The Garden, Harvest. Time to Pick The Potatoes.

It was time to harvest the potatoes. I have grown many pounds of potatoes and every year I learn something new. Here is this years harvest.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Awesome Harvest Joe! Looks like you don't need a potato fork, you did great with just a shovel!

[@ForgingFreedomTV]

I love how you sit through every inch of dirt with your fingers :-) it's just something wonderful about getting your hands in the dirt. Just harvested mine I planted Red Lasotas this year because that's all they had at the feed store. My vines had collapsed but we're still quite green. I decided to harvest them anyway because after stealing a few new potatoes I noticed The gophers were starting to get into them. Out of a 16 ft row one ply wide, I harvested a 5 gallon bucket full

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

Patriot Gal Prepper I agree, I love digging through and making sure you get them all. I have always been a person that always planted Pontiac reds and I also am strict on planting Bush Blue Lake 274 green beans. This year I planted the Red Lasotas like you did and I did a different green bean on part of a row. I cant remember what they were and would have to look back at the video lol. I have never had such a great yield on my red potatoes and next year will be looking for the lasotas again. On the beans I liked how the type I grew were straighter than the 274s which made it easier to cut up for canning. Nice job on the 5 gallon bucket. I LOVE red potatoes. Thank you Patriot Gal Prepper. Joe

[@HighDesertGarden]

Enjoyed the potato harvest. There is no need to till the organic matter into the soil. All you have to do is layer it and let it mulch. This is why it's called 'top soil.'

[@camanojim]

potatoes are my favorite thing to grow. they grow well here in western Wa. our valley farms here are nothing but spuds and corn. I did 5 varieties this year and i grew fingerings for the first time, wow what a prolific producer they are. This year I got my soil so loose that I was able to just dig in with my hands I bet next year you will be able to with all that good stuff you will be adding. great video!!!

[@maria311adams]

awesome harvest I only have few on my garden but I will wait and harvest time it's my first time planting potatoes.. here also in Minnesota still learning.. thank you so much..

[@taneilman]

I think you did good I used to have a garden every year but now I live where I can not plant.

[@albertledesma5173]

This made me want to eat potatoes in literally ANY way they can be prepared! Awesome video!

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

I love potatoes. Thank you. Joe

[@brambleranch7166]

Fine looking pile of potatoes. Well done!

[@grasspickinD28]

I get an incredible potato harvest here in Ohio every year... I burn wood in the winter and put all my ashes where i plant my taters, they like the PH to be on the acid side, i also mound them a few times while growing. Carrots are very hard to grow here so last year i bought a lot of sand and mixed it with my soil, probably 50/50 and my carrots turned out great... Keep up the good videos

[@mingsong]

grasspickinD28 ashes are very alkaline isn’t it?

[@bubbathrift5498]

Joe definitely start ridging your rows. And add to your ridges with the dirt from the middles or between your rows each time you weed your garden. We did rows the same length as yours and would have 8-10 bushel baskets full or white or sweet potatoes this way. Keep them fertilized well too with something like 17-17-17 or 8-0-24. Good luck with your next garden. Recently discovered your channel and can't quit watching. Keep up the good work.

[@mikaylatourigney7816]

Very informative and now I will know how and when to harvest mine 👍🏻

[@bos4t]

very informative. Thanks for the post!

[@RodneyPairrett]

Good haul, Joe. I add soil on top of mine as they grow. Someone allowed me to convince myself that it will make more potatoes. I usually end up with about 6 to 8 inch hills above the remaining soil level on the other rows. Gonna try your stir fry idea with the inner cauliflower stem pretty soon.

[@saded7135]

Hi, loved the video. I had a couple potatoes in a bag that I forgot about and they had some root son them so I put them in a planter. The plant has beautiful leaves and is about a foot or so tall already. I guess I will have to wait til it flowers then the leaves dry out and then time to pick and see if I do have potatoes. This is fun and I think I will do it in the back yard next year in the ground. I didn't know it would grow, I was just hoping :)

[@RodneyPairrett]

I feel like it does, Joe, but I could be wrong. I let the stem grow about 3 inches above the surface and then add more soil as they grow. I also pour a pound of sugar about 3 feet from the main root of my grapes, blueberries and scuppernongs. An older lady once told me that it makes them sweeter, so I took her advice.

[@marilyncabahit218]

Ur soil looks pretty dry,but nice harvest potatoes i love harvesting actually.god bless Sir nice vid.

[@Earle96]

I don't know anything about farming but this looks like fun!

[@no-3607]

UN Spacey

[@backyardgarden566]

Give it a shot, it is! The Yukon golds that I'm growing this year sprouted in my pantry without me knowing. I wasn't even planning on growing them and now I'm going to have an extra surprise harvest later in the year. Check out my videos for more! :)

[@Rhiahl]

Planting in the same area when you find something eating your crop is a brave move there Joe. You can till and till that stuff but those bugs will be waiting next year. I think I'd put the carrots, parsnips and other root veggies there and move the taters over to where the carrots are. At least you'll find out if it's a general root crop pest if it hits the other crops.

[@mcdeadsquirrel]

Great Vid. Thank you. Great Advice!!

[@RedBerryatHomesteadHopes]

Nice crop of potatoes!!! Fresh potatoes are delicious with cooked green beans & bacon~Cajun Style! LOL Take care.

[@fire7side]

Pretty nice crop. My plants are still living so I'm waiting. At least I know I can do it with a shovel in a pinch.

[@stephenelkins8045]

Good video. Thanks for the info.

[@GardeningWithPuppies]

I enjoyed your potato harvesting reveal. I will be harvesting mine here in, Florida very soon. If mine are half as successful as yours I will be happy. Thanks for sharing.

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

Gardening With Puppies Thank you. I am just now uploading the tilling of this years garden video. My potatoes get planted later this week. Thanks again. Joe

[@whitehotnexus7]

Great job with the potatoes!

[@Alamoosook1952]

Thanks! That was very helpful!

[@amynguyen7]

Those are some pretty potatoes you dug up. Thanks for doing this video. I'm growing potatoes this year and am excited to get half the harvest you got. :)

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

Thanks Amy. I was just out looking at my plants last night and they are starting to flower. When you see the flowers it means the plant had decided to start putting its energy into making potatoes. Good luck. Joe

[@survivewithout]

looked like a great harvest

[@kk294Darlene]

Thanks for the helpful information, guess I have a few weeks left my plants are still very green :D God Bless you,. btw your garden looks amazing :D

[@TheSimmy77]

Wow, great potatoes!!

[@1andonlylynda]

didn't plant any this year but in my compost pile I have 4 beautiful plants. Better looking than my neighbours. nice haul of them though.

[@Dudus108]

Super turnout! I planted mine in a toll garbage container, i keep adding soil as the plants grow, will see if in fact there will be more potatoes this way!

[@lotzoso]

Wow, I can't believe your potatoes have already turned. I live 13 miles south of Wisconsin and mine are still green. My past results are the same as yours though. I have more red potatoes but they are more likely to be invaded than the fewer whites. It is unfortunate because I prefer the reds. My late starting onions are looking really good now. We had way too much rain after planting then almost drought conditions and finally normal rains. Corn is going crazy here! Huge ears compared to past.

[@rowenacernada1953]

I learnt from this...thanks for uploading

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

+Rowena Cernada Thank you for the nice comment. Glad I could help. Joe

[@Outdoorsman1515]

Nice job!!!

[@katkey645]

very helpful thank you

[@bnahberi]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

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[@rosihayes8254]

Say, do your potatoes have blight? They seem to have died down a bit early, and there were not all that many. It's nice that you are satisfied. When did you plant them? If you planted them in May they died down too soon. I have been battling this problem since I moved here. My harvest has been comparable to yours and I have been complaining. At home potatoes did much better, the plants did not die down until late September. We dug them middle to end of Sept. and the plants were still somewhat green and when you pulled one out, you shook off half a dozen taters and had more than that left in the ground. We grew about two tons, mixed regular potatoes and feed potatoes. We planted potatoes in May and I had them frostbitten at times. I just dug the volunteer ones that I missed last year and that stayed in the ground over winter and came up on their own in early spring (March). They were frostbitten severly. That has been four months, and the vines were still vines. I pulled them out with potatoes attached. The amount and size was better, too. I am using potatoes we grew for propagation rather than buying all seed.. The potatoes I planted I soaked first in H2O2 before planting. I am taking desperate measures. A few plants started to show signs of dying and I succumbed to spraying. Also, the plants grown from my potatoes look better and are bigger than the ones that I started from bought seed potatoes. (Yukon gold, supposedly blight resistant). I am waiting with bated breath how they do this year. So far they are still alive. Looking green, bushy and healthy. My dream is to grow a decent crop. I hate those grubs. We had an awful infestation once. Rhubarb died, so I dug it up to see what was going on and there were 37 grubs eating the root. We had what must have been thousands. They like soil with organic matter. We put a hot wire around the garden and got a couple of pigs, they loved them. Chickens did not get to the level of where the grub was living. I would dig coffee cans full of them and toss them to the fowl, but there was more than I could do. Their momma is a June bug, also called May beetle.

[@PRMami1576]

Wow, loved it!! I'm growing potatoes by accident. :) I put potato skins in the container where I was growing a cabbage and guess who sprouted?! Hahaha. The plants are about 12" high now, and I see from your video that I need to wait till they dry out?? It's been 4 months, guess I'll keep watching them. The cabbage, which by the way, has two heads, is ready to be picked! :)

[@janastormont2278]

Helpful! Thanks!

[@EPIKREAPERNIGHTMARE]

EP1K! Awesome harvest Joe! Wonder if any the bad tatoes would make good bait for your crawdad traps should give it a try atleast once

[@ChristopherFranko]

awesome!!

[@ShawnAndera]

I think that is pretty good haul for potatoes. But then I'm not a potato farmer. lol. Good video.

[@sunnyjoe66]

I grow Organic Potatoes and do not spray them with anything. I tried Sarpo Blight resistant Organic Potatoes a few years ago and these are very good. I tried Coleen Blight resistant and these are an Irish variety last year and are good. I have some Coleen earlies about 8 plants growing. The other type are Richill main crop Blight resistant Organic and I seem to have a brilliant crop,have not dug up any yet ,these are flowering. I have a habit of digging them up to early ,so this time I will leave it a bit later in order to get a better crop but I might dig up one of the Coleens to check.The date at this moment is 14th july 2014 Dublin Ireland.

[@sunnyjoe66]

Interesting you seem to be getting the same amount of Potatoes per plant as I am and I thought I should get more.Usually when I buy the Seed Potatoes there is to much in the Bag for the growing area but I put them down to grow anyway and they are more closer together than the norm but things work out fine. I had some Potatoes left from last year still in the soil that were not dug up or they fell off the clumps and they sprung up again so I arranged them in rows and have about 8 plants from these and are earlies. The other type are main crop and are flowering now for a couple of weeks. I am going to dig up some of the earlies to see what I got as these are last years ones. Dublin Ireland.

[@joewhiteman9462]

a pitch fork make easy work getting them out of the ground,and I think u spaced them just a little to far apart.

[@EarthFairy100]

Very interesting!

[@mrputerz]

Thanks! Awesome video... Keep it up.. :)

[@brianfoley8157]

Thank You! I live in Toronto Canada. Today I ate potatoes and wondered what kind of work it is for people to harvest potatoes. I have looked at a number of different videos that include everything from gardeners to huge farming machines, and, sizes in between. My question as a city dweller is, what kind of food do the people who grow food crops, have the safest, healthiest, most enjoyable time growing?

[@robertmorley3609]

Good video again! I'm in southern Ontario and planted my seed potatoes May 18 in containers. The growth has been tremendous, I've earthed them up twice, to the top of the containers and now at the end of June, some are flowering already. Seems real early, don't you think?

[@btwarner2124]

Perfect with a pork steak in the grill and some veggies. I made that fr dinner last night. You inspired me:)

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[@jeremyowen2892]

Thanks very helpful.

[@deannapruett]

that is a lot of potatoes. and i just absolutly love goats and rabbits. you should get chickens. 8 hens and 1 rooster for eggs and chicks. and a few other chickens for meat.

[@RodneyPairrett]

Joe, just watched something interesting on here. If you get a chance, do a search for "growing potatoes in tires". A guy has a potato plant growing inside tires and the plant is like 4 or 5 tires high and still growing.

[@mountnman100]

You made me really kick myself for not growin taters this year. I think you should consider "zoning" your garden a bit. I only thought of it as I watched, and it made me reconsider the rowing system we use as gardeners. We seem to do it big farm style without considering the shade and sunlight of our gardens. Something to think about anyway. Keep em comin.

[@JanesGrowingGarden]

I'm wondering if you have the same blight issues as we do in the UK. I'm in the middle of England and each year there is a bit of nail biting going on hoping that we can harvest the spuds before blight strikes! And I'd never heard of a potato fork until now - looks like something for the Christmas list!

[@1975Jdonov]

Before you fertilize you should do a soil test. Potatoes do well in slightly acidic soil and can have problems with scabbing if your using unprocessed manure.

[@paperpillows1]

Use cover crops to add nitrogen and reduce tillage as it compacts the soil over time.

[@pamp5797]

Oh nice spuds also.

[@nobody845]

love you buddy

[@melissa70817]

Nice!

[@ryanwilliams4223]

Hi,I was adding stuff to my compost bin yesterday and found half a potatoe in there with a plant growing from it,ive now planted that under ground in my herb garden,pretty amazing really that this happened in a compost bin with no sun light etc,im just wondering how long it will take before I need to pull them from the ground ? and when will more start growing ?

[@Happyplants]

what if some potatoes grow little bit away from your digging tool ...you missed them?

[@billydone7424]

On about store bought potatoes..UK. I buy from ASDA just bog standard reds..I have had great yields from them.They are great for boilied,mash.roast..£2.50 for about twenty tata's i leave them in my cupboard until they sprout (spring time).and they are a great way to have good wholesome no poison harvest..

[@poppopscarvinshop]

Great Lookin Taters! :-) Thanks Much!

[@stevearmstrong9071]

I use to enjoy growing potatoes but the bugs and worms got so bad that I stopped. That's some really black looking soil your composting is really paying off.

[@lynluzada1130]

wow nice

[@MsKirky07]

okay so this is a great video. i kind of had a feeling of when to harvest and you confirmed it for me. it's my first experience with potatoes. i had a feeling that something was going on with the store bought potatoes as not many of them had the eyes popping out like they did when i was a kid but i did get lucky with one of the potatoes. i cut it into about 4 or 5 pieces and i now have 4 or 5 plants. my question is for next year...where the heck do you buy potato plants? lol...i've never seen seed packets or actual potato plants anywhere. any thoughts here would be greatly appreciated.

[@kaylalovespups3441]

+Deborah Kirkland you can buy potatoes that are for planting called "seed potatoes" :)

[@lenty2000]

Great video, was that in real time? You were whipping those things out of the ground!

[@johnsmith-hb1ry]

Im a complete rookie gardner i had a few peppers and tommatos last year and realized how amazing it feels to grow somethin from start to finish i went a bit crazy and planted a bit of everything without really thinking knowing much about when to harvest found out the hard way that radishes are very quick lol your vids are a great help very well explained and easy to understand thanx bro. Mh question is on my potatos the leaves have many tiny bite marks from small black tick or flea size bugs will this hurt the actual potato or not

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

It might and then again might not. You need the green part to grow well so the potatoes dont get stressed.Go and buy "seven dust" and dust the plants, it works well and its what my Grandmother used and told me about over 25 years ago. She is long gone now but it takes care of everything. Thanks John for the nice comment. Joe

[@yourmother3207]

+JoeandZachSurvival I don't want no pesticides on my food

[@Pastlifepioneerwomancentury]

Did you ever dig up the store bought potatoes in this video? was curious on how that went when it was time to to harvest those?

[@shericreates]

This is the first time trying to grow potatoes. I am growing them in 5 gallon buckets and 2 big bins. I’m confused when to pull them up. The tops are still green and growing. I am in Washington and we have had an incredible dry year. One bucket did die off and there are no more greens. Do they still grow underneath? Thanks for the video!

[@DreamGyrl360]

So okay I have a question -- because this is our first year with gardening and we're doing REALLY WELL (better than expected!) -- when the potato plants begin to wilt, do you continue to water them UNTIL they start to look DEAD-dead, like what you're digging up there?

[@DreamGyrl360]

And THEN you stop watering?

[@hosoiarchives4858]

DreamGyrl360 keep watering, the roots still need it

[@sallyf2969]

The ground is so dry, do you stop watering them before you did them up? I'm still watering our but maybe I should stop?

[@mrsseasea]

How did the store bought potatoes do?

[@dapappacn]

Great taters'! What's up with the rabbit situation? Haven't heard any news on them for a while? Keep up the interesting programming. Thanks.

[@gregorybowron5415]

Do you have a problem with Deer in your garden without a fence in Northern Minnesota?

[@mbgcweather8517]

Do you know or what do you suggest is the latest you can plant potatoes ( early variaties like red norland )in Central Illinois thx

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

+Compilation 822 Its hard to say, if you watch my videos on my other channel called northernseclusion, we just planted potatoes last week in southern Louisiana at my girlfriend Melissas house. Up here in MN I like to get them done about now and if I was you I would get them in the ground right away and I think you will still have success. Its potato and onion time right now. Thank you. Joe

[@pamp5797]

Nice dirt.

[@joanstopke6581]

e in apple valley and i was just wondering what area you live in i get good potatoes in a bucket i love reds i use a little silt dirt i got from the becker potatoe farms

[@randude1]

i got amazing potatoes this year.. then again, i am in Idaho... :-)

[@billysmith7020]

when i was going up at home dad would give me a weed whip today it a weedeater but after they flower i would cut the steam back dad said if they made alot of top that the potatoes wold not make big i though he was a little off but we all ways had a good crop next year cut a 2 hills back after they flower see what happen i live in ky

[@moefritz6225]

But what happens if you pull them out before the stalks die?

[@brian1920]

I'm not trying to be rude but if you worked the soil before planting and added compost and a lot of perlite to the soil then mounded the row about 6-8inch mounds you would get a much higher yield.

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

Maybe so but I have years of videos on gardening on this channel and every year I grow more than 3 years of food that I could actually eat so I ask you... Why?

[@rw3al]

Good video. This will be my first year planting potatoes. so far the tops are very green and seem to be doing good. I have had to spray them twice this year for bugs. Do you have an estimate on how many pounds you got? Thanks and take care....Ricky

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

I never did weigh them but I had lots of potatoes for sure. If the potato beatles get bad Sevin garden dust always worked well for me. Thank you. Joe

[@jeffwilliams4574]

thanks

[@angelonajourney2405]

Where do the potatoes come from? If you plant one potato does it just grow a bunch of other potatoes out of itself??? Oooh is the potato plant (with the leaves) something I’m not seeing

[@TheMuffinBurgler]

I grow potatoes in planters, but the small space leaves me with fewer potatoes than I should get. I'd like to plant in the ground, but we have a huge gopher population. How do you avoid gophers and other ground pests?

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

TheMuffinBurgler I do not have any gopher trouble here, at least not anymore but I do have trouble with the huge white worms chewing on them. I prefer to get them dug as soon as the plant dies if I have the time to keep the chewing at a minimum. The gophers that use to be here I trapped out and they have not returned. Thank you. Joe

[@JackGeezy85]

Cool video, i would love to make some fries out of those

[@LadyLion121]

Did you plant potato seeds or did you plant the potato tuber? If you are planting a small part of the potato with a sprout, will it work? :) Thank you :D i grew potato when I was a kid. I didn't know that I had to let the plant dry. Very informative, thank you loads!! :) BTW, is there anything to increase the potato yield other than maneuver (not available here) :)

[@mishkastuff7783]

You can plant them if you cut the potato in parts where the eyes are or buds whatever you call them :)

[@mishkastuff7783]

It really works :)

[@LadyLion121]

Mishkastuff77 Thank you loads

[@thomasmcguffie5127]

I have a question. Do red potatoes take longer to sprout than whites? I planted both and all of my whites have sprouted but none of my reds have. If anyone knows the answer please inform me.

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

Yes they do. Hang tight, it can sometimes take 3 weeks before they all pop up. Thank you. Joe

[@thomasmcguffie5127]

Thank you.

[@woody11363]

How many plants was that you picked?

[@woody11363]

Awesome harvest by the way

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

+Jaqualin Pennyman I cant remember the exact number of plants but I had the two rows that are 36 feet long and I believe last year I planted them 2 feet apart. It was either 24 inches apart or 18 inches. Either way, you get quite a few potatoes in a short amount of space. Thank you. Joe

[@woody11363]

JoeandZachSurvival Ok, Wow thanks alot

[@avrillategan5148]

other videos says harvest when they flower..u say when they start dying down...which is the correct way?

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

When they flower they are JUST starting to make potatoes. do NOT harvest then. I have a video coming up on this channel, its already been filmed and I just need to edit it but was waiting until it gets closer to spring but I think I will edit it and get it uploaded soon. I went through the whole potato season. From planting to watching them grow to flowering and then watching the plants die off and then harvest. It is going to be similar to my video on the life cycle of an onion which has over 300,000 views. This video will be "The life cycle of a potato" I will get that uploaded in the next couple weeks and it will show you everything. Thank you. Joe

[@avrillategan5148]

Thank u so much..

[@aidan5720]

actually when i was starting my horticulture patch and i grew a potato plant, i pulled out one that didnt flower on accident and i got small potatos. so when the plant flowers it means its ready for harvest. if it dies it means you forgot to take care of it.

[@gone176]

Avril Lategan when they start dying

[@loveablemiller565]

Avril Lategan ikr am confused mines flower a while back waiting for it to die and its spring up more. its been past 72days so I don't know. I do it for fun with my son he really likes and keeps ask when is the potatoes coming and I don't know what to say

[@backyardgarden566]

Exciting. My potatoes are looking great so far and I hope I can have a successful yield. If you are interested I'm growing purple majesty and Yukon gold potatoes. Both are container grown. Check out my videos for more!

[@janiceb4679]

my potato plants didn't get very many flowers on them. does that mean I won't have as many potatoes?

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

+Janice B I do not think the flowers have anything to do with the potatoes except for the fact that when a potato plant grows it produces all the green plant part the first month or so and then it creates the flowers. After that the plant stops growing pretty much and then all the energy goes into making the potatoes. I do not think how many flowers effects how many potatoes. You can still be excited Janice that you will get a crop. Wait until the plant dies completely and then dig them up and see what you get. Thank you. Joe

[@janiceb4679]

Ok, more and more of them dying down each day. Thanks for the reassurance. I thought something was going wrong.

[@turtleman5111]

JoeandZachSurvival ok, my tots just started flowering last week, here in Pa; 1 video says to cut the flowers off, because the plant uses its 'energy' promoting the flowers,+ not the tots! What do you think? I was gonna cut the flowers off.

[@yezzzsir]

My potatoes turn green when I dig them up. How do I stop this if its a problem?

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

+yezzzsir You have to keep them out of direct sunlight. The sun turns them green and the green parts are not edible.

[@thrakerzad5874]

+JoeandZachSurvival I heard they along with the leaves of the plant are toxic, the green parts that is.

[@tackssherbo7104]

Kennebecs? I am surprised that you had so few of them. They must not have liked the soil, or the moisture level, or maybe you didn't hill them enough. Potatoes must have loose soil. We used to plant Kennebec (25 acres of them!!!) and two other kinds, and the Kennebecs were always enormous potatoes. Many weighed almost a pound. And your climate would be about the same as NY in an upper elevation, so it has to be your soil quality. You do realize, don't you, that potatoes like, and must have, lots of water and lots of fertilizer while they are green and growing?

[@tstep522]

So I am SE of the twin cities and I am having a terrible time with gophers, do you have any issues with them, and if so what have you done in the past to prevent them stealing all of your root veggies?

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

+Troy Stephens I no longer have any trouble and it depends on what type you have. If you have the pocket gophers that make the dirt mounds I have trapped hundreds of them years ago and if you were to trap them by the garden pretty soon you wouldn't have much trouble either. If its the striped gophers I put a garden hose down the hole and let it run all night long. It takes care of them real quick. Thank you. Joe

[@tstep522]

+JoeandZachSurvival Hundreds of them, Oh no! Well I am glad that you got them taken care of. I have the pocket gophers, and I found two perfect holes leading up into the potato plants. I set two traps in the holes and covered them up. I hope I can get rid of a couple of them. They ate probably 10-15 pounds of potatoes and about 150 onions, it was a bummer.

[@wendydossantos6949]

+Troy Stephens Troy, we have had terrible problems with pocket gophers in western Montana. A couple years ago I dug up most of my raised beds, laid what is called hardware cloth (a wire fabric with about 1/2 inch mesh), and covered it with the dirt. That has really helped with my potato harvest. The little buggers can't penetrate the wire.

[@DanFromMerdo]

Is it weird I found potatos growing under my lawn?

[@ninjamoves6087]

i wonder how many french fries can he make with all of those potatoes

[@JoeandZachSurvival]

It would be a LOT of fries Lol.

[@5loaf]

More crawfishing pls