“Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when the family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood - they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air & later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardised international diet (you may have had Canadian flour, English meat, Scotch oatmeal, African oranges, & Australian wine to day) are really artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours.” -C.S. Lewis
Yeah but if that's true, that means we feel a connection with the entire Earth now don't we? :) At least I do. When you look out to space and realize we're all living on a tiny spec of dust, it's easier to feel belonging to the entire planet. I am rooted here on Earth!
Advise, from one tattie-growing Scot to another; when growing them in bags, put compost over the sprouts when they grow up. Keep unravelling the bag and adding compost till you get to the top of the bag. It doesn't damage the leaves and gives you LOADS more potatoes. BTW great vid, hadn't heard of lazy beds before.
I've the biggest crush on this man & his passion for preserving and sharing his ancestor's heritage. Millenials & gen Zs often find ourselves completely dissociated from our lineages or heritages, due to such a messy plethora of causes (capitalism, globalisation, a strong disdain boomers & gen x had for their parents inducing an inherited bias against labor, agriculture & vernacular know hows...). It only takes some book reading & any amount of common sense to realise our ancestors did things the way they did because they worked, allowing them to survive and even thrive. Some techniques being even refinined through trial and error for as long as thousands of years, allowing for amazing results in exchange for minimal effort. Yet petrol & electricity dependant techniques and echnologies have the audacity to simply brush it all off as barbaric and impertinent. In a world where it's easier to find 30 hours of cat videos or karens fighting for dresses at a weding dress sale than important information on homesteading techniques or artisan know-how i'm glad there's people like you putting in the extra effort to film, edit and talk about the process .
Thank you friend! I am happy to hear you appreciate the work behind it. I agree that much of the world has become disconnected to what really matters to us (shelter, clean water, nutritious food and human connection) and it worries me that we might lose these skills. So it gives me the drive to try them for myself and try keep them alive. Thanks again for the support! Tom
"After teaching you about clubs, bows, and growing potatoes, for my next video, we'll forge a claymore to slay the English with." This is mega relaxing even if it took months for you to make it!
I had to sit through an awful 3 minute advert for some cheesy romance audiobook that I couldn't skip to watch this, and it was definitely worth watching. Thanks for all your content.
If you had a couple of chickens, local laws and ordinances allowing, not only do they add manure to your compose but those pest and bugs make nice supplemental feed for the chickens.
Seconded on the chickens. They make excellent pest control and if you have ticks on your part of Scotland, its very possible the chickens will be having a feast.
You did well for yourself as a first timer. Shredded newspaper two" or so under your thin layer of compost will help protect your taters from pests. My neighbor lalys out the newspaper three pages thick and has good results as well from pests. Good luck an well done! 👍
@@FandabiDozi It is effective, BUT, the risk of the toxins in the ink of the newspaper pages being leached up into your potatoes is very high. Try plain brown wrapping paper.
*Some tips:* 1. What if you companion plant the potatoes with garlic and onions? The smelly, strong scented plants and flowers repel pests but I don't know which kind. Horse radish might work as a protecting plant but I don't know for sure if it goes along well with the potatoes. 2. Ducks love slugs. Invite some of your neighbors' poultry if they have some. 3. If you have bushes and trees near by birds will come and eat the slugs too. If you don't, plating some fruit trees and berry bushes or ones which are to be used as green manure (chop and drop) is a good idea. 4. You can make a pest repellent spray using herbs, spices like oregano.
My dad told me about a manner of growing potatoes in tires. The theory being that once the plant grows above a tires width in hight, you add another tire on top, and fill it with dirt. The plant part that you bury reverts into roots, thus creating more potatoes. I haven't done it myself, but he seemed satisfied with it.
It's really helpful to hear somebody else in Scotland talk about this. Especially with winter storage. If I ever get myself a garden I can plant in, I'm going to try the lazy bed method
Awesome job, I always like watching people grow things for the first time and the rush you feel when your like I did that I grew that and now I can eat it.
Lazy beds sounds like my type of gardening!!! Was excited there to grow Them Sputsss!, but mister Boyle says the lazy beds have no change on the poor soil here with rushers, he tried;) P.S. For next year don't forget about them curly kale! Sputs and curly kale mash the golden staple food I'd say, love it!
Excellent video, mate. It is funny, back in the days people had small gardens in Germany to grow vegetables and maybe even an apple tree or something for their own use. If it was not a small backyard garden in the Citys (they installed these frequently in the 1920s and 1930s as part of new housing programs), it was small garden colonies, which are still used today. In Poland it was the same, most households had a small backyard garden, some chicken and rabbits too. I guess in our over-sterile modern world, where a new iphone is worth much more (financially and ideally) than what feeds you, it is a good chance to use the pandemic to overthink our abilty of self-reliance. You know we have a garden at our appartement, which would be perfect to grow some vegetables, but other than maybe a small tomatoe plant, I would not be allowed to grow other things than flowers, herbs and stuff. But a german household with its own potatoe field in the backyard, damn that would be awesome.
Wow! For a first time gardener, your garden looks incredibly lush and giant! Your work is very blessed. That's awesome. Thank you for sharing all the tips.
My grandparent's neighbour Stan used to keep potatoes at the same patch in his garden all year round (near Manchester so a bit further south). Any time he wanted a few spuds for dinner he'd be out with a garden fork.Never had any problems as far as i remember but then that was over twenty years sgo when he passed away, still in his eighties mind
I live in the Appalachia's here in the r U.S. for most of my gardening I really love bucket gardening. when set up proper they can be moved around for more rain or sun and the bucket attribute helps keep pests down to almost nothing. they can even be brought in side if need be or placed on a porch. and it works with many vegetables. I know a guy here who got corn to grow in a bucket. I didn't think that would work. I hope this gives ya an idea or two. keep up the great work.
We just did shallow planting then mounding soil on top as the potatoes grew to make more potatoes above. Love your grass clipping mulch and storage ideas!
I just found your channel, and omfg thank you so much! I'm learning quite a bit about how my ancestors used to live before they ended up here in the states.
Heya, name's Hari, the one with the Welsh questions 😅 Just got a new channel on RUclips as my email got corrupted on my last, so just wanted to say hello as I'm subscribing again to the channel and sorry for my absent watches and likes. Love this channel, hope you're having as much fun making these videos as I am watching.
I love this video and when one has to shovel away snow to get to perfect turnips , carrots , potatoes etc. within a big compost pile , they get the picture . Thanks for the video and all the best to everyone .
Beginners luck! Haha. I’ve been gardening for many years and still find it a struggle, but I will never give up. There is nothing more satisfying than producing and eating your own veg. Cheers!
Yeeessss a video on potatoes they are my favourite vegetable!!! This was quit interesting I’ve often wondered how my Irish ancestors stored potatoes for such a long time. Why wet sand though what specifically makes wet sand store potatoes?
@@FandabiDozi hi brother im very confused as i never left a reply or new about this channel apart from my scottish mum calling me and mentioning her gardening trying this teqnique over the phone what great though xxx/???
With strong Scottish roots, I always enjoy your channel. Try growing Potato Towers. These homemade wire fence towers takes the Ruth Stout method UPWARD. Saves garden space, reduces pests, increases airflow, uses straw/hay instead of soil, and makes for easier harvesting. Cheers!
@@zero-lpds This year, I may attempt to grow potato towers in a smaller diameter (18") and a bit taller (6-8 ft). This tower method requires a sturdy T-Bar Post or two for support. And Bob's your uncle...
I've been growing my taters in large buckets (with holes at the bottom), then put some poles in between the buckets with the tops at around 1.5ft above the buckets and put some large holed (cheap) metal lattice fence panels over top, so that the potato plants won't flop over during storms or if they turn a bit lanky. but seeing that lazy bed method, it does make me think of the ruth stout method a bit, seems like a great way to try for sure!
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@@lairdcummings9092 not just potatoes, but Po-tay-toes. He also mentions #gardening leeks which begs him to do a #selfreliance wilderness #survival potato leek soup. Need to remember to include all the tags.
Thansk for the info on storing potatoes, we had loads left from last years and put them in a half empty brown bin, safe to say that potatoes will sprout anywhere🤣
If you have access to old tires, you can stack 3-4 high tires and plant about 8 seed potatoes per stack. They will fill deep down inside the tire stack and can produce a lot per stack. Also, you can pull off each tire one at a time and access the crop below until you get to the bottom of the growth area. Then just stack them up and reuse the next year. If you put a layer of plastic between the first and second tire also, it will keep more moisture in and bugs out better.
That lazy bed idea is a great idea. I've been growing crops since I was 2 and never have heard of it. Just remember to thin them all out next year! You'll have far greater production that way.
Tom, you are an absolute inspiration to me! Started growing my Potatoes last year too! They are in bags, not in the ground, though. Recently had a great hike up West Highland Way, and it made me think of you. I'd love to get together and do a nice hike or traditional camp some time if you're ever about Glasgow/Lanarkshire way!
Good video thanks. I plan to grow my tatties this year in 30 litre plastic pots which I think will be more productive. I’ve grown them in raised beds on my allotment before but can’t get rid of the wee ones after harvesting them. I’m often in Donegal where I see the remains of feannagan or lazy beds . It’s hard work putting them in nothing lazy about it. Bruce Darrel from the RED gardens project has a really good video too on using the lazy bed method.
Some hard work, and a willingness to get your hands dirty, will see you a long way. Well done! I've used kiln-treated ( *NOT* chemical treated!) wooden shipping pallets. Knock out the center slats, and stack several high. Place your seed potatoes, and fill with compost and dirt. When the shoots break surface, add another pallet, and more dirt. Lather, rinse, repeat. There is, obviously, a practical upper limit to the stack; I stopped at five. To harvest, just flip off the top pallet and scrape the dirt aside. You can use the rest of the stack to ground store the rest, or harvest the entire stack.
We grow bean sprouts. £1.50 bag of dried mung beans, soak a handful for 24hrs stick them in a dark bucket and rinse twice a day for a week and they are ready to harvest after a week. They are blanched for 15 seconds in boiling water then into an ice bath to stop cooking, then used in my Friday stir fry.
Oh yeah, that's a fantastic garden you made there! Cheers for sharing with us. Keep up the good work and show us how you go! Just wanted to add a side note 4x4m area isn't 4sqm it's 16sqm ;) not that it matters at all!
I came back to gardening when i found Derek and Paula's Channel "Back to Reality" and they introduced me to the Ruth Stout Method. I allways hated to help my Grandparents to care for the potatoes. Because here in Germany we didn't use the Lazy Bed or Ruth Stout Method, instead we just burried them and had to pile up dirt around the grown plants in the summer so that the sunlight doesnt directly shine on the potatoes. Digging them out in Autumn was also a pain.
Hahaha and I love you call the bag fabric "Hessian", so lovely my native hessian mercenary forces which went to norther America to fight still have the impact on language hehehe
Favourite potatoe method is the tire method. Get an old tire, flop it on it's side, fill partway with dirt, put in seed spuds (proportional to the tire size), and cover with dirt. When sprouts start to show add another tire, cover sprout with more dirt, and repeat as much as you wish. In a very small space you can get up to a Ton of potatoes.
Well done! I loved the smile on your face when you pulled up that carrot. I'm a long-time gardener and grow most things well but have never been all that successful with potatoes. I'll have to try the lazy beds - thanks!
WOW! Thank you for this great video! I hope for more like it, I myself am getting into gardening here in Sweden, and potatoes are highest on my list of things to grow! Very apprechiative for this video. Blessings
Great gardening video. Since it is about survival though, one needs, if possible, ALL essential nutrients, and only meat and animal fats can provide this. Keeping chickens and rabbits would do this in a small area. The can also eat what you can not, weeds, grass, leaves, bugs for the chickens.
Great video man, there is a technique where you create a tube using chicken wire fence, and stack it with layers of straw and compost with the seed potatoes placed within the different layers, this allows a lot of yeild within very little space. We are hoping to try it this year. #tawtietowers
Hi Tom! There's a wonderful program on BBC ALBA called "Garradh Phadruig" (I think there are some episodes on RUclips as well now). It's about a newbie gardener in Glasgow, and all in the Gaidhlig! You might enjoy it. Tioraidh!
Great job my friend! I love following your channel! Even though I live in the US my grandfather immigrated from Scotland when he was 19 in the early 1900s. I am always fascinated by my Scottish heritage. Please keep producing videos!
I'm not sure if you've heard of this but traditionally when making a lazy bed they would make it with a loy a sort spade except it was made specifically for the lazy bed
Green thumbs Tom ! Well done mate :-). Very impressive mate & you certainly put a great deal of effort etc into this which will cut your costs down when shopping for food at your local supermarkets and be 100% healthier no doubt. Have you tried another method using old tyres which takes up a lot less space ? 2 or 3 old tyres fill each section with soil & compost then add old spuds which are shooting cover then add another tyre and repeat :-).
one simple tip plant empty (large size) yogurt pots or spreadable butter type tubs, flush with the ground and put some beer in the bottom it will attract slugs they will fall in and drown all you have to do then is pick out the bodies and put them somewhere visible the birds will dispose of them for you
Absolutely admire what you did over the last year. Reminds me of my first years on our Peninsula (Beara Peninsula, West Cork, Ireland). I've looked closely historically at our Celtic countries use of the so-called lazy-bed system and I may have something of interest to you on my channel - GrowSmartIreland. Slán a Bhuachaill Jim
Hey my Friend. Well I'm told you need to thin out the tomatoplants to increase airflow and yield. This way you'll avoid infestations and rot. You also should avoid watering so the soil hits the leaves of the tomatoes hens they are more prune to illnesses. - both tomatoes and potatoes should have more soit put around Them when they are about 12 CCM high, potatoes (6-7 inches) and 30 CCM, tomatoes (12-14 ish inches)... - the tomatoplants will be strengthened by this and the potatoes give a higher yield. Good Luck, IT looks like you are doing well too. With regards, Poul.
A very good project. Lazy beds are fantastic. Would it be possible to clamp your roots over winter for ease of storage and less labour? Made me think of John Seymour's Complete book of self-sufficiency.
Hey Tom. Great job! You looked like you managed to grow some really decent produce. It’s always a bit of a challenge to get it right up here in Scotland, but very rewarding when you do. If you need any help or advice am happy to help. Cheers Leon
“Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when the family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood - they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air & later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardised international diet (you may have had Canadian flour, English meat, Scotch oatmeal, African oranges, & Australian wine to day) are really artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours.” -C.S. Lewis
Thats a beautiful quote my friend! Thank you for sharing that. i agree whole heartedly :D
Yeah but if that's true, that means we feel a connection with the entire Earth now don't we? :) At least I do.
When you look out to space and realize we're all living on a tiny spec of dust, it's easier to feel belonging to the entire planet. I am rooted here on Earth!
WOah....Bruh
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Tolkien and C.S.Lewis my favorite people in existance
Advise, from one tattie-growing Scot to another; when growing them in bags, put compost over the sprouts when they grow up. Keep unravelling the bag and adding compost till you get to the top of the bag. It doesn't damage the leaves and gives you LOADS more potatoes. BTW great vid, hadn't heard of lazy beds before.
I've the biggest crush on this man & his passion for preserving and sharing his ancestor's heritage. Millenials & gen Zs often find ourselves completely dissociated from our lineages or heritages, due to such a messy plethora of causes (capitalism, globalisation, a strong disdain boomers & gen x had for their parents inducing an inherited bias against labor, agriculture & vernacular know hows...). It only takes some book reading & any amount of common sense to realise our ancestors did things the way they did because they worked, allowing them to survive and even thrive. Some techniques being even refinined through trial and error for as long as thousands of years, allowing for amazing results in exchange for minimal effort. Yet petrol & electricity dependant techniques and echnologies have the audacity to simply brush it all off as barbaric and impertinent. In a world where it's easier to find 30 hours of cat videos or karens fighting for dresses at a weding dress sale than important information on homesteading techniques or artisan know-how i'm glad there's people like you putting in the extra effort to film, edit and talk about the process .
Thank you friend! I am happy to hear you appreciate the work behind it. I agree that much of the world has become disconnected to what really matters to us (shelter, clean water, nutritious food and human connection) and it worries me that we might lose these skills. So it gives me the drive to try them for myself and try keep them alive. Thanks again for the support! Tom
3 years late, but: well said!!
"After teaching you about clubs, bows, and growing potatoes, for my next video, we'll forge a claymore to slay the English with."
This is mega relaxing even if it took months for you to make it!
I'm in the tropics, not in Europe, so your mention of the slug attack is enough to give me PTSD
I had to sit through an awful 3 minute advert for some cheesy romance audiobook that I couldn't skip to watch this, and it was definitely worth watching. Thanks for all your content.
If you had a couple of chickens, local laws and ordinances allowing, not only do they add manure to your compose but those pest and bugs make nice supplemental feed for the chickens.
Seconded on the chickens. They make excellent pest control and if you have ticks on your part of Scotland, its very possible the chickens will be having a feast.
Ducks as well. They feast on slugs and snails.
Also recommend chickens. Extremely easy upkeep and high reward.
Glad your back, hope your year has been kind so far!
Thanks! Im surviving ;) Hope its been kind to you!
You did well for yourself as a first timer. Shredded newspaper two" or so under your thin layer of compost will help protect your taters from pests. My neighbor lalys out the newspaper three pages thick and has good results as well from pests. Good luck an well done! 👍
Oh good idea. i will try that next time thank you!
@@FandabiDozi It is effective, BUT, the risk of the toxins in the ink of the newspaper pages being leached up into your potatoes is very high. Try plain brown wrapping paper.
*Some tips:*
1. What if you companion plant the potatoes with garlic and onions? The smelly, strong scented plants and flowers repel pests but I don't know which kind. Horse radish might work as a protecting plant but I don't know for sure if it goes along well with the potatoes.
2. Ducks love slugs. Invite some of your neighbors' poultry if they have some.
3. If you have bushes and trees near by birds will come and eat the slugs too. If you don't, plating some fruit trees and berry bushes or ones which are to be used as green manure (chop and drop) is a good idea.
4. You can make a pest repellent spray using herbs, spices like oregano.
0:19 yes lad! Satisfying I bet. That polytunnel is like a jungle
My dad told me about a manner of growing potatoes in tires. The theory being that once the plant grows above a tires width in hight, you add another tire on top, and fill it with dirt. The plant part that you bury reverts into roots, thus creating more potatoes. I haven't done it myself, but he seemed satisfied with it.
It's really helpful to hear somebody else in Scotland talk about this. Especially with winter storage. If I ever get myself a garden I can plant in, I'm going to try the lazy bed method
Awesome job, I always like watching people grow things for the first time and the rush you feel when your like I did that I grew that and now I can eat it.
Lazy beds sounds like my type of gardening!!! Was excited there to grow Them Sputsss!, but mister Boyle says the lazy beds have no change on the poor soil here with rushers, he tried;) P.S. For next year don't forget about them curly kale! Sputs and curly kale mash the golden staple food I'd say, love it!
Excellent video, mate. It is funny, back in the days people had small gardens in Germany to grow vegetables and maybe even an apple tree or something for their own use. If it was not a small backyard garden in the Citys (they installed these frequently in the 1920s and 1930s as part of new housing programs), it was small garden colonies, which are still used today. In Poland it was the same, most households had a small backyard garden, some chicken and rabbits too. I guess in our over-sterile modern world, where a new iphone is worth much more (financially and ideally) than what feeds you, it is a good chance to use the pandemic to overthink our abilty of self-reliance. You know we have a garden at our appartement, which would be perfect to grow some vegetables, but other than maybe a small tomatoe plant, I would not be allowed to grow other things than flowers, herbs and stuff. But a german household with its own potatoe field in the backyard, damn that would be awesome.
Wow! For a first time gardener, your garden looks incredibly lush and giant! Your work is very blessed. That's awesome. Thank you for sharing all the tips.
My grandparent's neighbour Stan used to keep potatoes at the same patch in his garden all year round (near Manchester so a bit further south). Any time he wanted a few spuds for dinner he'd be out with a garden fork.Never had any problems as far as i remember but then that was over twenty years sgo when he passed away, still in his eighties mind
I live in the Appalachia's here in the r U.S. for most of my gardening I really love bucket gardening. when set up proper they can be moved around for more rain or sun and the bucket attribute helps keep pests down to almost nothing. they can even be brought in side if need be or placed on a porch. and it works with many vegetables. I know a guy here who got corn to grow in a bucket. I didn't think that would work. I hope this gives ya an idea or two. keep up the great work.
Fandabi Dozi 👍
We just did shallow planting then mounding soil on top as the potatoes grew to make more potatoes above. Love your grass clipping mulch and storage ideas!
I just found your channel, and omfg thank you so much! I'm learning quite a bit about how my ancestors used to live before they ended up here in the states.
Heya, name's Hari, the one with the Welsh questions 😅
Just got a new channel on RUclips as my email got corrupted on my last, so just wanted to say hello as I'm subscribing again to the channel and sorry for my absent watches and likes. Love this channel, hope you're having as much fun making these videos as I am watching.
Yayyyyy you're back!!!!!!
This was a nice surprise!
It warms my heart to sea that out of the 4.7 people who watched this video not a single one disliked it(:
christ those are some CHUNKY carrots
i think you meant to say dummy thicc
I love this video and when one has to shovel away snow to get to perfect turnips , carrots , potatoes etc. within a big compost pile , they get the picture . Thanks for the video and all the best to everyone .
Root rot is a really big issue where I live in the subtropics. I like to grow squash, melons, collards, and beans in my garden
Potatoes are so easy
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Wow ,really nice
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Beginners luck! Haha. I’ve been gardening for many years and still find it a struggle, but I will never give up. There is nothing more satisfying than producing and eating your own veg. Cheers!
Well done mate,my family have had vegi plots and fruit trees for decades. Welcome to the club.✌❤
Yeeessss a video on potatoes they are my favourite vegetable!!! This was quit interesting I’ve often wondered how my Irish ancestors stored potatoes for such a long time. Why wet sand though what specifically makes wet sand store potatoes?
Glad you liked it :) the moisture in the sand helps stop the potatoes drying out too much, also creates a tighter packing and helps keep it cold :)
Oh that makes sense thanks(:
@@FandabiDozi hi brother im very confused as i never left a reply or new about this channel apart from my scottish mum calling me and mentioning her gardening trying this teqnique over the phone what great though xxx/???
@@FandabiDozi Yeah, it was quite common in Atlantic Canada to store your carrots in sand over the winter as well.
Oh wow! Nicely done!
With strong Scottish roots, I always enjoy your channel.
Try growing Potato Towers. These homemade wire fence towers takes the Ruth Stout method UPWARD. Saves garden space, reduces pests, increases airflow, uses straw/hay instead of soil, and makes for easier harvesting.
Cheers!
Wow, didn't know that method existed. Cheers.
@@zero-lpds This year, I may attempt to grow potato towers in a smaller diameter (18") and a bit taller (6-8 ft). This tower method requires a sturdy T-Bar Post or two for support. And Bob's your uncle...
@@kiltedsasquatch3693 best of luck with it. I'm going polytunnel this year, but might turn greenhouse once we have our own land hopefully next year.
I've been using kiln-treated shipping pallets to make the towers. Kinda short towers, at five pallets high. This year I'm going to double them.
@@lairdcummings9092 5 PALLETS high? :O Wow, that's far from short in my books.
Thanks you new version video, good bless you brother survival from to Poland,,,,;)
I've been growing my taters in large buckets (with holes at the bottom), then put some poles in between the buckets with the tops at around 1.5ft above the buckets and put some large holed (cheap) metal lattice fence panels over top, so that the potato plants won't flop over during storms or if they turn a bit lanky. but seeing that lazy bed method, it does make me think of the ruth stout method a bit, seems like a great way to try for sure!
Wow you have a very impressive garden
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@@lairdcummings9092 not just potatoes, but Po-tay-toes. He also mentions #gardening leeks which begs him to do a #selfreliance wilderness #survival potato leek soup. Need to remember to include all the tags.
Awesome. Your a natural. Thanks.
Thansk for the info on storing potatoes, we had loads left from last years and put them in a half empty brown bin, safe to say that potatoes will sprout anywhere🤣
If you have access to old tires, you can stack 3-4 high tires and plant about 8 seed potatoes per stack. They will fill deep down inside the tire stack and can produce a lot per stack. Also, you can pull off each tire one at a time and access the crop below until you get to the bottom of the growth area. Then just stack them up and reuse the next year. If you put a layer of plastic between the first and second tire also, it will keep more moisture in and bugs out better.
That lazy bed idea is a great idea. I've been growing crops since I was 2 and never have heard of it. Just remember to thin them all out next year! You'll have far greater production that way.
Tom, you are an absolute inspiration to me! Started growing my Potatoes last year too! They are in bags, not in the ground, though. Recently had a great hike up West Highland Way, and it made me think of you. I'd love to get together and do a nice hike or traditional camp some time if you're ever about Glasgow/Lanarkshire way!
Good video thanks.
I plan to grow my tatties this year in 30 litre plastic pots which I think will be more productive.
I’ve grown them in raised beds on my allotment before but can’t get rid of the wee ones after harvesting them.
I’m often in Donegal where I see the remains of feannagan or lazy beds . It’s hard work putting them in nothing lazy about it.
Bruce Darrel from the RED gardens project has a really good video too on using the lazy bed method.
Congratulations! It looks like you had a successful year!
This is great !
Thanks for sharing your knowledge !
Very impressive for a newbie!
Excellent work, I had no idea you started growing! Very successful:)
No Lamb of God fans in the comments, I see. Great video, great shirt! Howdy from South coastal Texas.
Another great video.
Very interesting and educational
Some hard work, and a willingness to get your hands dirty, will see you a long way.
Well done!
I've used kiln-treated ( *NOT* chemical treated!) wooden shipping pallets. Knock out the center slats, and stack several high. Place your seed potatoes, and fill with compost and dirt. When the shoots break surface, add another pallet, and more dirt. Lather, rinse, repeat. There is, obviously, a practical upper limit to the stack; I stopped at five.
To harvest, just flip off the top pallet and scrape the dirt aside. You can use the rest of the stack to ground store the rest, or harvest the entire stack.
Thanks friend! Thanks for the advice! I will try that some day!
Awesome, lots of help thanks
well..that was one way to get worms for fishing..to supplement your diet..great job Mate..
Thanks for posting this ... it's inspirational : )
You did really well, good work!
We grow bean sprouts. £1.50 bag of dried mung beans, soak a handful for 24hrs stick them in a dark bucket and rinse twice a day for a week and they are ready to harvest after a week. They are blanched for 15 seconds in boiling water then into an ice bath to stop cooking, then used in my Friday stir fry.
1kg lasts about a year, 20g a week produces 500g of sprouts after a week
Привет из России. Всю жизнь сажу картошку) а теперь смотрю как это делают Ирландцы. И да порченные картошки это та самая которая была посажена первой.
God bless and keep you through Jesus Christ our lord thank you.
Great video tom! I bumped into you the other day while out with my dog 🐕 felt like I'd met a celebrity haha 😁 keep up the channel, its cracking mate 👍
oww cool - green and healthy!
now for some beer brewing?
Oh yeah, that's a fantastic garden you made there! Cheers for sharing with us. Keep up the good work and show us how you go!
Just wanted to add a side note 4x4m area isn't 4sqm it's 16sqm ;) not that it matters at all!
I came back to gardening when i found Derek and Paula's Channel "Back to Reality" and they introduced me to the Ruth Stout Method.
I allways hated to help my Grandparents to care for the potatoes. Because here in Germany we didn't use the Lazy Bed or Ruth Stout Method, instead we just burried them and had to pile up dirt around the grown plants in the summer so that the sunlight doesnt directly shine on the potatoes. Digging them out in Autumn was also a pain.
Oh interesting! I will check out that channel! Thanks :)
I was going to suggest "Back to Reality" as well. Their van journey videos are fun and interesting, too. 🖖🙂💕
Hahaha and I love you call the bag fabric "Hessian", so lovely my native hessian mercenary forces which went to norther America to fight still have the impact on language hehehe
In Canada we call them 'jute' or 'burlap'.
Favourite potatoe method is the tire method. Get an old tire, flop it on it's side, fill partway with dirt, put in seed spuds (proportional to the tire size), and cover with dirt. When sprouts start to show add another tire, cover sprout with more dirt, and repeat as much as you wish. In a very small space you can get up to a Ton of potatoes.
There are some concerns over the safety of this method. some recommend lining the tyres with plastic sheeting to stop toxins leaching into the spuds.
Great video couldn’t figure out how to grow potato’s thanks for filming your adventure
Have a great day and keep up the great work
Well done! I loved the smile on your face when you pulled up that carrot. I'm a long-time gardener and grow most things well but have never been all that successful with potatoes. I'll have to try the lazy beds - thanks!
great video mate keep it up.
Wow awesome
I like above ground beds using straw or hay. SUPER easy to harvest from and all you do is lay down hay/straw. Put in potatos. Lay more hay and straw.
WOW! Thank you for this great video! I hope for more like it, I myself am getting into gardening here in Sweden, and potatoes are highest on my list of things to grow! Very apprechiative for this video. Blessings
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Great gardening video. Since it is about survival though, one needs, if possible, ALL essential nutrients, and only meat and animal fats can provide this. Keeping chickens and rabbits would do this in a small area. The can also eat what you can not, weeds, grass, leaves, bugs for the chickens.
I find it funny that the scotsman uses golfballs as a unit of measure
Great video man, there is a technique where you create a tube using chicken wire fence, and stack it with layers of straw and compost with the seed potatoes placed within the different layers, this allows a lot of yeild within very little space. We are hoping to try it this year. #tawtietowers
Beautiful garden, newby or not !
Hi Tom! There's a wonderful program on BBC ALBA called "Garradh Phadruig" (I think there are some episodes on RUclips as well now). It's about a newbie gardener in Glasgow, and all in the Gaidhlig! You might enjoy it. Tioraidh!
Great job my friend! I love following your channel! Even though I live in the US my grandfather immigrated from Scotland when he was 19 in the early 1900s. I am always fascinated by my Scottish heritage. Please keep producing videos!
So cool.
Love this! Not come across lazy beds before and going to give it a go, you've done amazing with your lockdown garden ✌️🖤
I'm not sure if you've heard of this but traditionally when making a lazy bed they would make it with a loy a sort spade except it was made specifically for the lazy bed
Green thumbs Tom ! Well done mate :-). Very impressive mate & you certainly put a great deal of effort etc into this which will cut your costs down when shopping for food at your local supermarkets and be 100% healthier no doubt. Have you tried another method using old tyres which takes up a lot less space ? 2 or 3 old tyres fill each section with soil & compost then add old spuds which are shooting cover then add another tyre and repeat :-).
What’s up Tom?
one simple tip plant empty (large size) yogurt pots or spreadable butter type tubs, flush with the ground and put some beer in the bottom it will attract slugs they will fall in and drown all you have to do then is pick out the bodies and put them somewhere visible the birds will dispose of them for you
Better still, get some chooks and feed them the drunk drowned slugs and snails
Absolutely admire what you did over the last year. Reminds me of my first years on our Peninsula (Beara Peninsula, West Cork, Ireland). I've looked closely historically at our Celtic countries use of the so-called lazy-bed system and I may have something of interest to you on my channel - GrowSmartIreland. Slán a Bhuachaill Jim
Hey my Friend. Well I'm told you need to thin out the tomatoplants to increase airflow and yield. This way you'll avoid infestations and rot. You also should avoid watering so the soil hits the leaves of the tomatoes hens they are more prune to illnesses. - both tomatoes and potatoes should have more soit put around Them when they are about 12 CCM high, potatoes (6-7 inches) and 30 CCM, tomatoes (12-14 ish inches)... - the tomatoplants will be strengthened by this and the potatoes give a higher yield. Good Luck, IT looks like you are doing well too. With regards, Poul.
Awesome!
really interesting video!
A very good project. Lazy beds are fantastic. Would it be possible to clamp your roots over winter for ease of storage and less labour? Made me think of John Seymour's Complete book of self-sufficiency.
I definitely expected you to pop out of the potato patch with your staff.
I got 5 heads of broccoli from that space. Lol you win.
Thanks for the content.
Keep up the good work. בס״ד
Its a very great.
first year in a while ive not grown potatos to give the ground a rest
Now I'm hungry
Hey Tom. Great job! You looked like you managed to grow some really decent produce. It’s always a bit of a challenge to get it right up here in Scotland, but very rewarding when you do. If you need any help or advice am happy to help. Cheers
Leon
Interesting