Growing potatoes in tyres selfsufficientish.tv

[amck63]

did you film this with a potato ?

[Boomer1941]

You oughta remake this vid, get rid of the music and Speak Up.

[bfinfinity]

I agree, why DO people keep putting annoying music on their really good videos?

I think this guy seems to have some good info, and also it seems he knows what he is talking about and has experience, but we cannot benefit because we have to keep turning the volume DOWN! What a shame, what a loss....

[rutsableich]

English is not my mothertongue and then the music, and then the bad audio :(( Bye

[benchkey]

Get rid of the 'music' and speak louder. otherwise interesting.

[powerspade]

I would be very wary about planting potatoes in old tyres due to polutants in the rubber

[togetvj]

The funky monkey music made it even worse!

[JerMannski]

audio is terrible. At least put subtitles on it.

[button1943]

watch out for all the wildlife hiding in the rim of the tyres . . . . holy spuds!

[bobinmissouri]

just need to clean out your ears so u can hear or plant taters in your ears as momma use to say lol

[astrialkil]

THIS FILM SHOT WITH CELL PHONE CAMERA!

[reader1265]

cant hear bye bye

[camcrazed]

bad sound, shame

[bornfreenz]

I could not hear a word.. nice try though

[kaspastarr]

really cant hear whats going on, also didnt understand if your suppost to just dump more soil on top of the leaves after adding another tyre?? wouldnt that cover the green leaves?

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[redfang100]

yeah, u cover the bottom green leaves so the top are just sticking out. they will grow up again then you cover the bottom leaves again. as they grow higher the potato's form all the way up the structure. afterward you kick them over an ur tattys are lying there - voila

[desertblbuesman]

I am another who could not hear the words. do you add more seed potatoes as you add more tires or just keep covering the leaves from bottom plants?

[redfang100]

I don't. I put the seed potatoes in the bottom tyre only and as the plant grows to the top of the collum your potatoes will grow all the way up. It worked very well for me the last few years, I think the sun heating the tyres and therefore the earth around them helps. (Curious: did anyone else have a relativly low crop compared to last year? Everyone I know has experienced this...)

[jazznut50]

@redfang100

Thank you since I can't hear because of the annoying music in the background and the poor sound quality. Why do people put stupid music behind instruction videos? DUH!

[avaleila]

Yes I thought of that ... the problem is this attracts termites. Anything which has a lot of cellulose like bamboo, cane, etc has a lot of cellulose and termites will come flocking. This is why you should never have logs, wood, or any kind of cellulose debris lying around in your garden.

[sublimemadness]

what language were you speaking? maybe you could place subtitles on your vids? was the music for our benefit or for the potatoes?

Thanks for trying though.

[TommyJools]

Let me guess...you're from the States...how you don't understand him is beyond me.

[tikker11]

could not understand a word you said.

[powerstrokejoe]

Hey, you need to turn the music off, can't hardly understand what your saying

[TreyNitrotoluene]

there is a little chemical leaching but you breath more tire residue in a week of an avg american commute than a tire will leach in 100 years.

So with a little math 1 week of commuting = 33 years of tire tower potatoes.

[debwood1964]

This is my first year trying to grow potatoes and I heard of this method being done before. When do you know when to put the next tire on? Do you just cover the leaves? Thanks for the video.

[alexlibertine]

wow, fucking amazing, opened my mind to new levels that even god couldnt achieve

[jdamion]

just making sure,

but basicly you let the potatoes grow green stems&shoots {idk the terminolegy) then stick them in the ground and let them grow?

cool

[Kitt0000]

Iv seen fridges and freezers utilized from the rubbish yard.

[montmike21]

Id use ANYTHING organic to grow them if I could...

Learning some things here tonite about organic growing that I never thought of.

Especially using plastics. Buckets, hoses..

Saw a thing on ABC tonite about the lead content in garden hoses..... WOW!

Check your hoses man! hahah

Thought I was as organic as I could be.. Wrong!

Plastic leaching can be very bad.. PVC?

[cityfarmer007]

Thanks for posting this info man. I am going to totally change how I water my garden now. I will use empty one gallon spring water bottles to fill up clay pots buried next to each plant.

[trozza]

Very nice, I saw an alternative version made out of that 'bamboo' fencing wrapped around to make a cylinder standing upright, for those that are worried about any chemicals leeching from the tyres this might be a better alternative. Otherwise great video. :)

[craigmorriswanadoofr]

Would be nice to see your crop

[jimandcaz]

Thanks for this. do you have to worry about chemicals leaching from the tyres into the soil and potatoes?

[avaleila]

Yeh I have always hesitated using tyres for this very reason. What do you think?

[AOZXRAY]

I have heard the chemicals harmful were long ago released through the wind etc. and that others are totally bound, not to be released through mild organic forces of dirt.

[VeeVeeVeeV]

avaleila -

i just watched another clip here on youtube about growing potatoes - no dig, and the fellow was using bamboo (like a mat of bamboo reeds) - that's natural......

then when it was time to harvest he just removed the bamboo mat, and voila harvested the potatoes. I thought that was kind of neat.

[grimeyboy79]

really made me think