In this video, I show and explain how many potatoes (in weight kilograms or pounds) you should get from one bag of seed potato weighing 1 kg or 2 lbs.
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It's alright, keep the hat on
Thanks alot that you show us always your experience about garden farming. But I was very annoyed when I sow how you simply throw a living frog about 3 meters back of you to the ground.
I hope you and your Australia people to be kind to the animals as frogs, cats,camels etc.
I loved so many things about this video. Your info, also how honest you were about the crop yield but the truths you speak are universal. And then the end. Her calling you, love this video
A disappointing result is still a result.
One piece if advice. Dont plant potatoes or carrots. They are theeeee cheapest thing at the grocery store. Aloottt if hassle for something that costs pennies at the store.
i have a serious ant problem in my potato bed,any suggestions?
Good stuff
Lyme & epsom salt was what another youtuber said she used for potatoes. That was Appalachia's Homestead with Patara. Not sure if the video was older or not, but she had a good harvest. Love your videos, Mark!
What zoom lens did you use for the shot at 4:33? That's a helluva change!
My dad taught me to dig the beds out, a big trench if doing in the bed. As the plant grows fill soils slowly around the plant. He would back fill until the trench or raised bed became humped up. He said that this encouraged high yield. Also, as you said, cutting seed potatoes into bits.
For comparisons sake, I reckon you should also have planted a kilo of old stock potatoes. Question if its even worth buying those commercial seed potatoes.
Hey Mark! I didn't realize that I could grow potatoes twice a year. I live about an hours drive south of you I reckon and have grown Kipflers before and you are right about the taste. At harvest and after leaving them in the ground for two weeks for the skins to harden off, my wife and I roasted them. We have roasted this variety before but they NEVER smelled or tasted as good as the ones we grew at home. In fact after smelling how nice they were in the oven. I said…"Call the Real Estate agent so we can sell the house!". The punters would have loved the smell coming out of the oven and bought the place easily. Cheers!
Dude your hands look like they are strong enough to bend steel girders.
Ladybugs are not pests
We all know what you look like. Keep your hat on Digger.
Tip: Let potato with some dirt on to last longer over time
Great video as always ๐ For the people who were concerned about him throwing the frog/toad away like he did, they're a real pest up there. Many would have thrown the thing much harder and at a target.
What about the one brought ones you planted?
Requisition, you showed the three varieties you brought, but you planted some you already had from before.
Im new in gardening, Im intersted in potato growing. Which is good for potatoes, much sunlight or away from sunlight?
How do you prepare pitatoes to become seed potatoes?
thank you for your videos. we are almost self sufficient in spuds. working on onions and carrots in the near future.
You are always the "real deal", & we wouldn't have it any other way! I planted 1 sweet potato this year, & got 1 large, 2 medium, & 4 smaller squiggly ones. Since the leaves of those vines are also edible, I got a lot of baby spinach-like greens for soups & salads as well. I live in Florida, USA, & find the "sweets" do much better than the regular potatoes in drier conditions. That said- I admire you for being able to do as well as you have in such fierce drought conditions!
I feel very peaceful when I garden also ๐ Thank you for this! So simple and informational!
too bad for your investment, but it was a great video after all, thanks, potato man.
I once threw chopped up potatos (chips) into my worm bin. A month later almost every single chip made a plant. I'm pretty sure you can get like 20 plants by chopping one potato into cubes
Have you tried growing potatoes under straw? Hardly any work involved. No digging and the skin is much thinner with bigger spuds. Not growing tgem in dirt again
The reason you got so less in harvesting is simply because you seed to many potatoes in such a tiny space. I will recommend you seed only 3 maybe 4 potatoes nests in your round bins. The soil needs to be "aerated and fluffy " sort of so the tubers will grow larger in size and they will not have to struggle against hard soil. The way you did it this time is like sardines in a tin if I may compare the term. However, I like your channel and I really love what you doing, hopefully you will keep going this way. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.