Growing Potatoes Farmer Edition

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0	I know you probably know how to garden potatoes, but do you know how to farm potatoes?
0:07.4	I certainly do not, which is why we have Tyler Heppel back on the show, 5th generation
0:12.2	potato farmer, also known as potato tie.
0:16.1	So you grow millions of pounds of potatoes per year at your farm tie.
0:21.8	How does the process work?
0:23.4	Maybe we could go through like a season's worth of growing and each sort of phase.
0:28.6	For sure.
0:29.8	So I just want you to keep in mind, you know, if you've been listening to all the
0:33.2	podcasts and kind of caught up to this point, I've been back to the farm for a year and
0:36.6	a half.
0:37.6	So I am still learning things every day.
0:41.0	And that's part of what I love about farming is there is so much to learn and each season
0:45.1	is different.
0:46.1	So I went to school for business, not agriculture.
0:48.6	So every day I learned something new about farming.
0:52.2	So take it with a grain of salt.
0:54.2	Basically the formula for growing a really good commercial crop of potatoes, it all boils
1:00.7	down to the land and knowing what type of land that you have.
1:04.2	So we have a mix of sandy soil and we have a mix of clay soil.
1:09.4	So our sandy soil, we grows potatoes quicker.
1:13.1	So that's where the first crop of the year will be grown is our sandy soil, especially
1:20.0	because it drains the rain a lot better.
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