How To Grow Potatoes : How to Plant Potatoes

[mrjv61]

Yes, Doug Smiddy on Expertvillage who went to "Village School"

[KallyJones]

So when you harvest them how do you store a handful of them so they'll last til next year to be used as seed potatoes?

[roadsterX]

how to plant french fries ?

[BubbaBodecker]

What's a potato?

[xchrisforbushx]

14 dislikes for what? Wow some people haha

[The99polo]

To plant a potato have u to have a potato....well who had the first fucking potato?!!! the world may never know

[KnutRudikle]

@The99polo L2 evolution, the world already knows.

[rafmedrules70]

If it's already started growing does that mean it doesn't have any chemicals?

[spiritartman]

Is that right ! Great !!! Is it too late for me to start Potato's here on Long Island in NY?I am going to try the Bucket Method.

[spiritartman]

Great Lesson! Any suggestion on where to get the "Certified Seed Potato"? What state are you in? Thanks!!!

[checkfoldcallraise]

@spiritartman if you have an Ace Hardware in your area they should carry seed potatoes in the fall and spring. they do where i live in florida. i grow potatoes through the fall and winter since the ground doesn't freeze here. (palm bay fl.)

[thorCUipwn]

Thank you for the lesson!

[deebie12]

That is one swesome Tee-shirt!! Wizard of Oz, Wicked WItch of the West scene??

[kev2556]

hi, you said its better to have seeds but how about if i plant the potato that i harvested last time is it still going to have the bad spray

[FastidiousDesign]

Hello I was wondering about the potatoes, I have a couple plots of potatoes growing, but I think I did not hill them soon enough. I'm just now adding lots of aged leaves to try to make up for it (also trying to keep the root system cool)

they have been planted about 1 to 1.5 months and are about 16 - 24" high.

Do you think I will still get a crop of potatoes? Would chances improve with adding more leaves or would dirt help more at this point? I've added about 12" of leaves so far.

[scraps201]

Can someone send me a message on what time if year to plant potatoes

[ayenab7]

It isn't important to let the sprouts grow before you plant them right?

[checkfoldcallraise]

@ayenab7 no. it'll just take a while longer before you see a plant come up

[MontereyBay25]

Thank you for these videos! Never planted potatoes before this year. 

[whosrunningthisplace]

Easy folks, at least he got off his rear and did something, for nothing, to help his fellow humans. Not everybody is a genius expert experienced gardener! As with so many things, there is more ways than one to peel a potato. I think I got that correct enough for the YouTube crowd. LOL!

[TexasBirdGirl]

He is saying get certified potatoes, not to use grocery store potatoes. He is NOT promoting anything except showing how to plant. Grocery store potatoes would be more likely to be GMO and sprayed! He said disease resistant, not disease proof!

I personally suggest heirloom which are disease resistant.

[gokucrazy22]

go to a korean market. they don't add the growth retardant

[camelsonhorizon]

I BUY ORGANIC, THIS VIDEO PROMOTES THE GMO MONSANTO which cares about destroying the planet for money and at the health of the people. organic foods grow better than the disease resistant gmo/sprayed shit. (i found some cool purple organic potaters im gonna plant.)

[veeveevenn]

*W*A*R*N*I*N*G* VID PROMOTING $GMO$ FOOD! If you do not know the implications of GMO foods, educate yourself quickly. Disease resistant means even microbes won't eat it.

BUY YOUR POTATOES FROM A LOCAL FARMERS MARKET, or FRUIT AND VEG STAND, etc...

[TexasBirdGirl]

@veeveevenn

He is saying get certified potatoes, not to use grocery store potatoes. He is NOT promoting anything except showing how to plant. Grocery store potatoes would be more likely to be GMO and sprayed! He said disease resistant, not disease proof!

I personally suggest heirloom which are disease resistant.

[agun17]

best expert village video I've seen in a long time. It's actually useful and correct.

[LittleMsThachis]

if u put the potato in water with a part of it sticking out to breathe and u put it in sunlight, roots start to grow and then u just plant it like that. its a lots easier. Idk how long it take for the plant to grow like the way they re showing but my way only took 5 days

[u4umi987]

you dont have to cut the potato...all you need to do is get a potato and then put it in the soil..........

[MegaJim79]

too much work for 1 acre of land... anyone know a way of getting seed potatoes planted more efficiently without all the slicing?

[OrbEmber]

good on ya smiddy mate. cheers.

[realisticHomeboy]

Don't cut the potato. That's a waste of time. No farmer does that.

What you should do, is let the potato lie in the sun for some days, until white/green things start growing on it. You don't have to do it, but it will speed up the process.

[FinelineNation]

Expert village is full of dumb asses.

[klit86]

fuck you expert village

[matty140397]

i wouldnt plant them cut up but would in whole because if they are cut up they will most probibally rot unless you tend to them very carefully

[klit86]

@matty140397 After you cut them up you leave them sit for a few days and they will "scab" over, they won't rot then.

[rexstreet5151]

@matty140397 that is why they said let them sit for a couple of days to scrap over....

[SOIAx11x]

SIMPLE , EASY< GOOD INFO. I LIKE IT, Thanks...

[PhilippineJeann]

I want to thank you for your advice! I am about to plant my potatoes that were in my basement and are now full of sprouts. Thanks so much for your advice.. Jeann's other half, Alan..

[Frankenpalin]

too bad they couldn't combine all these little dinky minute long videos into one

freakin' annoying

[abson1234]

Varieties is into gound fruits and ground foods come out, which may be interesting.

I know you can cut this stuff up like carrots and other stuff. mix them with pasta or other stuff like to make bread pizza you have a good meal.

Mmmm....

[greeneyefull]

I have been told potatoes will resist disease and bugs at a better rate if you plant them on the dark side of the moon.

[mizzoulibertarian]

what if the potatoes start growing inside? can you still use them outside?

[joseluisflores45]

you do not like this. you cut side way but long way.

[burk34]

I Love Doug Smiddy!

[veggievegetarian]

GREAT VIDEO! I've always wanted to plant potatoes!

[breebreesgirl]

Id weigh a piece of potato!!

[MetaKittie]

"Who the hecks gonna weigh a piece of potato?" My thoughts exactly.

[controlpopulation]

Man, I grew some great potatoes from my store bought ones. They grew better than my seed potatoes. I also planted a seed potato in a 5 gallon bucket with good success. It seems to about the right size.

[checkfoldcallraise]

amen to that. i cut and planted a store bought russet potato in nov. '09 and just yesterday i harvested some golf ball sized potatoes for roasting. delicious too! now i have other potatoes starting to germinate from pieces that i planted a few weeks ago.

[RiverBirch1967]

How deep would a pot need to be in, if you were growing them in a patio container?

[RiverBirch1967]

Let me finish my latest experiment and I will let you know. Will you let me know what you might find out too?

[hayyouman11]

Their is a youtuber her name is "pioneerliving" who has a video about her growing potatoes in a pot. How big the pot is watch the vid and guess for yourself.

[RiverBirch1967]

Hay, I checked and her account is closed.

[RiverBirch1967]

Thank you for the captions!!!

[jabjal]

what a load of horse shit i plant a whole potato everyyear without cutting it up and it turns out perfectly

[zapatista512]

he's saying you can grow more than one plant out of one potato lol.. you don't have to cut it up.. but cut it up if you want more potatoes

[W4V3MAKER]

@zapatista512 But if you cut it up, do you get more potato plants or just more potatoes?

[DontTakeCrack]

LOULZ

[eyechubcunt]

I find that bigger the spud the bigger the yield. So cutting them up may produce more plants, but I doubt that it increases yield significantly. When taking land used and time into account. Maybe a comparison trial is needed.

[umeshway]

People would allways have diseases no matter. In the lifetime the humans must experience diseases. Its part of nature. Whether in Childhood or Growing up or in Old Age. This is the TRUTH.

[Coenzyme911]

Love is the truth.

Infinite health.

[veryfuck]

desease resistance is genetic modified!! stupid!

im not offending you im just warning.

Desease resistence means they are genetic modified to resist certain bacteria, this bacteria also live in your stomach.

why would potatos that are unhealthy for bugs and bacteria be healthy for you?

common sense think about it.

i wuld say buy a organic potato! they are not modified and not spraid with chemicals so you have two plusses.

[wtfyourdumb]

All potatos in the modern era have been genetically modified. All of them. Whether they are grown organically thats your business. :)

[JackNeedles]

Not exactly true. Yes, many plants have been genetically MANIPULATED for the past few hundred or so years. However, today, many farmers are now genetically ENGINEERING plants. In other words, I think veryfuck isn't talking about the way they used to do it, where farmers would mix different plants together, etc. Today they are doing things like injecting fish genes into tomatoes. That isn't natural & even the farmers who did genetically modify their plants years ago didn't do it that way.

[wtfyourdumb]

I don't know what they did back then. I do not have a key to a government seed bank. And I doubt you do either. And genetically manipulated plant includes a big range including cross breeding. So yes all the development of modern fruits and veges are infact genetically manipulated.

[JackNeedles]

Having a key to a government seed bank has nothing to do with it. Geetically manipulating and Genetically ENGINEERING are two different things. Farmers didn't and couldn't genetically manipulate their own corn by shooting animal orgamisms into them so that they could produce their own pesticides a few hunded years ago; whats even worse, is there isn't enough research being done on these foods before they are released into the market place.

[FunkyBanaaanaaa]

interesting!

[paintball227]

My grandfather told me when planting potatos u cut the eyes like this guy did but he let them sit for a month or to so they get rotten and moldy and he said that is the way they produce to biggest ones idk just his edvise

[astrialkil]

I doubt mold would help make big potatoes .

The potato vines draw starch from the old potato, this is how the vines get energy until they grow roots and when they are sick or under stress.

[faithlocket]

No, he is right about the seed potatoes. Grocery potatoes work, but seed spuds are better. Good vid!

[veryfuck]

please guys this is a lie. its only a trick to lead you into buying and spending money.

use organic potatos' they are not genetic modified or spraid with chemicals.

[forestcats]

Very good for beginners.

[DrakeDorosh]

It wasn't very informative. Nothing about temperature or timing companion planting and then worse to suggest they needed to certify the potatoes a seed potatoes!  Hogwash.

Add a little info and I won't need an expert to certify my potatoes.

[astrialkil]

certifying potatoes means they are known to be from clean stock ..ie not diseased.

In the grocery store u cant guarantee that the potatoes have no bacteria on them as every one is touching them which is contamination.

[DrakeDorosh]

Thank you for answering my comment. I am not a big fan of expert village. They post a lot of videos but they are not very expert. I have bought seed potatoes. They have blue colored flesh. They are pretty susceptible to disease though. I tried red and yukon gold from the supermarket and they are quite vigorous. I save the little ones for the next year in a paper bag in the cold garage. If they get soft throw them away. As far a mold check out Paul Stammets of fungi perfecti it can be beneficial.