Harvesting potatoes bring back memories of my childhood. I am 68 now....when I was in the 7th grade we lived in Maine. For 2 weeks a year school closed for potato picking season. I worked in the field and made 25 cents a barrel. That's how I bought my school clothes...what a memory!!! Thanks for sharing all your wonderful adventures. 😊❤❤
When i was 16 in 1961 my parents moved back to Arkansas,im originally from, from texas so my uncle bought & sold produce. So i went out to strawberry & greenbean fields to pick & make money! Don't remember what price per lb was but i didn't make very much money,& had very bad sunburn & broken back ! When i got home had gotten job at drivein movie so had to go to work at 6pm that eve,& my starched dress rubbed my sunburned skin til it was raw that night!!
i live in new brunswick, the province above maine and we had potato break untill 2015 here! they still encourage kids to work the harvest and offer a catch up plan now instead of giving everyone the time off
My step-grandma grew up in Maine on a potato farm with like 10 siblings! She's 97 and one of the most active people I know-still drives, rakes her own leaves, and shovels her own snow..the best potatoes I ever had came from her family's farm. I think there's something in the Maine potatoes 🥔 🤔
I never - EVER - thought I would watch a 30 minute clip about potatoes. Boy was I wrong! It is you two lovely people that can make anything entertaining to watch. As always, thanks for sharing with all of us.
I have to agree, I too never thought I would be intrigued by a 30 min potato video, but this was excellent. Now I have to go and fry a pan full of potato's and eat them
I must admit, I look forward to your potato harvest every year. That 1st year was so exciting, the size, the colors & the sheer amount was great. I kept checking, wondering why you hadn’t filmed the harvest this year. Thought maybe you thought we wouldn’t be interested. So glad you shared it with us. 🥔🍟
The two of you are so amazing. The life you have has only succeeded because of hard worh and much love for one another. I have so much respect for your family.
They are so lucky! Isn't is an amazing coincidence that it seems the luckiest people are the ones who have a plan and work hard, without giving up, to achieve their success.
I know you two are working so hard … but I have a confession to make … I love to watch you coming up to my bedtime … your vlogs relax me so much … they are a joy to watch … your lifestyle and life choices make me feel the world isn’t so bad after all … so when this vlog ends be sure I’m ready to go to sleep tight 😴 Being Irish and we are great lovers of our spuds … what a pleasing haul you got there ! 🙏☘️😘
Love Bo and Bandit!!! Bo is happy anywhere where you 2 are. Bandit.... He is a favorite child of mine. Him soaking up the sun and running around like a crazy man!!! And of course Pepper the behind the scenes star!
The dogs are cuties, but Pepper is a cat with no fear. Pepper sitting in the snow, Pepper ignoring her pesky dog brothers, Pepper the ladder climber. Yep, I’d make Pepper the general of the Pet Brigade! ♥ Oh, I always forget, hi to Arielle and Eric, too. 👩❤👨
You guys really SAVOR the excitement of digging up your potatoes. It is CLEARY a labor of love. I savor "The Potato Episode" every year right along with you!!
Great potato selection and the sizes are great considering your growing season. You may need a potato fork or a broad fork. And maybe a second high tunnel with roll up sides? Or row covers to prevent frost? I just hate to see all your hard work damaged by early frost and freezing temps.
Hi, I agree. I would be interested in how much extra time the row covers would add to their growing season. A week or two at each end old probably make a significant difference to the potato crop. Still impressive crop for such a short season.
Growing up with 6 siblings, we planted a 1 acre garden with lots of potatoes. We used a potato fork which made harvesting them a lot easier. Congrats on the bountiful harvest.
We used to grow potatoes when I was a kid. Dad would make the trench and we kids would plant the seed potatoes and Mom followed filling in. How fun to try so many varieties! What a beautiful crop! I really enjoy watching your vlog. Thanks for the memory!
I grew potatoes in a large Tupperware tub this year and although the harvest wasn’t as big as I’d hoped, it was so much fun to watch them grow. The plant was happy enough to flower which was amazing! Love all the long videos lately and comparing how different your climate is than mine in Seattle
Growing in containers is awesome in small spaces! I appreciated it so much when I didn't have a garden. A good tip is making sure it gets enough fertilizer (organic or not whatever you prefer) containers seem to do way better that way. Especially if you start with just plain soil or potting soil.
7:05 am Saturday morning here on Jomtien beach Thailand and I have found a 30 minute video from you to watch while I drink my coffee and look at the ocean. What the great start to my day. Thank you.
What a harvest, and with such a short growing season. Using that raised mound really makes a difference and you've got the soil composition just right 👍
The loving hug was great to see! I think when two people are together they should act like it. High fives are for friends and team sports. Just my two cents. You two are an inspiration! Best potato crop set up I've ever seen! Be well this winter
Like that y'all share the results of your choices...I canceled a couple of channels that became "infomercials"...Having lived in Alaska I appreciate what y'all have accomplished and enjoy, vicariously, your adventures...keep on keepin' on...
do each of u have hobbies that u do during the long winter seasons?? reading, crochetting. knitting, tieing fishing flies etc.planning for next year's garden?
Our food supply getting pretty scary and I am really happy to know you will be well stocked this year and hopefully up to or past spring ... It's almost like Christmas 👍👀 .. Congratulations
I love that you grow many varieties! And tell the difference. Most people think there are a handful and that they are alike. Potatoes are so different and serve different purposes.
We lost nearly all our potatoes to blight this year, first time we’ve experienced blight and it was devastating, and it leaves such a gap in our winter pantry, will have to up our game next year to beat the blight! I do find that the yellower the flesh the tastier and more buttery the potato is. Thanks for the video guys, I really like the look of the fingerlings.
our potatoes barely made tubers, but in general my garden harfed. We did not have access to finished compost this spring. I got loads now, so my garden should do better next year, but I am disappointed on my spuds.
Years ago my English husband taught me to take the little potatoes, but bite-size ones, add a good size sprig of mint and boil them for dinner taking the potato out of water and serving it plain then you add just a tad the butter in the dish to dip your potato and eat it that way. A potato per bite is delicious and the hint of mint just Saturday!!!
Thank you so much for your videos, they bring back so many memory’s, I moved to Alaska in 1955 before it was a state, but retired to Arizona for health reason and watching you kids has shown me what a great life it is to live in such a beautiful place, and to experience so much in life…..Keep up the good work ,,, your doing a great job…..And thanks again..
I could not be more in love with your channel. This is my favorite video of the year, I love growing potatoes. It’s just like buying a grab bag, you never know what you’re going to get. Thank you for making these videos, those of us who don’t get out much anymore live vicariously through you young folks.
Didn't finish watching it but I had to comment before I get distracted. I just wanted to say I really enjoy your potato harvests each year. Your potatoes look like juicy crunchy potato mutants and I truly love it 👏💪
Great episode again 👏, off topic...., but my buddy operates the trains for the Alaskan railroad. "Engineer", he is tall guy, don't want to name him here. I highly recommend ya'll to take a trip on one of the train routes. And....it would be an interesting episode also. Just an idea. Keep up the great content guys.😉👍👍
Just one more favorite part of what you share! This harvest and taste review was really helpful! I really like when you do videos like these!!! Thanks guys! ❤️ y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's too bad your growing season is too short for sweet potatoes. I wonder how they'd do in your high tunnel? Maybe do an experiment with a container for some in there? Love watching your gardening videos. Always so fun. I'm with you, Arielle, I love colorful veggies!
Violins like potatoes, also need some humidity. When I moved to Colorado, which is very dry, my violin cracked! Luckily, it was fixable. THEN I found out there are plastic tubes, with holes in the sides, filled with sponge, that you get wet;. you put it inside the string instrument or in the case and the sponge gradually dries putting humidity around your violin. This might work for your potatoes. Or maybe even a glass jar with sponge inside set amongst the potatoes. Perhaps a mason jar with holes poked in the lid would work. You want the humidity to come out gradually. You would have to keep an eye on it and replenish the water now and then but it might work! Good luck1 Dhyan in Boulder, l
I streamed this on my TV and it just felt right. My thoughts - uhmm you guys need a TV show. Love to watch winter come in while you work, good luck with the winter prep.
@@myrzamarilyslassus956 Justin Rhodes just started an awesome homesteading channel, Abundance Plus, he is in charge of keeping it authentic. Just a thought, Ariel and Eric have alot to offer and share. Plus if you don't know who Justin is check him out!
we always planted potatoes as a kid & would dig them with a pitch fork & a tater fork!! us kids was the ones picking them up & putting them in buckets!! pop would dig!! we done sweet potatoes in the hill row like that!! i planted 2 in a barrel this year & got a good return on the 2 plants!! send the snow down here to us southerners!!! thanks for sharing with us!!!
When I'm talking to someone about gardening you often come up as I'd love to have your skill and knowhow and good channel for people to learn from. You and Shawn James know your stuff and amazing the first year gardens you had from nothing.
Now that’s a lot of potatoes!!! I just bought a house with 2 acres. And this coming year I am making a huge garden! Can’t wait to get halls like you guys!!
I live in St.Louis Mo. I"m 71 and retired, thought I would move too the country and live to fish and hunt.But I am basically not mobile .Maybe that"s why I enjoy your show so much. You are doing what I wanted but can"t.
When you picked up that huge potato I had to laugh out loud because we have a saying in Germany that goes "die dümmsten Bauern haben die größten Kartoffeln" ( 'the stupidest farmers have the biggest potatoes ') . I really don't know why people say that and I'm very sure that doesn't relate to you. I'm looking forward to all the good dishes you're going to make with those colourful potatoes. I do love your videos !
It's a phraseology based on the worldly wisdom/experience/observation that some people always seem to be on the sunny side of life despite not making any efforts. The saying came to my mind right away, too, even though we all know all too well that Ariel and Eric are working hard and are more than deserving of their success. Also wenn meine Kartoffelernte dieses Jahr gut ausfallen sollte, waere der Spruch bei mir ein Volltreffer 🥔🥔😉🤣
I would look at growing some in a 44 gallon drum next year. Start off at the bottom and as the potato grows add your compost/straw onto it and instead of leaves you end up with a root bundle which will produce its own potatoes so instead of only 1 bundle you get lots (to the top of the drum). It might not work as your growing season is so short, but if it works you will get 5 to 6 times the potato production.
Would have liked to see how many you got on the second look! Im so in love with potatoes... i have no self control so have to only buy a couple at a time... but there is nothing in this world as good as home grown taters that is for sure. I may be wrong, I havent tasted a great many varieties, but a home grown yukon gold is so sweet and flavorful with such a great texture that it remains my favorite. PLUS, it is so easy to get extra crops from this variety. Miss a tater and it grows! Thanks as always...
Many years ago mom bought a 100 pound sack of potatoes and we stored them in the grease pit in the barn, well they got chilled darn near frozen made them very sweet!
I agree with you RonRay, both my husband and I have had to feed each other at times when we were too sick to do it ourselves...PLUS.. if I order something really good at a nice restaurant, he'll say ooohh honey try this, and visa versa. We're going on 33 years. Marriage keeps getting sweeter and sweeter. 😁❤😁
Now my question to you guys is what if you made some type of cinder block building and glued pink insulation inside of it. And left a dirt floor. No windows nothing. And then you could build a door with pink insulation glued inside of it. And you can take you know those weather strippings that have metal on it to screw the door you could have that around the edges. I don't know just a thought. I do Wonder if there's any place that you could do the whole without getting water on your property but you already probably thought of that too bad you couldn't make a cinder block place and put dirt around it you can make like a some type of tunnel.
New gardener here. I’m getting ready to harvest my very first potatoes myself. Zone 6a. I’m curious if their flavors would change over time after being stored or if that doesn’t factor into anything. Love watching and learning from you guys!
I know their really busy but I don't think they respond to any comments besides liking them. If potatoes are stored in the cold like fridgerated they can become sweeter!
It depends on the potato variety, how well or how poorly that variety stores, and the area they’re being stored and temps in that area. For instance, if they’re in a musty basement and they’re not a good storage spud, they can begin to take on a musty flavor but if they happen to be an exceptional storing type, they will taste as if they were just dug up that afternoon in the same musty root cellar after an entire year.
Firstly I love harvesting root crops, and secondly Ive looked forward to your all’s potato harvest for the last 3 years. The reactions are hilarious and Ariel gets so happy. Alaska sure does grow massive spuds 🤣
I planted potatoes for the first time this year. You also inspired me to try pressure canning this year. I'm 61 and have been afraid to try until now. Hope my potatoes turn out as beautiful as yours! Enjoy your shos so much!
Love your videos! Super informative ✨👍✨ Question... Why no new cold storage cellar? You've obviously been busy so not having the time is totally understandable... Or is there another strategy you guys are planning instead? Just curious✨😊✨
There are gold mining channels on YT where they show pulling a nugget out of the ground, but this seems so much more connected to what we need for a real life. And so much more valuable. Your garden inspires me to make mine better. Thank you, from BC Canada.
Love all your videos, just love watching U2, how you work together on everything from gardening to building even the cooking and dishes. it’s just beautiful to watch and so relaxing.. Love when you show the beauty of Alaska, I’ve learned so much, Thank you so much for sharing all you do. The good the bad and the hard work and of course the rewards of all your labor☺️👏🥰
