We Grew Potatoes 8 Different Ways, Here's What Happened 🥔

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1. Hi Kevin and the Fam! Reggie from Montreal here! My question is, would you be able to do a serie or series on growing indoor in grow tents? I think it would be awesome because a lot of us dont have the space to grow outdoor, but have an extra room, like me. I put a 4×8 tent, and would love to "master" growing fruits and veggies indoor. Thank you, love the show and please, keep going! Specially if you can find lots of exotics things to grow, i think those are amazing! ✌🏾🙏🏾🖤

2. The Ruth Stout method never works for me, something always gets into it and kills them. 6" deep trench with no hilling has by far been my best results.

3. Watching this while eating Hashbrowns🤣
   Thats very interesting 🤔 time go give my Potatoes Potash 👍

4. Love experiments and I appreciate you doing it correctly this time. Fascinating! I wonder how that experiment would play out in my midwestern clay. 🤔 Great video, thanks!

5. Potato Ty's method had a higher yields per potato if you divided by 3. Since you noted that one plant died.

6. My granddaddy was a potato farmer here in Tennessee. He's long gone now. Sadly, as a young adult, I failed to gleen his potato growing wisdom before he passed at the grand age of 98 yrs. Thus, today, I am attempting to container grow potatoes in a 25 gallon grow bag. I'm excited to see your experiment. Thinking I'll try a bag of each. Ruth Stout and the standard method. I will also be trying my hand at growing sweet potatoes, from plants as well as seeds. Looking for to see what works best for container gardening. Thanks for sharing your idesa!!

7. I'm growing Kennebecs in five five gallon bags (I WANT SMALL NEW POTATOES FROM THIS) and three green stalk tiers that are separated and stalked with enough support to allow airflow and no fall-over. So far, ALL are doing brilliantly! I had a length of old soaker hose that doesn't bend, but I strung it through the middle of each, all in a line….and it works fine because it's not a lot of space and everything gets plenty of water. Just waiting for those flowers to show up!!!

8. Love your experiments!

9. We use black plastic pots with the bottoms cut out around ours. Red potatoes seem to really enjoy this, maybe the pots releasing extra heat at night gives them an extra boost?

10. Not sure if im doing something wrong, or right, but my potatoes are like 2' tall and at least that wide, and they've only been in the ground for about a month and a half. Im just hilling them as they grow. Not sure what my zone is, but im here in south west idaho.

11. My method of planting potatoes was to dig a hole, and have my toddler toss the seed potatoes in. By far not the best way to do it, but they're all growing and I will have potatoes. I love potatoes, they're so resilient.

12. I would love to see the Ruth stout method and also have it covered.

13. I guess he was from michigan. Canada is almost the same.

14. I love seeing experiments like these! But what stopped the 6" method winning? It had the highest yield, right?

15. Love when channels bust food myths with actual science! I did something similar recently — my fav was the “freezing bread = diet” myth 😆

16. The last experiment was CLEARLY Eric's fault, that man should not be allowed around the potato crops 😂😂😂

17. I live in Denmark (so quite a different climate) and have the last two years grown potatoes in seaweed. Snails and other pests do not seem to like the seaweed and thus mostly keep away. It is a bit slower to get going but it works! I also grow a few plants in a raised bed to get some early potatoes, and either way seems to yield about the same amount. The plants in the seaweed do need less watering though so that's definitely a plus.

18. i only plant golden potatoes now, russet yields are always disappointing.

19. there is the trenched standard option but I see no trench!! my understanding of trenched potatoes is digging a trench 6-12in deep then plant the potatoes 3-4in lower, cover with soil not once but as many times as needed to get to soil level, this require a LOT of work and time.
    In the video, they literally just made holes, the same as the 6" method, am I missing something here?!
    Also how come Ruth Stout came out as the winner when the highest number of lb/kg (7.7/3.5) is from the 6in deep method?! I am soo confused

20. Love a tater reveal! Norlands are a determinant potato variety so hilling them won’t have an impact on the plant’s ability to form up more tubers. It would be interesting to try this experiment yet again with an indeterminate variety next time!

21. I've always heard determinate potatoes aren't worth hilling because they dont actually grow the same way. You wont see anything growing on the stems at all for determinates. Thanks for the test, I think I will try the frost cover way for my next potato trial!

22. now combine the best methods and see if they work even better!

23. Making something so simple, so complicated!!

24. What if instead of using straw I covered them in a layer of compost? Do you think the added nutrition versus just using straw could make the easy and productive Ruth Stout method even a little more productive?

25. Something to also note: I kept failing with potatoes due to opposums or racoons (not sure which). Doing the straw method this yr in zone 6 with a pest fence and they're going wild.

26. Red Norlands are determinate potatoes. I'm new to that part of things, but I thought hilling determinate potatoes does nothing because they only set on one level. Indeterminate potatoes (like russets) can grow on multiple levels and those are the potatoes you want to hill. That could by why your bucket method seemed less full?

27. I wish you would have just done all white potatoes.
    It was hard to learn much from this video.

28. Your enthusiasm for growing potatoes is contagious, thank you for sharing such creative and innovative methods that inspire us to experiment in our own gardens! 🌱🥔 It’s amazing how resilient and adaptable these plants can be!

29. I got determinate and indeterminate potatoes to grow this year! Put the Clancy seeds in my greenstalk, the determinates in grow bags (no point in ever hilling them because they only grow on one layer), and the indeterminates are in spare plastic buckets because I ran out of grow bags. I planted them deep instead of hilling them because potatoes imo are meant to be easy, not work.

    Love seeing these experiments! Thanks for redoing the potato one better. Would love for you to do it again for indeterminate potatoes next time. But I’m down for comparing how to best grow any plant!

30. Eric's Potato Roast noice …

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