Lawn Removal Through Potatoes - Beautiful Harvest!
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Experimenting this spring with planting potatoes directly into what was a mowed lawn. 3 methods, one where we dug a little hole, flipped the sod and planted the potato in and then mulched, one where we simply laid the potato on the lawn, dumped a bit of compost and mulched, and one where we put the potato on the lawn and added mulch. All three experiments got the same additional compost, soil and mulch in the season, but really not much TLC to be seen on this patch...
Variable results, but easily over 100 pounds of potatoes in exchange for 150 square feet of incredibly rich, weed free garden space from what was a lawn just a few months ago... Wow! Spent 60 cents a pound for standard potatoes, about $10 worth here, and $2.50 a bale for 'mulch' grade hay, 3 of them for $7.50 So for under $20 we got over 100 pounds of potatoes grown organically, in a drought year, with just a bit of rough soil, some not-finished compost and some waste hay added. Total time about 3 hours of work, and now 150 square feet of lawn is perfectly ready to become permanent raised beds...
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Sean could fix the worlds agricultural and hunger problems given the right ressources and connections. Such beautiful work and important knowledge!
Once you understand that food shortages are planned and uses to control populations. Food is one of the most powerful weapons. It doesn't matter if you have the largest army in the world if you can't feed your soldiers. They keep things hard so nobody can get ahead and become a threat to their tyrannical rule. The joo-ish bankers would rather starve the world to death than to ever risk losing their stranglehold on world politics. They hate you. Their Bible (the talmud) literally says non jews are cattle and are only put here to serve jews. It also says it's okay for them to do anything they want to you. Including raping your children as long as their over 3 years old. Don't believe me? Read it for yourself
I just thought the same…
I'm intrigued by this method. It seems like a decent low effort way to garden to create new garden. "Growing more garden space."
Year 1 from lawn... get a mountain of potatoes in exchange for less lawn, then evolve into other plantings from there. Lost a garden to weeds? Run potatoes through the patch for a season. Seems like a nice approach
I smothered out some relentless strawberries with tomatoes, works great.
Flipping my lawn to a garden is why I'm here. Great video ty !
Good luck and I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Love experimental videos like this, thanks for sharing it with the rest of the world
I had those cute little yellow "salad" potatoes that I found forgotten in the pantry which had sprouted. My girls planted 3 of them in a pot they had their own little garden in and they just harvested so many "huge" potatoes (regular sized) out of the 3 tiny bite sized potatoes. They were grown whole without cutting. Their garden consisted of a bunch of animal feed mix with alfalfa, oats, many other grains, along with some bird seed.lol I just let em go at it. And not once did their crop get touched by any pest or insects. Their potatoes were perfect and beautiful and they hardly had to do anything at all as their container was set by their orchard which was watered by dad. So, a nearly complete effortless garden. They were so proud of themselves. And I'm so happy they love to get out and enjoy nature and do things like this. Anyway, I had a point before I rambled. But I have completely forgotten what it was.lol
Sasha's smile is like feeling the sun and the moon simultaneously. Great video from such loving people. I am going to give this a go but anticipate issues in getting my mother to part with more of her lawn.
I agree with the beauty, inner and outer beauty of this couple. They are appeasing and uplifting and motivating all at the same time ! For your situation, I always find diguising food production as flower beds is always usefull. Like putting in borders of purple and green basil plants, colourful swiss chard other useful flowers, etc, and some pure 'vegetables' in there like potatoes, wins over everyone ;)
Really impressed with yields and the conversation of lawn to compost- thanks for sharing 😁
Glad you enjoyed it!
The discolouration is scab. generally thought to be caused by a range of Streptomyces or slime moulds. Insufficient water as the tubers begin to swell is also a known vector. Different potato varieties have different resistances to scab, so optimising choices can make a difference.
The various families of slime moulds tend to thrive in slightly alkaline soils. Here, farmers regulate pH by spraying the previous years crop with acid to knock down the haulms before harvest. Never lime (common enough here) where potatoes are to be grown within a year ot two.
Using infected seed can introduce scab, but this year, our two adjacent beds of potatoes, one crop was pretty much clean as a whistle, the other more or less ruined by scab.
As you have a large sward, could you not collect the mown grass and use that as an extra mulch? Fresh grass carries lots of water. It will also add lots of humus to that subsoil you have. I mean lots, as in as much as you can find, built up incrementally.
As my garden regime requires lots of compost, I collect and use lots and lots of grass. A fantastic free resource.
Fresh it will be the nitrogen powerhouse. Allowed to dry and it becomes a known quality hay, a great moderating carbon source.
Thanks for sharing the story of the development of your neighbours plot and all your interesting efforts to seek out the best way forwards.
Nick Straw thanks for your information. You should create a channel to disseminate your obviously worthwhile information.
Great info here, thank you kindly!!!
@Nick Straw
Brand new gardener here, so forgive my ignorance, are you saying we could use grass clippings instead of the hay he used?
Just closed on 3+ acres, mostly lawn. Have no idea where to start. This looks like a realistic project my first year. Plant 3 rows of potatoes using the 2nd method and then also get some fruit trees and shrubs going, then 2nd year turn those potato rows into garden beds for other things. Am I on the right track? I still work full time so I have to be careful not to over extend.
@@MommaT1970 Hay is dried grass. I live in a more moderate climate, and have no problem with grass clipping - usually left to dry out for a few days, but basically it's all just mulch.
I have a high ratio of grass to crops, and compost most of the clippings. If you don't have much grass, then hay will be fine.
I never use herbicides or fertilisers, there are persistant chemicals used on some commercially produced hay that will kill growing plants. This is why I stopped collecting horse manure locally.
@@nickstraw1952 Thank you so much
The most unique video about making potatoes.
This is really helpful. I am planning a food forest on my .27 acre lot, just retaining a small lawn right in front of the back patio where my kids play. This is a great idea for my front lawn (phase 2 of food forest for next year). I talked to my neighbor the other day about permaculture, too, and she's thinking of doing the same because keeping a lawn green in high desert, with a drought is such a waste! And it's really hard at that. I'd rather spend my time growing fresh food to eat, share, donate, sell.
I would plant anything just to not have to mow grass. It's so unproductive and you can't eat it. Better to grow food for your family. Just my personal take on it.
I am kinda surprised that the higher input of labor going in didn’t result in the highest yield. But, that being said, I am thrilled that the easier method proved superior.
I am very happy with seeing that. Always more variables to think of and nothing definitive here but worth repeating I think.
Great harvest! Why not save some of those green potatoes for chitting? Our front yard is slowly becoming another raised bed garden.
So glad you made this video! I wanted to garden out front but with bad feet couldn't dig up my grass etc. Now I have it! Thanks so much!
Hope this system works really well for you
Above anything this looks like so much fun!
I like to grow mushrooms on occasion and definitely will more once I have my own personal property and space (still living with mom). But experimentation is one of the biggest drives that keep me going each year, the creativity and curiosity to find the next best method with today's tech and knowledge makes farming so entertaining!
I defenately gonna start this project tomorrow!
I think I gonna add some field beans in between and as I haven‘t enough hay and compost for the space I‘ll use a mixture of gras clippings, straw and fresh cut sheep wool and some old sheep poo instead of the compost… I‘m sooo exited to try this out…
this is my first year of gardening, turning a totally with blackberry’s and nettles overgrown and negleted orchard into a permaculture paradise like yours… 😅😂 you and Sasha are such an inspiration and source for ideas and easy and simple tipps! This channel is probably the biggest treasure for me here on YT! 🙏🏻❤
Very cool to see. My first attempt at growing potatoes this year was mostly a failure (at least as far as the crop goes--though luckily, I care more about learning than crops), but I tried the traditional high-effort method of planting into deep trenches. I got lazy about watering and then the deer found them and took care of the rest. I'm always working on reducing the amount of grass I grow, so I'll give your middle method a try. Thanks for the video and for experimenting for our mutual benefit!
Hope it works wonderfully for you next year.
We did the Ruth stouth method I did add 4 handfuls of compost on top of each potato and absolutely love it!!!! We got 55lbs of potatoes back and didn't get any green!!!!
Awesome!
What a fun experiment. I love digging for potato treasure wherever they might grow! With limited space, I grow them in containers. I learned that scabby potatoes are a result of lack of water during tuber formation and to amend my soil in fall with only well composted manure. Looks like you got a nice harvest there.
Interesting about the scab, that would make sense... As the soil evolves I bet that problem would disappear.
hey , don't compost the green potatoes ! Just let them in partial sun then protect them from the frost , and next spring use them as seed potatoes , u can even just cover them with a nice layer of mulch in winter and you will have a nice harvest as well , they stay in the soil and grow the next season
Great alternative!!!
Also excuse my english i'm from Belgium and i speak French so there could be some mistakes
Blight is a serious problem in this part of the world, and reusing seed potatoes is very challenging.
@@gunning6407 i don't find it more present than with store potatoes , fungi diseases are spread everywhere with wind , so i'm not sure it change a lot , but yeah if you have a very bad crop with pests and diseases maybe it's better to change varieties and place .
@@Louis.slmn93 Late blight is a very specific water mold (P. infestans) that over-winters on infected potatoes. Even when P. infestans spores are common in the air, a decent harvest can be grown from disease-free tubers, as the disease first infects above-ground parts. However, a single infected tuber can destroy a whole harvest during storage, and a bad blight infection can rapidly destroy a field crop under the right conditions. US commercial seed potatoes are certified blight-free. Some good info here: www.the-organic-gardener.com/seed-potato.html
Thank you Sasha and Sean! I like very much this method, minimum work and reasonable yield and no more grass. Best of all worlds!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have seen other channels keeping green potatoes to plant next spring. Might be worth keeping.
Good idea! I will try that....👍🌱
Yep, really smart, now I know...
Have you, by any chance, seen how Paul Gautschi was/is harvesting potatoes in his orchard? After years of woodchips, his soil is so healthy that it looks so fun to harvest and plant potatoes there, right under his trees. I'm also pretty fascinated with his tree pruning approach. His apple trees look SO cool. I've learnt so much watching videos with him these last few weeks. You, Akiva, and Paul are my top favourite people in the gardening world! There's many others but from you three I've learnt a lot and you're so lovely! Big hug.🤗
I remember seeing that channel a ways back but it has been a while. Good reminder to explore it again.
@@edibleacres There's several channels posting about his garden, but this one has posted a lot in the last 10 years or so. There's lots of pruning videos with him, and lots of tours recorded on this channel. Recently they did a video about getting Paul a tank because of his mobility challenge. Here's a link, maybe you can share this with your audience, if you like Paul's approach with gardening? I think it would be very helpful. I hope you don't mind me asking. It's just that I find his way of gardening very powerful and helpful, and he could also use the help from us now too.😊
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And here's a pruning video with him.😊
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And another. 🤗
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Nice. You encourage me to experiment. I've been doing it since watching your videos. Thank you, Sean and Sasha.
Looks like the center row is the winner I always try new things in my garden by all means experiment with different things great video
I'm pretty keen to try this - have the perfect spot for it too. Thanks for the update!
I used green potatoes as seed potatoes, assuming that they're big enough.
Seems like a lot of folks get sucked in by the need to do things perfectly. Plants want to grow, even if conditions aren't perfect lots of times the plant will find a way to succeed. Heck, I think more gardeners would find their real problem isn't that they aren't doing enough, it's that they gotta just get out of the plants way and trust it to do it's thing.
Agreed. Plants are super resilient!
Thank you! This is exactly what I've been looking for. Will plant my potatoes this way - directly on grass, supported by compost and covered in hay. Excellent. Again - THANK YOU!
Worked really well for us last year, fingers crossed it works well for you too!
Another great video. I've enjoyed watching this experiment unfold.
Thanks for calling out the potential for the middle row to just have better conditions overall, due to the heavy mulch on both sides. I think the green shoulders on both side rows suggest there's something to that idea. But, regardless, how can you beat this low labor method for potatoes! Good job!
Very happy with the outcome.
Lovely!
I envy that you can go with no irrigation in your part of the world.
Looking forward to more videos!
Here where i live in the midwest there is almost too much moisture. I often have to take measures to keep fugus from attacking my plants
Potatotastic video you guys!
You are good inspiration and motivation for me to go out and get bags full of leaves for my small food forest.
Free materials are all around us, sometimes collected by people, put in convenient containers and placed in groups near where you can get them. People are so thoughtful to help us!
I think your methodology is sound. While not completely scientific, and with still several variables left... your qualitative experiment is good.
Ruth Stout with compost added. :)
I live in KY, on old agricultural lands. I have persistent weeds here like bindweed and Johnson grass that make mulching like that challenging. But I'm sure it would work fine on lawn.
I just SUBSCRIBED to your channel! Thanks for a fantastic video!!! if people can’t get the gist of what you showed throughout your video then I don’t know what to say. You also said at the beginning that there are plenty of other potato videos.
Love the video and the natural surroundings. Little tip for healthier and bigger potatoes. So up your wood stove ash and add it to the potato and root veg beds. This will help with acidity and also promote stronger root and tuber growth. Thanks for sharing.
I’m trying the method 2 right now after seeing Charles Dowding’s tests. Glad you got similar results! Fingers crossed I can get a good crop!
I hope it works wonderfully for you
Looks good guys !!!! The ones that I have deep mulched are still growing and I will wait to harvest a little longer.
Good to see the outcomes. Lots of those potatoes looked big and delicious.
There were a LOT of really nice looking potatoes. Thrilled with it.
I like this! I think I will do this next year for my garden!
Thank you for this. Very good information
Thank you for sharing what kind of potatoes are they you take care have a great day
Hmmm... Maybe Kennebeck? Got them from a local farmer for 60 cents a pound from his leftovers.
This is good stuff, guys. Thanks for sharing! I'm wondering if it would be feasible, in some climates, to follow a crop of quick fall greens with overwintering garlic? Could you get three crops out of first year lawn conversions? Very exciting ideas!
Green potatoes happen sometimes. I ll just save those as seed for the next season 😋
We have been saving ours for seed lately and it seems reasonable.
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Good note, I've ordered from there in the past, it's a great resource.
It is still amazing to me that you did not use any water on these. Very definitely not possible without all the hay. Makes the prospect of having to tend to these potatoes all season a non factor. Plant, hay and walk away. Nice harvest!
Very good video, and very good info. I will just say 1 thing that some people may take as negative and I don't mean it that way BUT many many people used the way that people says Ruth came up with. No she didn't, it was used from creation on ward.
Really enjoy these videos and look for ward to them, and also often check for them. Cheers
This video answered many questions that I've been wrestling with this summer. Thank you so much for experimenting and sharing your results!! I refuse to dig sod and you proved that I don't have to:) Now to find a cheap hay source...It's $8.50 a bale at feed stores here in Nova Scotia.
something ive been thinking about doing to make new beds in my yard with little work or money spent is to let my grass get long, mow, and rake all that grass up and just pile it high where i want the lawn to die. you could also use less mulch material if you put cardboard down to help with the smothering
Skip the hay then, use sawdust, woodchips, leaves, lawn clippings... whatevers available!
@@edibleacres you couldn´t plant potatoes onto lawn and cover with wood chips, could you? They would take much longer to decompose? I have no hay, half an acre of inasive Japanese stilt grass, and a mountain of woodchips.
Great idea to kill off or push back any unwanted grass and weeds to prepare for something else. My dad doesn't have the best grass currently, old lawn mix sprouted some hardy stalky grass, I will suggest to him to grow potatoes across the lawn so he can begin a new soft grass the year after
Thank you
Very interesting and great results it looks like. Congratulations and thank you for sharing!
Common Scab is usually alkaline soil, it is harmless , just looks bad. just means they need peeled. Great series.
Excelenrt info to killl off more grass easilyand far less effort to grow nice potatoes. Muclch and compast as well as home meade ferilizers are very good to know about and how to use it all
Nice harvest! Interesting methods.
I use the green ones as seed potatoes next year
Great experiment , mush learned fm ur work thank u
I find that grass pressure can be overstated. I actually like to let my grass from straw mulch grow a bit because early in the season it can help to dry out really wet soils in the spring then when the hot summers come I weed it and use it as more mulch.
Definitely nothing to be scared of. I like your approach here!
Thanks for yet another paradigm buster. I've worked with sterile subsoil in a place where I literally had about three inches of Fertil top soil, and that was it. My theory was to intensively turn the stuff with as much organic input as possible. Still, it is nasty stuff and my returns were small. If I had continued with that place, I'm pretty certain my returns would've improved, but it was very slow going. My guess is that your own good results were in spite of the small amounts of subsoil you used, and not because of it? All things considered, that soils is still going to become a valuable growing medium as it becomes diluted with richer material. BTW, I always just plat green potatoes and get a small return. All the best to you both!
Some of those potatoes werehuge! Well done!!!!
They did all the work, I just plopped em down and threw stuff on top! :)
Great experiment, thank you. You take stacking function to a different level! We were wondering if it would be worth taking a chicken tractor through the bed now before the next planting?
That would be brilliant, but not in the cards for our setup.
Been WAITING for this video :D
Green potatoes are great as seed potatoes!
We've learned that from folks and have taken that to heart, now we are planning to plant all our potatoes from saved ones, many with green on em
I love watching your videos :)
I'm so glad!
i never cut "seed" potatoes, just drop and cover with straw and compost and more layers of compost, that was the way i got the largest harvest , thank you for the video
Great experiment!!
Chickens would definitely eat those green potatoes, you can plant them next year too.
Nice update- thanks for sharing. How do you recommend keep in potatoes if you don't have a root cellar? Also if you don't have chickens- can you compost the tops of the potato or do they carry a virus? THANKS
good and simple garden experiment,thanks for sharing this. real surprised at the small amount of rodent damage. i wonder if going later into fall as temps cooled would they have hit it harder. keep up the good work !
I bet they would have enjoyed it more and more the longer we waited.
Could you elaborate on how to prevent Potato Blight year over year when you replant your harvest? How do you save seed potatoes for the following year?
Sean has mentioned disease issues from replanting potatoes. I thought they switched to purchased seed potatoes, but I could be misremembering.
How cool is that! Good job, guys! Blessings Abound!
I filled my garden grass with wood chips but plan on growing some sweet potatoes above it with compost and then hay added.
I've wondered if that would actually work with sweet potatoes & have been told the slips have to be planted in the dirt. I have never tried it any othet way.
There is a qualitative difference between sweet & white potatoes. The only commonality is they are both called "potatoes."
Would you add hay before or after planting? I had my slips planted in a pot to get them started & then transferred them (along with a generous helping of soil) to the top of a compost strip. They did very well for awhile but unfortunately I can’t tell you how well that worked because I had some brush cleared close by & the guy’s tractor destroyed my pile/strip. I’ll try again next year
A potato is a tuber. A sweet potato is a root. They don't grow the same way. No such thing as a "seed" sweet potato. You need slips.
I have heard of the occasional vonunteer sweet potato plant in the deep south from a sweet potato that was "missed" during harvesting. Bear in mind it doesn't get very cold in the winter in some southern parts. Sweet potatoes are all about heat.
I don't believe leaving some in the ground is a reliable strategy, nor is putting a whole sweet potato on woodchips on top of the ground then covered with mulch. If it did manage to sprout slips with warm temps & lots of rain, you couldn't control how many which could lead to failure due to overcrowding.
Apparently you can't chit a sweet potato since it is a root rather than a tuber.
www.theartofdoingstuff.com/never-grow-sweet-potato-slips-this-way-again/
That is amazing! Wish I could find hay that isn't contaminated with Grazon.
That is sad to read. Hopefully someone in your area is reasonable and doesn't use persistent poison... Maybe there are good wood chip sources as an alternative? Leaves in natural areas?
This was fantastic to see. Im going to have to go find the original video to see how you did it. Did you say in that video how thick the hay-mulch layer was? I’ve got plenty of grass and grassland I’d be happy to kill with some well-applied potato growing.
I’ll go check that out and consider potato patch for wiping out grass next year. This year my potatoes are growing in a couple of cardboard boxes with soil applied over the tops. I’m eager for the purple potatoes. 🥔!
I link to the earlier video in this one and in the description... Also search 'potato' in our videos and you can find all sorts of stuff :)
Very Cool, thank-you! Just what I needed to know. Taking notes!
Hope these ideas work really well for you!
Use the green potatoes as seed potatoes next year. They keep really good.
You can eat the green potatoes after you cut out the green part. Or, you could keep them as seed potato.
We have been doing the seed saving option for 2 years now and are really happy with that. Thank you!
Wow, the subsoil from the pond looks like cement! Can you do another trial about changing that soil? I am guessing your compost is SO rich in health, it could do amazing things! Just wondering
Fingers crossed the compost does some really nice work to help things out, also deep taprooted plants I believe will help a lot.
🌱🧑🎤🥔 Green potatoes are good to save for sowing next year! (If it’s only sun damage; not scab or mold)
temping to do just to flip the lawn into being better lawn
currently silag w tarping the lawn so i can restart it invasive free with more perenial forage mixxed in
I like that i have lawn and i dont want to till or dig so think ill try that next yr just grow on top w/compost and mulch . Need to kill some lawn
Que lindo es cosechar
I’m going to use this method this year to double my garden size. I also hope to expand my food storage with lots of home grown potatoes. Unfortunately, planting was delayed because of the weird manipulated weather again this year (super hot for an extended period in late winter/early spring and then weeks of unseasonable cold with hard frost at night. My seed potatoes have become plants too soon. I usually try to place them on a bucket of soil to start some small sprouts before planting and they are already pretty tall shoots because of the delay. I hope they survive the move. I’ve never tried it.
We put in a dry well and have lots of loose soil and compost plus a few bails of straw I used around the outside of my coop over winter. Hopefully all of that will make up for the false start.
We haven't even come close to planting potatoes yet... We wait as long as we can since they are for storage anyway!
@@edibleacres end of May is typically frost safe for me. I certainly will put most away for storage, but potatoes are one of my favorites so some will also be for eating right away.
@@edibleacres potatoes is a crop I used to be able to put in in mid to Late April without fear of them being killed off. Though I did use the trench method then.
Thank you!
Very nice harvest. I did a lot more work and got poor tater harvests lol but was first year and I didn't have a good source of compost this year. Have some resting in a tumbler for next season!
We had other patches that didn't do very much production, so its all variable I guess.
I've got an area (35x60) that is 4' tall weeds that has seeded (burdock, thistle & timothy grass). Do you think A 2 foot layer of 3yr old hay would work. I'm zone 4a, so it would set all winter. Planning on no dig.
I 'know' it will !!!
Worth trying... Have extra hay available to follow up with more mulch if needed...
Well I am impressed. I was positive that the contact with soil would have been more productive. It makes wonder though with the green shoulders with the soil contact method...Could it be more than one variable that causes this? Such as bacteria, sunlight, moisture, temperature or some other combination?
hi I would say its 100% sunlight.
@@nineravens2 right, because if I remember my childhood and helping grandpa garden there was somthing we always did. We would "hill the potatoes." Mound up as much earth ungder the plants to help things along.
Maybe the new potatoes that were developing didn't get enough extra mulch on them, quite possible...
hi there! thank you for sharing this beautiful experiment and congratulations for that awesome harvest and new growing space. I have one question about the hay, do you know if at any point it was contaminated with chemicals or is it 100 % organic? I'm asking because here in Uruguay I think most of the hay has somehow been treated with chemicals at some point in its growing (not heavy but chemicals after all), and I am wondering if I should use it or not. If it will affect my garden and the life in it. Thank you and bless from Uruguay :)
We absolutely ask if there are any sprays on the hay before we take it... This hay is clean and has not been sprayed. I would avoid any that have any broadleaf herbicides for sure!
@@edibleacres thank you so much. love and bless from uruguay
Thanks 😊
My front yard has been drying under the sun for 5-7 years, it grows weeds every year as high as my knees, Id rather it grew food. Can I just add hay ontop? Or do I need to breakup the ground beneath? I imagine its hard as concrete by now considering California droughts
I'd start mulching ASAP and see how it evolves. You want to cover that poor soil and build up from there.
Nice
You said it was a dry year and they weren't watered. What are your summer temps? How deep was the mulch you put on top of them? What type of grass, i.e. something as obnoxious as bermuda?
Summer temps upper 80s on hot days, a few in the 90s but not many, mulch was a few layers of hay/soil mainly all 'mulch hay' from a nearby farm.
use the green ones for seed
Why don''t you use the green potatoes as Seed potatoes??
Love your channel
I'm now learning we can do that!
Great ideas. I tried my potatoes in buckets for the first time this year and the one I harvested so far was a complete fail. 3 tiny potatoes. Yikes. I’ve been trying to locate Sasha’s video about soap making as I am finally ready to try it out. I don’t know if it was in with some other things, but just cannot find it.
th-cam.com/video/tVqiUNsyE_c/w-d-xo.html - It's unlisted but there's the secret link :)
EdibleAcres thanks 😊
I wounder if you noticed a taste difference in the potatoes between the 3 trials?
We didn't track it at that detail :(
I like the idea of using a simple potatoe-growing-technique to smother away a lawn.
I found straw-mulch to be problematic in my area, causing lots of slugs, so I I use biochar instead. Have you tried char as mulch in your comparatively dry area?
I think pure charcoal would be rough on our soils, but a mix of mulches would be ideal.
@@edibleacres what do you mean with 'too rough'? I've not come across that biochar doesn't fit/is bad for certain soil.
Also, mulching doesn't do so much to the soil while on the surface, and since the char doesn't decompose, I don't see how it would give you an adverse effect.
Can you do that with sweet potatoes ? Just dig a hole in the grass plant them and cover with straw ?
I don't have experience with that
HELP!! I desperately need advice. I have a few raised beds. In 2 I had planted potatoes. They all got potato blight. I could have cried. My question is,can I plant anything else in these beds this year?if so what?
No expert here... But so long as you don't plant potato family plants (no tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc) you should be just fine. Consider adding more compost and healthy soil to the bed, but shoudl be fine.
Broad fork for Superlative soil. Dry conditions stop rot I suppose.
do you feed the potato leaves to the chickens?
Those I understand to not be good for chickens so we do not.
Hey. I just have one doubt. Why can't we replant those "greened" ones again for the next batch?? I've seen others do the same as you, discard them for composting !! Care to give out an explanation?? Thanks..
Never mind. Just read the other comment why one shouldn't replant those.. thanks anyway..
We've gotten great notes from folks to plant them, so we've learned a good lesson this year :)