In this video, I show you how I grew potatoes in 3 different ways: from supermarket potatoes, wrist deep, and in drills and we see which is better!
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G'day Everyone, yeah I know, two potato videos in a row… My brain's going to mash! Anyway, unrelated – if you are hard up thinking what to get someone this Xmas there's nothing better for the receiver or giver than something you made yourself. A jar of preserve such as jam/jelly, pickles, or some homemade jerky, or even dried fruits, herbs, or spices from your garden is not only cost-effective but also a conversation piece and extra special because it took time and care to make it. Thanks for your support! Cheers ๐
That trailer was way cool. I also love Fair Trade food and prioritize it over commercially grown food. You teens are doing great work to build a better world. Thank you.
Mate, you have some absolutely perfect soil! I'm in the USA and my soil is this super thick clay.
I had an experience this year as I have always had potato bugs that ate the leaves off and it affected the growth and yield big time. Even though I have had potato bugs for over 30 years, I always loved to grow potatoes and the thrill is when I would dig them in the fall. I had my garden planted this spring and had room so I planted a short row of potatoes. It was dry here this year and I had to water all the time. This year I had no potato bugs at all and the plants grew by waste high which never before happened. When I dug the potat
They look beautiful Mark!!! Awesome harvest!!! Hi Everyone, hopefully someone knowledgeable can tell me where I went wrong this year. I purchased seed potatoes. I placed a potato in 13 separate 20L pots. I planted them at the beginning of spring and they grew beautiful, huge follage, I gave them an additional bit of blood n bone and an a little fish emulsion. Things were going great, until a few weeks ago when the plants fell over in a few ways. Firstly, they literally all fell sideways. They became bug infested and the leaves became mottled and rusty. So I cut the follage away, which was a mess!! I harvested heaps of very undersized potatoes. I'm in Newcastle also and we've had heaps of rain lately. Thank you in advance to anyone who spots this and can offer some thoughts.
Couldnโt you cut them in half and plant the halves?
My grandfather taught me how to grow potatoes using hog wire. We would take it 12 to 15 ft section of hog wire and make it into a circle inside of it we would layer straw, dirt, and manure, placing RC potatoes on the outside circumference of the hoop. When they get rained on or when you water, what are the entire top and center and water around the edges. Send the potatoes will be growing from the center outward making your poop of layered crap look like a green Tower. When you're ready to harvest, simply unhook the wire hoop and push it over and all of your potatoes will be laying on top of the ground as sweet as can be! I just hate that feeling of piercing a good potato with a spading Fork, so I thought I would let you Aziz in on this technique from the Texas Panhandle. Please let us know how it works for you if you decide to try it. Enjoy your shows enormously; you're making me a better gardener
Make me want to plant those potatoes that go bad just to see what I can get.
You really love your gardening hey? Good on you mate, thanks for the tips too.
Your headline is a statement. Not a question.
You should of tried Matt Damian Shit potato they were Huge
I think I'll leave the tatters up to the people who want to take the time and have the land to do it right.
It's all a question of economy. Potatoes are cheap and they always will be.
Love it
Interesting experiment! Thanks for taking us through it.
howd they grow the one that runs the usa?
That was awesome. We love watching you and learn tons…. now we just have to put it to practice.
Have you tried the planting method where you place a few potatoes maybe 6 or 8 eyes only in a burlap sack with a small amount of dirt on them and as the plant grows keep adding dirt until the sack is full. You can start them early in the spring indoors and move them outside as the weather warms. I have seen videos where the yield was twice the amount you got out of any of those bed you have.
My wife and I got a harvest of about 2 of those piles. From a 8×8 bed in the ground. We used our own starts. And we live in northern Arizona. Piss poor Adobe clay dirt. Was a pain to dig. But they were worth the effort.
I love your videos, and I grew up on a farm! I still learn a lot from you. And I am praying for Aus. Love you guys and sorry for what you're going through over there.
Around here, buying extra spuds at the grocer in January, gives you all the chits you need by March or April.
Dude you need to cut those seed potatoes into pieces. Just need one eye per piece for a plant.
should have used the same variety seed potatoes . to get a real good idea i doubt it would be much difference but hilling probably would yeild more as you said they popped up out of the ground first
Great video. Just wondering if you could place a layer of chicken wire or wire fencing under the seed potatoes, so when you harvest you could sort of shimmy the wire up and it would act like a giant strainer? That way you wouldn't poke the taters. It would probably take two people to harvest that way though, using a sawing motion.
I believe the middle bed yielded a better crop. Thank you for sharing and doing this experiment with potatoes. Look forward to seeing more from you. Cheers.
Store bought should be washed to get rid of the chemicals put on them to stop sprouting. What I need to know is how to fertilize… What the list of fertilizer types and the pH should be. I know you have talked about pH in a previous video. I learned putting potash on potatoes is a not to do.
To me, it looked like your 'drill and backfill' method created more, smaller potatoes, where the wrist deep method created individually larger potatoes. Of course, that could have just been the way you piled them up ๐
I've never bought seed potatoes, just plant the old and the green. Even with just my small plot of perhaps 4-5 m2 I get about half a year's supply over two crops.
Please Sir
Are you in South East QLD and what is the month you planted? What is our best period to plant out .. Eumundi
Love your work, inspiring and on my way to more home grown Veges and fruit:)