Store Bought Potato vs Seed Potato The Shocking Result
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- In this video, I show you how I grew potatoes in 2 different ways: from supermarket potatoes and seed potatoes and we see which is better
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I like this kind of video where its done from start to finish in one go.
Thanks mate I'm glad you like it
First year trying potatoes & it’s been so fun 🤩
I do love growing potatoes we eat a lot of potatoes too so it really helps to be as self sufficient as we can.
I only use shop potatoes and they are really good
I grow under the cupboard spud 🥔 a lot 😂😂 it seems to be the same type of harvest at the end of the day. But any harvest is appreciated 👍👍. Happy growing, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
Definitely I got about 8 kg of those 2 beds
Rhubarb is a heavy feeder so i wonder if it was stealing nutrients from the taters🤷♀️?
Good point I never thought of that
The one that had 1/3rd of the bed covered by a rhubarb produced 1/3rd more potatoes? Hardly a shocking result!
The 2 end plants that had the rhubarb shading them produced more potatoes than the 2 plants at the other end of the bed.
Nice one Tony, I thought the shop bought would do better as they were bigger. Good result.👌👍🥔
Me too mate but I think the rhubarb might have shaded them a i, I weighed them when I got home 8 kg all together
See now I thought growing root veggies in so much manure is a bad thing but apparently not! That is one experiment i would love to see again and will be trying that myself next season.
I’m already out of potatoes and looking so forward to growing more. Enjoy them! 😋😎
Thank you we will, I will definitely be running more experiments next year.
I would have thought you would have used the bed next to each other, both out in the open. Using a bed in a sheltered position is not a real comparison on identical conditions.
I know but when I planted them I didn't realise how much the rhubarb would take of, it's my first year on that plot, and I'd already planted other potatoes in the bed next to it, I'm definitely doing it again next year 😊
The problem with seed potatoes is their cost at around 6 pounds per 2 kilograms. Where as supermarket spuds can be bought for as little as 15 pence per 2 kilogram bag at Xmas time. So the financial return on the cheaper shop bought spuds is usually so much better.
Very good point the return is really good considering the price difference
@@TonyandTeddysWorld Thanks for your reply Tony. As my comment above seems to still be visible, I'm going to try & repost my original comment that has been deleted three times now. So underneath this should be my deleted comment.
@@TonyandTeddysWorld Nope, it's just been deleted yet again - I give up. There's nothing rude or offensive in it, just comment & a bit of maths. I give up now.
@@johnkay4701 I have that problem too all the time my comments constantly get delivered on here, not on my own videos but when I comment on others, I will have a look at the moderation settings on this video and see if that makes a difference.
Ok so I've been and checked and I've got comment moderation set to "none" so it's CZcams being silly
You should have rinsed the store-bought potatoes thoroughly first, as they contain germ inhibitor fluid. If you had done that there would have been no difference
Maybe mate but I'm not sure these ones do as I didn't buy them from a supermarket I bought them from a farm shop, however I guess I still could have as a precautionary measure.
@@TonyandTeddysWorld
Even from the farm shop they have been sprayed so that they can be kept cooled in a normal cold room. Seed potatoes are kept in a special cooled oxygen-poor cell. that is the difference. just place a seed patato and a farm shop patato in a warm, light place. you will see that the seed potato sprouts much earlier than the other potato
@@aukebij3193 good point, I will do it again but this time wash them, see if that makes a difference
buy a fork!!
I really do need to invest in one mate lol