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This was a great experiment trying out Ruth Stout, no dig, garden method. I will continue to learn and expand on this garden experiment next year!
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Hi, I discovered your channel a few days ago and I’m kind of obsessed, I would love to di what you do but live in a one bedroom apt with my husband in SoCal. Did you ever figure out what happened to the baby bunnies?
We leave nests when we find bunnies too. They were calling their mommy because they cannot see yet. You did the right thing. Hugs!
I grew my potatoes in grow bags. Here in Texas I have to water everyday and sometimes twice a day. I purchase 1 bag of seed potatoes and 5 grow bags. $35 for 36lbs of potatoes not great this year but now I have everything to grow them free next year so the cost per lb will decrease. Plus I’m not growing to save money. They taste better, they are for sure organic, and I learned something. That’s a good value in my opinion.
Love your videos
I am definitely going to try the no dig bed xxx
Hey there, a tip, your first row of potato plants were green as you harvested, they were not completely dead as you claimed. The plants will turn brown and the leaves all die off when the potatoes are ready to harvest. That’s why you had such small potatoes, they were still growing. Very cool growing them in the softer home made mulch. The mulch will require more watering though.
Becky hi, whatever happened to the bunnies.?
Hey Becky I just watched this video and sent you a present to your PO Box. I hope you like it! It's like the one my mother in law uses and she loves it. We love your channel and cannot wait to see what you grow next!
Goodness I love your smile and your heart! May you continue to be a blessing to the ecosystem around you!
We live in Texas in the hill country. Little bunnies eat our flowers. We have a small garden as well. We have a pet bunny so it's like family so we share. We don't mind. Stay safe.
You are very inspiring. So much energy!
that is a nice way of growing potato, my soil is very sandy going give this method a try, hope bunnies r ok. very nice of u.
You touching a bunny once won't stop a mamma from gathering her babies. She'll smell her own scent on them too and everything will be fine.
I don’t blame you because we as Humans invade their territory and when they use what we have taken over from them to have babies and find food and shelter for them and their babies then that is something that we just have to work around an address to so girl you did the right thing
Perhaps u should have put more manure in the bottom and use a trench style planting where u heap up soil around and on top of the potatoes in a dome. Yes more water as well.
Always fun to share produce or sell your extra produce to use for more seedlings next year
We grow mainly Yukon Golds for our potatoes in our raised beds. Lucky you that you have free horse manure! If I might add some suggestions, I agree that you likely needed to water them. Plus, we use a mixture of compost, peat moss, vermiculite and some fertilizer, and also cover the potato plants as they grow, with straw. Straw is, IMHO, a much better cover for potatoes. Leaves are a good mulch for some things, but composting them, or at least breaking them up with a mulching mower, or similar, is the better way to use them. Too many leaves just tossed on top of beds can be a bad thing, for multiple reasons; if you do use leaves, use a light layer. I think adding some fertilizer might also help next year. I don't know what your summer climate is, but here in Northern Calif, we have very hot summers and we almost never get any rain. Therefore, our garden is on automatic watering, and each bed, or area of a bed, is set to fit the watering needs of each plant. For instance, our tomatoes get a deep watering twice a week, but other plants need twice a day watering, and so on. For our potatoes, we use either our own sprouted ones from the previous year, when we have some, or we just buy them at the nursery. We've had a garden every year of our married lives; we just celebrated our 46th, and we still learn a lot each season.
Watering3 is very helpful to increase growth. Each ant needs at least a cup of water a week. Preferably more and water at dusk just before nightfalls.
As a Swede that grows potatoes: When you grab a seed potato, check how many eyes they have. Cut them so that each piece has one eye. Dry the cut surface and leave somewhere bright for a day or two, then stick them in just a little bit of soil until they sprout. Each eye is a sprout. That means you can get three plants from a potato that has three eyes.
Love your channel, I have learned a lot, and maybe try some reserve water rings to fill so it can release water itself, for drought purposes.
Fingerlings are a longer growing variety usually. About 120 days for fingerlings. Potatoes range from 90 – 120 days.
It wasn't a fail. A garden bed can't go 5 months with no water and be expected to produce well.
God bless you, you're such a caring person I'm sure nature will reward you with an even better harvest next year for your goodness
Hi Becky I am new here and I am so happy to have come across your channel. My mom used to have massive gardens and she grew a lot of potatoes. Water is the issue but they don’t need to be soaked you just want to give them enough so the roots can get a drink and water once a week if you aren’t getting much rain. The other thing that helps is when you plant them you want to make a mound of earth on top of them, this should give you large potatoes. The bunnies will be fine because you had gloves on plus rabbits don’t shy away as easily as some of the other creatures. I did call a friend that actually raises rabbits and she said to lay 1 or 2 small carrots right around them and the mother will actually be better to her babies. I thought this sounded weird and I thought that this would encourage them to eat there permanently but she said no. I hope this helps. Love your channel.