We have an entire video Playlist dedicated to our Ruth Stout gardening over the years. You can find that playlist here if you want to learn more: ua-cam.com/play/PLoi3On3ZiLmGQmqOSlZeI6PXqBYgit6GL.html
A lot of people don't realize that not all potatoes need hilling. Yukon gold or Chieftan are determinate and wont respond to hilling. German butterball are indeterminate and will respond to hilling. I do a modified Ruth stout method with wood chips, works well.
Wow! I haven't heard about Ruth Stout since the 1970s. Rodale's Ruth Stout's No Work Garden. ... Thanks for revisiting her methods. Brings back wonderful memories. Elliot Coleman is still gardening away in Maine. We are a 350 acre working farm in Central New Hampshire. Third generation. Grass- fed beef/Haying/ Logging. I am all for lazy gardening that produces decent results. New Hampshire has a bumper crop of ticks! Waiting for a tick vaccine. It came out and then disappeared. I would be first in line! ~ Diane
Sitting in my garden getting ready to plant potatoes and I thought, “how did Rachel plant hers with Ruth Stout.... ??🤔” And this video was the first one to pop up on my feed 🤗 Love watching your channel, you guys inspire me to start my own 💗
Please do not ask that man to shave his beard. It is glorious!! I enjoy watching another michigander work to restoring the earth by loving it like it deserves. Trying to do the same, vlogging along the way. ❤❤
I love his beard!!! My hubby is a firefighter so he can't keep a beard. He does however have the big cheesy firefighter mustache lol and the tips of his "chops" are turning white. So I think he'd have a beautiful white beard if he could grow it out. Maybe after retirement 😁😍
Totally ASMR, the crinkling on the cardboard and the moving around the hay!!! Oh and our ticks are also HORRIBLE this year😳. ❤️ Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hi Rachel, and Todd. I just love it when the two of you are together. Rachel, the potato garden will do well in the rain. The soil will have moisture and have drainage. That is good when it is not raining, and the moisture is really good for all your plants. Thank you for sharing your plant video. God Bless you and Todd.stay safe. Maria.💖💗💙💜💛💚❤🧡💓💕🌺🌼🌷🏵🌸💐🍁🌻🙏💞💝👍✌✌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Tomatoes and zucchini/yellow summer squash love the Ruth stout beds. Now lettuce loves it but slugs love the lettuce lol same as the radishes the slugs and rolypolys just love them in the Ruth stout method.
I have 4 totes partly filled with old wood, a little dirt and mostly finished compost, then potatoes, and finally straw! Doing great! Started a small bed under my spruce and just starting to see some tops. More waiting to go onto my brassica bed. LOVE it.
I planted just a couple small potatoes that had seeded in a big pot and it sprouted. I am so excited considering my beet and carrot seeds haven't sprouted at all.
Depending on where you are, you should have plenty of time to reseed your carrots and beets 🥕. Cover them up with some cardboard or a wooden plank; helps me a lot with my germination rate. Good luck on your potatoes 🥔! I did the same thing with some store-bought potatoes that sprouted really fast on me. They already broke the ground and I take it as a good sign 🤗
I had to pop back in here and let you know that I have planted my potatoes using Ruth Stout method for the first time this year. I was inspired by you to give it a try and here we go!
So excited to start my Ruth Stout garden this year!! Our garden will be about as big as yours, and I'm planning on doing my 6 raised beds, some no-till (Charles Dowding) method, as well as some Ruth Stout beds! You and Todd are such amazing inspirations to me! Thank you for taking the time out of your lives to share your gardening adventures!
Ticks are bad in Northern Illinois too. I just turned our straw bail garden into a raised bed hugel garden- too many baby bunnies were born in the straw bales. Hope you have a great yield this year.
I LOVED Todd's little laugh when you said "Time to shave the beard from Ticks" any photos of Todd without it ??? I have just planted some more potatoes over here too as my last lot were tiny potatoes but worked out not enough sun where they were. Your garden looking great & just love that fence. Cheers Denise- Australia
I started last fall to lay hay all over my garden, we have extra round bales of hay from our livestock. So this year I'm going to plant almost everything under hay. I can't water my garden because of it's location and I notice some of the things that were under the hay grew so much more.
I tried the Ruth Stout gardening method with my potatoes just a couple of months ago but the earwigs ate up all my potatoes because earwigs are attracted to hay. But I'll tell you those potatoes came shooting up out of that hay and we're so beautiful before they ate them.
back in the 80s I use to rent or take out a vcr tape from the libraiay and it was all about gardening and one of the shots was a girl doing that straw gardening and she did her hole garden her soil was so nice looking and her potatoes was big and clean . i forget the name of it
Oh no! I had a tick last week! We couldn’t get it all out. I ended up at the doctor yesterday and am now on antibiotics. All these years outside and good until now in SC. Nice fence by the way 😊
I love watching you planting taters in the Ruth Stout garden each year. I think you get a nice harvest, these and the onions. Great job! Easy too! Love the new fence it looks so different and pretty! xoxo
We have had 4 ticks in the house already this season, one on my son's head, one on my leg, one on my husband's leg and one on my dog, all within the last 10 days!😳 We have definitely been putting spray on now. With such a mild winter and spring they are horrible this year!
Same here with 2 ticks at my house. In 6 years I haven't seen one. I went and picked up hay for the Ruth Stroud method up on the mountain. I'm wondering if they hitched a ride on the bales. Yucky for sure.
I Love watching and learning from you and Todd. We just bought a house on a little over an acre and I am building our garden, we built 8 beds last weekend. Can you tell me what kind of Hay or state you use for Ruth stout method. I never realized there are different types. Thanks so much for all you guys do 😊
We're having trouble with ticks too. Bad! Everytime we go to the backyard we do a tick check! We have 3 large white pines in our yard and they say they are known for ticks. Not cutting down my only shade. We've sprayed and hoping that helps.
The creepy thing about ticks is they take 36 hours to bite, so they crawl around looking for a juicy spot. Shudder. Good luck with the potatoes, putting mine in buckets next week!
I have a comb on the deck and we have to comb the dog before going in the house. I had something drop on my head last year and I reached up thinking branch or leaf or bug. It was a deer tick. I almost threw up. 😳
Good Morning from the Netherlands, I prepared the beds with potatoes like you. Question: can the potato plants grow through the hay? Because the rain made the hay quite compact. Wish you a good season🙏
You have got a nice GARDEN! Make some free organic fertilizer for any plants: sunflower cake, mustard oil cake, Eggshell powder, and Banana pells water.
Your Ruth Stout videos inspired me to do it this year. My potatoes were planted on good Friday and are now poking through the top of my hay. Since my bed is new should I add more as they grow to give them hills?
Here in S TX have 4 beds of potatoes did one of rhth Stout but all coming out this weekend so sweet potato can go back in the Aug will plant fall potatoes.do u add any phosorus for your potatoes
Got your link from Ms Lori @ Whipperpool, my question is when was this video made? I’m trying to figure out when I need to plant my potatoes; it’s my first year doing them. Love the video!
We had a lot colder Winter than normal but we are still having a really bad pest year! I thought I was getting athletes foot on my right foot because it was itching like crazy and come to find out it was a tick in between my toes!🤮
I was watching your zucchini doughnut video and was curious about how that exchange student is doing. How about an update. Thx for sharing your knowledge with us.
She's doing great. Took a long time for her to get home, with COVID. There were basically no flights to Viet Nam for months and months. Back home, she's enrolled in university now and just completed her first year. She's also started her own at home bakery shop. She bakes cookies and other sweet treats for people, and delivers them to customers to make some extra cash on the side.
@@1870s doesn’t that make you feel good to know that you guys had a positive impact on her life. We have 6 year old identical triplet granddaughters and one 10 month old granddaughter. Our son and daughter in law are a tad busy. We moved close to them to help out. God Bless and happy Mother’s Day. Funny, you have the same name as our daughter in law. 😀
I found one on my arm thinking it was a spider and then flipped out lol. A week later one of my boys found one on him. What tick spray do you recommend? Never had to deal with them before till I moved up here.
Maybe y’all could help me? I chitted potatoes I grew last year, and they sat for a few weeks...planted two weeks at least now-they are not coming through the straw. Can they get too dry to reproduce? They were not dehydrated completely...but shriveled and dried out really good...? Do they take longer to sprout through?
Please share the nematode release info. I've ordered from Buglogical for several years but am interested in other people's successes with other vendors.
So there are nematodes for ticks to, I haven’t tried them yet. I did get some but have to put them out. I have a fear of ticks, reason I have chickens! I also suspect the wild turkeys we have around kinda reduce the population a bit.
The nematodes I am skeptical about, but the mix is supposed to take care of ticks as well as other pests we have been having issues with. Turkeys I have seen conflicting information on if they eat ticks, I did do the research years ago so who knows what they found now. However the flocks roosts in the trees behind our house so we just don’t discourage them. I have seen the years we have more turkeys foraging around the house during the winter we have less ticks but... that is completely antidotal. My chickens we can see a marked improvement in the backyard, in the area the ticks love the most. Once I let the girls free range back there we don’t find any ticks, otherwise you are guaranteed to find one or more. We have a LOT of predators so sadly my chickens can’t go around our whole property.
Where did you get your beneficial nematodes from I’m in California and need some but I’ve been told you need a reputable place? Thanks in advance for your help.....
Rachel got them online somewhere. I'm not sure where. We'll do a video about it when she's ready, and provide info on the source. Probably in the next week or so.
Sure, I'd recommend getting your hands on old aged hay so hopefully the weed seed has died off. Or go with straw. Also it's very important to find a source that doesn't spray with herbicides.
I'm wondering what you think about my idea. I have a few potato bags and I'm wondering if I can use this method in the potato bags. Have you ever tried potato bags?
@@1870s, I live off the west coast of Canada on an Island. It’s temperate rain forest but we get dry summers. I started my garden early this year and I’m fighting with slugs but my potatoes are doing really well.
We had ticks around our home until the wild turkeys showed up and now we don't have any problems with them. We live in Central Washington and have forest all around our home along with buck brush and bitter brush. (and turkey poop in our yard)
I couldn’t imagine trying to do the Ruth Stout method down here in Texas. Oh the giant insects, tarantulas, rats and snakes that would love to make their homes underneath all that hay. Nope. Not for me!
I’m finding a lot of methods I am adopting and think are wonderful will not work in the south. I’m in PA so I’m fine with them. But the soil is so much different, and like you say, the vermin. It is said we have copperheads around us but most people who live near me say no, they’ve never seen one in many years.
@@sandradelvecchio6894 it works decently in michigan our only issues are rattlesnakes but ive only seen 2 in the wild ever and I'm 57 and spend lots of time gardening and hiking/camping. I really don't worry about them they are so rare here. I told a park employee where I saw it and he actually had me take him there so maybe they could microchip it. He saw where it had been and planned to keep an eye out for it. One of these years I'm tempted to see if he ever got the chance to catch and chip it. I think we sometimes get brown recluse spiders but they are hitch hikers not residents.
I would love to move to another state (out of California), but I seriously fear ticks. While visiting Oklahoma one year, 3 out of 5 of my family ended up with ticks. Ewe!
@@emmaturpin2598 Rabbits however, did have babies in the straw - because our fence was broken up - thus, the new fence and relocation of the babies we found.
We have an entire video Playlist dedicated to our Ruth Stout gardening over the years. You can find that playlist here if you want to learn more: ua-cam.com/play/PLoi3On3ZiLmGQmqOSlZeI6PXqBYgit6GL.html
First year Ruth Stout here. Potatoes are popping up. Kinda fun to play spot the potato plant.
Thanks for linking, I'm planting sweet and red today and I've done a bit of research but thought I would check out all the potatoe videos you had 😊
A lot of people don't realize that not all potatoes need hilling. Yukon gold or Chieftan are determinate and wont respond to hilling. German butterball are indeterminate and will respond to hilling. I do a modified Ruth stout method with wood chips, works well.
Oh good reminder, I know that but always forget about that
Glad to see I’m not the only one gardening in a dress!
Wow! I haven't heard about Ruth Stout since the 1970s. Rodale's Ruth Stout's No Work Garden. ...
Thanks for revisiting her methods. Brings back wonderful memories. Elliot Coleman is still gardening away in Maine. We are a 350 acre working farm in Central New Hampshire. Third generation. Grass- fed beef/Haying/ Logging. I am all for lazy gardening that produces decent results. New Hampshire has a bumper crop of ticks! Waiting for a tick vaccine. It came out and then disappeared. I would be first in line! ~ Diane
Sitting in my garden getting ready to plant potatoes and I thought, “how did Rachel plant hers with Ruth Stout.... ??🤔”
And this video was the first one to pop up on my feed 🤗
Love watching your channel, you guys inspire me to start my own 💗
I wish I had more room to grow potatoes Ruth Stout method. I'm growing in containers. Better than nothing. I'm so jealous of your garden space.
When I was a caretaker we planted the garden according to the moon and they always had sn amazing garden and crop
I've been trying to grow potatoes for years with slim results. Tried this method last year & WOWZA!
Thank you
Please do not ask that man to shave his beard. It is glorious!! I enjoy watching another michigander work to restoring the earth by loving it like it deserves. Trying to do the same, vlogging along the way. ❤❤
I love his beard!!! My hubby is a firefighter so he can't keep a beard. He does however have the big cheesy firefighter mustache lol and the tips of his "chops" are turning white. So I think he'd have a beautiful white beard if he could grow it out. Maybe after retirement 😁😍
Totally ASMR, the crinkling on the cardboard and the moving around the hay!!! Oh and our ticks are also HORRIBLE this year😳. ❤️ Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oh my gosh I love this. I can remember watching a documentary of Ruth oh, what an amazing woman. My husband refuses to let me do it naked though, LOL.
Hi Rachel, and Todd. I just love it when the two of you are together. Rachel, the potato garden will do well in the rain. The soil will have moisture and have drainage. That is good when it is not raining, and the moisture is really good for all your plants. Thank you for sharing your plant video. God Bless you and Todd.stay safe. Maria.💖💗💙💜💛💚❤🧡💓💕🌺🌼🌷🏵🌸💐🍁🌻🙏💞💝👍✌✌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Maria, your comments always bring a smile to our faces. You are so kind, and always have the BEST & MOST emoji's ♥
I seen a sign at tractor supply that made me think of you. It said, Plant a garden, feed a rabbit....lol
You introduced me to The Ruth Stout method a year or so ago. Tried it last year and imo the best way to do potatoes. Absolutely love it!
Tomatoes and zucchini/yellow summer squash love the Ruth stout beds.
Now lettuce loves it but slugs love the lettuce lol same as the radishes the slugs and rolypolys just love them in the Ruth stout method.
I'm glad you're finding it a good fit for you as well! We love it
I have 4 totes partly filled with old wood, a little dirt and mostly finished compost, then potatoes, and finally straw! Doing great! Started a small bed under my spruce and just starting to see some tops. More waiting to go onto my brassica bed. LOVE it.
Excellent. I've planted potatoes in Pine straw with success too. I'm doing the hay this year myself. I dont like digging dirty potatoes either. Lol 👍
I planted my potatoes in 5 gallon buckets 🪣 hopefully they grow great.
I have to grow my potatoes in buckets and I have great luck with them. I have a few 5 gallons and the rest are 4 gallon kitty litter buckets
I planted just a couple small potatoes that had seeded in a big pot and it sprouted. I am so excited considering my beet and carrot seeds haven't sprouted at all.
Depending on where you are, you should have plenty of time to reseed your carrots and beets 🥕. Cover them up with some cardboard or a wooden plank; helps me a lot with my germination rate. Good luck on your potatoes 🥔! I did the same thing with some store-bought potatoes that sprouted really fast on me. They already broke the ground and I take it as a good sign 🤗
I had to pop back in here and let you know that I have planted my potatoes using Ruth Stout method for the first time this year. I was inspired by you to give it a try and here we go!
The fence looks awesome
What a change it makes your garden looks 😘
So excited to start my Ruth Stout garden this year!! Our garden will be about as big as yours, and I'm planning on doing my 6 raised beds, some no-till (Charles Dowding) method, as well as some Ruth Stout beds! You and Todd are such amazing inspirations to me! Thank you for taking the time out of your lives to share your gardening adventures!
Ticks are bad in Northern Illinois too. I just turned our straw bail garden into a raised bed hugel garden- too many baby bunnies were born in the straw bales.
Hope you have a great yield this year.
Love your Ruth Stout potatoes! They usually do really well for you.
Fence looks great
I would be too scared to dig in that straw!! Spiders, snakes, mice and bugs! Lol
I LOVED Todd's little laugh when you said "Time to shave the beard from Ticks" any photos of Todd without it ??? I have just planted some more potatoes over here too as my last lot were tiny potatoes but worked out not enough sun where they were.
Your garden looking great & just love that fence. Cheers Denise- Australia
There's some photos of him short beard on our Facebook page
Great info. Thank you. 💚🌱
I already planted my potatoes this year, so I’ll be getting my hands dirty, for sure. I’ll have to try it next year!
I’m trying the Ruth Stout method this year too, so excited!!❤️
Let us know how it works for you!
Yes, I’ll let you know
I'm jealous of your garden, I can't keep the Guinea fowl out of mine. The one up thing is I don't have any ticks.
Can’t wait to the amount of potatoes, and sweet potatoes, you harvest. Really nice garden area. ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️
I'm going to do this method this weekend. Can't wait to see if it works for us. Hugs
I've got Reds & Russets going in the Ruth Stout method again this year. No digging is awesome!
I started last fall to lay hay all over my garden, we have extra round bales of hay from our livestock. So this year I'm going to plant almost everything under hay. I can't water my garden because of it's location and I notice some of the things that were under the hay grew so much more.
I tried the Ruth Stout gardening method with my potatoes just a couple of months ago but the earwigs ate up all my potatoes because earwigs are attracted to hay. But I'll tell you those potatoes came shooting up out of that hay and we're so beautiful before they ate them.
I don't think we have those things around here. I'm glad ♥
back in the 80s I use to rent or take out a vcr tape from the libraiay and it was all about gardening and one of the shots was a girl doing that straw gardening and she did her hole garden her soil was so nice looking and her potatoes was big and clean . i forget the name of it
I've had 2 on my body, 1 one my shirt and 1 in my bed, already.
Here's the spray we use: ua-cam.com/video/Ebdg1pxpOtQ/v-deo.html
Oh I’m glad I watched this! I was worried about my potato spacing when I planted, but it’s about the same as yours. Yay! Lovely fence, by the way. 👍❤️
Oh no! I had a tick last week! We couldn’t get it all out. I ended up at the doctor yesterday and am now on antibiotics. All these years outside and good until now in SC. Nice fence by the way 😊
Love doing it this way. So much easier
Trying this for the first time this year. Fingers crossed.
I have been doing Ruth stout for 20+ years.... The easiest way to plant!
Gardeners manicure 🤚👩🌾❤️
That fence looks fantastic. I know you two worked hard on it.
I love watching you planting taters in the Ruth Stout garden each year. I think you get a nice harvest, these and the onions. Great job! Easy too! Love the new fence it looks so different and pretty! xoxo
I’ve pulled ticks off the kids and I for a few weeks! They are much worse than last year.
The fence looks great! Good work!
I am following moon witchy planting guide as well 🤗🌻
I’m going to try sweet potatoes in a Ruth stout bed this year
That was my question, so will I!
I will try that this year
Wow great video 😊
Beautiful soil
Very interesting way to plant!
It's wonderful. See: ua-cam.com/video/VfbEbOSUNMI/v-deo.html
We have had 4 ticks in the house already this season, one on my son's head, one on my leg, one on my husband's leg and one on my dog, all within the last 10 days!😳 We have definitely been putting spray on now. With such a mild winter and spring they are horrible this year!
Same here with 2 ticks at my house. In 6 years I haven't seen one. I went and picked up hay for the Ruth Stroud method up on the mountain. I'm wondering if they hitched a ride on the bales. Yucky for sure.
I Love watching and learning from you and Todd. We just bought a house on a little over an acre and I am building our garden, we built 8 beds last weekend. Can you tell me what kind of Hay or state you use for Ruth stout method. I never realized there are different types. Thanks so much for all you guys do 😊
I planted my potatoes today too :)
Ugh!!! I hate ticks. I contracted RMSF the first year on our homestead from one. I try to avoid them, although impossible to do so completely :)
Love this might have to try this and start it in the fall, looks really good. Love your garden looks so beautiful and tidy
The ticks would freak me out. I always worry that something will get in my hair when I'm gardening. I'm interested to see the results. 👍😎🌴🌻🌸😀😎🌴👍 - Liz
Here's a link to the spray we use: ua-cam.com/video/Ebdg1pxpOtQ/v-deo.html
This is such an easy way to plant potatoes!! Thanks!! Ticks....eewwww...how do they get where they go????
nice video
We're having trouble with ticks too. Bad! Everytime we go to the backyard we do a tick check! We have 3 large white pines in our yard and they say they are known for ticks. Not cutting down my only shade. We've sprayed and hoping that helps.
We spray ourselves with this, works great: ua-cam.com/video/Ebdg1pxpOtQ/v-deo.html
The creepy thing about ticks is they take 36 hours to bite, so they crawl around looking for a juicy spot. Shudder. Good luck with the potatoes, putting mine in buckets next week!
I have a comb on the deck and we have to comb the dog before going in the house.
I had something drop on my head last year and I reached up thinking branch or leaf or bug. It was a deer tick. I almost threw up. 😳
@@Emeraldwitch30 ewww, hate that! I finally bought some of those tick keys to remove them.
I think that Todd keeps his beard looking very nice.🤔
Thank you Julie - I try. With covid rampant here in Michigan, I'm way overdue for a trim.
Great job 😊
Good Morning from the Netherlands, I prepared the beds with potatoes like you. Question: can the potato plants grow through the hay? Because the rain made the hay quite compact. Wish you a good season🙏
You have got a nice GARDEN! Make some free organic fertilizer for any plants: sunflower cake, mustard oil cake, Eggshell powder, and Banana pells water.
Thanks for posting this video! I really didn't want to dig for potatoes this year.
There is a method using cleaned out tuna cans to measure rainfall.
Get some guineas. They’ll make quick work of those ticks and be great watch dogs too.
No way! We have them down the road and they are so loud, we enjoy too much our peaceful place, I'll just stick with spray my body and tick checks, lol
Have never seen anyone garden in a long black skirt. And you didn’t even get dirty! ❣️
Oh lots of ladies garden in skirts, very breathable 😊
Your Ruth Stout videos inspired me to do it this year. My potatoes were planted on good Friday and are now poking through the top of my hay. Since my bed is new should I add more as they grow to give them hills?
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I don’t like my husbands beard either...tick prevention...I’ll have to use that 🤣🤣
Here in S TX have 4 beds of potatoes did one of rhth Stout but all coming out this weekend so sweet potato can go back in the Aug will plant fall potatoes.do u add any phosorus for your potatoes
Got your link from Ms Lori @ Whipperpool, my question is when was this video made? I’m trying to figure out when I need to plant my potatoes; it’s my first year doing them. Love the video!
We just planted these last week. We're in SE Michigan.
@@1870s thank you!
Ick! Ticks! Saw Moon Phase in the Farmer's Almanac. Are you planting some in phase and some out of phase? Curious about this. Love the potato bed!!
No simply following phases
We had a lot colder Winter than normal but we are still having a really bad pest year! I thought I was getting athletes foot on my right foot because it was itching like crazy and come to find out it was a tick in between my toes!🤮
Oh my goodness 😂
I was watching your zucchini doughnut video and was curious about how that exchange student is doing. How about an update. Thx for sharing your knowledge with us.
She's doing great. Took a long time for her to get home, with COVID. There were basically no flights to Viet Nam for months and months. Back home, she's enrolled in university now and just completed her first year. She's also started her own at home bakery shop. She bakes cookies and other sweet treats for people, and delivers them to customers to make some extra cash on the side.
@@1870s doesn’t that make you feel good to know that you guys had a positive impact on her life. We have 6 year old identical triplet granddaughters and one 10 month old granddaughter. Our son and daughter in law are a tad busy. We moved close to them to help out. God Bless and happy Mother’s Day. Funny, you have the same name as our daughter in law. 😀
I found one on my arm thinking it was a spider and then flipped out lol. A week later one of my boys found one on him. What tick spray do you recommend? Never had to deal with them before till I moved up here.
We use homemade spray: ua-cam.com/video/Ebdg1pxpOtQ/v-deo.html
Hello. Can you tell me where you get your seed potatoes please? Thank you
Tick spray? What is this tick spray you use? They are horrible here in East Texas. Thinking about getting some guinea hens soon to maybe help...
This one: ua-cam.com/video/Ebdg1pxpOtQ/v-deo.html
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Maybe y’all could help me? I chitted potatoes I grew last year, and they sat for a few weeks...planted two weeks at least now-they are not coming through the straw. Can they get too dry to reproduce? They were not dehydrated completely...but shriveled and dried out really good...? Do they take longer to sprout through?
Please share the nematode release info. I've ordered from Buglogical for several years but am interested in other people's successes with other vendors.
We'll do a video on it, for sure ♥
So there are nematodes for ticks to, I haven’t tried them yet. I did get some but have to put them out. I have a fear of ticks, reason I have chickens! I also suspect the wild turkeys we have around kinda reduce the population a bit.
Not that I've researched
The nematodes I am skeptical about, but the mix is supposed to take care of ticks as well as other pests we have been having issues with. Turkeys I have seen conflicting information on if they eat ticks, I did do the research years ago so who knows what they found now. However the flocks roosts in the trees behind our house so we just don’t discourage them. I have seen the years we have more turkeys foraging around the house during the winter we have less ticks but... that is completely antidotal. My chickens we can see a marked improvement in the backyard, in the area the ticks love the most. Once I let the girls free range back there we don’t find any ticks, otherwise you are guaranteed to find one or more. We have a LOT of predators so sadly my chickens can’t go around our whole property.
Where did you get your beneficial nematodes from I’m in California and need some but I’ve been told you need a reputable place? Thanks in advance for your help.....
Rachel got them online somewhere. I'm not sure where. We'll do a video about it when she's ready, and provide info on the source. Probably in the next week or so.
I started my beds last year. Added cardboard & layered with leaves on top. Could I just add hay on top and plant now?
Sure, I'd recommend getting your hands on old aged hay so hopefully the weed seed has died off. Or go with straw. Also it's very important to find a source that doesn't spray with herbicides.
@@1870s Thanks for the reply! I just found a source of chemical-free hay/straw (for goats & garden). Can't wait to try out this method!
I'm wondering what you think about my idea. I have a few potato bags and I'm wondering if I can use this method in the potato bags. Have you ever tried potato bags?
Might work
Have you added the soil to the garden yet?
You mean on the edges? Some, we still have to add more. Been lots of rain lately, keeping us from being in the garden.
I’m doing the same kind of gardening for my potatoes. Do you have any problems with slugs?
Not really, more of an issue in really damp climates, our summers are pretty dry
@@1870s, I live off the west coast of Canada on an Island. It’s temperate rain forest but we get dry summers. I started my garden early this year and I’m fighting with slugs but my potatoes are doing really well.
We had ticks around our home until the wild turkeys showed up and now we don't have any problems with them. We live in Central Washington and have forest all around our home along with buck brush and bitter brush. (and turkey poop in our yard)
Finding This method of planting your potatoes really interesting. How do you plant the sweet potato plants the same way?.. 👍😎 we grow organic
Yes, just bury slip roots in straw
Thanks you my friend 💕💕💕💕💕💗
Yikes you guys. Ticks freak me!!! I don't like beards, but I told my husband that Todds beard is so pretty and white.
I couldn’t imagine trying to do the Ruth Stout method down here in Texas. Oh the giant insects, tarantulas, rats and snakes that would love to make their homes underneath all that hay. Nope. Not for me!
I’m finding a lot of methods I am adopting and think are wonderful will not work in the south. I’m in PA so I’m fine with them. But the soil is so much different, and like you say, the vermin. It is said we have copperheads around us but most people who live near me say no, they’ve never seen one in many years.
@@sandradelvecchio6894 it works decently in michigan our only issues are rattlesnakes but ive only seen 2 in the wild ever and I'm 57 and spend lots of time gardening and hiking/camping.
I really don't worry about them they are so rare here.
I told a park employee where I saw it and he actually had me take him there so maybe they could microchip it. He saw where it had been and planned to keep an eye out for it.
One of these years I'm tempted to see if he ever got the chance to catch and chip it.
I think we sometimes get brown recluse spiders but they are hitch hikers not residents.
I would love to move to another state (out of California), but I seriously fear ticks. While visiting Oklahoma one year, 3 out of 5 of my family ended up with ticks. Ewe!
Any recommendations where to order potatoes?
No I just pick up from farm stores
How often do you water with this method?
You won't have to water as much, when comparing to planting in ground. The straw / hay holds a ton of moisture down deep.
Rachel, sweet potato novice here. Can you plant sweet potatoes in the same way, or do you have to do sprouts in water?
No you grow the vines and the vines produce the tubers
Here's a video on plant sweet potato in ground: ua-cam.com/video/fOUB7-UVoak/v-deo.html
Thank you for sharing the video!! I’m going to stop by my local greenhouse and see if they have slips.
If they don't have them, you can grow your own. We have a couple videos on it: ua-cam.com/video/Ra6wD3XhfmA/v-deo.html
Do you find mice living in the straw when you grow like this?
No, never found one in our beds
@@1870s thanks so much! I’m going to try it this season.
@@emmaturpin2598 Rabbits however, did have babies in the straw - because our fence was broken up - thus, the new fence and relocation of the babies we found.
@@1870s the new fence looks great! I watched that video as well.