Welcome back to our Beginners Starter Guide series that we've been doing on Fridays, where we've been focusing on one particular crop and talking about what you need to know if you're a first-time gardener of that crop.

And even if you're not, it's always good to brush up on some basics and you might learn something that you didn't know before.

Today we're going to be talking about growing potatoes.

Potatoes was one of the first crops that I grew as a first time gardener and I've been growing them

ever since. But if you've listened to any of our past potato episodes, you know that this has

not been a crop that has always been dependable. I later realized it was my climate, but those first

couple of years were really, really good. So we're going to talk about how you as a beginner

can grow potatoes that you're happy with and excited to harvest and what you need to know to get

started planting. Before we get started, I want to thank today's sponsor

Organic Rev. You know this time of year I cannot be without my organic rev. And if you're new,

you may not know what organic Rev is. It's actually not a fertilizer, which is kind of a good thing

because you can't overdo it and you don't have to worry about exact

ratios. It's more along the lines of how much do you want to use to make it go a little bit further.

In most cases, I use an ounce or so to a gallon or I'll just take my watering can and I'll fill it with

water and I'll just put a couple of glugs over Gennon Grove and I use that to water my seedlings and I'll fill it with water and I'll just put a couple of glugs of organic

rev and I use that to water my seedlings and I'll use it in transplant. When I'm transplanting any

crops, whether that's onions like I've done recently or broccoli, I'll dip the root ball in a 50-50

organic rev to water mixture and then plant them, that gets those roots off to a really

good start. Instead of being a fertilizer, Rev actually absorbs nutrients to make them more readily

available to plants via their root systems. And that naturally occurring biomass can increase

nitrogen efficiency by up to 25%. That's one reason why organic

rev is a part of my garden from seed throughout the growing season. And it's not just me.

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