First Year Garden Potato Harvest | The BIGGEST Spuds We've Ever Seen!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- It's finally time to dig up the potatoes! We get our hands dirty and lay our eyes on some magnificent tubers.
Potato varieties we grew:
French Fingerling
Mountain Rose
Dark Red Norland
Cherry Red
Chieftain
Magic Molly
All Blue
Purple Viking
Cal White
German Butter Ball
Yukon Gold
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That rooster is a star 🌟. OMG I kept listening and by halfway through I thought that rooster was going to come screaming into frame and take over. Can you possibly ship him to me?...I have a backdoor neighbor with an endlessly barking dog. That rooster will handle him.
Sandy Miller 😂😂😂👍
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This made my day!!!
Your other neighbors will get so mad at you both lol 😂😂
just get a white noise machine. $50 later I don't remember my neighbor has a dog.
Do i have land to grow plants? NO
Am I still watching? Yes
rebel ram same! Someday...
Grow in a bucket
Cheria i do my best with bins and buckets for now, but they dont hold water nearly as well as the ground does or a larger raised bed does. The bins tend to get toasty on my porch that is all rocks :(
Amelia Salisbury I’ve heard some people get reflective buckets...I’m not sure how well that works.
Drive out to a rural area and get to know some of the folks, not hard to rent a place from someone to grow a garden. I lived in the city for 15 years and had to rent garden plots to grow my garden. After 15 years I managed to buy my own farm and then had no equipment and so leased out the 150 acres of it that was tillable and able to grow wheat to a neighboring farmer for.... $25 an acre per year...
You might be surprised at what you can lease and how much you can lease it for. Me I have always been a plant nut and I couldn't go for all those years without being able to garden, where there is a will there is a way...
All you need now is copious amounts of garlic, sour cream, chives, butter and YUMMM!
We get the potatoes with our hands too. One of our favorite crops. We are a family of 6, so we eat all ours before they go bad, harvesting as we need them for meals, rather than a huge harvest. We also grow ours in late winter and harvest may-June.
I'm a simple woman. I see potatoes, I click. And I may also like and subscribe.
I had my first respectable potato harvest this year. Three varieties (purple majesty, banana fingerling, Yukon gold) weighed in at 136 pounds for my fairly little potato patch, and I've been eating them out of the cellar since late August or early September. I could probably have left them in longer, but travel schedules meant we'd either pull them, or not get around to it until mud season. I've tried making potatoes happen in containers before, with little success, so I sort of gave up until this year. My grandpa used to grow all the potatoes, onions, and pickles the extended family ate throughout the year on his allotment, but I don't remember how. I do remember the backbreaking weeding and irrigating the plot by hand. Makes me and my bad back appreciate no dig gardening more every year.
Homestead to Table great job with your harvest! We love those varieties :)
Homestead to Table ...ahhhh Yukon Gold! They are so delicious!
Sprinkle cornmeal on the top of your soil to get rid of slugs. Working for me for 40+ years. Love your critters talking in the background. Looks like so much fun in your garden. Potatoes are beautiful, look at the color palette. Thank you.
I'm hoping you have a video showing what you did to your soil prior to planting.
I'm so glad you found a worm, that means your garden is healthy.. I can not believe you Ariel and Eric, you both have nailed everything. Just an example of what a young Beautiful Couple can accomplish together, but you two work so hard, you are both an Inspiration.. What an Amazing crop of Potatoes, Perfect Carrots, that Rooster omg so loud, Ducks in the little pool so cute. Thank you both from Australia xx hug's.
So much for everything being bigger in Texas! Looks like Alaska holds the trophy now... Awesome harvest.
Yeah everything is not actually bigger in Texas, including the state lol, not compared to Alaska.
Biggest potatoes are Idaho number 1's.
Don’t stop posting vids, you are living my “someday” dream..live in Anchorage and someday off grid ❤️
I live in panama . Alaska is my heaven dream.
It's really heart-warming to see how happy you both are, and how great your relationship seems to be. When you are doing something together that you both love it seems that your relationship grows as well as your food!
i can just imagine what my wife would say if she sent me to the store to by 5lbs of potatoes and I came back with just 2 spuds lol.
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Dwl
Jason Justinger lol
I just bought 30 kg becouse of coronavirus..
Sławek Czwiertak oh..........
First time I have ever watched your videos. I love the bloopers! Marriage is full of bloopers, my husband and I have been married 35 years and you have to have a sense of humor for life's ups and downs! How fun you two are!!
Adding cinnamon sticks among your potatoes in the cellar will keep them fresh much longer.
I have watched a lot of Potato Harvests and I have never seen so many Mammoth Potatoes in one Harvest! WOW!
Your first Alaska garden has been impressive. Love the “hands on” harvesting technique. Congratulations on your channel progress - approaching 50K. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
I’m current watching this in December 2021 and they’re at over 500k .
Damn, now she's at almost 600k time flies.
670
Your soil is just so so good. Most people have to use tools to harvest because their soil is so hard. I love how much you prep your soil. So many people just shove the seeds/potatoes in and wonder why they have a smaller crop. Great video. You and Eric really know your stuff.
That was a really impressive first harvest you got there in 2019! I like how you want to do it almost all by hand. You’re so much more connected to the earth and the plants. Great progression Illias family!
I live in SE Asia...and I love your posts. You both are very charming, obviously knowledgable, and fun to watch, likely because I also believe that the best way to 'connect' with the soil is to go into it with your hands and count its blessings with and through your fingers. And you, lady, I love the impish humor in your eyes. Oh, and you two are easily my favorite homesteaders from whom I learn a lot.
As an avid gardener, you both did extremely well. Have now watched at least six of your videos and am very envious of your lifestyle. My family will be there soon I hope.
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I'm new to this channel. Awesome video. Year ago, I bought food grade 55 gallon barrels. I filled them up with chopped straw, compost, dirt, leaves, etc. I filled it up about 3/5ths of the way and planted my seed potatoes. As the plant grew, I threw in more leaf compost which was heavy and dirt. I kept building til it reached the top. When the plant died, I just knocked the barrel over and then picked up the potatoes. Pulling on the plant made them slide out easily while tilting it. They have always turned out picture perfect, no bugs or rot.
When I was a kid, I'd help my grandfather in the garden. At around 10 yrs old, I never once considered "chores" to be work. I gladly helped him and we got stuff done and I enjoyed his company more than words could ever express. Not only planting but enjoying the mouth watering home cooked food we ate. People today buy so much preserved food and chemicals sprayed on frozen stuff they think that's normal. He died in 1985 and I think of him almost everyday. Watching video's where people actually work and plant reminds me of very good times. Thanks for taking your time to share your life. It brings the outside world in when some people can't get outside very much. (I have copd. I leave the house about once a month)
I love digging up potatoes by hand too. Seems more like a treasure hunt that way. Big pats on the back for your whopping harvest. You must be so happy. Cheers from BC
Those big potatoes at around the 9 minute mark may be "Kennebec", I grew some 2 years ago and the bottom potato on each plant was about 8 inches in diameter, and then many large ones farther up. I read somewhere they need to planted close together (8-9 inches) so they don't get that big, but it was kinda cool being able to make a whole bowl of potato salad from one potato.
Homegrown potatoes are the best and so fun to harvest!!!!
Hello Eric, Ariel!! Y’all got a nice haul! Before cell phones/internet/electronic games, kids went outside, played n the fresh air, soaked up vitamin D, and dug n the dirt...people were less sick then, because most of the entertainment was done outside, they were more active, for most people nowadays, it’s the other way around, and that’s why a person gets sick a lot. Got a garden, dig it, for the healthy stuff it provides, yes, of course, for the vegetables to! Enjoyed it!! Thank u
I have only seen potato's that large once in my life..
I was growing some potato's in the garden one year and one night I saw a bright light. There was red, green and white lights. They were going in circles. The lights were on a round disc type thing and it just came out of the sky. hoovered over my crops. It was not that large of an object. Maybe about 6 or 7 feet across.
At harvest time of that year we got some large potato's about 4 or so. So I am thinking the object that visited my potato's might of visited yours.
I gotta go now the nurse is telling me it is time for my meds. Love your videos.
Tbac - LOL 😂
Tbac - How big did those 4 potatoes get?
@@svoctopus4888 The first time they were the size of a woman's head. The second time I do not remember. the us government took them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂l can't breath.
@@tbac2432 ha ha lol
The reds are my favorite, potatoes keep good also, I accidentally missed some when I harvest and found the next planting season and they was perfect shape. Enjoy y'alls channel.
I love the roosters crowing away! I have 4 and love them making noise and hanging with me during my farm/barn chores.
2019 i won ak state fair for the largest spud it weighed in at 2.20 lbs , while wrking at Denali Family Resturand in Wasilla Ak , i weighed in the after the fair when full harvest came , i weighed one in at 3.30 lbs , Alaskas state record is 4.5 lbs , Love what You Pholks Do , Alaska Grows Bigger
The Irish would be very happy with that beautiful crop of spuds.
That huge potato is the size of a meteor! The huge sizes are a testimony to the soil you created for them. Congrats!
I never would have believed that you could grow such a garden so far north, good job !
I did not realize how much gardening you are capable of in Alaska.
My great grandfather went up there and panned gold in the early 1900's.
Your rooster is having an anxiety attack :-)
Patrick Benoit Roosters 😟
Eat em
Was gonna say that he would be dinner here. :D
Nah, we listen go goats holler all day long so what's another noise maker.
Ever tried a rooster collar? Easy on easy off. Also it only prevents them crowing so they can still be of use for their females.
@Tzuede Off the Cuff They are just joking around because he's so loud during the video.
you seem to be good, down to earth people....it is interesting to watch your efforts grow as you build your farm/ lake cabin
I find you guys to be so inspiring! Both in terms of the life you're living, and your down-to-earth yet playful personalities. Love from Norway!
I've been wanting to travel to Norway, to compare child poverty rates in the USA. Would you happen to know of a good travel agent to use? In USA 35.5% vs Norway was 6 or 8% on 2 different years' stats. Texas where I currently live has the worst birth mother mortality in the developed world according to WHO reports to the UN. So I've wanted to take a trip to see what we might change to make things better for everyone here. I've nearly died 5x by age 48. This is why I want to make changes.
@@kristinatidwell6563 I'm sorry to hear of your troubles! It's interesting that you should ask about this, however - I've recently finished up my master's in the same topic, although mostly focusing on health and economic inequalities in the UK. From my research I know that Norway has one of the safest health systems bcs of our welfare and free health services (although the British NHS is even better). But most importantly, our economic welfare, with one of the world's highest economic equality rated, ensures everyone can afford very good health service, dietary health, economic support and child upbringing. I highly recommend you to do further research! As for travel agents... I'm not sure - I always travel independently. Unfortunately Norway is also a very expensive country, and an expensive country to travel in... But with a little research you should be able to travel without any agency 😊
@@kristinatidwell6563 stop importing migrants who do nothing else other than reproducing like rodents without having the economical basis for providing the basic needs!
Harvesting potatoes is so rewarding, it's like a "treasure" hunt!
My sister when she planted potatoes added ash and chicken poop and most of her potatoes were just huge. She lives in similar weather as Alaska.
very nice .. ash is awesome for everything. I take the ash from burning pecan wood and fallen limbs and sticks, I put is around the base of my pecan trees. My trees produce when others won't 🤗
Ashes are great for sweet potatoes. I use it and rotting wood mixed with loose soil in my backyard.
I like how the potato harvest video is one of the first ones to get the most views.
Digging potatoes was my favorite vegetable to harvest as well. We had a hole lined with straw that we stored our potatoes in. It worked perfect. We kept straw bales on top of cover for additional insulation. You all have had a tremendous harvest.👍👍
Food mounds are rare these days!
Not because the dont work well but there are more convenient storage methods more in favour.
This is brilliant! Ill try that !
Wow I just planted 15 seed potatoes. This is so encouraging. Amazing potatoes! Great job!
Very interesting. I was told by my parents and grandparents you could never let the frost touch potato and sweet potato vines because it ruins the potatoes..in flavor and longevity. But we always planted Red Pontiac and Kennebec. I don't remember the sweet potato, it has been 30 years since any have been grown.
Your crop is amazing!
potato harvest in our garden is always a great pleasure, even if we have only several plant, and watchin yours harvest was also a great fun . This year we throw out several tuber of potato to one of little compost mound after weeding our garden, and not even not died, but got biggest yield
Take a shot every time the rooster crows
Arcane Agent I’m Dead. Lol
Rip
Lol
Rip
“We are going to need a bigger bottle”
I've heard that veggies grow very large because of the sunshine during the long days. It's great watching your videos of life in Alaska.
I love watching these golden oldies! Loved, LOVED the blooper segment!
Pulling out the crop is the best thing there is. I also loved the sound those birds making, gives the flavor of countryside. Great video. Thank you.
You two are wonderful. I’m here in Australia, just recently planted my first potato patch. Your planting, harvesting & storing potatoes is such a help to me. Thank you, looking forward to your carrot harvest now. :)
Every time I miss gardening during the wintertime I watch this video. It actually inspired me to order my potatoes for next season today😅a little early, I know,but I saw a really rare variety I really wanted. Please, more videos like this, it's so strangely satisfying watching someone harvesting potatoes
I laughed aloud when you pulled up the head sized potato..you should name that treasure. And, it might be a good potato to store for seeding next year.
That Goose going off was really awesome. I love him or her.
So satisfying to see you both harvesting those great potatoes, very good harvest indeed 💖💖
Wow some big Tators! Well the huge ones you can cook and mash for several meals! Potato pancakes, potato bread, Shepherds pi, burger gravy over mashed, it’s endless! Loved watching!
You guys are so knowledgeable about this stuff! I love watching your videos and getting tips for my future gardens.
Thank you, It was a lot of fun watching you harvesting them potatoes, Hairy, Larry & Bob
I love harvest season. I harvested my potatoes in midsummer. I just threw them in the flower pot and they grew.
I just saw your harvest on the potatoes . Because everything that moves and how it was awesome I enjoyed watching it . I used to live in Alaska and in the garden everything got way bigger because of the amount of sun hours you get. I really miss my garden days in Alaska.
I love potatoes. And fried chickens.
My grandfather was a potato farmer in Northern Maine. I remember helping with the potato harvest picking 30-40 barrels per day (your wheelbarrow was 2/3 to 3/4 of a barrel). Got paid about $0,35 per barrel.
I’ve only just recently pulled up my first ever potato yield and it really is like digging up gold! It was so exciting
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Planting something in the ground and taking care of it and harvesting and cooking and eating the rewards is one of the great things to live for . When I was a kid and my father dug potato’s me and my brother love to help find the potatoes and worms too cause we love to go fishing and eat the fish we caught . If you have children or if you don’t borrow someone else’s kids , it’s something that they will never forget
I remember those days back in the 50’s . One of my jobs when I was little was to walk along side my fathers Kaiser 2 cycle rototiller with a hammer to knock the rocks out of the tillers tines with the hammer . But I couldn’t do it long cause the tiller was so loud it hurt Mey ears . Another job was to take a bucket with kerosene in the bottom and pick potato beetles off of the potato plants and throw them in the kerosene to kill them . But I loved to pick the potatoes and worms too and go fishing . We ate everything we caught except baby fish , the good old days
The blues have always produced the best of any other varieties I've tried in my garden.
That last part was super funny!!! I had to keep re - watching it..... blahhhhahahahah .....Life is a garden, dig it!!!
Wow what a nice crop- I experiment and if a potato starts getting eyes- I’ll plant in my flower bed or stick them on the side of a tree- it’s fun to see how well they do. We don’t use huge amounts of potatoes- have to watch carbs but we love them.I learn and get so inspired from u guys. Thanks for sharing
she is so wholesome
Every place I've seen up there in Alaska does that grows really good their stuff imagine you just have more sunlight in the soil is just so rich
Yeah they get like 18-22 hrs daylight during the summer.
... same amount of darkness in winter.
One year here in Ga we grew 9 lb sweet potatoes because we mixed “ cricket crap” into our garden soil. It was pricey to buy from the cricket farm but it makes great fertilizer! One sweet potato fed our whole family for more than one meal.
The variety of huge potatoes you aren't sure about looks like kinneback potatoes. They are the fav here in the Appalachian Mtns. They whip up very white and fluffy. Soup from kinnebacks and Vidalia onions is the best! Yes, they grow huge and do well even in rocky soil.
Woooooow I've never been more inspired to start gardening.
Holy potatoes.. I love digging for them with my hands.
I used to work for Food Bank of Alaska. Every year, during the holiday season we would pick up potatoes straight from Alaska growers. We would purchase 29,000 pounds and hand just about every family 3 pounds each, and hand out over 15,000 turkeys. All of this would happen in one night on the week of Thanksgiving. For Christmas we only handed out about 18,000 lbs. Apples were also an Alaskan grown product we purchased and handed out. Awesome video. Potatoes hold a special place for me.
Can you do a video where you break down when you plant certain foods and when do you usually harvest them ?
wouldn't that only apply on where you live?
@tj 1911 yes but I want to know how they do it in Alaska
Diana Andrade this was our first year gardening here so we will change a little bit next year, I did show planting most of our plants and seeds but not neatly in one video. That's a nice idea ☺
That would be very useful to at least some of us, it is really tough to find videos of stuff grown in the colder climates. I type in "winter" planting and I get 50 videos in the UK where it is a tropical 50F in the middle of January.. lol... I live north Idaho, I currently have a foot of snow on the ground and still snowing relatively regularly, I have a bit of trouble getting a garden in with my short growing season. Three years ago my garden was awesome, then we had a cold snap the last week of June and first week of July and we had overnight temps in the low 20's... Bye bye garden...
There have got to be more people in colder climes that have good information and tricks on growing...
Gardening should be one of the things we teach small kids and harvesting it would really be fun. I don’t have grandkids yet but growing potatoes will be on my grandma bucket list
Congratulations!
That's a tremendous amount of potatoes. So many varieties as well.
The soil youve made is why the potatoes are sooo big. Im watching from Western Australia, we have crappy sandy soil that requires a lot of amendment. Takes up to a year to develop . Didnt know not to wash potatoes for curing. Good info. You have very lush garden, testament to your hard work. Thanks for sharing your tips.
I believe your shot of planting the potatoes showed that you planted the whole thing, if you cut and cure your eyes you'll get 3-4x the amount of plants per seed potato. Just a helpful hint.
Our potatoes didn't do good this year, mostly because this is our first year here and the soil is extremely hard. I was wanting to try similar to how y'all grew y'all's but got a late start.
Good luck.
Thanks
What a wonderful crop. Thanks for filming your harvest.
I've watched a LOT of potato harvests in the last year (my favorite too by far) and have never seen anyone grow them that big. I was told as a girl that it is the minerals that make things grow so big in Alaska. I am gobsmacked and you would never in a million years know that those ones were Fingerlings. More like Footerlings. I think knowing what you're doing plays a big part in it too. Pun, lol. Very well done you two and the colors were fun.
if your born here, obviosuly your future is in
alaska...
passification of a cold weather
region is not impossible
they are showing it can be done.
my vision though includes
communities there,
that would live
in transparent
domes
about 1/2
the size
of
a
baseball stadium.....
and the house would be inside the
dome.
Oh MAN they are some good GOOD looking spuds!!! Whether you make the giants into Mash or Boiled whatever's left over from Dinner can be turned into fried the next day. In bacon fat is always good but in lard or oil is too, and whether for Breakfast or with Dinner a fried Potato is one of life's great gifts.
I love potatoes. It’s my favorite vegetable 🥔
Mine, too
You could say that no potatoes were harmed in the making of this video!!
Jay Andrews She could say that no roosters were harmed in the making of this video.
Love the Ruth Stout gardening method. Makes it much easier to grow and harvest potatoes.
The vegetation around shows how fertile the soil was ....you deserve the harvest...it was spectacular 👌worth the efforts darlings thx for this upload.
Digging in the dirt with your hands is part of the fun of gardening!
You guys are absolutely out of this world,must be from mars.The way you are making vIdeos are unbelievable coz the efforts and human skills is par of excellence.My wish is to visit your house,I know it’s not possible.Keep working,cooking,traveling,hunting,fishing and last but not least smiling 😊
Love that he’s packing in the garden.
Always prepared to protect his family and property
Bear country, not thugs.
Hello from North Idaho,
Don't forget, you can plant some of these next year.
I'm still growing purple potatoes that I bought three years ago. I just replant the ones I don't consume.
Magnificent video! Come fall we allow the neighbors ducks into the vegetable garden to eat any slugs or snails. Since we don't want slug or snail eggs hatching come spring.
Beth Grant-DeRoos Also good to benefit from the droppings from the ducks.
I never knew there were that many colors of potatoes, Wow!
I could watch the two of you all day long🤣
Rebecca Stanley i too could watch these two all day long. I just need to find someone with the same dreams and ambitions. This would be almost impossible to do alone.
A lot has to do with being young and energetic too. When I was 25 I maybe could have done this alone (barely), but now that I have the knowledge I lack the energy! I still make the effort though. Not having to go to a job everyday helps too! Self sufficiency is a full time occupation.
Excellent video! Those are huge potatoes, I've never grown them that big before! One potato verses 1 small bag (2lb) of potatoes.. awesome!
No potatoes were harmed in the making of this video.
Only one, she stabbed it with the fork lol i don't blame getting the hands dirty though, great video.
Why are there any NEGATIVE or THUMBS DOWN comments on her channel... OMFG can't you animals enjoy the FREE INFORMATION being given of someone's time and love of what they do. Who CARES which potato grows BIGGER in which states... who cares... no one! THANKS 👏👏👏 Simple Living Alaska
Harvesting with a handgun on the hip. Love it!
In Alaska you don’t go out without your gun......moose, bear main concern
You've got an eye out. I didn't even notice he was packing.
Don't need any ol bears trying to swipe their potatos...😁
Glock is always a good choice too.
I would have loved to see what you do with the potatoes after. Like see what the curing process looks like. I’m doing my first potatoes ever this year!
Oregon huh? I was born in the Dalles, 65 yrs. ago on Monday. Dang, your spuds are nice! I didn't realize they grew so prolifically there. Nice garden young folks; you're living the dream!👵😊💞
Interest and fun to watch:) Very natural and down to earth people. Love it!
I love the Joe Dirt reference, what a good movie. My favourite line from that movie is - Keep on keeping on. I use it all the time.
Oh my gosh!! What a harvest of potatoes!
My Dad was always an adventurous gardener and tried growing potatoes of different varieties many times but never, ever got yields like those here in rural Shelby county, Indiana. If only he could see that yield, he would be in awe!! He would be proud of you two! My Dad was quite the hunter/fisherman/outdoorsman ( actually, he could do anything..much like you guys...perhaps why I feel a closeness to you..you remind me of me wonderful Dad) and he would really love to have lived the life you two are living. ♥️
That is a really nice potato harvest. 🌻🌻🌻🌻
The southern magnetic polarity is why everything in Alaska grows so large.