How to Harvest and Store Potatoes So They Last for Months

Learn how to harvest and store Potatoes so they lasts for months in this video
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[@k-sell4065]

Mr.Hollis we have met before!😃😃😃 I don’t remember the exact place here in Hampton VA you were still an active firefighter 👨‍🚒 it was years ago! I’m 43 now and I would like to thank you for your service to our community ❤️

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

It was an honor to serve. God bless you❤️

[@taylorshomestead3934]

Perfect timing, digging my 1st ever potatoes this weekend! Thank you!

[@LittleBitOfSunshine4u]

Me too! Good luck!

[@taylorshomestead3934]

@@LittleBitOfSunshine4u same to you!

[@nebraskaprairieladyprepper3422]

Us too! It's so exciting to succeed. We harvest are very first (four small) red potatoes last week and nothing has ever tasted so delicious. Today we harvest four red, six yellow and six purple potatoes. We grew carrots, and onions for the first time too. Good luck to you and great job!

[@genealley9794]

Hollis, perfect timing for me! My 1st experience planting some Red potatoes my wife had bought from a local organic farm, that we didn't get a chance to eat. The started budding, so I cut them up, and stuck them into the raised bed in the greenhouse, along side the kale. I didn't think that they were going to grow because so much time had elapsed, but, low & behold, one day I saw the first plant busting up out of the soil! Now I have several, that will be needing to be harvested. This video will help tremendously! Thanks to you both! We are in VA, and have had nothing but rain the past several days, and cooler temps Yuck! I'll let you know how things turn out! Have a Happy Memorial Day!!

[@lsieu]

I grew my first potato purely by accident. A potato in my pantry budded, and on my way out the front door one morning, I tossed it into a front planter. The months passed, and I was tending that planter, my trowel ran into a beautiful large potato! I fried it up that night and was surprised how much better it tasted than any potato I had ever had previous. Between them and three years ago when I found your earlier KZbin suburban potato series, I had grow them haphazzardly. Thanks for making the new ones too! I've learned so much watching them, from introducing me to veg I didn't know about like Water Melon Radishes, to the garden structure builds, to this new potato storage video. I love them all. Thank you! God bless you, Hollis, Nancy and Bing Bing!

[@dedelin4356]

I have learned so much about harvesting your own food these past few months. We just started growing out own potatoes and am looking forward to when we can do exactly what you did today. We also bought a pressure canner and have learned how to can vegetables. Feeling blessed by your videos. Thank you!

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

You are so welcome!

[@busterandnonna5214]

I love this video! Not all my gardening Experiences give me a huge harvest and sometimes it feels like I’m doing everything wrong. It’s nice to see that others also have some of those experiences. Even Hollis and Nancy have a ‘not so prolific’ outcome from time to time and these guys are master gardeners. My take away is that nature is just doing her thing and that I AM doing this right because I’m ‘doing it!’ Thanks Hollis and Nancy! Great teachers and motivators!

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@ZoeLifeFarmstead]

Thanks Hollis and Nancy!

[@Liwayputi]

So thankful for you all!

[@katelynnhale536]

You are so thorough. Great videos.

[@terifrank7393]

Morning brother and sister, my potatoes and tomatoes, peas, cukes and green beans are growing well. So excited and proud to share this with you both. Hope the hens are producing lots of eggs for you. I've learned to preserve eggs by wayer glass and freezing. God is great! God bless and so grateful for your shared wisdom for my garden!!

[@robertharper3754]

I love your videos!!! They're really helping me getting back into growing plants! As a child my parents forced me to weed their garden of ornamental plants which turned me a bit off to gardening until me and my dad started growing orchids together, after he passed away mom gave away all the orchids and I haven't really grown anything since. But your excellent videos are changing that, thank you!

[@joylouise5417]

Nancy, you didn’t wish us a blessed day. Missed that. Wishing you both a truly blessed day!

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Have a blessed day 😘

[@leeannem5665]

Thank you so much for the awesome video and your advice. I appreciate you. God bless you both.

[@sandrahouse9322]

My grandma in Louisiana kept hers under the house. Back of the house sat about four feet off the ground. She kept them there all the time, just covered them with garden lime

[@UpperPacker]

AMEN! Thanks Hollis and Nancy for the guidance! God bless! 💗

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

❤️

[@AlleyCat-1]

I like your cleaning table & your potato tower. We saved potatoes last year, to eat thru the winter & for seed. They all went crazy on the seed job lol

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Oh wow!

[@AlleyCat-1]

@@HollisNancysHomestead yep they vined up so we had foot long sprouts sticking out of buckets & potato sacks lol

[@yeshuaisthewaythetruthandt515]

THANKU GOD BLESS YOU MARANATHA!

[@cindykelly7937]

Thank you for showing how to grow potatoes in a container. I am trying this for the first time and it is doing great.

[@tomsrandomness]

I just load your channel up on my TV while I work. With the way things are I'm definitely going to be planing potatoes and onions and garlic next year maybe some carrots too I just have limited space so I love these methods you have shared. God bless you Hollis and Nancy

[@merryrobertson4854]

I live in Williston, which is I believe near where you live from what I hear you say. I never have a great potato harvest. I have started planting cassava and also for greens. I’ve started planting Mexican China, which is called spinach plant. They do great here. I kind of capitalize on things like the sweet potatoes because they love the heat and you can eat the greens. I also like the gourds that are the Asian gourds. I plant the snake gourd, loofah gourd, cocuzzi Gourd and thai bottle gourd.

[@bigteeist]

Thanks for sharing greatly appreciated God bless 🙏🏾

[@feedingthesheep]

Thank you so much for your videos. My wife and I learned so much. We moved to inverness, fl and we love it here. God bless you.

[@dellaCHall5823]

Thank you so very much, I have wanted to grow potatoes in buckets forever it seems, but nobody even if they grew them could tell me enough to satisfy me. These and all of your videos are absolutely Amazing 🤩 You & Nancy are Awesome 💟

[@studuncan6124]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! It’s so helpful.

[@kenharrison3364]

Love the potato tower. I’ll build one for myself.

[@kele1264]

I'm sorry you got a smaller harvest that you expected. 🥔🥔🥔Still, it's always nice to watch your videos. It was nice to watch the harvest, and I love it every time we get to see your phenomenal pantry! It's always helpful to remind us not to wash the potatoes in advance, and to keep them out of direct sunlight but in a place where they get air all around. Is the weather too warm to plant another round of potatoes? Maybe a different, more heat-tolerant kind? I'm sure you'll be sowing something in those containers, on those impressive grow tables! Good health and happiness to you always!

[@urbanbackyardcontainergardenin]

Got my one potato plant growing now. Cant wait until they are ready!

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Nice!!

[@cellis921]

Thank you, I was needed this video as I’m pulling my first ever round of potatoes here in 2 weeks

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Glad I could help

[@Foundinthewoodsbushcraft]

Hey brother that black Kow does wonders for my gardenas well. Thanks for the tips you rock.

[@joanne4120]

Thank you sir for your really helpful video!! God bless you and your family...you seem like such a True kind Gentleman...not finding too many of your kind around anymore...👍😇😌

[@patriciaharper8836]

Happy Sunday morning to you both.. I have been watching your videos for a long time and I must say these are the most informative I have ever seen. I was watching this morning about growing potatoes and you gave a very good lesson on paper of the Determinate and Indeterminate ones to plant. I cannot find the video that gives the printout for those. Can you please let me know where to find these?? I need to add it to my instructional material. Thank you and hope y'all have a blessed day.

[@jackiehorsley9263]

you grow some nice potatos I have potatos growing In my rasied bed there different colors

[@w.bevans5454]

Love your channel. I’ve been a gardening friend for years now. I often wash my potatoes because my soil is often wet-ish when I harvest them so lots of dirt on them. I always appreciate your gardening common sense. 😊

[@Kelly_Mae_C]

I love the potato tower. I need to build one of those.

[@michealinak]

Thank you! God blessed!

[@terry902]

I always learn something from you videos, thanks!👍

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Glad to hear it!

[@CB_RITC]

I planted my potatoes in buckets on April 9, 2022 and they are doing great.

[@mtoto78]

AMEN

[@maltipoosoffgrid6868]

Have a blessed day. You forgot Nancy.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Yes I did, Have a blessed day :-)

[@kimlong692]

my taters won't be ready for harvest for a little while yet but love your tater tower. Going to ask my hubby if he can make one..love your videos..Thank You

[@joycemcmillan5057]

After watching your videos I planted potatoes in a container last summer (using just my raised bed soil) and harvested in fall. Small harvest but for my first time I was happy. Then in October I started 3 buckets (using a combo of soil, manure and peat) and the plant never came out of the soil on any of them. When I dumped the bucket everything was rotted and there were bugs (maybe maggots). I think the manure may have been bad. I had another container with the same mix and all my onion seedlings died. We can't find Black Kow in the stores out here anymore. I don't have a big enough space to justify ordering a large amount online.

[@stevehoover16]

Thanks for the video

[@marktoldgardengnome4110]

I really have a hard time, living in Maine, with wrapping my head around having to get plants to maturity before hot summer temps. Anyway, our plant time is May and last harvest late September. That means storing seed potatoes for 6-7 months. Even in a 45-50 degree temp basement. This last Winter we stored the ones for seed in a dorm sized refrigerator, stays 34-40 degrees. This spring took them out still firm and no chits or blemishes. Chitted them and planted them 45 days ago and the mid season ones are putting flower buds on. Also, we are now growing only in 3 and 10 gallon buckets. With staggered planting we are getting 3+ lbs of potatoes a week for 10 weeks from 20 buckets. We only dump a bucket when potatoes are on the menu. No better tasting potato then from the soil to a plate in less than an hour. :) Before anyone says, "You can't store potatoes in the fridge" for eating you're correct. For eating potatoes, any taters stored at below about 42 degrees, starches start turning to sugars, that won't taste good. But it doesn't affect them from being used as seed potatoes. Hollis, as I under stand it, the Yukon Gold is an Early variety, making it a determinant potato. Might that have something to do wih the small harvest? TYFS

[@patriciamiller1916]

Have watched many videos really want to grow potatoes…I have potatoes coming, and I have fabric containers and my order is in so off to Lowes I go tomorrow!

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Thank you so much! Best of luck to you with your Taters 🥔🥔🥔

[@jeffmack4995]

Thanks Hollis and Nancy for the work and videos. My wife and I just dug our second potato crop, so I knew you tell me the best way to handle our harvest. Since we live south and a little east of Tampa, but we're still trying to get the timing right for growing cycles(originally from South Jersey). Any tips you could share would be much appreciated. Thanks again!! Jeff and Julie

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Our pleasure!

[@tammymanuel9158]

I planted 4 laundry baskets with potatoes. They have grown well, but have not bloomed yet. They plants are dying off. I hope they will be ok since they haven’t bloomed. Never done these before.

[@michealinak]

Long time! I had been out for a while. Hope you both are doing well.

[@rachelle1]

Great video

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@aliceleishman5596]

I’m in 9b Florida and plant potatoes mid February and they are done by early May. Any longer, the bugs and rot get to them.

[@dt5656]

Can we do this technique for storing store bought potatoes? How long can they be stored in a cool dark place in food grade bucket? Just discovered your channel.. it is better than. Netflix garbage!!! God bless

[@GibClark]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@gabechacon8375]

How would watering your potatoes with fish tank or turtle tank water, or the dirty green/black water from cleaning your sponge filters? Its gotta be loaded with all sorts of good fertilizer

[@amandaforeman2626]

If I grow potatoes in containers ( I have ! ) I always hill my Potatoes ! Potatoes produce tubers off of the stem , so hilling gives a better harvest :) it’s still a harvest !

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

That's a great idea!

[@lynnallen1315]

I'm a new subscriber so you may have a video on my question but how do you reuse the soil from your grow-tubs? Or do you?

[@terry902]

They have a video on their channel about how they amend their used soil to reuse it.

[@KT-yq7ed]

Hello from NC….been watching all your videos for a while now but still a new at this and like your style of growing……question about those potatoes on the right in the drawer that have begun to chit….are you still going to eat those…..or are they going to be seed potatoes for next year?

[@venossamuel9250]

Brother Hallis and sister Nancy who Got bless know man can cuss

[@Mel-vu9ss]

What temperature do you keep your pantry? Thanks!

[@dawndavis3600]

2 yrs ago i did potatoes and received a nice harvest. I planted again this yr and lost the whole tote. They were nice and green, flowers died off, and no potatoes.

[@merryrobertson4854]

Mexican Chaya

[@rjhall5712]

#HollisNancyhomestead... do you think potatoes are worth the effort as for container growing ??? ... I've never really seen anyone having that much success with it . Considering the costs of container soil , fertilizer, etc ... P.S. love the pantry and all your videos

[@kaybonette]

I planted potatoes I got at the grocery store that had grown eyes. That was 3 weeks ago. Nothing came up. I planted them at 4" and added soil to 10" total. Should I have just covered them and added soil once they had sprouted? We are in N Florida and my husband says I planted them too late. Did I mess up?

[@TNOutdoorsFanatic]

Excellent! We harvested 350 lbs of potatoes last August, and stored them in our encapsulated crawl space all winter. We are eating the last of them today, and had 80 lb of seed potatoes left over to plant another 500 row-ft of potatoes back in April.

[@tampadw4l401]

So it is okay to eat the ones that chit? The ones that you show with chits will last all the way to the spring of next year? Thanks for the information.

[@Ms.Byrd68]

If you are HUNGRY and can't buy bagged potatoes due to inflation, it's GOOD ENOUGH! You can grow grow your own 5 to 10lbs bags of potatoes and you can STORE them and if planted at the right time... SEED THEM for next year!

[@OGKenG]

When cleaning the potatoes, would it be wiser to use a paintbrush instead of a rag?

[@susankeller1373]

I am hoping someone can help me, my potatoes were doing great but when I came home today something ate all the tops off the plants. Will they continue to grow?

[@kathythornhill731]

what is the best that can be done if I don't have a potato tower?

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Nancy use to put in cardboard box on the dining room table. Do the best you can with the budget you have. Blessings

[@russcampbell2414]

Clean and wash potatoes just before eating.

[@kassy481]

I have never peeled my potatoes 🥔. There's too much nutrition in the peels, then to be throwing it away:)

[@norcalgal1876]

My mom and stepdad grew a row of potatoes in rocky clay soil and had a beautiful harvest. I grew mine in buckets of expensive potting mix, had beautiful plants and no potatoes! I got about 1/4 of a Solo cup of potatoes from 4 buckets! I think I gave them too much of something!

[@steelhorses2004]

Isn't it counter productive to save seed potatoes from a plant(s) that had a poor harvest?

[@christine9467]

Can I plant a couple now? I’m in zone 9a. I know it isn’t the right time but will they grow? I’m dying to try it. Got a couple chitting potatoes at home. I’m a new gardener 😅

[@terry902]

I am in 9b, too, and if I have potatoes that started to chit I usually plant them. About three months later they are ready for harvest. Only ones that struggle are those planted too late in the year. Last year was a weird year, I harvested potatoes for Christmas. Not a great harvest, but had small new potatoes with my Christmas supper.

[@christine9467]

@@terry902 well I’m gonna go ahead n try n see what happens lol. 😊

[@marktoldgardengnome4110]

You've nothing to lose by trying as the alternative is to thow them out, and you'll learn nothing from that. I would put then in a partially shaded area and keep the soil moist. Good luck

[@terry902]

Good point, Mark. All my potatoes are in buckets so I can move them out of a blazing sun if we get seriously hot days! I forgot about that.

[@terry902]

Oh and I forgot I put a layer of straw over them because we get no rain until winter now. That helps to keep them from drying out.

[@michelleperkins9886]

Do you have a set of instructions for building your tater tower, please?

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

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[@okgotthat]

I'm sorry I have a question. Im new to Gardening what you do with dirt from the Containers. Do plant potatoes again same dirt. ( Not trying to be funny) I really don't know 😒

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Spent soil from containers canned saved and amended for reuse. For potatoes the soil can be reused for vegetables other than potatoes or tomatoes.

[@Goodoldays9]

Why do store bought potatoes not last as long? They begin sprouting roots

[@briansherrillruralliving9708]

End of July??? I plant about the same time as you and mine are ready late June, early July. Perhaps you live further North than me?

[@hernanbojacav.8396]

Actually south Florida! Homestead!! 💕🥰❤️💓

[@TMesser74]

My mid February planting I just had to pull, my March planting is yellowing now and they won’t go much further so same here,

[@briansherrillruralliving9708]

@@hernanbojacav.8396 how do you get yours to last until end of July? Honestly I wish mine lasted that long but I have to harvest mine a month earlier than y'all do. That doesn't make sense as I'm further North than you. I'm in Southern Missouri

[@terry902]

Mine are ready to pull now, too, last year they went longer. I planted some in late fall for the fun of it and harvested for Christmas and New Year’s, first time ever. Warm winter, hot spring, almost no rain, makes a difference.

[@jmreg7391]

Stay strong brother! The Lord Jesus is coming back soon.

[@Yellowlabratory]

You have super white teeth

[@toddporter9211]

What do you think you could have done different to get more yield? Or is that about all you get from one plant?

[@UPStudios2012]

I have watched all of your videos on growing potatoes in buckets (and all of your other videos as well) and I tried it for the first time this year. I planted Norland Reds in 5 gallon buckets following your instructions, including mixing my own potting mix using Black Cow compost. I planted 4 buckets and even built the rack to set them on. I live in southeast Wisconsin and I got them planted about the first of May. It’s a little bit early but I just couldn’t wait to see if anything was going to be good so I just harvested my first bucket and I was thrilled to find it packed full of very nice looking potatoes. Hollis thank you so much for all of your “teaching “ videos and thanks to Nancy for some tasty recipes. You two are providing a great service. God bless. Paul.

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Very awesome! Job well done 👍🥔👍🥔👍🥔👍🥔

[@jameschainey2343]

Why are lettings them chiting already?

[@ClarenceTrent-oh2vt]

My wife wants me to build a potato tower Do you have plans I can get. Shy pulled off parts of plans but there incomplete.

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

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[@bb2119]

Can you recondition the soil to re-use or is it a "one and done" type of thing?

[@hopemorrison2367]

Potatoes don't do well in containers

[@TheLazyHOAGardener]

I am harvesting my first batch of taters in totes in a few days..so excited.

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

Good luck!

[@tomsrandomness]

I was going to ask this after watching your other container harvest. Truly love the channel and k owledge I've obtained from watching.

[@kentuckymotorsports9815]

I was told to keep the dirt on them or they would go bad.

[@bugs825]

Wheres Nancy at the end?!?!

[@reneewilbur4340]

What did you do with the 30 bucket potatoes? Why aren’t we watching that or all the big potatoes u planted?

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

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[@tamikakirksey3286]

I'm so glad i found your channel. i followed your instructions by the book on my 5 gallon bucket potatoes. i got a huge harvest of them. i even built your bucket stand. thank you so much!

[@growingtexas1772]

I planted Yukon Gold and red La Soda mid Feb. Leaves are just now starting to die back. Not much longer to wait.

[@chrisz.9974]

Have you ever tried growing russet potatoes in the summer of south Florida? I just put mine in a container to see what happens.

[@donnarugar1529]

So, we have to wait 4 weeks before we can use our potatoes? Thank you for all you do to educate us!

[@debrasfrugallife3703]

Nora and I planted alot of potatoes this year . The tips are great to help us make it last longer. 🙏🙏🙏

[@colleenbreedlove6561]

How long to you let them sit if you were gonna eat them?

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

They are ready to eat immediately

[@colleenbreedlove6561]

Thanks! Enjoy watching your videos and are growing many new veggies after watching your videos love to you and Nancy

[@sherrye8977]

That is a very cool tater tower! I need one of those! Love y'all!

[@talancothompson846]

I am interested in your outdoor seed starting system. Can you do a video explaining your method and the system set up. Thanks

[@HollisNancysHomestead]

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