Three Easy Ways to Grow Potatoes and Bake a Cake With Me! 

I use to work for a potato research facility. Your doing a great job. You do not need that many potatoes for seed. You can look at one potato, and each eye is a growth sprout. Then you cut that potato so that each sprout gets paired with each part of the growing season. Larger potatoes can have at least 6 sprouts, so one potato will produce six plants. I do wish you were near me. So many people do not know this about potato farming.

Becky, I really love that you don't hide when you make mistakes. So much cooking content around only shows the successes and the best parts. I really enjoy watching your videos even though I can't currently garden, I love to learn about all the vegetables and techniques and everything. I'm in Scotland so I think the PNW climate is one of the closest to what we have too 😂 just wanted to say I appreciate you. i live alone following my parents passing last year and when the house feels too quiet I like to throw on your chatty videoes and it feels like I have a friend over ❤

Hi from Japan! Becky, I love watching your videos and despite living in a small apartment, you’ve inspired me to prepare freezer meals that have made the hustle and bustle of Tokyo life so much less stressful. I just made my 4th round of freezer meals today aaand I tried making your caramelized onion jam today too! They were amazing on warm croissants 💗

I have a hint for storing strawberries from the store (or homegrown). Put them in your canning jar and screw on the lid. Place them in the refrigerator, they last for weeks. I have some in my fridge that has been there for two weeks, and they are just as good as the day I put them in there. I don't wash them first, only when I am ready to eat them. I love strawberries and am so glad I found this method.

I'm so happy to be out in the garden with you again.

I love that you don't edit out your "oops" moments. Keep up the great work Becky! Love your content!

I love your personality. Your genuine happiness is contagious.

When you turned on the oven, I said to my self "she didn't check the oven before preheating" and thats because coming from a hispanic household WE ALWAYS have something inside the oven at all times. The oven for us is an extra cabinet space for pots and pans or anything else in general 🤣🤣 Glad you caught it before an uglier mess. Love your videos.

Becky I like the Adventures in Gardening that you Bring to your Channel

You definitely are a breath of fresh air for us old folks.Your garden is looking great .Thank you for showing us how to do the potatoes I am trying this tomorrow.Your cake looks so good.God bless you and Josh.

OMG! When you turned on the oven, I thought to myself "she didn't look inside " My mom used to keep the electric skillet in our oven, with the cord inside it. We regularly melted that cord! To this day 50+ years later, I always check the oven! Sorry you lost a cutting board!

I could literally work in my summer garden all day long! I love it that much lol.

Love that you don't hide your mistakes or worries about planting ,cooking etc. ,such a lovely video to watch. My only wish is as I live in the uk we need to have a little of your sunshine please xxx

Energizer bunny. Great job Becky. Great video as well. Happy gardening.🤗❤️

Great job Becky, enjoyed your video. Josh is a good husband Becky, he reminded me of my dear husband who would come help me with my projects, bless him. Bless you both xxxxxx

We've left potatoes in the ground for five years now and we've had excellent crops, increasing every year! Love from Gresham, or, Judy

I always smile when you say hello friends.

Loved the video, I get exhausted just watching you run around your big garden all day 😁 Just an FYI, Tractor Supply carries the wire clip bender tool for those who have them local. I just put up 100 feet of wire fencing around my garden this weekend all by myself (I'm 56 years old). I'm beyond tuckered out today 😴

Another great video. Learning with you as you go. Thanks Becky!

Looking forward to tomorrows blog on planting the black beans!!!! I’m trying them for the first time because of you 🤗

Your video on your side yard shows how pretty your lawn is. I was thinking you didn't need any cardio workout after that lol 🤣 so it was funny you mentioned that. Your chickens are enjoying their run as well. My mom always did angel 😇 cake the way your having your pound cake 🎂. Thanks for sharing 💕

Love your channel so much. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

Thank you for being such a delight to so many, including me!

I am completely knackered just watching you work so hard....you madam are an inspiration, love watching your videos.

I live in a tiny one bedroom flat in a massive European city, so I live vicariously through you and by playing Stardew Valley. Thank you for the content and enthusiasm!

I love the way you just blow off any oopsies that you do! Thanks for not cutting that part of your video off. It’s nice to know I am not the only one who makes “oopsies”!

I bought grow bags for potatoes too this year. We are trying a few alternatives to regular gardening too. I bought a pretty obelisk to grow sugar snap peas on and it's going at the corner of our house in the flower bed. I'll be putting garlic in grow bags too and place them all along the flowerbed. My husband just built a trellis bed that's 3 levels. Two more raised beds to build now.

Didn’t your momma tell you to always check your oven B4 you turn it on girl? 😋 I not fond of frosting either. You’ve inspired me so much. I’m doing freezer meals and my hubby bought me an instant pot yesterday from Costco for A$139.00. It was on sale. I waiting for my replacement seal to turn up for my pressure canner as they sent the wrong size. I want to start a garden too as I love preserving homegrown. It’s so satisfying. Thank you for sharing your days with us. 🥰🤗 🌹Rosie of Oz🇦🇺 & 🐶Omega the Cavalier🐶

The ladies look good in their new home. the coop looks very good.

Becky, I have a money-saving recommendation for the cattle-panels: Skip them. Cattle panels are very strong, which makes them perfect for heavy vines, like pumpkins, squash, and gourds. Use your cattle panels for trellis-arches for those heavy vines. When you're at the tractor supply (or even the big-box home/hardware/warehouse store), in the same section where you find cattle panels, you'll also find other fence materials. There's hog panels and there's goat fencing and there's... well, there's lots of options for fencing for just about any critter you want to raise on the farm... and those lighter-weight fencing options are a lot cheaper AND they're usually sold in rolls of much greater than 8'-16' length. I got a 50' roll of green powder-coated wire fencing (4' width) that I cut into 10' lengths with wire-snips. I hung these from the eaves of my porch and used them for tomato trellises. My cherry tomatoes were very happy to have plenty of room to grow and grow and grow. (Indeterminates, don''tcha know.) The smaller wire trellis held my vines just fine, without failure and they CO$T A LOT LE$$. I'm not saying don't buy cattle-panels. I'm just saying don't waste them on tomatoes. Use them for your heavy-duty veg vines and buy lighter-weight fencing for your toms.

You are a breath of fresh air! When you make a mistake, I tell myself "See! It's okay to mess up. I can try gardening too!" Thank you so much!

Becky!! I’ve watched and loved your beautiful soul for almost a year, but today just solidified why I love you. Gardening and dancing are legit my ONLY exercise forms and I too hate frosting 🧁🚫😝 I have triple my organic garden this year, started my food storage and have gotten back to canning and food preservation after almost 10 year break. All thanks to your down-to-earth, simple, and REAL example. God bless you and all your hard work to bring us these glimpses into your life.

YOU ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION!!! What a wonderful garden year it will be The girls were running and living their yard ♡ You and Josh are a beautiful team ♡

You can take one planting potato and cut it up so each chunk has an eye. Each one of these can then be planted so you don't need to purchase as many. Plant with the sprout side up.

“Ahhhh. The satisfying fatigue of productivity.” -Veggie Tales Easter Carol 😂 I love your style, Girl!🥰

Honestly Becky I love your reaction when things go wrong/oopsie (like melting cutting board or spilling stuff) because it reminds me that cooking and baking should be fun. I tend to be hard on myself in the kitchen and watching you for the past year has made me a LOT more compassionate with myself in the kitchen, and made me love making food even more! sending love

Hi Becky. You can purchase the “tool “ you referenced at tractor supply for about $3. Not exactly the same one but it’s purpose is too attach what you call brackets. They are clips & are used specifically for fence building. Thanks so much for what you have taught me and others about gardening canning etc. God bless

Thank you for showing the potatoes in the grow bags! I'm planning on doing the exact same thing this year and now I feel a little more confident.

“That cutting board is toast.” Absolutely something I would say and the unintentional pun was fabulous! Hope you didn’t kick yourself longer than one minute. Besides, how encouraging that I’m not the only one who does things like that! :-)

I have a very small area to grow. So anyway I can grow up is a must. Last year I experimented using old tires. I painted them white and planted potatoes in hay, as the potato vine grew up I added another tire and more hay. By the end of the growing season I was up to 6 tires. When I harvested potatoes had filled the inner tires. I got a huge harvest from a 2 ft. Circumference. So fun and productive. Also the potatoes were so clean because of just growing in the hay.🥰

You make me so excited about planting my garden. Unfortunately, I have to wait until mid June here in New Hampshire. Just loving your contact Becky. Your channel is growing fast! You’re coming up on 300,000 subscribers! So happy for your success on YT. You have a terrific personality and your content is always interesting and informative. 🌷

Just wanted to share that you're someone's inspiration- at least mine! I talk about you quite a bit with my husband and sister about how when we get our (at least) acre, we are so excited to start our produce garden. I've learned so much from watching your videos in just the past couple of months. Thanks for sharing your life with us, both successes and failures. You're very appreciated 😊

You are so down to earth. That’s why we love you!

Thank you for sharing your garden and so much information . You are such a great inspiration.

Josh was sweet to help you. YOU ARE JUST ADORABLE God bless yall

Always flower the pan! It's a bit messy but it garantees that the cake will always come out in one piece!

I truly enjoy your sense of humor, it was an excellent video about your potatoes. Looking forward to see the rest of your work in the garden. ❤️

Becky, your channel is bar none my favorite on RU-vid. You do a little bit of everything. You’re always real, educational, fun, funny and motivational. I’m not a big fan of decorating RU-vid channels because they push expensive ideas. I live in an apartment in Minnesota with a pretty size-able west facing deck. I have my planters ready to go. Mother’s Day is the typical planting time. Keep being you, I’m off to make the pound cake. ✅

Becky, I absolutely love that you don’t edit out the bloopers. You keep it real. My mom used to store potato chips in a large Tupperware bowl after they were opened. Then she would store it in the oven “out of sight out of mind”. One morning she was hurrying to get ready and making biscuits. She forgot to take the bowl out of the oven when she preheated it. Yep….it melted all over the oven. The gracious teenager that I was, I let the oven cool and peeled all the plastic off the surfaces. You brought back a great memory of my mom!

Your energy exhaust ME!!! Loved watching your girls in the background the run is much loved by them. I’m intrigued with the potato planting method. Thank you for sharing.

I love you Becky and your complete honesty with your viewers!

Because we live in the burbs we don't have space for a Becky sized garden, but have always grown our potatoes in bags, good success when the season cooperates a little.

I have to share. I had calf huts up out in the yard. We had goats, a mini donkey and a couple of ponies. The ponies and donkey were rehomed and as a result we needed to move the huts out ot he area. WELL, we found GOLD! The compost and hay over wintered and broke down into amazing compost for my garden. The area they were all in is going to be our garden. IT IS AMAZING STUFF out there!! I am incredibly excited to see how things grown out there. We also have chicken and goose manure to add into it. I am so excited and can identify with the bales breaking down. It makes amazing stuff and yes helps retain moisture. I can't wait to see how your potatoes do, I may plant some next year! Thank you for sharing your content with us! You are amazing!!

Hi Becky, I love your content, I’m much older than you but I’m learning lots from you 😊 God bless you and Josh 🧡

I think I saw that RU-vid video , I was looking for a way to Garden without a lot of water when I found this old lady on RU-vid showing a no dig, no teal, no water gardening and it was so cool to see this kind of style of gardening I never even knew about. All you needed is hey and I remember her throwing the potatoes on the floor I'm putting a good layer of hay on top of it and that's it you're done.

I live in Florida in an area that our ground soil is just sugar sand. I use grow bags a lot and they really work well here. I do have some raised beds but I’m constantly buying soil each year because the good soil I buy seeps into the sand and disappears. Love your energy you have such a fun personality.

Becky, I love how you chop/cut and prep produce! It would be so awesome to have a video on that ! In your spare time 😂🥴🤗

My potatoes did well in the grow bags and thank you for your videos - I love your channel.

It is always so nice to watch your video's. You lend a great start to (and for the rest of) my day! Thank you!

love the cattle panels, we use for peas, pole beans, cukes, tomatoes

I just got my cucumbers planted this morning and weeded my garden. Made a loaf of bread to go with my roast tonight for supper. I am tired also.

Becky do you see you have viewers from JAPAN!? How cool!! It was super satisfying watching your tomato section come together. Until next time!

You always amaze me, with all you get done! You and Josh are a great team! That pound cake looks delicious! I love strawberries too and so happy strawberry season is coming soon! I love getting fresh strawberries from our local farmers!

I actually just planted some potatoes in a grow bag this morning! I had some store bought Yukon gold that were older & sprouted so I planted them just to see how they go 😊. I’m a back patio gardener with limited space, but I try to do as much as I can in an effort to grow food & learn what works while I dream of wide open land in my future 😆😍 Love all of your videos Becky. I’ve been slowly making my way through your older videos while watching your newest uploads as soon as they hit RU-vid. Thank you so much for sharing all your experiences & knowledge. ❤️ April from Modesto CA

This is my fourth year using grow bags for potatoes. I do really well with throwing a handful of soil acidifier, and a few handfuls of bone meal into the bags.

It’s nice how Josh helps you out. You’re garden is looking great. You are one hard worker! Love your videos. Thanks for all the great info.

Hi Becky, I so love you!! You had such a "naughty girl " look on your face when you found the board in YOUR oven... you so made me smile. Here's the thing it's your kitchen and you can cook whatever you like. However, now your board is "toast " I wouldn't recommend doing it a second time! You and Josh work so well together, it was the sweetest thing he stopped what he was doing to lend a hand... just so beautiful! And wow that chicken coup and run is amazing, seeing it from further back was a real clear shot of it. You are both such a great team!! Can I have a slice of your strawberry bundle cake please it looked delicious! LxX ❤

Hello Becky Thank you so much for sharing your vlog about gardening Much appreciated by us all xxxx

Oh my gosh! I used to keep things in the oven, too...and FREQUENTLY forgot to take them out when pre-heating. NOW I use the microwave - because you don't turn those on until after you put something into them! Saves me soooooooo many times!

I made 2 batches of strawberry lemonade and strawberry, pineapple, lemonade concentrate. I had suggested my daughter use the strawberry crates like little green houses to start seeds in. Put coffee filters in the bottoms to keep the soil from falling out of the holes. She loved the idea. Bless.

You inspire me to challenge myself even though I don't have the time to garden and do have a small back yard. Right now in my enclosed patio I have cherry tomatoes in a pot and regular tomatoes also, I plucked about 6-8 cherry tomatoes for my salad on Saturday and ate it proudly! Can't wait to see the bags of potatoes planted work out.

Love hanging out with you, Becky. I rode my spin bike while you worked your garden.

We’ve all done that Becky…note to self -when you turn oven on to preheat,Always Always open and look inside ! Love your raised beds..

you are getting that garden in fast. i know it's going to be fabulous. have a good week and thanks for sharing

I grew up on Gugelhupf cake from my German Switzerland side of the family….if you like pound cake you should look this up….much harder to make but sooooooo worth it for taste!! We don’t add the raisins or nuts just an FYI…I can send you my family’s recipe that we’ve used for over 100 hrs if you want

It seems Josh isn’t as camera shy. I’m glad, seeing you two together is great.

Hi Becky. I think I have commented on your channel before on my experiments of growing potatoes. I grow first and second earlies in pots in my back garden so I can grab new potatoes during the summer as I need them. For my main harvest, I planted my favourite second earlies (Charlotte and Marfona - the latter being excellent for mash, roast AND chip potatoes in the UK - and King Edward, Cara and Wilja for main crop). The main crop was planted 4 years ago on poor soil under 18” of fresh woodchips. I harvested most potato plants throughout autumn and winter leaving one behind. The first harvest was scabby - expected- the second from the volunteers was so so. Last year was exceptional! Each year I’d get 4” of fresh wood chips dumped on top of the large permanent bed. Last Christmas, before I’d even harvested half of the hidden potatoes, my woodchip man dumped four loads of woodchips 6ft high over the entire 20 x 80 ft bed. I just thought “oh well” 🤷‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️. The mound of woodchips 5 months on has dropped to 4ft high. There are potato sprouts all over the mound. Everywhere! Got a little scorched this weekend by a frost and I’m scratching out woodchips twixt the potato sprouts to place on my vegetable garden paths. I’ll let you know if my forever potato patch works this year! 😂 We get tomato and potato blight every year, here. My woodchip potatoes have never got blight. The soil under the woodchips now is 18” deep of black compost riddled with white fungi strands that could be a damaging white fungus or a network of something special. Don’t know. But potatoes are no longer “scabby”. Best wishes for your comparative potato growing experiments. 👍🏻

Becky I absolutely love your garden it’s so beautiful and growing so amazing 🤩

Greetings B'ecky, Josh, all the Animal babies and Acre-Homesteadnicks. You asked a math question!!! As an old mathematician I will gladly answer the pound cake question. If you double your recipe for pound cake you get 1 pound of sugar, 1 of butter BUT 1.1 pounds of Flour and 1.5 pounds of eggs. So it ALMOST works out but not quite. I enjoyed watching you in the garden throwing potatoes about. 🙃 Great fun! All the Best JIM, Oaxaca

You seem tired, so glad you’re going to rest!! Garden looks great!!

When I grew up my parents always planted potatoes cut in half with eyes in mounds/hills in garden. My husband and I had good luck doing it. I may try and plant some in a small area this year since only for me.

Let’s go inside and make a cake…I changed my mind, I’m watering the grow bags and look at the tomatoes….lol, this is why I love watching your channel, you are just so real! Plus you have great ideas, delicious recipes and you’re just fun! Josh is a great hubby to come out to help you with those cow panels. Very fun and productive day!

I’m so jealous of all of your space! I am moving somewhere with a much larger garden this year so I’m hoping to have a massive garden like this 😍

“That’s just typical me” you crack me up! Love you

Many years ago I moved to NC and learned about different planting, one was potatoes from a potato farmer. I hope I’m recalling correctly Took the potato and cut it open leaving at least two eyes in each section and dusted with…? Forget it’s name. Planted it on top of soil and covered with a few handfuls of soil…making a hill. Then as it grew, I’d add more soil to the hill. I had pretty long rows of potato hills. Harvest was fun! No matter where I put my hands out pop a potato! No digging! 🥔

HEY BECKY! Sending love and light from New Zealand. My mum is such a big fan of you and loves watching your videos. Whenever I’m with her we both enjoy watching your videos! Just wanted to say thank you on behalf of my mum for the inspiration and joy you bring her ❤️❤️❤️

"Well that cutting board is toast!" I'm sure there's no pun intended, but you're still entertaining and informative. I LOVE your videos and attitude. All the best to you!

Hi. With leggy tomatoes, you can plant the stem in the ground and the roots will start growing off the stem. Many gardeners do this even if they’re not leggy to help speed up a good root system. Also, why don’t you cut your seed potatoes to make them go farther? I cut mine into 2 or 3 chunks (depending on how many eyes) and once I let them scab up for a a few days they work amazing and just as well. Also I live near you (Auburn) so I’d assume a similar grow zone 8b I believe.

I'm back rewatching this video and when you mentioned the Ruth Stout documentary, I paused the video and googled it. I just finished it and my heart feels so warm. "Do what you want to do and don't tell other people how to behave. To make rules for other people - I just don't get it" - Ruth Stout. LOVELOVELOVE

We love you, Josh!....and Bec!

Becky, you are so cute! I laughed at you laughing at yourself. Loved and learned a lot watching you plant potatoes.

I am planting my potatoes, 3 kinda of squash, cucumbers, corn, and green peas tomorrow. Then I have to go and pick up some green bean seeds because I didn't know that I was out of them. When I get home I plan on planting them also. Then in about 2 weeks my peppers, cabbage, onions, spinach and lettuce should be ready to go in the ground too. My garden will be all in by the middle of the month and I should have sprouts of stuff beginning soon.

Hey Becky, we grew potatoes in 1x1m Boxes. We added layers of soil on top of it till it reached 4 feet to max out our space.

I can see the trellis and pots coming together!

You inspire my husband and I and we started a mini garden. Our seedlings are starting to sprout 🌱 ❤️

There's no better feeling than the tired you feel after a long day of outdoor work. 🌱💚

Always a fun typical Becky video! To make it easier on their growth, potatoes really should be planted with the eyes facing up. I love your new tomato trellis set up. When planting your tomatoes, I hope you don't fall for that "egg in the hole" thing. Better to just use bone meal (good for planting potatoes also!). It's a good time to plant tomatoes and peppers when you have 5-7 days straight of nighttime temps in the 50's. Love pound cake! Silicone baking pans are the best! No browning on the sides, baked goods pop right out and easiest clean up 😊

I have a standing rule for the oven. ALWAYS open that door before you turn on the oven. It helps cut down on destroying the things stored in there.

I live in Maine and we pick Strawberries every year and freeze them for the year! ☮️❤️🙏❤️🙏

That cake looks delicious!! 🌺🌼🌺