How To Properly Dig And Store Potatoes

[@joewilson1457]

I live about 100 miles East of you and I planted my potatoes February 16 and my green beans March 7 and I have the best potatoes and green beans this year that I've had in 10 years, another good show

[@gardeningwithhoss]

That is awesome!

[@TXDHC]

I live in East Texas and I too planted mine Feb 14 and harvest a couple weeks ago. The best harvest yet.

[@1Melody1963]

Your grand daughters are precious. Thank you for sharing your time with them with us on here. Good looking harvest of potatoes too.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

So nice of you

[@nolawarren3560]

that face with holding the worm, was precious

[@jtharp9265]

So adorable

[@christianspain3015]

Great video Greg. I agree, potatoes are awesome and a wonderful long-term food source when stored right. Thanks for the video.

[@MyTNMtnHome]

You finally got some help in the garden! Kids are the best!

[@crystalpatten7413]

Great harvest potatos looking good

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for visiting

[@johnkeyes5719]

Very well done Mae, Charlie, and Greg.....

[@carlprice64]

Thanks, it's always good to see videos like this, that confirm what I learned growing up. You get foggy with your memory when you lay off from growing stuff for several years due to life events.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@carlprice64]

@@gardeningwithhoss Always do...

[@jeffmann6187]

Nice potato harvest, its hard to find good help : ) good job

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You’re right about that! 🤣

[@davidward1259]

Great video Greg! Love seeing the younger generations getting involved in gardening!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Couldn't agree more!

[@heyphilphil]

Just diggin up my HOSS Yukon Golds and French Fingerlings! delicious. I highly recommend the fingerlings....I fertilized once in the beginning and didn't even hill them just kept them watered and covered with spent hay. They did awesome. I like how strong and solid their top growth is even. Average 5-12 potatoes per plant.....with little care. Plus studies show the red and purple potatoes are the healthiest because of the high anthosyathins in them. Winning! 🥔

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for the tips!

[@aquilaclark814]

Your little helpers are cute little troopers..They are learning a lot how fortunate..🙌🏽🙌🏽..This was a great video I did not know you were not supposed to wash them ..thanks for the info🥰

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@lindaSee89]

Thanks for answering my question. Great helpers Mr. Hoss.

[@karenzorn773]

So cute seeing grandkids with Grandpa. Loved this. Great harvest.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Azaria7026]

I love the peace love and reading shirt!!! Very helpful potato info - thank you! My second year trying them…very timely!

[@markb3129]

That was a great harvest for a 35 foot row, with some cute helpers!! My two grandsons helped harvest our red ones yesterday, we got 59lbs from a 60 foot row.. ✌🏻

[@gardeningwithhoss]

That is awesome!

[@savageairsoft9259]

That's some good helpers there! Thanks for sharing the information! Jn3:16

[@gregblanton9386]

Great harvest! Yukon Gold is a early variety, usually they are ready a couple weeks earlier than our red potatoes.

[@glenns4900]

Great video and excellent audio!!

[@scootherring9314]

It’s almost time for me to dig Sure wish I had a couple good helpers like yours lol enjoyed the video

[@michellebosworth7792]

Good helpers there

[@k.p.1139]

Excellent work Hoss and Hossettes 😄 Greg, my taters vines are HUGE and just starting to flower. The batch I dug 2 weeks ago was a bust? I may have got back what I put in. They too were beautiful plants. But, this round, I'm going to watch for the vines to fall and see what we get. I was always told to wait until the vines were dead. Not this time. When those babies fall. They are coming up.

[@cindysye8047]

I planted taters for the first time this year and I'm so nerv-xcited to see if I got anything, the plants are big and seem really healthy, I planted in containers and watered today before I watched, we expect rain this weekend so maybe I'll see about harvesting Friday.

[@Sheenasalesthriftytreasures]

Great video I enjoyed watching thank you very informative

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching

[@stephenseiwert9672]

Your grandkids are adorable

[@PineyWoodsHomestead]

Those are some fine farm hands you've got there Greg! Digging taters has to be the most fun in the garden for us too!

[@chelinfusco6403]

Our Potato crop was hit by two freezes and two heavy frosts, so plants look like short dead weeds. Kicked around one plant and there were some golf ball size ones. So this week will be digging in the patch and seeing if anything else made it. South Carolina Zone 8. Also lost all our plumbs and most of the peaches. Corn ,beans pumpkins watermelons are looking good though. PS: The multiplying onions we bought from you are looking FANTASTIC!

[@ablejohnson]

Great Video! Good job!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for the visit

[@mrs.rabbit621]

I live within 50 miles of Hoss Tools and was wondering whether you could grow a second crop of taters September through October.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Absolutely

[@mrs.rabbit621]

@@gardeningwithhoss so, I just found this video of a good looking young man planting fall potatoes in South Georgia. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4K0oX6VnJJmitk

[@articmars1]

@@gardeningwithhoss can you do that in South Louisiana too? Or would that not be a good idea for this area? ( providing we dont get flooded out by a hurricane this year)

[@bigl4765]

Got be time to go fishin after all that diggin!

[@heyphilphil]

More potato and sweet potato videos like this. Epic!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

More to come!

[@genebritnelljustdigitfarms2607]

I love those Yukon golds

[@dear_prudence]

Wow real princesses in Georgia! Who knew? :)

[@gardeningwithhoss]

👏🏼👏🏼

[@mommajscountrygardening]

Awesome. I have 2 Jr gardeners and the help is fantastic. Great job, little feet!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Yes they are!

[@maryvt3075]

Those French fries sure grew some nice potatoes 🥔

[@tommathews3964]

Love a good tater diggin'! Charlee and Mae are pretty good help! Those are beautiful Yukons and I know y'all will enjoy for a while to come!

[@Shadowfax2121]

Ayyyy I planted 3 35' rows in my rear garden and another 35' in the side garden. Yukon Gold Kennebec Red Norland Dakota Rose (only 8 seed) Russet Burbank 1 row was dedicated for Fingerlings - Magic Molly, Russian Banana, French Fingerlings and Pinto Gold - Fingerlings are proving to be the fastest growing of the lot, I have started running out of media to hill with as a result lol.. I am hoping I can get some hay soon before they topple over 😐

[@Shadowfax2121]

Also those girls are troopers, you got a pair of great helpers there.

[@Hatfield_Country]

Nice harvest and good information!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for visiting

[@jessieneesmith3908]

Awesome love the video love the two little girls they were awesome thank you for the info on the potatoes hey friend in Georgia

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks so much

[@slomo1716]

Hey there GrandPappy - on that first tater pull, did you BLIND the girls with the potato soil dust? They cracked me up with their reactions, but not a peep or complaint from these little darling girls!!! Are these the same adorable girls who planted french fries for potatoes with you? Cute as buttons! Thanks for the potato tutorial- we had a crib in the cellar (dirt cellar floor) where we stored our tators, and when digging in for a bunch, coming out with a mushy rotten really bad stinking tator was an unforgettable experience.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

yes, same girls that helped with planting.

[@enaid54]

Was that onions beside the potatoes? Do you store them the same way?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

yes, and yes

[@garyschmelzer]

I noticed when he was pushing it wheelbarrow that corn sure looks good nice and green looks like the tips of those leaves are burnt a little bit which is good. Why is it tasseling short

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Crazy weather patterns here. May have got a little stressed out with a cold snap and frost when first planted.

[@garyschmelzer]

@@gardeningwithhoss yeah same pattern here in north east Florida

[@elaineh2286]

Dirty little hands make good gardeners. Great job girls! My Yukon Gold are almost ready too that I got from your grandpa. Hope mine are that big!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

I hope so too!

[@ccthepope]

Wow, Greg you had some great help!

[@mrmudcatslim1004]

Was wondering plot size, and number. Do you have a certain row length to make it easier to determine fertilizer amounts? I am pretty new at it myself. Enjoy your content and get a good bit out of it. Thinking of buying drip tape next go round after watching some info on it on your channel.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Check out or growing guides on hoss university hosstools.com/potato-growing-guide/

[@charlesrussell6201]

Hi Gregg. Shouldn't the taters be covered up to keep sunlight off them after you placed them on the barn floor>

[@susanholzberg5967]

Planted red potatoes this year and harvested a couple of weeks ago. I put them spread out in my basement which has between 40 to 60 % humidity. They are starting to get soft. Will they last to be used for seed this fall? I live in mid SC.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

good question. You may have to move to a different location with less humidity

[@articmars1]

Can you dice them and freeze them? Our humidity is way to high here to store properly and. I don't have a barn lol.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

yes you can, see attached article on some ways to do it www.eatingwell.com/article/7826500/can-you-freeze-potatoes/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20you%20can%20freeze%20potatoes,using%20all%20those%20frozen%20spuds.

[@PearlsLilAngel]

Very informative. Can they sit in a dark room. With ac on?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Yes, absolutely

[@janinewasson4216]

I have reading about letting the potatoes sit out so the skins will thicken. Will that still occur with how you stored them?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

yes it will

[@susanmaguire1503]

My 2 cents about potato varieties for zone 6a/6b/7a, East and Southeast MA: Early - Dk Red Norland, not the best storage potato but early!, Mid - Kennebuc, be careful of the thin skin but stores well, Late - Kathedin, great storage potato, Very Very Late - Russet Burbank - takes longer to cure but excellent storage potato.

[@paulblankenship7865]

I like diggin taters with my little helpers too Greg. It’s lonesome when I dig them alone.

[@brad0805]

What do you do about mice and such that wants your potatoes?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We have outside barn cats.

[@brad0805]

@@gardeningwithhoss aww. OK 👍👌

[@ronniepate4315]

Now Greg are you sure your not breaking some rules , having that much fun digging taters . Just kidding , I always thought it's kinda like Christmas digging taters . Will they be golf balls or wheel barrels loads . Loved the video .

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You got that right!

[@PLJS2018]

Thank you !!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You're welcome!

[@danielleterry180]

Greg if I store mine in covered leanto should I put a fan on them I am in south texas and it’s already high 90’s to 104f ? I was going to dehydrate and valcumn seal the majority of them because of our heat index

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Would not hurt.

[@bambam5130]

Grew my first taters this year. I grew red norland in containers and harvested at 70 something days. Just harvested the last bucket yesterday and did pretty good I guess.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Sounds like you did excellent

[@TXDHC]

Mr Armadillo determined when I was going to harvest my taters!!! And dang if it wasn't about 75 days! 😋

[@MyTNMtnHome]

Does is not get too hot? We have 95-100 degree days and I am wondering where in the world I could keep my taters.

[@waydebratcher9921]

Do you have a problem with mice or bugs being on the ground like that?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

no we do not, but we have a few outside cats at the barn

[@mikemiller209]

Do the ants ever get them on the ground like that?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

no have not had that issue.

[@shamshersinghfarmernews884]

👍 💚

[@brianschindler1511]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@pete7935]

I'm in Colorado and The potatoes I brought from you never sprouted, you shipped them Way too early and by the time I got them planted in May 1st They were half rotten, really disappointed in you guys

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Sorry to hear Pete.

[@TEXASdaughter]

do rats crawl over and eat the potatoes in the barn.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

not had that issue. We do have some barn cats around