00:00If I could only grow one food to feed my family, it would be, drumroll please, white potatoes.
00:05They're filling, nutritious, easy to grow where I live, and I can store them for months in a cold
00:09room, no preserving needed. They're also extremely versatile, and my kids never get sick of them.
00:14Every year, I plant about 40 pounds of seed potatoes to give me about 400 pounds of harvest.
00:20The secret to growing big potatoes? Loose soil. If your soil is hard, clay-like, and rocky,
00:25your potatoes will stay tiny. Once the potatoes are established, I heal them once, then heavily
00:30mulch them with shredded leaves to keep the tops of the potatoes from getting green. After I harvest,
00:35I carry them for two weeks in a dark dry room, then store them at 45 to 50 degrees all
00:39winter long.
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