Lazy Potatoes | The Easy Way to Grow Potatoes | No Dig, No Compost, Easy Harvest!
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- Lazy Potatoes | The Easy Way to Grow Potatoes | No Dig, No Compost, Easy Harvest! Even if you have never grown potatoes before, this video shows you an easy way to get great results, build soil fertility and maintain soil life.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Equipment for growing potatoes
0:50 Plant seed potatoes
1:20 Chitting potatoes
3:11 Why add hay or grass clippings on top of potatoes?
4:00 Does growing potatoes under grass clippings work?
5:46 Cover potatoes with hay
6:28 Can I use chicken bedding on potatoes?
8:18 Best mulch for potatoes?
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Follow- up videos, Hilling Potatoes | Earthing Up | Improved potato harvests in the garden th-cam.com/video/hd7bcRX39Rc/w-d-xo.html and NEVER Dig Potatoes Again! | No dig potato harvest RESULTS | No till potatoes th-cam.com/video/taPzZUdXsbQ/w-d-xo.html
I watched my grandmother doing this when I was a kid back in the 1950’s. She was in her 80’s and digging was difficult for her. When she wanted just 1 or 2 potatoes for dinner she would lift the hay and just pick them and replace the hay.
Wonderful!
Digging through the soil is the best part of growing potatoes. There's nothing quite like the joy of finding a treasure in the earth. Eating them is a whole different joy.
I "dug in" potatoes for over 50 years...then my Son convinced me to try laying the seed spuds into a 3" layer of leaf compost on top of UNTILLED SOIL!! CRAZY... then covering the compost with some grass clippings (not much... 1"- to-2") to preserve moisture in the leaf compost which dries out easily. Same seed potatoes were "dug in" as usual in another bed.
The "no dig" beds were the clear winners and required little digging to harvest them. None got "pierced" by my fork.... around a dozen got pierced of the "dug" spuds... my fault hurrying (but eaten that night).
No dig beds 146 pounds from 12 seed spuds vs. only 123 pounds from a dozen similar sized seed spuds "dug in".
I was sure the dirt below the compost was too hard for the potatoes to grow at all, but I was wrong about that (but I'll still scratch the surface in coming years... that's gotta help getting roots into the soil - I think...should test that theory too).
I've heard of planting potatoes in this way but have not tried it. I have used grass clippings as mulch for my
garden plants and it's especially good for potatoes, corn, and beets.
I remember my mother once harvesting potatoes from our compost pile. Apparently, there were some potato
eyes on the peeling she'd tossed there. Those were our biggest potatoes, even though they pretty much were
just volunteers and not planted from seed potatoes.
As to avoiding digging potatoes? Perish the thought! I LOVE digging potatoes. It's an adult form of an
Easter egg hunt. 🙂 It's also a good way to collect a few worms for fish bait.
Why is it that, in the TH-cam videos, everyone plants whole seed potatoes? I can remember my father cutting his potatoes according to how many eyes they had. If the potato had 3 eyes, he would cut it so that he could have 3 potato plants. He always had a good potato crop.
I've seen lots of folks do that too Tony, nothing wrong with it either, it's a great way to make your seed potatoes go further.
I always do that and I get a lot for a few seeds
I personally plant the whole seed potato because if they aren’t sealed they can rot and get diseased which will just end up with a wasted crop or half as much yield.
I once lived in a place with ground squirrels. My husband dug a thin ditch and slipped in a wall of chicken wire. All around the potatoe area. It worked fairly well. Not completely but we got a much better harvest than without it. The wire was vertical like a wall.
Africans grow and dig up tubers in there deserts,potatoes grow anywhere,maybe not North or south pole! where ever you are if you stick them in a medium they will produce! Thank You for your kind Video! I was born in Luton, and moved to San Diego when I was 20 years, I have grown potatoes in all climates!
I harvest my potatoes in the store it is very easy, no digging included for me either lol
For people who are new to composting, “hot” compost is compost that’s high in nitrogen, not in temperature.
Thank you. I have just started composing and was wondering about that so your info is very welcome.
Thank you for the bedding info never knew I'd have to wait a year before using chicken bedding as compost. Saved me from a possible future issue as I plan to use chicken bedding as my nutrition for a garden once setup.
Btw an old Michigan man told me his dad use to grow potatoes all year even in fridge winters with a a few feet of snow on the ground using this hay method. Just remove the snow and hay and BAM you got fresh taters in the middle of winter. Guy said he did onions as well.
You would not have to wait a year. It all depnds on the state of your compost heap - ideal and composting will takes 6 weeks or so, the worst conditions and the bedding will never compost.
Great explanation of easy potatoes Liz. Thank your for sharing. I have a few left. This will be easy enough
You are so welcome!
I have to grow what i can buy. Geographical location, weather, soil, determines how good my crop is. TN is 100°f and desert for 4 months June to Sept with almost no rain. I never buy $5 per lb seed potatoes anymore. Grocery store potatoes grow great. Red potatoes out produce white potatoes 4 to 1. 5-20-20 fertilizer, very soft soil, lots of water, each 1 eye cutting grows 4 lbs of potatoes. If 1 seed potato has 5 eyes I get 5 plants = 20 lbs of potatoes. 100 plants = 400 lbs of Red Norland potatoes.
Hi from Texas, I planted Yukon Gold potatoes in my raised bed. I cut my seed potatoes to have at least 2 eyes and let them sit on the counter for a bit. I wasn't sure if they would sprout but I was so surprised they are coming up and look very healthy. I am following some of your suggestions and look forward to learning and experimenting with different ways of growing potatoes.
Thanks again for your informative videos.
Hi Mary, nature is a clever thing, isn't it?
I have Ruth's book no work. I followed her instructions and put hay down layed the potatoes on the hair, layed more hay over. At harvest I just removed the top layer of hay and picked up the new potatoes. Yes you can use straw instead of hay.
I'm no gardener so, when my potatoes were a little out of date in the kitchen once, I just tossed them out of the window. Suddenly one day I found I had a load of weeds in the garden that I thought I'd better get rid of. Hey presto; spuds everywhere.
Ooooo I do get excited when it's time to start planting and growing 😀 thank you for the video. Have a lovely day 🌻🌻🌻
Thanks for watching Nicola. Yes it's very exciting to be starting the next season of growing. Now if I can just sit on my hands for a little longer before sowing tender seeds!
Filmed 7th March 2022.. I find it helpful to know the date when filmed in case of missed harvest or other reasons. I see TH-cam doesn't show any dates anymore on anything. not a complaint though..love the gardening!
I didn’t hear her mention when she filmed it.
Did I miss it? Or how do you know when she filmed it?!
she mentions the date right at the beginning
Zoom out 2x with "Control minus" and the upload date will appear
THANK YOU! I also think YT does us a disservice by not posting the creation date. But really shame on the creators?
Btw, just recently found you and you're so informative, and well presented! Bravo !💖
Thank you for share your experiece with us. Can't wait to see the results. Xx
I grew them like that last year and it worked a treat. It really is that simple. Thank you for passing on your knowledge.
Rocket does exactly what it says on the tin … they are super fast growing!! Loving the new place
I've been using the Ruth Stout method for a few years now. I don't plant them in the spring anymore. I just leave some potatoes under the hay when i harvest the rest each fall. The ones i leave come up in the spring without me having to do anything.
I love this!
A timely video Liz - I planted my first bed of spuds in the market garden today. With an almost unlimited supply of rabbit bedding I’ll be using this method to ‘earth up’ this season. ✌️
It'll be great to see what you do with it. I'd love to create a collab video with you this year, let me know if you are interested!
I bought your book and it arrived last night! I woke up unable to walk due to knee pain today, so I know what I’ll be doing whilst I’m in bed all day. 🙂
I hope your knee feels better very soon, but in the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy Grounded. 🌻
I did a load of early potatoes like this for Erica's Potato Challenge last year - pretty good results especially when you consider the lack of effort required!!
Have a great week Liz.
Thanks Steve! I'll really never go back to that back-breaking task of digging trenches and then digging up spuds. Just the thought of it is tiring!
@@LizZorab If it wasn't a lack of space for me then I would most certainly do more like this, but most of mine are in 30L buckets on the front drive LOL
Awesome!!! Your amazing. You get straight to the point and i love your video
I don't did trenches, but I certainly let the potatoes dig the ground for me! Potatoes are the best way to break in New ground.
Interesting! I’m watching this from Northern California which is in a terrible, long and probably permanent drought so I haven’t gardened in several years. This looks like so much fun.
I can't imagine not gardening - or being in a long term drought. I know during the summer of 2018 when we had a few months of it being very hot and dry, I was desperate for some rain, but I can't begin to know how it must feel for long term drought.
I did this last year. The lessons learnt were: 1) it seems a good idea to wait a bit later before planting, since early spring there are lots of hungry rodents around who will dig up the tubers from hay 2) the ones i only put a little bit hay at first and added more later seemed to have et least a better start, those with too much hay all the way from the beginning seemed to struggle a little bit to find their way up from the hay 3) in case u have couch grass around it might grow through the hay and u ll have incredible trouble trying to get ur tubers out of that mess in the end of season. Not fun, believe it or not 😋 otherwise its a good method to consider trying.
Thank you! I'm planning to make some new beds but am short on cash and materials. Think I'll grow my potatoes this way so I'll have more space in the beds I have now, plus the hay and grass clippings left after harvest will be a good start to preparing a new planting area.
if there were eyelets on both sides of the potato i used to watch my grand father cut them in half and place the eyelets facing up
My GMA always toothpicked everything & set it on top of a mason of water once roots she planted. I never realized I was learning 😃 I heard this always "don't throw that out!!" Worse case it went to compost or to feed pigs/rabbits
Growing potatoes is so fun!
I don't know if it is the same in the UK, but in the states we have to be concerned about hay or straw being sprayed with Grazon herbicide, it will devastate your nightshades. I love the idea of growing with straw but no one I can purchase from can guarantee that it was not sprayed with herbicide.
We tend not to grow with straw so much because slugs just love it and most of UK is a damp climate (and therefore slug paradise!). The UK also has the potential for herbicide issues, but I use organic hay - I'm sorry I should have explained this in the video, I am so used to growing organically that I forget to mention such things.
I know. Such a terrible problem. I bought a few bales last fall and forgot to ask the farmer until I got home only to be told he sprays. So that pile of bales will just sit against my fence for a few years. 😩
You look like a boss I want to inspire you thanks for your contributions
I love your friendship with Huw - there's a great chemistry between you! Special buddies 💕
I really enjoyed this video. Your voice is very calming and this video made me feel less anxious
Hi Liz, great video on advice on how to plant seed potatoes and chitting too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thank you Christine!
I should try this with potatoes as well. I used hay for Jerusalem artichokes and the harvest was better than normal.
This seems like a great idea for small areas and for hard clay soils.
I’m going to try this in laundry baskets. I saw someone from Vietnam to do that with soil. He just dumps over the baskets and the potatoes fell out. So I’ll try your grass method.
Edit
Ok. So I think put some soil on the bottom and try the mulch on top. That may work well.
Or guinea pig hutch bedding😀😀😀I have two working guinea pigs who provide their bedding for compost and also mow our lawn in rotation…def earn their keep😀😀😀jinxy
I’m growing what ever is in my compost lol
LOLOL, YOU SOUND SO MUCH LIKE ME!! AND I WOULD BE PROUD OF EVERY LEAF I SAW! Never can tell, it might be a stray corn stalk or
bean sprout!
Ha..that's what I do🤣🤣🥰
The first time I grew potatoes i was researching and prepping for weeks..low and behold they were already growing in my compost! lol
I GOT THE BEST PEPPERS THAT WAY!! 😉
🙋🏼♀️👍🏻
I am impressed bigtime we need to learn survival skills
in this climate we live in
Note: IF you've used a weed killer on your grass don't use the grass clippings on any food crop.
Thank you. I would never have thought of doing such a thing. I have been wanting to grow potatoes but the soil in my yard may not be ideal for gardening. Maybe I should loosen the soil with a shovel before trying this? I believe the soil to be a bit dense. Anyway, I am going to give it a go and will use hay. I will return and let you know if I succeed.
Easier method : dig one hole, put in a potatoe 6" down, stick a stick in the ground next to it, & re-fill hole. Repeat till all spuds gone. About 15 inches apart. The sticks allow u to find the potatoes again, after the potatoe leaves have all died away - the spuds will remain in the ground in perfect condition right thro into autumn, & just one shove of the spade will lift out a root full for a meal.
going to try your method! Thank you so much for making this video!
Thank you so much Liz, I really really enjoyed watching you experiment with seed potatoes 🥔. I’m going to watch the link next.
I put my potatoes in this evening, now I am ready to be lazy about it. thanks
I am doing the Ruth Stout method this year in FL, USA. What a great video! It really grounded me as I get a bit anxious when I experiment with this much garden space. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Same as you Liz, Rocket, Pentland Javelin and also Charlotte. Love this method, definitely going to try this. Thankyou!
Ooh Charlotte, yes I love those too. I've bought some salad potatoes that I'm going to plant in a couple of weeks time (perhaps in the shady garden) and some Maris Piper and Sarpo Miro. We don't eat masses of potatoes, but until I'm sure we have other crops coming in, I'll grow extras in case other crops don't do so well in our new home.
Hello there!
Last year after watching this video, stuck a couple left over seed potatoes in a pile of leaf litter to try out your method/theory... worked great! Couple potatoes had a slight scale on the skin but cooked and tasted fine. Earlier this year, like other gardeners I assume, trapped a nerve in my back from leaning forward in the garden, HOWEVER, who needs to dig trenches or bend to the ground when you can stick leaf litter in sacks! A real life quality of life improver - THANK YOU!
One thing I have noticed from using a couple of plastic sacks, the potatoes are firmer, the bags tend to gather slugs / snails and the plants are prone to falling over but they do hold the moisture well and no more getting stuck in the fetal position whilst trying to stand back up!
Thankfully YT recommended this video to me again so I'm able to drop a comment, your work and inquisitive mind is greatly appreciated.
edit: just realized it wasn't this video... it was one of your previous videos covering the same subject, had a taste test also I believe.
I'm so pleased that it worked for you, especially if you have back pain!
Wow you are doing a Great job big Anti!👍❤🥰🍅🥒🥔🥦🥬
Thank You for sharing! Looking forward to giving it a try.
HALF A MILLION VIEWS and 7k likes??? Cmon, click it, its free
Thank you Bryan!
I've found that to be about the ratio of people who leave reviews for businesses. In other words, 99% of humanity are too lazy to tap the screen.
Hi Liz, I did a similar thing last weekend. Straight over the ground and covered with some compost topped up with hay. 🤞
Best gardening wishes Malgosia and Nigel 🌱😀🌱
Here's to a productive growing season!
Hi Liz! I think we'll try this in a few places this year. Thank you! Cheers.
I switched my chickens and quail to a wood pellet bedding 2 years ago, rather than wood shaving. I clean out the coops once a month. The bedding doesn’t get wet and smelly like the shavings did. I add it straight to the garden as a mulch. I don’t dig it into the soil and I try to avoid it touching the stems of the plants. This works really well especially for tomatoes, peppers, squash and okra. I haven’t had a problem with it being too ‘hot’ because I don’t dig it in.
Adding uncomposted anything to soil results in nitrogen deficiency in the soil as the bugs that feast on the uncomposted items demand a source of nitrogen. This is why pee (urea - so very often mentioned by Mr Flowerdew) and ammonium nitrate act (amongst other nitrogen sources) as compost accelerators.
@@birdie1585 that is only the case if you dig it into the soil. If you add it as a surface mulch it doesn’t compete with the plant roots for nitrogen. I have very heavy clay soil. If left uncovered it bakes as hard as a brick and nothing can grow in it. A nice layer of sawdust and chicken droppings keeps the soil nice and moist.
@@daniellesunley4807 Really? So where do the bugs get their nitrogen from? Either it comes from the soil, or the mulch does not decompose. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are rare.
This does not alter the fact that uncomposted materials are FAR better composted before using as mulch or soil ammendment.
@@birdie1585 the chicken droppings are high in nitrogen, the shavings are high in carbon.
@@daniellesunley4807 Overall, the uric acid in the droppings falls far short of the nitrogen demand to compost the droppings and the shavings, unless you allow the litter to get in one hell of a mess before cleaning them out. Even then, the droppings are well under 1% nitrogen.
You logic does not hold water.
Liz, never put a stick in the ground without a pot on top 😱 If you bend down and it goes in your eye, you won’t rub it better 🥸
Cane toppers were added after filming.
I used grass clippings this year it made digging them up really easy it worked well thanks
Thanks Liz! Defo gonna try this 👍😁
This is really interesting liz I might have to give this a go
Hi Liz! What an easy, wonderful way to grow potatoes! I will definitely try this with all the goat bedding! I'll be adding rabbit manure in between layers of bedding.
Thank you!
Good for you we do our potatoes like that and have very good success, well done on your growing on nice fresh spuds.
Are you growing potatoes this year? Which varieties have you chosen? Link to recommended video about the best mulch for potatoes th-cam.com/video/GKB-tan-zdg/w-d-xo.html
Pink Gypsy , Charlottes , Sarpo Mira , and Cara this time , and some trial shop bought Maris Pipers 👍😊
Is it safe to do this method now as we are still having frosty mornings?? Many thanks for what you do.
Hi Doug, the seed potatoes are tucked under their cozy duvet of hay and so are usually fine. It's the top growth that tends to get frosted, so I keep covering them up with more hay until the risk of frost is past. St Patrick's day is often potato planting day and that's less than two weeks away 🌻😃
This blew my mind. I can’t wait to try it!
Sarah, it also blew my mind when I first heard about it! The best thing is how well it works 🌻
Excellent idea , please continue your new ideological potatoes cultivation inovation,very interesting new ideas
Brilliant video! Enjoyed watching this.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Erica! I'm looking forward to seeing you on Saturday for the willow workshop 💚
Going to try this. Thanks, Liz!
Hope you like it!
Thank you for the good idea and an easy way love it 💖😊
growing in potatoes in woodchips this year , just to see.. We have to experiment !
Thank you for this information.
Have tried this mdr this year alongside a traditional method. Excited to see how they compare.
Hi Liz I tried this method last year using grass clippings and duck bedding, they were the best I had ever grown and so easy. I put the potatoes on a new bed so made a hole in cardboard first.
Hooray! I love it when we get feedback like this. 🌻
I'm doing the same thing but with leaves. I'm planting taters and onions in mine. Leaves are free and people are nice enuff in the states to bag them up n put them at the edge of the road for you to pick them up.
Leaves attract worms. They may eat your produce too.
@@slaterdomain they (worms) didn't eat anything last year, now the Voles, got a few potatoes, but I just threw em back in the leaves, they will either make, or add nutrients back to the soil.
Oak leaves tho are very acidic. Do potatoes like acidic soil I wonder?
@@casual454t1 it all breaks down, I've got pine needles in there to. When u buy mulch from stores, there's no telling whats in the mix.
That’s a genius idea!
I did it last year and it was known as the Ruth Stoute method. I dint space them out that much but kept adding grass clippings. It did work.
Yes, as I refer to at 0:34 in the video, this is based on the Ruth Stout method of growing.
@@LizZorab Getting my ears washed out I missed that!!! ooopsy
Put the syringe away! I put a note on the screen, so you didn't miss me saying it. 🌻💚
Paul, did you use the grass clippings fresh or did you spread them out to eliminate the grass heating up? How often did you find yourself topping up? Many thanks in advance.
@@alisonandrew5231 Hi Alison - I actually put them on top as soon as mowed. I found by trial and error that a small amount of Compost on the top worked better and then grass clippings fresh on top. I got to the point of begging neighbours for their clippings and cutting the odd lawn for free. I think the principle is there is moisture in fresh clippings and that helps and when it rains it keeps that moisture in too. I keep trying to find a supply of hay bales but they always want to deliver half a farm full!! LOL Any time you can get them is fine I think. The thicker the better.
Hi Liz, thank you for all your magnificent videos and your writing! Will you be posting an update on the growing of these potatoes? I'm bursting to see just how well they've done using this exciting method. Thank you again for all you're uploads and positivity, both are very much appreciated!
Hi, yes an update will be available soon. I plan to check the potatoes tomorrow, so it might be very soon that you see an update!
@@LizZorab Fantastic! We've been growing first early potatoes in containers, which have done well and we've been harvesting them a few pots at a time. We ended up with WAY more seed potatoes than we needed due to our supplier sending us multiple orders due to courier issues, then all packages arriving within days of each other and the supplier saying to keep them for the hassle. Whilst not all survived the excessively long delivery time, we have a LOT of spares and I'm thinking to try your no dig row method as I'm struggling for containers now!
Fingers crossed for a good and tasty harvest for you, we'll keep an eye out for your results video. 🤞
Hi Liz,how nice to see you breaking with the common habits but also very handy options. Interesting channel, need to put down my own grocery garden again, something I had in my youth, long ago🤭 but I do miss now very much. With 2 kids I just love to cook with bio vegetables! (soon from my own garden) like to learn again how it was done properly. Last time I got potatoes from a big tile, got a lot of them🥳 but onions did not go that well. I have forgotten that much! Thank you for this video, even though I have no ducks...yet😅
Nice. Looking forward to your results!
Here's the results video th-cam.com/video/taPzZUdXsbQ/w-d-xo.html
Interesting, I’ll try this as it looks doable and easy!
Great video Liz. awesome stuff
Thanks Tony! I'm looking forward to showing you round in person.
@@LizZorab Aunty, I enjoyed your content. Keep up the good work.
Can’t wait to try this! Thank you
You're welcome, it's been so liberating to stop digging potatoes and just to find them below the mulch covering.
@@LizZorab brilliant method! And in the attached video I really loved the taste test. I think the leaf mold mulch and wood chips likely resemble the native environment potatoes may have originally developed in? Thank you again
I'm gonna try this! I'll let you know.
I saw a video where...the guy covered the ground with manure first then did the covering
I used this method last year for the first time. Excellent crop but I had a number of greenish potatoes so this year I will be sure to add more grass clippings on top of the hay as the weeks go by.
Yes it definitely needs regular topping up with grass clippings or more hay or bedding.
nice video been using grass clippings for years great stuff
It's such an underrated resource!
Liz , thank you for your perfect explanation about this lazy potatoes. kkk, awesome.
You are welcome!
Kkk?
I'm going to try pine straw this year, because we have a lot of that. I'll be interested in your results. Very nice channel!
I'm gonna try to grow potatoes in a pile of last year's leaves 👍🤗
We just moved into a house that has the front and backyard covered in tons of leaves. The snow had melted, revealing all of the leaves. We had a good snow last night, and I'm sure it won't be our last snow of the year. I plan to cover potatoes with the leaves and see what happens. I'm a new transplant to the Lake Champlain NY area from Washington State. Gardening here will be a new learning curve. I've only grown potatoes in the past using raised beds. This year, I'll be planting them on the ground and covering them with leaves.
Thank you for the info
fantastic title, lazy potatoes!! yeah!!
look forward to the results. I tried the potato in a container thing, keep earthing it up, BUT noone ever said indeterminate species and I was so disappointed with the results esp cos it took a lot of compost
Hopefully this will work better for you, although growing them in containers works really well when you have an indeterminate variety. th-cam.com/video/FrgqhPbP7sE/w-d-xo.html
Definitely going to try this method.
Hope you like it!
My ears pricked up at "easy way to grow". I'm growing Charlotte, swift, pink fir and King Edwards. Great video.
Thank you! Oooh, I'd forgotten about King Edwards - I may have to add a few to the ever-growing list of spuds I want to grow!
I am going to try woodchips rotted down for a year as mulch on my potatoes this season but I will follow your lead on adding grass clippings to top things up. Great idea, thankyou!
Here's my video from 2018 where I used wood chips as one of the mulches that I trialed. th-cam.com/video/GKB-tan-zdg/w-d-xo.html
@@LizZorab thankyou
Great tipssssthankkk youuublessings
Great video on planting potatoes. #Iloveit
I love this idea I had planned on attempting to create extra compost by collecting grass and layering it with pretty worn out wood chips (I can't think of the proper word) in my containers as our compost heaps have been emptied and we plan on moving. This has made me think I could perhaps plant in these containers while making extra compost but obviously fill them about 1/3 full with soil or compost first. It might be a good way of getting started again once we move without spending a fortune on compost to give me a chance to make as much compost as possible to start with. I've had to get rid of most of the compost I grew potatoes in to sort the garden to sell the house so I will he starting again whereas I planned on adding fish blood and bone and reusing it for potatoes. I could also try and use this method in my raises beds when I build them adding different things (not food in case of rats) to create compost in my raises beds while growing potatoes. Just a thought
Thankyou for a great idea.
Most welcome 😊 🌻
Great Video Liz, might try that one year :)
Go for it! 🌻
I tried some gold potatoes they were buttery flavored years ago I still remember the taste..I wanna try growing my own I need to sprout some
ooh may try that later on as planted lots in plastic tubs at the weekend in my poly tunnel until frost goes away so dont want to grow too many as will be inundated with potatoes at the same time! great video, thanks Liz
I'm doing some in tubs in the polytunnel too!
@@LizZorab what is the best way of storing them it’s can you leave in the tubs until you are ready? Thanks
I reserve a small section of my garden each year for straw bale gardening. I use the second-year straw bales to grow my potatoes in, similar to how you've done it. I simply love it and will never put my potatoes in earth again. It's so easy to plant and harvest! Best wishes for a healthy harvest!
So do you push the spud down into the bale and then keep covering it with more straw? Don't use any soil at all?
@@theirishcailin333 I only use second year bales, they are conditioned in the first year to accelerate the composting process of the bale. So there is some composted straw in the center of the bale. If you haven't read Joel Karsten's book on Straw Bale Gardening, I highly recommend it. I usually just squish the bales down toward the ground as they are broken down, tuck the potatoes into the top of bales (just barely, they are still exposed) and then cover with additional straw. I usually add straw a couple of times throughout the growing season.
@@UpcycledStuff thank you so much for replying and all the info! Oh I'll look up that book thanks a million 😁