No Dig Potato Bamboo Tower

[Hermanvogel]

Have you ever thought of the possibility of Mad Cow disease being transferred to you though the "Blood and Bone" Fert.? The protien that causes mad cow cannot be destroyed by composting or high heat...Think about it,,you may be poisoning your whole family.

[turuanu]

I'm starting to dig that accent.

[survive67]

Cool idea. You don't have to sacrifice all these whole seed potatoes though. What I do is throw all the kitchen potato peals (just the peals from regular, grocery store potatoes) in my balcony containers, cover them with compost, add lots of clean, organic wood chips occasionally, and very soon I always get what I like to call a "potato forest" which results in sweet, delicious, home-grown, organic and nutricious potatoes.

[DancingHorses26]

What a waste of money. There is no way he will get back the value of all that bagged material from those potatoes.

[jjjj2012]

If done well and stored right, you only buy the seed potatoes once, saving a few each year to plant the next. Plus seed potatoes are usually offered by small farms , seems pretty darn sustainable to me.

[Jefferdaughter]

In addition to the 'no dig' feature of this method, it uses all organic materials.

[Mycelial]

Seems really space-effective.. You could fit dozens of these in a backyard.

[oopoo64]

yeh never use old tyres, they leech cadmium into the soil wich is carcinogenic.

[cafekawaii]

Cool video but you use a lot of store bought things I noticed almost 3 bags from a store for just potatoes. Its not very sustainable in that aspect..

[Firefly804]

do the plants get enough light when they are 1st growing in the bottom of the tower? seems like they dont get enough sunlight.

[sk8board44]

What's the second thing he adds? I don't know what that is, neither how it is spelled.

[shorberm]

It's alfalfa (called lucerne in the Commonwealth countries). Any nitrogen-fixing plant could be used instead.

[DragonovSVD]

it seemed a waste to use that many potatos. i've used one potato to grow many plants inside of discarded car tires.

each potato will grow several "buds" on it.

cut each one about 4 cm in cubes. plant these in small peat pots.

place tire on sheet of plastic to control weeds and potato roots. fill with compost soil and transplant your started pots. add more soil and tires as the plants grows allowing it full sun light till harvest then remove the tires and potatos pour out for easy gathering.

[MasterVeggie]

did you line those petroleum tires before you planted potatoes. Potatoes have the thinnest skin of all veggies and they soak up all the toxins. I would line them with plastic and poke a few holes at the bottom. I would not eat anything out of a tire :p

[arepasheat]

What time of the year would one recommend planting the potatos and adding the nutrients?

[ArielleKelly]

i live in Sydney and by what he is wearing it looks like late autumn or early winter...he says "now is the time" so i guess its then!

[Watchovsky]

Potatos idea is great, actually,with any other roots too. But, "blood y bones" fertilizer is not sustainable, and its dead. Valorize life, be vegan!!!

[walkingbear56]

Absolutely right mate. Sustainable is not a word that has been much used up until now.