No Dig Potato Bamboo Tower

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A short "How To" build a no dig elevated potato tower using bamboo, recorded from an Australian TV channel.

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• permaculture
• no
• dig
• potato
• bamboo
• how
• to
• australia

[oopoo64]

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

[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

[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.

[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..