No Digging, Planting the Best Potatoes in Hay for the First Time
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- If you need potatoes but not so keen on the digging or can no longer dig there is an easy way to grow them with much less fuss and bother.
For the first time I am going to attempt no dig planting potatoes using a thick mulch of hay.
Thank you.
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You picked some very good music for today’s video. I have my earbuds in and it delivers the sound to my ears, directly.
I follow one particular person in Northern Canada and he plants exactly like you just did ( better soil). His potatoes do quite well. Good luck with your new process Simon.
Good to hear!
Thank you, we will see how they do. The weather has turned cold and wet again so you just never know.
My goodness Simon, you’ll have delicious potatoes to harvest! Bears close up wouldn’t be fun at all….Kasper will look after you for sure, considering his encounter with the moose last winter bless him. Warmest love to you all.❤️🇦🇺🇸🇪
I will bring you an update on the potatoes Anne, they are slow and not looking so great but are at least growing now. Very cold and wet so far this summer.
@@arctic-rebel That would be super Simon. Do you think you’d use the hay again?…..maybe too early to say?❤️🇦🇺🇸🇪
Howdy Simon- I’m learning something new here. I have hardened all my life and never saw potatoes planted like that but I certainly could see how it would work. Hope you have a bountiful harvest. Hope all is well with you and Ms Sarah. God bless
That goes for both of us Paul, but I am forced to try something else and I know it works in Alaska in similar latitudes where they have similar problems so lets try it. Have a great weekend and Thank you my friend.
Nice one Simon ! No dig potato growing ! Keep us updated on the progress !
Will do, Thank you.
Hi Simon Hope It All Works For All Your Hard Work I Bet Your Back Feels A Bit Saw a Please Tak Care Of That Bear Hope The Family Are Doing OK Take Care From Blue
Thank you Blue, very kind as always, Take care and have a great weekend.
Nice idea. This should work well. Will be looking forward to seeing results. I think you should try the wooden pallets grow also. 4 wooden pallets upright nailed together, forming a box. Add dirt and potatoes filled to top. End of season knock pallets apart, grab the potatoes. All above ground.
Thanks, I have also seen that and think it could be a great way of growing.
I don’t know if you know this Simon. But you can cut your potatoes into sections. As long as you have an eye in your sections it will give you more potatoes plants which will give you more potatoes. My cousin grows potatoes for a living. Well a farmer. I’m from the states good old U.S.A. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SIMON. Wish I money to travel.I come an visit and experience the Sweden life.
Hi, I did know and chitted then well but they did not produce enough eyes to be able to cut. The second problem I have is after chitting you can cut but the temps are so low it takes twice as long as normal to chitt, then once cut you have to wait another 2 weeks for the cut surface to dry. We just do not have the temps and growing season to be able to do that so my hand was forced. If I ever get to it I will build a heated green house this will allow me to be able to start the process earlier and then we can experiment. Thanks any way, our climate dictates many decisions. I was in the US in the good old days. The only place in the world I have ever felt as though I belong. I am a truck and pew pew man.
Wishing you good health and a good growing season 🙏
Thank you
Here in south some farmers grow carrots covererd in straw and harvest in winter when there is demand🤠
The idea would be the straw keeps the ground thawed, that will not work here but with some luck it will extend the growing time.
I'd guess it should grow just fine under the hay.. as long as the wind doesn't blow it away. Keep the plot moist, and it won't be a problem👍 We used to(where I lived before) mix in semi dried seaweed and crushed seashells in the potato patches.. made some extremely nice soil to grow veggies in. Hope everything will pan out good for the potatoes..a good tasting potato is half the meal in my opinion. All the best to you guys🙂
I have had the same thought's on the wind so we will see. Thank you and have a great weekend.
Great video SI, hard work good luck with result hopefully plenty of potatoes. Also enjoyed listening to your music. Have a good weekend mate
Thanks Ash, I hope you and the Girls are well. I will keep you updated.
Hi Simon, I hope you will get alot of potatoes after doing so much work. Keep us informed. Greetings from your neighbour country. Hilsen Asle
Thank you, I will
Hello sir
they say bear meat is very tasty.
what about a nice greenhouse.
I baught one for my daughter its around
5 m wide ,20 m long and around 3m high in middle. I paid 2500€ and it works fine.
She lives in mountain place with longer winters and lower temp. than me.
For fertilizer she use horse briket menure.
It's very cheap around 20€ for 25 kilos and its very powerfool so its enough for all greenhouse.
no hard feelings sir.
wish you all the best and
greetings from Slovenia EU
22°C rain ,thunderstorms ,hail ,so verry unpredictable.
Thankyou for all the great info, I am sure it will be helpful.
I hope the new method of growing potatoes works out for you and your harvest is abundant. I have a couple concerns but I'm not going to be the guy that jinx you. A guy cant go wrong with potatoes, they've always been a staple growing up and for so many other folks. My parents still have some type of potato everyday. Its not possible to know how many folks kept from starving to death from having potatoes stored.
The soil looks great from a distance but like you said its in bad shape. The hay will indeed help add nutrients.
Are you able to obtain a few loads of manure from a local farmer? If your able to get a load right after potato harvest and disk it in when you do the hay, by next year it would be ready. That would help as would some of your wood ashes. Any green grass you cut or weeds, make a compost pile with left over hay, cardboard, kitchen scraps, twigs, coffee grounds. Just about anything.
We have a cpl piles here we've had going for a few years. Its amazing stuff, better then you can buy if a person could afford too.
Im not telling you anything you dont already know.
I got a trailer load of goat poo a cpl years ago. Took a big scoop a few weeks ago and its pretty good stuff. Granddaughter loves pumpkins and we bought several last fall for her, all different varieties. We kept the seeds from most all of them, gords included. She mentioned she wanted her own pumpkin patch this year and we figured why not as you know, nothing is cheap these days. Win,win right? Well we now have right around 500 starts that are about ready to go into the ground. The goat poo worked out well. We used cardboard egg trays, fillled them with the goat poo compost and put the seeds in. A couple days ago i started mixing coffee grounds in a five gallon bucket of rain water that i catch and the seeds that hadn't sprouted yet, sure are now.
I've had an idea about making my own liquid fertilizer. I need to get going on doing some experiments. You can make your own if your able to obtain some cow manure then. 24-48 hrs typically. Not sure if its ok for potatoes?
Well i apologize for the long message. I hope everything is going well and you three are having a great weekend. Take care and God bless my friends.
Ill look and find your contact info and maybe send you a message and a few pictures of randomness. Thanks!
Hello Sara 👋
My Last house in southern England was built on the old sea bed. Gravel for 20ft down and I added hundreds of ton of organic matter to it and made the perfect garden over some years. However everything is different here, we are remote and sparsely populated so what you need is either just not here (farms and animals) or there is no funds. I have started a grass compost next to the plot and have been adding sawdust and wood ash but this caused some problems with people that don,t know! The local people are very isolated and only know what they were taught by others that don't know. That is not the biggest problem though, the growing season and weather. The real growing season is early June with the possibility of frosts and snow until late September with the possibility of frosts and snow. Time to rot organic matter is half of that if the sun gods are with us. Because we are on a glacier bed the water drains immediately taking the nutrients with it. In most cases you will be old and dead before you get it done and then if you are sick nature will reclaim in just a couple of seasons. This is my best shot of getting it to work on a scale I can manage it.
Sounds to me like you know what you're doing. The only other drawback with this method i've heard of is that snails tend to thrive under the straw, hay or whatever, but i guess that's a minor problem at your latitude. I wish you a good harvest!
Thank you, you are correct we do not have snails or slugs. We do have small legged things that may have a go but they seems to come every years and that was last year so we will have to see.
No dig is a winner Simon!!
Great may your yield be!!
One question... do slugs occur there or is too far north? I lie - another question, do you have more hay to keep topping up?
Have a great weekend - all of you up there!!
We do not have slugs or snails at all. I have more than enough hay to top up all season and for other area's. Hay I am not short of. Thanks AJ, enjoy your weekend as well.
@@arctic-rebel All good news regarding the no till - enjoy this year's harvest!
No extra fertilizer? Half a bucket of NPK would do wonders for the yield and increase quality, especially for storage.
No extra fertilizer.
Hi Simon the tool you use to scrap bark off of your logs at your mill. Is that a Swedish tool?, the one with a wide blade long pole. Does it have a name and are they still producing them?
Hi Dave, I have several different types of tool for removing bark, the bark spade I never use but is the most common and are still being made. The one I use, I have 3 of them were all found in old barns and sheds including some new blade but had never seen them before I came here, I have never seen them anywhere else and as far as my research has show I cannot find them anywhere. It is the easiest tool to use and allows the bark between the forks giving little resistance. This would lead me to believe it is a Swedish tool and not one that is produced anymore. The blades are thin but do not bend or break even when used with force to remove knots. They are sharpened one sided allowing you to angle the handle to slide under the bark without digging into the flesh. Of all the tools I have used this is by far the best all round and has the least impact on the body. I can post a detailed picture and size if you need.
Thanks Simon. I hope you have a bumper crop.
I appreciate that thank you Mark.
Hi Simon !☕☕☕ Potatoes are a lot of work. We grew 40 ac.when I was still farming. Do you plant any cold weather crops like cabbage?
They are Robert, to much digging for me now. Not much else grow with any success here to be honest. I have tried and failed with many things and the locals will only grow potatoes because almost everything else fails. I have also have potato crops fail. To cold, to hot, to wet or to dry so we will see.
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Thank you.
No risk that wild animals vill eat the hay?
They prefer fresh grass in the summer.
I have plenty of hay, the birds may steal some but I will keep topping up.
Very true fresh is best