!

[@kevintheoculus2428]

I am a failed potato gardener...tried 3 ways... including the Hay method. I bought Jerusalem Artichokes this season because I gave up.

[@GardeningInCanada]

The hay method I struggle to keep things watered properly and always falls flat for me

[@mr.hamilton5393]

Sharing 😊

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Great , thanks I just received an email from west coast seeds my potatoes are on the way.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Wonderful! Good luck

[@伏見猿比古-k8c]

Can you make a video about planting bok choy?

[@GardeningInCanada]

absolutely. what are you struggling with the most?

[@shant2885]

Is this for indeterminate potatoes only?

[@GardeningInCanada]

It would work for any potato

[@gaetanefredette5418]

Do you water them like everything else,my hubby never waters them he figures the roots will reach for its own water ??

[@GardeningInCanada]

I water them less than my tomatoes and but more than beans

[@gaetanefredette5418]

@@GardeningInCanada Thanks!

[@debmacdonald1661]

Question: what type of potato do you plant?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yukon and then just classic reds. Every year nothing else.

[@debmacdonald1661]

@@GardeningInCanada thank you!

[@michelinebercier-lariviere3095]

Would you talk about the difference in between determinate and indeterminate varieties. Thanks.

[@eell2864]

I would love an in depth look into day/night temperature difference and it's effects on growth.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I do need to do a video on this. I just don’t know if people are going to enjoy it that much. I need to think of a way to make this fun and exciting for everyone that watches.

[@mr.hamilton5393]

Your working today 😮

[@carolstuff]

💚🥔

[@VOTE4TAJ]

I had just over 400 grams…… I am starting only 3-4 potatoes this weekend due to space as I am going to grow a few squash plants and regular and Armenian cucumbers…

[@GardeningInCanada]

Wonderful!

[@DebRoo11]

So are you growing indeterminate varieties then? Because with a determinate potato variety (which is mostly what ee grow here) the hilling is pointless and will not give more or bigger potatoes

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yes! Indeterminate only

[@DebRoo11]

@@GardeningInCanada I've never grown an indeterminate variety but i sure have waited a lot of time and soil hilling my determinate ones 😂

[@DonnaMM6361]

​@@GardeningInCanadaHow do you know what type of potato it is?

[@IsabelleIsabelle01]

I heard 1/2 soil and 1/2 sand is it a myth ?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yea that maybe referencing how to get a “lighter” soil

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@rickyry1583]

Aye.

[@catherinesargent7451]

I’m curious, are you going to do one on sweet potatoes? I’m in zone 3B North Dakota. Love you shows

[@GardeningInCanada]

I personally don’t grow sweet potatoes unless it’s on a vine. That is only because I do not have the green season for it. If I did it, it would most definitely have to be indoors.

[@catherinesargent7451]

Ok and thanks🍀

[@mr.hamilton5393]

You ever check out Teo Gardens he use concrete dust...😂

[@GardeningInCanada]

That is wild. Really?

[@chuffedleupagus]

I thought hilling was a myth?

[@blacksmithden]

5:53: Piling "dirt" up on the sides ???!!! Where do you get the "dirt" ? Do you sweep it up off your floor and save it ? Do you wipe down your appliances and windows, rinse out the cloths and then evaporate the water out of the "dirt" ? You know, you can probably get some good dirt out of the drain at the car wash. Oh, I'm not letting THAT one go. Not after you preaching about soil not being "dirt". SINNER !!!! ROFL !!!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

If your soil is loosen enough, it should very easily be able to come off of the area the side, the potatoes. If your soil isn’t loose enough and something has happened in which it’s compacted I would just grab some mulch and use that. If that isn’t available to you, I would take the time to dig up the soil around the potato without disturbing the roots and then use that to actually hill them properly.

[@blacksmithden]

@@GardeningInCanada I think you meant that reply for someone else. :)