How many potato chips have we eaten without ever having made our own from potatoes grown in our garden? For me, the number was probably tens of thousands of potato chips made by others before ever making my own. Today I am grateful to share the joy of making my own potato chips from growing the potatoes in my garden to eating the potato chips below!
Behind me we see my garden a few months after starting it including tomatoes in the upper left, kale in the upper right, and a few of the potatoes in the lower right. This post two months ago shows what it looked like when I planted and first started!
Growing the potato plants in Florida from about February to May was easy including just planting seed potatoes I ordered on Amazon in grow bags, adding some dirt as the plants grew out, and watering daily until the plants turned from green to yellow.
Once the plants turn to yellow, I dumped the grow bags out into another container to harvest!
Blogs I read online about homegrown potatoes suggested trying many colors and types instead of just growing the russet potatoes most of us buy in the store. The seed potatoes were almost the same cost and as we can see I grew several kinds of potatoes!
What amazed me is how four potatoes planted into the ground turned into that entire plate above within just a few months! That plate is all from one grow bag planted with three different kinds of potatoes.
I planted about 10 grow bags and got a total of 10 or 20 pounds of potatoes from about 40 seed potatoes meaning the potatoes approximately quadrupled in quantity in a few months. The box above is about half of the total yield while the seed potatoes were less than half of that to begin with.
After washing, I cut up the potatoes into small slices and threw them all into a plastic container to put the olive oil, garlic power, and Italian seasoning on them for roasting!
Madeleine and I spend a few hours together every afternoon with this day making potato chips together! She is the best helper!
Once all the potatoes are washed, cut up, and seasoned, I followed a blog's advice to cook at 425 degrees Fahrenheit which is 218 Celsius.
I used a tray with holes in the bottom named AirBake because this helps avoid burning on the bottom allowing for more even cooking on kale chips especially.
Instead of using a timer, I just rotated the tray and kept tasting the chips to see when they were done!
After around 20 to 30 minutes, the chips were cooked perfectly and this is how they looked finished!
While I ate most of the chips straight up without adding anything else, I dipped a few in my homemade black bean hummus! The one downside to dipping potato chips in hummus is what I call "double oil" because the hummus is made with oil and so are the potato chips effectively doubling the amount of oil necessary for taste. By comparison, when I dip cucumbers, carrots, and other vegetables in the hummus, they do not have any oil.
Thank you very much for reading about my homemade potato chips grown from my own garden! The posts I have read on Steem slowly over about six months inspired me to start gardening a few months ago and to plan to grow as much of my own food as possible going forward. I intend to continue paying that forward on my posts indefinitely here because connecting with the earth and relaxing is easy in a garden!
According to a few books I have read which match my own intuition, food grown in our own gardens appears to have the most health benefits because the plants dynamically adapt to what we need the same way a mother's milk adapts to what the baby needs.
For our environment, what can be more local than a garden in our backyards which eliminates the need to hire people to grow as much food for us, transport that food to a grocery store, and then take our time and money to go shopping for it assuming we do not hire someone to do that as well?
We easily can feed everyone on this planet when we grow our own food at home and help each other where we have excess. I have another garden update coming soon and am continuing to expand my garden every month until it takes the least effort and produces the most food in the available space!
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Well cool and funny this your photo with the hat in the crop hehehe.
I have one like that. I live in a city considered very urban, even though it is not a capital city. Here in the neighborhood where I live most of the houses are buildings.
There is no way to have a garden as large and well made as yours. At most, some small vegetable garden or a planting inside vines. But when I was younger, I lived in a house that had a backyard with a large vegetable garden. There, I remember planting enough corn and having them all born. It was ordinary green corn, not popcorn. The experience was good as we cooked a lot of corn hehehe.
I do not want to go too far in writing, so as not to interfere with reading, but it has brought me good memories to see you plant and harvest the potatoes, as well as roasting them. I imagine they have been fresh and tasty.
Thanks for the post and good morning!
Yeah loved the hat too! 😎
Nothing better than homemade potato chips, or crisps as we call them in the UK.
never seen anyone dip potato chips in hummus before. way to think outside the box Jerry!
I will share more about what I dip in the hummus lol and correct my spelling after seeing how you have spelled it is correct according to Google!
so great, you find time to garden, I'm so jealous
Thanks for sharing. I want to try this recipe.
it's just great!
это просто великолепно!
delicious
Enjoy your meal, Jerry.
We would also like to feed more members of our #resteembot community, but unfortunately we lost a lot of money by useing the @jerrybanfield bot, because it has a very unfair ROI (return of invest).
So some must stay hungry.
We hope you have the biggest potatoes.
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I also like chips in the oven.
This is very valuable point mentioned that we should all try to grow some plants in our own garden so that it can meet the daily vegetables need. When you will have something which is planned by yourself, that feels really amazing. Thanks for sharing a nice post.
That's awesome!!! Better than Tim's Cascade tho?
Great farmer! I love potatoes but unluckily, I can't grow it here in my place due to infertile soil.
You can grow them in a bag of bought soil just like he did. It keeps animals off too.
They must smell amazing. I've never had homemade potato chips (or "crisps" as they call them in the UK). I may have to try some!
I definitely prefer the American terminology on this one, there's too much of a clash with the s's in the word crisps!
Before I visited the UK last year, I thought "fish and chips" were a square McDonalds fish pattie and a heap of potato chips on a plate! lol
Was it a pleasant surprise or a disappointment when you found out that it wasn't? Lol
I never actually got to try it as I left Birmingham and forgot to get some! (My friend Joni from Liverpool told me you guys put vinegar on them, hhhhmmm...) Then on the way home in Jan., my plane arrived at Gatwick Airport 5 minutes after the last fish and chips place closed.
I love the UK, you have an amazing country over there, and if I ever get the chance to go back I will have real fish and chips! :)
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You sure can do about anything @jerrybanfield.
Just curious, is there anything you cannot do??
Hahaha great work i must say.
Scab is a common potato disease that looks like raised, corky areas on the skin or sunken holes on the surface. A low soil pH will help control scab. Add peat moss to the planting area.
Potato chips are the best evening snacks😋😋
Hey please Jerry check out my new food blog too🙂🙂
Wonderful farmer.. So cool friend.
You are one of the pioneer who keep our environment keep clean and green.
Regard to you my great friend..
At home, we have two small areas: a garden of ornamental plants that my mom used to grow and every May she gives us beautiful colors and fresh fragrance that fills the whole house. Behind the house, we have an avocado, banana, cambur, onion, auyama, tomato, caraotas, oregano ear...
For us, it is a blessing to have the products we harvest all year round, as well as the roses and flowers in the garden.
Thank you for sharing your experience. If I could send you avocados from my little herd, I'd be happy to. Blessings to your whole family.
i was liternally thinking this morning HOW your garden is going.. and IF you really stuck with it or if everything wilted and died.. which can happen very easily!
Look at you!!you totally did it! SO happy for you.. i best those potatoes taste the best if for no other reason than you grew them!!! Grow on!!! <3 congrats!
Yummy I didn't even know that a whale cooks. It looks great hope it also tastes good
Looks delicious, now I'm hungry...Thanks @jerrybanfield! :)
Good work, I wish you all the happiness.
wow amazing photography and the homemade photato chips are amazing... I also make potato chips in my house because its taste very delicious and refreshed...and we use our fields potatoes because its our own potatoes that is very delious just like yours and I give you the photos my homemade potatoes and there its and I resteem your post....!
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and I hope you like it...
Looks yummy! I do it once in a while when I miss them :) The Baby looks very cute and curious :)
Wow amazing! you make it yourself of course it is a very special thing, so want to try it. in our place in aceh, this potato is in addition to selling, of course to be cooked together to be a side dish when eating. and there is also a frying. mamamia lazatos. greetings from aceh, indonesia.
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Can you believe I live in Idaho and have yet to grow my own potatoes? Seems almost blasphemous! Lol! We actually just moved here about 3 yrs ago and have been busy building a home and putting up proper fencing. (As beautiful as deer are, they're quite the garden pests up here!)
In addition to the dynamic adaptation of plants, we, as gardeners and stewards of the earth, can help increase the nutrient density of the plants around us by tending to the soil. We are currently working on making awesome compost in just 18 days! We're about half way through so I'm going to be writing a post about it soon. It's been awesome to witness the transformation!
Looks like you've got a good little helper there. Madeline is a doll!
I live in Idaho, the potato state! My family has grown potatoes for 3 years now, and we have made a lot of things with potatoes, but never potato chips. Thanks for showing me how to make these, @jerrybanfield. I will have to try it!
Damn you Jerry, for posting such DANK food for us all to envy.
Lookin good! Like Jay's chips slogan..."Can't eat just one" ;)
potato chips also my favorite junkfood.tnx for share with us.
Wow! Good harvest :)
Looks good. I tried kale chips once but didn't turnout to well. Maybe I'll try potato chips when mine start coming in.
The chips look a little thick. But it may not make a difference, if the flavor is fresh. Good for you Jerry, growing your own food and getting nutrition right out of the ground from Mother Earth.
How delicious it will taste. Hmm... Yummy
I love this story! I always look up to people who decide to grow their own vegetables. The taste is so much better and I'm not going to mention the impact on environment as you covered it already. I am coming from a farmer family so I've never had store bought potatoes until I moved out. We would never buy any vegetables when I was a child as we grew all our veggies on our field. I will come back to gardening one day 😊 Keep it up, it's such a good feeling to do it, isn't it? 😉
That's amazing to be able to do that. Thank you for all the photos, which are great.
@jerrybanfield
Having grown your own patato and harvesting it and then bringing it to the kitchen desk, making the chips out of it is a complete feeling of execution.
See the point here is that you can also have the same from the market but the kind of satisfaction and joy you can get from your own grown patato is unparallel.
Nice to see all those pictures of patato and to be honest my mouth is geeting watery now. So give me some patato chips as well.
hi friends how much garden you plant to make potato I really want to visit your friends garden to try it because I really like the potato post very good my good friend
Organic potatoes look terrific indeed! Homemade Potato Chips are very healthy food! I am Chinese, we cook potatoes in different way, but from my point of view, I prefer your way of cooking :) more natural, more beneficial for our bodies and health! ^_^
wow. I really want to visit your potato garden good friend I want to spend this week in the garden how much friends your garden garden. and earnings in a day how many potatoes in my friends very much to see processed patato my friend really like friends
if you use a slicer to get thinner chips... soak it in lightly salted water.. and simply deep fried for a few seconds.. (not sure if baking would work with thinner chips...)..
what do you think?
Hello! Jerry you are the man, High Five!. You can't go wrong with home grown potatoes and it might be organic also. Lovely daughter there by the way and Would you mind Jerry instead of washing them why not soak them in cold water while you are cutting them to take out the starch of potatoes.
Bon Appetit,
@ranniesan
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I find this post vary helpful. I am so motivated to start growing my own food now!! Do you guys feel the same?
@jerrybanfield Great post, I am pretty jealous of your ability to garden 😂
What a good harvest of potatoes
and that little Sous chef what is helping you that tenderness!
Yesterday I ate chips of small colored potatoes and I cooked them in a pan with garlic salt and a little salt and parsley. The chips were amazing.
The ones you did must be more tasty because they are fresh, just taken from the ground.
Beautiful post thanks for sharing
Have a beautiful night Jerry