Grow Potatoes Without Digging | Incredible No Dig Potatoes
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Potatoes Without Digging For Incredible No Dig Potato Harvests. Inspired by and based on Ruth Stout's gardening technique.
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
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Recommended video to watch next ruclips.net/video/taPzZUdXsbQ/видео.html NEVER Dig Potatoes Again! | No dig potato harvest RESULTS | No till potatoes (2022)
I learned it from you Thank you
Every1 tells u not to eat the green potatoes, but almost no 1 tells what to do with them when you do Ruth Stout method. So I chucked them between 4 inches of spend compost in tubs (above and below) in autumn. Stored them in my frost free, sort of passive solar GH in Holland, and they are now around 12 inches above ground. Tubs are now outside except when its freezing, while adding some fresh compost on top. Potatoes are always fun to harvest, but if I can beat the new potatoes they ship in from the middle east, it will be double fun.
I live on east coast of Canada and people are amazed when I tell them about above ground potatoe planting. First reaction is usually they think I'm bonkers until I show them pictures of last September crop. So glad I found this channel last year and thank you for your informative videos.
I have 12 65 litre tubs of potatoes planted. 4 per tub, but also 48 same kind in the garden 😊
I did this last year as I had a huge bale of old hay I didn’t know what to do with. It worked so well with the potatoes, I didn’t once have to weed and it’s broken down over the winter. I also found that it didn’t blow away, especially if you give it a light water to begin with 🙂
I did that with chicken house bedding last year. And got good results.
Going to make another bed this year.😊
Always happy to see your videos! I love that you are experimenting with no dig potatoes and I have wanted to plant mine with Ruth Stouts method ever since I saw it 4 years ago, but my planting space is my limitation. I will just live vicariously through your potato experiments! 😂
You could maybe experiment using a similar idea but in containers with a little soil and compost in the bottom and topped up with hay ect if you have room for some containers. That's what I'm thinking of. Only thing is I don't have any animals so thinking what I can add to add fertility in with the straw. Maybe a mix of some chicken manure pellets and grass with the hay. By the time they've finished growing I reckon it might be half way to compost.
@@smithy4121 Now that is an idea that I need to think about! Thank you :)
@@MyFantasyHomestead no problem I don't know if it will work but worth a try for me at least. I grew 50 x 30 litre containers of potatoes once and the compost cost a fortune. I've then had to give away said compost as we are putting our house up for sale soon. I used some to pot up my strawberries out of the ground but gave away the rest. I figure less compost and hay might be cheaper to start again and could add more compost for the following year if that makes sense.
I've been using straw and/or hay to cover my potatoes for the last 3 years and will never go back! It also adds so much humus to sad gravely soil. 2 blessings in one!
I live in central Texas so this will definitely be on my list for next potato planting season.
They say you don’t need to water because it could rot, water isn’t required till it uses the energy from the Potato seed.
you are such a pleasure to watch and I always learn something. Thanks for sharing.
Looking forward to seeing the results from these experiments Liz 😊
Tried this method last year and loved it!
Will be interesting to see what happens. I’ve just emptied my compost bin onto my potato bed in readiness but I can’t plant just yet as the birds are having great fun pecking through it first.
Hi Jan, I love it when the birds have a rootle through the garden!
Excellent advice thank you for sharing 👍😎
Looking forward to the results 👍
I am going to try for the first time this year your method of planting potatoes I planted five rows in the ground, but I have room left at the end and lots of hay. Excited to try something new by the way the video was beautiful with the background and everything. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Drema, please let me know how you get on with the potatoes under hay this year. It will be interesting to see how well it works in different climates.
Thanks for all the good info.
Great video, inspired me to go out and plant my potatoes. Sorry but getting a bit heavy with the adverts.
Thanks for letting me know about the adverts, RUclips places them, so I will go and manually check how many they have placed.
Hi I did no dig potatoes last year straight onto bare soil then covered in hay ( very pleased with the results ) this year i put them onto very short mown grass then put homemade compost down and covered in hay. unfortunately the grass thought I was feeding it and has grown incredibly (even up through the hay) I will just keep adding hay and hope for the best.
At least you'll have nice grass there next year!
Maybe try adding some paper down?
its not a stable its an airbahnbah
This is what I do I can’t be dealing with the digging. I’m doing with woodchips as I get them for free!
I love this idea and tried last year with wood chips and some straw but rodents ate more of the potatoes than I did😢
Anyone else have experience with this and any suggestions?
nice idear liz
Thanks Steven!
I tried this straw method last year. Had a poor crop due to the mice eating the majority 😢
We had a poor crop in 2023 because of all the rain, many rotted in the wet and many were eaten by slugs.
Do you have any idea how this would work with seaweed? I have access to plenty of it... Thanks :)
Why not try some different methods? Make sure to rinse it really well to get rid of the salt, though.
You could do three trials:
Lay potatoes on the grass, then add only 10 inch layer of dried seaweed.
Lay potatoes on the grass and combine equal amounts of compost and seaweed (1:1 ratio) 10 inches thick
And the final trial growing only in 10 inches of compost, of course laying on grass just like the other trials.
Then you'll know for yourself which works best!❤
Edit. Use the same type of potatoes, grow them in the same location and water them equally. So any difference in harvest can be attributed to the different amounts of seaweed.
Hi! I’m wondering how you manage the weed seeds that come with the hay? Do you find it introduces a lot of seedlings overall?
I grow the potatoes on a field, so don't notice much difference. When done in the veg garden, yes there is the potential of introducing weed seeds - I feel this is a small inconvenience in comparison to digging potatoes.
With the sheep bedding you use, is it freshly used bedding with probably some poo in it? Does that need to wait 12-18months either or can you use that fresh out of the sheep pen?
Ideally it would be stacked for at least three months. This is fresh, so that may have an impact on the yield.
Would grass cuttings work.?
Yes! Here's my results video of growing in grass clippings (it shows you how I did it too) ruclips.net/video/Y5gOrUMEuw8/видео.html
Are you saying I can put a shallow grass layer over the plants themselves?
Yes, the grass cuttings can be used to 'earth up' or 'hill up' the potatoes as they grow.
@@LizZorab thank you so much.
Which part of Britain is this?
Details in the video description and on our website - we are in west Wales
@@LizZorab
Aahhhh i thought so, i m french, living in north east Wales![ NEAR HAWARDEN]
We often go to the Welsh west coast, it so so clean and beautiful!
I put my potatoes on the ground a couple of days ago but that ground is mostly clay. I covered them with mostly composted leaves. Do you think they will grow? The compost was very wet. How often should I continue to water them. I've never grow. Potatoes at all.
We only use composted leaves and grass clippings and it works just fine.
They should do. Here's my video trialing different mulches for potatoes ruclips.net/video/GKB-tan-zdg/видео.html
@@LizZorab thank you