I Grew Potatoes the ‘Lazy Way’ — Did It Work?

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  @brendathompson348 · 1 month ago

  I truly think you may have drastically increased your harvest if you actually dug deeper.  You seemed to only take what was basically on the top of the soil.

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• MA

  @markhorsburgh7693 · 1 month ago

  I accept the lazy way to grow potatoes, but I'm struggling to understand this lazy way to harvest them. Surely there's a few more to be had if you just dug a little deeper?

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• DI

  @dianefranklin9523 · 1 month ago

  I would have dug down a bit more sd you found a few deeper at the start

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• DA

  @David_Bell_growing · 1 month ago

  About 15 years ago I helped a friend clear out some stables when she was moving to a new yard.<br><br>In addition to a vast amount of horse manure, we cleared enough used straw to cover one of my potato beds.<br><br>The seed potatoes were already planted with the soil lightly drawn into ridges before covering with 300mm? of straw and they grew well with a nice clean easy to harvest crop.<br><br>I recall thinking that initial minor ridging helped eliminate greening.

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• 66

  @66REDD66 · 1 month ago

  I grow mine in buckets every year and the harvests aren’t too bad, however during the winter months when I chuck peelings and not so nice looking potatoes on my “wild flower/shrub area” the potatoes in that area are miles better than my bucket harvests. This happens each year and it amazes me Jim. I don’t do a thing to them other than chuck my chicken bedding straw all over that area to breakdown. My garden has never been so good with rich soil in the 3 years I’ve had my chickens. ❤❤

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• ST

  @stephmoseley9014 · 1 month ago

  I grow all my potatoes like this. Generally get a really good harvest. I use a mix of straw and grass clippings and add more as the year goes on.

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• IN

  @IndianaFunnyFarm · 1 month ago

  Looks like a good harvest with little effort ❤

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• PT

  @PTGardening · 1 month ago

  That’s a fantastic harvest of potatoes.🎉🎉🎉🎉

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• VA

  @ValerieTownsend-b1n · 1 month ago

  This year I used potato sacks, seed potatoes at the bottom, top up to the brim with compost, no earthing. &nbsp;First harvest of Arran Pilots not bad at all. &nbsp;Will today harvest my Jazz potatoes. &nbsp;Fingers crossed.

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• SE

  @SeditiousSid · 1 month ago

  I did similar a few years ago in a wooden raised bed.<br><br>I had a lot of grass clippings and straw that I mixed together and planted into.<br><br>It was a bit of an experiment and I was very surprised that it actually worked.<br><br>There were bigger potatoes <i>under</i> the soil surface that I almost missed.

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• LO

  @loveatfirstsprout88allotment · 1 month ago

  That&apos;s a fantastic harvest Of potatoes

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• CH

  @cherylcarlson3315 · 1 month ago

  Just in from harvesting potatoes that sprouted from grocery in bucket. Got 4 fingerling. Am jealous

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