Lenty; you did well, I think the problem was compounded; in other boxes they put 5 seed potatoes, plus they used sawdust, peatmoss, etc to make the soil more puffy, light and not too compacted, seeems that dirt is too heavy, well, this is my opinion just from watching the others videos. So go on, do not give up yet, try again until you find what works for you, and I love you all!
I just gathered up my potato’s. From my tower today. I was Very Skeptical. I got a full 5 gallon bucket .Small size. It worked without any problems or me watering
If I wanted to add a soaker hose to your design which would you recommend? Sprialimg through each layer to look like a spring, or straight up/vertically up the center like a straw in a cup?
@@maxdecphoenix Check out the realipm Videos and see successful Tower projects and harvests at the same time.. Here is the link.. ruclips.net/video/gio5Q0EGSM8/видео.html
Even putting too much dirt over ground grown potatoes doesn't work well. I have found that two eight inch hill ups are the best method followed by a few inches of leaves to keep weeds down and hold moisture. Too much and the plant keeps getting bigger but nothing forms underground.
you cant just bury all the potato like that.. they wont grow.. you have to plant on the bottom and as they grow up, add more dirt and keep them covered ill it reaches the top. I grantee you the potatoes she planted, rotted.
Yeah, I tried this 2 years ago --- what a waste of dirt -- this method pretty much made the seed potatoes disappear. I had no harvest at all. You should put them in , and gradually build up as they grow. I had no problems just throwing potatoes in the ground -- and they grew. As for this method -- you're right -- they rotted. It was very distressing...waiting all that time for something to grow.
MIND CONTROL CENTRAL your method only works with indeterminate varieties. She is planting determinant variety that grows to a specific height then sets tubers. Bush type.
I see lots of vids like this on here.... Good point on the no crop vids, don't think I've seen any crop vids... yikes. Master Gardener, please post an update vid. I'm intrigued even more now.
The potatoes you planted looked freshly cut and I've seen on other videos you should let the cut side dry out a few days before planting because freshly cut potatoes attract pests
Check out the realipm Videos and see successful Tower projects and harvests at the same time.. Here is the link.. ruclips.net/video/gio5Q0EGSM8/видео.html
it probably didn't work because the potatoes were buried so deep they never could reach the surface to begin their vegetative growth. You don't begin burying the plants until they are 5-6 inches tall
+Katherine Atkinson But she did that...and it DIDN'T work.... If that was the reason it works, then why didn't it work? Because of watering? Really? She said "...water it really good..." a billion times during the video. Besides, if this method is so sensitive to water, then what happens if a good rainstorm hits? What if one doesn't hit? The worst part of the internet is having a self-proclaimed expert come up with an idea, passing that idea off as though it is expert advice and that they have been doing it that way for years with raving success, when the reality is that it has never even been tried. Meanwhile, that piece of crap idea being passed off as expert advice is still being propagated through the internet. She said she got the idea from pinterest? Did this unproven method start on Pinterest? Did it stop here? Hopefully, no one else tried this and wasted their valuable time and money. As of January 2016, there were 119k views. That's 119k misinformed viewers thanks to people like her, you, and snow violet, who should should post a vid showing his/her FABULOUS results using horse manure...
Hay has seeds and will likely weed over the tower and compete with the taters, speaking form experience using straw as ground cover, (NOT from trying this technique).
There is no need to put down this video as some have suggested in the comments. This video is showing an unsuccessful attempt of replicating a method found on Pinterest. You suspect that it failed because of over watering. But please! Enough of your response "the reason it works is because the shoots grows toward the light" when it failed. You could say so when you have proof that it really does works. You shouldn't promote this method as a functional one based on pictures found on the internet. You have the potential of making great videos (pleasing to watch and learn from). But sharing information is not just an art. It has to be truthful. There is no need to put down this video as some have suggested in the comments. This video is showing an unsuccessful attempt of replicating a method found on Pinterest. You suspect that it failed because of over watering. This is how it should be labeled. Most will have the tendency to believe that it wouldn't work regardless of the over watering factor. Most will state that the shoots would still grow upward against gravity until it breaks out of the soil. The fascination over how a seed sprout is not a recent one. Many studies have been done on this. Modern technology has allowed us to know that it is an hormone (auxin) that controls plant orientation. Tests have shown that roots direction can be changed on some plants with the use of different light wavelength (color) Red lights pulling the roots toward the sky and blue reinforcing the downward growth. And nature has proven itself over and over to be fascinating and surprising. So this method is yet to be proven. If I was to attempt this method, I would concentrate on placing the potatoes closer to the side edge. I'm guessing that if roots can find the shortest path to water, it can probably do the same with shoots taking the shortest path to light. Witch that said, I wouldn't bother planting on the north side of the tower. I wouldn't use this method as it isn't really a high yielding method. Every single plants would produce it's normal yield at best conditions. For the same space, only 3 or 4 spuds are required and each spuds could produce from 2 to 4 times its normal yield. Yes, it does mean that you have to top it off with more growing medium as the plant grows, but overall, it would end up with about as much medium that you already put in.
T.K. Archibald She said that it wasn't successful, but thought that they got it too wet as she has tried it herself and had success. I hope this helps!
You're not suppose to have worms in there because it would ruin the potatoes and the ones not on the top would have been suffocated because you packed the soil and too high at that
I guess a results video would be nice, as I don't really see this working very well. Why not do one planting then keep building it up as the plant grows? Also I'm guessing this whole thing got torn down and cleaned up after the video was shot, based on the random placement of it out in the middle of the lawn. There is so much B.S. on RUclips anymore.
63 thousand views on a video that doesn't work? probably should take it down no? Obviously the bottom 3-4 rows didn't grow they were suffocated immediately.
As this video is from 6 year ago, so I hope you have grown a lot of potatoes over the years and saved enough money to get a good camera that records in high resolution.
Almost 600,000 views on a video that is compost by the comments here and lack of a harvest video all you can garner from the comments is. Folks think your helper is adorable and you know squat of what you're talking about.
You know that old saying "don't try this at home"? Well, seriously, don't try this at home. You will be wasting your time, energy, compost and seed potatoes. This is supposed to be a master gardener? I couldn't believe what I was seeing when she buried those potatoes in two feet of soil. I wont be watching any more videos by this "master gardener".
Everybody in my family calls it dirt. They're all old timers that survived the dust bowl by doing a LOT of planting. Okies. Maybe it's an okie thing to call "soil" dirt. I call it dirt too.
Brynn "I didn't say dat!" LOL. How cute. Great idea. Will try this summer.
My soils professor used to say "That's SOIL. Dirt's under your fingernails"
Lenty; you did well, I think the problem was compounded; in other boxes they put 5 seed potatoes, plus they used sawdust, peatmoss, etc to make the soil more puffy, light and not too compacted, seeems that dirt is too heavy, well, this is my opinion just from watching the others videos. So go on, do not give up yet, try again until you find what works for you, and I love you all!
When I was young I did the same thing helped the older ones in there gardens I loved it
Wow, Great technique , your little helper really helpful.
I used horse manure and wood chips last year and it worked fabulous going to do it again this year
snow violet , and
"She told me that her dad really likes potatoes.."
"I didn´t say that!"
lol!
That's why she won't be running for office; Hilary C.
thank You. Such a cuts little helper, God bless You both.
Excellent video. Thanks. Grettings from Panama
"I didn't say that". All I needed to hear. Thanks Brin!
Such a great idea for my grand babies! Thanks for sharing!!
I just gathered up my potato’s. From my tower today. I was Very Skeptical. I got a full 5 gallon bucket .Small size. It worked without any problems or me watering
Bless you big Tom ,for you are bountiful .
Great ldea but how would you know the time of harvest
great music..great short and clear instruction..thanks
You are the best. Thank you Lady
Life giving soil really isn't dirt. I don't understand why people call it that.
good tricks for the small scale and house gardening for the potato harvesting
If I wanted to add a soaker hose to your design which would you recommend? Sprialimg through each layer to look like a spring, or straight up/vertically up the center like a straw in a cup?
This is the 10th vid where NOBODY shows the harvest on the same vid as the planting.
Because towers always fail. And the wild eyed newbs that make these 'before' videos, lack the conviction and integrity to admit it.
@@maxdecphoenix Check out the realipm Videos and see successful Tower projects and harvests at the same time.. Here is the link.. ruclips.net/video/gio5Q0EGSM8/видео.html
Nice, but let's see the the grown potatoes and what the yield was.
Nice. Do you still use this method?
Cool idea! Is there a layer of straw between the layers of potatoes, or is the straw only on the outside?
Even putting too much dirt over ground grown potatoes doesn't work well. I have found that two eight inch hill ups are the best method followed by a few inches of leaves to keep weeds down and hold moisture. Too much and the plant keeps getting bigger but nothing forms underground.
Cool little helper. Teach her. Well
you cant just bury all the potato like that.. they wont grow.. you have to plant on the bottom and as they grow up, add more dirt and keep them covered ill it reaches the top. I grantee you the potatoes she planted, rotted.
***** The reason it works is because they grow out (toward the light - which is why she planted the eyes facing out) not up.
Mike Crane ,
Mike Crane that's what I was thinking while watching her dump more layers of soil n hay.
Yeah, I tried this 2 years ago --- what a waste of dirt -- this method pretty much made the seed potatoes disappear. I had no harvest at all. You should put them in , and gradually build up as they grow. I had no problems just throwing potatoes in the ground -- and they grew. As for this method -- you're right -- they rotted. It was very distressing...waiting all that time for something to grow.
MIND CONTROL CENTRAL your method only works with indeterminate varieties. She is planting determinant variety that grows to a specific height then sets tubers. Bush type.
At least u have a cute helper , that was fun watching u working together;)
C'est très intéressant comme idée merci madame je vais l'essayer bonne continuation
Thanks for the advice on getting that set up.
The result is certainly unsatisfactory. In this way one has almost no yield. For good reason, there is no crop video
I see lots of vids like this on here.... Good point on the no crop vids, don't think I've seen any crop vids... yikes. Master Gardener, please post an update vid. I'm intrigued even more now.
The potatoes you planted looked freshly cut and I've seen on other videos you should let the cut side dry out a few days before planting because freshly cut potatoes attract pests
Yes, and dust them with agricultural sulfur if you can.
Awsome results gunna give it a go for sure,the straw tower is the one I'll have a go at.
Did you put straw over the dirt each time?? And what month would you do this in central Oklahoma?
No Dear ,straw just at the very bottom and the sides.
good idea. i Like it.
Where to put the straw??
Do you water only through the top, or through the sides of straw?
Only the top lovey .
This video needs to be removed or updated with failure added, so no one goes out and makes this.
Did this fail? I don't see an update from it.
What a pretty doll,
She's got really pretty hair.
I would love to introduce my daughter to this lovely little pumpkin
why did you plant in a tower? looks like you have lots of land--why not plat in straw on ground?
TRying just growing in soil add sum wood chippings?? I got potatoes growing in my cupboard? There shud be No Effort for the best gardening?
Yes
When you say ..pee .,is it pee human pee?...or what do you mean and amended compost what do you mean?
yes she means urine
Brynn realised today that her grandma is Mrs Potato :-)
Do you have a results video?
No there will be no result video,as it did not work
Neil Thiart The reason it works is because they grow out (toward the light - which is why she planted the eyes facing out) not up.
Check out the realipm Videos and see successful Tower projects and harvests at the same time.. Here is the link.. ruclips.net/video/gio5Q0EGSM8/видео.html
What didn't work and what do you suggest to try differently?
it probably didn't work because the potatoes were buried so deep they never could reach the surface to begin their vegetative growth. You don't begin burying the plants until they are 5-6 inches tall
Evan Keller The reason it works is because they grow out (toward the light - which is why she planted the eyes facing out) not up.
+Katherine Atkinson But she did that...and it DIDN'T work.... If that was the reason it works, then why didn't it work? Because of watering? Really? She said "...water it really good..." a billion times during the video. Besides, if this method is so sensitive to water, then what happens if a good rainstorm hits? What if one doesn't hit? The worst part of the internet is having a self-proclaimed expert come up with an idea, passing that idea off as though it is expert advice and that they have been doing it that way for years with raving success, when the reality is that it has never even been tried. Meanwhile, that piece of crap idea being passed off as expert advice is still being propagated through the internet. She said she got the idea from pinterest? Did this unproven method start on Pinterest? Did it stop here? Hopefully, no one else tried this and wasted their valuable time and money. As of January 2016, there were 119k views. That's 119k misinformed viewers thanks to people like her, you, and snow violet, who should should post a vid showing his/her FABULOUS results using horse manure...
Where is results???
vous êtes de quel village?
did it get good watering?
j'ai coupé les p-de -terres et rien n'a poussé, j'ai recommencé avec des p-de-terres entière et sa à pousser.
can you use hay instead of straw?
Hay has seeds and will likely weed over the tower and compete with the taters, speaking form experience using straw as ground cover, (NOT from trying this technique).
What group, organization or governing body is it that gives you the designation of "master gardener"? And how can I apply for that title?
+SuperSaltydog77 Check with your county extension office.
Jennifer Tolentino Thank you for the info. Have a nice day.
Good job but people want see Result . Tnx
There is no need to put down this video as some have suggested in the comments. This video is showing an unsuccessful attempt of replicating a method found on Pinterest. You suspect that it failed because of over watering.
But please! Enough of your response "the reason it works is because the shoots grows toward the light" when it failed. You could say so when you have proof that it really does works. You shouldn't promote this method as a functional one based on pictures found on the internet.
You have the potential of making great videos (pleasing to watch and learn from). But sharing information is not just an art. It has to be truthful.
There is no need to put down this video as some have suggested in the comments. This video is showing an unsuccessful attempt of replicating a method found on Pinterest. You suspect that it failed because of over watering. This is how it should be labeled.
Most will have the tendency to believe that it wouldn't work regardless of the over watering factor. Most will state that the shoots would still grow upward against gravity until it breaks out of the soil.
The fascination over how a seed sprout is not a recent one. Many studies have been done on this. Modern technology has allowed us to know that it is an hormone (auxin) that controls plant orientation.
Tests have shown that roots direction can be changed on some plants with the use of different light wavelength (color) Red lights pulling the roots toward the sky and blue reinforcing the downward growth.
And nature has proven itself over and over to be fascinating and surprising. So this method is yet to be proven.
If I was to attempt this method, I would concentrate on placing the potatoes closer to the side edge. I'm guessing that if roots can find the shortest path to water, it can probably do the same with shoots taking the shortest path to light. Witch that said, I wouldn't bother planting on the north side of the tower.
I wouldn't use this method as it isn't really a high yielding method. Every single plants would produce it's normal yield at best conditions. For the same space, only 3 or 4 spuds are required and each spuds could produce from 2 to 4 times its normal yield. Yes, it does mean that you have to top it off with more growing medium as the plant grows, but overall, it would end up with about as much medium that you already put in.
It failed for a variety of reasons, too much soil and too many layers ....
Maaaan shut up
Nice idia and lovely💕😍 bebe
Any update on how successful/unsuccessful this was?
T.K. Archibald She said that it wasn't successful, but thought that they got it too wet as she has tried it herself and had success. I hope this helps!
Cool, thanks!
You're not suppose to have worms in there because it would ruin the potatoes and the ones not on the top would have been suffocated because you packed the soil and too high at that
I guess a results video would be nice, as I don't really see this working very well. Why not do one planting then keep building it up as the plant grows? Also I'm guessing this whole thing got torn down and cleaned up after the video was shot, based on the random placement of it out in the middle of the lawn. There is so much B.S. on RUclips anymore.
That was Awesome thanks
63 thousand views on a video that doesn't work? probably should take it down no? Obviously the bottom 3-4 rows didn't grow they were suffocated immediately.
cameronnc82 The reason it works is because they grow out (toward the light - which is why she planted the eyes facing out) not up.
If it worked why wasn't a video posted?
Calling the host a liar. Highlight. Bet you she did make it up.
I am from india district biladpur
As this video is from 6 year ago, so I hope you have grown a lot of potatoes over the years and saved enough money to get a good camera that records in high resolution.
you are so sweet, best potato tower/cage!lll
I co dalej? Urosły ziemniaki? 🌱🥔🍟
Almost 600,000 views on a video that is compost by the comments here and lack of a harvest video all you can garner from the comments is. Folks think your helper is adorable and you know squat of what you're talking about.
Very good
the straw will pull all the nitrogen out of the soil
I thought about using soil and wood chips in a raised bed. Will wood chips pull nitrogen?
Taman inspirasi
Damm 30 - 50 pound of patatos
Potato's do not like acid soil and infact that will produce scab on potato's
Well for Pete's sake.
DIRT, AAAAARGH! its SOIL! SOIL! SOIL!
1 eye is enough
LOL That's not going to make many spuds! I use the other method & get 80 to 100 #'s per tower. Just saying!
Hellow.. so sweet
Thank you.
"I didn't say that" hi hi
you heard it here first she did not say that lol
funny stuff from a "master gardener"....
nice video
Woot!
very good!
Whats the matter with this girl ????
I didn't say dat hahahahaha
You know that old saying "don't try this at home"? Well, seriously, don't try this at home. You will be wasting your time, energy, compost and seed potatoes. This is supposed to be a master gardener? I couldn't believe what I was seeing when she buried those potatoes in two feet of soil. I wont be watching any more videos by this "master gardener".
Pwecko i was scared that the cut potatoes wouldn't grow..i hope she's not joking.
I told ya so.
Never heard a gardner call soil “dirt” before!
Everybody in my family calls it dirt. They're all old timers that survived the dust bowl by doing a LOT of planting. Okies. Maybe it's an okie thing to call "soil" dirt.
I call it dirt too.
I didnt say that
Show properly
Oi
A "master gardener" should know that you grow with soil, not dirt. Dirt is what you sweep up off the floor.
Better to grow in land fake videos
yes.... 50 lbs bs