I planted 5 lbs of red seed potatoes in a 15′ box and harvest almost 50 lbs of nice sized red potatoes. I did not mound or hill the potatoes. I fed them once a week and let the automatic watering…
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I planted 5 lbs of red seed potatoes in a 15′ box and harvest almost 50 lbs of nice sized red potatoes. I did not mound or hill the potatoes. I fed them once a week and let the automatic watering…
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Did you no hill your taters? MIND BLOWN!?
This video is a more then a year old and food prices have risen since then
but, I just bought a 10 Lb bag of red potatoes for .99 cents. Non GMO, no
beat up potatoes in the bag so, I won’t be growing potatoes any time soon.?
Thank you for posting your results on your potato grow. I’m into my third
year of growing potatoes and my yields are nothing near what you are
pulling up in sand & sawdust. Cooler climates usually have better success
with potatoes, but you seem to be doing just great. i think some of your
commenters forget that a lot of potato varieties are not available in
grocery stores & farmers markets. The quality greatly outweighs anything
you can buy through a supermarket chain. You can also get an inexpensive
belt sander or, mulcher, or chop saw to cut tree & woody tree branches
from pruning that make great source of toxin free sawdust.?
Potatoes don’t vine…. It’s a STALK…..
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May I ask where you found your mixture of saw dust at??
The initial setup up of the garden is a one time thing. He can reuse the
irrigation equipment and most everything else.
When I was growing up we had 3 – 3 acre gardens and used a Farm-all Cub
tractor to make the furrows and plow the weeds and grass.
As for irrigation …. well we did not have it. The gardens were from 1/4
mile to 2 miles from the house.
I was the one to drive the tractor using a middle buster to dig the
potatoes up. many times we would get 1,500 lbs of potatoes.
Those were the days…?
Thank you for posting this. A lot of good stuff goin on here.?
Organic all the way!?
are u sure that the boxes didn’t produce potatoes because u fed them too
much???nitrogen will produce big plants with no harvest….?
You get impressive yields. However, I’m not at all impressed by your
methodology. As a prepper, one should strive to be as sustainable as
possible. Your method of using chemical fertilizer and secret sauce is not
at all sustainable, and definitely is hazardous to any kind of soil life.
Go “Back to Eden”…God didn’t intend you to live this way. This is little
better than any chemically induced store bought garbage.?
Did you know that pressure treated lumber contains many chemicals including
arsenic that will leach into the soil when it is rained on or gets wet from
your watering system, and potatoes in particular will take up whatever is
in the soil since they are a root crop. Same with any other root crop
including carrots, radishes, sweet potatoes, beets, etc. You really should
replace all of the sand/sawdust soil and start again fresh and use non
treated lumber for all of your garden construction.?
Good job on the harvest. I have been growing potatoes in the garden, in
pots inside and out side, and in the compost pile. I get a small harvest
from every location with little effort. In pots and in the compost I plant
kitchen cuttings and I am very pleased with the results. In the garden I
like using seed potatoes. I would recommend you place your potatoes out in
a sunny window and get them to sprout. When you see the first sprout pop
up, knock it off. Then watch as the potato will send out bunches of
sprouts, and this is when you plant them. The more sprouts, the more stems,
the more potatoes, simple really. And as mentioned earlier, mound them too.
Keep dig’en.?
Always fun to watch a potato harvest. Good work.?
Very nice load of potatoes. I enjoy growing them and eating them.?
WOW. How much did this cost you in seed potato’s and sawdust and dirt and
water to get this. Potato’s cost about $7 for 50 LBS!?
Did u drill holes in the pvc to use for watering??
I see what you are doing but am not impressed. When you look at the
expense of your chemicals and nutrients, added to the cost of building and
maintaining your watering system, plus the fact that this is not a
sustainable method of gardening….you will always be dependent on adding
the nutrients etc….I just think that there is a better way. I am
referring to back to eden combined with a lasagna method. I build my bed
in layers starting from the ground up using whatever types of green and
brown that I can find and end up with wood chips on the top. You don’t
have to mound potatoes in a back to eden garden either, but you don’t have
to add any additional nutrients with maybe the exception of bone meal if
you are planting in a newly built bed that has not over wintered and
started the breaking down process. Because the wood chips retain moisture
and gather in new moisture each evening from the dew and feed it to the
plants as they need it, you have little or no watering to do. I wish
someone would do both methods at the same time and compare results. My
money is on back to eden. And even if they were equal in production I
would choose back to eden because you are building a permanent and
sustainable system that does not require the purchasing of new and
expensive fertilizer every season. Also with the ‘m’ method you end up
having to replace your sand and sawdust every three years or so which is
hardly sustainable….according to the research I have done. I have
gardened using the lasagna method and back to eden method for over 40 years
now as well as experimenting with some of the fad methods of gardening that
come and go and I always end up going back to the sustainable lasagna and
back to eden methods. They work in container gardening in small urban
settings also. I have personally had a 15 to 1 potato harvest using the
back to eden method. I only wish I had documented it in photos.
……darn. ?
Some of these ideas are good. Just make your own sawdust. Don’t use
chemical anything.?
WHY USE TREATED @X$? The reason it is green colour is the copper in it. It
is also full of ARSENIC ! Why do you think it does not get eaten by bugs?!?
Believes in GOD gets 10X what he put into the earth.?
Youve got my curiousity peaked for this Mid Atlantic gardening method. My
mother did organic and made her own mix…but sand and sawdust? She would
probably laugh. Makes sense that it would be lighter and hinder growth
less. ?
i have access to pond and spring water, compost from my wooded area, leaf
mulch-some maple, some oak, some pine needles. huge amount of mulched
leaves from two years of saving. a patch with sun…ugh…mostly shade. AND
a huge desire to grow my own food and can or dehydrate it. i am new to
country. i did raised beds in city with success, but never root plants.
about 2 acres of shade. about 1 acre of water fed run off from Amish farms
in sunlight-that part is hard soil. my shade part is soft. My pumpkins in
hard soil were fantastic. but i want FOOD! any suggestions? i kill
everything it seems. but this year, hope to get better. i love to cook for
others…but it would be nice to cut the bill?
U r blessed, keep it up :)?
That’s awesome. It has been said that a good potato farmer can get 10lbs
of potatoes for every pound they plant. I’d say you are close enough.
Great job!?