Growing Potatoes no Dig

[andreilucaci81]

The best innovation for growing potatoes!I just can add that you can use almost only hay and just a little compost.

[OrganicGarden123]

@jameselmore Sorry to correct you, but sodium does not make urine yellow. The yellow color in urine is due to chemicals called urobilins. These are the breakdown products of the bile pigment bilirubin. Human urine is a great source of Nitrogen, which is important if your compost is mostly carbon (e.g. leaves) like mine. Urine also contains many micronutrients. You should read up on composting urine. It makes a lot of sense.

[1971mgb]

Cut each seed potato into a few sections with eyes in each section.

Harden them overnight before putting them into your grow.

Greater yield.

[1996spiros]

how easy is that? HOW MORE EXPENSIVE IS FROM DIGGING A FUCKING HOLE 5 MINUTES?????????

[andreilucaci81]

@1996spiros Myman let me explane you,in ower's area you will dig a hole half an hour because of rocky hard soil,or you can just wait for a rain season,so for Israel it's good idea and compost does'nt cost so much here.

[007Neutrin0]

It would cost you more to grow them, as opposed to buying them. Just go down to your local supermarket and buy them, why waste your time growing them?

[caholaway]

@007Neutrin0 It is funner and you know where your potatoes are coming from. Try it!

[rbren1]

@007Neutrin0 guess you have never had fresh garden potatoes then , nothing beats freshly dug taters , as opposed to the ones that have been sitting in bags and in a warehouse for months , any ways you keep eating them store bought potatoes and ill keep eating freshly dug taters and yes i store for winter as well, at least i know what has gone into my food

[007Neutrin0]

@rbren1 fair enough, I was pointing out it was not cost effective.

[GooglFascists]

Want a potato tip from West Virginia? Find used tires,

hose 'em out, then fill the inside half full of dirt.

Lay seed potatoes around the inside of the tire. Fill the

rest of the way with dirt. First tire will be on the ground. Lay your next

tire on top the first one and do the same. Keep going til you

have 6 tires planted. Potato vines grow out between the tires & look

like bushes. When vines turn brown potatoes are ready. Knock top

tire off & potatoes fall out & so on. No digging!

[Amber1977]

@GooglFascists My mother does that except she waits until the are gushing with plants all around and then just knocked them over.

[mooersrealty]

Used to 220 barrels (165 pounds) per fertile acre of say Caribou loam soil in Northern Maine. That is very productive. Grew up on a 300 acre Maine potato farm.

[TheGardenMasterShow]

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[mammal46]

Trozza U really have 2 watch out 4 all these open minded hippies these days. These ppl sport the peace sign but they're worse than the Talaban, they'll kill U if U accidently kick a rock, because it's like kicking their mum in the eye. They R everywhere. They live on Mt. Shasta 2 protect the trees, rocks, creeks, & their POT! U don't have to worry if U can't see em, U can smell em a mile away, they don't want 2 waste H2o so they don't bathe. I thought your video was Kool, sorry they attacked U.

[mammal46]

@Guvoro Woh woh woh Hippie, it's his video, he can do it his way. Sounds like you need to get back to that Pine tree where moon whatever had ppl taking away her crap for her and sending her back up her food. Go get lost in the forrest wierdo.

[Akiko139]

manure has ecoli in it.

[GettingThereGreen]

We will be posting a new video today on potato boxes. ;) Similar yet different. Check us out later tonight.

[PantsThatDontFit]

Whoa, Whoa, slow down there Mick..

[jihadacadien]

I'm gonna use my old tires.....but this is a better idea!

[oferelhashar2]

Hey we grow in the same way but we use a recycled plastic potato pod- it was great.

the greatest thing was that I had to open the cables that I tied it with every week as the potatoes were growing. Me and my daughters thought it was great.

[OrganicGarden123]

I grew some "no dig" potatoes in a straw bale and made a video of it. It was easy. I had a leftover straw bale from Halloween, poured human urine on it over the winter to compost, and stuck in a piece of a spud in spring. It produced a plate of spuds that I harvested with bare hands. Easy. See my video.

[stuffradio]

@OrganicGarden123 I hope you're joking. I know this comment is a year old... but you'd get very very very sick if you ate something that you grew that contained human urine.

[OrganicGarden123]

@stuffradio Actually, I wasn't joking at all. Human urine is GREAT for making compost that has lots of nitrogen, one of the essential things growing veggies need. Take a look at my videos on growing in straw bales (carbon from the straw plus water/nitrogen from my urine = awesome compost to grow tomatoes, spuds, etc.). Or see my videos titled: "Urine added to Leaf Compost" or "Urine for Garden, Composting Urine", or "Urine Composting: Compost your Pee". Why would I flush away free nitrogen?

[Mrboxo]

What the Fuck are you babbling about dick head? Re-read my comment then faarrrk off.

Have a nice day!

[4407klause]

I tried it and does not work. I got five potatoes out of 12 plants. Thanks

[Guvoro]

You obviously just fucked it up :(

[sminatZindagi]

what happens if a squirrel jumps into that bamboo hole?

[theinsane101]

im sure the squirrel can get out.

[Axbent]

boy Im gonna be sleepless over that one! ;)

[Mrboxo]

This is an extremely inefficient way to grow potatoes, all of those products would cost well over $50 for maybe 25kgs of potatos at the most. You should be getting 25kg from each plant.

[18wheeler76]

@Mrboxo what way to you growem and what supplies do u need.thanks alot.

[DanOManno]

I've heard of this technique being done with a plastic trash can that has had fist sized holes cut into the sides. You can reach in and grab the tubers when the plants matures.

[PersianPaladin]

What is loosen?

[Mrboxo]

Lucerne is a type of high quality grass grown here in Australia. The first time its cut its called hay and is great stock feed, the second time its cut its called straw, as its poor feed quality its used in gardens and pet bedding.

[StinkinSpoada]

Yea, I never saw a potato plant B4. I just saw a brocolli bush. That was not what I though It would look like. It was at my grandmas house. I freaked out, I though my grandma was growin dope. Aint never seen either growin in real life yet seen that special on CNN & net. I thought brocolli was real small and low to the ground. For hours I was acting like a retard trying to figure out how to ask grandma for some her green ass "pot".

Finally after messing with the bush, she asks, want brocolli?

[growitlikegranddad]

A better system for vertical growing is shown in "Smell Like Dirt"s spud-o-matic system. check it out. Her system uses wire and compost and dirt. The only change I usually make is I add newspaper along the outside of the wire to keep too much air from getting to the potato roots.

[growitlikegranddad]

I don't know about this one, folks...the general idea about a vertical growing system is this...You start the potatoes out at (or close to) the bottom, then as the plants grow you continue to add soil or other growing medium. Potatoes will then grow all along the stem that has been covered. This system started 2/3 of the way up would totally waste the bottom part (potatoes won't grow down), or if started at the bottom would not allow

light to get to the plants.

[astrialkil]

ive herd that no light is a good thing as it causes the plant to get leggy and grow faster! so it grows to the light as u add more compost this way it doesn't retard the plant by covering up it as it grows.

[Illisil]

Bummer I was looking to see the potato plants! =(

[bizabif2]

I have a endless supply of stable waste. The bedding is untreated wood shavings and the horses are not fed oats, could I use that instead of the lucerne and cow manure?

[growitlikegranddad]

Any kind of manure would work in a vertical potato grower, but don't use it "green" or too fresh. Potatoes get rough patches if grown in fresh manure and don't grow properly. It sould be composted or baked to kill the organisms first, or just buried in soil for a few months will take care of them as well and make the horse manure ok to use.

[astrialkil]

raw manure can cause scab patches on potatoes, u can use it if you don't mind ugly scabby potatoes. composting it first helps.

[shortattentionspan1]

thank you for all the info, it was a great help.

[W1tchingHour]

Thanks for the info! Can you also use 'Blood and Bones' on herbs?

[dionysusstar]

Awesome video. This is a great idea for us folks with small garden areas!