How I Prep My Potatoes For Planting ~ Easy Sprouting/Chitting Potatoes

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Used Coffee grounds for the Ants

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I have heard white vinegar and or fresh coffee, to get rid of ants. Have no clue this is gonna be my first year planting potatoes. God Bless and thank you for your insight

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Watching your potato video and got mine together while I’m making French onion soup with my broth that I learned to can because of you yes you can can!

[@tracipapp8698]

FOR ANTS - try CINNAMON. You may have a different species than up here in the Northern states, but it works! There are several videos showing how to apply it. I made a ring around the potato section last year & no problems. I would like a bigger harvest this year, so appreciate you sharing knowledge of chitting them! Thank you!

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I will have to try this

[@UncleKauffee]

Yes. Citrus too. “Use citrus, like lemons, oranges, or grapefruit and harnesses the power of d-limonene - the acidic oil found in the peels. This oil is toxic to ants” I used cinnamon and citrus when I had my problem and then all of a sudden I didn’t have that problem anymore.

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Uncooked grits and snuff mixed sprinkle over mound natural and works !!!!🐾🐾🐾🐾😊

[@FourSeasons04]

Placing an onion near the potatoes will help expedite the chitting/sprouting process, but ordinarily, you don't want to store the two together for that reason.

[@Sarahbee-o8t]

I planted mine about 2 weeks ago and they are already coming up . I cut mine in pieces where there is an eye on each one of them . I got them in the mail and immediately planted them .,

[@SgtSnausages]

Ohio River Valley here. We like the 2nd to 3rd week of April. I've found a good rule of thumb is to try to target the week the yellow head of the Dandelions start emerging in your yard. Aim to have them in the ground that week. Long stored seed from last year are started chitting a month-ish prior. Newer potatoes that are still quite dormant need between 2 and 3 months to break dormancy and sprout new chits. ALSO : Apical Dominance is a thing (the tendency for sprouting to be limited to the tops). If you want to maximize chits for cutting into more seeds, break off the cluster at the top. They'll then start producing new chits from all the eyes all over the tuber - as well as re-growing the one you broke off. Grocery store 'Taters have never been an issue here. 22 years growing and most of ours started from the Kroger Produce aisle. We save our own most years, but like to start with fresh, new seed every 5 or 6 years. 400-ish pounds a year harvested.

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Nice! Great tips on the taters and WOW, what a haul at 400# harvest! 👍🏻

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I agree with Joan, 400 pounds of potatoes is awesome! If I get 10 or 20 I'll be happy lol. I'll can every one of them after I make a 4th of July pot with fresh green beans. I know that I need to plant those by April 28th in order to get a mess for our cookout. My youngest daughter has a birthday on July 3rd, so we just celebrate it altogether on the 4th. I wish all of us luck this year on our gardens because last year's weather was sooo mixed up! 🙏👍

[@Enchanted_Daisy]

Awesome tips on when to plant them. I always heard to plant around St Patty's day but our last frost is a month away from that. I like your recommendation based on dandelion growth. I'm gonna try this this year.

[@SgtSnausages]

@@Enchanted_Daisy St. Pat's day has dramatically different weather/seasonal variation depending on your location on this giant globe. . We're still 60-ish days away from our last frost on Green Beer Day. Waaaay too early. If St. Pat's works reliable in your area, use it ... but most of the world can't. The Dandelions have evolved to emerge at just the right conditions in most of the Northern Hemisphere. A few light weeks of random overnight frost with warming soils. Gives the potatoes a few weeks to warm up and emerge into frost-free conditions. Probably Southern Hemisphere, too, but I've never been there.

[@crazychickenlady1976]

I was born and raised a Georgialina girl 69 yr ago..my grandma use to put them in a wooden box covered with a dishrag under the wood cookstove to get them to sprout she checked the daily.. that was in the 60’s… she never bought seed potatoes…we were in Lincoln County in the CSRA…red dirt makes the best potatoes ❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you, my potatoes are ready to be planted and yesterday I received my seeds. I'm excited to get them started this weekend. I also changed my chickens feed yesterday and today I got 6 eggs from 18 hens, I'm so happy thank you.

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I planted the purple of Sicily cauliflower from bakers creek, I planted them a little heavy because you said yours didn’t germinate well. I used seed starting mix and watered them I covered them with cling wrap and they came up in less than a week😊

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Similar to essential oils, there are several herbs and spices that can be used to deter ants. Powdered cinnamon, cloves, garlic, cayenne pepper, black pepper, mint, and bay leaves all have the ability to repel ants as they work their way into your home. Sprinkle some around entrance points to keep ants away.

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I like the egg carton idea. I'm going to start leaving my smaller potatoes whole before planting and see if they produce better. Thanks so much.

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My potatoes have been in the ground since November, must be planted in a raised bed. I did it in last year and got enough to make 21 jars using your very well explained method, cold packing, I was worried they'd be too soft, nope, they are perfect, thank you girl

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Cardboard boxes are great for potatoing planting oftentimes they biodegrade which helps feed the doll. Just head to a big box store and ask for some. Thank you for sharing. Blessed be!🙏🏿

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Just got red potatoes from Tractor Supply, they are already spouting. Got to wait for the cold spell t pass in order to plant in buckets.

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My paw always cut the potatoes too small, so we always had small potatoes, a lot of 'em but they were small. What a pain to harvest, store and cook. I plant big potatoes and I get big potatoes.

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I have a bowl of potatoes growing eyes but winter keeps sneaking back in.

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We live in NC and have terrible problems with fire ants, we use Bifen and it works great.

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I have some gold and white potatoes on my egg cartons now ready now to plant but I am waiting for the full moon. lol I've read they grow better if planted on the night of the full moon. I also dip any potato that I cut in wood ash to seal up the cut end ...works great! I have grown potatoes, including sweet potatoes in 5 gal buckets, rubbermade totes, old laundry baskets lined with cardboard and even cardboard boxes! Taters are some of the easiest things to grow! HAPPY GARDENING!

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Potatoes 🥔 Buckets🙋‍♂️ I went to my local landscaping contractor last summer and asked if I can have some or as many 5 gallon plant buckets 🪣 they said I could take all I want from the location next to the dumpster. I took 40 buckets and doubled them up /staggered the drain holes and filled with my 50/50 compost. I left a few from last fall in the garden and they survived the winter freeze and numerous cold days. Without trying I have potatoes 🥔 sprouting already after a good week or two of 60s and sunny days. I live on a cement slab. I keep my potatoes under the steps in my house cardboard boxes with the potential eyes facing up with a small desk type fan pushing/ circling air. I just on Friday planted some of the potatoes in some of the buckets 🪣 for an early start. In April I’ll plant three rows like I did last year to have potatoes available at different times. ❤🎉 one of the easiest things to grow along with squash. I am going to start those seeds next week in a small planter and see what happens. It’s 3rd grade science class Al over again. Excited to see what happens along with what my hens produce in peak season. Changed of the layer feed a month ago and I am now getting eggs on a regular basis where before it was one every 7-10 days from three hens . Now it 2-3 eggs every other day. Again excited to see what next

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Thanks for the reminder. I need to get mine going as well.

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Thanks for this video. I forgot my potatoes & one was rotting in my bag. Omg.

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So love your laugh Mrs H! I wish I could plant my chitted 🥔 right now, but at this moment it is 13 degrees and 8 inches of snow on the ground. 😔 Up here in northern Michigan we can't really plant anything until the first week of June. Having lived in the south, that seems so crazy to me. A short growing season here, for sure!

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Thank you for the information. I have never planted potatoes before so I am trying to learn!

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Have you used diatomaceous earth? That’s what I use for my ants. Re apply reapply ❤

[@cherylfrady4602]

Thanks for this one. I planted taters from the grocery store last year and they ALL flopped! The produce man said they spray some type of retardant. Taught me a hot lession. Still loving the reactions

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Growing potatoes from the store bought ones that sprout just reminds me of being a kid and thinking it was so cool that this even happened.

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You're not the only one who is having trouble with that cauliflower seed...mine to came from bakers creek...my snow cauliflower came up just fine...but that purple one is giving me a bit of a headache to...lol

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Thank you Mrs. H for sharing. I have potatoes with chits and are ready to plant. I can't wait to see what is the next step. Again thank you both for the information and encouragement.

[@lisaedgington3919]

Miss Marie… I got ants in my potted flowers once. I called my granny & she said to put black pepper in them Then water in. I added about 1/2tsp in ea 6”-9” pot & watered it in. The next day they were gone & I never saw ants again in them! It’s cheap & don’t cost a lot. May have to do it more often outside but still. Maybe sprinkle 1tsp to 1Tbls per plant & water in. It’d be worth a try for a whole crop of potatoes! Good luck & God Bless. You might could just mix some in a sprayer & spray the ground around the troubled plants. I’ve heard to mix cornmeal too. Maybe do cornmeal & pepper together!

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Thanks for this video. Potatoes are the 1 thing I need to try. Can't wait to see the planting video.

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My dad would cut them into fours where every their was a eye.

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Home Depot has 27-gallon black totes with yellow tops for $12.

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I live in Alabama and I always plant red potatoes and I use the ones from the store and let them start yes then plant them in containers and get really nice potatoes

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Thank you. I learned not to cut the little potato. That's what I have, so glad I saw this. Appreciate it!

[@sherylhumberger5417]

I always plant potatoes but you are so right if they are small don't cut them in half I did that once trying to get more potatoes. I had hardly any potatoes and if I did they were so small wasn't worth digging them up. I just left them in and they came back the following year which I didn't know they did that. But again they were smaller than a egg so I cleaned them and cooked them with skin on. But then the following year I cut the large ones in half but I planted them right away and lost half of them. I learned from you to let them dry on the cut. So thanks for explaining that cause after that year I planted everything whole. Last year it was a experiment I planted them in large containers and added dirt on top as they grew. After top dried off I dumped buckets out and got a great bunch of potatoes. Any dirt left over I placed on the part of my garden that I put my garlic in. This year at this time I have garlic a couple of inches up and they look hardy. You recommended to put leaves on the bed and I did so. Thank you very much for your info.

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Last year I used cayenne pepper to keep bugs and ants off of my potatoes and tomatoes. A friend also had me pour cheep beer into an aluminum mini pie pan and place randomly around my squash and zucchini. It draws those pesky squash bugs and tomato worms to it and they leave your plants alone. It worked so well that I will be doing this again this year. Love your show!!! Thanks for all of the tips!!!

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So glad to see you Mrs Homestead Heart. This video came right on time, I’ll be starting potatoe also. But I am going to try the grow bags.ISpy with my little 👀eyes canning jars turned upside down, are you getting ready to Can or are you just washing up your jars. If you’re getting ready to can take us with you Mrs H . We all love your canning videos.

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Some herbs that will keep ants away are catnip, pennyroyal, peppermint, sage, and spearmint. Scattering the leaves of these plants in areas where you've seen ants may keep them away. Tansy will work on sugar ants.

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Will it make them abandon their ant hills 🐜 ?

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I have been watching you for a long time, and enjoy your videos so much. About the ants. Put dry corn meal on the ant beds and also around the potatoes. The ants will eat the dry cornmeal, but they cannot digest it. They will eat it and feed it to the queen and they will ALL die. I've used this many times, it WORKS. How this helps. God bless.

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Thank you for all the good info. We have our potatos in a paper sack and are ready when they are. It is such a joy to watch y'all and we learn so much! Happy gardening.

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Thank you very much! I needed the information you gave today. I am planning on containers for my sweet potatoes.

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Don't wait for the garden, practice on good produce sales & butter & meat market deals now while you wait! Happy canning!🌻

[@jillian1515]

16:30 Yes!!! 🐜 Fill empty dry water bottles with dry honey and sugar and borax. Shake til chunky. Poke holes for ants to get in and out. They'll take it home and kill the queens and the rest. Careful with dogs!

[@Fmkayla]

Thanks for sharing I would never thought less then an egg size. Now I know not to cut down to small

[@SJennings-lt9tp]

Have you tried diatomaceous earth for ants? Specifically food-grade diatomaceous earth. It’s not the fastest method but it is safe and effective. It also works on other pests like slugs.

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I've used the $1 or $2 fabric grocery bags to grow all kinds of stuff!

[@deidremcilwain6484]

Love all your advice. My moringa have sprouted. 6 so far. Ants don't like cinnamon. Sprinkle and pot inside and out. The Ants will leave. Just keep the cinnamon available.

[@janetroche3648]

So, you don't cut your potatoes...never thought of that. We have always cut the potatoes into however many pieces, depending on how many eyes are sprouting unless it's going to cause them to be pretty small, but at the least we've always cut them in half. So now, I will plant them whole. Thank you 💜

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I started my red acre and golden acre cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower seeds that I purchased from you and everything germinated quickly!! I just planted them on the 21st and they are all about an inch tall already!!