You two are an inspiration of how we all should live.... 100% respect to the both of you. A TRUE POWER COUPLE!!!! Jay Z and Beyonce have nothing on you! Truly inspiring ❤❤❤
I got distracted in the beginning watching the goats play in the background. So cute! 🥰❤️ you guys have inspired my potato journey, FOR SURE, and I can’t wait to see how the box potatoes turn out bc I will definitely be trying that next year. Thanks for inspiring me!
I agree. They work together so well and very respectful of each other. So important in a relationship to have humor. Beautiful people working together for a safer tomorrow. Blessings 🙏🙏🙏
I live in north Idaho… land of potatoes 🥔. I’m just getting ready to plant my potatoes hopefully this weekend. I’m excited to see how you hilled yours today to give me more ideas. Love you guys!!
I love your videos Mrs.H! You are an inspiration to me, I like to watch your videos while I'm sowing seeds. I always love it when Mr.H joins you, he is such a ray of sunshine, and the relationship you model is so needed!!
Yukon gold potatoes r determinate varieties and really don't need hilling. They only produce in one layer unlike indeterminate varieties of potatoes that can produce potatoes in more layers. At the size urs r , I would only want a low nitrogen and higher phosphorus fertilizer. I would be concerned about tuber rot with all the manure. I made the mistake one year of hilling up my Yukons. They got pink stem rot and I lost most of them. Straw or hay mulch is great as long as u know it has no herbicides like Grazon in it. Good luck.
If you have neighbors that rake the yard and cut the grass and get rid of the leaves and clippings, get the clippings and leaves! My uncle put leaves, grass clippings and chicken stuff in his garden and he grew a beautiful garden. His tomatoes were big as softballs! He would sell them to make money to buy what the family needed and his neighbors would bring him their leaves and grass clippings all the time. I wish I had pictures.
You’ll did a great job on hilling those potatoes up. The black kow definitely going to add nutrients for the potatoes. Mr. H listen about leaving those gardening tools in your walking space, don’t want to see you being taken out by a tool flying back on you 🤣🤣
Thank you so much for Beautifully sharing your "Know how's" to do it right. ❤❤ Well, I see this as a ministry to grow your own groceries and as an opportunity to teach others to maybe pass down to their children's children if the GOOD LORD TARRYS. What about composing your notes into a potato pamphlet book and video, a with video or without. And continue the same for each like for the watermelon 🍉 patch pamphlet book and video, a with video or without. And If, this is something you can do or want to do, please seek GOD's face about it and proceed forward if y'all choose to. You all are doing us a beautiful service and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🌹
Yukon Gold is all I grow. Our short seasons her in Maine work best for the determinate types like Yukon Gold. The yields are lower but the quality is top notch. If it wasn't for the Deer, I would do it like you do.
Question: You nentioned in a video once that you wanted to get another goat? Was checking to see if you did. If not, and you are still wanting one, check out Sneed's Farmhouse Sanctuary in Alabama.
I have to put sticks in our raised beds to keep our cats out. Until the plants get going, it looks like we are growing a stick garden.😂 We are attempting the straw only potato planting. Love your ideas to grow other ways (especially in cardboard boxes ‐ trying that next year)!
Plastic forks for me😊. I save and reuse them every year. Cats don’t like the forks. Now…the raccoons will attempt to remove them, but I have so many sticking up that I think they get tired and move on 😊
YAY!!!😊 so happy to see you both!! Love your homestead and videos!!! This is my 1st year trying to grow potatoes ! We can see!! lol 😂 beautiful raised growing for taters!!
I love these ideas and if you can trust your source for bringing in amendments for your garden it is great! But I am not convinced any of the resources I have for straw or compost don't have grazon in it. I lost one garden to this. I'm not willing to risk it again.
I love the chemistry between you and Mr. H. Potatoes are looking awesome. I feel I’m always late on potatoes but we have such unpredictable frosts in Canada. Our temps at night are still very low but with in the next couple weeks I hope to get them in the ground. Love and prayers from Canada
Electro culture would give you greater yields and without any work ! You just need to make a tall antenna a certain way to harvest the electricity and create a specific kind of current that goes right to the roots of the pants and a metal circuit to all your plants ! I swear by it !
Looks good Mr & Mrs H. Those potatoes are gonna do good and I wish I was near to eat a few of them when they do. We enjoy watching your videos because I learn something every day and I love how you have fun together. Have a great day!
I love how you are showing us how to plant potatoes. My Grandmama had a garden in the backyard. We had red clay dirt! She mixed leaves and chicken stuff in the dirt and made good dirt over a couple years. Please make sure you compost all your old plants. And don't plant potatoes in the same place as last year. Love y'all bunches and bunches and bunches and crunches! Cheryl🙂
I heard that if you plant some mustard after you harvest, that the mustard will kill the harmful pests and you can reuse that bed indefinitely. You just till the mustard into the soil and let it work till next spring.I just planted potatoes in a bed for the first time this year and will be trying it.
Aaaaw that chemistry between you 2 is just so heartwarming! This just makes my day!!! Thank you for sharing with us!! I love you guys so much!! Looking forward to seeing more!! ❤❤❤
It is ever much more better to have a partner when gardening...if of like minds. That said...I wish ya'll were my neighbors...please consider that a compliment.
Your Channel was in my recommendations and I’m so happy to find you. Your adorable goats in the background is just precious. Looking forward to future videos ❤❤❤
Peace & Blessings, Ms Marie & Mr Hart. Many Thanks for all your demos and encouragement! I turned an old kiddie wading pool into a garden bed & raised it onto a pallet. To keep the neighbor's cats out, I cover the surface of the soil with plastic forks & knives saved from takeout or cookouts. I stand them upright in the soil, around seedlings and the whole perimeter. Hope it helps with your kitties. Mad Respect & Much Love, from zone 8A in Norfolk VA 💯❤🖤💛💚
I got few boxes done, Big Thanks for your videos! I didn't know how to do that adding to. I'm a first timer. I watched most of your videos God be with Y'all 💜🙏💜🙋🏼♀️🌹
So inspiring! I just watched the red potatoes in the cardboard boxes. I went immediately to Aldis and got a bag to plant. I’m glad now. They were on the high $ side. But I will save $ in the end. Darn food prices. Just ridiculous. Thanks for ur help!!
-Hello Mr and Mrs H.Heart, I at first wanted to ask what is and where does one get this enriched HAY??? However, when you said it came from the Goat shed, I immediately comprehended what it is and How to get it.... As usual your shows are delightful.... Rick In Pa.
This is great! thank you! I began growing potatoes a few years ago in my high desert garden of NM & havent stopped since. Love homegrown potatoes. There really is a big difference between homegrown potatoes & potatoes from a supermarket, big difference in flavor!
My one tiny bed under the plastic, left it alone all winter. One bunch of chard went through the winter and am now eating them. April. The leaves turned really dark in the winter. Rhubarb Chard. Still taste fantastic. My little bed is 3' x 6'.
My neighbor grew their potatoes in tires filled with straw from the sheep barn. Full of sheep bathroom stuff. The potatoes did good. They did get scabs on them. However, understand they were "Oh so good ". The sheep bathroom hay composted into nice black soil.
I planted my red n blue potatoes 2/13. I just harvested a grow bag of red potatoes here in GA zone 8a. It kept drying out daily. Bees kept swarming it. I also noticed potato bulge lol. I grazed the top n potatoes we’re right there! Good sized potatoes. Not those lil poppers. Can’t wait to see the others especially the Yukons!
This is my 2nd year growing potatoes and this is the first time with focused nutrients/natural fertilizer. Last year the potatoes were about 1-2” 😅 😂 (AZ). I started watching you, and my tester fabric bag of potatoes is looking really good but it is time to fill it in. It’s been only a couple weeks. I never heard of leading potatoes. Should I remove some bottom leaves so they aren’t in the soil on the 2nd dose of soil or should they be in the soil like the tomato stems, if that makes sense. You two are my fave garden couple. I love your candidness and your random tips. My daughter has a cat so I laugh at the cat personalities you have there too. Thank you sincerely for all you do to get the camera in a good place so we can observe & learn. ❤
For "hilling potatoes" (or indeterminate potatoes) some people have tires or wood frames (like small raised beds) that they keep stacking up so the plant can actually get really tall. Then you dismantle the tower and dig out all the taters. I have mine planted in the ground and in buckets. Some potatoes are not the hilling type, they only grow on one level so hilling doesn't really do them any good. Non-hilling (determinate) potatoes are Yukon Gold, Fingerling and Adirondack Blue. Hilling (indeterminate) potatoes are Russets, Red Pontiac-- these types you can bury the tops and they'll keep growing and producing taters along the stem.
I plant my potato starts in a narrow trench about 6"-8" deep, cover with 2" of soil & then fill in the trench as needed. That way, if they grow sideways, they are still underground!!
Bless you both with getting that csmera the way you needed it, lol! I just love both of you, such an inspiration to me and when I wanna cry, toss that hoe or trellis netting (evil stuff!) I just take a deep breath and remember Mrs and Mr Homestead Heart. I watch or re-watch your videos to see where my novice self has gone wrong, lol!❤🌱
Could I use real black angus cow manure on my potatoes or would I need to compost it for a year first? This will be our 3rd year trying to grow potatoes with not much success. And I love your gloves, Mrs H.
The lord has used you, Mr.and Mrs H to be a light to the world. Thank you so very much for allowing the light to shine through both of you. I pray that your every prayer will be blessed. Thank you!
Funny: with Mr H standing there beside you holding that pitchfork made me think of the picture that used to be on front of the Corn Flake box. Remember the Farmers on front. I wish they still had that on the front.
Last year I planted rooting sweet potatoes in boxes using grass, crushed leaves and added vegetable fertilizer, both meals and rain water all in card board boxes and the paper bags with my yard waste. My sweet potatoes were twice the size of my fist.
Does the hay not produce hay grass with rains? Or, does it not matter, if it does? I had trouble a couple years ago with the hay grass taking over when covering strawberries with it in why I ask.
Cardboard or newspaper layers beneath the hay on the sides would cut the light penetration down and you could use less hay while recycling the cardboard or newspaper.
I feel like your efforts are for not. Yukon gold are determinate potatoes and they will only grow one layer. If you were growing russets an indeterminate potato then the hilling up would be beneficial and you'd grow a lot more potatoes. I'll be interested in seeing the results. Love your channel.
No you're right. Their hay has been aged, I heard Mrs H mention it once before. Edit: except now I just heard her say it was pretty fresh. 🤦♀️🙃 So idk.
Thank you for sharing your growing knowledge. Could I dig a deep trench in the beginning to start the potatoes as to not use so much compost hilling the potatoes?
A couple of videos ago she planted watermelons. She flipped a big flower pot upside down and cut around it. Maybe you can look up her video about planting watermelom.
one min into the video with you 2 standing there talking to us and Mr H with the pitch fork it reminded me of Green Acre's lol anyway back to the show lol
I love how you two are so down to earth and honest. We were also about 5” too late, but still got our potatoes hilled. This is our 3rd year trying to grow anything. If our potatoes are any indication we will be having a bumper crop of what we plant!
