Added: Oct 12, 2008
From: newheys
Duration: 3:27
How to plant potatoes.Taken in my allotment in Liverpool in March 2007
Channel: Education
Tags: allotment compost digging gardeners gardening how liverpool manure plant seed sowing to trench vegetables world
Rating: 4.27 (11 ratings) Views: 6869' favoriteCount='10 Comments: 12
vudumojo Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Great video.
cloruske Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - can anyone advise me of a cheap way of creating the loops over the beds to create a mimi polytunnel please.from a 52 year old begginer . i planted my spuds today,using a 30 year old percy thrower book...not thing seems to have changed much.!your soil looks a lot lighter than mine, thanks and happy gardening from Kilkenny Ireland
maxjonz Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Hi - for the loops buy a length of 15mm or 22mm blue poly pipe from screwfix direct and cut into lengths of 6ft for a 4 ft bed. I used 15mm. Put dowel in each end to push into the ground. Use screws to hold in the dowel and the screw heads for twine to hold down the polythene. I believe Geoff Hamilton has a video of this somewhere on the internet.
mslouisa Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Thanks for this video! I live in the USA, in California, about 1 hour north of San Francisco. Planted my potatoes today using your method. Thanks,George and daughter!
newheys Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - I hope your weather is better than ours. The tradition in England is to plant potatoes on Good Friday, which apart from Sunday when labour was not allowed, was the first opportunity the working man had to get out and work his plot. Today we had unseasonable snow,and my potatoes are still unplanted!
mslouisa Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - Oh, I can't imagine snow at Eastertime! We are having unseasonably warm weather with occasionally a bit of frost overnight...just enough to make the grass pretty in the morning. I didn't know about the planting potatoes on Good Friday thing...I'll do it then from now on.Hope your weather warms soon!
primal111 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - orgonite will make your plants grow 300% faster and tast better all natrual,non toxic,but beware it also enlightens you,lololol
hbanana7 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - i love the accent, and the straight-forward simplicity of the video. I am trying to plant some potatoes, and this video was a great help! Thank you. How often should I water??
newheys Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - I have never watered potatoes in my life.If it is dry, mulch will help, but if you have plenty of organic material dug in, then you do not need to water, unless in a desert!
paddyoak Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - I just planted a potato in the ground about 6" deep (14 centimeters). Is it really important to let the eyes sprout? The eyes of the one I planted were just starting to sprout, and I'm thinking I should've waited a bit to let them sprout more.
wintercat2 Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - No, eyes do not have to be sprout first. As long as there are eyes that's all that matters.
KARStarla Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - What kind of compost was that? It looked like a tub of leaves, was it just leaves?
KARStarla Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - mslouisa, how are your potatoes coming? Its been three months since your posting, and I thought I'd ask ya :)
seanjamesc Says:
Oct 12, 2008 - When was this? What was the variety? Did you do an update video of the final crop?