How To Plant Potatoes - Back to Eden garden Q&A - L2Survive with Thatnub
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2013
- Back to Eden garden Q&A with Paul Gautschi. In this video Paul talks about gardening in Southern Indiana when you are away from home a lot. The easiest thing to grow is potatoes. Paul says you only have to be there one day a year.
I just love watching Paul explain this I always know what he is going to say but still watch
I feel the same way. I have found that even after all of the tours, I have been on, the hours of editing these videos and watching other videos people put up, I still hear something new everytime I go there.
I dont care about zones......I love it
Another great interview. Thank you for sharing.
LOL! I like how he answered almost every question "it's not an issue"
Love him! Thanks!
i love seeing videos about Paul :)
Thanks for taking the time to talk to him.
Great video, lots of info.....keep them coming.
Yeeeeah my Paul Gautschi fix has been supplied to me!!! Thanks dude!!!
Thank you!
thank you thank you thank you! for a new video!!! i've been wanting some more since december!!! :D
Thanks for these videos. Another amazing job! I really appreciate your mentioning termites. I have found termites in a wood pile, but nothing in the garden with wood chips. They must like the dry stuff!
Hey thanks for doing these Q & A's with Paul also thank him from me for inspiring me 18 months ago to go no dig with wood chip. I'm in the UK and the seasons are different to yours so a little experimentation going on here. Last year was a total disaster far to much rain not enough sun and so many slugs nothing grew.
It's so true what he said about the potatoes growing up through a foot of material. I have planted both back to eden and straw bale this year and the potatoes planted in the straw bale had to come up through 2 ft of material and their doing it. I had begun to wonder, but they're popping up everywhere!
"I don't even care about zones" . . . Paul is so right, and I have a 70-year old friend who has gardened since he was a child who believe the same. Pay attention to the weather and plant accordingly.
The article on companion planting I was really thinking about was actually in the May/June, 2013 issue of Urban Farm magazine. Its very good and one of the combos they recommend is onions and lettuce near your strawberries. See if you can get a copy. The OG article mentioned below was more about flowers an less about vegetables.
Termites are among the top 3 questions I get from people. Paul answered it the way I understood the question but, I can see your side of it as well. We do not have termite issues here in Washington because of our climate. If you live in an area with a lot of termites, adding woodchips to your property shouldn't change anything because you already live in an area with a lot of termites. If you are worried about them and don't use woodchips, they will still be in your area.
Putting spuds back in the same day you harvest is the best way to go. I have spuds already coming up, when other people are just now planting. For flowers I do it not only cos they look nice but they're said to be a good pest deterrent and that is Marigolds.
I agree. I would not grow anything in tires. Too many chemicals can leach out. They look like hell as well.
He's in zone 8 I looked it up. He's way warmer than we are, but he's using microclimates to get some of that to grow. We have stuff growing here that shouldn't grow here by tucking it in corners where it's protected on all sides, it's a cool trick
Plant garlic with roses and you will have gorgeous roses!
Nematodes hate Marigold plants.
He is so right about potatoes. You almost have to try not to get potatoes if they have water.
Thanks for the video to both you and Paul =)
That was a long stretch between visits wasn't it. I've been busy with life but, I will try to make it up there more.
What zone are we in? I don't know... lol... Paul is great.
I like to plant a lot of the same thing in every possible condition on my "Yard Farm" as I like to call it. I had great squash in full sun last season, and lesser quality in the shade. Of course, they were in different kinds of worthless soil...LOL. (Was just getting started!)
It's good to get to know your land. If you find out what micro climate a particular plant likes, you will have more success. Keep building your soil and planting stuff everywhere just to see where it likes to live the best.
@@L2Survive I'm in process, and enjoying the ride!
My yards (front, back, side, and along the driveway) are all covered with varying degrees of organic material, from nice woodchips to not so decomposed compost. My wife's yardwork company keeps me well stocked on organic matter!
My yards have been covered for about six months, and I am in Tucson, Arizona! The Sonoran Desert! And my concrete dirt has become soil that smells like a forest floor! And I moved here from the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York! It is so nice (and so odd) to smell that here!
I am finally in a position to start brewing compost tea! And have my microscope all set and ready to go (practiced a lot this winter!). I am in the desert, and I planted seeds today without watering them in!
Sorry about that. It was recent for me as I already made the video but, it is future for you as I have not released it yet. Paul does it the simple way. When he wants to plant something like tomatoes for seed, he doesn't plant any other tomatoes. Paul only plants a couple different types of each vegetable that he grows so, this make the most sense for him. Go to thesurvivalpodcast and look up episode 1054 for everything you could want to know about saving seeds.
Consistant!!
In my area wood chips are very hard to come buy due to the pellet mill down south. My question is would natural bark mulch be a good substitute
Another great interview! The only thing was I think he misinterpreted the question about the termites or at least I think he did. What I got from the question is let's say the wood chips are new and maybe already have termites so they could migrate from the garden to the house? Perhaps that isn't a problem... I don't know much about termites... But it would be nice to get a bit of clarification... Does this make sense? Thanks! Take care :)
I am so glad that we have found your videos. It has changed our way of not only gardening but also our thinking. I do have a question though: We get all of our wood chips (usually oak) for free, delivered which is great but wondered if camphor wood chips are OK to use in the garden as well. To date, we have not used any of this type of wood chips. Also, are there any other types of wood chips we should refrain from using? Thanks you in advance!
+keepercreek Paul says that ANY organic material will work. He has stated many times that he would use woodchips from any tree and even tells the story of how a walnut tree started growing out of a pile of walnut woodchips. Here is a video where Paul talks about using mulch from gum trees. czcams.com/video/9jdWaFuEirM/video.html
Thanks for the quick response and the link! God Bless
I thought that was funny as well. That is just the way Paul is. He'll try anything. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, great.
grammygoatfarmer When you say 'everything... is beginning to rot' does that include your living plants themselves [in which case you have a serious issue I'm unfamiliar with], or is it just the woodchips and perhaps the walls of the raised bed? Because that stuff is supposed to rot, it's part of the whole process. From dust to dust, it's the method by which woodchips become soil.
Help!!! I started with raised beds, amended soil newspaper layers and wood chips.
I am finding that because we have finally had a spring when it rains ocassionally, everything in my garden is beginning to rot. what would you suggest I do?
When you replace/ replant a potatoes late fall, how does it not rot over the winter in the ground? I live in central Arkansas.
I got a question, will it(back to eden garden)work in tropical zone?
You are welcome but, pace yourself, there are a lot more videos coming.
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How do you store potatoes?
Does he worry about cross-pollination? I would like to be able to share my seeds with others and maintain the genetics of the species I have (like seedsavers), and plant different varieties of species near each other but am worried that I will have a whole new species from the seeds I save for the next year. I know you said that he talked about this in a recent video, but I can't seem to find it!
I want to make sure I understand this. You are saying that your garden is rotting because of the rain?
How do you avoid blight when you plant potatoes in the same place for years? In another video Paul said that he's been using the same potatoes and the same spot in his garden for 26 years? :)
There is a very good article on companion plant planting in the April/May 2012 issue of Organic Gardening magazine. Check it out.
The leaves on my cucmber plants are turning yellow and I don't know what to do for them. Epsom salt doesn't work for that. My tomato plants are doing the same thing. UUggg, I feel like Charlie Brown here. I would like to see you do a video on the correct time of year to plant certain plants or the most popular ones such as tomato, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, peppers, cucambers etc. Thanks for sharing the information that you have shared thus far.
+Stressfree67 The package on your seeds should provide the info you are looking for on the best time of the year to plant things. Potatoes are harvested and planted the same day and that should be done when the leaves turn yellow and start dying off. The cucumber and tomato plants leaves turning yellow might mean that there is too much or too little nitrogen in the soil or too much/not enough water. If the ground is not moist, I would say water. If the ground is moist and you have fresh woodchips, I would add some nitrogen.
Thank you for your insight. I usely water the plants when I notice the top soil dry or the leaves are slightly wilting. I have my plants inside of pots which I have to replant due to the growth of each plant. I do not have yard space for a real garden. I will invest in some wood chips. It's turning into fall and so I told my self I will wait til winter is over to plant again. What type of wood chips are best? I purchased some soil that came with wood chips and the soil began to produce mushrooms to my surprise. Not familiar with mushrooms so I pulled them out as they grew.
I've never had a garden before. I'm wanting to learn but I live in the desert...right north of Palm springs...can I get wood chips and put them on the sand?
Sand is just concentrated minerals. Plants like minerals but, also need water. Water just goes through sand. I live in the deserts or Eastern Washington and my entire property is sand. If you watch any of my Karma videos (what we call our property), you will see that just adding woodchips and running the sprinkler grows all kinds of stuff. czcams.com/video/-ucwdM05QGg/video.html I will be filming another update video today because we got a few things going on and we have received more than a few requests to do an update.
Superb video. If I get it right, you can plant potatoes in September? Where I live we might get like a week of snow a year, and temperatures in winter go rarely below freezing (0 degrees Celsius, sorry I live in Europe :-) ). Is it still ok to let the potatoes in the hay/woodchip bed since september and harvest them in spring/summer? Cheers and thanks!
Iñigo López Sarasa It should be fine. When you harvest your potatoes, take the biggest and best you have and put them back on top of the dirt. Cover that with 8 inches of woodchips and let them sit over the fall, winter, spring and summer. They should start growing on their own and stay covered. If they start to get uncovered, add more woodchips to that spot. Harvest your potatoes when you usually would.
Thanks :-)
Do you plant potatoes as you do everything else, on top of the compost manure? I have heard that using manure can lead to scab on potatoes. Also, i live in ohio, will the potatoes rot if i leave them in the ground during the winter or is gonna keep warm enough in the woodchips? last year it got 40 below many times.
The way Paul does it is to plant on top of the ground, cover with 8 inches of woodchips and walk away. Where potatoes grow in nature, they are just left in the ground all year long. 8 inches should be enough to be below the frost line but, at -40 degrees, I just don't know. You should try it in a section of your garden and let us know next year.
My potato plants are getting huge - I covered my plants with about 6 inches of chips but within a week, the plants grew another foot because we had so much rain. Should I keep on covering the leaves with chips as the plant grows ? How much of the plant should stay uncovered?
What happens in nature? When the plants grow above the ground the trees do not drop more leaves to cover them. In every video I have ever taken at Paul's house shows the leaves of his potato plants. As long as the potatoes themselves are covered, you are fine.
Thank you! Sometimes the answer is so simple and straight forward but my brain needs to over-think things and makes it more complicated then it needs to be!
Really I think this is a tell-tale way to know he's a good guy - if not, he'd get fed up telling people the same thing over and over and over again. lol.
Give Paul a mike a use so we can hear him, please!
So you don't plant the potatoes in the dirt?
JPSovereignStrikes Nope, just lay them on top and cover with about 8 inches of woodchips.
Hmmm. Paul seems a little grouchy in this video. LOL
Being very matter-of-fact can often come across that way, I've noticed.