Planting Potatoes in a raised garden bed, Just using Used Coffee Grounds, Cardboard & Seeds, No till Garden Soil Improvement. Gardening for Beginners Vegetables Plant Series 101 Part 1. These items help to mulch and will help your plants to grow.
Rye Grass link : http://www.johnnyseeds.com/farm-seed/grasses-millets-and-sorghums/ryegrass-cover-crop-seed-988.html?cgid=grasses%2C-millets-and-sorghums#start=1
Did you Dried the Coffeegrind? or is it of no mather? (you get the pun?) :p
I'm very curious about the result, no green potatoes would save me a lot of work; I'm also experimenting with winter rye now, one bed of cut down rye, I interplanted with haricots verts, and another bed I interseeded with radish and carrots, regrowth of winter rye is rather potent, so I'll cut it back with scissor (square yard raised beds)
Do you allow the snap peas to fruit and then harvest?
Have you found a list of (so called) weeds that are endo-Mycorrhizal friendly? I'm wanting to know about lamb-quarters, comfrey, and plantain. Thanks for any help!
Would you consider doing a series on container gardening and how these principles you have shared with us can be adapted to containers? I would assume a number of your subscribers and potential subscribers are restricted to or must include containers due to space and other limitations. Thank you for the consideration.
I am going to do this next year! I think just about any crop can be grown in the layered bed in the box. Oxheart carrots and beets to name a couple!
I'm confused about that 8" rule. I had some regular old store bought russets that started sprouting so I cut them up and threw them in about 5" of dirt at the bottom of an empty 50# dog food bag (the woven PVC style of bag) that I had rolled the sides down on. I then waited for them to sprout and produce leaves. Once done I began unrolling the bag and adding hay to fully cover the plants. I did this until the whole bag was unrolled (so about 3' tall now) and filled with hay. The plants continued to shoot up through the hay and are not sitting about 12" to 18"above the top of the bag.
I've yet to harvest them, but I cut open the side of the sack in a few spots to peek in and I have potatoes growing at the bottom all the way to the just below the "ground" level. These aren't rare variety at all, so I'm confused what you mean by 8".
I am really interested in giving this a try this fall. Any idea when the part 4 might be available? Thanks! for all your efforts to educate the public at large!!
Love the valuable information you provide on your videos. Questions please: I have an area about 20 feet in diameter, round, where an above ground pool was removed. One side of the circle was dug about 1 1/2 feet into the slope it sits on and the downhill side of the circle sits level with the surrounding yard area. I was going to get a load of topsoil dumped there to try to fill and level the area. The dirt is very hard packed orange clay – I want to make a vegetable garden there. My questions are, using your method with the open bottom box with alternating soil and coffee grounds, can I place many open bottom boxes touching one another to maximize the growing space? in order to plant tomatoes, okra, squash etc? I thought I would place the boxes directly onto the clay and then go up in the boxes with the topsoil that will be hauled in. There is a very tiny amount of yard grass that has crept in and growing on top of the clay so really there is no vegetation much to speak of. If I can do this with the boxes, then could I skip the last step of sowing the rye grass on top and can I just mulch the very top of the boxes with shredded leaves or pine straw? Will using this box planting method eventually build and loosen the clay for future gardens there? Just trying to make it easier for my 60+ body and small pocketbook. Thanks so much for your time in advance. Love your channel.
Mark, How did this potato harvest in the cardboard box go?
Hi Mark, really terrific info showing the scientific basis along with the practical application. Much appreciated, great efforts here. Where is Part 4 in this series? Been looking forward to seeing the results! Keep up this excellent lot of experiments please.
part 4?
I totally love the idea of the cardboard raised box bed. I will try it, the only thing is I"m not fond of the grass, but Potatoes will be my first choice, provided I can still find them to grow. I'm late starting my garden this year but I am very patient. just one ?? could you compost in the box ? probably a stupid ?? but just wanted to know, thank's for the video, and God Bless Nicky from Michigan
Fascinating, your knowledge of the science of healthy GI tracts organisms and incorporating that into so very easy gardening methods to replicate this into the earth to educate others how to grow foods correctly that will help both our planet and physical health in this manner is SO INSPIRING. I am going to start digging in my desert dirt this week and follow your instructions. Thank you very much. New Subscriber # 19,230. klee.
Mark, love the idea of cardboard box for planting potatoes. Do you have a follow up to show the results?
Hey Bro. thanks for your learning videos, they are well appreciated. Can you tell me how you keep the deer out of your peas??? along with many other things they love.
Is there a harvest video of that box raised bed?
Can you go back and edit your first video to say a half an inch of cardboard? I would imagine you can do a voiceover or simply put it on the screen. Thank you!
In one spot, i think i used too many coffee grounds without mixing it in the soil. It made HARD clumps that is hard to break even with a shovel!
Has this happened to anyone else? !
where can i get the inoculant for the peas? what the heck is that specifically?
Great simple idea
I cant find part 4
So the last part of video the row of sugar snap peas and potatoes..did you do the cardboard/grass/ coffee ground method ?
very cool way of growing potatoes
Is there a follow up on harvest?
Does the cardboard box open up on the side. ?????
Thank you…. for the beginner series. First House. First time gardening.
Do you think I could plant fall garlic in cardboard with clay soil and coffee grounds like this? I have some winter rye i could sew on top. Zone 6b ny!
Why do you need to put ryegrass seeds here?
You forgot to mention that the pea cover crop protects your potatoes from beetles…..am binging on your vids…..thanks..