No Dig Potatoes BEST MULCH Results (2018) And Taste Test
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- What is best covering for no dig potatoes? In our home trial we test four mulches to see if they make a difference to the crops of no dig potatoes on our homestead. Today find out which mulch gave the best tasting crops and the highest yield. Click SHOW MORE for more details, resources and info.
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I share our organic homestead, called Byther Farm, with my loving partner, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Monmouthshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
There is a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
I'm currently exploring permaculture farming as a way of life.
We keep hybrid chickens and also have breeding flocks of Jersey Giants and Australorp chickens and Aylesbury ducks.
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May possibly be due to the higher mineral content of leaf mold which would influence flavor.
Your videos are lovely Liz! I appreciate your husband participating in the taste test. Now I have to go find leaves ahead of planting my potatoes. 🙂 Can't wait to see what's next from Byther Farm!
Zero consideration needed, be a fool not to listen to the lessons you're passing on. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Love the music and video. Thankyou for posting.
Great video. I’ve learnt so much from you. Thank you. I think leaf mould sounds like the best and more easily accessible choice for me. Can I do this on a clay soil base?
Leaf mold and wood chips are carbon rich and favor fungal growth while grass clippings for example favor bacteria growth. It's interesting to see that the better tasting potatoes were the ones grown in a fungal dominant medium. It looks like potatoes seem to favor fungal dominant soils. Ideal Fungus/bacteria ratio for most garden vegetables is 1:1. Thanks for taking the time to do this experiment :).
I'm new to this but what is leaf mold? Do I collect leaf's and wait until they're mouldy? I'm looking forward to trying to grow potatoes.
@@paulineleung6285 Leaf mould is compost made using leaves. It is called leaf mould because the breakdown is slower due to fungal dominance. Leaves are not so much bacterial foods which is why it takes more time.
Ahh great, thanks
yes it's interesting we human find food or drinks rich in minerals tasty so maybe because fungal net is transporter of minerals? I have many questions
Hooray I've got alot of leaf mold....mulberry leaves
I love this video! So cute when you say “sorry about watching us eat”, we watch cooking shows with people eating all the time. I love it.
These are the people that world badly needs! Lovely, appreciate nature and love what they are doing!! ❤
you both are real people!! find an alternate to RUclips so you don't disappear during the great "reset"
Love the dramatic British Empire music as you harvest the potatoes.
Love the down to earthiness of this one. Thanks to Huw for the introduction. British garden videos are my cure for depression anout the state of the world.
Hello Ieneke, I try to stay down to earth and to keep it real because that's the kind of video I like to watch too. Thank you for coming over from Huw's video, I hope you'll enjoy getting to know our homestead a little better.
I also like gardening videos. I may try no dig mulched potatoes this year. Cheer up, there is a Great Awakening happening, not just here in America, but worldwide. 2019 will be a wonderful year for we the people.
How's that working for ya 3 years on?
@@iamthewelcher We were different people back then.
@@iamthewelcher lol we were so innocent eh.?
Hi Liz, found you on Mark’s channel, Self Sufficient Me when he did a review of your book ‘Grounded’. I’ve watched a couple of your videos now and am really impressed with your knowledge and how you present the information to your viewers. I live an hour from Mark so his growing information matches my needs in most respects, but other ideas are always welcome. I’m subscribed.
Think you two are the sweetest couple at the end, sharing your spuds! An unexpected bonus watching your video now (looking at diff way to grow spuds, but found a lovely moment between an older couple that I just loved!)
😊 thank you
Love this. It will stay in my brain far better than science will.
Much appreciated.
Glad you enjoy it!
Who would have thought about different mediums giving different flavours but when you think about it it does make sense.
What a cute 💑 couple!!! Thank you. Very informative. Glad you did the food taste.😊 Have a wonderful day.
This was a FANTASTIC experiment! Thank you so much for sharing. I hope the audience realizes how much time and effort went into producing this video. I truly appreciate it! You are my kind of gardener and I am your newest subscriber! PS - luckily for me, I am a leaf mulch user because I have a crap ton of leaves to deal with every fall. :)
Great couple to the work in the garden the rewards is a blessing and testing to enjoy
That is a good start on science. At least we know to bring it along further - there may be something there.
Love you guys.. You really are living the Good Life !
You're so nice to share your bowl of potatoes with your hubby.
I made potato soup tonight and I made him his own bowl. He's lucky I shared at all. 😂
Seriously, though, I enjoyed the video.
I'm growing potatoes in buckets and bags this year. I'm also staggering them to prolong the harvest.
It gets so hot here that I thought I can move them into the shade in the searing heat and humidity.
Cross your fingers for me that it works out!
Usually we're only able to grow new potatoes. What you call first earlies. We plant on Valentine's Day.
We were late this year and didn't get them in the ground until February 25th. We're digging some tomorrow.
Those are the ones we grow in the ground with my dad and sister at their houses.
I have watched around 50 videos all over RUclips in the last two weeks trying to the best ways to grow potatoes and this by far the best experiment video I have seen! Thank you
That was totally scientific. I love it.
Extremely useful pair of videos, I’ll never bury potatoes again! Thank you!
It makes sense that the leaf mold and wood chips mediums would work well for root crops because both draw nitrogen out of the soil to decompose leaving a higher ratio of phosphorus and potassium , which is what root crops like. The chicken manure has loads of nitrogen, which boosts the plants energy into growth. I wonder how it would be to layer these medium or just mulch with the chicken manure compost or garden compost. Cool video - tfs!
Very interesting, thanks. But how is it when all those kinds of mulch are mixed together?
You guys are vary pleasant and enjoyable to watch.
Works for me! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thank you for being a Teacher
Loved to see your video! Thanks for sharing. Please continue sharing your knolege and entusiasm.
I loved your natural Video,s and your honest opinions can’t wait too see more of your vids and ideas
Thank you so much!!
I adored this video, truly. And when you said numpties, I followed. This is the kind of “community” I want to bring into my life. I will also be covering my potatoes with leaf mould before I put my old chicken bedding on it now! Sadly, we can’t plant til June here if we want to avoid hard frost but I’m getting plans made!
I am finding it a good learning experience to always try two different methods of growing anything, then build your knowledge based on which works better. Often just two locations yield different results.
I really appreciate that you did a taste test. So many people just judge by how much is grown but I value quality over quantity. Very helpful just to draw attention to that aspect of growing. Thank you!
Thank you!
You guys are super cute! God bless you!
This was fascinating. Love the taste test when you both blow :D I'm going to this method a go using seaweed which washes up in abundance only 30m from the garden. There are so many slugs and voles here though - truly more voles than you can imagine, I should start eating them - so will be interested to see what damage they do. Thanks for another informative and entertaining video!
Love that...thanks from a very very little village in Germany
Really enjoyed this video wasn't originally thinking of taste but enjoyed your taste test too!
I found you via the video with Huw! I grew no-dig spuds this year with a friend (on her land - heavy clay). We just covered them with last year's mowings from their wild flower meadow. She chose Charlotte and I chose Bambino. I put more on top after the levels were showing and they only had whatever rainwater fell, no other irrigation. Lovely potatoes all round apart from vole damage. We're trying composted pondweed next year and may put grass on top too.
I think your results were very interesting - bigger yields with the compost and manure but better flavour with leaves and wood chips. I think flavour would definitely win over volume.
Hello Theresa, your experiment this year sounds really interesting and it's great to know that it produced nice potatoes. We have so many voles here, I wondered what they ate and I guess now I know that they eat potatoes! Composted pond weed sounds like a great idea. We will be doing another potato trial next year and hopefully we'll have a bumper harvest. Please let me know how you get on with the composted pondweed!
Fantastic information! Thank you very much, dear Liz & husband 👍❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Handy tip if you want chicken manure to break down relatively quickly. This involves use of layering technique using food & or garden waste, 🐔 poop or other animal waste, dry material such as cardboard, newspaper & or dried stalks or leaves from the garden & fresh grass clippings. Layer everything up until you have a pile of roughly 4-5' tall. Keep it covered to protect from rain.
Working on a weekly basis, turn it on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, then leave for 2 days, rinse & repeat. After about 6 weeks you should have well rotted, ready to use compost.
I have started straw bale gardening ( lots of info on you tube) so I am going to try potatoes in second year bales that had
been used last year for growth medium and cannot be used again as they were last year. Wish me luck ! From Niagara Falls Canada.
I am planning the same thing. I grew several different vegetables in three bales last year and now have a pile of rotting straw on my lawn. I’ll spread it out a bit and plant the spuds in there. I also have more straw and leaves that have not broken down yet to add to the mix. I’m in Wisconsin zone 5. Good luck. I’d love to hear how it goes.
Thanks for all the new to me info on growing spuds ,ill try it that way in my patch .
I have to plant my potatoes in wood chip mulch this year and this has encouraged me after someone told me it won't work. I am thankful to you.
If you can put the potatoes onto the ground, touching some soil, the root will go into that and find nutrients.
@@LizZorab This is what I did today. The wood chip mulch was in piles still, so I dug small trenches, not very big since the ground has so much rock. I laid the potato see in with some bone meal, and then I covered deeply with woodchips. I got four rows of potatoes.
Thankyou for this video. It so happens I have bags of leaf mulch. Going to prepare the potato 🥔 bed tonight.
thanks, we are just now starting to start roots in a sweet potato in a glass for me and will do white potatoes for hubby, we live in a campground so we will do container gardening
Liz you guys are amazing! Liked, subscribed, my wife and I enjoyed this!
Awesome! Thank you! 🌻🌼
HaHa, I am Carrie from the US. I thoroughly loved this experiment u guys did. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting! Thank you so much! I'm going to try this! Cheers!
Holy cow ! Lol lots of large spuds ! Great job !
you two are very precious
Thank you!
Just found your channel today. Love it. Thankyou so much for the info. Very helpful. Much love from Wyoming.
You are so welcome Nancy, welcome to Byther Farm!
Thanks for the video, entertaining and interesting..big smiles to you both
Glad you enjoyed it Bernadette! 🌻
Great info on the taste test. Planting my potatoes in leaf and wood. Thanks.
absolute value with all mixing all together the value of gardening.
YOU TWO ARE FANTASTIC. GOING TO TRY THE GRASS CUTTINGS ONE ALREADY HAVE LOTS OF COMPOST BUT WILL KEEP THAT FOR FRUIT TREES.
Merci from Montreal, Canada.
Hi Liz, this is such an exciting experiment! Great news with the flavour of the woodchips and leafmould! :) What are your plans next year now you know what you know from this experiment?
Thanks Huw, it seemed like a good idea to test the mulches that we have readily available on the smallholding. I know in the future I'll give wood chips a wide berth until they are well rotted down. Mr J and I have just started talking about what we'll do next... you'll need to watch this space! Will you be using hay again next year?
Cute! I guess I'l push the wood chips into the swimming hole this summer for potato growing... well, along with the chicken bedding and whatever else is available Thanks for your experiments. You are charming taste testers.
Thank you! I hope you have a wonderful harvest of potatoes this year. 🌻
Great couple to the work in
Lovely couple.
Excellent videos. Thanks for making them
I enjoyed your video very much. You're a natural in front of the camera. I want to try to grow potatoes
How lovely I have only just tuned into your channel my dad grew all his own veggies so yummy but as we all left the nest the garden got smaller but with heavy heart he’s passed away now. Thank you for sharing x ❤️🙏🏻🇬🇧
Wow! I have never seen such a complete and interesting video like yours , thank you for making it, I learned so much and I was almost tasting your potatoes 🥔 too☺️
You guys are GREAT!!!! Very entertaining and informative video!! Thanks!!! / Cheers!!! 😊
Thank you to our friends across the pond for doing this test! I have therefore decided to use wood chip mulch in my potato grow bags this year!!
… any results to share on your grow bag potatoes ?
@@bluemoon8268 oh wow, I forgot that I had commented here, thank you for reminding me! I did potatoes in grow bags, some with mulch and some dirt. They both turned out DELICIOUS. I'm definitely doing a repeat this year but mulch is cheaper so probably more of those!
@@lookitsrswish6782 … that’s great ! … thanks for the reply …
Just found you I like what I see so far 👍🏻🇦🇺
Taste of the potatoes comes down to the variety, different varieties tastes entirely different.😋
… except in this case they were all the same variety … so variety isn’t always the factor …
this was so interesting! I'm using sugar cane mulch...time will tell!
I love the way you break down yes for the three experiments. I have found this video super informative.
Glad it was helpful! It was a really interesting project to do.
Hi from potato Country Maine usa. I'm going to give this a try. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Hope you enjoy!
No need to apologize for eating in front of us. A perfectly natural function. We all eat. It was interesting to see the different flavors from the different growing mediums. Well done. Btw, I'm located in the US, northern Ohio, just south of Lake Erie. Harvested my potatoes yesterday from my urban backyard garden, just a small patch compared to yours. The more experience that I gain the best way for me is above ground covered with a layer of straw.
💙💛🎉🍾🥂 I've always grown potatoes (Charlotte, Wilja, Maris Piper and King Edwards) in a mixture of leaf mould, wood chips and well rotted cow manure from the wintering barns that has been left to decompose outside for 12 months before use. This mixture has always given me amazing results after 90 days for first early and 100 days for second early and main crop and a taste you cannot compare to shop bought potatoes. I'm definitely going to try the covering with grass cuttings this year to see what the difference is in taste and cropping though. Another variety I have tried over the last two years for a new potato tasting variety for Christmas was Vivaldi which I think tastes as good if not better than Charlotte IMO 🥂🍾🎉💛💙
I live in California and I have a balcony upstairs, would I be able to use this procedure in food grade buckets?
Good Experiment...Thank You for your insight...Much Love and Be Well💛
Thank you kindly
Interesting , different leaves or chipping probably impart different flavours and nutrients as well Thank you. Im going to recommend your channel to some elerly Russian farmers who cant manage all the digging very well any more
Wow. Fascinating. I’m so glad you did a taste test as well, I wouldn’t have thought there would be any difference. Wood chip for me this year then. Wood chip is also the only thing available free on my site so win!
I really enjoyed this trial, it turned out to be much more interesting than I had imagined it might. Lots of lessons learned from it too :-)
Really enjoy your channel. Very practical gardening. New to your channel. Cheers from Perth, Ontario.
Hello and welcome! I hope you'll enjoy getting to know our garden more in the coming months.
Hello!
I just discovered this channel today and I'm from West Perth Ontario Canada as well!
I wonder if we live close
@@LizZorab I just found your channel!
I saw the first video on how to grow potatoes the easy way, then watched this second one of the results.
Loved it! I'm new to all of this gardening. I should have paid attention when I was a child and teenager to my parents gardening before they passed away.
I'm so thankful for RUclips and people like you, posting videos on how to do everything... because I know absolutely nothing! Lol these days I think it's extremely important to learn how to do everything and be self sufficient. I just moved to a farm so I can be self reliant.
I LOVE your accents and it warms my 💓 heart as my grandparents were from Pontypridd Wales.
I subscribed and I'm looking forward to learning more from you two!
Someday I hope to come to Wales and see the whole country ❤️
What an interesting experiment!
Thank you!
I thank you for your time and doing that I was going to grow potatoes this year and was thinking how to do it in the best way Thank you again
You are so welcome!
What a sweet video. The first half of the experiment video before this, too. I particularly liked the taste test in this one. 😊 I'll subscribe.
YOU ARE BOTH AWESOME!🌻
❤FROM DALLAS TEXAS
Thanks so much!!
Well thought out content. Thanks for a great video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I never suspected that growing medium would have such an affect on taste. Very meaningful video. Gary G
Recently I learned dripping vanilla or strawberry sugar syrup actually flavors watermelon. People use a string mop into milk also, which grows huge pumpkins, btw. Wicking or a needle to hold string from pot of liquid.
Hi, great video. Possibly some Ashes over your clippings may help with the slugs.
Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
...uh oh... You scared me a bit with "a little blowing" - wasn't sure if it would be still family friendly :D
interesting experiment. Thanks for doing all the work for me i think i will try the wood chips!
Loved these videos! Can't believe I was riveted by potatoes & compost. Haha.
I got rid of all the slugs in my garden by sprinkling diatomaceous earth around the base of each plant. It's just as good or better than bone meal for enriching the soil, but it won't kill your worms. Don't powder it on the leaves or flowers because it will hurt your bees.
I got lost in a world of making clothes for dolls from household scraps one day - it's easily done on YT!
I enjoyed watching the video.
You guys are brill!
I am subscribing
Thanks really interesting to watch 👍👍👍🌺🌸
The taste test was fascinating! It’s all well and good getting large veggies or large yields but if the taste isn’t great it’s pointless. So thanks for that addition!
Thank you! To us, taste matters more than quantity, although a nice big harvest of tasty food is ideal!
that was interesting indeed. I grew some potatoes in weed clippings that composted over them as they grew in some old boxes last year. I'm going to expand and experiment more this year. My grandfather was a potato farmer and my brother still has the farm and grows gmo sugar beets and I pray this is the year that gets all changed up.
I grew potatoes in wood chips this year with no water and got great yield and taste. The driest summer on record here in southern Oregon USA. Your channel is inspiring!
Thank you! It has been an incredibly dry year in some parts of the world. Plants have such a clever way to just grow despite the harsh conditions. Isn't nature wonderful?
110 days without rain. Wood chips work for me!
That was a fun video 😄
Thanks!!! Ya'll are sweet!
Great work. Thank you.
Great video!! I will try this next year with some bagged leaves I have, I'm excited to try it! Thank you for the inspiration! I loved the taste test you did at the end. Too cute!! Happy gardening and thanks for spreading a little sunshine and lot of knowledge! 🥰
Thanks that was cool hello from Denver Colorado
Hi, thanks for stopping by my channel!
Awesome seeing you having fun and sharing your knowledge with us 💐
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you so much for doing this!
No problem 😊
home-made science, love it; thanks for your excellent work.
Thank you so much Liz, I really really enjoyed watching you and your husband test those different types of growing mediums for potatoes 🥔 and I hope I get success like you. Please stay safe and well too
Thank you so much!
Wow awesome video with great info well done
Thanks 👍