Why I Grow Potatoes In Woodchips ? No Dig Potatoes
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Why i grow potatoes in woodchips - How To Plant No Dig Potatoes - Growing Potatoes In Wood Chips, Permaculture UK, Back to Eden UK, Potatoes grown in mulch, No Dig Gardening UK, Organic Potatoes, No Dig Potatoes,
Who says you can't grow potatoes no dig ? In this video i demonstrate how to grow no dig potatoes, by growing potatoes in wood chips at the same time building soil. We focus on building soil using our unique method of Back to Eden UK in our backyard Allotment/ Backyard permaculture garden. Growing potatoes in woodchips gives them the ideal soil cointidions to grow organic potaotes that are full of nutrition.
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Early potatoes in buckets - ua-cam.com/video/Mnu2uv4z-JQ/v-deo.html
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Hi! Important question…I’ve struggled with potatoes sometimes, mostly too much rain or varmints (moles or voles.
I’ve always kept and used wood chips, but never thought of using them this way!
Would compost with manure in it work with this technique?
Thanks, and we’ll wishes.
Your children will have skills of survival like no others have, absolutely essential 💚
We've used wood chips in our garden paths, after 2-3 years we dig out the paths and add the decomposed chips onto the beds. Everytthing grows fantastically well.
Great ideas and your children can help too. You are a patient dad with the kids while planting. 😊Great video. I learned alot here in the US. Thank you.
What a gift to have your kids helping you
Thanks mate, we had loads of fun, the little man dancing on the beds lol
Just love the way you grow your vegetables, beautiful garden, beautiful children 💚
Inspiring. I'm going to try it.
Awesome look forward to hearing about your results
Another fantastic video, so knowledgeable and well explained, and what great children you have, they are so enthusiastic and adorable👍 They will have all the knowledge they need for the future, well done Mothin
Thanks Mark I really hope they carry on when they grow up, then I'll know my job is done lol
your kids are just too cute :) . great video and information ty for sharing this.
Lol they always cause havoc, but it's all the more fun
Great video Mothin. We converted to no dig potatoes last year and I won't grow them any other way now.
I've had a number of allotmenteers convert to no dig but they are still to be convinced for the potatoes. Seeing them dig our heavy, claggy clay makes me smile 😉
On new soil potatoes can be a good way of breaking the soil up but I hate it when you stick a fork in straight through the middle of a potato
@@MyFamilyGarden I understand that's the theory lol. Hasn't worked on our plot to the point I had given up growing potatoes altogether. Rose has even made pots with our soil it's mostly clay 🤣
I like avoiding the potatoes with the fork but also that you can just pick off the big potatoes and leave the little ones to grow on, increasing your yield.
Always support you...and i get free entertainments from your kids...especially the little one Mr. Zacky....love from Malaysia..
Mashallah thank you for your kind support
little one looks so cute in his hat :)
Looks like a proper little farmer
MashAllah
Excellent! The kids are getting a priceless education too!!
Waalaikum salam, masya allah, thank you fr infomation sir
You're very welcome
Nice video mate, a new subscriber.
Welcome!
Lovely
Great job,bravo!👌👋👍✊
Great video and channel, Subbed!
Awesome, thank you!
Good seeing you again brother its been awhile you keep growing👍 your very knowledgeable about growing things
Much appreciated
The wood chip is a good idea
It's given us some great results over the years
I like the idea of growing potatoes in wood chips. 👍
Mate I’ve just found your videos, you have a new fan, I’m new to growing veg. Your videos are fab 👍
Thanks David, glad you found us
I've been doing this for 3 years. The taste of potatoes grown like that is incredible. One thing to never forget, unless you've been doing wood chips for 3 year minimum, is to add some nitrogen. In your case, it was the compost, I personally use spent barley from a local brewery, it's super rich. But if you forget that, there's gonna be a lack in nitrogen in the first few months, unless your soil is already quite rich. I'm glad to see a gardener from the UK doing wood chips, coz from what I see on youtube it feels like everyone is doing pure compost, like 30 cm of it... I know it's a popular method from Charles Dowding but it does not work at all for me. Compost drains water like crazy, it's not a good mulch. And more importantly, if it's too old it does not feed anything but plants : bacteria, mushrooms and worms have nothing to eat. so I think it's terrible. Plus it's much harder to find good compost than wood chips in my opinion. While wood chips from landscape gardeners, spent barley from a brewery, or horse manure from a ranch ? That's all free for me, even though I live near Paris... I never use fertilizers or any pesticide. Sometimes I get slugs sure, but never to the point of destroying a crop.
Glad to hear what I've been teaching is becoming more popular
Love the video!!! My husband is a tree surgeon so I will take advantage of free wood chippings. Quick question, when the plants start growing, do you add more wood chippings? I normally add compost to cover the stems. It will be my second year growing potatoes, so I am a novice!!!
I sometimes add some grass clippings which breakdown and prvide food, but if the pile looks like it's srunk to less than a foot deep or the potatoes start showing then i add more woodchips
New visitor from Garden News! I was disgusted to read about the racist abuse you receive, and wanted to say I am right behind you, and I look forward to your videos ☺️🪴🪴🪴🪴
Thank you so much for your support
Love your videos I've got lots of really helpful tips from you so thank you. And your children are adorable, I love how they help you.
Thanks Donna, so glad they're helping
Wow, you did this video with all my suggestions before you read them, nice job all around. That microphone works great, cargo pants, lol, and a thorough review right before I plant potatoes in woodchips. Thanks and great video with you and the helpers!
😂😂😂 it's like i read your mind
@@MyFamilyGarden It was, had me laughing. I was Seriously impressed with the sound improvement. Plus, I noticed you could move around better and just keep talking.
Thank you, Thank you. I've always had a hard time growing potatoes. I used your method and I have sooooo many potatoes, I'm getting help to get all of them. I actually am running out of areas to store them!! And I'm not done getting them all up!
Great idea, love to try it on growing sweet potatoes.
Hope you enjoy
Great video and Iaughed at your "free labour force". Down here in South Africa we have to water a bit more than the UK.
Wish i had Mothins motivation lol, very knowledgeable and informing vlog, keep up the great work ✌️
I'm stuck indoors all week so i can't ait to get outside on the weekend
Following your advice around last October. I set up a bed of woodchip and horse manure. On 1st March I planted 60 + seed potatoes, so far 27 have popped up. My woodchip is 18” deep. I’m worried as to the present sudden low temperature and frosts so I have just put a spade full of old woodchip on top of each plant. This system seems to work ok.
If you cover the leaves with more woodchips that should give them the protection they need, anything to protect from the frost settling
Loving the wood chip idea. I live on the edge of a woodland trust woodland were they are constantly pruning and chipping.. free woodchips abound
Sounds perfect, my deliveries are sporadic so I get what I can when I can
Lucky! We drive an hour in for free woodchips and an hour back!
This video is great and I am on the look out for wood chips
Thanks Izzy good luck with your quest
A great reminder of why we got a wood chipper and all the things you can do with wood chips. I've been meaning to do some in woodchips for ages but there have been other things that have had priority, hopefully this year we will;. Dr Elaine Ingham has some great videos on soil biology and the bacterial vs fungal soil balance crop requirements
Your chipper is awesome I need something like that, mines a little electric one.
I've seen a few of the lectures she's done, on some stuff I just go by intuition
@@MyFamilyGarden there are times when a little electric one would be really handy around the garden for thinner green stuff.
I've grown my potatoes in wood chips before, it worked great! I'll be doing it again this year!
Awesome good luck for this years spuds
Yes yes 👍👍👍
thanks mate
I love your videos!! Can I ask, do you need to keep adding woodchip when you grow the potatoes in this way? Or just leave them to it once they’re in?
If the pile drops in size or the potatoes look like they might pop out of the top, you can 'earth them up' with more woodchips or even grass clippings
I had to teach myself to not water when I put in my wood chip based no till garden. I freaked out when I developed leaf yellowing on ALL of my plants... I thought I had a calcium deficiency or some other "major" issue.... until I went to dig up some tomato plants and discovered the wetness underneath. Once I stopped watering the yellow leaves went away.
Hi sir 5 years ago I use wood chipping to grow potatoes and my family said the potatoes tasted of wood
Do your potatoes taste ok👍
i think they taste fine, never noticed a woody taste. Could it be the variety you grew?
Wood chips combined with clay soil make sturdy BUILDING MATERIAL.
it's a good job i'm not doing that then isn't it
I am so glad I found your channel as I am in the UK too.
I would so appreciate your help in answering some Questions as I am starting my gardening journey. I have just made a raised garden bed it’s 45 cm high, 35 cm wide and 7 meters long. I have seen in your other videos that you put cardboards down which I will do but what other type of soil do I need to fill the planters. I have seen some multipurpose compose in bnq. Is that all I need to fill the big planter or would you recommend layering it with something else. I would so appreciate your help. Many thanks
Cardboard is used to kill the grass, otherwise you don't need it. Multipurpose is fine, manybe add some farmyard manure and topsoil
Hey bro, I’m doing quite a lot of potatoes this year too, in raised beds though, 4lbs of Kennebec, Yukon golf, Adirondack blue, and russet. This is an interesting method, reminds me of Ruth stout which is hay in the same place as the chips. Have you heard of it? Basically invented by an old lady who wanted to do the least work possible. But it’s cool.
Love the videos as always, simple, but better for it. I’m guessing you’ve heard of Charles Dowding? I call him gardening Jesus lol because he’s my go to for anything gardening. Can’t imagine you haven’t, but if not he’s fantastic.
As always the kids running around like mad cracks me up. Ploppin potatoes in holes.
I have about 4-5 yards of wood chips in the back field, might just have to try this next year!
I've tried the Routh stout method before, the biggest issue for me is i'd have to buy in the straw so isn't worth it.
I know Charles Dowding, he's very knowledgable but i don't always agree with his methods mainly them not being suitable for someone on a low income in a backyard or allotment setting
Lol the kids always take over the show
@@MyFamilyGarden yeah the straw is an issue, I have an alfalfa field, but that’s not the same.. and that’s funny you say that because I said that same thing yesterday haha, I can’t get 10 yards of compost! But he is knowledgeable about lots of stuff.
Keep up the farmin and teaching the kids. Every kid should be outside with their hands in the dirt. Plus you get some work out of em! 😂
Zaky's flat cap is adorable. A mini Yorkshireman !
Lol he's too cool, always upstaging me
Great video bro. Your the Bengali Charles Dowding 😀
😂😂😂 Charles Dowding ain't got nothing on me
growing potatoes😍 Thank you for sharing! ❤️ Greeting from oman👌👈👍🙏lots of hugs❤️
Mashallah
a benefit from woodchip is they keep the PH level down. perfect for potatos, monty. if you use fresh chippings they are so abrasive you can pick ready peeled potatos. lol........................brian
Ready pealed spuds sound perfect for chips
Thanks for another great video from you & the family. Good to know the science behind the wood chips, and the wisdom in the way you use it!
I use them a lot so i thought i'd share how i grow potatoes in them, i'll do something soon abou how i use crop rotation
So do you fertilize them any during the growing process
Depends on how they're growing, I might add some grass clippings or similar to add some nitrogen if they look like they need it
Great explanation of something I’ve never thought of doing before
We’ve got a supply of wood chips at our site and think I’ll be adding a layer to my potato bed👍
I've had really good results with this method over the years. If you've already got them planted you can just 'earth up' with woodchips
LOVED your massive rake! I’ve got a friendly tree surgeon that I could score some wood chips from, but just no space to put it.
Lol, it comes in handy for leveling stuff. Could you put it on your paths then take it from their when you need it?
Great video monty just put my tatties in buckets yesterday
Cheers mate, they'll do well in the buckets
Would this method work for containers do you think? I'm going for 30l tubs for my spuds because I'm limited for ground space
Purely qoodchips don't work as well in tubs so i use a slightly different method ua-cam.com/video/Mnu2uv4z-JQ/v-deo.html
Great idea! Thanks for sharing ❤️
You are so welcome!
Cracking video! Thanks for uploading this.
Glad you enjoyed it
I took up 1/3 of the lawn 6 weeks ago. I decided to stack most of the turf long term to make compost. But I had a crazy idea, why not plant some poatatos in a layer of turf? I had a few odds and sods left over seed potatos, and simply put a layer of turf down on the brick floor, then seed potatos, then a top layer of turf. They have exploded into life the last week or so, will be fascinating to compare results and see if they do better than the ones in soil. Cant ridge them up though...
Enjoyed the video and will use woodchip for my potatoes next year, are your woodchips from a path they look very healthy and composted for maybe a year, ? and could you tell me the reason why people on allotments have sloping, instead of level beds, I don't understand this.
Here's the harvest from that bed
ua-cam.com/video/NC2t3MoTBTo/v-deo.html
The woodchips were about 6 months old I get as much as I can when I can so I can use them as needed
My home is at the top of a hill so the garden slope, the individual beds are leveled the best I can
@@MyFamilyGarden thankyou for answering my questions, your video link explained a lot, have been growing and amending on clay earth for several years now and progressing onto woodchip which is the reason for my research into your videos, I would like to give something back, work toward levelling your beds, when the the rain hits it will hit in a uniform way and cause less runoff and helping to balance moisture content in beds.
he he he he Waste of time chitting them as the kids are taking the off he he he Loved it
Oh back to the wood chip and the no dig looks good
Cheeky monkeys were picking them off lol
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings be upon you
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Its good to see people breaking away from the traditional (age old methods ), and growing veg in a more natural simple way . Makes sense !
This has served me well over the years, as the woodchips break down they go on to feed my soil for the next few years
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Great content, many thanks 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Omg. The kids are so cute! I have a couple here that would love to help too 😁
Make it more interesting when they're out but much more work lol
Thank you for your video. I have discovered wood chip gardening last year. I am lucky that I own an 18 acres of forest in Southern Ontario, Canada. So I have a lifetime supply of chips. I wondered if I could grow potatoes in wood chips. I asked myself this question, after paying $9 for 6 potatoes at the grocery store.
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It is so important to know reasons why, rather than blindly following "rules". That way you know if something really applies to your situation, and how you might adapt or substitute with someithing which has similar attributes and is more available to you. Thanks for the inspiring rundown. I'll try to find a local tree surgeon with a disposal problem.
On this subject, is bark on its own as usefull? I harvest my own firewood (mostly ash) and often have wood that has started rotting on the outside so I strip the wet bark and have a bit of a pile I was thinking of using like woodchip.
Bark is purely the dead carbon rich material so contains very few leaves and non of the Cambian layer I was referring to as the green wood. So it will need some manure or other nitrogen source added to it to give the plants the feed they need
your children are entertaining and cute.
I'm quite a lucky man
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Please where can I get hold of free wood chips
Thank you for sharing
Call around some tree surgeons someone will drop it off
@@MyFamilyGarden Thank you
Thanks a lot for sharing this with us. I wish to know if it's a good idea to plant the potatoes in the compost then put the woodchips later on. Just so we are sure the potato seedling is actually lodged in the compost bed and not just sitting in the woodchips
اسلام عليكم و رحمت الله و بركاته
Im just starting out my first season and I’ve planted some early and second early in containers using woodchip. I mixed in some potato fertiliser and some fish blood and bone. Looking forward to the seeing the outcome!
ان شاء الله
Walaikum salaam I don't plant solely in woodchips when planting in buckets, they don't tend to do as well so I use this adapted method
ua-cam.com/video/Mnu2uv4z-JQ/v-deo.html
Do you get significant problems with slugs, snails and mice?
Just come across your chanel i really enjoy the seeing the enthusiasm of whole the family taking part. Well done guys.keep up. Best.
I love having them involved with with me
Great ideas here as always. Always cheers me up watching your videos, thanks buddy. Feeling a bit more motivated to get out into the garden now
Thanks mate, I spent the day sifting compost today, getting ready to sow more and for the big pot up in a few weeks.
Great video. This year I am growing potatoes in containers. I am encouraged to try to grow potatoes in wood chips in one container as a trial. What are your thoughts, please??
I've not found this method as effective in containers, like this the potatoes get their feed from the compost and the soil in the bed and the woodchips are just a place for the potatoes to grow. Have you seen the way i do the potatoes in containers? i do add some to the bottom to act as both a spong and for drainage ua-cam.com/video/Mnu2uv4z-JQ/v-deo.html
@@MyFamilyGarden thanks .... After I sent my post to you, I found your video of containers with wood chips which I am next going to watch. Thanks again ...
Great idea, going to give this ago
Have fun!
Love your content. So real, so natural
thanks Brother
I use woodchips that get delivered to my allotment. I’m nervous about using too much of them because I’ve heard that they bring along slugs with them. Still not sure....
I use a lot of woodchip, I've not noticed more slugs compared to before I used them
Will be looking into this!! I am state side and where I live, I can go to the recycling center and get wood chips and soil for free! Most of my backyard is wood chips already
Sounds like you've got a great set up
@@MyFamilyGarden it's a working progress :) I'll have to share on the Facebook group
@@grover722 please do would love to see your progress
Very good video mate ! Subbed :)
Worms + fungal life = healthy garden .
I go every automn to the forest to get leaves , i sometimes don't even go too far, take it off the streets in town once they drop . it suprizes people all the time !
Alsolutely the fungal element has been ignored for too long. Great idea collecting as many leaves as you can
Another great explanation, thank you. I tried this method after watching you last year , grew the potatoes in containers as I had already planted others in soil. Great yield from ones growing in woodchips. Will give it another go this year, perhaps not today, it's snowing.
Snow! Seems like spring has crashed lol. We're expecting -3 tonight
Great to see the family involved good tips as well.
It's great having them involved even if it causes chaos
Hi Mothin, does the wood chip method work the same with first early potatoes as well? Great video, Nick.👍🏻
Hiya, Earlies do grow in them just as well, i had a brilliant crop of red duke of york last year
Always expert stuff, mate. And your kids are absolutely wonderful!! Cheers
Thank you! Cheers!
I love your videos and advice. I live in the upper midwest of the United States and find plenty of useful tips here!
Glad you like them!
I’m in the north too, where are you and when do you plant your potatoes please? I’m about 12 miles west of Manchester. I have a community well-being garden called Grow Your Mind, in a park, so I can get loads of woodchips, been mainly using them on my paths
I'm in Leeds, so not too far
here's a good potato timetable - ua-cam.com/video/Mnu2uv4z-JQ/v-deo.html
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The babies helping😭 it's so wholesome ❤
Love your channel thanks for sharing your knowledge
My pleasure!
Thanks for the video. Only recently starting experimenting with woodchips, so looking forward to trying this. I noticed your spacing between the potatoes isn't very large, or is that just the way it looks in the video? Also: do you need to do any earthing (or woodchipping) up in this method?
Unfortunately woodchips aren't free where we live in the west of Ireland (very low tree coverage, so it's quite hard to get), but it is still a great way of growing food!
The woodchips are pile up about a foot high, if i notice the potatoes are coming out of the top then i'mm add some more wood chips/grass clippings etce otherwise if the initial bed is high enough then there's nothing else to be done.
Could you make your own from hedge trimmings etc?
@@MyFamilyGarden Thanks for clearing that up. I'll definitely try some potatoes in our woodchip garden this year! Really looking forward to it.
Woodchips aren't free here, but not ridiculously expensive either. Still a lot cheaper than a decent shredder anyway (okay, I know.. in the long run..). We have a customer in the printing business I work at who has a landscaping business and he does me a great deal, basically only charges me for delivery and the time it takes his guys to load the chips.
Great advice mash'Allah. I'm going to give woodchips a go as we have clay soil too
I started on really heavy clay, you can see the change that's happened over the years.
ua-cam.com/video/i1mhtMyIvUk/v-deo.html
❤ thank you for sharing
Thank you for all the information ! So enjoyed the kids helping you! How wonderful!
Good Job. Wonder if sweetcorn would grow well in woodchip?
It's fine as a mulch but make sure you supplement with additional nitrogen
Great helpers!
They are when they're not causing mayhem
Just brilliant 😊
Great video, I look forward to seeing all the potatoes!
Can't wait!
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Great video