This video shows how I grow my potatoes in a raised garden bed with a thick woodchip mulch to see if there are any major improvements in growth or harvest when woodchip is used.
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Hello mate. Here in the midcounties of England (Buckinghamshire) I have always planted straight into the dirt, plant about March and harvest around August. We get slug problems if I plant lates but second earlies in March are best. I have, this year set a bed with best part of 18” of woodchip and covered it with 2” of horse manure (fresh) it’s all just fermenting now until March when I’m going to plant second earlies Maris Piper spuds. Trial and error. If I left them inbeyond August they would be full of slugs and well rotted, you are so lucky to have your climate where you can plan two crops from 1 planting
Leggy
Self sufficiency is so important to me. Your videos were a great intro for me.
Everything looks different. Including your soul I’ve been watching.
Soil not soul
They are messing with feces and calling it clay.
Not him.
That man knows why he is doing.
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I know I would love to have you on a team.
Bugs can be fed to reptiles if there aren’t pesticides or disease.
Emotional power back already remember that.
I always called the bad ones the eye of Sauron.
Sooo… why does that 1kg bag of seed potatoes have “500 grams” written on it?
Can i do this over Clay?
0:48 scooter!
Those royal blues look really pretty. Were they good?
What is rosella never heard of it
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Anyone else enjoying the dog scratching his back during the first 2 minutes of the video? LOL
In french Julie´s cookery programs she has a Greek i think it was recipe for vegetable pasties. THe ladies went down the feild and piicked all sorts of veggies, one of which was carrot tops. I tried them, they are perfumed and delicious.
Is that purple carrot a forage one? I bought a packet of seed for fpurple carrots called forage potatoes. You will have to buy some animal and try growing different forage plants, your gardens getting lovely and wild, all you need now is some animals walking around. Not a hundred percent serious, animals are a lot of work.
I saw another french program on ecological stuff and a man in that one said that he grows wheat and lets weeds grow in it and then i suppose sifts the resullting seed and feeds the small seeds that are not wheat seeds to the hens. One sgrass seeds maybe would do. I love hay fields, so have plenty of grass seeds in my garden.
Do you live in a jungle?!?!? Very cool property. ♥️
Hi, Scooter!
Had rewind for a moment because I was watching the dog rolling in the grass 1:34 in the background. lol
is there a follow up to this video to see what happened with the replanted stuff?
What type of wood are you using?
An update from my last comment. I planted both Maris Piper and Kestrel potatoes direct into the wood chip bed. I planted them the first week of March. Today, 14/7, I harvested them all. Had a very good crop of Kestrel but slightly disappointed with the Maris Piper. However, wood chip is the way forward for me..
I appreciate the reality of trying to garden and sometimes being disappointed. I’ve gotten more disappointment than not with my efforts… but I’m still learning! Will keep trying!